Qinghe Immortal Clan.

After the escaping light entered the protective shield, it immediately turned into two figures, one black and one blue, standing opposite each other.

The man in black was a middle-aged man, whose cultivation had reached the peak of the sixth level of the Nascent Soul. Opposite him was a cultivator in blue, who was also a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

After the two met, they greeted each other. Then a golden light appeared on the body of the big man in black, and he took the lead in transforming into a giant axe and launched an active attack on the opponent.

The other blue-robed monk calmly released a silver round jade plate, which cast a spell to transform into two silver dragons that directly bit the opponent's golden giant axe.

After these two monks came on the stage, there was not much unnecessary nonsense, and they quickly mobilized their gold and silver magical powers to fight each other.

This also caused a burst of cheers to be heard from the attic above.

Compared to Zheng Zongxun and others who rarely had the opportunity to witness such a battle between high-level cultivators, Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian, the two Nascent Soul cultivators, seemed a little calmer.

Although the two have not been in the Nascent Soul stage for long, they have fought against Nascent Soul cultivators of the same level many times over the years due to the troubles caused by evil cultivators and attacks by monsters.

When it comes to fighting between high-level monks, each of them has quite a bit of experience.

Seeing the two Nascent Soul cultivators fighting below, Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian also fixed their eyes on the arena below.

However, because of the separation of the white light shield outside, the spiritual sense released by Song Qingming and others sitting above could not directly penetrate the light shield below.

All one could see were the slightly blurry figures moving at high speed inside. Even the sound of their fight was blocked out by this layer of light.

Although this "array restriction" will make everyone see it a little blurry and affect the viewing experience of some cultivators.

However, after all, it is a battle between Nascent Soul cultivators, so it is actually very normal to set up such a powerful "formation restriction" to protect the arena.

Otherwise, if there were no restrictions and these two Nascent Soul level warriors were allowed to fight with all their might on the arena below, the entire valley might be destroyed by them.

According to the rules of "Sword Fighting Competition", the fighting skills of the monks on both sides are confined within the protective shield of the arena.

No matter which side admits defeat or is forced to touch the ring shield, they will be considered to have lost the game and withdraw from the fencing competition, and the winner will continue to the next round of competition.

If neither of them can defeat the other within the specified time, neither of them will admit defeat.

Then the monks from the three major sects, including the "Tianyu Sect", who are responsible for refereeing the competition on the stage, will directly decide the outcome based on the course of the battle between the two sides.

Just as Song Qingming and others above were staring at the white light shield below, the two people fighting in the arena soon showed signs of abnormality.

The golden and silver spiritual lights were originally in a stalemate, but after the black-robed monk transformed into a set of golden armor covering his entire body, the golden spiritual light suddenly became stronger and gradually overwhelmed the silver dragon released by the blue-robed monk.

Although the blue-robed cultivator is also a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator, his cultivation level is only at the fifth level of the Nascent Soul, which is much lower than that of the black-robed man who is at the peak of the sixth level of the Nascent Soul.

When the opponent suddenly displayed a powerful magical power, his several magic weapons were unable to break the opponent's golden light. He could only passively defend and was suppressed by the opponent.

As time passed, the blue-robed monk, who was soon forced into a state of difficulty in dodge by the opponent's golden light, unexpectedly touched the "white light shield" behind him, triggering a protective shield restriction that protected his body.

Seeing that the opponent's strength was indeed higher than his, the blue-robed monk wrapped in white light could only bow and admit defeat. Then he turned into a beam of light and left the arena and returned to the "Sword Discussion Pavilion" above.

The big man in black robe who won the competition put away the spiritual light on his body, walked out of the light shield and bowed slightly to the monks in front of him.

Soon, the monk from the Tianyu Sect who was in charge of refereeing cast a spell and sent a message to the entire valley, announcing the result of the competition.

Next, after the cultivators below gave their names, two figures flew out from the "Sword Discussion Pavilion" in the sky again and entered the protective shield below.

