Zhao Xiaobao had lost this battle, but no one looked down on him. On the contrary, they knew that Zhao Xiaobao would become one of the pillars of Hidden Sword Court in the future!
Hidden Sword Court would always rise and fall because of people. Li Chengfeng, Xiaobao and Han Tianxing's sudden appearance made everyone realise that Hidden Sword Court's rise was unstoppable!
Logically speaking, Xiaobao should have been either dead or crippled after being hit by a lightning spell. However, he was lucky. Even though the Zimu Lightning Swords were not conductive to electricity, they were made from a material that allowed electricity to conduct electricity. As the Zimu Lightning Swords spun at high speed in front of him, they attracted a large portion of the lightning towards them. Most of the lightning that was aimed at Xiaobao was absorbed away, thus avoiding more serious damage.
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On the other hand, after Xiaobao had been cleansed by the Cosmic Marrow Cleansing Pool, his body had a certain degree of self-healing ability. Furthermore, his Red-body Cauldron was several times stronger than before, so he was able to withstand the lightning strikes.
Although he was seriously injured, his heart, brain, and internal organs had withstood the test of the intensity of the lightning and did not explode immediately.
The first thing Li Chengfeng did was to bring Xiaobao back for treatment. He did not even have the time to watch the battle.
The first battle of the third round set the tone for this round: brilliant and full of suspense!
In the third round, every battle was extremely exciting. Although the winner and loser was obvious before the battle began, even the battle between Ou Yexiu and Zhao Xiaobao, where there was a huge disparity in strength between the two combatants, was filled with strategy and wisdom!
Moreover, up until now, the duration of each battle had clearly increased. In the first round, apart from a few exceptional cases, the average battle had ended in less than five minutes. There were even cases where the outcome was decided in a single exchange.
In the second round, the time began to lengthen, reaching an average of ten minutes per round.
As for the third round, the duration became even longer. According to the usual practice, each round would last around 15 minutes. Cultivators at this level would usually have their own trump cards. Once they revealed their trump cards, they would often be able to reverse the situation or even decide the outcome of the battle.
And this kind of reversal was often the most exciting and exciting scene in a battle. Not only could they find a sense of immersion and confidence from the case of the weak defeating the strong, they thought, "If he can do it, why can't I?"
Moreover, they could learn from others how to defeat the strong from the weak!
At the same time, more importantly, they could see more trump cards that were usually hidden!
Each of these trump cards was a precious life-saving tool for cultivators. Once they were exposed, the threat would be greatly reduced, and the other party would be on guard.
Therefore, peeking at each cultivator's trump card was something that all cultivators wanted to know. This was because they didn't know when they would encounter each other and have no choice but to fight with each other. At this time, if they knew each other's trump card, then they could target them.
Although the third round lasted 15 minutes per round, there were only four matches a day. Two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Most of the time was used to maintain the arena.
Take the first match for example. Xiaobao and Ou Yexiu had wrecked the entire arena. Just the maintenance and repairs alone took four hours. The second match only started in the afternoon after noon.
Li Chengfeng also had a match on the first day, scheduled for the second match in the afternoon. At this time, the sky was a little dark, but this was great news for Li Chengfeng.
Because based on his fighting style, the darker the place, the better it was for him to fight. The green tree branches on the ground were like countless hands of the dead reaching out from the River Styx, entangling his opponent from time to time, catching him off guard.
Li Chengfeng's opponent was a cultivator from Hidden Brocade Court. Although he was not weak, unfortunately, his strength was average. He had no obvious weaknesses, but he also did not have any obvious strengths.
If this kind of cultivator could cultivate to the late stages, his future would be limitless. He would become the most terrifying top cultivator among the great cultivators.
One of the most famous was the Imperial Tutor of the Universe God Sect, Chang Yuan. When he first started cultivating, he progressed in all aspects at the same time. He had no strengths or weaknesses. At first, he was just like everyone else. No one looked up to him, thinking he was just a mediocre cultivator.
However, after Imperial Preceptor Chang Yuan persevered bit by bit with astonishing perseverance, and after encountering a series of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, he began to undergo a metamorphosis. Due to the parallel development in all aspects, he finally reached an extremely high realm in all aspects. In the end, he became a top-notch cultivator without any shortcomings, or even flaws. He stood proudly at the highest peak of the entire cultivation world and did not fall for more than five hundred years!
