Chapter 777: Eliminating Ban Ji

The wind came from the sky, rolling up ten thousand acres of cloud wisps.

The sea of clouds surged, sometimes gathering like a collapsing snow mountain, sometimes scattering like torn silk.

Under the pine shade, Ban Ban Ban Jie sat upright.

She held a teacup in one hand, smelling the tea fragrance, while her mind was thinking about the latest battle situation in the Profound Armor Cave.

Just a moment ago, the latest intelligence had been delivered to her hands.

"The battle of the three Jin Dan cultivators, Tie Zheng won."

"This is within expectations, and it is also the result I wanted to achieve."

Ban Ban Ban Jie knew the strength of the Blade Beast! Especially since Tie Zheng had already used the Blade Beast in the second stage.

If Ao Pan and Lu Zeng had no other trump cards, Tie Zheng was bound to win. The advantage the Blade Beast brought him was too great.

Sure enough, Ao Pan and Lu Zeng were eliminated one after another, and Tie Zheng fought two with one, winning by relying on the Blade Beast.

"Even so, the Blade Beast cannot fight for a long time; I have already tried my best to weaken him."

If it were before, Tie Zheng and Ao Pan joining forces to deal with Lu Zeng, the final winner would still be Tie Zheng.

But now, although Tie Zheng eliminated Ao Pan and Lu Zeng, the consumption was much greater than the previous situation.

"Objects like the Blade Beast are not good at long battles. And the Blade Beast Glancing Light uses Profound Armor as the main material, making it even less durable."

"Tie Zheng has inner demons; he must have fought with all his might just now. After this bloody battle, how much longer can the Blade Beast Glancing Light fight?"

Ban Ban Ban Jie smiled slightly, thinking of Ban Ji.

"My second wave of reinforcements has already severely injured Unlike Ning Zhuo. Next, they will fight Tie Zheng, which will inevitably weaken the latter further, creating a final opportunity for Ban Ji."

"Unlike Ning Zhuo was severely injured, even losing his shield. He is Ban Ji's human calamity; it only makes sense for Ban Ji to break it himself."

Accompanied by Ban Ban Ban Jie's thinking, the pair of profound copper brow nails at her temples seemed to rotate like gear pivots.

"Next, Ban Ji will, under the watch of the second wave of reinforcements, personally eliminate Unlike Ning Zhuo and then sweep away the other Foundation Establishment cultivators."

"After Tie Zheng is weakened, he will engage in a final struggle with Ban Ji."

"Whether he can win in the end depends on Ban Ji's performance."

"I've done this to this extent; it should be just right."

Ban Ban Ban Jie needed to leave enough difficulty for Ban Ji; without tempering, there was no way to stimulate Wang Ming.

The sea of clouds was reflected in her deep eyes.

"It's just that the second wave of reinforcements is ultimately a bit excessive."

"Afterward, I need to take the initiative to apologize to the Profound Armor Cave! After all, Ban Ji will join the Myriad Phenomena Sect in the future, and we will be seeing the Profound Armor Cave side often."

Ban Ban Ban Jie was appointed here by the Ban family, so naturally, she had strategies.

At this time, the Rising Cloud Trial had not ended, but she was already calculating how to end it.

The cultivators of the Profound Armor Cave generally had ugly expressions.

"A wave of people had already come before, and now there's a second wave?"

"The Ban family is going too far! Cheating so blatantly, where do they put the reputation of our Profound Armor Cave?!"

In every Flying Cloud Assembly, the Profound Armor Cave held countless Rising Cloud Trials with the same content. If they left an impression of large-scale cheating, it would be a significant blow to their reputation.

As long as there was cheating, it proved they lacked fairness, and the cultivators coming to participate in the Rising Cloud Trial would consider and hesitate more. At the same time, it also proved that their internal personnel were being corrupted. This would also make outsiders look down on the Profound Armor Cave as an internal force.

The Hao-surnamed cultivator hugged his arms, a flash of cold light in his eyes.

