Chapter 21 The Tournament
I wanted to continue practicing swords, but there was a feeling of hunger in my body. He hadn't eaten for three days and two nights, and if he continued like this, he would starve to death.
Jiang Ruoyan woke up from the state of meditation, and her stomach immediately "gurgled" and complained, and she took two Tang Dan pills in a row before she was able to calm down. Chewing Tang Dan, Jiang Ruoyan couldn't help but sigh with the same emotion as Qingjian Ling'er: "Well, it's quite sweet!"
Tang Dan, not only can satisfy the stomach, replenish physical strength, but also enhance physical fitness, the most important thing is that it is sweet but not greasy, the taste is excellent, and it is deeply loved by the majority of martial artists. This Dan was developed by the Tang family, a famous pill family in the Lingyue world, Tang Dan was named after the Tang family, and the Tang family also became rich because of Tang Dan.
In Jiang Ruoyan's opinion, the person of the Tang family who created Tang Dan must also be a foodie, otherwise how could a good pill be like candy.
At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall.
"Lord Deputy Zongbo, His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince is still cultivating. Why don't you let the slave go and report it first?" Lian'er pleaded.
Jiang Xujun, the deputy sect uncle, looked like he was in his thirties, his steps were steady, he was a martial arts master, and he cultivated to reach the Dao Channeling Realm. He snorted coldly: "The Seventh Prince is cultivating, don't pretend, if he really has a good cultivation, with his talent, how can he still be in the early stage of the Martial Spirit Realm now?"
"Ahh
With an exclamation, Lian'er was slapped by Jiang Xujun and flew out.
"Who should I be, it turned out to be the deputy uncle. ”
Seeing that Jiang Xujun was about to break in, Jiang Ruoyan stepped out first and blocked the door.
Seeing Lian'er fall to the ground, he hurriedly went over and helped her up. Jiang Xujun's cultivation is profound, although it is a casual beat, but it is not light, and half of his cheeks are already red and swollen. Fortunately, Lian'er is also a martial artist herself, otherwise I am afraid that even her bones will be broken.
"Great Elder, please come to ......"
"Smack!"
Jiang Xujun was about to explain his intentions, but Jiang Ruoyan had enough internal strength, stepped forward, and a big-eared scraper returned to him, more vigorously than the slap he slapped just now!
The incident happened suddenly, and Jiang Xujun avoided it. After being stunned for a while, Jiang Xujun's monstrous anger rose, and his facial expression was distorted by anger: "You actually dare to beat the old man?"
"What if you are beaten, do you dare to fight back? The people of the ancestral hall also dare to run to the queen's Changchun Palace to find trouble. You say, how should King Qinghe feel when he learns about it?" Jiang Ruoyan sneered.
"You ......"
Jiang Xujun chuckled in his heart, he was so angry that smoke came out of his head, and his clenched fists were exposed, but because he was hit by Jiang Ruoyan, he didn't dare to act rashly.
That's right, the Qinghe King has been keeping an eye on their loyal ministers, as long as they make any out-of-the-ordinary moves, the Qinghe King will find an excuse to blame them and dispose of them.
Although the people in the Elder Pavilion are highly respected and not very afraid of the Qinghe King, this is an extraordinary time, and the slightest carelessness may be detrimental to the overall situation of the Elder Pavilion.
King Qinghe categorically would not help Jiang Ruoyan get ahead, but he would definitely not let him go, a person who served the ancestral hall and was loyal to the Great Elder.
However, how could he have thought that Jiang Ruoyan, who had already lost power, could still think of blackmailing him with King Qinghe?
He didn't take this into account, so he came to Changchun Palace without fear.
"Now, you can say, what did you come to Prince Ben for?" Jiang Ruoyan said.
Jiang Xujun suppressed his humiliating anger a little, gritted his teeth, and couldn't wait to give Jiang Ruoyan a chat now, he said in a trembling voice: "The Great Elder invites you to the Elder Pavilion to discuss important matters." ”
"Oh, so there's something important. Adults lead the way. Since there is something important, the prince really misunderstood the adult just now. It's really reckless, to make such a heavy hand! This prince really shouldn't be, really shouldn't!" Jiang Ruoyan apologized in a strange tone, complaining about herself, but it was more like mockery.
Jiang Xujun was so angry that he trembled, and a mouthful of old blood vomited to his throat and was swallowed by him hard.
His anger was already on the verge of exploding, but it was a glimpse of Jiang Ruoyan's lips rising with a look that seemed to be smiling, and he couldn't help but think of King Qinghe's iron-fisted methods, and his anger was almost extinguished.
Jiang Xujun had to turn his head hatefully and walk in front to lead the way.
"Sister Lian'er, does it still hurt?"
Jiang Ruoyan gently rubbed Lian'er's snow-white face, and the aura of Muxing flowed out of her hand, and the aura quickly disappeared the redness and swelling on her face.
"It doesn't hurt anymore. ”
Lian'er's eyes were full of tears, she was sent to the palace since she was a child, and she suffered a lot, but after coming to Changchun Palace, everything changed for the better, and the queen and the seventh prince never treated her as a human being, and took good care of her.
So, that's why all the palace maids dispersed, and she was the only one willing to stay.
Facts have proved that her choice is not wrong, just now, His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince was even willing to risk offending the Elder Pavilion to stand up for her.
"The queen mother and Her Royal Highness the Seventh Prince are very kind, and Lian'er has nothing to repay. ”
Lian'er knelt on the ground and said, the gratitude that had accumulated in her heart for many years poured out at once.
Jiang Ruoyan helped her up again, and said a little unhappily: "Sister Lian'er, if I call you sister, then you are my family, of course I will help you out if someone bullies you." ”
"Lian'er doesn't dare!"
