Chapter 333 Rankings and Top Four

"Dean, what you said is true, we have entered the semi-finals!"

In the hall, the disciples looked at Dean Gong with excited expressions and asked aloud.

Dean Gong has just returned from attending the quarter-finals drawing ceremony.

I didn't expect that after coming back, I would directly announce that there would be no competition tomorrow and that I would enter the semi-finals directly.

"Originally, our opponent in the top eight was the Tianxia Taoist Academy of Qinghong Immortal City, a fifth-grade immortal city."

"However, their opponent in the last round was the Jiutian Sword Academy of the Sixth-Rank Immortal City, Tianjian City."

"Although they won in the end, both the disciples and the teachers were consumed too much."

"The injuries of the two coaches are not serious. We have no choice but to give up the competition for the semi-finals, so we directly enter the semi-finals!"

The dean of the palace took a sip of the spiritual tea and spoke to everyone with a slight smile on his face.

"Great, entering the semi-finals, this is the best result for our Taoist academy!"

"Yeah, I thought it would be very difficult to enter the top eight, but I didn't expect that I would be able to enter the top four!"

"I can have one more day of rest tomorrow!"

The five disciples all said with extremely excited expressions.

For them, the quarterfinals were somewhat unexpected.

After all, in the past general academy competitions, Qingyun Immortal City's best result was in the top sixteen.

Entering the quarterfinals this time is considered a historical achievement.

I didn't expect my luck to come, I just lay flat and entered the semi-finals.

Of course, they also knew that the main reason they were able to defeat their opponents this time was due to the strength of the dean and Zhou Ling.

Zhou Ling, in particular, was not only able to defeat his opponents by surprise many times.

It also plays a key role in their tactical arrangements.

It can be said that if it weren't for his extremely accurate analysis, they might have stopped in the second round.

Now it can be said that Zhou Ling's role is greater than that of Dean Gong.

Dean Gong can be said to be the Dinghai Shenzhen in the team, while Zhou Ling is the invincible long sword that charges through the formation.

"Don't be too happy too early. You should hurry up and restore your cultivation. The day after tomorrow, the top four will fight. No matter who the opponent is, it will definitely be a hard fight!"

Dean Palace said with a relaxed expression.

The results this time have been much better than expected.

What kind of results can be achieved in the next battle depends on everyone's performance.

If you can defeat your opponent and enter the finals, that would be the best.

If not, that's acceptable.

Especially this battle allowed her to fully see Zhou Ling's fighting power.

She was even more confident that Zhou Ling could enter the Five Realms Kendo.

In the future, if she and Zhou Ling enter the fifth level of swordsmanship at the same time, the sword academy will be enough to enter the seventh level.

Of course, now she is only one step ahead of the Fourth Realm, and is still far away from the Fifth Realm.

Everyone nodded in agreement, but their expressions still showed some uncontrollable excitement.

"There is another news, you can see it for yourselves!"

The dean of the palace smiled slightly, waved his jade hand, and a shadow jade appeared in his hand.

With the stimulation, a picture is projected.

Zhou Ling looked at the screen with confusion. After all, they entered the semi-finals every day.

This opponent has not yet been determined. If we want to analyze the opponent's situation now, it is obviously too early.

However, as his eyes swept over, Zhou Ling's expression suddenly froze.

It was actually a ranking list.

This is a ranking of the strength of each Immortal City Taoist Academy in this general academy competition.

The first one is Tianxia Taoist Temple in Qingyang Immortal City.

The second is Danding Immortal City Jiutian Sword Academy.

The third is the Nine Immortal City Butian Taoist Temple.

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Qingyun Immortal City Jiutian Sword Academy ranked seventh.

"Our Taoist Academy is ranked seventh, and we will definitely become a fifth-grade Taoist Academy this time!"

Bai Qiu said excitedly.

"This is the ranking just released by Daosi!"

"It's enough to confirm that we can become a fifth-grade Taoist temple."

"If we can win the title this time, we may even directly become a sixth-grade Taoist academy. Then we will have access to the resources of the Taoist Alliance, which will be completely different!"

Dean Palace smiled and said.

"Sixth-grade Taoist Academy!"

Hearing this, the disciples all exclaimed, this was something they had not expected at all.

"You don't have to feel any pressure, just do your best!"

Looking at everyone's expressions, Dean Gong smiled.

“There are other lists too!”

There are two lists at the back, one is the Taoist disciple team list.

The first one is Tianxia Taoist Temple in Qingyang Immortal City.

The second is Danding Immortal City Jiutian Sword Academy.

The third is the Nine Immortal City Butian Taoist Temple.

This time they ranked tenth.

Bai Qiu and others are already very satisfied with this ranking.

After all, the first ten are all Taoist temples of fifth grade or above, and they are the only one who is a fourth-grade Taoist temple.