He was one of those who had been corrupted.

"The Ban family is not playing fair; to support Ban Ji, they actually did it so obviously!"

"Once this Rising Cloud Trial is over, the higher-ups will definitely send people to investigate."

By then, if it was found that the Hao-surnamed cultivator had accepted bribes, he would inevitably suffer punishment.

"The Ban family bribed more than just me."

"Fortunately, I saw the situation was not good just now and made preparations in advance."

"Otherwise, I would be passive right now!"

The Hao-surnamed cultivator quickly scanned the surroundings, sneering in his heart.

Ban Ji watched as several people bowed to him, squeezing out a smile, but his feet retreated repeatedly.

He muttered in his heart: "Is this also Ban Ban Ban Jie's handiwork?"

The second wave of reinforcements gave a reason, saying they were indebted to the Ban family, and the sneak attack on Unlike Ning Zhuo was to repay the kindness. No one in the arena believed this reason, and Ban Ji was no exception.

It was just that he couldn't figure out: "Since so many people had infiltrated, why didn't they launch with full force when the first wave attacked?"

"Could it be that Ban Ban Ban Jie didn't want to make too much of a scene?"

"This move is almost public cheating, which will indeed make our side's relationship with the Profound Armor Cave tense!"

"Regardless of this, let's eliminate this kid Unlike Ning Zhuo first!"

A sharp light flashed in Ban Ji's eyes.

From the beginning of this Rising Cloud Trial, Unlike Ning Zhuo had brought him many troubles, and now he was going to settle the score properly.

Unlike Ning Zhuo was in poor condition; his physical body had been repaired many times, and at this moment, he was exhausted, and his wounds were still bleeding.

Strike while the iron is hot!

Ban Ji upheld this philosophy, holding his weapon, and was about to pounce on Unlike Ning Zhuo.

Whoosh, whoosh!

Two arrows attacked, each carrying the power of fire and ice.

Ban Ji hurriedly dodged, looking at the source of the arrows with suspicion: "Lord Tie Zheng, what is your intention?"

Tie Zheng's eyes were full of contempt and disgust: "Do you know that I hate hypocrisy and betrayal the most?"

He had inner demons.

At this moment, although he had eliminated Ao Pan, he was still in a state of stress.

Previously, the second wave of reinforcements had originally cooperated with Unlike Ning Zhuo to besiege Ban Ji, but suddenly "betrayed" their comrade Unlike Ning Zhuo and helped Ban Ji.

Although Tie Zheng practiced alone in the mountains, he came from a great clan and was certainly not stupid; he saw the trickery in this at a glance.

The situation of Unlike Ning Zhuo being betrayed was just like how he had just been "betrayed" by Ao Pan.

Tie Zheng walked slowly toward Ban Ji: "Just a bunch of hypocritical and shameless people; if you had laid out your cards from the beginning and said you wanted to repay kindness, besieging Unlike Ning Zhuo would be one thing. But you had to pretend to be comrades first, and then sneak attack—"

"How many times have you done this? How many people have you harmed?"

"Meeting me today means Heaven wants to teach you a lesson!!"

After saying this, Tie Zheng attacked Ban Ji and his group.

Ban Ji:?!!

He hurriedly explained, but the more he explained, the more resentful Tie Zheng became, recalling how after he was betrayed, he confronted the perpetrators, and they behaved the same way.

"Go to hell, go to hell!!" Tie Zheng's eyes were bloodshot, and he set off the metal and iron storm again.

Ban Ji was so angry he wanted to vomit blood.

How much hatred is there? It's like there's a feud of killing his father.

Ban Ji had no choice but to stand up and fight. Fortunately, there were several experts to help him.

Added to the suppression of the Profound Armor Cave's great formation, Tie Zheng could not display the true combat power of a Jin Dan cultivator, so the two sides fought fiercely, but fell into a stalemate.

There were other Foundation Establishment cultivators in the arena, and seeing these two sides fighting, they looked at each other for a while.

