Chapter 99 The only surviving magician in the world
The Panlong Banquet is not the tallest pavilion near the Jiang Kingdom Palace, but it is the most luxuriously decorated. It has five floors in total, and each floor is like a palace. Even compared with the nine-story building in Taiqing, it is not inferior, and even more grand.
The first thing the young monks who attended the banquet needed was to climb the tower.
Starting from the first floor lobby, climbing the second floor. Each floor has monk guards of the corresponding realm. Only by defeating these guards can you continue to climb higher floors.
There are no guards on the first floor. From the second floor, we have to face the obstruction of hundreds of monks in the upper realm of Chengyi. What the third floor has to face is the guards with the peak cultivation level of Chengyi Realm, and the number of guards will be reduced by half. On the fourth floor, we will face the great monks who have crossed the threshold of the fourth floor, but there is only one.
The highest five-story building is the place to attend the banquet, and it is also the ultimate goal of the monks who climb the tower.
Stepping through the long steps outside the building and crossing the threshold, the four walls in the hall were covered with flags, with different marks on them, which were seats belonging to the various practice gates.
Lihua Academy, Zhaixing Mansion, Ligong Jianyuan occupies the best position, Jianjiayuan, Bulushan, Bailu Peak, Cangnan Mountain, Tianhu Dao Mansion and other five or four realms are scattered in this way, with hundreds of them, just like the vast stars in Jiangguo, solemn and solemn, and very shocking.
On the five floors, the heads of the court, many officials and the teachers and commanders in the practicing mountain gate who were attending the banquet were all seated. Their spiritual power covered the entire building and watched the situation in the lobby on the first floor.
The first one was not Xu Hexian, Yue Shiting and other leaders of the various departments, nor were they the teachers who practiced the mountain gate, but an old woman dressed in ordinary clothes and a kind-hearted face.
It’s just because she is Ping Po, and she comes from the academy.
As a Confucian orthodox academy, it is also the national religion of Jiang State. Even ordinary disciples have a transcendent status. As long as you enter the academy, you can be at the same level as other true disciples of the practice mountain gate. Then those people with more noble identities in the academy must be polite even if they are big figures in the court.
In the capital, only a few people can truly understand Pingpo's identity, so even Xu Hexian dared not act rashly in front of this old lady.
Pingpo seemed not very interested in the matter at the Panlong Banquet. She became a little drowsy when she was old, and the people around her dared not disturb her. Even if she was talking, she deliberately lowered her voice.
In the lobby on the first floor, Shen Qiubai, Ning Haoran, Xie Chunfeng and other representative figures of the mountain gates acted as referees and were explaining the rules to the young monks.
Shen Qiubai looked at the young monks with no pride, but he was a proud existence, but he was a person who was hard to be hated. Those who secretly slandered him could only hide in the darkness and dare not stand in the light, after all, it was just because of jealousy.
His voice was very light, and people were standing in the lobby on the first floor and even outside the building, but his voice could be clearly heard by the people present.
"The general rule is this. The higher the guards on each floor, the smaller the number of people will be, but their cultivation level will become stronger and stronger."
"Many of them are from the military headquarters, all of whom have rich combat experience and climb out of the sea of corpses and blood. There are also many mountain monks who are offered to the court, all of whom have the ability to be proud of."
"They have faith that their only purpose is to keep you on the floor where they belong. In the process of climbing the tower, they will not kill you, and so will you."
"And there is a formation barrier on every floor. It cannot be broken by cultivators who are not above the fourth level. If there is a weak vitality, the formation barrier will have a sense and can teleport you out in time, so safety issues can still be guaranteed."
Chen Qiubai looked at the young monks who listened carefully and continued, "If you really can't break through the guard and climb to a higher floor, there is another potential rule here, that is, you can challenge each other, and you can only challenge people who are in the same realm as you, or who are stronger. As long as you defeat your opponent, you can directly cross the guard and climb to a higher floor."
"But this opportunity is only once, and it will not be used again in the future, so you'd better consider it a little more. After all, higher floors and stronger guards will challenge too early, which is a waste."
Chen Qiubai paused for a moment and said with a smile: "Because of the different levels of cultivation, it is difficult to face the guards who cross the threshold of the fourth level if you want to climb to the fourth level, you can get the qualification to attend a five-story banquet if you can climb to the fourth level without continuing to climb."
After the words were finished, the young monks present had different thoughts.
Chen Qiubai observed the changes in each of them's expressions.
Thoughts that although the rules are very simple, these practitioners are living people after all, and all kinds of accidents will arise in the process. Abiding by the rules or breaking the rules will also appear in a flash.
It seems much easier to avoid floor guards, challenge other monks, and climb the tower after winning, but if there is only one opportunity, then in the early stage of climbing the tower, no one will be willing to waste this opportunity if it is not the end of the road.
And when there is no way, using this challenge to climb the tower will be equivalent to stopping there, and the elimination rate is amazingly terrible.
