The prince of heaven only wants salted fish

When Cheng Ziming said that the timer started, the pile of cinnabar talisman pens fell in front of the young Celestial Masters in the field. There were many desks in the field before, and everyone had guessed that this would be the same as the first round. It was related to the competition, so most people had chosen their desks early in the morning and stood there waiting quietly.

But they still didn't expect that they would be so stubborn in the first round!

Spiritual formation is indeed a required course for heavenly masters, and it is understandable that it is related to Xuanmen knowledge, but it is like memorizing ancient Chinese texts in high school. Who doesn’t forget them after the exam?

And now the attack type spiritual formation diagram is still designated!

——It’s still the analogy of memorizing text. Just like there are many ways to write ancient texts, but everyone usually only needs to memorize the required passages. There are also many variations of spiritual formation diagrams. Among them, there are only a few classic offensive formations. If it is copied If so, it would be impossible for the hundreds of young Celestial Masters on the field to get a good ranking.

Therefore, if you want to stand out in this first round, it is impossible to copy the classic spiritual formation diagram. You can only come up with your own original creation.

However, how can it be so easy to create a formation diagram on the spot? Not to mention the strict criteria that Cheng Ziming just mentioned: not only the originality, but also the completeness, practicality, and attack strength of your formation... Not to mention that the only contestants are young and fledgling Celestial Masters. Even if you are a senior person, you may not be able to achieve perfection!

In addition, the entire competition was limited to six hours. For a time, many young Celestial Masters in the field turned pale. Their talisman pens were stained with cinnabar, but they could not even finish the first stroke of the formation diagram. Go down.

However, this will not cause any hindrance to Cheng Wei and others.

To be able to make a name for themselves in the world of Celestial Masters at the age of less than thirty years old, they either have a profound background, or they are really talented and can only draw an offensive spiritual formation map. For these young Celestial Masters, The elite is not a big problem.

Like Cheng Wei, he had learned countless attack formations from the elders of the Cheng family. It was not easy to cope with this first round.

Of course, it would be a bit inferior to just show the formations that the elders had completed on such an occasion, so Cheng Wei was not going to directly copy some formation diagrams, but picked up the cinnabar pen and after thinking carefully, Write carefully again.

——Since you are already sure of winning, why not challenge yourself and make things better?

In addition to Cheng Wei, Qi Zhaoye, Duan Lingxi and others who had been paid attention to by many young heavenly masters before also had the same posture as him: although there was not much worry in their expressions, they were all frowning in thought. , and seemed extremely cautious when writing.

Compared to these elites, Jicheng looked really relaxed.

After hearing Cheng Ziming on the podium announce the rules of the first round, the other contestants all looked hopeful and nervous. Only Jicheng, after getting rid of Cheng Wei, found a new table. Then he sat down cross-legged calmly and waited for the cinnabar talisman pens to be distributed in front of him——

He lay down on the table and fell asleep.

At this time, all the young Celestial Masters around were scratching their heads and looking anxious. Only Jicheng was lying on the table sleeping soundly. The contestants in the field were all focused on the spiritual formation diagram they had conceived in their minds. Pay attention. Not many people came to Jicheng, but the guests and elders from various families in the stands almost had their eyes popped out.

Whose boy is this? Are you too confused? !

Many elders of the Cheng family had been staring at Jicheng unconsciously. Now that they saw Jicheng sleeping in public, their expressions and emotions were extremely complicated for a moment - it was said that they were unhappy, but this kid appeared at the family meeting. It was a provocative move, maybe you were happy about it, but didn't it still bring shame to the Cheng family?

As the whispers in the stands spread, several elders of the Cheng family almost had the urge to push the person awake in person.

However, Jicheng couldn't hear the voices of the elders. He didn't get much rest last night, but now he heard that the first round had given him a full six hours - if you round up, that's more than half a day - —Why don’t you seize the time and catch up on some sleep?

So the first round lasted a total of three hours. Jicheng slept for two hours at a stretch, then slowly sat up, rubbed his eyes, stretched again, finally picked up a pen and paper, and posted for a quarter of an hour. I was stunned and started writing slowly.

At this time, a confident Celestial Master like Cheng Wei had already completed a volume of spiritual formation diagrams to a minimum. Among them, Duan Lingxi and others had already handed in the spiritual formation diagrams and left to prepare for the second round of assessment. Cheng Wei still stayed at his desk, but rather than saying that he hadn't finished yet, it was more that he wanted to stay and watch Jicheng's jokes.

Seeing Jicheng waking up, Cheng Wei happened to put the last stroke on the spiritual formation diagram in his hand. He blew on the special cinnabar ink on the paper, closed the formation diagram, stood up and walked towards the judging panel.

Before leaving, he suddenly turned back to look at Xia Jicheng, raised the corners of his lips, and mouthed: "That's all."

In fact, Jicheng was not completely awake, but he still instinctively showed a smiling expression and responded with the same mouth: "Have you graduated from elementary school?"

Cheng Wei's face darkened, and he quickened his pace to leave.

Ji Cheng picked up the pen and slowly sketched it on the paper.

He wrote and drew for a while, and after half an hour, there were very few Celestial Masters left on the field. Only then did Jicheng stand up and hand in the spiritual formation diagram he had drawn.

When the Heavenly Masters handed over the formation diagrams, they handed them in together with other unused talisman papers - the completed formation diagrams were handed over to the judges, while the unfinished ones were placed on a tray next to them.