"Hmph, I've seen through the Ban family."

"This righteous family is a bit shameless, cheating so unsparingly to support their own Foundation Establishment face."

"Before, I thought it was strange, why did the Ban family tolerate a demonic cultivator like Ban Ji? Now I understand, although this family is righteous, they are very hypocritical in their bones!"

Regarding Tie Zheng's choice to fight Ban Ji and others, even if some cultivators didn't know Tie Zheng's intelligence, they didn't feel it was strange.

After all, after Unlike Ning Zhuo was sneak-attacked, Ban Ji's group was exposed, which could be considered the most threatening group.

Tie Zheng dealing with Ban Ji's group was just like him eliminating Lu Zeng and Ao Pan in advance.

"By the way, Unlike Ning Zhuo is not lightly injured." Some people stared at the big-headed boy with malicious intent.

Unlike Ning Zhuo's name as a genius had been spreading continuously in the Myriad Phenomena Sect's main mountain gate. In the hearts of the cultivators, he was also very threatening.

Now, many cultivators saw: Ban Ji's group and Tie Zheng were fighting each other, consuming each other, and the battle was fierce; they couldn't intervene, and didn't want to intervene, so they focused their attention on each other.

Unlike Ning Zhuo sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, gritted his teeth, and stood up holding the wall.

He still had quite a few Profound Armors left, which were now floating around him, circling for defense. Especially the bronze fan among them, which had the most deterrent effect, causing many cultivators who were about to move to hesitate significantly after their eyes touched the bronze fan.

The Hao-surnamed cultivator saw this scene, and a light of appreciation flashed in his eyes: "This kid Unlike Ning Zhuo is also quite good at acting! Directly abandoning the bronze shield, he has great courage; he is worthy of being a face carefully cultivated by a great clan."

Among the cultivators of the Profound Armor Cave, only the Hao-surnamed cultivator saw through this point.

Others were kept in the dark, and one of them suddenly said: "Unlike Ning Zhuo is in danger!"

As soon as he finished speaking, three people took action against Unlike Ning Zhuo together.

Unlike Ning Zhuo immediately controlled the Profound Armor, executing defense and counterattack.

Ban Ji and others fought bitterly around Tie Zheng. Tie Zheng continuously set off metal and iron storms, showing the momentum of one person surrounding several people.

His Blade Beast Glancing Light shrank back into a round ball, hanging at his waist; as long as it didn't move, it constantly brought huge pressure to others.

A large number of bronze weapons collided, chased, and slashed in mid-air. Some weapons could spit out sharp edges, crisscrossing the battlefield. There were also weapons that could affect other people's emotions and spirits; this was the seventh bronze weapon, and the number in the whole arena could be counted on one hand.

A cultivator fought until he was in high spirits, his body expanded, and his figure grew taller. He tore off his upper garment, turned into a big man with bulging muscles, waving a bronze axe, slashing everywhere, cutting off stalactites, and broken stones shot out like shotgun pellets.

Another cultivator was like a ghost, the long spear in his hand pointing continuously, the spear coming out like electricity, instantly piercing the cultivator's body, ruthlessly eliminating his opponent.

There were also cultivators hiding in the shadows, occasionally throwing out hooks, hooking the cultivators in the fierce battle, directly dragging them into the darkness, and eliminating them silently.

Those who could persist until now were naturally not lacking in experts.

Unlike Ning Zhuo had already successfully killed two cultivators through "difficult" counterattacks.

Other cultivators saw that Unlike Ning Zhuo still had spare energy, so they gave up one after another, dealing with easier targets.

Profound Armor was not durable for long battles; with such high battle intensity, there would soon be a situation where weapons were insufficient. The more weapons, the stronger the strength, and the more one could persist to the end.

Ban Ji was forced into a corner by the metal and iron storm, roared, and mobilized his spiritual sense with all his might.

