Chapter 545: The New Generation of Cultivators in Star Fall Continent

"The Dongxuan Academy assessment competition in three days, and the Qi Refining Realm cultivator competition in seven days—as the number one village in the Star Fall Continent, I, as the Village Chief, don't ask you to take the top spot, but you must squeeze into the top hundred. Do you hear me clearly?"

In Liu Family Village, thousands of miles away from Dongxuan City, Liu Laosan was giving a serious lecture to a dozen or so Qi Refining Realm teenagers in front of him.

Hearing Liu Laosan's words, these Qi Refining Realm teenagers were also full of confidence and said in unison:

"Yes, Village Chief, we heard clearly!"

Among the two teenagers at the head who were standing tall and proud, one of them said with a face full of pride:

"Village Chief, don't worry! I don't have much confidence in the academy exam, but Liu Yuan and I will definitely make it into the top ten in the Qi Refining Realm competition."

Liu Yuan, who was beside him, also raised his head slightly and said: "Li Lan is right. My Clear Wind Sword Art has already reached great success. This Qi Refining Realm competition will be the time for me, Liu Yuan, to make a name for myself in the Star Fall Continent."

Looking at the two whose confidence was extremely inflated, Liu Laosan was speechless for a moment, his face sank: "Confidence is a good thing, but you must also have self-awareness. This time, there are over 10,000 Qi Refining Realm cultivators participating in the competition. If you can squeeze into the top ten, I'll be burning incense."

However, facing Liu Laosan's reprimand, although Liu Yuan and Li Lan did not refute, the look of disapproval on their faces exposed their inner thoughts.

Looking at their expressions, Liu Laosan also muttered in his heart: "Still haven't experienced the beatings of society! I hope you can maintain this confidence after this competition."

These dozen or so Qi Refining Realm cultivators were all personally cultivated by Liu Laosan from the children who had been born with spiritual roots in Liu Family Village over the past ten years.

Although among these dozen or so Qi Refining Realm teenagers, most were only at the early stage of the Qi Refining Realm, and only Liu Yuan and Li Lan had broken through to the fourth layer of the Qi Refining Realm, reaching the mid-stage of the Qi Refining Realm.

But because this was the first Dongxuan Academy exam, and also the first Qi Refining Realm cultivator competition among the villages, small towns, and cities of the Star Fall Continent.

To ensure a certain degree of fairness, Dongxuan City required that all cultivators participating in the academy exam and the Qi Refining competition this time must be teenagers who had detected spiritual roots and stepped onto the path of cultivation within the last ten years.

So don't look at the fact that the Qi Refining Realm cultivators he cultivated in Liu Family Village were not high in realm; among the Qi Refining Realm teenagers in other villages, small towns, and cities, except for a very few geniuses, the cultivation bases of most of the new generation of cultivators were not much higher either.

Therefore, Liu Laosan held great expectations for the Qi Refining Realm teenagers cultivated in his Liu Family Village, especially for Liu Yuan and Li Lan, the two teenagers who had already stepped into the mid-stage of the Qi Refining Realm, hoping that they could squeeze into the top hundred of the competition.

But to say that Liu Yuan and Li Lan could fight to the end and rank in the top ten of the new generation of Qi Refining Realm cultivators in the Star Fall Continent? Liu Laosan would not believe it no matter what.

How could it be so easy to rank in the top ten of the new generation of cultivators in the entire Star Fall Continent? In Liu Laosan's view, this was nothing more than wishful thinking.

To fight to the top ten, wouldn't one at least need to reach the late stage of the Qi Refining Realm? "Alright, I'll take you to Dongxuan Academy for the exam first. After the exam, we'll set off directly to the prefecture city to prepare for the battle."

"Yes, Village Chief!"

Afterwards, Liu Laosan took these Qi Refining Realm cultivators from Liu Family Village and flew toward the prefecture city of Yuanqing Prefecture, where Liu Family Village was located.

The entire Star Fall Continent had a full twenty commanderies and over three hundred prefectures.

This time, the new generation Qi Refining Realm competition in the Star Fall Continent would first hold the first round of elimination matches in the prefecture cities, and then the top ten from each prefecture would head to the commandery city to participate in the second round of elimination matches.

Then, after the second round of elimination matches ended, only the top five from each commandery would be qualified to head to Dongxuan City to participate in the final.

Now, all the prefecture cities and commandery cities in the Star Fall Continent were established by the strongest batch of Purple Mansion Realm cultivators in the Star Fall Continent.

The batch of Qi Refining Realm teenagers with the highest cultivation bases from each prefecture city and commandery city were also the most favorable competitors in this Qi Refining competition.