However, it was precisely because of the astonishing achievements of State Preceptor Chang Yuan that he had set an 'extremely bad' example for the cultivators of the world, causing many people to make up their minds to learn from State Preceptor Chang Yuan and walk the path of balanced development.
However, they neglected one thing: they did not have Imperial Tutor Chang Yuan's great wisdom. They did not have Imperial Tutor Chang Yuan's unparalleled perseverance, and most of all, they did not have Imperial Tutor Chang Yuan's amazing opportunities. In the end, they were all stuck at a bottleneck in cultivation, unable to break through. In the end, they became mediocre and disappeared among the masses.
One must know that in the beginning, there was usually a direction to focus on. By focusing on one direction, it was easy for cultivators to break through to the next realm.
However, if they focused on J directions at the same time, it meant that their resources had to be distributed equally in J directions. At the same time, they had to break through to the next realm in J directions. The difficulty of breaking through in J directions was double or even ten times that of the former.
Geniuses were rare in this world, and the geniuses among geniuses were unparalleled. It was rare to see one in a decade.
However, the rarest thing in this world was to know oneself and one's enemy. Many people thought they knew themselves, but they would subconsciously look up to themselves. If they were thirty percent talented, they would think they were fifty percent talented. If they were fifty percent talented, they would think they were a genius. Those who were talented would think they would one day be a genius who could beat up the Imperial Tutor and kick the Sect Master.
Li Chengfeng's opponent was one of these people. He was a typical person who thought highly of himself.
This cultivator called Zheng Weiran did not have any shortcomings. He could use all kinds of spells and was very familiar with them.
However, his biggest problem was that he did not have enough power to end the battle with one strike!
Li Chengfeng was most afraid of opponents like Grand Senior Sister, Huangfu Song or Shanxue who had enough power to end the battle with one strike no matter what spell they used. Against an opponent like this, Li Chengfeng would not be able to turn the tables no matter what he did.
However, against an opponent like this who could not defeat him quickly, Li Chengfeng would have room to maneuver and a chance to turn the tables. As long as Li Chengfeng was given room to maneuver and a chance to turn the tables … he would use his innate battle talent and strange imagination to show his opponent what it meant to be a genius!
In this battle, everyone could see that Zheng Weiran was indeed stronger than Li Chengfeng. In fact, she was stronger than him in every aspect. She had the upper hand throughout the entire battle, forcing Li Chengfeng to dodge left and right.
But … it was useless. Li Chengfeng relied on his variety of flowers, trees, and his control of the centipede to escape from danger. His methods were often unimaginable and unimaginable.
If it was only once or twice, the crowd could still tell that Li Chengfeng was relying on his talent and intellect to reach his limit. However, after a few times, even an idiot could tell that this was not Li Chengfeng's limit at all. This was just his usual work, and he was using his usual work to 'show off' his opponent!
This battle lasted for an extremely long time, a full two hours, greatly extending the average duration of the third round. From the beginning, Zheng Weiran was full of confidence, until her opponent was gasping for breath, his eyes filled with despair.
However, Li Chengfeng did not reveal any of his' trump cards'. He had been using the same moves he had shown before, constantly relying on his imagination and improvisation to combine them freely. This way, he could either drag out his opponent, or beat them up.
In the end, Li Chengfeng managed to drag Zheng Weiran down. When he was not paying attention, Li Chengfeng took advantage of the fact that his strength and concentration had dropped to wrap a flower vine around his ankle and threw him out of the arena. Li Chengfeng finally won.
When Zheng Weiran fell outside the arena, he collapsed to the ground and could not get up at all. It was not because he was seriously injured, but because … he was too tired!
When cultivators fought, the outcome would often be decided in the shortest amount of time possible. A quarter of an hour was already close to the limit of a battle. Any longer than that, and the cultivator's magic power, Zhenqi, T, and endurance would all be exhausted. If they fought for half an hour, it would be like a marathon, which was extremely rare.
However, Chengfeng Y had dragged Zheng Weiran to fight for four hours …
In the end, the sky turned dark. Even the referee could not hold it in any longer and announced the end of the battle. The remaining disciples who were watching from the sidelines left one after another.
However, some of the cultivators who thought of Li Chengfeng as their opponent stared at him with even more vigilance because they realized something terrifying.
Li Chengfeng seemed to have a trump card. He would rather fight for four hours to drag his opponent down than use a new trump card.
Most importantly, after fighting for four hours, this guy was still calm and composed. He did not look like he was at the end of his rope!