He mainly practiced the "Greedy Machine Demonic Heart Art," and his spiritual sense had a unique attack power, which Unlike Ning Zhuo had experienced before. At this moment, he attacked with all his might, suppressing Tie Zheng, immediately causing his offensive to slow down, revealing flaws.

One of the cultivators besieging Tie Zheng, with a short and sturdy figure, bulging muscles on his arms, holding the handle with both hands, waved an eight-edged bronze mace, sweeping heavily toward Tie Zheng's left waist.

? co

Tie Zheng raised the bronze long staff and blocked the bronze mace.

But the next moment, the bronze long staff with a bent middle reached the standard of being broken and was taken away by the Profound Armor Cave's great formation.

Tie Zheng immediately furrowed his brows.

He didn't expect that this wave of opponents, except for Ban Ji, cooperated tacitly with each other and mastered joint attack tactics, which were very troublesome.

Tie Zheng fought fiercely for a while, not only without gaining anything but also losing a bronze staff in his hand.

"Since that's the case—" Tie Zheng pulled a kitchen knife from his bosom.

The blade came out.

There was no sharp edge, nor was there any brilliant light. Only a condensed black shadow swept across the field of vision of Ban Ji's group.

At the same time, an artistic conception that was upright, hard, and fierce, regardless of what was in front, could cut off all obstacles and crush all hardness, was conveyed.

The bronze mace didn't have time to be taken away and was swept by the black shadow, breaking into two pieces.

A piercing sword attacked, and Tie Zheng flicked it back lightly. The piercing sword was immediately cut off, and the broken blade rotated and flew out, nailing into the distant cave wall with a "thud"!

Clang, clang, clang—

After a series of metal explosions, several pieces of Profound Armor were cut off by the kitchen knife.

This was the seventh kitchen knife Tie Zheng had harvested, containing the martial arts principles of "intent."

Tie Zheng's kitchen knife went forward without hesitation!

The cultivators who surrounded him were injured one after another and retreated in panic.

The siege collapsed, and they were immediately submerged by Tie Zheng's metal and iron storm.

In a few breaths, this group of people was miserably eliminated. Only Ban Ji remained!

Clang, clang!

Bang.

Ban Ji was like a broken sack, slashed and sent flying, sprinkling a rain of blood in mid-air.

Then, he hit a huge stalactite heavily and slid softly to the ground.

His arms were twisted, his face was like gold paper, and his aura was extremely withered.

He stared fixedly at Tie Zheng, his gaze filled with strong unwillingness and resentment.

But it was useless.

The next moment, he was also teleported away.

Ban Ji was eliminated!

Tie Zheng also paid a huge price; his clothes had been dyed red by his own blood, and there were quite a few wounds. The outburst just now made him even more exhausted. To activate the artistic conception in martial arts, it was not just physical strength that was consumed.

"Only you few are left." Tie Zheng looked around and found that except for him, only four people remained.

Unlike Ning Zhuo was one of them, and at this moment, he spoke: "Fellow Daoist Tie Zheng, although we will not be your opponents, we are still willing to give it a try."

"It's not easy for you to keep nine pieces of Profound Armor in the end."

Tie Zheng was slightly stunned. Reminded by Unlike Ning Zhuo, he quickly scanned the whole arena and found that only twenty-three pieces of Profound Armor remained.

There was still a round of fierce fighting ahead, and it was indeed quite difficult to keep nine pieces.

Tie Zheng sneered, with a touch of arrogance: "Our generation practices martial dao, so naturally we should meet difficulties head-on. You all come together."

Tie Zheng was the most powerful person in the arena. Just now, relying on the bronze kitchen knife and his own profound martial arts attainments, he directly eliminated Ban Ji's group, showing his sharp edge. Facing such a strong person, Unlike Ning Zhuo and others naturally had to join forces to resist together.

In fact, before Unlike Ning Zhuo could speak, the other three took the initiative to send spiritual sense messages, expressing invitations to join forces.

Unlike Ning Zhuo naturally agreed to it. ===== CHAPTER 778 =====