Chapter 28 Abstaining
Nie Ying defeated Chen Qiaoqian by crushing her with magical power. The huge firebird was the embodiment of Nie Ying's surging magical power!

Sun Zecheng, on the other hand, relied on talismans for defense, plus a pair of boots and magical tools, and teleported to win. The audience felt that Senior Sister Xuehong was careless and was ambushed, and should have used protective magic tools before attacking. In fact, this was also Sun Zecheng's deep meaning. He hoped that Senior Sister Xuehong could develop a good habit of paying attention to defense against ambushing, and hoped that this would change her fate of dying tragically in the capital of Yue State!
The three Jindan elders all noticed Sun Zecheng's pair of boots with a red flying talisman pattern painted on them. They thought they were quite interesting, but they didn't know about his strength in other aspects.

The games for other people didn’t end so quickly, and most of them could last more than a quarter of an hour.

The two sides fought back and forth, and their magic weapons collided with each other, but the strong and weak were always clearly distinguished, and the battle was basically resolved within half an hour.

Sun Zecheng also saw this, and when grouping, he deliberately staggered the disciples who had been building their foundation for a long time and had relatively deep cultivation to face the disciples who had just built their foundation.

Except for Chen Qiaoqian's senior sister Xuehong, everyone else successfully defeated the novices and advanced.

Sun Zecheng took a look and found that except for Nie Ying who showed some strength, there was nothing amazing about the others. Some were even quite bad!

That's it? Sun Zecheng was a little surprised.

But what Sun Zecheng didn't know was that because the time limit for building a foundation was five years, most of the contestants were novices, and few of them had experienced much combat. For example, the few people who came back from the Blood Forbidden Land, not including the old ghost, Chen Qiaoqian's eldest brother had combat experience and strength, but failed to build a foundation! Han Li was still ripening the elixir, and it would take another two years to build a foundation! Except for Sun Zecheng, the remaining three didn't even have a foundation-building pill!

the next day,
In the second round, Sun Zecheng's opponent was Senior Brother Wang. He first took out a small bronze shield, then pointed his finger at something that could not be seen clearly, but three green rays of light flew straight towards Sun Zecheng.

Sun Zecheng activated a "Rock Shield" primary high-level talisman. A huge rock stood in front of him to block all attacks. He still had more than 20 primary and intermediate continuous lightning talismans left, just in time to use them up. Sun Zecheng casually activated ten continuous lightning talismans and threw them over. With a "beep", Senior Brother Wang's bronze shield was instantly blown up. There were still four lightning balls that were about to blow Senior Brother Wang, who was dumbfounded, into pieces! Lei Wanhe lightly summoned the lightning ball to his hand, and rubbed it with his hand and it disappeared without a trace!
"Sun Zecheng wins!"

The audience was shocked. After two rounds of competition, Sun Zecheng ended up with another confrontation! The last round was a surprise attack, this round was based on the number of talismans! He used a primary high-level "Rock Shield" talisman and ten primary mid-level "Continuous Thunder" talismans, which cost a full 150 spirit stones! He just threw them away like that! What a waste! If Senior Brother Wang had stacked a protective shield to block all the attacks, wouldn't the 150 spirit stones have been thrown away in vain? How many spirit stones would it take to throw them this way?
Nie Ying also crushed her opponent. She simply activated her magic weapon and released a huge firebird. After more than half a minute, the opponent's magic power was almost exhausted and he could not resist anymore, so he admitted defeat. Uncle Hongfu eliminated the firebird and announced that Nie Ying was the winner.

After the game, Sun Zecheng went back. He was too lazy to watch other games. Anyway, except for Nie Ying who had some strength, the others were just so-so. He was too lazy to watch and would watch the third round tomorrow.

On the third day,
In the third round, the opponent this time was Senior Brother Xiao, who was at the peak of the initial stage of foundation building. He was considered a tall man among the short men in terms of experience and awareness. He came up and not only offered a shield, but also offered a spray magic weapon that had never been seen before. It quickly formed a large fog area, and he himself was hidden in the fog, waiting for Sun Zecheng to make a move.

