Asking about longevity

At this time, Lun Dao Mountain is at a higher place.

A peak and a building, towering into the clouds, are like two swords pointing to the sky, facing each other in the distance in front of the majestic Lundao Mountain.

This peak is called Xuantian Peak.

This building is called Guanjian Tower.

Xuantian Peak is the highest peak in Lundao Mountain. It is the place where the final battle of the sword-fighting conference will be held.

After a fierce battle of swordplay, the geniuses of Ganxue who successfully advanced will gather on the top of Xuantian Peak to compete with the true pride of heaven in the final.

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Win the highest honor for their sect.

And also create a more glorious path for themselves.

Opposite Xuantian Peak, there is an ancient and luxurious building that is as steep as a sword and reaches high into the clouds.

This is the Sword Viewing Tower.

It is the highest place for studying and discussing.

The fifth rank Daotingsi is in charge.

The leader of some powerful monastic forces in Kyushu.

Then there are the core descendants of some truly ancient great families in Daozhou.

Dao Tingyu is in charge of the realm of enlightenment and the Demon Suppression Division.

As well as the supervisors from the power centers of the seven cabinets, and even big figures like the cabinet elders who are hard to find.

These are people that ordinary monks will never meet in their lifetime.

Inside the Guanjian Tower, there is also a strict hierarchy of high and low levels.

Even though they are all distinguished guests, they are divided into different levels.

Everyone can only occupy a height that matches his status.

Moreover, all the rooms in the Sword Viewing Tower are sealed, and are equipped with a special fifth-grade void teleportation formation, so no one can know when someone enters or leaves the building.

People outside cannot see the Sword Viewing Tower at all, nor do they know about these people who are so high up in the clouds.

Even those nobles who can ascend to the Guanjian Tower are confined to their own room.

They also didn't know which other dignitaries were watching the battle in the Sword Viewing Tower at this moment.

Above their heads, perhaps there is a descendant of an ancient family.

The great elder of a sixth-rank family.

The supervisors of the seven cabinets, and even the cabinet elders with enormous power.

It is not impossible that the Daoting Emperor's clan will come to watch the battle...

Of course, it is also possible that there is no one.

These truly noble people who are close to the top of power in Jiuzhou may not all come to watch the sword fight.

Even if they came, they might not be free to watch every sword fight.

After all, it is not yet time for the Tianzi Sword Contest, and the truly exciting decisive battle has not yet begun.

At this time, we were in the middle of Guanjian Tower.

The heads of the three mountains, Tai'a, Chongxu and Taixu, gathered together rarely, drinking tea and watching the battle.

The Sword Discussion Conference has something to do with the ranking of the sects, the allocation of the Ganlong Spirit Mine, and the restructuring of the sect. As the sect leaders, it is impossible for them not to care.

Before, they didn't come to watch every game.

Most of them come sporadically, one person today, two people tomorrow, and occasionally no one comes at all.

After all, the leader is also very busy.

But after the sword-fighting competition till now, they were really a little worried.

The fifth sword fight.

This ranking is very subtle.

Going further, there are the four major sects.

If it remains unchanged, it will still be the first among the eight major sects.

But if they take just a small step back, the top positions among the four major sects and the eight major gates will all be gone.

Moreover, the current situation of the sword fight is grim, which is tantamount to rowing against the current. If you retreat, it will be extremely difficult to rise again.

Do your job when you are in your position.

They are all sect leaders, and have been leaders for many years. They know better than anyone the importance of the sect's ranking.

The leaders of the four major sects.

The leader of the eight major sects.

The leader of one of the eight ordinary sects.

The difference here is really huge.

Moreover, these three options are almost all just “one step away”.

Going further, there are four major sects.

If you take a steady step, you will be the first of the eight major gates.

Taking a step back, it is the ordinary eight major sects.

Almost every step is "worlds of difference".

Faced with this kind of situation, this kind of opportunity to become extremely rich, even a god would not remain calm.

As the leaders of the three sects, they were all very shrewd and showed no emotion on their faces.

But in my heart, I was tormented by the gains and losses of this one step, and I couldn't sleep for many nights.

But at this point, they can't help much.

Everything depends on these children to fight for it on their own.

They have no choice but to accept it no matter what the result is.

Even if they lost, they couldn't blame these disciples.

Because these children have tried their best and have done very well, even better than they expected...

But having said that, they still desperately want Taixu Sect to win.

They said nothing and did not dare to put pressure on Mo Hua and the others.

But deep down, he really wants Mo Hua and the others to win more than anyone else.

Whatever the method, as long as we can win.

If we win, we might be able to keep our current position, or even move up to fifth and fourth, and make one step further.

