"Tomorrow my son will officially start the competition, and you haven't completed the procedures for watching the live broadcast yet?" Masako Nanda came to the study and glared at her husband who was looking at the computer screen unhappily.

"Aren't you in charge of family affairs? I'm busy during this time, and I haven't been able to take care of this for a while. Yagyu Kazushima replied to his wife while checking something on the computer screen in his study.

"But you used to do it when cable TV paid to open channels!" "Masako Nanda was very dissatisfied, why didn't her husband take his son's game to heart at all?.

"Masako, the company has had some trouble lately, I did forget, I'm sorry!" Yagyu Kazushima looked away from the screen, looked at his wife, and apologized.

"Ahh

She stepped forward and gently took her husband's head into her arms, gently rubbing his temples with both hands so that he could relax.

"Yesterday morning, the Governor of Tokyo announced that he would complete all the pipeline renovation projects in the Tokyo metropolitan area within two months, so that our company's target market will shrink all of a sudden. This transition period was much faster than originally envisioned for a year, and many plans had to be changed, so there was a lot of work in the company now. ”

Yagyu and Shima tilted their heads back, leaned comfortably into his wife's arms, and closed their eyes.

"Then this crisis, can the company cope with the past?" Nanda Masako asked worriedly, the clean water company embodies a lot of hard work of her husband, not to mention the question of money or not, just the failure of the career, it is already a cruel blow to the middle-aged husband.

"No problem, it was so difficult before, the company has not developed? Now the company wants money and money, and there are people, and it is also a little famous in the industry, although it is indeed a little difficult, but it is not a big problem to deal with the past. ”

Although the current environment faced by the company is very harsh, after all, this kind of policy shrinkage of the entire market is not a small company that produces filter elements can be reversed, but as a salesman from scratch Yagyu and Island, it is not so easy to be defeated!

Both husband and wife stopped talking and snuggled quietly. Masako Nanda's hand massaging her husband's temples became softer and gentler, and after a while, Yagyu Kazushima let out a slight snoring sound, and Masako Nanda looked at her husband's head, which was leaning on her chest, and a few gray hairs had appeared.

A gentle smile appeared at the corner of Masako Minamita's mouth, her husband and herself have been married for sixteen years!

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This is the first round of the official competition, and it costs 20,000 yen each, which is a robbery. It was Liu Shengyuan and Changyuan, the oldest of the included disciples, who spoke, and he shook a bill in his hand and said dissatisfiedly.

"You still have the opportunity to complain about the high ticket price, we can't go to the scene if we want to!" These are a few other disciples who are not old enough to meet the admission requirements.

At this time, nine disciples are gathering in Yanagi Yuanhe's kendo room, although Yanagi Yuanhe is very lazy, since the last time it was arranged, asking everyone to practice the 'Living Sword', there is no human figure, and he doesn't come here to practice with them at all on weekdays, but Aoki Lianji, as the chief disciple, is very diligent.

Under the order of his father Aoki Yuki, he organized his brothers and sisters to practice the 'Living Sword' together every day, and in front of the video, everyone had to demonstrate in public, and then everyone corrected each other, and after a few days, he actually formed a habit of attending classes regularly from seven to nine o'clock every night.

"Hehe, but it's good to be a senior brother, just enter as the master's assistant, you don't even need to buy a ticket, and the viewing position is still the best!" Although Changyuan's age is nearly twice as old as Aoki Ryoji, however, Aoki Ryoji is the chief disciple designated by the teacher, as long as he is under Yanagi Shengyuan and the disciple, no matter how old he is, he has to call Aoki Ryoji 'Senior Brother'.

"This, I'm stained with Master's light, haha. Aoki Ryoji snorted, and quickly turned the conversation around, "Everyone hurry up and practice, now the master is busy preparing for the martial soul duel, and he can't take care of us, and when the master remembers to check his homework, if everyone's 'living sword' can't satisfy the master, hum, who knows what the master will do with us?"

"Practice, practice—"

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Throughout the sports park, there are already an overwhelming number of posters and advertisements, balloons and model figures. Of course, just like there are a large number of bookstores selling martial arts cheats next to Songshan Shaolin Temple, there are also all kinds of secret techniques and secret books for sale here, and even teaching CDs are included.

However, for example, the Taishang Divine Sword and the Eight Styles of Burning Heaven, which are too lofty cheats when you hear them, can not be practiced, then it depends on your personal ability.