After watching more than a dozen competitions among cultivators, Song Qingming discovered that all those who participated in the competitions were basically cultivators in the middle Nascent Soul stage or above.

Most people like them who are only in the early Nascent Soul stage did not sign up for the competition.

Even after their names were called, when they faced an opponent whose skills were much higher than theirs, most of them did not want to make a fool of themselves and would just surrender.

Only two or three of them, perhaps because they saw that the opponents they met were not much more powerful than themselves, wanted to try to compete with them, but they were quickly defeated.

There is a large bottleneck in cultivation between the cultivators in the early Nascent Soul stage and those in the middle Nascent Soul stage, and the difference in cultivation is still very obvious.

An ordinary cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage would not be able to possess one or two special magical powers, or a very powerful high-level magic weapon.

It is not an easy task to defeat an opponent who is in the middle Nascent Soul stage or above.

Song Qingming now has many high-level magic weapons on him, plus the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array" which can help him instantly increase his magic power.

In terms of one-on-one combat, he is hard to beat among the early Nascent Soul cultivators of the same level.

But even if Song Qingming, whose strength far exceeds that of the cultivators of the same level, were to face a veteran cultivator of the middle Nascent Soul stage with a higher level of cultivation like Yang Fengyu, he would probably not be able to gain any advantage and could only barely fight to a draw with the opponent.

Song Qingming was confident that he could not gain the upper hand and defeat his opponent in a short period of time in this kind of "ring competition".

Although He Xiaofeng, the leader of the "Tianyu Sect" that hosted the sword competition, announced that each of the top ten cultivators would be rewarded with a high-level magic weapon.

However, faced with this kind of arena competition where only masters above the middle Nascent Soul stage would participate, Song Qingming and his fellow Nascent Soul early stage cultivators such as Bai Yuxian still did not sign up to participate.

Song Qingming and others came from afar to participate in the "Sword Discussion Conference" mainly to broaden their horizons and purchase the necessary spiritual objects at the trading conference upstairs.

After all, they are not strong enough and there is no hope for them to compete for the top ten positions and win the final reward.

Forcing yourself to compete on stage will only make you a stepping stone for others to gain fame.

It’s better to just sit quietly and be a spectator.

Not only Song Qingming and other early Nascent Soul cultivators, but even Yang Fengyu, who had already reached the sixth level of Nascent Soul, also chose to watch from the sidelines and had no intention of trying to compete with others.

Among the eight or nine Nascent Soul cultivators from the entire "Floating Cloud Mountain Range" cultivation world, only the great elder Zhao Wuling of the "Wanling Sect" and Fu Yungui of the "Huoyang Sect" signed up to participate in the competition.

Fu Yungui had dealt with Song Qingming in the past. The two of them had participated in the battle to encircle and suppress the "Red Blood Demon" in the "Fantasy Sea Desert" together.

His strength should be not much different from Yang Fengyu, and he is not considered a weakling among the cultivators in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

But in this "arena competition", Fu Yungui's luck was really bad, and he directly drew an eighth-level Nascent Soul master from the Donghuang Kingdom's immortal cultivation world.

Facing this late Nascent Soul master who came from one of the top ten sects in the former "Donghuang Xianzhou".

Fu Yungui fought with him, but he only lasted less than a quarter of an hour before he was quickly defeated.

Not only did he lose the game, but he was also unlucky enough to damage a fourth-level magic weapon on his body in the fight with the opponent. Fu Yungui's face looked quite ugly when he left the field.

In contrast, Zhao Wuling, the great elder of the Wanling Sect, defeated an opponent at the peak of the sixth level of the Nascent Soul stage in the ring with ease.

This kind of performance also made Song Qingming and others who were watching the game very excited.

After all, they were all cultivators from the immortal cultivation world of the "Floating Cloud Mountains". Zhao Wuling's move could at least win some face for his peers.

Seeing Zhao Wuling leaving the ring in high spirits, Wei Zicheng and the others standing next to Song Qingming and the others could not help but speak with envy:

“Senior Zhao is worthy of being the number one expert in the Floating Cloud Mountains. His magical powers are truly extraordinary.

