Chapter 209: Second in the group, first match in the finals
Yunzhou, Yunyue Mountains.
After the Zhou family defeated the Zheng family of the Jindan family in the foundation building field, the Zhou family also defeated the Zheng family with a slight advantage in the subsequent Qi refining field competition.
After this battle, the Zhou family suddenly became the most popular family in Group C. Almost no one doubted whether they could make it into the top six.
And this is indeed the case.
Fierce battles followed, and the Zhou family's foundation building field and Qi refining field were defeated only once.
The time I failed, I had no choice but to meet another Jindan family.
In order to avoid being brushed off by the Zhou family, the opponent directly sent four late-stage foundation-building monks and one mid-stage foundation-building monk.
In front of this kind of lineup, unless Zhou Chun uses the secret technique of "Ancestral Resurrection", there is no chance of winning.
Naturally, Zhou Chun would not waste his only opportunity in this group stage.
As for the failure in the Qi refining period, it was also because the monks from the other family released four first-level high-grade spiritual pets, and there were two twelfth-level monks in the Qi refining period who both had powers that were not weaker than when Zhou Chun participated in the "Tian Spirit Trial"
"The strength of the troublesome monks we encountered.
After encountering such a powerful opponent, failure is a matter of course.
Finally, when the Group B competition ended, the Zhou family entered the finals with second place in total points.
"it is finally over!"
"There should be more than half a month until the finals. Everyone should rest well and recuperate, and work hard to prepare for the finals!"
When all the dust settled, Zhou Mingde, who had fought dozens of battles with everyone, breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the Zhou family with a rather haggard expression and said words of recuperation.
To be honest, he was the worst offender in this group stage.
While the Zhou family's foundation building field and Qi refining field were in full swing, winning consecutive battles, his side had mixed success and failure, and was not very eye-catching.
If he meets a monk from the middle stage of Zifu, he can basically only maintain a tie with the opponent.
But because his own cultivation level is lower than the opponent's, if he keeps spending it, there is a high probability that he will lose.
So whenever this kind of stalemate occurs, the referee will directly award him a loss.
As for the early stage cultivators of the Zi Mansion that they met, they were not willing to give in easily. They had to fight him hard every time to prove their strength before they had no choice but to give in and retreat.
It's depressing to lose like this and difficult to win. It's surprising that Zhou Mingde is in a good mental state now.
At this time, seeing that the Supreme Elder was so haggard, the rest of the Zhou family, even if they were excited about winning second place in the group stage, could not say anything more at this time, and all went to rest as he said.
After sleeping like this for more than ten hours, the mental outlook of everyone in the Zhou family improved a little, and they had time to continue watching the battle between the D group and the garrison group.
At the same time, Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Chun also had time to discuss and study the seventeen families that had appeared in the three groups A, B, and C, and study tactics to deal with them.
In this kind of multi-person cooperative operation, tactics are also an important part of determining victory or defeat.
When the strength gap between the two sides is not so large that it is irresistible, tactics may help the weaker side turn defeat into victory.
Especially in the battle between five people in the foundation field, as long as three people of the opponent are eliminated, it is equivalent to eliminating the opponent's entire team.
This makes it difficult for some monks with outstanding personal combat capabilities to lead the team to victory on their own.
In this regard, the Zhou family also has related weaknesses.
Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Jiapeng are both in the early stage of foundation building, and they are both practicing fast-improving mana skills, so their personal strength is not that outstanding.
Once you encounter a strong team, if the opponent targets the two of them as a breakthrough point, there is a good chance that they will be sent away in one wave.
And once the two of them are sent away, the pressure on the remaining three Zhou Chun will be infinite.
Because as long as the opponent tries to send away one more of them, they can directly win.
In view of this, after everyone in the Zhou family discussed it, they decided to let Zhou Chun's golden-armored rock turtle and Zhou Daoquan's earth-armored bear protect the two of them according to the situation, so as to prevent them from being eliminated prematurely by their opponents.
Time passed slowly, and the "Hundred Clans Conference" group matches continued for thirty-nine days, and the top thirty of the five groups were finally determined.
Since then, more than 170 registered families have been directly eliminated, and more than 140 families have been eliminated.
The remaining thirty families are all well-known immortal cultivating families in the Jingguo prefectures.
Prior to this, immortal cultivators from all over the world may have been biased and inaccurate in their classification of the strengths and weaknesses of various local immortal cultivating clans.
But after this "Hundred Clans Conference", it became clear which local clan of cultivating immortals was stronger.
This is also the reason why each of the major cultivating clans strives to win a good ranking in the "Hundred Clans Conference".
No one wants their family to be considered weaker than other families in the local area, at least they can only admit this after going through the competition.