Every victory is as precious as a treasure.

But if you lose again, you will lose everything.

The room is quiet and filled with the aroma of tea.

The head of Sanshan drank his tea calmly.

But the calmer they appear on the surface, the more torment they suffer deep down.

He was even more nervous than all the monks watching the battle.

After drinking tea for a while, Master Tai'a finally couldn't stand it anymore, coughed, and asked slowly:

"This game...should...be winnable, right?"

When he asked this question, both Sect Leader Chongxu and Sect Leader Taixu's hearts skipped a beat.

Sect Leader Chongxu couldn't help but say:

"Don't say it out loud! Fortune and misfortune are interdependent, and winning and losing are interchangeable. Sometimes you say you will win, but you will lose. Sometimes you say you will lose, but you may win..."

"That was the case in the last sword fight. Everyone thought they were going to lose, but they ended up winning."

"You say you win now, don't let it end up with you losing..."

After hearing what he said, the head of Tai'a felt a little guilty, but he still kept a straight face and said, "You are talking about metaphysics."

Sect Leader Chongxu said: "The mysteries of heaven and causality are extremely mysterious. We cannot believe everything, but we cannot not believe in them. Sometimes, we just have to believe in something a little bit strange..."

Master Tai'a sighed and said, "Then just pretend I didn't say anything."

After that, the three of them continued to drink tea.

But as they drank, Sect Leader Tai'a was still worried and asked Sect Leader Taixu: "Do you think we can win?"

The already uneasy heart of Sect Leader Taixu became even more uneasy.

He said helplessly: "It's not easy to win..."

"Do you say it's hard to win because of the 'metaphysics' of the secret, or is it really hard to win?" Sect Leader Tai'a confirmed.

The head of Taixu Sect sighed, "The one opposite is the Qiandao Sect. Is there any need to say more about the strength of the Qiandao Sect?"

Sect Leader Tai'a frowned.

The head of Taixu Sect said: "The strongest disciple of Qiandao Sect is Shen Linshu."

"Although no one admits it openly, Shen Linshu is actually better than Xiao Wuchen, Ao Zhan, and Duanmu Qing."

"He is the strongest among the four geniuses of Ganxue."

"Although Shen Linshu is not present in this sword fight, there is Shen Zangfeng."

"Shen Zangfeng is the most powerful and talented disciple of the Shen family, second only to Shen Linshu."

"Shen Linshu was born with the blood of a unicorn. He is so sharp that he makes other geniuses pale in comparison."

"With so many outstanding examples before him, Shen Zangfeng is not well-known."

"But that's only relative to Shen Linshu. Looking at other sects, this Shen Zangfeng is definitely a first-class genius."

"It's not that easy to beat him."

Sect Leader Taixu said slowly.

Sect Leader Tai'a nodded slightly.

As expected, Sect Leader Taixu came from a prominent family and had a thorough understanding of these talented disciples.

But after saying this, he became even more uneasy.

We finally won the game before, it couldn't be just a flash in the pan, right? Will this be the start of a losing streak again?

This is very distressing.

Master Tai'a sighed.

This is the bad thing about sword fighting. Watching others fight to the death with all the ups and downs is very exciting.

But if it concerns one's own interests, watching the disciples of one's own sect fighting with swords, especially when they are losing in succession, it is really tormenting and despairing.

Not only the head of Tai'a.

The seemingly indifferent Sect Leader Taixu and Sect Leader Chongxu, who had begun to study "Heavenly Secrets Metaphysics", were also feeling uncomfortable at this time.

The heads of the Three Mountains, who all had their own thoughts and even had their own calculations before, suddenly felt a sense of mutual understanding and empathy when watching Mo Hua and the others' sword fight.

The barriers between each other have been reduced.

The atmosphere became much more cordial.

There really is a feeling that the three mountains are one vein, that we prosper together and suffer together, and that even the anxiety we feel is uneasy together.

But at this time, they could do nothing.

They could only sit together, drinking tea non-stop, seemingly calm, but staring at Fang Tian Huaying intently.

…

At this time, on Fang Tianhua's shadow, Mo Hua had already met up with Linghu Xiao and the others with a high-level formation.

At this time, the outer city of Qiandao Sect had been breached.

In this kind of sword fighting competition system, the outer city is not easy to defend.

In addition, with the presence of Linghu Xiao, a genius swordsman with a fierce sword energy, the Qiandao Sect only defended for a while symbolically and then retreated to the inner city.

The gate of the inner city is the key.

This is also the door that determines the outcome of a siege.

But when Mo Hua arrived at the gate of the inner city, he found that there was no one guarding the gate, but above the gate, the light of five layers of formations was flashing.

