Chapter 18: Chapter 18: The First Manifestation of Illusion
"Yesterday, a total of 137 students passed the preliminary round, and today they will compete for fifty places in the inner courtyard, let's wait and see!" The voice of Hu Qian, the vice president of the outer courtyard, spread throughout the entire square, increasing the fighting spirit, and when Hu Qian's voice fell, the entire arena exploded with bursts of applause.
Hu Qian looked at these energetic and passionate students, nodded with a smile, indicated that the referee could play, and then sat down on the podium again.
Seeing the vice president's signal, the referee stepped forward and walked to the ring, extended his palm and made a pressing gesture, after which the applause gradually died down.
"I will organize a competition downstairs, and the students who read their names later are ready to enter the ring!"
"In the first game, Xuan-ranked First Class Liu Lingfeng fought against Xuan-ranked Second Class Guan Jie!"
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"In the thirteenth game, Yellow-ranked First Class Liu Xi fought against Xuan-ranked First Class Wang Shan!"
Hearing his name, Liu Xi walked into the ring with a calm expression, and a burst of applause sounded under the ring again.
After Wang Shan took over, he walked not far from Liu Xi and said to Liu Xi with a proud face: "Master Liu Xi, I know that you are a genius in the alchemy department, but compared to combat effectiveness, our law enforcement team is stronger."
"Oh! I haven't fought yet, so I can't say for sure." Liu Xi looked at Wang Shan, who was five people tall and three people tall, at least one meter eight or more in front of him, and it looked really terrifying.
"In that case, I will show no mercy, you be careful." Wang Shan said.
"The battle begins!" The judge said, seeing that the two of them were ready.
Wang Shan grabbed his axe, which was as tall as him, and made an attacking gesture.
"You strike first!"
"In that case, please!" Hearing that the opponent was humble, Liu Xi did not become polite.
Lu Xi drew his sword, and bright yellow flames swirled around the sword, and he quickly rushed towards Wang Shan and stabbed him in the chest with the sword.
Wang Shan is also worthy of being a law enforcement team, with rich combat experience, carrying a giant axe horizontally, blocking Liu Xi's sword blade with the axe blade and forcefully pushing it out.
A huge force pushed him, and Liu Xi was thrown back a few steps to dissolve the force.
"That's a lot of force!" Liu Xi thought to himself, and at the same time, his eyes quickly searched for Wang Shan's shortcomings.
Wang Shan did not stop, and when he broke through the willow seat, he chased after him, directly swung the giant axe and chopped downwards diagonally.
Lu Xi, who did not have time to dodge again, raised his sword to block, his arm was numb, and the sword was almost broken and flew out.
Lu Xi gritted his teeth and at the same time extended his left hand, holding the sword handle with both hands, but he was still pressed by the force of the giant axe.
"Damn, what's going on with this guy's strength?" Liu Xi thought with a gloomy face.
The competition in strength was clearly at a disadvantage, Liu Xi collected his sword and quickly retreated, so he directly fought to determine the winner.
Liu Xi frantically extracted the battle qi in his body and transferred it to the sword body through the meridians of his right arm and hand, and the flames on the sword body burned, feverishly evaporating the water vapor in the air, causing Liu Xi's figure to look slightly distorted.
Liu Xi took a step forward and swung the huge fire sword qi diagonally and flew towards Wang Shan.
Wang Shan looked at the blazing sword qi flying towards him without any panic, his entire body was filled with earth attribute battle qi, and even the people with axes showed an earthy yellow luster.
"Shake the Mountain"
Wang Shan shouted, swinging the giant axe with both hands and chopping at that sword qi, they collided, and the axe blade and the sword qi rubbed against each other, constantly making a shrill sound.
"Crush it for me~"
Wang Shan maintained his posture while swinging the axe, and walked forward step by step, pushing Liu Xi's sword qi back and forth.
However, the high-temperature wave of qi emitted by the fire sword qi was completely blocked by the heavy earthy yellow battle qi on Wang Shan's body, and it did not play the slightest role.
And the fire sword qi that Liu Xi swung was under his own gaze, and was pushed back by Wang Shan, and was finally smashed into a ball of flame by the giant axe and fell onto the ring, and then continued to be extinguished.
Lu Xi watched as the fire sword qi he swung was smashed into pieces, and Liu Xi's heart became heavier and heavier. The opponent's strength is greater than his own, and the defense of the earth attribute battle qi is extremely strong, and his own fire sword qi cannot break through the defense.
