No hope for eternal life

Chapter 361: Challenge the City Lord

Although Mu Changsheng thought that getting the first place in the Foundation Establishment Realm of the Four Nations Martial Arts Competition would be a piece of cake, there was no guarantee that the Dragon Palace spirit that controlled the illusion would not cause any trouble. Therefore, Mu Changsheng had to make adequate preparations in the two months before the Four Nations Martial Arts Competition began.

Mu Changsheng once again used the method of refining talismans to earn spirit stones. It only took him ten days to earn tens of millions of low-grade spirit stones. This was because Mu Changsheng, who was at the peak of the foundation-building stage, could refine third-grade talismans across borders, so his efficiency in earning spirit stones became much higher.

Then, Mu Changsheng used spirit stones to buy various spiritual materials. He wanted to go through the path of body and strength training again.

With sufficient resources, Mu Changsheng took only one month to break through his body and strength refining realms to the Thunder Flower Realm and Ten Dragon Elephant Realm respectively. Both realms correspond to the Golden Core Realm cultivation.

In other words, although Mu Changsheng is still at the Foundation Establishment Stage, his magic power and physical body are enough to challenge the Golden Core Stage cultivators.

To be extra safe, Mu Changsheng refined a large number of third-grade talismans.

When Mu Changsheng had prepared all this, the Four Nations Martial Arts Competition was about to begin, and the city lord specially took Mu Changsheng and a Jindan realm cultivator to the capital.

After arriving at the capital, Mu Changsheng also met the king of Kongshi Kingdom.

"Spirit Transformation Realm." Mu Changsheng said in his heart, and judged the cultivation level of the Lord of Kongshi Country. Although his strength was greatly reduced in the illusion, his vision and senses were still there. He could judge everyone's cultivation level based on the general feeling. For example, the city lord was in the Nascent Soul Realm, and the king was in the Spirit Transformation Realm.

There are a total of nine counties in Kongshi Kingdom. The lord of each county city brought a foundation-building cultivator and a golden elixir cultivator to select candidates to participate in the Four Nations Martial Arts Competition.

Before Mu Changsheng can participate in the Four-Nation Martial Arts Competition, he must first defeat the nine representatives sent by the other eight counties and the capital.

After nine competitions, Mu Changsheng defeated his opponents with overwhelming force. He didn't even use talismans. With the help of strength and body training, he seemed to have great power and no one could block his punch.

The Lord Konghou praised Mu Changsheng's amazing performance and promised: "As long as you can win the Four Nations Martial Arts Competition, I will reward you with a million mid-grade spirit stones and a Nine-transformation Golden Pill."

"I will go through fire and water to repay my country's kindness." Mu Changsheng showed a look of gratitude.

Afterwards, Lord Konghou led a group of people to the site of the Four Nations Martial Arts Competition.

The rules of the so-called Four-Nation Martial Arts Competition are actually very simple. Each country sends out one Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator and one Golden Core Realm cultivator. The four Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators fight in a melee, and the four Golden Core Realm cultivators fight in a melee. The two who survive to the end are the winners.

One winner represents 50% of the profits, and whichever country the winner belongs to will get the corresponding profits.

Soon, Mu Changsheng and his three opponents all stepped onto the stage.

But as soon as the competition started, the trend was not right. The other three people actually chose to join forces to deal with Mu Changsheng in a very tacit understanding. Among these three people, one was good at physical training and defense, and he stood in front of Mu Changsheng. One was good at attacking with a sword, and he kept waving sword energy to attack Mu Changsheng. Another one was an array master who was good at trapping. He kept setting up arrays, trying to trap Mu Changsheng.

"This fourth test is really not that simple." Mu Changsheng had a slight smile on his face. He didn't know whether it was intentional by the spirit of the Dragon Palace, or the intelligence work of the Kongshi Kingdom was too poor, letting the other three countries know that he was the biggest threat, so they wanted to join forces to get rid of him first.

However, this was not a problem for Mu Changsheng. In his eyes, the combined forces of the other three were just like children playing.

