Chapter 257: Eventful
After the preliminaries, the Shenwu Festival was officially launched, and the thirty-six teenagers were divided into four groups to conduct a series of points round-robin, and in the end, only the first place in the group could qualify and become the semi-finals of the Snow Country finals.
With such a nine-out competition system, the competition will undoubtedly be extremely fierce, and even a heartless guy like Cheng Yue feels a trace of nervousness. Of course, despite this, he still has no doubts about his final qualification.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that I don't know if it's a coincidence, the points rules of the group stage of the Shenwu Festival are very similar to a kind of juju sport that Cheng Yue's father once talked about, that is, the winner of the two sides gets three points, and the draw sides get one point each, and they eat zero points for the defeat.
There is also the home-and-away rules that also exist, the Baili family divided the snow country into four regions when grouping, and the nine teenagers who are geographically close to each other are in the same region, and the Baili family has set up a home and away in this region, and the teenagers are placed in two venues according to the geographical location, and this venue is the home of the teenagers.
Cheng Yue is relatively lucky, because his home stadium is the Genting Ethereal Palace, as long as it is a home game, he doesn't even need to use the teleportation charm, and he can participate in the game directly out of the house, which can be said to be very convenient.
However, despite his good luck, Cheng Yue was not blessed, and as soon as he returned to the Yunding Ethereal Palace, he couldn't wait to go to the head of the palace to inquire about the national war.
Of course, Tianchengzi knew about this, but he didn't take it seriously at all, in the eyes of this head of the family, the Jin Kingdom was just for show, and it would never really attack the Snow Country, although the momentum was huge at the moment, but in fact, as long as this limelight passed, it would be a big thing and a small thing. In order to participate in the Shenwu Festival, Cheng Yue is preparing for the war, so Cheng Yue will be distracted, and it is not a big deal not to tell Cheng Yue about this kind of.
But Cheng Yue doesn't think so, although this battle may not necessarily start, but as the person who caused this conflict, if he doesn't even show his face, it will inevitably be a little too much, so he has to go back to Pingjing to clarify the truth of the matter, otherwise he will have to keep carrying this black cauldron?
Tianchengzi couldn't persuade him, so he could only let him go. So on the same day, Cheng Yue flew back to Pingjing, the snow capital, overnight.
Lu Wenzheng was very relieved to learn that Cheng Yue was back, he was so frightened these days that he didn't even go to Concubine Yi, for fear that Jin Guo would not be able to think of a real call, so he hurriedly summoned Cheng Yue into the palace to ask.
Cheng Yue was ordered to enter the palace, and told him all about the before and after of the kidnapping of the master Lu master, and did not miss any details, and claimed that the death of master Lu was completely framed by someone!
Lu Wenzheng's mood was very complicated after hearing this, it was not that he didn't believe in Cheng Yue's character, but although Cheng Yue said the truth, he was suffering from no evidence to prove his innocence, and only based on empty words, how could he make Jin Guo give up? Moreover, it had been so long since the incident happened, and Cheng Yue ran back to clarify, which itself is very suspicious.
Seeing Lu Wenzheng's suspicious face, Cheng Yue knew that this thing didn't believe him, and couldn't help but be very annoyed.
Lu Wenzheng thought about it, and finally decided to take Cheng Yue's statement as the standard, as for the prime minister of Jin Guo, he couldn't control it.
However, for the sake of insurance, LΓΌ Wenzheng still ordered Cheng Yue to stay at the border for a period of time to assist Wu Zizheng in leading the army to confront the Jin army in front of him.
This matter was completely caused by himself, so Cheng Yue had no intention of shirking, so he agreed immediately, and after bidding farewell to Lu Wenzheng, he immediately flew towards the border city of Hongzhou.
Cheng Yue stayed in Hongzhou for seven or eight days, and during this time, a small event happened - Qin and Yuanjiedu envoy Wang Xiao led a delegation to visit the Snow Country again, and proposed that his sister Wang Zhen marry Cheng Yue, the teacher of the Snow Country.
Lu Wenzheng was forced by the Jin State to be anxious, and when he saw the visit of the Qin State delegation, he couldn't help but be moved by the idea of using Qin to control the Jin, and when he summoned Wang Xiao, he directly overstepped the position of Cheng Yue to agree to the family matter, and with the cooperation of the Qin State, he went around to put pressure on the Jin State.
The news reached the Jin Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom and the opposition were very angry, whether it was officials or nobles have come to the table to ask for a crusade against the Snow Country, in such a situation of public anger, the King of Jin can not do it even if he has the heart to repair the alliance relationship with the Snow Country, but the King of Jin does not intend to really tear his face with the Snow Country to start a war, so he can only pretend to be sick and drag the matter on.