And it may also exist. Before we can raise a challenge, we will be directly teleported out by the array barrier.
So the most suitable opportunity is when you climb the fourth floor.
The formation barrier is a very profound magic, and it is impossible to take advantage of this aspect.
In the past years, there were indeed factions like formation artifacts in the world. Although they are rare now, they have traces to follow. Basically, all great monks who cross the fifth realm have the ability to create barriers similar to formations and possess many functions, which all come from the control of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, forming their own small world.
The formation wizard was originally a very terrifying existence, especially the formation wizard who crossed the fourth realm. As long as he was given enough time, even if he was just the first stage of entering the fourth realm, under his formation wizard, there was a high chance of directly killing the strong man at the peak of the fourth realm.
Because it takes time to perform array techniques and the 10% lethality of array techniques, the existence of array magicians was suppressed and died in the long river of history like the sword sect.
Fortunately, a sword immortal reappeared in the sword sect, so he could still occupy a place in this world, while the formation wizard is not so lucky. Even if some formation wizards still exist in the world, there has never been a powerful formation wizard who has entered the fifth realm, let alone to explore the fifth realm.
Therefore, these formation artists are basically supported by major dynasties, and their only function is to guard the capital, or to allow these formation artists to assist the mountain disciples in their practice when needed.
Nowadays, the strongest formation wizard in the world is only a great cultivator who can barely trap the fifth level, but does not have the ability to kill it. Most formation wizards are only in the fourth level stage, or even weaker.
The strongest formation artist, named Ye Xinglan, is in Nanyu and has outstanding formation talent. If it were not for being born in a good era, he would have been a stunning and peerless formation artist. Even in the mountains and rivers where formation artist disappeared, Ye Xinglan is also the best formation artist.
Due to the scarcity of formation artifacts, the slightly stronger dynasty only have one to two fourth-level formation artifacts at most, and in more small countries, even the traces of formation artifacts cannot be seen.
The only fourth-level formation wizard in Jiang's Kingdom is an old man named Cao Rushan. He is only at the top level of the fourth level. However, even if his formation wizard is completed, even a great cultivator at the peak of the fourth level will be unable to escape death, and can even threaten the existence of the first entering the fifth level.
If it was not for the time it took to perform the formation technique and it was not suitable for battles that met on narrow roads, Cao Rushan would definitely be the strongest person under the threshold of the fifth realm.
But even so, because Cao Rushan is in the Jiang Kingdom court, he has his formation techniques arranged everywhere in the capital. As long as he does not leave the capital, no one can do anything to him when the top-grade objects in the fifth realm are not released. Even Xu Hexian, who is recognized as the strongest in the four realms in the Jiang Kingdom, has to avoid the edge for the moment.
When the remaining array craftsmen are controlled by various dynasties, there is no need to worry about it. Instead, they try their best to train array craftsmen, but the number of training is limited. After all, if thousands of fourth-level array craftsmen appear, then even if the array craftsmen are set up together cannot overturn a dynasty, it is also a big hidden danger.
Cao Rushan also practiced in the academy, collecting collections of array arts and cultivating successors. The possibility of strengthening array arts in this era is slim, and what he can do is to prevent the formation artsman from completely disappearing in the world.
Arrangement techniques require the assistance of heaven and earth spiritual energy and even mental power, so it is also very important to improve one's cultivation level.
Even if you have advanced array skills, if your realm cannot keep up, it will be difficult to display it. If you barely arrange it, you will not have the ability to kill enemies.
It is very difficult to find an apprentice who has a strong interest in teamwork and has high qualifications for cultivation.
Cao Rushan is no longer young. If he cannot find his own successor in his lifetime, in addition to Cao Rushan's ability not being inherited, Jiang Guo would also lose the power of the formation wizard, a defense capital.
Cao Rushan is a person who arranged the formation techniques of the Panlong Banquet on each floor. His potential purpose is to find a satisfactory disciple from these young monks in Jiang Country with good qualifications.
At this time, he was silently watching the energetic young people in a place that no one could see.
And those young practitioners also began to prepare to climb the tower.
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Ni Zhenchun found He Zhengrong, and he followed Tao Ye and Fang Changsheng, who had one ear missing.
This ear was cut off by He Zhengrong.
So Fang Changsheng's eyes were very resentful.
He Zhengrong completely ignored his eyes and just looked at Ni Zhenchun silently.
Ni Zhenchun smiled and said, "I originally wanted to give you an unforgettable lesson at the Panlong Banquet, but now it seems that you may be eliminated early. I have already thought about it. It is not difficult to climb the tower with my strength, but you may not be sure, so I will choose a suitable opportunity to eliminate you personally."
He Zhengrong said calmly: "Then I hope you will be earlier as soon as possible, otherwise if you are eliminated by the guards below three floors, you will not have the chance to challenge me."
His voice was neither anxious nor slow, very calm, but he was a very powerful fight back.
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