Among the four major sects, Qiandao Sect ranks first in formation level.

Although these formations on the city gate are only mid-level second-grade, they are all superior defensive formations.

With five sets overlapping, the defensive effect is naturally very strong.

At this time, the five disciples of Qiandao Sect were all guarding in the inner city.

The person in front is Shen Zangfeng, who is tall and has a somewhat gloomy temperament.

At this moment, he was holding a heavy sword in his hand, secretly accumulating strength. Powerful spiritual power surged, and sharp sword energy gathered on the sword body.

Just based on the might of his sword energy that is drawn but not unleashed, he is even more powerful than Xiao Ruohan of the Qiandao Sect.

The Qiandao Sect's Heaven-shattering and Earth-opening Sword Technique.

This is a superior heavy sword technique.

It is one of the oldest sword techniques of the Qiandao Sect and is extremely powerful.

However, its strength and power are rather unconventional, and therefore, in the Qiandao Sect, there are very few people who practice this sword technique.

This sword technique is very suitable for Shen Zangfeng.

It is precisely because of this Heaven-Splitting Sword Art that Shen Zangfeng was able to become the number one person in the Shen family and even in the entire Qiandao Sect, second only to Shen Linshu.

In this sword fight, he is the defender of the city.

But he didn't want to just defend the city.

This is too passive and does not show his strength.

He wanted to turn defense into offense and kill all five people from Taixu Sect.

By killing the attackers, the city could naturally be defended.

Naturally, I will win this sword fight.

Especially ink painting...

A fierce look flashed in Shen Zangfeng's eyes.

The Shen family and Mo Hua also have a great feud. If possible, he would certainly like to kill Mo Hua with his sword.

Therefore, when others defend the city, they are really defending the city.

But Shen Zangfeng's intention was to kill people.

He wanted to reinforce the city gate and use it as "bait" to consume the strength of Taixu Sect.

There are two threats to Taixu Sect.

One is Linghu Xiao's swordsmanship, and the other is Mo Hua's formation.

The city gate itself is strong, and it is protected by five sets of second-grade intermediate formations. If Linghu Xiao wants to break in by force, he will have to use his superior killing moves.

Either Mo Hua or use all his formations.

Or both.

Once Linghu Xiao uses his killing move, he will not be able to recover within a short period of time and will no longer pose a threat.

Once Mo Hua has used up all the formations, he will basically be a waste.

He then prepared his killing move and waited for the Taixu Sect to break through the city gate, then he would strike them head-on with a heavy blow.

In this way, when the Taixu Sect is breached, it will be the chance for the entire sect to be wiped out.

Shen Zangfeng's eyes were cold.

…

Outside the city gate, Mo Hua looked at the formation in front of him and sensed the murderous intent behind the gate. His mind moved slightly, and he roughly guessed Shen Zangfeng's intention and sighed slightly.

He estimated that in a head-on fight, he and his men would not be able to defeat Shen Zangfeng.

Shen Linshu of the Qiandao Sect is indeed very strong.

But this Shen Zangfeng is not weak at all.

This is what is annoying about the four major sects in the Ganxuezhou world.

Tianjiao are like grasshoppers. If you grab a handful of them, each one will be quite big.

Moreover, given the current situation, Shen Zangfeng's plan is not bad at all.

If you want to break down the city gate, you will have to put in a lot of effort.

Either Xiaoxiao uses his ultimate move, or he has to sacrifice all his formations.

In this way, even if the city gate was broken, it would be unable to deal with the sword energy of Qian Dao Sect.

You don't need any big moves or formations, just slowly grind it down.

But the problem is that the sword fight has a time limit, and the city must be attacked quickly. If they delay for too long, they will be automatically judged as the loser when the time is up.

"This Shen Zangfeng is quite thoughtful..."

Mo Hua said silently in his heart.

But unfortunately, these people still don’t know to what extent they have learned their own formations.

The nineteen patterns of the second grade are not the limit of the second grade formation.

There are still many profound formation principles above the nineteen patterns.

"Cover me."

Mo Hua said to Cheng Mo and the others.

Cheng Mo and the others nodded.

Then Linghu Xiao began to use his sword energy to bombard the city gate, putting some pressure on the disciples of Qiandao Sect.

Ouyang Xuan assisted in the attack from the side.

Situ Jian observed his surroundings, wary of sneak attacks from the Qiandao Sect's disciples.

Cheng Mo carried a big axe and protected Mo Hua.

With the support of his fellow disciples, Mo Hua began to set up formations on the city wall.

The first formation is the earth and stone formation.

This formation was not intended for attacking the city, but for "sealing off the city", to block all the Qiandao Sect disciples in the city and not let them come out.

