No hope for eternal life

Chapter 181: Virtual God Talisman

"Okay, this is a rare opportunity, go and see young friend Zhuang's superb swordsmanship." Hutiandu didn't even give Zhuang Beihai time to react and agreed on his behalf.

Seeing this, Zhuang Beihai frowned slightly, realizing that he seemed to have been tricked, but he did not intend to back down. He really wanted to see if Hu Pingzhi had the ability to defeat him.

As a result, a fierce competition broke out between Zhuang Beihai and Hu Pingzhi. Hu Pingzhi's swordsmanship was more powerful than An Xiangnan's, and Zhuang Beihai was in some danger.

"Sure enough, the Shenhu Kingdom wants to use Zhuang Beihai's name to establish its authority." Mu Changsheng already knew the Shenhu Kingdom's plan.

The Shenhu Kingdom actually did this to attract everyone present. On the one hand, it showed off its generosity like the top-grade spirit stone, and on the other hand, it let everyone see with their own eyes that the monks of the Shenhu Kingdom defeated the monks of the Lingshan Sect, which was naturally more convincing than empty words.

It can be imagined that for today's event, Shenhu Kingdom should have asked An Xiangnan and Hu Pingzhi to start preparations long ago.

"It's a pity that you have encountered the field that Mu Xun and I are best at." Mu Changsheng said in his heart. Although he couldn't say that he had a 100% chance of winning against Hu Pingzhi, he had at least a 60% to 70% chance. The same must be true for Mu Xun, so even if Hu Pingzhi defeated Zhuang Beihai, he would most likely be defeated by him or Mu Xun.

"However, I have already offended the Divine Protectorate in the Six Nations Trial. It is indeed inappropriate for me to take action now to disrupt their plans. It would be more appropriate for Mu Xun to take action." Mu Changsheng thought to himself.

On the other side, the situation of the competition between Hu Pingzhi and Zhuang Beihai became increasingly clear, and Zhuang Beihai began to be suppressed by Hu Pingzhi.

In fact, this does not mean that Hu Pingzhi is necessarily much stronger than Zhuang Beihai, but Zhuang Beihai had a fierce battle with An Xiangnan before, and some of his moves were known to Hu Pingzhi in advance, so Hu Pingzhi had a little first-mover advantage, and that little advantage would be greatly magnified in this kind of skill competition.

Therefore, An Xiangnan before was just a trigger, and Hu Pingzhi was the backup arranged by Shen Huguo.

After a long time, the two sides fought for hundreds of rounds, and Zhuang Beihai was finally defeated by one move.

Zhuang Beihai himself did not look angry about this. A defeat was a defeat. He had previously stated that this kind of competition had nothing to do with the sect behind him. As for what others thought, he was too lazy to care.

Hu Tiandu gave Hu Pingzhi a prize of twelve top-grade spirit stones and asked symbolically: "Does anyone else want to challenge Hu Pingzhi? If you can beat him, the prize will be doubled."

As soon as Hu Tiandu finished speaking, Mu Xun stood up at Mu Changsheng's signal, clasped his fists towards Hu Pingzhi and said, "I am not talented, but I would like to learn from you, brother Hu."

Seeing someone really stand out, Hutian raised his eyebrows, thinking in his heart that Mu Xun must be very confident, but since the words were out, he naturally could not lose his composure, and immediately cast a spell to ban Mu Xun's cultivation, and ordered: "Then let's get started."

Mu Xun and Hu Pingzhi started fighting immediately. At first, both sides were evenly matched, but Hu Pingzhi soon encountered the same dilemma as Zhuang Beihai before. His moves had been known to Mu Xun in advance, so he began to be restrained.

"Clang, clang, clang!" The sound of the two swords clashing continued to be heard. However, after a hundred moves, Mu Xun had completely suppressed Hu Pingzhi, leaving him with only the strength to defend.

As the saying goes, if you defend for too long, you will lose. As expected, Hu Pingzhi was defeated in the end.