Next, if the Wanling Sect has better luck, it may have a chance to compete for the top ten sects in Donghuang Xianzhou."

"That's true. If Senior Zhao can really win the top ten in this martial arts competition, then the other people in the immortal cultivation world will probably look up to our Floating Cloud Mountain Range!"

"Senior Sister Li is right..."

However, as soon as Wei Zicheng and the others finished speaking, Bai Yuxian, who was sitting in the front, immediately interrupted them with a sigh.

“Donghuang Xianzhou has many masters, and it is not as easy as you think to be ranked among the top ten sects.

Although Zhao Wuling's cultivation has reached the ninth level of the Nascent Soul, the foundation of the Wanling Sect is still far behind that of the Donghuang Kingdom, a major sect that has existed for more than ten thousand years.

It is still too early to say that he can grab the top ten title.

You guys can just talk here, but remember, don’t say anything nonsense when you get out.”

Wei Zicheng and his companions were people who had just reached the Jindan stage. Apart from the "Floating Cloud Mountains" and the neighboring East China Sea, they did not know much about the outside world of immortal cultivation.

Although the "Wanling Sect" has occupied the title of the number one sect in the Floating Cloud Mountains for many years, it is nothing if placed in the entire "Donghuang Xianzhou" continent.

Not to mention other small immortal cultivation circles on the continent, there are probably no less than twenty sects in the "Donghuang Kingdom" alone whose overall strength is stronger than the "Wanling Sect".

In addition to the three divine transformation forces such as the "Tianyu Sect", the top ten sects previously ranked on the "Donghuang Xianzhou" continent, without exception, all have at least one or more late Nascent Soul masters in their sects.

These sects are basically large Nascent Soul sects with a profound heritage of more than ten thousand years in the "Donghuang Kingdom". Some have 10 to 20 Nascent Soul cultivators, while some have seven to eight.

Moreover, there are many sects among them that have declined after producing some Divine Transformation cultivators in the past. Their sect foundation is far from comparable to that of the "Wanling Sect" which has only risen in the last thousand years.

Although Zhao Wuling's breakthrough to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul Realm should not be underestimated, it is not easy for him to enter the top ten of this "Sword Competition" just by relying on this. After hearing Bai Yuxian's reminder, Wei Zicheng and others, who were a little excited just now, gradually put away their smiles and hurriedly bowed their heads to the ancestor in front of them.

"Uncle Master's teachings, we will remember them!"

Seeing several people answering, Bai Yuxian did not say much. He nodded slightly and turned his gaze to the arena below to continue watching the next competition.

Until the sun set in the sky, the first day of the "Sword Competition" came to a successful conclusion under the announcement of He Xiaofeng. Including Zhao Wuling, a total of nearly a hundred people entered the next round of competition.

Among these people, there are not many cultivators in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. Almost 70% or more are powerful cultivators in the late stage of the Nascent Soul with profound cultivation.

Seeing so many Nascent Soul masters "debating and fighting with swords" also broadened the horizons of Song Qingming, Bai Yuxian and others who were watching the battle from above, and their knowledge of fighting skills was greatly enhanced.

It has to be said that as the level of cultivation increases, the strength gap between Yuanying masters is indeed becoming more and more obvious.

Especially for the strong ones who have reached the late Nascent Soul stage, their strength has been improved by a lot compared to the cultivators in the middle Nascent Soul stage.

After watching more than a hundred competitions, although there were several masters at the peak of the sixth level of the Nascent Soul who encountered seventh level cultivators, they were able to hold out against them for a short period of time.

But the final result was that they all failed without exception.

There are almost no mid-Nascent Soul cultivators who can finally defeat late-Nascent Soul cultivators, not to mention those early-Nascent Soul cultivators who rarely appear on the scene.

This is no wonder, as all of these powerful people who can break through to the late Nascent Soul stage are geniuses among them.

After the first day of the "Swordsmanship Contest" ended, everyone rested in the private room for an hour, and soon came to the fifth floor of the "Swordsmanship Pavilion" together to prepare for the next auction.

