The semi-final is a direct knockout round, with 5,000 into 500 and 90% eliminated, and the competition is very fierce.

And unlike the preliminary round, this round is a practical link, there is no possibility of tricks, and there will be no element of luck, completely relying on their own strength and experience.

But unfortunately, Zhong Hou has almost no actual combat experience. If you exclude the experience of hunting in the mountains with the villagers, his actual combat experience can be said to be completely zero.

No matter how high the level of the secret book "Long Fist" is, no matter how skilled he is at Long Fist, no matter how subtle the moves are, no matter whether he has mastered the essence of Long Fist or not, he can't escape the fact.

Zhong Hou's fist had never seen blood.

That's why he needs to increase his actual combat experience through this tryout.

And his opponent, as Detective Situ said, is not weaker than him.

Although there is a gap between the first layer of the day after tomorrow and the ninth layer of the day after tomorrow, there is actually not much difference between the first layer of the day after tomorrow and the second layer of the day after tomorrow, and the experience and skills are enough to make up for the shortcomings.

Even if Zhong Hou is already in the second layer, there are still many challenges in this round of the rematch.

If you want to reach the final and win the top three, it will be more difficult.

Time flies by in a blink of an eye, and today is the first day of the semi-finals.

Fu Bo still didn't know that Zhong Hou had experienced nine deaths in the preliminary stage, and only thought that Zhong Hou had successfully passed the preliminary round.

As always, Zhong Hou came to the martial arts training ground with Fu Bo's instructions and encouragement.

The chief examiner and deputy examiner are still the same five, but there are only 5,000 of the original 13,000 contestants in the martial arts training arena left.

Today, the examiner did not chatter as much as he did that day, and directly announced the rules of the competition for this semi-final.

The semi-finals are divided into two stages, a direct knockout round and a ring challenge, and the rules are also very simple.

In the first stage, the two will face off, the winner will advance, and the loser will be eliminated directly.

Five thousand into two thousand five, two thousand five into one thousand two hundred five, one thousand two hundred and five into six hundred and twenty-five.

If you can win three games in a row, you can enter the second stage.

The second stage is the Ring Challenge.

Five hundred rings, and the winner is determined by drawing lots. The remaining one hundred and twenty-five who have not been drawn can challenge one of the five hundred champions at will, and the winner will go up and the loser will go down.

Each person only has one chance to challenge and be challenged.

In the end, the five hundred champions will officially become part of the Situ family's guards and enter the finals, striving for a very generous reward in everyone's opinion.

Suppose you are the champion, you are challenged and you defeat the opponent, because the chance of you being challenged is gone, it means that you can directly enter the final. If you are defeated, you can challenge other champions, as long as that champion has not been challenged. If you win, you will advance, and if you lose, you will be eliminated directly, because you have no chance to challenge.

If you're not the champion, you can choose one of the five hundred rings to challenge unless you give up. In the same way, defeat will be eliminated directly, because there is no chance of challenge. If you win and become the champion, you will be challenged by others, and if you win, you will advance, and if you lose, you will be eliminated.

The five hundred rings had already been set up, and the five hundred Situ Jiajin Yiwei temporarily acted as the referees in each ring.

Five hundred matches are played at the same time, and it only takes five rounds to know who can be one in 2,500.

Soon 5,000 contestants were paired together, and each contestant already knew who their opponent was.

Zhong Hou's opponent was a young man named Niu Er, about twenty-five years old, slightly taller than him. Listening to the name, you know that the other party is from the countryside like yourself, and I don't know where to get a secret book, and it has broken through to the acquired level.

Zhong Hou did not look down on the other party, but was very cautious, because this was the first battle in his life.

Fortunately, his match was scheduled for the third round, which gave him more time to observe the battles of the other contestants and familiarize himself with the combat mode of the acquired realm.

At the sound of an order, the first phase of the battle began.

Zhong Hou stared intently at one of the rings in front of him, for fear of missing every detail.

I saw that one of the two big men on the stage was holding a knife and the other was a stick, and both sides had no intention of attacking quickly, and they were very cautious.

The feet of both sides moved slowly, the distance between them and the other party was slowly narrowed, and the weapons in their hands were horizontally in front of their chests to prevent the other party from attacking.

When the weapons intersected, the speed of the two sides increased several times, and a fierce head-to-head confrontation officially began.

After looking at it for a moment, Zhong Hou couldn't help but shout: "Okay." It attracted strange glances from others.

Zhong Hou completely ignored this, still engrossed in watching the battle on the field. At the same time, the long fist appeared in his mind, and the moves on the ring corroborated and contrasted with each other.

Thinking about how to deal with this move if you face it, how to fight back with that move, and so on.

Zhong Hou's experience grew rapidly.

After dozens of moves, the knife-wielding man showed a little weakness and began to show his defeat.

Sure enough, after only twenty more moves, the knife-wielding man was swept out of the field by the opponent's long stick, declared defeated, and was eliminated.

Zhong Hou secretly said that he was sorry, and then shifted his gaze to the other rings.

Everyone's strength is almost the same, there is no second kill in the ring, and the two sides have dozens of moves, and thousands of moves to distinguish the winner from the loser, which makes Zhong Hou fascinated.

At the same time, Zhong Hou also confirmed one thing, the "Long Fist" he learned was higher than anyone on the stage. If you come to power, there should be no opponent who can support ten moves.

Of course, this is just the result of Zhong Hou's simulation. Sometimes thinking and doing are completely different things, and whether the specific results can be achieved still have to be known after playing.

Soon, all 500 battles were over, which meant that there were already 500 contestants who could move on to the next one.

The second round of 500 matches was also announced to be over in a fierce battle, and it was officially Zhong Hou's turn to appear.

When Zhong Hou stepped into the ring, the nearby audience was in an uproar, and then burst into laughter.

"Look at what that kid is holding, it's actually a farm nail rake, it's really funny, hahaha... ”

"Just, did he think he came here to farm? ha... ”

"If you look at him like that, he is probably underage, and he must be a chick. ”

"Little baby, this is not a place for you to come, let's go home and feed, don't be beaten back to cry to your parents. ”

Among the contestants, most of the people who use weapons are mainly swords, axes, guns, sticks, and halberds, and especially the other ones also use bows and arrows, darts, long whips, meteor hammers, etc., but they do not use nail rakes like Zhong Hou, and they are also a nail rake that you know at a glance that it is an agricultural harrow, which cannot be regarded as a weapon at all.

Combined with Zhong Hou's teenage and immature appearance, it is no wonder that everyone laughs.

Zhong Hou's face turned red, scratched his head, carefully put the nail rake next to the referee, and said, "I'll take it later." ”

He never leaves the nail rake, but he doesn't know the nail rake martial arts, so he will only use his long fists when he can fight, and the nail rake will be put aside and taken when the battle is over.

But this action made everyone laugh wildly.

The use of a nail rake as a weapon is strange enough, and bringing a weapon to the ring is only an ornament in the end, which is even more strange among wonders.

The referee was also speechless for a while, making it so grand, people who didn't know thought that Zhong Hou asked him to keep a peerless divine weapon.