Today is the third day of the official competition of the martial soul duel, and the official competition is not a day to complete a round, mainly because there are too many participants. In order not to conflict with each other as much as possible, the time of each game will be staggered with each other, and a single-game elimination system will be implemented, which will continue until after the fourth round to determine the top 32 before changing the competition system.

And Yanagi's first official match was at three o'clock this afternoon.

Speaking of which, although it requires a lot of infrastructure investment to hold a martial soul duel, the investment in various hospital facilities, sports venues and entertainment venues, as well as supporting hotels and cinemas is astronomical.

However, since the martial arts are held in Japan every year, these construction costs can be diluted every year, just like if the Olympic Games are held in the same place every year, there is no need to build sports venues repeatedly, then, even a pig to host, will definitely be able to make money!

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"Master, it's time!" said Aoki Ryoji with a bow, whispering to Yanagi Motokazu, who was sitting with his eyes closed.

"Really? Let's go. Liu Shengyuan slowly opened his eyes, stood up, picked up the imitation of 'washing snow' beside him, calmly walked out of the lounge, and stepped into the arena through the passage of the red side players.

Aoki Ryoji and Aoki Eima followed behind him, guarding him on the left and right sides.

Originally, Takahashi Hiromi and Aoki Ryoji were supposed to follow him as assistants, but Aoki Ema was grinding left and right, and Yanagi had no choice but to let her follow instead of Takahashi Hiromi, after all, Aoki Ema is his own disciple and a senior sister, as a swordsman, there is nothing wrong with coming to see the world.

And Hiromi Takahashi came just to watch a scene for nothing, and she is not a person who learns swords, so she has no other role except for being able to watch a lively scene.

If Senior Sister Aoki Ezhen wasn't her assistant, she wouldn't have had the opportunity to enter the martial arts duel competition to observe at all, after all, she was only fifteen years old, and her age was there.

"Andrew, Andrew, we won, I saw your opponent just now, it's just a child, he didn't even wear armor, I really don't know how his parents are so ruthless, let a child participate in this kind of competition, you wait and be careful not to beat people to death!"

Carly rushed into the lounge and spoke to Andrew, who was wearing his armor.

"I'll be careful. In the all-metal helmet, Andrew replied sullenly.

The sound of heavy metal landing sounded, and a metal giant walked out of the tunnel of the opposite blue player, his whole body was wrapped in armor, only the metal mask on the front of his head was a few gaps for the wearer of the armor to look out.

The two stood at the two entrances, one east and one west, and the visual contrast was so strong that even a few friends in the audience who accompanied Andrew to Japan couldn't help but ridicule:

"Andrew, you bear, are you going to bully children?"

"It's so unfair, Andrew is wearing such armor, how can he let this kid fight?"

"Hahaha, it's like a bear beating a monkey!"

"Hiss!" Aoki Ema gasped, originally she was full of confidence in Yanagi Yuanhe, although Yanagi Yuanhe had only taught them two lessons, at most demonstrated the tetraketone target, but Aoki Ema could say that Yanagi Yuanhe was the strongest swordsman she had ever seen and heard of.

However, the big man in front of him, although he couldn't see how tall the person was because he was wearing armor, but from the appearance of the armor, the height of the person in the armor was at least two meters high, and the width of the shoulders was more than one meter two.

In his left hand he held a one-handed hammer, the head of which didn't look very large, probably only slightly larger than a fist, but it was compared to the giant holding the hammer. In Aoki's Eima's opinion, this hammer head is not much different from the size of his own head. And the giant still holds a shield in his right hand, although the thickness of the shield cannot be seen from this angle, but the diameter of the shield alone is more than a meter.

Look at the katana in the hands of the master/junior, it is only three fingers wide and more than a meter long, and it is also cold and shining on weekdays, which is quite deterrent, but compared with the giant opposite, it feels like a small pencil sharpener.

Even though Aoki Ema originally had confidence in Yanagi Motokazu again, after seeing the humanoid tank coming out of the opposite side, Aoki Ema felt that there was little hope of victory.

Beside the giant, there were two tall Westerners who accompanied him out of the athlete's passage, these two should be his assistants, the two assistants were a man and a woman, and the small female among them must be at least 1.9 meters tall.

