Chapter 33 Drawing Lots
After Daoxuan squinted his eyes and looked at Su Changqing, the other leaders of Qingyun Sect also came one after another. They looked at Shui Qilin in surprise, not understanding what had happened.

A group of disciples were so frightened that they stood there in shock, and some even fell to the ground and remained in a daze for a long time.

Taoist Cangsong quickly came to his senses, and immediately walked to Daoxuan’s side and said to him: “Master Brother, it is not appropriate for our disciples to stay here for long.”

“Well, take them to Yuqing Palace first. I’ll go ask Ling Zun why he’s suddenly become restless.”

Daoxuan came to his senses, collected his thoughts, glanced sideways at the pine tree beside him, then turned around and flew towards the water unicorn.

“Everyone, Ling Zun was just testing your character. Don’t be nervous or worried. He won’t really hurt you. Now, the disciples who are going to participate in the martial arts competition, please follow me to Yuqing Palace.”

Cangsong turned around and spoke loudly to all the disciples.

The group of disciples responded in unison and restored the original order. Su Changqing also rejoined the team, secretly praising him in his heart for being a real Taoist master with such quick reaction ability.

It was clearly the Water Qilin that suddenly attacked, but it could be said to be a test of one’s character.

Of course, this matter had been decided and had nothing to do with Su Changqing. Following the crowd, Su Changqing came to the Yuqing Palace for the third time.

A green light flashed, and the sect leader Daoxuan Zhenren followed closely behind the crowd, flew in and sat down in the main seat, followed by several chief monks who also took their seats.

“Everyone, you are all the outstanding geniuses of our Qingyun Sect. Since our Qingyun Sect was founded, it has gone through a thousand years of development and has now become the leader of the righteous path. In order to inspire the disciples, our sect’s founder specially passed down the grand event of the ‘Seven Sects Martial Competition’. To date, there have been exactly fifty sessions.”

Afterwards, Master Cangsong explained the important rules of the Seven Clans Martial Competition to all the disciples one by one. Moreover, there was a huge change in this Seven Clans Martial Competition, that is, the number of participants had increased.

There were a total of sixty-four participants, with nine people from each of the seven branches of the Qingyun Sect, and one more from the Changmen sect. However, because there were only seven disciples from the Dazhu Peak plus Tian Ling’er, there was one less person.

The tournament adopted was an elimination system, one against six four, two against six three, and so on. Since there was no contestant number sixty-four, the lucky one who drew number one could directly skip the first round of competition.

“Okay, now everyone please come forward and draw lots.”

Following an order, a group of disciples lined up and began to draw lots from the wooden box. In order to prevent anyone from doing anything strange, the wooden box was encrypted with a formation.

However, this did not pose any difficulty for Su Changqing. With the blessing of his extraordinary comprehension, he had a deep understanding of formations. He could easily break through this small formation.

But with so many people watching, he didn’t want to be exposed, so he chose another way to change the pattern of this competition.

“You’ll pick number 12 for me later, understand?”

When it was Su Changqing’s turn to draw the lot, he whispered a reminder to the little dragon snake on his arm.

That’s right!

His method was to let the little dragon snake reach into the wooden box and draw lots for him.

He chose number 12, which he had planned in advance. It was not because it was his lucky number, but because number 53 was facing number 12, who was a disciple of Feng Hui Peak who was also at the foundation-building stage. It would be much easier for him to face him in the first match.

Successfully entering the second round means that I have lived up to the expectations of my master. Then I can choose a stronger opponent to defeat, and this Seven Clans Martial Arts Competition will be a complete success.

As for why you didn’t just choose number one, it was prepared for Zhang Xiaofan.

“Hiss!” The little dragon snake responded softly to Su Changqing, then stretched out its head to explore inside. Su Changqing pretended to be very conflicted to cover for it.

Su Changqing’s self-righteous cleverness caught the attention of the group of leaders sitting at the top. Seeing him cheating in front of them, several leaders frowned slightly.

Cangsong stood up and was about to stop Su Changqing from doing this, but Daoxuan stopped him.

“No need, let’s take a look first.”

Daoxuan looked at Cangsong and smiled, signaling him not to disturb Su Changqing.

Since the head martial brother said so, the others did not delve into the matter. As far as a draw of lots was concerned, it would not have much impact on the overall direction of the Seven Clans Martial Arts Competition.

“You little disciple are not honest!”

Daoxuan chuckled and spoke to Shuiyue through voice transmission.

Shuiyue did not reply, but just held her forehead and looked at Su Changqing. She had a premonition that her little disciple would not be able to stay at peace in this Seven Clans Martial Competition. He was already thinking of cheating in the first round of drawing lots, and there would be a high possibility of causing a big commotion later.

Lu Xueqi, who was standing next to Shuiyue, looked at Su Changqing pretending to be conflicted while protecting the little snake. Little did she know that the scene in the small wooden box had been seen by everyone. She couldn’t help but smile with her hands covering her mouth.

This little junior brother is really interesting.

Su Changqing had no idea that the people above were watching him cheat. A few seconds later, he reached out his hand, opened the note and saw that it was indeed the number 12 that he wanted.

“Ah, I’m number twenty-six!”

“I’m number 33, what’s your number?”

“I drew number 53. I wonder who my opponent will be? But like me, he also broke through to the first stage of foundation building not long ago?”

Hearing this, Su Changqing patted his number twelve with satisfaction.

Of course, he had just broken through and established his foundation not long ago!
After that, the disciple who drew number one was selected. As expected, according to the development of the story, it was Zhang Xiaofan who drew this lot. No one could have guessed this result.

Immediately afterwards, Taoist Master Daoxuan walked to the front of the stage again and said some words to encourage everyone.

“In order to encourage the disciples of each sect to fight for a higher rank, I have discussed with the chief elders and decided that starting from this ‘Seven Sects Martial Competition’, the top four winners will be given some rewards. Among them, the disciple who wins the championship will receive the most generous reward, which is our sect’s treasure ‘Six-in-one Mirror’.”

After Taoist Master Daoxuan finished speaking, there was a burst of cheers and commotion among the Qingyun disciples. They all imagined the moment when they would win first place, attract countless gazes, and obtain the ultimate treasure.

“The ‘Liuhe Mirror’ is quite good. It would be nice if I could get this treasure without having to compete with the ranking.”

On the other hand, Su Changqing still looked indifferent, his biggest thought was the ‘Six Harmonies Mirror’ mentioned by Daoxuan. Now his martial arts practice was making steady progress.

The only thing missing is the magic weapon. Except for the ‘Qingfeng’ given by the senior sister a few days ago, the rest are ordinary items of Qingyun Sect. This is a big problem.

Therefore, Su Changqing wanted to end the Seven Clans Martial Competition as soon as possible, and then ask Master Shuiyue for permission to go down the mountain to search for his destined magic weapon.

(End of this chapter)