The rag picking sister turned out to be a weapon refiner

The number of participants in this year's competition is preliminarily determined to be around a hundred. In addition to the disciples from the two sects and four schools, there are also some disciples from smaller sects and schools. Although they are not well-known, they have also practiced hard. The number of participants is much smaller than in previous years, so this year's competition was not held outdoors.

An open space was opened up inside the Fuzhen Sect and a grandstand was set up. Rest areas were also provided for each sect. After all the sects arrived, the competition officially began.

At the top of the stands, there were several people from two sects and four schools sitting. The first one was Tan Luo, followed by Bai Chengyan, the leader of the Yu Jian Sect, and then this year's organizer, Qi Yu Zhenren, the leader of the Fu Zhen Sect. Hu Xingtong didn't recognize anyone after that.

The leader of the Fuzhen Sect seemed to say something to Tan Luo, then he stood up, holding a piece of talisman paper between his fingers, and threw it to the center of the venue.

Accompanied by a loud bang, the stands shook, and then a square earth box rose up in the center of the venue. The power was so great that it was breathtaking.

Then Master Qi Yu swept his gaze across the entire audience. His indifferent and detached eyes made him look like an immortal, unconcerned with worldly affairs. "This competition will be divided into three rounds. The first round will be held in this maze. The time limit is one incense stick. There are flags placed in various places in this maze. You need to break through the siege and grab the flags. The red, white and blue flags represent different points. A red flag is five points, a white flag is one point, and a blue flag is three points."

"Those who hold the flag have priority in choosing their opponent. There are also two black flags, each worth 20 points. They also have a special ability to sense the positions of all flags. That's all the rules, but everyone, please note: this competition is limited to the end. Do not maliciously harm others. If you do, your place will be immediately revoked."

After saying this, Qi Yu Zhenren glanced at Bai Chengyan and Tan Luo behind him. After they nodded slightly, Qi Yu Zhenren spoke: "Alright, everyone get ready..."

Hearing this, Hu Xingtong clearly felt the eager movements of the people around him, as if they were all preparing to rush out in the next second. Hu Xingtong took the opportunity to glance to his side, and saw Xiao Yuheng eager to try, staring at the entrance of the maze with heated eyes, and his legs couldn't help but tapping on the spot.

On the other hand, Tan Yuruo, this girl, was as calm as herself. She didn't make any move, but just stared casually at the entrance of the maze, looking unconcerned.

"Senior Sister, you look very anxious?" Tan Yuruo glanced at Hu Xingtong casually. She seemed calm at the moment, but in fact, the fingers hidden in her sleeves had already been rubbing their fingers together silently one after another.

Hu Xingtong smiled and looked towards the entrance to the maze, his spiritual energy surging around him. He replied, "Of course I'm anxious. Master wants me to be in the top three, so how can I do that without some real skills?"

Hearing this, Tan Yuruo said nothing more, turned around and played with Haiying nonchalantly.

"Dong——" A melodious bell rang, and the door to the maze opened. Just as the disciples were preparing to use their own magical powers to enter, they suddenly felt a hot red light rushing out. In just a moment, it swept the surrounding air, bringing bursts of breaking sounds.

"What was that? Did something just pass by?" A disciple didn't react and grabbed someone next to him to ask.

"Damn, someone went in, hurry up and go in!" The disciples who reacted quickly circulated their spiritual power and used their body skills. For a moment, various spiritual powers flashed on the stands, all rushing towards the entrance of the maze.

On the high platform, several sect leaders were discussing the fleeting light and shadow.

Ning Zihe, the head of the Myriad Beast Sect, asked, "Whose disciple was that just now? He must have used some magical power to move that fast, right?"

Duan Yin, the head of the Shenyin Sect, stroked his beard and exclaimed in admiration, "Even faster than those of my disciples. They must be using teleportation-type magical powers."

Qi Yu Zhenren glanced at Mu Ying, the head of the Qingzhu Sect, who was sitting next to him, and asked tentatively, "Did you ask you for some speed-enhancing pill?"

Upon hearing this, Mu Ying rolled his eyes at him and said, "Why didn't you say it was you who gave the talisman?"