Aoki Ema looked back at his side, his elder brother Aoki Lianji is the tallest, and his height will not exceed one meter eighty-two;

As for himself, he took off his shoes and was less than 1.6 meters, so he simply didn't mention it.

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Even if Aoki was worried, the fight was still going to start, and a blonde Westerner referee walked to the edge of the ring and motioned for both sides to come to him.

Liu Shengyuanhe, wearing a black mask, a wide robe with large sleeves, walked up barefoot and stood on the left side of the referee, and the armored man on the opposite side walked up slowly with heavy steps and stood on the right side of the referee.

In official matches, there is a time for dialogue, and the referee's job is to introduce their opponents to both sides and give the players on the field a time to abstain.

"Red side - Heavy Furious Bear, weighing one hundred and fifty-eight kilograms, armor weighing thirty-two kilograms, weapons one-handed hammer, shield, one-handed hammer weighing eleven kilograms. Does the red side have any objections?"

"No, but you can advise the other player to abstain or he'll get hurt. Andrew, who was on the other side, said something angrily in the urn inside the helmet, and then the referee translated his words into Japanese and told Motokazu Yanagi.

"No, please help me thank him for his kindness, for the sake of this kindness, I won't let him get hurt. Under the cover of the black mask, I couldn't see clearly what expression Liu Shengyuan had, but the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he replied lightly.

The referee translated the sentence again.

"Hahaha, Andrew, don't hurt this kind child!" said the red-haired Carly, standing under the ring, laughed loudly.

"Blue Fang - Black Kamen, weighs seventy-one kilograms, armor weighs four kilograms, weapon katana, weighs two kilograms. Does the blue side have any objections?"

"Nope. Yanagi replied.

"There is no objection from both players, and both players will retreat to both ends of the ring!" the referee divided his hands and motioned for the two to retreat to both ends of the ring.

The two of them walked to one end of the ring, and here there are two circles drawn on the ground that correspond to the color of the player's passage according to the color of the player's passage, which is where the player first stood when he started the game.

After both sides were standing in the circle, the referee moved away from the ring and stood three meters away from the ring, on a platform with a shield, and loudly announced: "The game is on!"

Liu Shengyuan and barefooted, unhurriedly walked towards the middle of the ring, with big sleeves fluttering, looking leisurely; opposite, Andrew, who was known as a heavy armored bear, also walked unhurriedly to the middle of the ring, his every step carried the sound of 'clang' armor impact, as if even such a solid ring was shaking slightly.

Aoki Ryoji looked at the two people who were approaching in the rectangular ring, and his hands clenched into fists unconsciously. Originally, he thought that his master Yanagi Yuanhe was the top swordsman in Japan and a strong contender for the Wuhun Cup, no matter what, he would never capsize in the gutter in the first round of the game, so before the game, he didn't take this game to heart at all.

But the heavy armored bear on the other side was bigger than a real bear, and it looked too strong, and the armor and shield were simply impeccable.

The katana in the master's hand, under the opponent's huge body, looked so thin, it was no different from a piece of iron.

Aoki Ryoji was very suspicious, even if the martial soul was allowed to use the weapon of the blade, the katana would probably not be able to split the opponent's armor.

Not to mention that before the martial soul duel match, the weapons of both sides had to be checked to ensure that there was no attack. In this way, even if the other party stands still and asks the master to cut it, it is estimated that he will not be able to cut it, not to mention that the other party is so large and the weapon is so heavy, as long as the master is hit, any stab-proof suits and special tortoise shells will not play any role!

Aoki couldn't think of how Master could win this game.

It's an unfair matchup!

Just when Ryoji Aoki was indignant offstage, Motokazu Yanagi and Andrew were already close to each other to the point where they could make a move.

"Whew-" With a gust of wind, Andrew's one-handed hammer swept towards Yanagi's shoulder. Andrew actually doesn't care about the distance between Yanagi and himself, although he will be deducted half a point if he is hit in armor, but to beat himself by this, he needs to hit himself at least six times, how easy is it?

Isn't he a dead man? Such a large shield can cover the entire front with a random block. And his own hammer, as long as he hits the opponent once, no matter where he hits, the bamboo pole on the opposite side will be knocked down once, the only thing to pay attention to is that he has to collect some strength, but don't kill people.

Although he participated in the martial soul duel, the life and death documents stipulated the conceit of life and death, but Andrew was not bloodthirsty enough to the point of wanting to kill a stranger for no reason, he came for the bonus, not to kill people.

