On the fifth day of the first month of August, the wind and sunshine in Jiangling City are beautiful, and the Lingyan Pavilion located by the river is even more lively, and this year's posterity conference has finally opened. For the ancient people who lacked entertainment, it was even happier to be able to watch a martial arts competition than the New Year. Early in the morning, the contestants who temporarily lived in the post house walked to Lingyan Pavilion under the leadership of Hong Zhenyun. On both sides of this strange procession, there was a crowd of onlookers.

"Look at it, isn't that Yang Fang?" "Chu Tiange, Chu Tiange is there!" Listening to the enthusiastic discussions of the people around him, he couldn't see that everyone knew so much about these people who didn't do their jobs and did nonsense all day long. And those contestants are all putting on an unruly shelf, and they don't know how to do kung fu, but they are more than one at posing.

From a distance, I saw that the surroundings of Lingyan Pavilion were already full of people in the dark, "Come on-" I don't know who shouted, the crowd of onlookers spontaneously made way for the contestants, I followed behind Yuan Zhao, enjoying the envy or admiration or admiration of the people around me, I felt that I was also fluttering, that feeling of being noticed was really good, no wonder so many people cried and shouted about practicing martial arts.

Lingyan Pavilion is a pavilion built near the river, because the fog is heavy on the riverside, the original towering pavilion is often shrouded in fog, just like a fairyland on earth, so it is called Lingyan Pavilion. After passing through the crowd, you found that the officers of Jiangling County had already circled a large piece of flat land around the Lingyan Pavilion, and the four rings painted in different colors were separated in the four directions of the Lingyan Pavilion.

After counting the number of people, we were arranged to sit in an area to the east, which was a good position, and the competitions in the four rings could be seen at a glance.

I got up slightly, just in time to see two officers carrying a huge wooden statue from the pavilion, and because of the distance, I could only vaguely discern that it was an old man carved on it.

Hong Zhenyun climbed the steps with a solemn expression, and after bowing three times, he turned to face the fifty-six descendants who participated in the competition, and shouted in a loud voice: "Worship the Sword Saint-" Yuan Zhao in the audience didn't know when they had an extra stick of burning incense in their hands. The crowd also bowed to the statue three times like a flood of earthquakes.

"The time has come, all beings draw lots!" Hong Zhenyun just finished speaking, only to see a boy walk down the attic, holding a wooden box in his hand, and the contestants gathered around and took out a wooden board from the wooden box. What is this for? If it was to pay homage to this martial arts senior when he saluted the Sword Saint before, then what did this ceremony do? I saw that after everyone drew out the wooden cards, they spontaneously walked to the four rings and stood still.

Yuan Zhao shook the red wooden sign in his hand at me from a distance, and turned to the south of the ring. I immediately understood that this is the basis for the grouping of players, and the players will compete in the ring of which color of the wooden card they draw.

I was secretly proud of my discovery, and the sudden three cannons frightened me almost screamed. The smoke cleared, and the four players were already standing on the stage. I don't know when, a man dressed in a dark robe suddenly appeared in each audience, and there was an incense burner on the small incense table on the side, and a piece of incense was inserted alone. Hong Zhenyun majestically glanced at the audience for a week, "Bang-" tapped the gong in his hand, "The competition begins-" As soon as the words fell, he saw four players flying into the ring more than one person high.

"Good skills!" shouted from the crowd of onlookers. The competition was finally about to start, probably because of the atmosphere of the scene, and I couldn't help but shout. The eight people on the stage were all holding long swords, and after saluting with swords, they put on a posture and prepared to compete. The four men in the black clothes also quickly lit the incense on the incense table.

"Look at the sword!" I don't know who shouted first, the eight people in the ring began to fight each other, the "buzzing" sound of the metal impact was like a stimulant, stimulating the nerves of the onlookers, and the crowd burst out from time to time with a tsunami-like scream, and the competition finally began!

The dazzling fight on the stage was happy, and the crowd watching the audience was also fascinated, and I didn't know what to do when I watched it alone. What kind of martial arts competition is this? The rules are too weird, isn't it? The top is fighting, and the Xuanyi people below are counting, sometimes the two are fighting fiercely, and the person in the audience suddenly shouts out a voice, "Violation!" The two people on the stage came down dejectedly, and if the contestant who defeated the opponent on the stage could not even get a moment of rest, because another person would immediately jump up and fight him.

"Little brother, dare to ask what the rules of this martial arts competition are..."I couldn't help it, I patted the young man next to me who was waving his fist and shouting energetically, he turned his head suddenly, startling me, only to see his eyes wide, his face was red, the green tendons on his neck were bursting up, and he yelled at me with a hoarse voice: "Get out!" and then immediately plunged into the intense competition.

I persevered and asked a few people one after another, except for a few profanities, I didn't hear any rules, I got up and looked at the crazy crowd around me, all of them kept one posture: leaning forward, waving my fists, and making a messy roar in a hoarse voice, I became the only one on the scene who remained awake, although this sobriety was not what I wanted. It's terrible to be uneducated, but now I realize that knowledge is really not ordinary.