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Chapter 116

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The Huanzhu Building Master beckoned with his hand, then pointed, and Liang Liang Zhenjing, who was being supported by Cheng Cheng Xinzhan, floated out of the mirror and woke up in mid-air.

He looked around blankly, soon remembered what had happened, and his face turned red again, turning into the color of a pig's liver.

In the Haishi Restaurant, Xiao Xiao Yiniang patted her chest, breathed a long sigh of relief, and secretly said: That's right, he is so good at drawing talismans, how could he lose?

And looking at the Purple Fragrant Boudoir, Young Master Gongchang's face didn't look good, and the strength in his hand increased a bit. The plump woman in his arms felt pain in her chest, but didn't dare to show it, and her smile remained the same.

After sending Liang Liang Zhenjing away, the Jilei Mountain Cave Heaven mirror scene where he was became quiet again. Until the arena masters in the other 35 mirror scenes were all determined, he didn't encounter a second person who came up to challenge him.

"There are 36 of you left, and your specialties are all different, mutually generating and conquering. Then draw lots to group, the winner advances and the loser retreats."

The Huanzhu Building Master distributed 36 jade signs, and everyone in the mirror took one with their own Qi.

Cheng Cheng Xinzhan looked, and the character "Kun" was written on his jade sign.

He read it out.

Everyone read out the characters on their jade signs, which were two sets of Ten Heavenly Stems and Eight Trigrams characters.

He looked toward another person who read out the character "Kun". That person was in a crimson mountain, with fire burning on the mountain, and the sky was also red like fire. He saw five characters engraved on the mountain wall,

Flame Mountain Cave Heaven.

That person was also young, with long hair disheveled, a long sword leaning on the ground, wearing blood-colored clothes, with a fanged demon tattooed on the position of his heart on his left chest.

This was the attire of the Northern Demon Sect, the Chixin Sect.

After the drawing results came out, the 36 giant mirrors began to move. The Jilei Mountain Cave Heaven where Cheng Cheng Xinzhan was and the Flame Mountain Cave Heaven where the demon was began to slowly approach, and finally the two mirrors merged into one.

In the new mirror scene, on one side were crimson surging volcanoes and red clouds, and on the other side were silver-purple gathering thunder mountains and dark clouds.

"Begin!"

The Huanzhu Building Master's voice sounded, and the people in the 18 mirror scenes all moved.

Since it was someone from the demonic sect, Cheng Cheng Xinzhan naturally couldn't be bothered to discuss any etiquette. A thunder sword Qi slashed over. On the other side, it was the same. With a wave of the long sword, a wave of fire attacked.

Heavenly Thunder and Earth Fire intersected, the scene was magnificent, and since it was a struggle between Dao and Demon, it naturally attracted the eyes of most people.

After a few plain moves, they were just slashing at each other from a distance. He could clearly feel that the opponent's sword Qi was scattered and dull, like a child throwing stones, which shouldn't be the way of the Qi-Nurturing School. Cheng Cheng Xinzhan felt bored, and he suddenly said,

"If the mountain does not come to me, I will go to the mountain."

After speaking, he drove the cloud and flew away from Jilei Mountain, straight toward the territory of Flame Mountain.

Exclamations came from the building. After the two mirrors merged, everyone was testing, not daring to easily abandon the geographical advantage. Cheng Cheng Xinzhan was the first person to actively cross the border.

That demon from the Chixin Sect was also very surprised, but in any case, him coming over was better than him going over. Once they were close, some means would be easier to use!

He turned and fled, wanting to lead Cheng Cheng Xinzhan deep into Flame Mountain.

The Daoist cooperated very well, following closely behind.

Suddenly, deep inside, the demon turned and struck with a sword.

The wave of fire attacked, and the Daoist dodged. However, the demon had held back when testing just now. At this moment, the speed of his sword strike was several times faster than before, waves of fire following one after another, crisscrossing.

However, the Daoist surrounded by the waves of fire didn't discover that wisps of invisible fire Qi were detaching from the waves of fire, entering his mouth and nose with his breathing.

Seeing Cheng Cheng Xinzhan only caring about dodging and not discovering the trick hidden in his fire, the demon couldn't help but be secretly happy.

Those wisps of invisible fire Qi were the unique secret method of his Chixin Sect, called the Formless Heavenly Demon Desire Fire.

