“Fellow Daoists, Senior Barefoot Immortal has announced the formal start of the Genius Convention just now. Now, let’s begin the first martial arts competition. Please enter the arena.”

One of the four judges stood out. Qin Feng had seen this person before. It was Jiang Feiyan, the City Lord of Jiangcheng City, the first city in Beisha Continent. The lightning tribulation had led him to Spirit Immortal Kingdom a while ago.

Jiang Feiyan’s status in Beisha Continent was extremely high. When he stood up, there was a lot of discussion below the stage.

Quite a few cultivators jumped onto the platform. They were all cultivators participating in the Genius Convention. However, some of them had just arrived at the edge of the platform when they were sent flying by an invisible wave of Qi.

Qin Feng was stunned for a moment. He didn’t know what was going on, but he quickly understood that those cultivators who had been sent flying should not even have jade tokens to participate in the competition. They wanted to muddle through. Thinking of this, Qin Feng leapt up and landed steadily on the round platform. It seemed that his previous guess was not wrong.

At this moment, tens of thousands of cultivators had already landed on the stage. It could be seen that the competition for this genius conference was extremely intense. However, the genius chosen by the conference was Beisha Continent’s number one genius. It was not surprising that there was such a formation.

Qin Feng simply swept his gaze around, but he saw many familiar faces in the crowd. A few of them were cultivators who had broken through the Nine Dragons Formation with him on the Fallen God Sea Island, as well as some of the disciples who were currently cooperating with the China Chamber of Commerce.

Seeing all the participating cultivators on stage, Jiang Feiyan continued, “The genius conference in Binji Square has been held for a long time. However, considering that there are new forces joining each year, I will briefly explain the rules of the competition …”

“There are three competitions in the tournament. The Martial Arts Club, the Pill Refining Club and the Array Club. Each round of the tournament is an elimination system. The average score of the total contestants will be used as the standard for elimination. In the final round, the top 50 genius cultivators of Beisha Continent will be selected according to the total score of the three rounds.”

After a brief introduction, Qin Feng had already understood the process of the Genius Conference. He was still very confident in his own strength. It wasn’t a problem to win Beisha Continent’s top ten days. However, the reason why he participated in the Genius Conference was because of the reward of first place. If he didn’t win the championship in the end, it wouldn’t be meaningful even if he got the title of Beisha Continent’s top ten geniuses.

After the introduction of the rules of the competition, the first round of the martial arts training meeting officially began.

Because there were too many cultivators participating in the competition, there was also a system of elimination on the spot. Each cultivator had three chances to compete. As long as they failed in any round, they would be eliminated. Qin Feng calculated that this elimination system was already very cruel. Even if there were 10,000 cultivators participating in the martial arts training meeting, after the three matches ended, only 1,250 cultivators would be left to enter the scoring system.

However, the rules of the competition were cruel. Qin Feng did not care too much. After all, the genius conference held in Binji Square had restricted the age of participants. Only young cultivators under the age of 50 were eligible to register. In this age range, Qin Feng’s current cultivation was already considered one of the top.

On the large square, the participating cultivators were drawing lots to determine their opponents. Qin Feng glanced at the bamboo slip in his hand, on it was written the Blazing Fire Sect disciple Zheng Xun. Every contestant had to report their sect information, and Qin Feng had to report Spirit Immortal Kingdom’s name.

When Qin Feng saw the words “Blaze Sect”, he was amused. He learned from Zheng Yang that the Blaze Sect had only won three spots in the competition this time. He did not expect that one of the ten thousand cultivators would happen to be caught by him.

The large square had long since been separated by formations into tens of thousands of small martial arenas. Every martial arena was blocked by trapping formations, so the fighting inside would not interfere with other cultivators.

When Qin Feng jumped into one of the martial arenas, he couldn’t help but exclaim in his heart. This plaza was vast and boundless, yet someone had set up such a powerful tens of thousands of trap formations. Moreover, these trap formations seemed to be separated from each other, but they were a whole. This was at least a Grade Nine grand formation.

As for Qin Feng, he heard that Beisha Continent’s most powerful array mage was only a rank 5 spirit formation master. Then how did such a formation that was comparable to a rank 9 array come about?

“Haha! You’re unlucky. I’ve met you. I’ll give you a chance to beg for mercy. As long as you kneel on the ground and kowtow three times before retreating from the competition, I won’t make a move.”

Before Qin Feng could figure out the origin of the formation in front of him, an arrogant and strange laughter sounded in his ears.

Looking up, it turned out to be the disciple of the Blazing Fire Sect. However, Qin Feng had already realized that the other party was not a disciple of the Blazing Fire Sect. Judging from his age, he was most likely a young elder of the Blazing Fire Sect.

“You haven’t passed 50?” Qin Feng was somewhat puzzled. The other party’s face was covered in wrinkles, and his hair was grey. Judging from his appearance alone, he was probably sixty years old. How did he participate in the competition?

Zheng Xun’s face darkened as he spat out an aura from his nostrils, “You ignorant child, this old man is only 49 years old this year. He just happened to meet the age limit of the Genius Convention.”

Qin Feng suddenly came to a realization. It wasn’t that the Binji Market secretly released water, but that the cultivator in front of him seemed to have aged. He had experienced sixty years of vicissitudes in less than fifty years. At the same time, Qin Feng quickly checked his opponent’s cultivation. He should have just stepped into the Three Transformations of Buddhist Light. Qin Feng did not place such strength in his eyes at all.

“Speaking of the Blazing Fire Sect, I still have some stories to tell your sect.” Qin Feng said.

Zheng Xun’s expression was cold and arrogant, “Hmph! Don’t get too close to me. I’ve already said it very clearly. Either kneel down and kowtow to withdraw from the competition, or I’ll cripple you. Choose for yourself.”

Qin Feng was stunned for a moment. He quickly realized that the other party had misunderstood his intentions. He couldn’t help but laugh and say, “I’m not trying to get close. Rather, I have a conflict with your Blazing Fire Sect. Not long ago, I killed a disciple of your sect named Zheng Yang. Now, I’ll give you a chance to take revenge. It depends on your strength.”

This time, it was Zheng Xun’s turn to be stunned. When he regained his senses, he let out a strange cry, “I’m still curious why I didn’t see Zheng Yang’s figure and was actually harmed by you … You ignorant ant ant, this old man wants to use your blood to show the might of the Blazing Fire Sect.”

“Look at the sword!”

Swoosh!

The sound of the sword rose. Zheng Xun merged his fingers and struck forward. A streak of sword light flew out, and the sword light was swift and violent. In a flash, it rushed in front of Qin Feng.

There were quite a few onlookers below the stage. The crowd who saw this scene cried out in alarm, as if they had seen Qin Feng being instantly killed. Even Zhang Cocoa and Xiao Li were worried that Zheng Xun’s flying sword was too fast.

“I know that old man. Although he looks to be in his sixties, he is actually only 49 years old this year, just in time for this year’s Genius Convention. He is the Little Elder of the Blazing Fire Sect, Zheng Xun, an expert of the Three Transformations of Buddha Light. It would be unlucky for that young man to draw him.”

“That youth didn’t look like he was thirty, but he encountered a 50-year-old opponent. The genius conference held in Binji City wasn’t that fair either.”

“Empyrean Mainland is always respected by the strong. How can there be any fairness or injustice? As long as your fist is strong enough, what you say is the truth.”

“I’m sure that brat won’t be able to withstand this blow. It’s not bad to survive.”