Chapter 0175: The Preliminary Tournament Begins
The Tiejianmen group followed in front, and behind the people from other sects, they came to the front of the martial arts arena in the imperial capital.
A three- or four-meter-high wall was erected around the martial arts arena where the sect conference was held. There was a battalion of troops stationed in the arena, and onlookers who wanted to enter the arena needed to spend three hundred taels of silver to enter.
Although many people had the heart to watch the excitement, they were turned away because they couldn't give three hundred taels of silver. However, there are still many young ladies of the family who are willing to spend three hundred taels to enter the martial arts arena to watch.
With just three hundred taels of tickets, the royal family received millions of taels of silver in just one hour.
Of course, the sects participating in the sect conference can enter the martial arts arena as long as they rely on the participation order, and they don't need to spend three hundred taels of silver.
Along the way, in the process of the Iron Sword Gate walking to the martial arts arena, except for a little friction with the disciples of the Wind Pole Gate, it was still very smooth.
To enter the martial arts arena, you need to queue up.
Tiejianmen and the others, in accordance with the rules, lined up in turn and waited to enter.
While waiting in line, Jun Sai accidentally saw a sect wearing a strange totem. Their clothes were printed with patterns like snakes spitting letters, and each of them wore a face towel over his face and was bareheaded. At first glance, I thought it was a monk from a temple.
Jun Sai looked carefully and noticed a very inconspicuous detail, that is, the disciples of this sect who participated in the sect conference all had a black mark on the back of their necks, which resembled eyes but did not look like eyes.
The third senior brother Xia Yang stood behind Jun Sai, watched Jun Sai look motionless towards the right front, and asked curiously, "Senior Brother Jun, what are you looking at?"
Jun Xi pointed to the sect that made him feel strange, and said, "Senior Brother Xia, can you see which sect this is?"
Xia Yang fixed his eyes, and from the clothes on their bodies and the sign of their bald heads, he recalled in his mind a sect from Tongzhou, the "Snake Ghost Gate".
"If I'm not mistaken, they are from the Snake Ghost Sect" Although Xia Yang was at the bottom of the cultivation among these five people, he almost knew about the participating sects in the five states of the Dragon Teng Empire. As the saying goes, "only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one win a hundred battles", Xia Yang naturally knew this truth, so before participating in the conference, he learned about most of the participating sects.
"The name of this sect is a little weird, which makes people feel a chill down their spines when they hear it" Jun Sai saw the disciples of the Snake Ghost Sect, and he was a little worried about the other four people who participated with him. Because just now, Jun Sai slightly tested it, wanting to find out what kind of cultivation they were, but when he found the second person in the positive number, the moment that person turned back suddenly, Jun Sai withdrew to investigate, and at this time, the second person of the Snake Ghost Gate looked in the direction of the Iron Sword Gate, as if he was looking for something.
"Huh?" Seeing the senior brother behind him looking around, the senior brother of the snake ghost sect asked curiously, "Second junior brother, what's wrong?"
"Senior brother, just now I seem to feel a powerful spiritual sense snooping on me behind me. However, the moment I turned around, it disappeared again?" said Chu Wei of the Snake Ghost Gate.
"There are still people who dare to snoop so blatantly. Lu Feng, the senior brother of the Snake Ghost Sect, said.
"However, I just sensed a hint of threat in an instant. I'm afraid that this person is an obstacle to our sect's conference, and I want to find him!" Chu Wei still sensed the surroundings, looking for the Jun Sacrifice.
And the elder of the Snake Ghost Sect sensed that the disciple was perceiving, and immediately said, "Chu Wei, hurry up and put away your perception, don't let others find out your true strength too early."
The elder in the door spoke, Chu Wei naturally wanted to listen, and hurriedly put away his perception, and the moment he turned his head, his eyes and the eyes of the monarch priest met for a moment. At this moment, Chu Wei felt the pressure of strength brought to him by the Jun Sacrifice.
"Senior brother, I found someone. He just stared at me, and I don't think it's easy to be a person. The last one behind you is wearing a Dao robe with an iron sword logo on his chest, which one is there?" Chu Wei transmitted the message to Senior Brother Lu Feng.
When Lu Feng heard this, he turned his head and glanced back at Jun Sai curiously, but Jun Sai didn't make eye contact with him, he said, "This person looks very ordinary, I can't feel a threat to us." Besides, junior brother. You have forgotten what the master told us before we left, there are no more than five people who can really pose a threat to us. Don't worry, this person is not our brother's opponent. ”
The leader of the Snake Ghost Sect, the elder of the sect, said to the five participating disciples behind him: "You all follow me, and when we go in immediately, cheer me up." In the first round of today's primary, all five people have to advance, clear!"
"Clear, Elder Mu" The five of them said in unison, with firm eyes in their eyes.