This was consistent with the doctrine of the Chixin Sect. This demonic sect believed that the human heart was inherently evil, greedy, and combative. The heart of an innocent child was the heart of the demonic path. All benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom were shackles that imprisoned the heart of an innocent child, but shackles were shackles after all, and the desire fire in the heart could not be extinguished.

The Chixin Sect believed in the Formless Heavenly Demon, practiced desire fire, and their style of doing things only followed their inner desires. They were an out-and-out demonic sect.

Desire fire was the foundation of their practice, and it was also their means of dealing with enemies. If someone with an unstable mind inhaled the desire fire, their inner distracting thoughts and desires would be magnified. Lightly, they would lose their composure; heavily, they would go into qi deviation.

The young Daoist didn't discover anything. After dodging successive attacks, he suddenly felt that the "Dragon Carriage" under his feet was too slow, and its agility was also poor. He was very satisfied with it before eating Qi, but now it really couldn't keep up, especially when fighting, dodging was a big shortcoming.

What should he do?

Cloud carriage, cloud carriage, clouds are water Qi, floating because of lightness. The "Dragon Carriage" is the sunset fire-burning cloud of summer, stained with fire Qi, so it is faster than ordinary clouds.

In fact, fire also evaporates upward. Wouldn't it be faster to step directly on the fire Qi? Especially since he practiced aerial fire and human fire, there was no problem of fire extinguishing itself without a source.

Changing his thinking, controlling wind and controlling thunder also seemed to work.

It's just that humans are acquired creatures. The spirit in the body is clear Qi, and the essence is turbid Qi. Essence is flesh, blood, skin, and bones. Opening the mansion and clearing the acupoints is the process of dissolving turbid Qi. When the five mansions are all opened, the Five Elements in the body circulate, and the turbid Qi in the body is locked in the Crimson Palace. That is, the body is as light as a feather, and one can ride the wind.

However, I seem to be a bamboo body now, a bamboo body that is a mountain-suppressing spiritual object and has all five mansions opened? It can be practiced in advance to control wind and thunder invisibly, responding to the changes of thunder and fire.

By then, after the physical body washes away the evil and opens the mansion, it can be used directly, saving time.

Since this is the case, why not go a step further? Which spells are limited by the physical body and realm, and can they all be practiced in advance now?

He thought more and more broadly.

In the distance, the demon of the Chixin Sect looked at the Daoist, who was staring blankly as if in deep thought, and was overjoyed, knowing that the Daoist had fallen into the trap.

He naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity. To create this opportunity, he had melted fifty percent of the Formless Heavenly Demon Desire Fire accumulated in his body into his sword Qi.

He raised his Dharma sword and chanted,

"Formless Heavenly Saint Ancestor, the formless controls the formed, go!"

As the spell sound rose, the crimson Dharma sword flashed with light, the tip of the sword pointing straight at the young Daoist in deep thought. The earth fire all over the mountains and plains was drawn by the spiritual rhyme on the Dharma sword, gathering into an arrow-tip shape along the direction of the sword tip, like a wild goose formation of fire, rushing toward the Daoist.

Cheng Cheng Xinzhan was thinking broadly in his mind. Seeing the opponent change his sword move, he stopped his thoughts.

With a thought, he put away the cloud carriage again. Instead, a ball of fire suddenly rose under his feet. In such a geographical advantage, controlling fire was the most convenient.

Just as he thought, the bamboo body stepped steadily into the fire light. With another thought, the fire light flashed, and he disappeared from the spot. After only a few thoughts passed, the fire light flickered, and the Daoist had already escaped dozens of miles away.

Looking at the surging earth fire, he raised "Gao Zhen", the tip of the sword pointing upward, chanting,

"Kitchen God Mansion Lord, control Bing and Ding, rise!"

The talisman on the Dharma sword lit up with fire light, and the earth suddenly began to shake. Immediately after, cracks appeared on the land under the demon's feet, and earth-flame fire Qi erupted from the cracks, almost drowning him.

Only hearing a wail, a figure rushed into the sky from the earth fire, shouting,

"So you were pretending! But you clearly inhaled the desire fire, why did you not have greedy distracting thoughts?!"

Oh, so that's how it is.

Hearing this, Cheng Cheng Xinzhan suddenly realized. He was still wondering why he suddenly disliked the cloud carriage, and why he thought about flying in the middle of a great battle. It turned out someone had used means.