"The quality of his own fire attribute Dou Qi is average, if he can control other fire, he will definitely be able to crush the quality of Dou Qi of the same level." Liu Xi quickly analyzed his shortcomings and finally decided to use this trick.
"Master Liu Xi, you are already strong among alchemists. But against me, you have no chance, admit defeat!" After Wang Shan smashed Liu Xi's sword qi, he said to Liu Xi with a meaningful smile on his face.
"It's not over yet! Come again!" Liu Xi replied calmly. He then continued to strike out one flame after another with an expressionless face.
And Wang Shan saw that sword qi rushing towards him, naturally his face changed greatly, although he had just blocked Liu Xi's sword qi, he was not as relaxed as he showed on the surface.
Wang Shan did not want to be one sword qi after another and constantly dodged the sword qi with a flexible body that far exceeded his size. In the process of dodging, he looked at Liu Xi who was still swinging the enormous fire sword qi.
There was also some confusion in his heart, how could he have such a strong fighting spirit? The trialists can't take a pill to restore fighting spirit like he did. If you continue like this, you will definitely lose, looking at Liu Xi's position.
Rushing straight towards Liu Xi and without hesitation, he swung his axe right after he got close, even when the axe blade was about to pierce Liu Xi's body, Liu Xi did not block or dodge.
Wang Shan then saw a scene that scared him, and his axe blade pierced straight into Liu Xi's left shoulder and came out from the armpit of his right arm.
Liu Xi's head and entire right shoulder separated from his body and flew straight out, and the blood from his body spurted out and splashed onto his face.
Wang Shan then saw Liu Xi's body lying on the ground, splashing dust onto the ground. Wang Shan was stunned, he didn't expect such a result at all. What came to mind was, "I killed someone, I killed my classmates at the trial!"
It was a voice coming from the side.
"You lost!" Liu Xi said in a calm voice.
At this time, Wang Shan heard Liu Xi's voice, and the whole person was not very good. Then he saw Liu Xi's corpse on the ground turn into a point of light and disappear, and then he felt a fiery breath coming from his shoulder.
Tilting his head slightly, he saw Liu Xi smiling beside him unharmed, and he also placed the sword with the bright yellow flame on his body directly on his neck, this time the hot wave of air directly fried Wang Shan's skin into red, and his hair was directly dried and curled.
Wang Shan looked at Liu Xi, his eyes were about to fall out, and then asked in a slightly hoarse voice, "You are not dead!"
"Ru Xi wins!" It was the referee who saw that Wang Shan had no ability to resist, so he announced the result of this fight.
Liu Xi put away his sword and said with a smile: "Of course I'm not dead!"
Liu Xi saw that his flaming sword qi was directly cut by Wang Shan's giant axe, and then he had already launched his soul technique "Illusory Determination of the Heart" while he was speaking, and everything that happened later was an illusion.
At this time, some of the disciples who were watching the game directly scolded them, thinking that Wang Shan was not playing a fake match.
In their opinion, Wang San first smashed Liu Xi's flaming sword qi and proudly made Liu Xi admit defeat.
Suddenly, his face changed dramatically, and he began to dodge left and right as if he was dodging something, and then suddenly rushed towards Liu Xi with a determined face, and was stunned when he slashed the axe in mid-air.
In the end, Liu Xi easily put the sword on Wang Shan's neck and won the game, and the entire process looked like it couldn't be faked.
Among everyone present, perhaps only a few people on the stand could detect that Liu Xi had released his soul power in the game.
The selection competition was still about to continue, Liu Xi and Wang Shan walked out of the ring one after another, but they were treated differently.
Wang Shan was directly stopped by a group of classmates and asked him why he was playing a fixed match! Wang Shan had just listened to his classmates' performance in the ring, and he had also cried without tears, and he was also very blind!
Liu Xi was invited to the stand, and Vice Dean Hu Qian asked softly: "The classmate who fought against you just now was under your influence!"
"Yes." Liu Xi didn't hide it, but she didn't say much. This is the Canaan Academy, and it will not do anything to take away the students' secret arts, otherwise where would anyone dare to send students to school here.
"Well, let's go down and rest!" Hu Qian really didn't have any bad intentions, he just wanted to confirm the situation right now. got what he wanted to know, but seeing that Liu Xi didn't want to say more, he didn't ask any more.