Anyone who qualified to head to Dongxuan City to participate in the final, whether it was the Qi Refining Realm cultivator themselves or the village chief, town mayor, or city lord who cultivated these Qi Refining Realm cultivators, could receive rewards from Dongxuan City.

The higher the final ranking, the more generous the rewards.

This was also the reason why Liu Laosan hoped that Liu Yuan and Li Lan could squeeze into the top hundred of this competition.

Only by being in the top hundred of the Qi Refining competition would one have the opportunity to head to Dongxuan City to participate in the final and receive rewards from Dongxuan City.

Otherwise, the many village chiefs, town mayors, and city lords who applied to establish villages, small towns, and cities in Dongxuan City would only be able to receive the most basic contribution point salary and the basic reward for every child born with spiritual roots.

These gains were far worse than the rewards for the top hundred in the competition.

Sweeping his spiritual sense over Liu Yuan and Li Lan behind him, a look of expectation appeared in Liu Laosan's eyes, and he secretly thought:

"Whether I, the Village Chief, can accelerate the speed of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm and upgrade Liu Family Village to a small town depends on whether you two are capable."

At the same time, on the highest pavilion in the center of Yuanqing Fucheng.

A heroic-looking young girl holding a long spear looked down at the entire Yuanqing Fucheng and said domineeringly: "This time, I, this young lady, am determined to get the first place in the Qi Refining Realm competition!"

As she spoke, the aura that the young girl erupted with had already reached the peak of the Qi Refining Realm.

Her name was Yuan Qingcheng, the daughter of Yuan Mingzhi, the City Lord of this Yuanqing Fucheng, and she was a possessor of a six-element spiritual root talent.

Just as Yuan Qingcheng said this, a figure with a slightly scholarly temperament ascended the pavilion. Looking at Yuan Qingcheng's back, a look of satisfaction and doting appeared on his face, and he nodded slightly: "Good, worthy of being my, Yuan Mingzhi's, daughter. With your cultivation base and combat power, Qingcheng, the chance of taking first place in the Qi Refining Realm competition this time is very high."

However, hearing her father's words, Yuan Qingcheng frowned slightly and said somewhat unconvinced: "Hmph, so Father means that there is still someone who is my opponent in this competition?"

Hearing her daughter's unconvinced tone, Yuan Mingzhi shook his head slightly and walked up. After coming to his daughter's side, Yuan Mingzhi looked into the distant horizon and said faintly:

"Qingcheng, the Star Fall Continent is too big. Our Yuanqing Prefecture is just one of over three hundred prefectures in the Star Fall Continent."

"A cultivation base at the peak of the Qi Refining Realm, although it already belongs to the top level among the new generation of cultivators this time, it does not mean you have no opponents."

"In the entire Star Fall Continent, I don't know how many new generation cultivators have already reached the peak of the Qi Refining Realm and are ranked in the first echelon. I hope you are mentally prepared."

"However, I must suggest to the City Lord that in all future competitions, besides limiting the level of external forces such as elixirs, magic treasures, and talismans, we must also limit the quantity of these external forces."

However, Jiang Wen didn't know that Ye Qingxuan on Mount Wanling was already thinking about the problem he suggested.

Ye Qingxuan, who had been paying attention to the progress of this Qi Refining Realm competition final, naturally also noticed the duel between Ying Wuqiu and Wang Teng.

Ye Qingxuan also had to admit that he still underestimated the thick-skinned nature of some cultivators.

After all, this was not a life-and-death fight in a no-man's land, but a competition involving the entire Star Fall Continent that attracted worldwide attention.

"Although the face is a bit thick, this may not be an advantage."

On Mount Wanling, Ye Qingxuan stood with his hands behind his back and smiled slightly.

Although he was preparing to further improve the system of various competitions in the future and fill the loopholes in Ying Wuqiu's behavior.

But he didn't deny Ying Wuqiu's behavior.

Because in the match between Wang Teng and Ying Wuqiu, the winner was Ying Wuqiu.

Winning the final victory already represented everything.

Flexible adaptation, to a certain extent, using the loopholes in the rules to increase one's winning rate, was itself a kind of wit and courage.

Ye Qingxuan believed that many participants had discovered this loophole.

But there were very few who could truly put down their face, put down the constraints of the world on themselves, and drill loopholes in the competition that attracted worldwide attention.

So for this Qi Refining Realm competition, Ye Qingxuan didn't mean to let Jiang Wen come out to temporarily fill the loopholes. He also wanted to see, if relying on a large number of external forces at the Qi Refining level, how far could participants like Ying Wuqiu go.