One of the judges took the array diagram from Jicheng's hand. Before he could take a closer look, he caught a glimpse of the "draft paper" that Jicheng put in the tray next to him: it was full of messy graphics, some of which were vaguely visible. It can be seen that they have the shape of a tortoise, while others cannot see anything clearly.

People don't know whether to complain about his painting skills first, or marvel that he really treats the scratch paper as scratch paper.

The first round of competition at the Family Conference lasted for six hours, but it would still take a certain amount of time for the jury to judge the merits of all the spiritual formation diagrams. Therefore, according to what the Cheng family announced after the end of the first round of competition, The results of the first round of competition will be announced on the morning of the next day, and the content of the second round of examination questions will also be made public at that time.

Because the first round of exam questions this year was too demanding, the young Celestial Masters were very nervous when they arrived at the venue the next morning.

First, they were nervous about the rankings in yesterday's competition, and secondly, they were nervous - the content in the first round was so poor, wouldn't it be even more excessive in the second round?

Cheng Ziming still stood on the podium as he did yesterday, and behind him were the judges selected by the Xuanmen families.

As the head of the Cheng family, a top aristocratic family, Cheng Ziming has a certain magnanimity even just standing there - this magnanimity is not only the nobility and cultivation of a big family, but also the embodiment of being a top heavenly master with profound cultivation. .

Therefore, everyone usually looks up at Cheng Ziming unconsciously.

But for some reason, many young Celestial Masters in the audience felt: The head of the Cheng family seems to be in a bad mood today?

But Cheng Ziming's expression was the same as yesterday, with a slight smile and no anger. He didn't look any different.

When the scheduled time for announcing the rankings arrived, Cheng Ziming also spoke as usual: "This year's Family Conference has the largest number of young Celestial Masters registered, and judging from the results of the first round, It’s true that there are talented people from generation to generation.”

"Everyone must be waiting impatiently," he said with a smile, "so I will not be too close to you. Now I would like to invite the chief judge of the judging panel, Zhu Bingbiao, the elder of the Zhu family, to announce the first round of competition. "

Zhu Bingbiao stood up calmly when his name was called, and went to the front on crutches.

He said with a smile: "The young people of this family conference are really formidable. When we looked at these spiritual formation diagrams, we found many formation diagrams that made me, an old man, stunned."

"According to the rules, the 100th to 51st place in each round of competition will get one basic point, the 50th to 21st place will get two points, and the 20th to 11th place will get two points. The first place is worth three points, the tenth to sixth place is worth five points, and starting from the fifth place, the points are one more than the previous one.”

Zhu Bingbiao raised his hand slightly: "I think young people are too lazy to listen to me, a bad old man, read out the rankings one by one, so it may be appropriate for everyone to see the rankings from 100th to 11th."

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As he spoke, a huge scroll fell from the sky. On it were written the names of the Celestial Masters from the 100th to the 11th place, and the points they obtained.

At the same time, Zhu Bingbiao also unfolded a smaller scroll in his hand. He looked at it and read aloud: "Now I will announce the formation diagrams that have won the top ten——"

It can be seen that Zhu Bingbiao is quite good at leaving suspense: when he announced the top ten Celestial Masters, he announced them backwards starting from the tenth.

Starting from the formation that won the tenth place, every time Zhu Bingbiao read a name, there would be a small burst of exclamations, and then a Tianshi with an expression either proud or calm would walk out of the crowd and receive additional awards from the judging panel. ——A spiritual talisman produced by the elders of the Xuanmen family.

Because this is only one of the three rounds of competition, the talisman given to the top ten is not very valuable, but the role of being able to get such a small reward in terms of face is simply unparalleled.

"——Third place, Cheng Wei."

When Zhu Bingbiao read out Cheng Wei's name, there was a low exclamation in the audience.

Being able to get third place in such a difficult competition is worthy of being the elite seed of the younger generation of the Cheng family!

Cheng Wei stood up amidst the discussion of the crowd and walked towards Zhu Bingbiao.

It's just that his expression was calm. Not only did he not have much joy, but he also seemed to be vaguely dissatisfied with his results: How could he only be in third place?

As the young head of the Cheng family, Cheng Wei is quite familiar with the intelligence of outstanding young Celestial Masters from major families: there may be people with outstanding cultivation talents among them, but only those trained by the Zhu family can definitely defeat Cheng Wei in spiritual formation attainments. Duan Lingxi is alone.

What's more, this family conference is hosted by the Cheng family themselves. Although Cheng Ziming will not help his son cheat for the sake of basic fairness, it is still very simple to give a slight hint.

So in this case, Cheng Wei believed that even if he couldn't win first place, it was always impossible to lose the top two.

After the third place was announced, Zhu Bingbiao also read out the name of the Celestial Master who won the second place: "Second place, Duan Lingxi——"

Duan Lingxi was a cold-looking woman. She didn't look happy or sad after knowing that she won the second place. However, when Zhu Bingbiao was about to announce the first place, her slightly condensed expression revealed her curiosity.

When talking about the first place, even Zhu Bingbiao couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Speaking of the first place formation diagram, even an old man like me has to admit that I am old once-"

"The ingenious conception and the profound analysis of the use of spiritual power are the best I have ever seen in my life."

He said a few words, and then saw the young people in the audience scratching their heads in anxiety, and couldn't help laughing: "Haha, I was a little emotional for a while, and almost forgot the business."

"The master who won the first place in the first round of the competition is Cheng Chu."