Chapter 68: Testing Techniques

Half a month later.

In Mount Luofeng, under the Dao Discussion Platform.

Besides the Red Pillar Prison and the Beast Prison, there was another place called the Technique Testing Palace.

It didn't have this name before; it was called the Technique Fighting Platform.

But with the opening of the Dao Discussion Platform, the Technique Fighting Platform was expanded, and spacious rooms were opened up, collectively known as the Technique Testing Palace.

The purpose of these small palaces was to be rented out.

It gave people living in the inner city a place to test spells and hone their means of protecting the Dao.

The rent wasn't expensive, starting at one spirit stone, with no upper limit, and the price was calculated based on time.

If one wanted to hire a Yuding Sword Sect disciple from the Sword Pavilion as a sparring partner, the price started directly at one hundred spirit stones.

Recently, the seventh Technique Testing Palace had almost been booked out.

Every morning for those two or three hours, there were always people inside.

And it wasn't just one person, but two.

At this moment, if someone entered the seventh small palace, they could hear various shouts coming from inside.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Emerald green brilliance swirled and circled, like flying fish swimming freely.

Looking closely, it was seven wooden flying knives, one large and six small.

Luo Chen stared at the person opposite him with a serious face, pinched a seal, and waved.

"Combine!"

The seven knives formed a formation instantly, cutting through like a storm.

"Well done!"

A loud shout came from the opposite side, followed by a dazzling golden light erupting.

The two collided, and the emerald green blade storm resisted for three breaths before shattering suddenly.

The seven knives fell to the ground, swaying like birds drenched in heavy rain.

Seeing this scene, Luo Chen wasn't anxious.

In fact, a mere mid-grade magic tool being able to resist a top-grade magic tool for three breaths could already be considered a great success.

This was under the premise of his grandmaster-level traction technique, which allowed for the rapid formation of the blade array.

If it were an ordinary person, they would be defeated by that golden light before they even had time to condense the blade array.

"Brother Qin, watch out!"

He slammed a palm onto the ground, and large patches of green vines rose from the ground.

Like spirit snakes climbing, they flexibly grabbed toward Qin Liangchen opposite him.

Once entangled, the other party would be met with extreme strangling force.

Qin Liangchen laughed loudly, retreated, and at the same time scattered a large patch of golden light from his hand.

When those green vines met the golden light, they were continuously strangled.

Not only that, a stream of golden light broke away and flew toward Luo Chen rapidly.

Luo Chen maintained a steady breath and watched the golden light calmly. Looking closely, one would discover that they were golden needles.

The golden needles were extremely fast and soon arrived in front of Luo Chen.

However, he didn't show the slightest panic; with a tip of his toe on the ground, he retreated like a giant roc.

The golden needle rain chased, and he fled.

It chased again, and he fled again!

The extreme speed of the golden needles couldn't even touch the corner of his clothes.

Qin Liangchen scolded with a smile, "Your movement technique is too flexible, even slightly better than the deceased Leap-Stream Tiger."

While speaking, he directly retracted the golden flying needles.

Luo Chen floated in the air, his hands held in a void grip.

Instantly, ten tiny sparks appeared, shining brightly like fireflies.

Seeing this scene, Qin Liangchen's face became slightly serious, and he reached out to strike a yellow earth shield.

"Come on, let me see what progress your Flying Fire Flowing Fireflies have made!"

Luo Chen didn't speak and pushed his hands out plainly.

The ten sparks flew out suddenly.

As they flew, the volume of the sparks kept increasing, and by the time they reached the giant shield, they were already the size of a washbasin.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The continuous explosions and the huge counter-force forced Qin Liangchen to retreat continuously.

Suddenly, Qin Liangchen's eyes narrowed.

In his pupils, a spark actually bypassed the defensive direction of the giant shield and killed its way in from his side.

"Good boy, so insidious!"

Scolding, he instantly activated a talisman.

A blue water arrow flew out suddenly, hitting the spark head-on.

Sss...

The moment water and fire interacted, intense high temperatures erupted.

Hot water vapor permeated the air.

Qin Liangchen retreated, feeling a burning pain on his face; it was a burn from the high-temperature steam at close range.

Grinning, he noticed with his peripheral vision that ten more sparks appeared on Luo Chen's hand, and he couldn't help but shiver.

"No more, no more, let's stop here for today!"

Luo Chen instantly withdrew the Flying Fire Flowing Fireflies, retracting and releasing them with ease, possessing a sense of freedom.

"Hoo!"

He spat out a breath of turbid air, his face no longer so serious, and revealed a smile.

"Brother Qin, I won today, right?"

"I count you as the winner, you burned me to death." Qin Liangchen scolded while releasing a healing spell on himself, "I found that you are becoming more and more insidious; you never exposed before that your Flying Fire Flowing Fireflies could turn."

Generally speaking, low-level spells are just an expression of internal spiritual power.

In the absence of spiritual sense for low-level cultivators, the spells cast are usually straight.

Such as Fireball Technique, Water Arrow Technique, Golden Spear Technique, etc.

Only a few, such as Swamp Technique or Entanglement Technique, can achieve changes, but they are limited to a certain range.