Although the king of Jin intended to calm the situation, the war clouds at the border became thicker and thicker, and although the big war did not start, skirmishes had begun to be staged frequently - every day the scouts of Jin and Xue would fight a few battles in the border area, leaving a few corpses.
In such a situation, Cheng Yue naturally couldn't return to Yunshengmen in a short time, so when the group stage of the Shenwu Festival Snow Country was about to start, he was still staying in Hongzhou.
Tianchengzi was about to die of this matter, and seeing that Cheng Yue was not coming back from the event, he had to go to Hongzhou by himself and forcibly dragged Cheng Yue back to Yunshengmen.
The next day, the group stage of the Shenwu Festival started on time, Cheng Yue dragged his tired body and fought with the opponent in one place, because the state was a little bad, he was in danger in this battle, and he was almost turned over by the opponent several times, but fortunately, the opponent's strength was a little far worse than him, and in the end, there was no danger, but he still won the game and won the first three points.
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After the end of the first battle, the Yunding Ethereal Palace, the head of the dormitory.
"Look at your state today, the opponent who played the peak of the Huaxi Realm was almost overturned, and I had already told you to prepare for the game with all my might, you don't have to worry about the national war, but you have to take care of it, and you still run to the border, what do you want me to say about you?" Tianchengzi rarely lost his temper with Cheng Yue, pointing at Cheng Yue's nose and reprimanding endlessly.
Cheng Yue lowered his head and was silently trained, which meant that a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water.
"I'll just ask you, are you still going to Hongzhou?!" Tianchengzi glared at Cheng Yue and asked.
Cheng Yue's lips moved, and finally made up his mind, raised his head and said with a bitter face: "Door master, there are wars on the border every day, and the national war is about to break out, and it may break out at any time. β
Tianchengzi's seven orifices were smoking, and he wanted to beat him when he raised his hand.
Cheng Yue's attitude towards being beaten was very good, so he raised his head immediately and handed his face to Tianchengzi.
"Cheeky thing!"
Tianchengzi was angry, put down his raised hand again, he took two steps in the dormitory, and finally sat on the main seat with his buttocks, staring at Cheng Yue angrily and asking: "You are lucky this time, you are fighting at home, you can play when you go out, and you will not waste time at all." But the next away game is not necessarily, you have to go to someone's territory, if you have to go back to Hongzhou, can you rush over?"
"It's too late, door master, my Lin Ying can travel thousands of miles in half an hour, this distance is nothing. Cheng Yue smiled and said cheekily.
Tianchengzi opened his hand and smashed the inkstone on the bookcase in front of him towards Cheng Yue!
Cheng Yue's eyes were quick, and he hurriedly dodged on one side.
"Get out! Get out! I don't care about you, you can do whatever you like with this divine martial sacrifice!" Tianchengzi roared angrily.
Cheng Yue shrunk his neck, didn't dare to continue to stay in the head of the dormitory, and ran out with his head in his arms.
"This little bastard!" Tianchengzi hated his teeth.
After coming out of the head of the dormitory, Cheng Yue didn't stay in Yunshengmen for a moment, and flew straight to Hongzhou, he was not afraid that Tianchengzi would settle accounts with him, but he was really worried about the situation in Hongzhou.
Just like he said, there will be wars in Hongzhou every day, and if the two sides fight big one day, then even if the high-level leaders of both sides don't want to fight, this national war cannot be avoided. And when the war broke out, if he, the national division, was not in Hongzhou, with the inferior army of the Snow Country, he was afraid that he would not last long and would be defeated by the Jin State, and how far the war would develop at that time would depend entirely on the mood of the Jin people......
"Alas, what an eventful season!" Cheng Yue sighed in his heart as he flew towards the border.
What he didn't know was that at this moment, in a dense forest on the ridge of heaven, there was a pair of Yin Owl eyes staring at him, and his eyes were full of undisguised killing intent!
"Divine Shadow, the target has left the Yunsheng Gate and is flying in a southeasterly direction, there is only one person, this may be the best time for you to make a move. The man in the dense forest raised a cylindrical artifact to his mouth and said to it.
The next moment, an echo came from the cylinder: "No, it's not the time yet, he is too close to Tianji Mountain, and it will alarm Tianchengzi." β
"Now is not the time, when is the best time?" the man in the jungle frowned.
"Boom!" came a hoarse and shrill sneer like a night owl from the cylinder, "Of course it's after his away game!"