Furthermore, not everyone’s magical treasure is like the Double Fire Ring, where the Mother Ring can absorb not-so-strong magical power to gather and mobilize Fire Attribute Spiritual Qi, allowing the Child Ring to unleash a powerful attack.

Lu Jiakang had already been fiercely battling for a long time before, and at this moment, after deploying his magical treasure, he clearly felt that his magical power had been greatly depleted.

In the next moment, both Lu Jiakang and Gu Guanlin simultaneously waved their hands.

A silver dart and a short saber each flew out, shooting towards the opponent.

A silver and a red magical aura fiercely collided in mid-air!

In the next moment, they suddenly crossed paths and then charged out again.

The short saber with red aura flew towards Lu Jiakang, heavily striking the protective shield formed by his shield in front of him.

The shield shattered, yet was blocked by the shield inside!

On the other side, the silver dart also hit the talisman protective shield in front of Gu Guanlin, striking heavily against him.

Sending Gu Guanlin’s body heavily staggering backward!

But what amazed everyone was that Gu Guanlin appeared unscathed.

"This person is wearing armor!"

Soon, everyone discovered the reason.

Under the magical power wave of the silver dart, Gu Guanlin’s outer robe shattered.

Revealing a piece of metallic armor on his body.

This armor was evidently not an ordinary item; it remained unharmed under the strike of the silver dart.

At this moment, Gu Guanlin’s face showed a trace of a cold smile.

He suddenly raised his hands, and a short cone appeared in his hand.

In the next moment, several bolts of lightning were released from it, crashing down towards Lu Jiakang.

"Thunder Technique, this person actually has an Anomalous Spirit Root like the Thunder Spirit Root!" 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Seeing Gu Guanlin’s attack, everyone in the Jiuhua Sect changed their expressions.

Lu Jiakang’s expression also changed slightly while facing it; at this moment, he no longer had the magical power to continue wielding the shield magical treasure in his hand.

However, with lightning attacking from all directions, even if he wanted to directly block it with the shield, he couldn’t.

He could only use an ordinary magical artifact to condense a protective shield.

However, such a magical power shield couldn’t withstand Gu Guanlin’s Thunder Attribute attack.

When the magical power shield outside Lu Jiakang’s body was broken for the third time, a Thunder Technique heavily struck him.

"Pfft!"

Lu Jiakang’s whole body trembled, and immediately a stream of blood spurted out.

His face turned deathly pale.

Clearly, this strike had already seriously injured him.

At this moment, Lu Jiakang still refused to admit defeat; he raised his magical artifact, intending to launch another attack.

"In this match, the Jiuhua Sect admits defeat!"

At that moment, Yu Changge stood up and said in a deep voice.

In the next moment, his figure flashed, already entering the magical power restriction.

Yet at this moment, another Thunder Technique from Gu Guanlin was already striking towards Lu Jiakang.

Yu Changge waved his hand, and the Thunder Technique instantly disappeared in mid-air.

His gaze was also cold as he glanced at Gu Guanlin.

The latter had a somewhat embarrassed look on his face.

"I lost control for a moment."

Yu Changge said no more, taking Lu Jiakang out of the restriction.

Within the arena, there wasn’t much noise at this moment.

Lu Jiakang was the highest in realm among the three of Jiuhua Sect, and he carried two magical treasures, yet still lost in this Magical Combat.

This undoubtedly took the disciples of Jiuhua Sect by surprise, leaving everyone somewhat silent.

Gu Guanlin was not the highest in cultivation among the three from Daluo Sect.

The highest in cultivation among the three was Ao Xuan!

Now, the highest in realm from Jiuhua Sect, Lu Jiakang, faced Gu Guanlin from Daluo Sect, who wasn’t the highest in cultivation, yet he was defeated.

In the first round of three matches, Jiuhua Sect only won one, casting a shadow over their potential victory that day.

Yu Changge returned to the high platform with Lu Jiakang.

"Two junior brothers, it seems I was incompetent and dragged you down."

Lu Jiakang, at this moment, gave a bitter smile to Chu Ning and Yuan Rongzhang, his tone full of guilt.

Chu Ning and Yuan Rongzhang had the intention to move forward and offer some comfort.

However, at this moment, Elder Peng had already stepped forward and said:

"Sect Leader Yu, according to the rules, we need to isolate this nephew, as he has just seen the Nine Luo Refining Essence Method."

Yu Changge nodded, took out an elixir and handed it to Lu Jiakang, then returned to the main seat on his own.

The white-haired Elder Peng then called Lu Jiakang and Gu Guanlin to one side.

Several witnesses acted simultaneously, placing a restriction of isolation on each of them.

This way, while Lu Jiakang and Gu Guanlin could still hear the outside world’s sounds, they could not communicate with it.

"Now proceeding to the second round of the competition!"

With these words spoken by Elder Peng, Yuan Rongzhang, originally standing beside Chu Ning, stepped forward.

On the other side, Leng Daichun from the Daluo Sect also stepped forward.

"The remaining two are both Intermediate Upper Grade Pill Formulas, please let Fellow Daoist Jia draw one."

At this point, Elder Peng took out two pill formulas for the Golden Core Female Cultivator to draw from.

Afterward, the pill formulas were copied onto two jade scrolls, and after being reviewed and confirmed by Yu Changge and Ao Langtian,

they were handed over to Yuan Rongzhang and Leng Daichun.

The two immediately took the pill formulas and spirit medicine, flew up, and landed on the alchemy platform in the arena.

At this moment, Chu Ning sat on the high platform, observing the expressions of the two on the alchemy platform.

Upon seeing their expressions unusually calm, without much fluctuation, he couldn’t help but murmur internally.

"It seems these two should both be able to refine Middle Tier Upper Grade Elixirs."

Thinking of this, Chu Ning’s brow lightly lifted.

In this round of three matches, Yuan Rongzhang’s greatest chance of winning should be in the alchemy contest.

After all, it’s not known that Yuan Rongzhang has had much contact with artifact refining.

And as for the Daluo Sect, having proposed this method of competition, it’s likely all three have some involvement in alchemy and artifact refining.

It’s just a matter of the depth of their skills.

Therefore, Yuan Rongzhang’s odds are small.

As for Magical Combat, considering that Yuan Rongzhang is only at the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, whereas Leng Daichun is at the Late Stage,

winning would be even more challenging.

Fortunately, over the past few years, Chu Ning had come to understand that Yuan Rongzhang had made significant progress in alchemy.

Approaching the refinement of a new Intermediate Upper Grade Elixir, under normal circumstances, achieving a 40% to 50% pill formation should still be within reach.

This gives them a certain chance of success, considering not everyone possesses alchemy skills on par with Chu Ning’s.

Just as Chu Ning was pondering, Elder Peng announced the official start of this match.

Chu Ning watched as the two on the high platform began casting spells to control fire for spirit medicine extraction.

In the next moment, his expression turned a few degrees more serious.