Listening to the discussion of several people, Bai Chengyan glanced at Tan Luo thoughtfully, only to see that the corners of the man's lips curled up slightly, as if he was a little proud, but pretending to know nothing.

There is no doubt that this disciple must be his disciple, looking at the way he pretends to be dead.

……

In the maze, as expected, the first figure to arrive was Hu Xingtong, who used the Mirror Shadow Sutra. At this moment, she was using her scanning eyes to scan the surroundings.

Different from what you see from the outside, the maze you see from the outside is a square box with a clear inside. But only when you are inside it will you know that the environment here will change according to certain specific rules. For now, Hu Xingtong has not discovered the rules of change and can only rely on the advantage of entering first to explore as much as possible.

"Xiao Wuzi, do you feel that there's something wrong with the fog around here?"

[Yes, there is something about this fog. The further you go, the thicker it gets, and the further you go, the thinner it gets.]

"How strange, there is no change when turning. Could it be that he is treating people differently based on their situation?" Looking at the thick fog in front of him that was constantly changing, Hu Xingtong stopped and the thick fog did not disappear under his scanning eyes. It was possible that the thick fog here was designed to target spiritual consciousness, or it might be to confuse vision.

Hu Xingtong took out a black silk from the storage ring and wrapped it around her eyes. She wanted to try what it would look like here without her vision.

"Xiao Wuzi, help me watch the road."

Although he said so, Hu Xingtong's actions were extremely honest. He took the Qing Huan Sword and knocked on the ground and wall in front of him, pretending to be a blind man.

"No, you don't look like you need me to watch the road." Chen Wu was speechless as he watched the man's skillful movements. It was obvious that the man knew the environment before him was deceptive, and as a system, he was also using his eyes and vision. The biggest difference was that the system itself had a hazard detection module that could automatically detect obstacles in the surroundings.

[Wait a minute, there's something here.] The alarm sounded, and Chen Wu looked towards the place in front of Hu Xingtong, but couldn't see anything. He could only remind Hu Xingtong to pay attention with a serious face.

However, Hu Xingtong's alertness was higher than the system's. As early as the moment before Chen Wu reminded her, her Qing Huanjian felt the unusual fluctuations in front of her. It was not like demonic energy or spiritual power, and it had no entity.

Breaking delusion——

The eyes under the black silk suddenly opened, and all the spiritual consciousness entered the eyes. With the blessing of the spiritual consciousness, the scanning eye briefly possessed the special ability to break through illusions, and thus saw the things in front of it.

It was a spirit body made of white mist, tangible but intangible. It did not move at all, but just stood in front of Hu Xingtong, blocking all his escape routes.

"Aren't you going to do it? I'm in a hurry!" With a loud shout, Hu Xingtong made a move instantly. The magic sword was unsheathed, carrying bursts of dragon power and phoenix cry, sweeping red flames and piercing straight towards the location of the spirit body.

Fire will explode when it comes into contact with powder mist, and the thing in front of her has no spiritual energy or demonic energy, and no energy at all, so it can only be a natural form with spirituality, and her Nine Gold Fire can just burn all of this.

Amidst the flames, a dark vacuum zone appeared in front of Hu Xingtong, but she couldn't see it and could only listen to Chen Wu's reminder.

[Go get it quickly, it's a black flag! ]

Was he so lucky to have a black flag right after entering? Hu Xingtong felt that everything was too simple, and there was always something unbelievable about it.

"Is there still fog?" Hu Xingtong stood with a sword in his hand. Instead of moving forward, he chose to feel the surrounding environment first.

[No more, you've burned all the fog around here.]

Upon hearing this, Hu Xingtong tore off the black silk covering his eyes, looked at the vacuum belt in front of him, raised his hand and put the black flag into the ring.

It's already 20 minutes past midnight, and it seems there are some checkpoints before these flags.

Using the black flag to sense the other flags in the maze, Hu Xingtong's consciousness seemed to be magnified several times in an instant, and the map of the entire maze was clearly engraved in her mind. At the same time, Chen Wu also backed up the map in her mind. In this way, Hu Xingtong had an additional automated navigation plug-in.

[One black flag, fifty red flags, two hundred white flags, and eighty blue flags.]

"There are quite a lot. I'll just run to the nearest one on the navigation."