And in this new generation of the Star Fall Continent, would there be a genius who could sweep away all obstacles in the same realm? How many participants had such thoughts of drilling loopholes and prepared a large number of external forces such as elixirs and talismans? Ye Qingxuan had been paying attention to the progress of this Qi Refining Realm final, but he didn't spy on any information about the participants.

If everything was already in sight and the ending was seen in advance.

Then this Qi Refining Realm competition final would have lost the meaning of watching and seemed quite boring. With a wave of his hand, Ye Qingxuan placed a table in front of him, took out a lot of melons, fruits, and tea.

Sitting in the air, Ye Qingxuan ate melons and fruits while watching the competition.

Don't say, the slightly immature fighting of these new generation Qi Refining Realm cultivators, watching it occasionally, also seemed quite interesting.

In the square of Dongxuan City.

When Jiang Wen was watching, Ying Wuqiu, who had just finished the battle, suddenly felt a chill.

It was just that this chill came suddenly and went quickly.

So although Ying Wuqiu was a bit puzzled in his heart, he could only shrug his shoulders and didn't care about the inexplicable chill anymore.

At this time, Ying Wuqiu's mind was more attracted by the large number of first-order supreme elixirs and talismans he had specially prepared in his storage ring.

Obviously, the thirty first-order supreme talismans · Earth Source Shield he used in the battle with Wang Teng were not a whim, but premeditated.

At first, Ying Wuqiu was still a bit uneasy, and felt a bit embarrassed when facing the audience.

But when he won and heard some cheers from the audience, his embarrassment gradually turned into calmness.

Of course, the negative energy such as curses from the audience was directly selectively shielded by Ying Wuqiu.

And when he won by using thirty talismans and Dongxuan City didn't come out to stop it or change the rules, Ying Wuqiu's uneasiness about using a large number of talismans to win at the beginning began to turn into excitement.

"Can directly use the power of talismans to win, why should I worry about my own high-intensity fighting?"

Well, this idea is very consistent with Ying Wuqiu, who has a lazy temperament, although it sounds slightly shameless.

But the thick-skinned Ying Wuqiu obviously automatically filtered out the word "shameless".

Looking at the somewhat overly sensible Shi Huang, the head of Shi Village said with a touch of heartache: "You child, but you don't need to worry. Once you graduate from Dongxuan Academy and officially join Dongxuan City, you will be able to narrow the resource gap with others."

"Hehehe, since no one came out to change the rules, maybe I still have a chance to compete for the top ten in the final, or even fight for the champion position of the new generation of the Star Fall Continent this time."

If it weren't for the formation in the battle platform that would interfere with and suppress other formations.

Ying Wuqiu would have wanted to prepare some first-order supreme formation plates and directly use formations to fight the enemy during the battle.

Just as Ying Wuqiu was having a beautiful dream, the first round of battles for the Qi Refining Realm competition final had ended.

Under the leadership of many strong experts stationed in Dongxuan City, using a large number of various combination elixirs and medicines, the participants who were injured or exhausted in the great battle began to recover to their peak state at a very fast speed.

Immediately afterwards, there was no need for Jiang Wen to come out to preside.

The one hundred participants who had recovered, according to the battle information that had been reordered in the picture scroll floating in the air, stepped onto the corresponding battle platforms one after another and started a new round of battles.

As time passed, rounds of battles started.

The one hundred participants successively encountered many strong experts and experienced many difficult battles.

In the subsequent battles, although Ying Wuqiu defeated many strong opponents by relying on a large number of first-order supreme talismans and elixirs, the consumption of various talismans and elixirs was also getting larger and larger.

Especially when facing some geniuses with seven-element spiritual roots, under their perfect-level low-level spell attacks, the first-order supreme talismans Ying Wuqiu stimulated didn't have much deterrent power in front of them.

And when Ying Wuqiu faced the seven-element spiritual root genius from a commoner background, he was defeated by the opponent's trump card and powerful combat power.

Although Ying Wuqiu later won the victory by relying on a large number of first-order supreme talismans for defense and attack, and elixirs to replenish his own spiritual energy when facing two seven-element spiritual root geniuses from commoner backgrounds.

But in this way, the first-order supreme talismans and elixirs stored in his storage ring were consumed at a very fast speed.

This consumption speed had exceeded Ying Wuqiu's expectations.

If this continues, the first-order supreme talismans and elixirs he prepared before might not even last until the later stage of the battle.

"It seems that when facing some weaker participants, I still have to fight with all my strength and save some talismans and elixirs."