Three days later, in the early morning, Zhou Long called Lu Yang and others together, briefly explained the rules of the competition, and then took them to have breakfast. After dinner, Zhou Long led everyone straight to Tianlong Academy and walked through
A few streets away, a huge academy gate appeared in everyone's sight. This gate was built quite domineeringly and was actually carved from jade. The four characters "Tianlong Academy" were engraved on the door.
These four characters are like dragons and phoenixes dancing, and every stroke is vigorous and powerful. It can be seen that the person who carved these four characters is also a strong martial artist.
Everyone stood under the gate and sighed for a while. The gate of Sky Academy was so domineering. It was hard to imagine what was happening inside the academy.
However, everyone just sighed and didn't think much about it. After all, they would never be able to study and practice martial arts in a place like this.
Wang Liqun glanced at Han Ruoxue beside him, and said sarcastically to Lu Yang: "We are going to compete today. Unfortunately, no one among us is injured. You can't participate in the competition. The most you can do is watch the scene."
Wang Wu had always held a grudge against Lu Yang and couldn't help but said: "Master, how can you compete with your little cultivation? Even if you go up to compete, I'm afraid you'll be beaten down by others in one round."
"His cultivation level is so low that I'm embarrassed to say that he is a new student of our Minsheng Academy." Wang Liqun said with a smile, "Today's competition will be up to us. I'm not bragging. Even if the students in Tianlong Academy reach my level,
There are not many people with this level of cultivation, so I might be able to get into the top three!"
Lu Yang sneered at the two men's harmonious singing and said, "Congratulations to Mr. Wang first. I hope you can achieve good results on behalf of Minsheng Academy."
Everyone quickly walked into Tianlong Academy. The surrounding buildings were all in royal style, especially the well-proportioned courtyards, which made people want to live in them. Everyone couldn't help but say a few things at first.
In other words, in the end, there were houses like this everywhere, and I became accustomed to them just by looking at them.
After a while, everyone came to a huge arena before the game. This arena was much larger than Minsheng Academy. The bluestones on the arena were also carved with densely packed strange patterns. These patterns were even more primitive. If you look carefully, you will be surprised.
Discover the powerful energy contained in every texture.
Zhu Xi looked at it for a while, became interested, and asked, "Teacher Zhou, what are these lines?"
Zhou Long seemed to know the secret of these lines. He remained silent for a while and said truthfully: "These lines are all formations, and they are extremely powerful defensive formations. Even if you use all your strength, you will not be able to break the bluestone."
"Ah! Such a powerful formation." Zhu Xi said in surprise, "Can a strong person of that level break it?"
Zhou Long shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "No need to guess, even if I strike with all my strength, I can't defeat it. This is a formation arranged by the immortal, how can it be so easy to defeat?"
While everyone was talking, two groups of people came outside the gate, each group followed by ten people.
The two middle-aged men in the lead looked to be about the same age as Zhou Long, both in their early forties.
Zhou Long obviously knew the two of them, so he motioned to Lu Yang and others to stand here first, then walked over, cupped his fists and said: "Brother Sun, Brother Duan, you are fine!"
Sun Yiming and Duan Dezhang are both heaven-level experts, and their cultivation levels are higher than Zhou Long's. They have both reached the late heaven-level realm.
The former is the instructor of Xuanwu Academy of Tianlong Academy, and the latter is the instructor of Xuanwu Academy of Dihu Academy. Both of them were ordered to bring new students to compete.
Sun Yiming smiled slightly, cupped his fists and said, "Who is leading the team this time? It turns out to be Brother Zhou. How have you been these past few years? The environment over there is not as good as here!"
Zhou Long knew that he was making fun of himself, but didn't care, and said: "Although it doesn't look as magnificent over there as here, the environment is pretty good, with green mountains and green waters everywhere."
"What about green mountains and green waters?" Duan Dezhang curled his lips and said with some disdain, "I think it's just a remote place!"
The new students from the three major academies have not yet competed, and the instructors are secretly competing with each other, especially Duan Dezhang, who simply looks down on Zhou Long from Minsheng Academy.
Zhou Long didn't care who made him choose to go to Minsheng Academy in the first place, saying: "Since Brother Duan thinks it's a remote place, then it must be a remote place!"
"Whatever I think it is, it is originally..." Duan Dezhang emphasized.
Zhou Long's expression changed slightly. The other party mocked him again and again. Anyone else would be angry.
Sun Yiming was much smarter. Seeing that something was wrong in the atmosphere, he hurriedly smoothed things over and said, "Okay, you two, don't dwell on this issue anymore. Let's prepare for the next draw!"
At this time, another group of people came, all of them were old people, all over sixty years old.
These more than ten old men look quite young, at least over sixty years old, but they give people a completely different feeling. They are full of energy, their eyes are shining, their waists are straight, and their steps are light. They are obviously among the strong.
Strong men. These people are the elders of the Western Chu Kingdom's Martial Arts Alliance. Martial arts cultivators in the empire who want to be recognized by the empire must report to the Martial Arts Alliance after leaving the academy.
This competition for new students from the three major academies was also secretly arranged by the martial arts alliance. They hope to select talented martial arts practitioners in the competition, and then bring them into the martial arts alliance for training, and later become generals and marshals of the empire, or even marshals.