And the last ranking list is actually the ranking list of combat power below Nascent Soul in Qingyang Immortal Domain, which is beyond everyone's expectation.

The top one is Zhou Ling of the Jiutian Sword Academy of Qingyun Immortal City.

Nine Sword Sect Qixian, second.

Guyun Xiancheng Yun Zhenren, third.

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He Jing, who was defeated by Zhou Ling, ranked thirteenth, and Gao Qi ranked seventh.

"Congratulations to Professor Zhou!"

Looking at the list, the disciples all raised their hands and congratulated Zhou Ling.

"Master, you are so powerful. I will also learn to sword when I go back!"

Weng Lanyue also said excitedly.

"Is this list accurate?"

Zhou Ling scratched his head and said with a rather surprised expression.

Who is so bored to compile these lists?

It is said that people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.

I don't want this false reputation of being fearless.

Especially this kind of ranking list, there is no benefit at all.

It also adds a lot of troubles.

When he returns to Qingyun Fairy City, there may be many people he doesn't know coming to visit.

This will also waste a lot of time.

This is naturally not what he wants to see.

If it was before, he could ignore it.

But now he is the chief of Tiangongsi, and he also needs to pay attention to his reputation.

"This is the ranking within the Dao League, so it is naturally not wrong."

"Of course, even if it is wrong, it is not much different!"

Dean Gong smiled.

"It's true!"

Zhou Ling smiled with a somewhat calm tone.

He hoped that this list would not affect his future life.

It doesn't matter whether he is the first or the hundredth.

After all, when practicing Taoism, there are people who are better than you.

You still have to be humble at all times.

"Don't underestimate this ranking list."

"You are ranked first, which can increase the Taoist Academy's score by 100 points!"

"Other Taoist Academy are trying their best to get on the list!"

Seeing Zhou Ling's indifferent attitude, Dean Gong smiled.

"There is also this benefit!"

"But I am at the foundation building level after all. If I rank first like this, will others think I am cheating?"

Zhou Ling coughed a few times and said modestly.

"Although you are at the peak of the foundation building level, who still regards you as a foundation building cultivator now? Realm is just a means for cultivators to reach the realm, and the real combat power is the most important!"

Dean Gong smiled and said.

He even defeated the Yuanying cultivator. Who dares to regard him as a foundation building cultivator?

The other disciples looked at Zhou Ling with awe.

You should know that Qingyang Immortal Realm is extremely vast, with tens of thousands of Jindan cultivators, but Zhou Ling can rank first.

And he is only at the peak of the foundation building level.

Once he enters the Jindan level, he will soar into the sky.

This combat power is a bit scary to think about.

"Dean, where do you rank?"

Zhou Ling asked curiously again.

Since there is a combat power ranking list below the Yuanying level, I think there will also be a ranking list for Yuanying cultivators.

"This has not been announced."

"But just based on the ranking of these three lists, we can get an extra reward of 200 points!"

Dean Gong smiled.

Hearing this, Zhou Ling looked surprised.

Although Dean Gong has entered the Nascent Soul stage not long ago, with her sword cultivation, her ranking is probably not low.

"Okay, everyone consumed a lot in today's battle. Take these pills and recover well in the next two days!"

Dean Gong waved his hand again, and bottles of pills fell in front of the disciples.

"Thank you, Dean!"

Putting away the pill bottles, everyone bowed to Dean Gong and thanked him.

Then they stood up and left.

This battle consumed a lot, and it will definitely be a hard battle later.

So everyone wants to buy time and speed up recovery.

"Based on the division of our Taoist Academy this time."

"The opponent of our top four the day after tomorrow is very likely to be the Tianxia Taoist Academy in Qingyang Xiancheng, which ranks first."

After the disciples went back, Dean Gong took a sip of spiritual tea and said to Zhou Ling.

In their area, tomorrow there will be another semi-final match between the top-ranked Tianxia Daoyuan of Qingyang Xiancheng and the sixth-ranked Dongyuan Xiancheng, the Butian Daoyuan.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Tianxia Daoyuan of Qingyang Xiancheng will definitely win.

She didn't tell everyone because she was worried that the disciples were too stressed.

Hearing this, Zhou Ling smiled and said, "It has come to this point. No matter who the opponent is, we will go all out!"

Zhou Ling's tone was relaxed.

So far, in the three competitions, everyone in the Sword Academy has performed very well.

It would be best if they can win next.

If not, that would be acceptable.

After all, this time the opponent is the seventh-rank Daoyuan, which is much stronger than them.

It's not that you can make up for it by analyzing some of the opponent's weaknesses.

"This is the situation of the two teachers from Tianxia Dao Academy who participated in the competition this time."