But just now, among Luo Chen's ten fireballs, one not only didn't increase in volume but, under the cover of the other nine, broke through to the side of Qin Liangchen's defensive range.

If it weren't for his rich combat experience and the instant activation of a water-attribute talisman.

He would have been seriously injured.

And it was precisely because he was forced to use a talisman that he lost this time.

Of course, this certainly wasn't Qin Liangchen's full strength.

Luo Chen smiled, "It's not that I'm insidious, it's that you, Brother Qin, suppressed your realm to the seventh level of Qi Refining and aren't quite used to this low-level spiritual power fighting style."

Qin Liangchen shook his head, "It's not that I suppressed my realm; it's that this new arm I've connected can only accept this level of combat."

He shook his right arm, which had a sense of incongruity with its flesh color and metallic luster.

This was the new arm the Yuding Sword Sect promised to connect for him.

For this, he paid the spoils he deserved, the sword pellet, and Bai Qi's storage bag.

Since the arm was connected ten days ago and he had rested for a while, he was eager to restore his peak state.

So he booked the seventh Technique Testing Palace and dragged Luo Chen, who also had a need to practice spells, to spar here every morning.

At the beginning, he could achieve complete suppression of Luo Chen.

But gradually, he felt a sense of powerlessness.

Today, he even used two magic tools and a water arrow talisman before he didn't lose on the spot.

And Luo Chen only used a set of mid-grade flying knife magic tools.

Luo Chen's progress was simply too fast.

"It's a pity you're a loose cultivator."

Qin Liangchen rubbed his face, confirming that everything was repaired.

"Fireball Technique, Entanglement Technique, all at your fingertips, and their power is already enough to threaten a seventh-level Qi Refining cultivator."

"With such talent for spells, you should join the Five Elements Divine Sect!"

The Five Elements Divine Sect, a big sect with Nascent Soul True Persons, occupied a domain alone.

The sect was famous throughout the thirty-six domains of the Eastern Wasteland for its proficiency in Five Elements spells.

Luo Chen smiled slightly, perhaps!

But the Five Elements Domain was too far from the Yuding Domain.

Even if he wanted to apprentice and join the sect, there was no way.

Some might want to join the sect through the Lingyuan Pavilion, an industry under the Five Elements Divine Sect, but unfortunately, Lingyuan Pavilion didn't have this business.

The Five Elements Divine Sect was a big sect passed down by families and only recruited disciples from within.

Even if they were to recruit from outside, it was limited to the Five Elements Domain.

It was said that it was related to several great divine secret transmissions in their sect, and those disciples recruited from outside often married into or married into the several big families.

Luo Chen reached out and summoned, and under the blessing of the grandmaster-level traction technique, the seven jade knives scattered on the ground returned to his hands like swallows returning to their nests.

Playing with the small wooden knives, Luo Chen frowned, "Brother Qin, the magic tools you bought recently don't seem to fit your hands!"

Qin Liangchen said helplessly, "I used to be used to fighting with open and close movements, using big maces and Broken Jade gloves. But in the battle on the Dao Discussion Platform, they were all destroyed. Good top-grade magic tools are expensive, and now having this set of Ruyi Golden Needles and an earth shield is already considered not bad."

Ruyi Golden Needles, seventy-two in total, exotic magic tools.

Immense power, extremely fast speed.

That is to say, Luo Chen's movement technique is extremely fast; ordinary people really can't block the Ruyi Golden Needles.

But this completely didn't fit Qin Liangchen's fighting style.

Luo Chen couldn't help but ask, "Doesn't the gang have a few top-grade magic tools specifically for rewarding meritorious people? Is Gang Master Mi unwilling to give them to you?"

Qin Liangchen's face was serious, "Don't talk nonsense; for my contribution, that Foundation Establishment Pill is enough."

"But the Foundation Establishment Pill hasn't reached your hands yet!" Luo Chen rolled his eyes.

"It's fine that Old Man Mi is keeping it for me; with my current strength, I can't protect that Foundation Establishment Pill. Besides!"

Qin Liangchen smiled proudly, "My son is a disciple of the Luoyun Sect; he wouldn't dare to renege on my things!"

Fine, as long as you know what you're doing.

Luo Chen shrugged and put the jade knives into his storage bag.

The two of them walked out while chatting and laughing.

But before they had walked a few steps, someone chased after them in a hurry.

"Qin Liangchen, pay an additional five spirit stones!"

Qin Liangchen's eyes widened, "What did you say?"

The man wore the uniform of a Sword Pavilion disciple and snorted, "Today you broke the seventh Technique Testing Palace so badly that it exceeded the standard, so you have to add spirit stones!"

"Damn profiteer!" Qin Liangchen scolded and handed over five spirit stones.

Luo Chen watched, feeling a bit of heartache.

For those few hours in the morning, Brother Qin had already paid dozens of spirit stones, and now he had to pay more.

The Yuding Sword Sect's money-grabbing was too shameless.

The two walked out while counting the money-grabbing means of these big sects, cursing their shamelessness.

Arriving outside the Sword Pavilion, seeing the jade wall.

Qin Liangchen poked Luo Chen's back.

"Are you really not going to participate in the mid-stage Qi Refining battle?" ===== CHAPTER 69 =====