Half a month later, the competition started as scheduled.
The venue for the competition was held as usual at the Tan Family Martial Arts Arena, where arenas had already been set up and special protective formations were deployed to protect the participants.
Lu Zhong followed Tan Shihe and came here early.
Since he was the ring leader, Lu Zhong stood directly on the ring.
After a while, someone jumped onto the stage.
"Mengquan Mountain, please give me some advice, fellow Taoist!" The man who came up was a big man with a beard, carrying a heavy black iron sword on his back, and wearing an iron hat on his head. He looked like a wanderer.
"Lü Zhong, I was entrusted to guard the ring here..."
After the two people finished their opening remarks, the magic circle set up around the ring was activated, and an earth-yellow cover quickly formed, which also meant the beginning of the competition.
"My mountain-opening sword is powerful and heavy, fellow Taoist, please be careful!" Meng Quanshan said in his mouth, taking off the giant sword weighing at least a thousand kilograms with one hand, and holding it in his hand, Dongdongdong's dynasty
Lu Zhong rushed forward, obviously with the purpose of fighting closely and wanting to win with swordsmanship.
"Thank you for reminding me!" The other party sold it so well that Lu Zhong didn't hesitate to reply.
After all, it was just a competition, there was no need to turn into a life-and-death fight, so he kept the necessary vigilance. After performing the flying star air-entraining surgery that preceded the spell, he casually summoned a layer of spiritual wind to himself. The arena was more than thirty feet long and wide.
, enough to dodge and move around on it.
This competition was quite satisfactory, and the fight was back-and-forth.
The two of them each used their own special skills. Meng Quanshan's Kaishan Sword Qi could even split the arena, but he still couldn't touch Lu Zhong. After all, at this moment, he not only used the light body technique, but also learned to "move stars".
"Step" is an inherited spell that can teleport within a small area.
Even though Star Movement consumes a lot of money, it is enough to avoid Meng Quanshan's sword force.
From time to time, Lu Zhong would condensate several fireballs to counterattack, and Lu Zhong would make his opponent disgraced in just a few clicks.
After going back and forth, Meng Quanshan, who knew that there was no hope of victory, stopped directly, shook his head at a young man in the audience, and then jumped off the stage without waiting for the other person's reaction.
Passing by the young man, he paused and said: "According to the previous agreement, the favor owed by Meng will be regarded as repaid."
The young man opened his mouth, but said nothing in the end.
"Haha, congratulations to Fellow Daoist Lu for winning the first battle!" Tan Shihe came over and laughed.
He also knew the strength of Meng Quanshan. With his mountain-opening sword, ordinary monks were no match for this person. He never expected that Lu Zhong could win so easily.
"After all, it's just a competition. If my fellow Taoist uses his full strength, I'm afraid it won't be much easier for me." Lu Zhong shook his head and said, but the other party didn't use his full strength, so he himself was not the same.
Not to mention the biggest trump card, Qingyangjian.
You know, Lu Zhong didn't even use magic weapons, so he relied solely on magic to fight against the enemy.
While the two were talking, someone else jumped on the stage.
This time, it was a member of the Tan family.
The monk from the Tan family who was recording the results saw it and couldn't help but remind him: "Friend Lu, remember to hit the mark... Third sister, if you can't beat me, don't be too aggressive. There will be opportunities in the future."
"Yes, Uncle Qi." A tall female cultivator with a horse face, wearing a tight-fitting outfit, bowed her hands respectfully to the old man in the audience, looking very respectful.
Lu Zhong also nodded to him, indicating that he understood.
Being a guest of a family is the most troublesome part. There are a lot of complicated relationships, which is really difficult to deal with. Fortunately, such things are rare, otherwise you would be exhausted just to deal with them.
Not long after, the magic circle shield was re-opened and the competition began.
As if she had seen the previous competition, the horse-faced female cultivator rushed forward quickly as soon as she made a move. She had obviously learned the lesson from the failure at Mengquan Mountain and was prepared to rush forward regardless to prevent being kited.
Lu Zhong smiled secretly in his heart and prepared to give her a surprise.
Before the horse-faced female cultivator could rush forward, he made a counterattack with a movement of his body.
With the help of the spiritual wind, he bounded his body, and with the Star Movement Step, he rushed directly in front of the horse-faced female cultivator. Blue auras appeared on his left and right hands, and they soon condensed into physical magic swords.
Before the opponent had time to react, dozens of swords were slashed out.
With the blessing of the Qi Entrainment Technique, after these dozen or so blows of the Chi Yang Magic Sword, the opponent's body-protecting Qi immediately collapsed, revealing his defenseless body underneath. Lu Zhong immediately turned over and kicked the opponent in the abdomen, directly kicking him. Fly to the unfolded shield wall.