Originally, Bai Yuxian wanted to sit with Song Qingming and the others, but she was told that only one Nascent Soul cultivator could enter a private room. Helplessly, everyone split into two groups before entering the venue on the fifth floor.

The process of the "auction" was the same as yesterday, except that after the "Swordsmanship Contest" officially started, the quality of the items brought out today was obviously much higher.

After only five or six items had been auctioned, the Jindan cultivator in charge of presiding over the "auction" took out a fourth-grade low-grade magic weapon, which immediately caused a commotion at the scene.

Most of the monks who came here to attend the conference came for this "auction" that only happens once in a century.

Now that a precious spiritual object of level four or above has finally appeared, it naturally immediately attracted many cultivators present to bid for it.

An ordinary fourth-grade lower-level magic weapon normally costs about 120,000 spirit stones on the market, but at an auction like this where everyone is vying for it, there will still be some premium.

The development of the matter was exactly as Song Qingming had expected. In the end, the price of the magic weapon was set at 150,000 spirit stones, which was slightly higher than what Song Qingming had expected.

After all, this is the first level four spiritual object put up for auction, and the "auction" naturally does not want the object to be sold at too low a price, which would affect other items to be auctioned.

Seeing that this magic weapon was directly sold at a high price of 150,000 spirit stones, the auctioneer on the stage showed a look of satisfaction on his face, and then took out the next item.

"This is a third-grade superior puppet beast!"

When Song Qingming saw the auctioneer taking out a silver-winged green leopard, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes and a bit of interest appeared on his face.

Now, except for two Nascent Soul-level "puppets" in his hands, the levels of other puppets are not high. Seeing the third-level top-grade "puppet beast" in front of him, he is undoubtedly somewhat tempted.

However, Song Qingming, who originally wanted to bid for this item, saw that the price of this silver-winged green leopard directly broke through to 60,000 spirit stones in a short time.

After much thought, Song Qingming gave up the idea of ​​competing for this spiritual object.

After all, a third-grade top-quality "puppet beast" does not significantly improve the strength of his "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array". It is not cost-effective for him now to rashly spend too many spirit stones on it.

Song Qingming, who was patient, was still a little surprised when he saw that this "Silver-winged Green Leopard" was sold at a high price of 80,000 spirit stones.

After all, this thing is controlled by a Jindan cultivator, which is equivalent to having an extra powerful third-grade top-grade magic weapon, but its price is far higher than that of magic weapons of the same level.

However, if it is an ordinary sect or family cultivator, it would be more useful to exchange it for one item to improve the sect's foundation.

In the past, the "Xiaoyao Sect" had always been training late foundation-building cultivators who specialized in controlling high-level puppets.

After years of cooperative training, these people can control "puppet beasts" of level three or above, and can also act as an ordinary Jindan fighter to contain opponents at critical moments.

When Song Qingming participated in the "Monster Rebellion" for the first time, Chu Fengping relied on the sect's third-level intermediate "Golden Winged Flying Tiger" to cooperate with him to hold back the two demon kings, "Nine-Pattern Dragon" and "White Lion".

The army of monsters heading south was successfully blocked at the foot of "Fire Cloud Mountain", saving millions of lives in the northeast of Wei State.

In recent years, Song Qingming has refined a lot of third-level low-grade "puppet beasts", and also specially selected Song Linrui and others to start training their ability to control high-level "puppet beasts".

If we can train a few more people with the same skills in the future, the family will also be able to add one or two more Jindan fighters, who may come in handy at critical moments in the future.

However, to control a high-level puppet beast above level three, one must have a cultivation level of at least the late foundation building stage.

At present, there are not many suitable cultivators in the Song family, and it will take time to slowly accumulate these resources.

As the "auction" continued, many precious spiritual objects soon appeared on the auction table below.

However, there were not many level four spiritual objects that appeared at the first day of the "auction", and Song Qingming did not see the "Infant-Nourishing Pill" that he had been longing for until the end.