Interesting, this kind of means is truly interesting, it can make people think freely, which actually helped him understand some key points.

However, even so, he wouldn't be soft-hearted. The seal gesture on his hand changed, "Gao Zhen" submerged into the clouds, then turned and fell rapidly. He chanted,

"Yinghuo Emperor, flowing fire and flying stars, fall!"

The red clouds all over the sky turned into fire rain, pouring exactly onto the demon who was flying into the sky.

"Ah!"

"I surrender!"

The demon thought this Daoist wanted to take advantage of the sword-fighting competition to kill him. Hearing the warning from the Huanzhu Building Master in his mind, he hurriedly shouted surrender.

As soon as his voice fell, he disappeared from the mirror.

The demon discovered that he appeared outside the mirror and hurriedly flew toward the city. The earth fire and sky rain just now really made him shudder, and he was also puzzled in his heart: Isn't he a thunder cultivator? Why is Flame Mountain more like his arena?

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Cheng Cheng Xinzhan waited alone in the mirror scene for a while until the winners and losers were decided in all 18 mirrors.

Afterward, there was another round of drawing lots, drawing lots by the Jiugong. Cheng Cheng Xinzhan drew the Gen Palace. This time, the opponent was a woman, and the mirror scene was the fusion of the Qingtian Mountain Cave Heaven and the Taoyuan Mountain Cave Heaven, which was a scene of water and wood marsh.

Looking at her attire, the woman was also from a Daoist sect, wearing plain white Daoist clothes. Being so elegant was rare.

After the two mirrors merged, Cheng Cheng Xinzhan bowed,

"Cheng Cheng Xinzhan of Mount Sanqing, greetings, Fellow Daoist."

The woman's face didn't look good. This person practiced both thunder and fire, which was exactly the natural enemy of her own. She returned the salute, "Qiao Qiao Shoujing of Mount Mount Tianmu, I hope Fellow Daoist will show mercy."

After the two greeted each other, the sword fighting naturally began. Just like before, Cheng Cheng Xinzhan first abandoned the geographical advantage and entered the water and wood marsh to experience the Dharma essence of water and wood. This was a thirty-six Minor Cave Heaven illusion created by immortals. In the outside Great World, each had its owner, and wanting to go in and take a look was probably not an easy thing. If one wanted to walk through all thirty-six Cave Heavens, it would probably be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

This water and wood marsh was full of vitality, much more pleasing to the eye than the manic thunder and fire purgatory.

Among the Five Elements, Cheng Cheng Xinzhan was most familiar with fire, which goes without saying. Next was water, which naturally had to be attributed to playing with that green dragon. Then was the gold element after concluding the Inner Landscape God, then the earth element, after all, living in the mountains and studying the art of shape and the way of raising corpses, and finally the wood element.

Cheng Cheng Xinzhan had a photographic memory. He remembered that when he was watching the battle in the Jilei Mountain Cave Heaven mirror scene earlier, he saw this woman in the Qingtian Mountain Cave Heaven, and the wood method she used when fighting others was also the same.

At this moment, it was the same. The woman was of the Spirit-Sending School in the Dharma Sword technique, using the sword as a sacrificial instrument to summon divine forms to deal with the enemy. She chanted words, pointing her sword at Cheng Cheng Xinzhan, and the grass leaves on the ground danced and gathered into a wood dragon, rushing toward the opponent.

Fire conquers wood. Cheng Cheng Xinzhan could use fire methods to break the enemy more easily, but he didn't do so. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to abandon the geographical advantage. He wanted to experience water methods through this treasure land. The Daoist offered his sword to point at the water, chanting,

"Dragon Son and Flood Dragon Lord, lead the sword and accept the order, quickly manifest the spirit!"

As the spell sound fell, the water of the giant lake under his feet suddenly rolled like a spring, and immediately surged into a giant water column. Afterward, the water column suddenly leaped out of the lake surface, forming a water dragon.

Seeing this, Qiao Qiao Shoujing's face looked even worse. This person from Mount Sanqing, at first when he fought with Mount Longhu, used the means of the Qi-Nurturing School for sword Qi confrontation. Later, seeing Mount Longhu use thunder talismans, he won with a method of using the sword to execute talismans that she had never seen before. When he fought with the demon of the Chixin Sect, he used the path of the Spirit-Driving School, bringing in heavenly flames and earth fires. Now, he used the means of the Spirit-Sending School. He learned so broadly, where did he find the time to study, and why was his magic power so thick?

