The rag picking sister turned out to be a weapon refiner

"How long have I been here?"

[It's not even one tenth yet, there's still time.]

"Can you find the rest?" Hu Xingtong released her spiritual sense as she walked. The maze here kept changing, and she was a little disoriented at the moment.

[You go first. If you're wrong, I'll tell you later. The changing pattern of this maze should be based on the changes in spiritual consciousness and realm. The higher the spiritual consciousness or realm, the faster the maze changes.]

Tsk, it seems that this is the mechanism for balancing combat power in the first level. However, time is running out. If we can’t use our spiritual consciousness or spiritual power, we can only rely on our physical fitness. Fortunately, the master had the foresight to let Yu Chi train the three of them in advance.

Taking a deep breath, Hu Xingtong put away the Qing Huan Sword, restrained the aura around him, opened his scanning eye, chose a place and started running.

Outside the arena, except for a few people on the podium, the other spectators didn't understand what Hu Xingtong was doing. They just watched her constantly practicing her body skills and running unimpeded in the maze.

"Whose disciple is this? He figured out the mechanism of this maze so quickly?" There was a hint of appreciation in Master Qi Yu's eyes. He had thought that the first disciple to figure out the secret should be from their sect, but he didn't expect it to be the fastest little girl.

"This disciple belongs to the old Tan, so don't even think about poaching him." Bai Chengyan kicked Tan Luo, who was pretending to be aloof, and answered.

Tsk, when he heard that it was Tan Luo's disciple, Master Qi Yu immediately put his thoughts aside. Everyone knew that Tan Luo was a scheming and protective guy, so he just looked at Qingfeng Jiuyue.

The competition continued. In the maze, Hu Xingtong had already found five red flags, ten white flags, and seven blue flags according to Chen Wu's instructions. Halfway through the competition, he still hadn't encountered a single fellow practitioner. This gave Hu Xingtong a sense of luck: "There's still half an incense stick left, right? As long as I keep doing what I've done, I should have enough time to get more flags."

[Then you probably don't have a chance, there's someone ahead of you.]

"You should have told me earlier. I would have hidden." Hearing someone blocking the way ahead, Hu Xingtong planned to run away without thinking. However, the person opposite seemed to be waiting for her and had no intention of letting her go.

He caught up with him in a few flashes. Seeing this, Hu Xingtong didn't intend to get entangled with the man. He used his light body skills again and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Tsk, why can't I dodge?" After moving several times, the man was still following behind him, at a steady pace, as if he was going against him.

[Why are you hiding? Just fight him and take his flag.]

"No, I've already wasted a lot of time just traveling for an incense stick of time. If I fight with others, whether I win or lose, all that time will be wasted. Besides, this kind of gambling won't guarantee me getting more flags. On the contrary, it might even drag me down."

Not wanting to waste even a minute here, Hu Xingtong simply unleashed all his means. The red flames instantly covered his entire body, splitting it into two in an instant. The two red figures simultaneously used lightness to run away.

Behind him, the man saw two identical figures walking away in different directions at the same time and stopped. He looked at the receding figure and murmured, "Am I scary? There's no need to hide from me like this."

Over here, Hu Xingtong, who had shaken off the person behind him, retracted his transformed form and took out a piece of candy from his ring and put it in his mouth: "Do you want it? This candy won't make my throat choke."

[Yes, go forward, there seems to be a flag over there.] After collecting the candy, Chen Wu worked even harder. Although he couldn't feel the exact location of the flag, he could at least get a rough idea of ​​its location, which was enough for Hu Xingtong to score.

While moving, Hu Xingtong used the scanning eye to scan the front, but this glance revealed that Xiao Yuheng was fighting with a group of people at the peak of weapon refining. Judging from their attire, those people should be disciples of the Martial Fighting Pavilion. Although they were not from a famous sect, they specialized in martial arts and body refining, and their physical fitness was generally not low.

Seeing that Xiao Yuheng was about to use Chuiyun to fight the enemy, Hu Xingtong secretly thought that it was not good. It was too early to use his trump card at this time.

Hu Xingtong immediately released his aura, unleashing his passive skill, Absolute Emperor. At this point, Hu Xingtong had already flashed to Xiao Yuheng's side, saluted the people in front of him, and then said quickly, "Everyone, stop. I'll leave first."

