Chapter 320

"Wait, did I hear that right?"

"Three Jin Dan cultivators fought against Zheng Danlian, including Jin Dan from major sects like the Full Book Tower and Purple Heaven Pavilion, and they all lost?"

"Perhaps, there was infighting among the three?"

"Night Rain Demon Soldier! This is the only explanation."

The group of cultivators still remaining in the Turning Point Secret Pavilion were all very astonished after hearing this announcement.

Zheng Shuangou and the others immediately pulled themselves away from the influence of this news.

They ran into each other in a secret pavilion.

The mechanical frog in the secret pavilion was wandering in the central area. A treasure chest was placed on the head of a giant frog leader.

But neither side of the cultivators had the leisure to care about these mechanical frogs.

It was all because the Lava Immortal Palace had been damaged, and the restrictions of the Turning Point Secret Pavilion had weakened a lot, allowing the cultivators' strength to recover to the Foundation Establishment stage.

This led to a sharp decrease in the difficulty of the mechanical traps and other arrangements in the secret pavilion.

And because the cultivators could all take and use their own items, the value of the various mechanical props in the secret pavilion also decreased accordingly.

The eyes of both sides crossed the group of mechanical frogs and penetrated onto each other.

Zheng Shuangou showed a look of joy: "I didn't expect to run into two people from the Meng family directly. Meng Chong is only at the middle stage of Qi Refining, we have an advantage."

Ning Jiufan frowned and shook his head: "War is dangerous."

"Meng Chong possesses an Immortal Talent, which in the early stages of cultivation, fighting across levels is a common occurrence."

"Zhou Nongying was eliminated by him, this young man cannot be underestimated!"

"Let's retreat."

Ning Jiufan was very cautious.

For him, although their own cultivation base on paper was stronger, it was hard to say when it came to actual fighting.

It was better to retreat, unite with other cultivators, and then fight again, which was the best choice.

After all, it could be seen from the list that there were only two people from the Meng family who had broken into the third round of the palace exam.

In contrast, on Zhu Xuanji's side, even though Zhou Nongying had been eliminated. The Zheng family still had two cultivators, and the Ning family also had Ning Jiufan and Ning Zhuo. Plus Zhu Xuanji, the number of people and the lineup were the largest.

"Now that we can use our own items, Meng Chong's grandfather is a Nascent Soul cultivator, he must have given him many protective treasures."

"There is no need to take unnecessary risks, let's find others and unite together."

"At that time, turning back to deal with them will be like Mount Tai pressing on an egg, sweeping through the lair with thunder, unstoppable!"

Ning Jiufan sent a sound transmission to Zheng Shuangou, saying don't forget, there was also a Non-Empty Gate. This force was good at conspiracies and secret calculations, and could not be underestimated.

Compared to them, the two from the Meng family could both be treated as objects of alliance.

Zheng Shuangou nodded: "What you said makes sense. Sigh, it was me seeing Meng Chong, a junior, and failing to change my mindset for a moment. Let's go."

"Where are you going!" The Meng family Jin Dan cultivator shouted and rushed over.

Sizzle.

A lightning shadow remained where Meng Chong stood, and then slowly dissipated.

In an instant, Meng Chong had crossed the central area of the mechanical frog group and pounced directly in front of Ning Jiufan and Zheng Shuangou.

Meng Chong flew into mid-air and dived down.

Boom!

He slammed fiercely into the ground, shattering the floor tiles into countless fragments, splashing everywhere.

Zheng Shuangou and Ning Jiufan had already retreated in time, the two of them one on the left and one on the right, surrounding Meng Chong in the middle.

Electricity wrapped around his whole body, Meng Chong stood up, fighting spirit high, revealing a smile: "You are all my prey, don't even think about running!"

Zheng Shuangou snorted coldly and pounced directly: "Junior, your tone is not small!"

The two exchanged fists and feet, making a banging sound. After a few rounds, Meng Chong shot out like electricity, opening the distance.

Ning Jiufan secretly thought it was troublesome. Meng Chong's speed was extremely fast, even if he wanted to retreat, it would be easy for Meng Chong to catch up.

Ning Jiufan had no choice but to take action, whether fighting or retreating, he had to seriously injure Meng Chong first!