She was even more strange. The divine form summoned by the Spirit-Sending School was not only related to magic power, sacrificial instruments, and spell orders, but also had a great relationship with the caster's understanding of the divine form's Dharma appearance and spiritual rhyme. The wood dragon she summoned, although it had the shape of two horns, its dragon body was no different from a snake. But look at this water dragon of his, with clear scales and tails, baring fangs and brandishing claws, as if it were a living creature, and it even had a divine power. Does this person live with dragon species every day?

The water dragon met the flying wood dragon, entangled, and stirred, shattering the wood dragon. However, Cheng Cheng Xinzhan didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue, but waited for the wood dragon to transform again. And no matter what means the woman used later, Cheng Cheng Xinzhan only used one water dragon to defend against the enemy, and it was invincible.

This time, Cheng Cheng Xinzhan was the one who dragged it out the longest.

Until the end, Qiao Qiao Shoujing's magic power was exhausted, and she admitted defeat. She had long seen that Cheng Cheng Xinzhan was using her to practice Dharma, but she also used the water dragon to temper her own spells, and her gains were also quite a lot.

The remaining eight people looked at Cheng Cheng Xinzhan with increasingly different eyes.

The remaining nine people drew the Jiugong signs again. Qian Palace against Kun Palace, Zhen Palace against Xun Palace, Kan Palace against Li Palace, Gen Palace against Dui Palace. The winner of Qian and Kun would then fight with the Zhonggong.

This time it was a coincidence. Cheng Cheng Xinzhan happened to draw the Zhonggong sign, and the other eight people also breathed a sigh of relief.

After a round of fighting, Qian won Kun, Xun won Zhen, Li won Kan, and Gen won Dui.

Cheng Cheng Xinzhan had a deep impression of the one who drew the Qian sign, because this was a monk.

The two mirror scenes merged. The monk took the lead in saluting Cheng Cheng Xinzhan. He put his hands together, bowed slightly, and said,

"Donor Cheng, the little monk is Xiangzai of Mount Mount Wutai, greetings."

Since the monk already knew his identity, he didn't report his mountain gate name again, only performed a bow, saying, "Greetings, Master."

"Donor Cheng's sword technique is brilliant, the little monk asks for advice."

"Master is too modest."

Both sides did the attitude, and only then did they start sword fighting.

The monk's Dharma sword was a golden sword, a broad sword without a sharp edge. Many small characters were engraved on the broad sword, upright and proper, which seemed to be scriptures.

The monk looked gentle, but he took the path of the Qi-Nurturing School, waving the broad sword with both hands. Although the sword body had no sharp edge, what erupted from the sword body was sharp Geng-metal sword Qi, one after another, emitting a terrifying sound of breaking through the air.

Encountering the purest Dharma sword technique for the first time, Cheng Cheng Xinzhan was delighted to see it, and only used sword Qi to deal with the enemy.

In "Gao Zhen", the sword Qi stored was most abundant in fire, gold, and thunder attributes. This was because the Inner Landscape God helped to refine magic power through the circulation of the Great Heavenly Cycle. At this time, the monk attacked with Geng-metal, and he chose to meet needle point with wheat awn, slashing with Xin-metal Qi.

Geng-metal sword Qi was dazzling and bright, and even had a magnificent meaning. Xin-metal sword Qi was dark and lusterless, but made people feel cold all over.

The battle between the Qian Palace sign and the Zhonggong sign, and at this time no one else was sword fighting, this pure confrontation of sharp gold sword Qi attracted everyone's attention. From the onlookers in the city and building, this seemed to be the Dharma sword in their impression.

This sword-fighting competition had the same process as the previous one, and the result was also the same. The monk's magic power was exhausted and he admitted defeat.

This sword-fighting field was quiet for a long time, and even those who reacted slowly could see it.

This Daoist from Mount Sanqing had fought four rounds, winning against Mount Longhu with talisman swords, winning against the Chixin Sect with spirit-driving swords, winning against Mount Mount Tianmu with spirit-sending swords, and winning against Mount Mount Wutai with qi-nurturing swords.

Was he unintentional, or intentional?

It's a bit late, please forgive me.

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