After that, Mo Hua laid out three sets of high-level killing formations of the second grade with nineteen patterns.

One is a gold-type golden light killing formation, one is a wood-type wood burial killing formation, and one is a fire-type earth fire killing formation.

These three killing formations contain the five elements of life and death. When they work together, their killing power will be enhanced.

Moreover, these killing formations have certain targeted effects.

But the target was not the formation set up by the disciples of Qiandao Sect.

Not even the gates themselves.

Rather, it was a second-grade high-level formation drawn on the inside of the "city wall" by the elders of Lundao Mountain before the siege.

In a siege, the target is the city gate.

Because the city gate is the weakest.

On both sides of the city gate, there are long and extremely solid "city walls".

The city wall is a boundary, and it was not a place for the disciples to attack from the beginning.

This is the default rule.

These walls were wide and thick, and were built by the elders of Lundao Mountain, who personally drew second-grade high-level formations to protect the city.

The reason why a second-grade high-level formation is used is because the wars among ordinary foundation-building disciples will not involve forces above the third-grade golden elixir.

Generally speaking, a second-grade high-level formation is sufficient.

No disciple with normal thinking would leave the weak "city gate" unattended and make things difficult for himself on the thick and hard "city wall".

But that was before.

Unfortunately, the wall is now facing ink painting.

When Mo Hua was squatting behind the wall drawing the formation during the sword fight, he accidentally noticed that many high-level formations were drawn inside the city wall by Elder Lun Daoshan.

Mo Hua couldn't help but feel a little restless.

He really has an itch.

Come to think of it, it has been a long time since he had his formation broken.

The last time he broke the formation was probably when he was in Tongxian City. He broke the formation and killed the great demon Feng Xi.

Of course, ink paintings don’t dare to really “collapse” on a large scale.

One reason is that he has not yet fully learned the true second-grade Anti-Spirit Formation.

Besides, this was a sword-fighting tournament, and with so many people watching, he didn't want to make too much noise and be targeted.

The idea behind ink painting is also very simple.

It caused three high-level killing formations to explode, and through the vibration of the five elements, it caused the imbalance of the high-level formations inside the city wall, making the spiritual power structure unstable.

And in this killing formation, there was an "anti-spiritual pattern" hidden by Mo Hua.

This reverse spirit pattern is not complete.

But this is just a trigger, a "flame" that can "ignite" the unstable spiritual power, causing it to reverse, and then causing a large number of high-level formations inside the city wall to become unbalanced and cause an explosion.

Three killing formations naturally cannot destroy the city walls.

There is no such hope for ink painting.

These three killing arrays were actually just a cover, in order to open a gap and send the flames of the anti-spiritual pattern into the pile of explosives, causing a large number of array explosions...

This series of inversion processes has undergone many calculations of ink painting.

Once the explosion occurs, the flames will spread and the body will be destroyed automatically.

No one would notice the little tricks he played here.

As for its power...

Because it is not a real "collapse", it just uses "collapse" as a trigger to cause the explosion of the formation itself.

In essence, it is still the power of high-level formations.

How powerful it is depends on how many high-level formations inside the city wall this reverse spirit pattern can cause to become unbalanced.

Derivation is derivation, and practice is practice.

This result is difficult to predict.

But I think Mo Hua shouldn’t be too weak.

Moreover, this is the only way to win.

If they really confront the Qiandao Sect disciples head-on to attack the city, they will most likely not win.

Soon, Mo Hua arranged all the formations, and then said:

"Everyone run away."

After Linghu Xiao and the others had gone far away, Mo Hua began to "light the fire".

Inside the city wall, the disciples of Qiandao Sect sensed something was amiss.

Some people wanted to come out to take a look, only to find that the city gate had been blocked by Mo Hua's formation.

They simply couldn't get out.

Shen Cangfeng and several other disciples of Qiandao Sect looked at each other with gloomy expressions.

At this time, they didn't know what was going to happen.

Not only them, but also the monks watching the battle didn't know what would happen.

Because the process of setting up the ink painting array is rather boring.

The two sides in the sword debate have not yet reached the time for the real confrontation.

Most of the audience were in a relatively relaxed mood.

Inside the Guanjian Pavilion, the head of the Sanshan Sect was also drinking tea quietly.

Then the next moment, like a bolt from the blue, a loud "boom" suddenly sounded.

Everyone just felt a pain in their eardrums.

A blinding light flashed before my eyes.

Above the sky painting behind them, fire suddenly spread. The exploding flames were like fireworks, dense and numerous. In an instant, they covered the entire painting screen, like a sea of ​​light, almost blinding their eyes.