As he spoke, he did not forget to pick up the blue flag on the ground while they were stunned. By the time they reacted, the two men had already run away.

"I won't give you the flag. I'm in a hurry to get on the road. Remember to avoid conflicts with others and take the flag as the priority." After saying that, he turned into a stream of red light and flew away.

[Is this how you're using the passive skill I gave you?] Chen Wu was stunned by what had just happened. Who could have thought that just by releasing a passive skill, the people on the opposite side would give up chasing her?

"Do you understand how to fight without bloodshed?" There were fewer and fewer ownerless flags to take in the maze. Seeing that there was less than half an incense stick of time left, Hu Xingtong planned to find a good position to rob.

"I'll find someone with a low realm and a flag and rob him." She summoned Qing Huanjian and took out a lot of pills from the ring, pouring them into her mouth and chewing them. Fortunately, these pills were made by her herself, and they all tasted like gummy candies, which were delicious and not tiring.

[In your southeast corner, there are three people in the middle stage of Qi Refining.]

After taking a sip of water, Hu Xingtong rushed over with his sword in hand. As the sword flashed, the three men fell to the ground. As the three men lost their ability to fight, Hu Xingtong easily took the flags they had. There were a total of fifteen white flags and six blue flags, which was not too many.

Adhering to the principle of leaving a way out for future encounters, Hu Xingtong left a white flag for each of the three people and arrogantly stuck it on the ground in front of them. He smiled and said, "Don't be angry, I had no choice. I have to work hard to get first place, otherwise I will have no food to eat when I return to the sect."

What he said was so heartfelt and true to his heart. With the blessing of the two passive skills, Absolute Emperor and Sacred Heart Keenness, not only did the three people believe it and looked at Hu Xingtong with sympathy, but even Hu Xingtong believed it. His aggrieved look with slightly red eyes made the others believe it even more, and they even wanted to give away the three white flags.

However, Hu Xingtong just waved his hand, turned around and left the crime scene with a helpless look.

"How much longer?"

[If we calculate by the minute, there should be ten minutes left.]

"How come this incense has been burning for so long?" Hu Xingtong was a little surprised. He used the black flag to sense the ownerless flags around him. However, all the flags in the entire maze had been taken away by others, so there were no ownerless flags at all.

[The incense sticks you're competing for should be made in half an hour, so hurry up. You currently have 109 points, which accounts for one-sixth of the total score. Based on the overall assessment, you should be ranked third.]

"No, I have to continue robbing, and I have to be fast." As he said that, Chen Wu passed the information of the nearest few people. Hu Xingtong looked at their not very high cultivation levels and did not intend to hold back. He directly used his light body and smooth sword moves to take the flags of those people.

In just four minutes, Hu Xingtong had robbed more than half of the teams with flags in the maze, and his score exceeded 315, barely accounting for half of the total score.

[Xingxing, there's a mid-stage Jindan nearby, with a lot of flags.]

In the middle stage of the Golden Core, those should be the ones competing with me for the spot. There are less than five minutes left, let’s fight!

After some consideration, Hu Xingtong decided to take action directly. He took out some recovery pills from the ring and swallowed them. While waiting for his spiritual power to recover, he continued to approach the man.

The man was quite powerful. Perhaps he felt Hu Xingtong approaching, and a talisman flew out of his hand. Hu Xingtong saw this and saw a golden light passing by his eyes from the outside of his body. The speed was so fast that it would have been difficult for Hu Xingtong to avoid it if he had not opened his scanning eyes.

"I wonder which fellow practitioner is here? How about we meet and have a competition?" Hu Xingtong looked at the surrounding environment. He clearly felt a trace of spiritual fluctuation, but he couldn't find anyone. He thought that the person must have used some means to hide his breath. As expected, there are still many masters.

"Swish——" The sound of breaking air sounded behind him. Hu Xingtong reacted instantly. He dodged lightly while scanning the attack methods with his scanning eye.

Explosive Fire Talisman, watch me reverse it for you!

As his body flipped, Hu Xingtong quickly used the cold star fire as a guide, transformed his spiritual power into a pen, and directly drew a rune of explosive fire in the air in reverse. For a moment, the two explosive fire talismans collided with each other.

"Wow--"

The explosive fire talisman that appeared first turned into powder under the explosive fire talisman drawn by Hu Xingtong, and not even a spark appeared.

There are less than three minutes left.