Therefore, he didn't even use half of his strength in this hammer, firstly, to leave some strength to deal with the counterattack after the opponent dodged, and secondly, he was afraid that his strength would be too large, so he directly killed the opponent.

Andrew's original profession was an American professional wrestler, yes, he is not an expert in martial arts, nor can he be considered a true martial artist, and American wrestling is not so much an empty hand fight as a realistic performance in the ring.

Their wrestling fights, even with scripts and narrations, are rehearsed in advance, and they seem to be thrilling and violent, but in fact, for this group of strong and well-trained wrestlers, it doesn't cause much harm.

In the United States, the most famous combat sport is not wrestling.

In terms of rankings, the most famous and brutal tournament with the most fans is the World Grand Prix, then there are boxing matches divided into different weight classes by weight, and finally the round of professional wrestling.

Of course, the income of players also plummets according to the ranking order of these three events.

If the top fighters in indiscriminate fighting can generally get hundreds of millions of dollars after an important match, then the champion of a boxing match generally does not earn more than 100 million yuan per game (with the exception of a few particularly popular fighters).

And professional wrestling, even the most famous fighters, can earn more than 30 million in a single match, thank God.

Andrew has been in professional wrestling for less than two years, and his ability to perform is more important than his physical strength, and although Andrew is confident in his muscles, he doesn't mix very well.

Andrew once thought about simply participating in boxing or indiscriminate fighting, but in the basic training of boxing, his footwork and coordination are not too good, and according to his weight, he can only participate in heavyweight competitions.

And the indiscriminate fighting he only watched a few fights, and then completely gave up the idea of participating in the competition, the indiscriminate fighting is really terrifying, those monsters in it, one punch can break a few bricks, and they are not on the stage at all.

There was once a master who performed publicly on a TV show, and in one second, six kicks bent six steel rods, each as thick as a barbell pole in a gym.

And this dude who performed amazing leg tricks on TV died in the ring of the next indiscriminate fight, and ironically, he was kicked and broke his neck.

Since watching this match, Andrew has completely given up on the idea of participating in the indiscriminate fighting tournament and is ready to be his own little wrestler in peace. Recently, however, his girlfriend Carly has brought him good news.

In Japan in the East, there is a martial arts competition at the same level as the American Undifferentiated Fighting Tournament, called Martial Soul Duel!

The difference between this tournament and the Indiscriminate Fighting Tournament is that it can be played with armor, as long as you have the strength to wear as much armor as you want, and the weapons used by both sides cannot be bladed. What's especially wonderful is that as long as you pass the qualifiers and enter the official competition, you will have bonuses and broadcast shares to take, which is not like other competitions, you must play in the top level of the circle before you can get the broadcast rights share.

Ahh He didn't expect to win the championship either, as long as he looked for some videos of martial arts duels to see, he knew that the previous champions of this competition were also a bunch of monsters. However, you won't be so unlucky in the first few rounds to meet these monsters, right?

Anyway, as long as you pass the first few rounds, you can also be satisfied with the income you get. I don't have anything else, but I have a lot of strength, and when the time comes, I can wear as thick the armor as I can, at least it's not dangerous, isn't it?

Before the start of the qualifiers, Andrew was still a little uneasy, he was afraid of meeting an old man with a heavy weapon, so he would suffer a little, after all, the protective ability of this armor is not said, but it also really affects the action, if the opponent uses a hammer, stick and other weapons, he only needs to smash it down, he wears this armor, dodge is not to think, can only use a shield to resist, if the opponent's strength is not smaller than his own, then he will be congenitally at a disadvantage.

However, stepping out of the preparation room and seeing his opponent, Andrew suddenly relaxed, this kind of opponent with a blade he likes the most, his own armor, even if he stands and lets him cut it, the only question left is whether he can drive the opponent out of the ring before being hit six times.

Yes, if it weren't for the limited space in the ring, Andrew was really not sure that he would win, as long as the other party ran around him and wore this thing, he would definitely not be able to catch up.

But this ring is only ten meters long and six meters wide, don't look like it sounds as big as sixty square meters, but Andrew stretches out his hands and is more than three meters close to four meters, plus the one-handed hammer in his hand, he can control the width of nearly five meters, and he is not worried about not being able to stop people at all.