Mu Changsheng used the spirit talisman to bless himself and displayed his divine power. With three punches and two kicks, he killed the body cultivator who was blocking his way. In terms of boxing and kicking skills alone, the opponent was already inferior to him, not to mention the difference in strength.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng withstood the combined attacks of the opponent's sword cultivator and formation master, and used his absolute strength to kill the remaining two people in succession, successfully winning.

When Mu Changsheng won, the voice of the Dragon Palace Spirit appeared again. This time the reward increased to about 800 top-grade spirit stones, but Mu Changsheng was still not satisfied. He chose to continue to the next test.

The spirit of the Dragon Palace also immediately conveyed the content of the fifth test to Mu Changsheng: "Become the lord of a county within six months."

"Be the city lord?" Mu Changsheng pondered. In this fantasy world, there were constant wars and the strong were respected. It was actually very simple to replace a county city lord. Almost all countries had regulations in their laws that as long as one could defeat a certain official, he could replace his position, and the county city lord was no exception.

"As long as my cultivation can reach the peak of the Golden Core, defeating a city lord in the Nascent Soul Realm will not be a difficult task." Mu Changsheng thought to himself. With the Nine-Turn Golden Core, breaking through to the Golden Core Realm would not be a problem. The only thing he lacked was the Golden-Patterned Fruit. He needed to use the Golden-Patterned Fruit to quickly break through to the peak of the Golden Core.

After the Four-Nation Martial Arts Competition, Kongshi Kingdom gained considerable benefits as the winner. The ruler of Kongshi Kingdom, Kong Hou, also fulfilled his previous promise and gave Mu Changsheng one million mid-grade spirit stones and Nine-Transformation Golden Pills. He also kept Mu Changsheng in the capital and conferred him the position of a thousand-householder of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, so that he could get a considerable salary every year without doing any work.

Afterwards, the group returned to the capital of Kongshi Kingdom. It was more convenient to buy golden-patterned fruits in the capital. Mu Changsheng spent 300,000 medium-grade spirit stones to buy three golden-patterned flowers, and his cultivation level broke through to the peak of the golden elixir.

After achieving his cultivation level, Mu Changsheng began to refine his strength and body until both reached the peak of the Golden Core stage. There was only one month left in the six months, and it was unlikely to break through to the Nascent Soul stage in both body and strength refining.

In this case, if Mu Changsheng wants to cross the border to deal with the Nascent Soul cultivator, he can only use the means of formation and talismans.

Therefore, Mu Changsheng used all the remaining spirit stones to purchase various spiritual materials and refined a large number of fourth-grade talismans and formation plates.

After everything was ready, Mu Changsheng used his identity as a captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the nine city lords. Naturally, he would choose the weakest one among them to challenge.

After investigation, it was found that the nine city lords were not easy to deal with. Among them, the weakest one, Mianyang City Lord Gan Wencui, also had the cultivation level of the middle Nascent Soul stage.

After selecting the target, Mu Changsheng found the king Kong Hou and asked to challenge Mianyang City Lord Gan Wencui.

Kong Hou frowned slightly, thinking that Mu Changsheng was a little arrogant, but he still comforted him: "You are young and successful. It is good to have ambitions, but you are still far from challenging the city lord. You should concentrate on your cultivation. When you break through to the Nascent Soul stage, I will open another county just for you and let you be the city lord."

Mu Changsheng also knew that his rise was too fast, and even a little abnormal in the eyes of outsiders, but the mission was imminent, so he could only bite the bullet and go ahead: "Your Majesty, please help me. I am obsessed with fighting in my life. I just want to compete with the strong. Even if I die in the competition, I will accept it."

Mu Changsheng said this in order to portray himself as a martial arts fanatic in order to alleviate some of the other party's suspicions.

"Well, I will summon Gan Wencui to the capital immediately so that you two can have a competition and understand the gap between you two." The king Konghou agreed to Mu Changsheng's request.

One day later, Gan Wencui, Lord of Mianyang City, rushed to the capital, and the competition between the two began soon under the witness of Lord Konghou.

Gan Wencui is a body-refining cultivator, and his body-refining realm has definitely reached the Nascent Soul Realm, which can easily crush most of the Golden Core Realm cultivators.