Hutiandu readily paid Muxun's twenty-four top-grade spirit stones as a prize, but he was quickly thinking in his mind that he actually had Hu Quanxing as a backup. But even if Hu Quanxing could defeat Muxun, there was also Mu Changsheng with Muxun. He was a little unsure about Mu Changsheng. If he was not careful, the limelight might be snatched away by Mu Changsheng in the end. And this was not counting the top-grade spirit stones he had to pay as a prize.

Soon, Hu Tiandu made a decision and laughed, "Hahaha, this competition is really exciting, but it's time to change the fun. Come on, add some wine for everyone."

Then, one maid after another was seen serving fine wine to everyone present.

"What a pity, it ends here." Mu Changsheng felt deeply sorry. His idea was completely different from Hutian's. He originally planned to stand up and compete with Mu Xun. As long as Mu Xun let him win, he would win. Then he would let him win and lose to the monks of the Divine Protectorate. In this way, he could get top-grade spirit stones and save face for the Divine Protectorate. It could be said that he killed two birds with one stone. It's a pity that man proposes, God disposes.

Then, Hu Tiandu personally took action. With a wave of his sleeves, ten stone tables were placed at the same time in the open space in the center of the banquet. There were also talisman papers, talisman pens, talisman liquids and other items on the tables, which instantly aroused Mu Changsheng's interest: "Is this going to play with talismans?"

Just as Mu Changsheng expected, Hu Tiandu said, "I see that there are many talisman masters here, so I specially prepared such an amusement for you. There is a strange talisman called Xushen Talisman engraved on the table. The talisman liquid, talisman paper and other materials are ready. There are ten sets in total. The ranking is determined by the number of successful drawings. According to the old rules, the first place winner will have a prize, and the prize is the complete inheritance of this Xushen Talisman. If the first two winners have the same number of drawings, the winner will be determined by the time taken. To avoid suspicion, my Shenhuguo monk will not participate in this competition."

"As for why this Xushen Talisman can be classified as a strange talisman, it is because of its characteristic of becoming stronger with the strength and weaker with the weakness. This kind of talisman can store the power of cultivators of different realms. The holder of the talisman can temporarily borrow the power in it to greatly improve his own strength, and can improve the strength of up to two major realms!"

"Two major realms!" Mu Changsheng's heart was shocked, he couldn't help but be moved. This was really amazing. Borrowing the power of a strong person in a higher realm, just thinking about it made people yearn for and excited, because realm breakthrough requires steady progress. Mu Changsheng always felt that he was too weak. If he had the Xushen Talisman, he could greatly relieve his pressure.

Ji Leyao on the side also showed interest when he heard this. Although there were similar talismans among the Ji clan, they were definitely more or less different from the Xushen Talisman. Different talismans could learn from each other and collide to create different sparks.

Therefore, Ji Leyao also wanted to obtain the inheritance talisman of Xushen Fu, which could be regarded as a kind of collection.

Hutiandu was very satisfied with the expressions of the crowd. He showed the Xushen Talisman just to let everyone see the strength of the Shenhu Kingdom, so there was no need for the monks of the Shenhu Kingdom to participate.

Then, Hu Tiandu continued, "The difficulty level of the Void God Talisman Liquid I prepared for you is roughly controlled between the top third and fourth grades. My dear friends, please take it."

A total of ten talisman masters, including Mu Changsheng and Ji Leyao, stood up and stood in front of a stone table, carefully observing the talisman patterns on the table. Out of caution, no one dared to take the lead in drawing talismans for a while.

"Judging from the complexity of the pattern, it seems that it is not as good as the ordinary third-grade high-level talismans." Mu Changsheng said in his heart, but he did not dare to be careless and imprinted the talisman pattern firmly in his mind.

In the end, it was Ji Leyao who was skilled and bold, and took the lead in picking up the pen and began to draw talismans.

Seeing this, Mu Changsheng no longer hesitated. He had already memorized the talisman pattern by heart, and immediately began to refine the talisman.

At the beginning, Mu Changsheng was relatively successful, but when he was halfway through, the spiritual power on the talisman paper suddenly rioted inexplicably. Even when Mu Changsheng hurriedly took action to suppress it, it was too late, and the first attempt ended in failure.

As for the backlash explosion after the failure, Hutian directly took action to help Mu Changsheng resolve it.