"Stop! Third sister, you lose!" The old man saw that the horse-faced nun was still about to get up, so he stopped directly.
Anyone can see that the strength of the two is not at the same level.
If it had been a life-and-death fight just now, I'm afraid the final winner would have been decided in an instant.
"I..." The horse-faced female cultivator was about to defend herself, but then she felt warm liquid left on her neck. When she reached out and touched it, she realized it was her own blood, and she immediately understood that she had suffered a terrible loss.
When she jumped off the ring angrily, Lu Zhong finally won another match.
"Winning two games in a row, I guess no one dares to challenge again, right?" Lu Zhong thought in his heart, and jumped off the ring, preparing to take a rest in the teahouse next to him. Just after the competition, he smelled a strong smell of tea. fragrant.
I claim to be a tea lover, so why not taste some good tea when I encounter it?
As soon as Lu Zhong sat down, before he could hold up the tea cup, Tan Shihe leaned over, took out a box from his sleeve, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Lu Zhong for successfully defending the ring in advance. Just now, the talented Shihe asked his uncle, what's next is No one is ready to challenge, so I will hand over this Golden Yang Insect Fire to fellow Taoist as promised!"
He took the square box and gently opened a crack, and immediately felt a warm feeling.
The color of Golden Yang Insect Fire is light gold with a hint of cyan. It is a kind of Yang Fire that is relatively easy to collect. Lu Zhong had seen its description in many classics and collected it after confirming that it was correct.
Next, since they had nothing to do, the two began to exchange their cultivation experiences.
They all argue that the more they argue, the clearer they become. After corroborating each other's experiences, both parties gain something.
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After catching the Jinyang insect fire, Lu Zhong immediately returned to Liuyun Mountain.
Time passes day by day.
In addition to the necessary meditation, refining Qi, and absorbing Xingyang Qi every day, he spends almost all his time analyzing formations and meditating on the Flame-making Technique, and his time is fully arranged.
Of course, Lu Zhong would also go out of seclusion from time to time to resolve the fire in his true essence at regular intervals, which could be regarded as a change from the boring cultivation life.
But just like what was said on the original piece of paper, the difficulty of practicing Nongyan Jue is really not small. Even if he has a lot of experience with the technique, he still has a hard time understanding it. Even if there is a gray fog space to reduce the cost of trial and error, It took more than two years to finally master the first level of Nongyan Jue.
At this time, he could finally refine the Golden Yang Insect Fire.
So, with full expectations, Lu Zhong immediately used the secret technique of forging spirit fire to use the golden yang insect fire as firewood. After spending a lot of effort, he successfully condensed a wisp of forging spirit fire.
Looking at the golden flames in front of him, a smile finally appeared on his face.
"It's not easy. Fortunately, I finally got it done!"
Without further ado, Lu Zhong immediately put the forged spirit fire into his Dantian and tried to calcine the true essence for the first time.
Immediately, the surface of his body ignited with golden flames. There was no unbearable pain as expected. Instead, it was like being soaked in warm water, feeling warm and comfortable.
After observing for a while, Lu Zhong found that forging spiritual fire really had the effect of removing the bad and retaining the good.
The true essence, which had become somewhat mottled due to taking the elixir, gradually began to become purer. Although the magnitude of this change was insignificant and not comparable to the spiritual power purification properties of the Four Spiritual Skills, as long as he persevered,
If you insist on calcining, the effect will not be much worse than taking a spiritual substance to remove erysipelas.
"Not bad, really good!" Lu Zhong nodded with satisfaction.
Forging spiritual fire can have this effect, and to be honest, he is very satisfied.
According to the second level of Nongyan Jue, according to the secret technique of forging spirit fire, after the spirit fire is cultivated, it will reach a small level, and the effect of purifying the true essence will also be greatly improved.
Although he knew that the second level of cultivation would definitely be much more difficult than the first level, Lu Zhong only realized how abnormal it was after trying it. The gap between the front and back was not an exaggeration at all.
This left Lu Zhong extremely helpless and had no choice but to leave seclusion.
There is another reason for leaving seclusion, which is because there is not enough energy.
At the same time, the two treasures of Spirit Ring and Qingyang Jian are cultivated, and the consumption of essence is astonishing. The hundreds of essences obtained from the previous purge of Yongling City's waterways have already been used in the more than two years of seclusion.
Clean and tidy.
In order to transform the spiritual ring as soon as possible and restore the power of the Qingyang Mirror to its heyday, Lu Zhong could only go out to collect the essence, so as not to delay the cultivation of the spiritual weapon.
After all, today is a day of rest.
Lu Zhong walked towards the depths of the mansion. Recently, he always felt that the newly refined essence was not working as expected. It was time to find someone to put an end to the problem.