The Ning family ancestor cast a frost spell, forming ice cones that flew out.

Meng Chong turned abruptly, his whole body drawing a lightning route in mid-air, dodging all the ice cones.

Zheng Shuangou followed by throwing flying darts, but none of them caught a corner of Meng Chong's clothes.

"Your opponent, there is also me!" During the entanglement, the Meng family Jin Dan cultivator also killed his way through the mechanical frogs and rushed over.

Zheng Shuangou fought with the Meng family Jin Dan cultivator and retreated steadily.

The Jin Dan cultivator was a body cultivator, and Zheng Shuangou suffered a lot in a head-on collision.

At the critical moment, the storage bracelet on his wrist shot out brilliant light, releasing a pair of magic treasure-level big knives.

Zheng Shuangou held the twin knives and danced out pieces of blade light.

The blade light slashed on the Meng family Jin Dan's body and was completely blocked by the Qi armor.

The Meng family Jin Dan rushed and bumped, fist shadows flying. Zheng Shuangou was beaten until his Qi and blood surged, retreating again and again, having to use the twin knives to parry, with no power to fight back.

Several hanging rings flew around Ning Jiufan, constantly shooting out silk threads.

The silk threads aimed at Meng Chong and shot, the momentum was very fierce, but they all missed.

"Slow, slow, slow!" Meng Chong shouted, his fighting spirit becoming more and more high.

He laughed loudly, clearly enjoying the taste of such a battle extremely.

Boom.

He suddenly cast a spell, airflow burst, firelight raged, destroying all the silk threads and hanging rings.

"Ning family ancestor, is that all!" Meng Chong slammed into Ning Jiufan fiercely.

Ning Jiufan watched Meng Chong rush over, as if seeing a thunder dragon shooting electricity. His heart was like ice jade, fearless in the face of danger, he retreated slightly, palms downward, and pressed down fiercely.

Immediately, a strong magic power radiated in all directions, and in the blink of an eye, an ice wall was formed.

This ice wall appeared in a circular shape, guarding Ning Jiufan in the center of the circle.

Ning Jiufan didn't stop, the ice walls around him were layer after layer, like waves, extending to the surroundings.

The ice walls thickened continuously, quickly condensing together, and in an instant, formed a small valley with an ice crystal structure.

Ning Jiufan took a deep breath and cast the spell again.

Thus, a strong north wind whistled out from the valley, and soon filled the entire secret pavilion.

The air temperature plummeted, and frost flowers spread rapidly on the walls, ceiling, and floor of the secret pavilion.

The biting cold wrapped around Meng Chong.

Meng Chong shouted and cast the Fire-Bathing Technique.

The next moment, his whole body was covered in flames, isolating the external cold, and he rushed toward Ning Jiufan again.

Ning Jiufan raised his right hand and projected a large number of ice sculptures from the storage ring.

These ice sculptures fell into the ice crystal valley, enlarged one after another, and restored into birds and beasts, attempting to intercept Meng Chong.

Meng Chong's speed was much faster than them.

But Ning Jiufan controlled the ice sculptures and cast spells one after another, Meng Chong's speed dropped sharply, and he decisively gave up rushing directly at Ning Jiufan, temporarily setting his attack target on these annoying ice sculptures.

Bang bang bang.

Each of the ice sculptures was basically at the Foundation Establishment level. In front of the rapidly charging Meng Chong, they almost had no power to fight back.

Soon, many of them were blown up.

For a time, lightning was like a dragon, and wherever it went, ice sculptures exploded, and the brilliant thunder fire and ice crystal fragments reflected each other.

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However, the ice sculptures were not without effect. Relying on the consumption of one by one, Meng Chong's momentum was gradually offset by more than half.

By the time Meng Chong killed his way to the ice valley, he was forced back by the cold wind blowing again.

Bang.

Zheng Shuangou fell like a cannonball, crashing directly onto the ice valley.

He spat out a small mouthful of blood, his chest collapsed, and the concave shape was clearly a fist.

The magic artifact long spear in Zheng Shuangou's hand had been broken into two pieces, so he simply abandoned it and took out his signature weapon—the Sun and Moon Hook—from the storage ring.