After the "auction", Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan only bought a few pills of low value and a high-level spiritual object that assisted in pill formation.

Although Song Qingming did not gain much at the "auction".

But the fourth-grade low-grade spiritual medicine that he had taken out and put into the "auction" before was sold at a high price, which was beyond Song Qingming's expectation.

At the end of the "auction", it was taken out as one of the finale spiritual objects. After some competition, it was finally sold at a high price of 160,000 spiritual stones.

After deducting the 10% fee paid to the "auction" for auctioning spiritual objects, Song Qingming still received more than 140,000 spirit stones, which was a slightly unexpected surprise for him.

Just like the "Swordsmanship Contest" below, this "auction" will also be held over five days.

Even though he didn't see the spiritual object that would assist in forming a baby on the first day, Song Qingming didn't seem too anxious. He still had a calm expression and returned to his residence with Huang Siyuan.

Time passed quickly, and soon it was time for the second day of the "martial arts competition".

Compared with the first day's competition, the fighting situation on the arena below became much more intense starting from the second day.

As expected, the dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators who ultimately won were basically all in the late Nascent Soul stage, and only the last two were in the middle Nascent Soul stage.

Moreover, these two were soon eliminated in the third day of the competition and could not stay in the ring.

As for Zhao Wuling, after entering the top 20 on the third day, he still lost in the final battle to the Grand Elder of the "Tian Dao Sect" who was also at the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage.

The "Tian Dao Sect" is the Nascent Soul Sect that ranked fifth in the last Donghuang Sword Contest. Their ancestors also had a God Transformation Ancestor five thousand years ago, and there are still twelve Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect.

Although its strength has declined slightly compared to two hundred years ago, it is still far from comparable to the newly emerging Nascent Soul Sect such as the "Wanling Sect".

Compared to the great elder of the "Tian Dao Sect" who had broken through the ninth level of the Nascent Soul three hundred years ago and had attempted to advance to the Divine Transformation stage, Zhao Wuling had only just advanced to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage for more than a decade.

Although the cultivation levels of the two are the same, the actual gap is much greater than most people imagine.

It was not too unfair for Zhao Wuling to lose to the opponent.

Moreover, the fact that he was able to break into the top 20 of the "Sword Discussion Conference" already tied for the best result of the "Floating Cloud Mountain Range" immortal cultivation world in the conference in the past thousands of years.

After the fourth day of the "Sword Discussion Conference", the top ten cultivators were all evaluated. With the exception of one sect, the top nine sects all came from the "Donghuang Country" immortal cultivation world.

The only exception is the "Yuling Sect", which is a top-level Nascent Soul sect from the "Golden Desert Cultivation World" in the western part of the "Eastern Phoenix Country".

The strength of their sect is also not weak, with a total of six Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect.

The Grand Elder of the "Yuling Sect" is also a cultivator who has advanced to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul for many years. In the last round of competition, he was lucky enough to defeat a former top ten sect of the "Donghuang Xianzhou" that had already declined, and helped the sect squeeze into the top ten sects.

The "Swordsmanship Conference" has been held for tens of thousands of years, although most of the Nascent Soul sects that participate in it are from the immortal cultivation world of the "Donghuang Kingdom".

But occasionally, there would be other sects in the immortal cultivation world like the "Yuling Sect" that would squeeze into the list of the top ten sects.

When the results of the martial arts competition were announced, everyone looked at the last ten monks standing on the stage, revealing some envy.

Next, the last day will be used to confirm the rankings of the top ten sects and distribute the final rewards.

Compared with the "Swordsmanship Conference", Song Qingming is actually more concerned about the "auction" held upstairs these days.

After three consecutive days of "auctions", although many high-level spiritual objects above level four appeared, spiritual objects that assist in forming a fetus still did not appear.

It was not until the penultimate night of the "auction" that Song Qingming finally saw the thing he wanted most on the stage below.

"My fellow Taoists, the next item is the finale of today's auction. I remind you not to miss it." (End of this chapter)