Sun Zecheng started with a "Rock Shield" to build a shield for himself, and then he was happy to see his opponent hiding in the mist. Haha, you want to play hide with me? That's it?
Sun Zecheng smiled. Hiding in the mist was also a trick Han Li often used. However, Han Li was lucky in that his opponents did not notice him, which made Han Li succeed repeatedly. However, in fact, this kind of hiding was of little significance in the battle between immortals! For example,
Sun Zecheng activated a primary high-level "Earth Prison" talisman and threw it over. The talisman turned into a yellow light, which included the clouds and people, forming a huge yellow cover, and then shrank.

Senior Brother Xiao was struggling to power the magic weapon. He had been building his foundation for three years and his magic power was decent. He finally managed to hold up a space that was three meters square. However, he had no means to break the earth prison, so he could only wait until the spiritual power of the "earth prison" talisman was exhausted.

There were still ten of the elementary and intermediate Fire Cloud Talismans that he had bought before! Sun Zecheng simply activated them all and threw them into the dungeon!
Burn! Burn it for me!
In the whole earthen prison, no matter where he hides, burn him to ashes! "I give up!" Senior Brother Xiao had seen Senior Brother Wang's bronze shield destroyed by Sun Zecheng! Afterwards, Senior Brother Wang was heartbroken! Now seeing Sun Zecheng throwing ten elementary and intermediate fire cloud talismans at him, he wisely chose to give up!

Otherwise, I will have to spend spirit stones to buy the magic weapon again! Spirit stones are hard to earn! I can’t waste it like this! I won’t fight with this prodigal son! Senior Brother Xiao thought.

"Sun Zecheng wins!" Lei Wanhe casually extinguished ten Fire Cloud Talismans and announced that Sun Zecheng won.

The audience was talking about it. Sun Zecheng used two primary high-level talismans and ten primary intermediate-level talismans, which were worth two hundred spirit stones! The Huangfeng Valley only gave one intermediate-level spirit stone to foundation-building disciples every year, which was one hundred spirit stones! How much was enough for Sun Zecheng's method of defeat? !

Some people who were more careful with their calculations did the math for Sun Zecheng: after three rounds of competition, he had burned talismans worth a total of four hundred yuan, which was almost enough to buy a set of top-level magic tools.

Buying a set of magic tools can be reused, isn't it better than throwing talismans like this, which are good after one throw? What about the next game? Throw another 200 spiritual stones?

These people did not avoid Sun Zecheng when talking. Sun Zecheng heard everything and just smiled faintly.

As for the next game, after three rounds, there were three people left, and a draw was made to decide who would have a bye. Sun Zecheng was lucky enough to get a bye and directly entered the top two!

After Sun Zecheng drew a bye, he immediately announced that he would give up the final round, which was the competition for first and second place!

"Abstain? Why should I abstain?" Nie Ying was also one of the three people who drew lots, she asked in confusion.

"Why? A fight costs 200 spirit stones, and even if I double that to fight you, 400 is not enough! I will go bankrupt if I continue to fight!" Sun Zecheng said as he walked away. The first place has three more intermediate spirit stones than the second place, which is 300 yuan. But a fight with Nie Ying will definitely cost more than 400 yuan! Why would I, Sun Zecheng, do such an obviously unscientific deal?
"Why don't you use magic tools?" Nie Ying asked. Nie Ying didn't understand. Wouldn't it be possible to save a lot of talismans and spirit stones by using magic tools?

"Because my master only gave me a talisman and no magic weapon." Sun Zecheng had already walked a certain distance and paused for a moment before replying. Since his master Li Huayuan was not there, Sun Zecheng felt no psychological pressure in making up stories about his master.

"Master, is his master really so stingy?" Looking at Sun Zecheng's receding figure, Nie Ying turned and asked her master Lei Wanhe.

"Hehe, it's not surprising. His master Li Huayuan is known to be stingy!"

(End of this chapter)