The Meng family body cultivator killed his way over again, and Zheng Shuangou leaned against the ice valley and clashed with him.

Relying on the magic treasure-level material of the Sun and Moon Hook, Zheng Shuangou finally blocked the Meng family body cultivator, but this was also a draw.

Ning Jiufan inside the ice valley keenly noticed this scene.

He quickly analyzed the situation in his heart: "As expected of a Meng family body cultivator, his strength is strong!"

"Zheng Shuangou relies on the Sun and Moon Hook, which is quite a disadvantage. This is a magic treasure level, which consumes a lot of magic power. He won't be able to hold on for long."

"It seems I have to rely on myself."

Thinking of this, Ning Jiufan took out the magic treasure Ice Heart Jade Pot.

With a thought, a stream of Ice Jade Wine flew out from the pot's spout.

Ning Jiufan opened his mouth and swallowed the group of Ice Jade Wine into his belly quickly.

The next moment, he silently activated the spell.

Meng Chong rushed over again, persevering, and his momentum was even more wild and fierce.

It was hard to imagine that he only had the cultivation of the middle stage of Qi Refining!

The ice valley burst out pieces of ice bricks.

Meng Chong dodged most of them, endured the ice bricks, dived from high altitude, and continued to rush toward Ning Jiufan.

As a result, the next moment, these ice bricks suddenly collapsed, turning into groups of hail and snowflakes.

For a time, in the secret pavilion, ice and snow drifted.

A north wind blew out from the ice valley.

The north wind whistled, rolling up ice flakes and white snow.

The wind and snow obscured the vision, condensed with each other, turned into white pythons, and besieged Meng Chong.

Meng Chong kept dodging, and between lightning and thunder, he used his fists to blow up the white pythons one by one.

He became more excited as he fought, only feeling that the blood in his whole body was boiling. He hadn't touched this wonderful feeling of fist-to-flesh strikes for a long time.

The puppet body when entering the Immortal Palace really affected the exertion of his original strength too much.

The snow pythons were blown up in the wind and snow, and condensed into shape again not long after.

Meng Chong broke the surface with points, originally occupying an advantage. But after a fierce battle for a while, he was heavily surrounded and gradually became weak, unable to break out.

Seeing Meng Chong fall into trouble, the Meng family Jin Dan body cultivator ignored himself and hit Zheng Shuangou heavily.

Zheng Shuangou's hook cut the body cultivator's skin, but he himself was blasted away, like a cannonball, crashing directly through the ice valley and falling to the ground.

Ning Jiufan on the side had no time to care about him, concentrating all his attention on controlling the spell, surrounding Meng Chong tightly.

According to common sense, Ning Jiufan's large-scale spell casting was quite magic-consuming. Meng Chong's fighting style of breaking the surface with points was just right to restrain it.

However, in actual combat, the balance of victory gradually tilted toward Ning Jiufan.

Meng Chong gradually became tired of parrying.

Zheng Shuangou sat on the ground, eating elixirs while praising endlessly: "Brother Ning, your techniques of stacking, dividing, and turning spells are truly superb! If you can combine them, you will be a genuine master-level existence!"

What he said were all techniques of spell casting.

Stacking spells are the same spells, continuously superimposed, quantitative changes produce qualitative changes. Just now, Ning Jiufan continuously cast ten ice walls, and the ice walls merged into an ice mountain surrounding, which is stacking.

Dividing and turning spells are the flying bricks in the ice valley later, decomposing part of a spell, and then turning it into another spell.

And the later surging wind and snow, condensing snow pythons, is the integrated application of stacking, dividing, and turning.

Zheng Shuangou praised: "Brother Ning, we really didn't estimate wrong, you are a genuine battle mage."

Ning Jiufan was about to speak, responding with a few words of etiquette.

Suddenly he was terrified and suffered heavy damage!

He looked down and saw a blade hook piercing his lower abdomen. The familiar shape was exactly the Moon Hook from Zheng Shuangou's signature weapon, the Sun and Moon Hook.

The next moment, the Moon Hook erupted with brilliance, and the sharp soldier Qi quickly eroded Ning Jiufan's internal organs.

Ning Jiufan's body shook violently, staring fixedly at Zheng Shuangou: "You!!"