The Ouchi bodyguard who protects the emperor. Of course, it is not easy to select such a genius. Over the years, only a dozen people have been selected, and sometimes not even one can be selected among thirty people.
When more than a dozen old men came over, Zhou Long and others quickly bent down and clasped their fists, "I have seen all the elders..."
The elders just nodded without saying anything and walked straight to the high platform not far away.
After sitting down, an elder sitting in the middle stood up and said to Zhou Long and others: "Stand up in line!"
Zhou Long and others came to the students of the three major academies and asked them to line up in pairs and stand under the high platform.
After a while, more than thirty people were lined up. Elder Ximen Chengde coughed lightly and said solemnly: "Everyone, you are welcome to attend the competition of new students from the three major academies. If you can come here, it proves that you have certain abilities. However,
, if you want to get a good ranking in the competition, you still need to work harder. There is only one chance. Now it is in front of you, are you sure of getting a good ranking?"
As soon as this was said, everyone's blood boiled and they shouted in unison: "Yes..."
Lu Yang also shouted loudly. Although he knew that he would not be able to participate in this competition, he was also infected by the atmosphere at the scene.
Ximen Chengde nodded with satisfaction, then raised his right hand and made a downward movement, and continued: "I believe everyone knows the rules of the competition. Let me briefly explain them here. There are ten people from each of the three major academies.
In the first round, thirty people draw lots, and among the fifteen winners, fourteen of them are drawn again, and the other one gets a bye."
Having said this, Ximen Chengde paused for a moment and continued: "This year is different from the past. In the past, we would draw lots and get a bye. Whoever gets a bye can enter the next round. This year is different. We old guys will choose the top players."
The best person in a round of competition is given a bye, do you understand?"
"I understand." Everyone shouted in unison.
"Now that everyone understands, I won't talk nonsense here." Ximen Chengde said loudly, "I announce that the draw for the competition has officially begun..."
Then, two guards came up, one of them holding a barrel in his hand.
One of the elders walked out. He took the barrel and came to an open space next to the high platform. He said solemnly: "I will be responsible for drawing lots. The people whose names I called out will stand together in pairs and prepare to compete on the ring.
.The rules of the competition are very simple. As long as one party is kicked out of the ring or admits defeat, the competition is over."
Yang Yuheng raised his right hand, placed it in the wooden barrel filled with everyone's names, and began to fumble around quickly.
Soon, two names appeared in his hand. Yang Yuheng opened the note, took a look at it, and said in a deep voice: "Wang Wu from Minsheng Academy, and Liu Dequan from Dihu Academy."
Wang Wu and Liu Dequan took a step forward and stood at the front of the high platform. The first competition was between them.
"Li Xiaopang from Minsheng Academy, Sun Fei from Tianlong Academy..."
"Wang He from Tianlong Academy, Peng Yue from Earth Tiger Academy..."
"..."
There were more than thirty people, and twenty-six people were quickly selected, leaving only the last four.
Nine people have left the Minsheng Academy, and only Wang Liqun is left. But the other three are all masters of the Sky Academy, including Lu Tao, who is in the late Xuan level. Wang Liqun is very depressed. No matter what he chooses, he will compete with him.
The people are all masters of Tianlong Academy. He originally wanted to get a good ranking in the competition, but now it seems that it is difficult to achieve.
However, Wang Liqun was even more depressed later, because he was not among the thirty people drawn.
Yang Liwei had already established a good relationship, and the person Zhou Li was looking for was Yang Yuheng. He was from the Yang family, so he naturally had to obey Young Master Yang's orders. Yang Yuheng misunderstood Zhou Li's words at the time. In fact, Yang Liwei asked him to
He arranged Lu Yang and Lu Tao for a competition, but he thought it would be enough to let Lu Yang play and forgot to arrange them together.
Ever since, the next scene happened, Yang Yuheng said in a deep voice: "Tianlong Academy Lu Tao, Tianlong Academy Ye Ruyan..."
As soon as he shouted these words, Lu Tao was stunned. Of course Ye Ruyan knew that the other party was astonishingly famous. Not only was she the most beautiful woman in Sky Academy, but she was also the best master. Lu Tao really wanted to ask Yang Liwei a question.
Understand, you didn’t arrange for me to deal with Lu Yang, why did you become Ye Ruyan? Isn’t this embarrassing?
Ye Ruyan did indeed walk out of the crowd. When everyone saw her appearance, everyone in the other two academies took a breath of cold air.
Dressed in black, she outlines a slim figure, and her beautiful face is cold and mysterious, like a phantom in the dark night.
Such a beauty, whose beauty is indistinguishable from Han Xueruo, has actually cultivated to the stage of Dzogchen in the later stage of the Xuan Order. She looks like she is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and everyone really can't figure out what kind of talent she is.
He is extraordinary, or he practices extremely hard, so why can he reach such a state in more than ten years?
Wang Liqun secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He came here to ask about Ye Ruyan's power. As long as he didn't fall in love with such a cold beauty like her, he would still have a chance. However, after Wang Liqun had calmed down, Yang Yuheng's next words made him laugh.
His eyes widened, and he even wondered if he heard it wrong.
"Lu Yang from Minsheng Academy, Zeng Xiaohu from Tianlong Academy..."