"They are in the middle and early stages of the Nascent Soul respectively."

"Both of them are among the best Taoist wizards in Qingyang Immortal Domain, and they have practiced five or six extremely powerful magics."

"We can only win if we use the Sun, Moon and Five Elements Sword Formation!"

Dean Gong handed a piece of image jade to Zhou Ling and said so.

She has comprehended the Heaven and Earth Sword and has an indomitable sword spirit, so even if she meets a stronger opponent.

She will not admit defeat.

The opponents this time are all extremely powerful. She can deal with one, but not two at the same time.

So she chose to form a sword formation with Zhou Ling to fight against the enemy.

"Okay!"

Zhou Ling took the image jade and nodded.

Then he opened the image jade and looked at it.

It must be said that the opponents of the two this time are indeed powerful.

One is a square-faced burly middle-aged man named Yunxuan, who is in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul and has three spiritual roots of earth-grade gold, wood and fire.

Able to condense three systems of magic domains at the same time, with amazing power.

Another cold and beautiful woman wearing a green robe, named Jin Jinmeng, has the cultivation level of the early stage of the Nascent Soul, and is an extremely rare sword spirit root.

She has also entered the fourth realm of the sword.

Both of them are extremely powerful.

Through the situation of the two people fighting with their opponents on the image jade, Zhou Ling can judge that the strength of the two is not inferior to that of Dean Gong.

In the first three battles, Yunxuan was able to easily defeat his opponents with the help of the magic domain.

And his domain only displayed two attributes, sometimes gold and fire, sometimes gold and wood, but not three attributes at the same time.

But it was still enough to completely suppress the opponent.

It can be seen how powerful the rule domain he mastered is.

And Jin Jinmeng displayed the purple rainbow sword domain, and his sword domain exuded an extremely powerful aura of sword rules.

It formed a strong suppressive force on the opponent.

Although Zhou Ling used [Intermediate Observation] and [Intermediate Analysis] to watch carefully, he did not find any obvious weaknesses of the two for a while.

It can be seen that the skills they practiced and the level of swordsmanship they comprehended were not low.

There were no obvious loopholes.

"Dean, I'll take this image jade back and take a look!"

Zhou Ling said to Dean Gong.

I can only take it back to the room and study it carefully.

Especially Jin Jinmeng's sword domain, he seems to have gained something.

"You don't have to worry too much."

"Generally, when high-level magic is cultivated to perfection, there won't be too many loopholes."

"Also, we form a sword array field and let them break the array, so we can have an advantage!"

"Also, although both of them are geniuses, they have different ways of cultivation, so it is difficult for them to form a magic array to fight against the enemy."

"So we can only fight on our own, which is also an advantage for us!"

Dean Gong said so.

The two of them have similar sword intentions, and the power of the sword array is not just one plus one.

After the sword array is merged, not only the power is greatly improved.

The consumption will also be different.

The advantages in all aspects are also obvious.

In the eyes of Dean Gong, this is also one of their strengths!

"Understood!"

Zhou Ling nodded.

The Sun and Moon Five Elements Sword Array is a fourth-level middle-grade sword array, and Dean Gong has also comprehended the Heaven and Earth Sword Intent.

This kind of sword array is used in conjunction with the Heaven and Earth Sword Domain, and its power cannot be underestimated.

After putting away the Shadow Jade and the Pill Bottle, Zhou Ling left the hall.

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The top four matches of the headquarters competition came as scheduled.

As expected by Dean Gong, Zhou Ling and his team met the strongest opponent, the Qingyang Immortal City Tianxia Daoyuan, which ranked first.

"Teacher Zhou is really a young talent!"

On the competition stage, after the four teachers greeted each other, the burly Yun Xuan smiled at Zhou Ling.

It is really hard to imagine that Zhou Ling has such fighting power at such a young age.

"Teacher Yun, you are too kind!"

Zhou Ling bowed and replied with a relaxed look.

After resting for two days, all aspects of his body have been fully restored except for the blood and essence in his body.

And by carefully studying the opponent's image jade, he also found some relative weaknesses.

So at this moment, he is also full of fighting spirit.

At the same time, in yesterday's discussion, he also roughly analyzed the situation of this opponent.

As for whether Jin Sheng and his team can defeat the opponent, it depends on their strength.

"The Jiutian Sword Academy of Qingyun Immortal City actually made it to the semi-finals!"

"Lucky, their opponent in the quarter-finals consumed too much energy and was injured, so they had to withdraw!"

"This luck is too good, they made it directly to the semi-finals!"

"It will be the same if they meet the Tianxia Dao Academy of Qingyang Immortal City, they will definitely lose!"

"Can the semi-finals be the same as the semi-finals?"

"What luck? Their luck is also part of their strength!"

In the square, the audience was also discussing happily.