The convening of the "Hundred Nationalities Conference" provided them with such a stage and opportunity.
For example, the Zhou family.
This time, among the large immortal cultivating families in Lanzhou, only the Zhou family and another family named Xu entered the top six in their respective groups.
This means that when Lanzhou immortal cultivators talk about the various local immortal cultivating clans in the future, they must rank these two at the top.
If the Zhou family can advance to the top thirteen in the finals, and the Xu family fails, then the Zhou family will be the strongest immortal cultivating family in Lanzhou besides the Jindan family!
"I will give you three more days of rest. The finals will be held three days later. The rules are the same as before. Only the thirteen families with the top thirteen total points will qualify!"
After announcing the names of the six qualifying families in the final group, the referee Shan Yoko, a Taoist priest in yellow robes, took advantage of the situation and announced the time and rules of the finals.
After hearing what he said, the six families in the garrison breathed a sigh of relief.
Although three days was not a long time, it was enough for them to relieve their exhausted spirits and bodies.
Otherwise, if they drag their current exhausted state to fight against the other twenty-four powerful families, they really have no confidence that they can win.
Three days flew by.
On the day of the final, three referees appeared together to preside over the final.
"The first game of the finals, Lanzhou Zhou Family vs. Cangzhou Yan Family!"
As the voice of Huangpao Taoist Shan Yangzi rang out, the monks from the Zhou family and the Yan family walked out of the station in surprise.
None of them thought that they would be the first family to appear.
But the Zhou family monks had more subtle thoughts.
When they arrived more than forty days ago, they all witnessed with their own eyes the scene of many monks from the Yan family flying in through the sky on two stone eagles with phoenix feathers.
The popularity at that time deeply impressed the monks of the Zhou family who were able to inherit the skill of beast control.
Unexpectedly, today the two families are going to compete in this arena.
"The Yan family has late-stage Zifu monks, and there are three late-stage foundation-building monks, as well as two second-level monsters. This battle will be extremely difficult, so everyone must be careful!"
On the way to the arena, Zhou Daoyi talked about the situation related to the Yan family in a solemn tone, and briefly talked about the tactics he had formulated previously against families like the Yan family.
As a qualifying family in Group A, the Yan family is also an opponent that the Zhou family pays close attention to, so naturally they have made some preparations.
But they also knew in their hearts that the Yan family would definitely make a strategic plan for the Zhou family, which was in the limelight at the "Hundred Clans Conference".
So the final outcome will have to wait until the game is played to be announced.
Soon, both sides started fighting in Zifu.
There is no need to watch this scene. Although the Yan family currently only has one cultivator of the Purple Mansion, it is a late-stage cultivator of the Purple Mansion. Zhou Mingde and Vulcan Jackal will not be a match.
The two sides didn't exchange a few moves before Zhou Mingde took the initiative to admit defeat, not wanting to waste his mana.
After they stepped down, both sides had not yet started their foundation building.
A quarter of an hour after the Zifu Field ended, the Foundation Building Field finally began.
The audience, who were originally quite bored, now cheered up.
On the ring, after the monks from both families boarded the ring, they immediately took action after the referee gave the order.
On the Zhou family's side, Zhou Chun and others immediately released all the second-level monster beasts and spirit pets.
Two foundation-building monks from the Yan family also released a second-level mid-level monster, the Golden Light Leopard, and a second-level low-level monster, the Silver-backed Iron Centipede.
Then both sides used the prepared tactics.
On the Zhou family's side, Zhu Yanhe flapped his wings and released a series of fireballs towards the golden leopard, intending to fight one on one.
Then the golden-winged iron-feathered eagle also pounced on the silver-backed iron centipede, catching each insect and fighting each other.
The golden-armored rock turtle and the earth-armored bear went to help Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Jiapeng, helping them deal with a middle-stage foundation-building monk from the Yan family and an early-stage foundation-building monk who practiced fighting methods.
The Yan family originally wanted the mid-stage foundation-building monk and the silver-backed iron centipede to deal with the combination of Zhou Chun and the golden-armored rock turtle.
Then let the late-stage foundation-building monks quickly deal with Zhou Jiarui or Zhou Jiapeng.
But at this time, the Yan family and the Zhou family changed their tactics, and their late-stage foundation-building monk could only make a decisive decision to deal with Zhou Chun.
In the previous battles with the Zhou family, they had a deep understanding of the fighting power of the Silver Lightning Python Baibai, and they knew very well that a mid-stage foundation-building monk alone would never be able to stop the combination of Zhou Chun and the Silver Lightning Python Baibai.
