No hope for eternal life

Chapter 184 Selecting Secret Techniques

"It's such a waste." Mu Changsheng thought to himself, smacking his lips in amazement. He remembered the battle in which Jiang Yuheng once suppressed him with the Frost Talisman.

There is no need to say much about the battle on Muxun's side. With his full strength, it is no problem for him to continue to hold on.

Hu Pingzhi, as the face of the Shenhu Kingdom in this Jindan Realm Prodigy Contest, is extremely powerful. Moreover, he has also practiced body refining. Even after being hit by the attack of the Deep Purple Spirit Puppet, he was fine.

Just like that, even ten deep purple spirit puppets were unable to force the four people to escape from the cave. Half an hour later, the number of deep purple spirit puppets increased to fifteen.

Among the four, Hu Pingzhi was the first to withdraw after persisting for about half a minute.

When Hu Pingzhi came out, he quickly noticed the situation of Zhuang Beihai and the other two, and couldn't help but frowned slightly. He originally thought he could get the first place, but he didn't expect that he was only the fourth.

After Hu Pingzhi, Mu Xun was the second one to come out, and his reaction was similar to Hu Pingzhi.

Next came Zhuang Beihai. He was not a physical cultivator, so he wisely withdrew after feeling the strain. Seeing Ji Leyao still insisting, he felt helpless. After all, Master Fu Hai's tactics were somewhat unreasonable.

After a while, Ji Leyao, feeling relaxed, took the initiative to leave the cave. She felt that she should have secured the first place. After coming out, she found that there was no one in the cave.

The silent Guardian gave the ranking list at the right time, and a subtitle written by spiritual power appeared above everyone's head:

First place: Ji Leyao, two hours and two hundred and fifty-seven breaths.

Second place: Zhuang Beihai, two hours and two hundred and twenty-three breaths.

Third place: Mu Xun, two hours and one hundred and ninety-one breaths.

Fourth place: Hu Pingzhi, two hours and one hundred and thirty-six breaths.

Fifth place: Mu Changsheng, one hour and five hundred and fifteen breaths.

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Mu Changsheng looked up at the ranking and had a rough idea of ​​the strength of Ji Leyao and the other three in his mind. There was no doubt that these four would be his strong rivals in advancing to the top three.

After giving Ji Leyao the prize, Hu Tiandu said, "The first fifty will follow me to the fourth floor, and the rest will go back to the second floor and wait."

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng and others followed Hu Tiandu to the fourth floor. Compared with the spaciousness of the first and third floors, there were ten stone tablets standing on this floor, and each stone tablet was engraved with a lot of information.

"Each stone tablet seems to record a secret technique." Mu Changsheng thought to himself after observing carefully.

The next words of Hu Tiandu verified Mu Changsheng's guess: "As you can see, each of the ten stone tablets records a secret technique. These ten secret techniques have been carefully selected. The possibility that you have practiced them is almost zero. If someone has really practiced them, it can only be said that person has better luck."

"This time, the competition will select the top 20. You have already demonstrated your strength in the previous competitions on the first and third floors, so this time we will no longer compete in strength, but in understanding and wisdom, because temporary strength is not trustworthy. Only understanding and wisdom can make a person's future more promising."

"The power of the ten secret arts varies, and the secret arts only have the first three levels, which can only be cultivated to the Golden Core Realm. You must selectively cultivate among these ten secret arts, and the cultivation time is only three days. After three days, you will use the secret art you have cultivated to ring the Hun Tian Bell again, and the ranking will be determined by the number of rings."

"Practicing secret arts?" Mu Changsheng frowned when he heard this. He had not practiced many secret arts before. His luck this time was obviously not very good. It was possible that he would fall out of the top 20 if he was not careful.

Tian Hu continued, "I will be the supervisor. You can practice secret techniques at will during this process, but you cannot exchange ideas or communicate with each other. You are not allowed to use voice transmission. Don't think that I can't detect your voice transmission. If you violate the rules, you will be disqualified from the meeting and will never be hired by the Shenhu Nation. In addition, the first prize is still one thousand high-grade spirit stones."

"Timing begins!"

Following an order from Hutiandu, everyone quickly dispersed and gathered around the ten stone tablets to observe, hoping to see which secret technique was more powerful.

Mu Changsheng was no exception. He discovered the differences between the ten secret techniques through observation.

But the result was nothing. These ten secret techniques didn't even have names, only methods of practicing them. It was really hard to tell which one was better or worse.

"The best way is to practice all ten secret techniques, and then we can know the strength by comparison. However, it is almost impossible to achieve this goal within three days." Mu Changsheng kept calculating in his mind.

"Or, as a second best option, practice the first level of each secret technique once and use them as a comparison."

Mu Changsheng thought about it, and quickly overturned his idea, because he thought of a possibility: "Some secret techniques are not strong in the early stage, and only start to work later. If you only compare them through the first level of secret techniques, you may make a wrong choice."

Mu Changsheng began to carefully recall what Hutian had said before. This level not only tests comprehension, but also wisdom. The test of wisdom should be reflected in the choice of secret techniques.

"How can I choose to experience wisdom?" Mu Changsheng pondered deeply and tried to put himself into the thinking of Hutiandu.

"To put it bluntly, the purpose of this gathering of geniuses is to attract potential foreign cultivators. In order to win over cultivators, one must demonstrate one's own foundation and strength. Perhaps this competition is also to showcase the foundation of the Shenhu Nation. Among these ten secret techniques, there is one or several extremely advanced techniques, which are designed to make the cultivators who have practiced them love them, thus achieving the purpose of winning them over." Mu Changsheng's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he roughly knew what to choose.

"Number the ten secret arts. Number one, three, seven, and ten are all fire secret arts. Number two is water secret art. Number four and eight are gold secret art. Number five and six are earth secret art. Number nine is wind secret art." Mu Changsheng silently numbered the ten secret arts in his mind.

But how to identify the advanced secret techniques is also a problem. However, Mu Changsheng has practiced the Nine Transformations of the Physical Body Secret Technique and has some understanding of the characteristics of high-level secret techniques.

“In addition to the secret techniques themselves, high-level secret techniques also contain the cultivation instructions and insights left behind by the founders of the secret techniques. Because they have spent a lot of effort to create these secret techniques, they naturally don’t want to let them be buried easily.” Mu Changsheng thought to himself. The Nine Transformations of the Physical Body secret technique he practiced contained a lot of guidance from Dao Ling, which helped him a lot.

Mu Changsheng temporarily ruled out the four secret techniques, number one, number four, number six and number nine, because there was no guidance in those four techniques.

But just eliminating four secret techniques is not enough. Mu Changsheng cannot practice all the remaining six secret techniques within three days.

"Secret technique number three can also be ruled out. According to the description of this secret technique, a fire seed needs to be nurtured in the Dantian. As the nurturing time increases, the power of the secret technique performed by the fire seed becomes stronger. However, we only have three days, and we cannot breed a powerful fire seed. Perhaps this secret technique itself is very clever, but it is more like a specially set trap." Mu Changsheng roughly ruled out another secret technique.

There are still five secret arts left. Mu Changsheng thought about it and couldn't think of any other screening criteria. In the end, he could only come up with a solution that was not a solution: "Water and earth secret arts are mostly not good at attacking, so let's use this to eliminate secret arts number two and five."