Walking forward in the wind and snow, with the strong energy of the stars and the sun, no snowflakes could fall on him.
Soon he walked to a greenhouse, which he had specially built. There were many water pipes laid underneath. As long as the water was boiled in the boiler room in the distance, there would be a continuous flow of hot water from far away and continuous heating.
It can make the whole house comfortable and pleasant in the middle of winter.
This is also a little reward from him for Li Hejun.
After struggling for a long time, it was finally done.
Lying on the soft brocade couch, Lu Zhong's thoughts kept rolling around.
Calculating carefully, the Ninghuo Binjinhua has reached maturity, so the recent period is a critical moment in the game. If something is going to happen to the Tan family, it is time to happen.
If not, it would be the best.
Now that he has served as the guest minister of the Tan family for four years, he has less than a year left to successfully obtain the method of making the flying talisman. Naturally, he does not want anything to happen to the Tan family, and only hopes that Tan Luoyun can successfully form the elixir as soon as possible.
Long before the retreat, I specifically told Li Hejun to collect information in this area.
"Has anything big happened over there recently?"
"I can only collect some clear information, but judging from the information analysis methods taught by the master, the Tan family's elixir formation replacement should be successful. Recently, the external forces have ceased one after another. I want to come to Tan Luoyun to form elixirs."
Success should be in the near future." Li Hejun said softly.
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Another ten days passed.
What Lu Zhong didn't expect was that Tan Luoyun obtained the Golden Flower of Condensing Fire, and although he successfully triggered the calamity of forming an elixir, he still failed to form the elixir successfully in the end, and fell to the Three Nine Thunder Tribulation.
The Three Nine Thunder Tribulations are a hurdle that must be passed through to form the elixir.
Lu Zhong used to think that in the classics, it was said that only one in a hundred foundation-building monks could successfully form elixirs. He thought it was just the author's exaggeration. He never thought that this was very likely to be true.
The sufficient preparations made by the Tan family were in vain in a disaster.
"It's true that things in the world are impermanent..."
He sighed silently.
And it is inevitable to think about how to deal with it if it is your turn to go through a disaster?
In the classics, there are also methods for monks to deal with thunder disasters, but those methods all rely on rare spiritual objects, or lightning protection stones that have been extinct for thousands of years, or thunder grass that has been excavated by ancient monks, or traces that are difficult to trace.
Looking for ancient alien species.
"It seems that we should also pay attention to the method of lightning protection..." Lu Zhong didn't want to think that he had finally cultivated to the perfection of foundation building and prepared enough spiritual objects to assist in forming pills, only to be crushed to ashes by the Three Nine Thunder Tribulation.
"The best age to form an elixir is before the age of two hundred."
Thinking about it, more than a hundred years would be enough for him to find one or two ways to avoid lightning.
With this in mind, life continues as usual.
After Tan Luoyun failed to form the elixir, the Tan family's level of control over various industries suddenly increased a lot, and the benefits of filial piety that fell into Lu Zhong's hands every month were visibly reduced.
This move is not difficult to explain. After all, the Tan family has a great business, and the ancestors are still in their prime, and have not yet reached the end of their rope. If they can gather enough spiritual stones during this period, they only need to try to get a gold-forming elixir.
It may not be possible to complete the replacement of golden elixirs.
Lu Zhong didn't care about the spiritual stone filial piety, obtaining the flying talisman making method was the most important thing.
Spring passes and autumn comes, and the cold and cold winter passes quickly.
Finally, the five-year period is over!
On the day he left office, to be honest, he was really reluctant to leave.
During the past five years as the foundation builder of the Tan family, my life has been really smooth. All my time and energy can be spent on improving my cultivation and improving my own strength.
Not only did he obtain a volume of formation inheritance, but he also developed a spirit-forging fire that would benefit him for a long time.
No matter how you look at it, this Tan family is a blessed place for him.
But faced with Tan Shihe's invitation, Lu Zhong finally chose to refuse.
A dragon cannot be raised in shallow water. If he really wants to achieve the golden elixir, he must venture into a wider world. Only in this way can he gather the resources for elixir formation. Otherwise, he will stay in such a small place sooner or later.
One day my ambitions will be shattered.
I stayed at Tan's residence for another month.
Under the personal instruction of a talisman maker, Lu Zhong successfully mastered the method of making flying talismans.
The second-level talisman is different from the first-level talisman. The drawing methods of the talisman head, talisman, and talisman are much more complicated, especially the talisman feet that play a role in encryption. He estimated that if he had no one to teach him, he would have to rely on his own ability to analyze it.
, at least it will take ten years to learn.
In any case, Lu Zhong finally mastered the first second-level talisman.