And this late-stage Yan family foundation-building monk was not sure that he could deal with Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Jiapeng who were protected by the golden-armored rock turtle and the earth-armored bear faster than Zhou Chun.
As a result, the Zhou family undoubtedly gained a tactical advantage and successfully pulled their opponents into their own rhythm!
On Zhou Chun's side, he could see the [Xuanling Golden Bell] above his head, with dragon-scale golden shields flying around him. He mainly focused on defending himself, leaving the task of attacking the opponent to the Silver Lightning Python Baibai.
The Yan family monk opposite also knew how strong Zhou Chun's defense was, and he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to break through several layers of protection and hurt Zhou Chun in a short period of time.
Therefore, he also changed his main target of attack to the silver lightning python Baibai, preparing to severely injure this second-level low-grade demon python and drive it away.
But the Silver Lightning Python is so flexible, and the "Electric Lightning" spell is as fast as lightning, making it difficult to hit.
More importantly, Zhou Chun would not watch him hurt Bai Bai, and would always use the [Sun Yao Golden Wheel] and the "Flying Dragon Seize" magic weapon to help Bai Bai resist his attack.
Before this, their masters and servants had many experiences of working together to deal with late-stage foundation-building monks and second-level high-grade monsters, and they would never be hurt in a short period of time.
After fighting like this for almost a quarter of an hour, the silver-backed iron centipede, the Yan family's second-level low-grade monster, was the first to be unable to withstand the damage from the golden-winged iron-feathered eagle. It was pecked through the head and escaped from the ring with black and red blood flowing.
The natural enemies of centipedes, scorpions and other poisonous insects are mostly birds and monsters.
Although eagles don't eat these poisonous insects very much, they still have a great racial advantage in dealing with these poisonous insects.
The silver-backed iron centipede was restrained by the golden-winged iron-feathered eagle and could not make any waves at all.
As the silver-backed iron centipede fled, the golden-winged iron-feathered eagle quickly changed its target and pounced on the early stage monks of the Yan family who were fighting against their master Zhou Jiapeng.
The monk who was in the early stages of building the foundation of the Yan family practiced a popular fighting method, and his combat power was very strong. He could face the attacks of Zhou Jiapeng and the Earth-armored Bear alone without losing the slightest bit.
But now that there is an eagle with golden wings and iron feathers, he seems to be struggling.
In terms of flexibility, the golden-winged iron-feathered eagle is much better than the earth-armored bear and Zhou Jiapeng himself.
At this time, one person and two pets surrounded and attacked each other. Zhou Jiapeng had already seen the dawn of victory.
When the other Yan family monks saw this scene, their expressions changed slightly.
Immediately, the monk of the Yan family who was fighting against Zhou Daoquan had a hard look in his eyes, as if he had made some kind of determination, and suddenly struck out with a palm, a red light burst out from his palm, and a red fire dragon flew towards Zhou Daoquan with its head raised and roaring angrily.
This is a secret trick that he has always hidden. He has kept it secret in dozens of previous battles, just so that he can highlight the unique move in the finals and determine the outcome with one blow.
But it has been many years since Zhou Daoquan broke through to the late stage of foundation building. In these years, in preparation for traveling far away, he also specially practiced a powerful secret technique of self-defense.
At this moment, seeing the extraordinary power of the secret technique performed by his opponent, he could no longer hide his clumsiness, and immediately formed a seal on his hand and pushed forward.
I saw a khaki aura gathering and dispersing in front of him, quickly condensing into a round mirror covered with mysterious patterns, protecting him behind it.
After the red light fire dragon hit the round mirror, it immediately exploded with a "boom".
But this blow, which was more powerful than an ordinary second-level high-grade spell, failed to hurt Zhou Daoquan at all in the end, and was all blocked by the round mirror!
Peng!
With a slight explosion, the round mirror in front of Zhou Daoquan also completed its mission and shattered.
But Zhou Daoquan looked very relaxed.
There is no chain on his side, which means that the Zhou family is about to win.
The Yan family has already used a trump card, and it is impossible to use all the trump cards on the Zhou family. Then it will be difficult for them to go forward.
The key is that even if they use all their remaining cards, they may not be able to defeat the Zhou family for sure!
Sure enough, in the ensuing battle, Zhou Jiapeng finally forced his opponent to activate the formation protection token.
After sending away such an opponent, they went to help Zhou Jiarui with one person and two pets, and easily eliminated the middle-stage foundation-building monk of the Yan family.
Seeing this, the remaining three foundation-building monks of the Yan family simply chose to admit defeat.
In the subsequent Qi refining field, the Zhou family also defeated the Yan family and scored one point.
Therefore, after the first game, both sides had exactly three points, so it was considered a tie.