Jiang Ruoyan recognized her as her sister when she was young, and she also pulled Gougou.
But in Lian'er's opinion, this is just a joke agreement of Jiang Ruoyan's childhood Mowgli, how can it be counted?
"If you're like this, I'll be really angry!" Jiang Ruoyan said in a deep voice, tapping her forehead fiercely, "Okay, a hundred years, you are not allowed to change." What, want to breach the contract?"
Lian'er had tears in her eyes, revealing a bright and moving smile, and she respected Jiang Ruoyan even more in her heart.
"In a situation like her, her cultivation may be just a martial arts realm martial artist at most in her life. Jiang Ruoyan thought to herself.
Even if it is a martial artist, a martial artist who cultivates underground will be bullied.
The exercises cultivated by Lian'er are the exercises cultivated by inferior servants - the Yijin Method, which is the lowest level of the Yellow Rank Lower Grade Exercises, and there is no way to even open up the sea of qi, how can it be possible to break through to the Dao Channeling Realm?
Jiang Ruoyan's eyes moved, and after thinking about it, a telekinesis came out from the finger on Lian'er's forehead, and the telekinesis carried the entire content of a volume of exercises into her mind.
"Celestial Spirit Sacred Scripture ......"
Jiang Ruoyan's memory has countless divine skill books, even if it is this Heavenly Spirit Sacred Book taught by Lian'er, its grade has reached the lower level of the heavenly level, and it is an existence that can cause a bloody storm when taken out. Now that Lian'er has this exercise, even if Lian'er's qualifications are mediocre, it is only a matter of time before she cultivates to the True Yuan Realm.
Jiang Ruoyan said: "In the future, you have to learn to protect yourself when I am not there, and you can't let anyone bully you, you know? ”
"The prodigal son of Deng, a lowly maid can also do it. ”
Jiang Xujun saw that Jiang Ruoyan didn't follow, glanced back, saw the two people who were in close contact, snorted, and said, "The seventh prince's shelf is really bigger, do you want the entire Elder Pavilion to wait for you?"
Jiang Ruoyan explained some more things to Lian'er, and then followed.
"The Elders' Pavilion passed on Prince Ben to go for the Qinghe Kingdom Martial Arts Conference in three months?" Jiang Ruoyan asked.
Jiang Xujun stared at Jiang Ruoyan with disdain: "Anyway, I don't need you to participate, ask so much what to do." ”
"Since you don't need Prince Ben to participate, then why do you want to pass on Prince Ben?"
Jiang Ruoyan guessed correctly, it seems that it is the Qinghe Country Martial Arts Competition.
"Humph!"
Faced with Jiang Ruoyan's rhetorical question, Jiang Xujun just snorted coldly and did not answer.
The so-called Qinghe Country Martial Arts Competition is naturally the young martial artists of the entire Qinghe Country competing on the same stage.
This was organized by the Qinghe Kingdom itself, and it was also an important decree issued in response to the Taizhao Dynasty.
In fact, in addition to the Taizhao Dynasty, the other three dynasties had similar decrees in their own spheres of influence.
In the Southern Regions, the Taizhao Dynasty stipulated that all the subject states of the entire Taizhao Dynasty camp, as well as all the external subordinate dynasties, must hold a martial arts tournament every three years, with the kingdom or large county as a unit. Only martial artists between the ages of six and eighteen are eligible to participate. This decree was established as a state policy by the Taizhao Dynasty 700 years ago.
This is to make the people of the country martial arts, so as to enhance the national strength, and also to select talents, so as to implement the "World Recruitment Plan" of the Taizhao Dynasty's military department.
Winning the first place in the martial arts competition can not only get a rich reward, but also get a "military order" issued by the Imperial Military Department, accept the call of the Imperial Military Department at any time, and even have the opportunity to enter the central military camp of the Imperial Dynasty in the future.
A soldier who came out of the central military camp may have higher achievements in the future than a small king like King Qinghe, who also won the "military order" when he was young, but was not conscripted into the central military camp.
Nowadays, the military merit awarding system in various countries has been quite perfect, and everyone wants to enter the central military camp and strive to worship the generals and marquis, and you can imagine how fierce the competition will be.
And in the martial arts competitions of each kingdom, although civilian warriors are also eligible to participate, the quota of the "military order" is also monopolized by the warriors of the big families and large sects.
In the past ten years, there have been three people who have won the military order, the first is Jiang Jichu, the fourth prince of the royal family, the second is Zuo Yuncheng, the eldest disciple of Xuanxu Sect, and the third is Liu Zishan of the Liu family.
The new martial arts tournament will be held on the vernal equinox next year, three months away from today.
The trials in various places have already begun, and the major families have also looked for representatives of the younger generation, ready to show their skills in this martial arts conference.
can win rich rewards, can win a chance to enter the central military camp, and can become famous in a fight.
This tournament is definitely a great event for young warriors to make a name for themselves!
If you look at it three years ago, Jiang Ruoyan is the representative of this year's royal family, but now it seems that the royal family has already re-looked for a representative.
However, Jiang Ruoyan didn't bother to participate, with his knowledge and ability, he could earn enough cultivation resources, and he didn't have to compete to participate in any martial arts competition.
As for the so-called "military order", he will not accept it even more, it is impossible to make him a soldier of the Taizhao Dynasty!
Although it is not clear what exactly happened a thousand years ago, it is certain that with the fall of the Stygian Dynasty, the hands of the four great dynasties were more or less stained with the blood of the people of the Stygian Moon.
One day, the blood debt they owe will be repaid one by one, and none of them will be able to escape!