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Soon, the Tiejianmen group passed the checkpoint at the entrance of the martial arts arena and entered the imperial capital martial arts arena.
In the martial arts arena, at a glance, there are twenty-five rings of about five zhang in size, which are prominently placed on the middle open space of the martial arts arena. And the arena is surrounded by stands, as if they were in the Colosseum.
There are a total of five states in the Dragon Teng Kingdom, so the sects or sects of each state sit together, like the five corners of the five-pointed star sitting separately. And the empty seats between each state are the random seats of the spectators who buy tickets and come in.
The Iron Sword Gate was one of the eight sects participating in the meeting in Youzhou, but it was the farthest from the main stand. On the left side of Youzhou is Jiangzhou, on the right is Yunzhou, on the left diagonally opposite is Zhongzhou, and on the right diagonally opposite Jiangzhou.
Each state region had eight sects participating, a total of forty sects, and 200 people participating. These two hundred people are basically the strongest group of people in the youngest generation of the Dragon Teng Kingdom.
The Tiejianmen and his party quickly found the seats of the eight sects in Youzhou. The eight sects are lined up, which does not block the line of sight, but also allows you to see the specific strength of each person in each ring.
The scorching sun was gradually shining in the sky, and the hour was approaching.
The audience and the participating sects also arrived one after another.
At this moment, an army under the banner of "Dragon Soul" took the entire martial arts arena into action.
A middle-aged man in a white robe hurriedly walked to the most central ring in the martial arts arena.
"Heads and elders, as well as the contestants of the Sect Conference, welcome to the largest martial arts arena in the imperial capital. The middle-aged man said, "First of all, let us welcome my esteemed majesty to come."
"Bang Bang..."
There was a round of applause.
As far as Jun Sai could see, a middle-aged man with a pale beard and sideburns, wearing a yellow dragon robe, walked up from under the main stand and sat on the main dragon chair in the main stand.
Eighteen seats were set up under the Lord's seat. Nine on the left and right. These eighteen seats are arranged in order according to the position of the imperial court.
Next to Long Canghai are his two favorite princes, and under the prince are the courtiers.
The last two seats on the left and right are reserved for the patriarchs of the four major families.
Although the main stand seat of the four major families is leaning at the bottom, it does not mean that the status and strength of the four major families are inferior to those of the courtiers. On the contrary, the true status of the four great families was above that of some courtiers who sat in front of them.
This ranking is just abiding by the etiquette of Longteng.
Lin Zhengfeng, the head of the Lin family, sat at the bottom of the left side of the main stand, and was also the last. The reason why he chose this position was because he didn't want others to see that the person he really cared about was the king's sacrifice. In this way, it is avoided that others will not be suspicious and unable to see his real focus, and the royal sacrifice will not attract the attention of others.
"Guys, young talents. This sect conference, give full play to it, in order to leave no regrets...... "Long Canghai's majestic and thick voice, like a wave of sound, reached everyone's ears.
"This?" After hearing this, the expression on Jun Sai's face was a little solemn and surprised.
Xia Yang, who was beside Jun Sai, bumped Jun Sai with his shoulder, the expression on his face was not surprised at all, and said, "Are you surprised?" The emperor of our Longteng Kingdom is still a powerhouse of the Venerable Realm."
"Senior Brother Xia, do you already know?" Jun Sai asked.
"Of course, don't you know that the emperor is..."Xia Yang knew the taboo words, and he couldn't say them on this occasion, but he was close to the ears of the monarch and whispered: "The dragon chair on which the dynasty usurped the throne sat on has the world." ”
No matter how quiet Xia Yang was, his words were also heard by the door master Shang Yu, and he scolded Xia Yang angrily: "Xia Yang, don't you want to live, do you still want to affect us?"
Xia Yang suddenly closed his mouth like a child who had done something wrong and was reprimanded and admonished by his father.
Shang Yu said: "Xia Yang, if you say this to Jun Sai, you are not afraid that the wall will have ears. If people with ulterior motives listen to it, our Iron Sword Gate will be finished. At that time, even I will not be able to protect you. The whole door will be implicated. ”
"Door master, I'm sorry" Xia Yang apologized.
Shang Yu said: "You remember for me, this is not the Iron Sword Gate, what should be said and what should not be said, you had better be clear and keep your mouth shut." Woe to the mouth!"
Xia Yang nodded, indicating that he already knew.
At this time, Shang Yu suddenly felt that the proposal made by Elder Huang and Elder Chen that day was not unreasonable. Without the experience of the rivers and lakes under the protection of the sect, the disciples in the sect can grow up quickly from infancy. Only by going through hardships can we know that people's hearts are unpredictable and the rivers and lakes are sinister.
"Finally, I wish you all the young people good results in the sect conference" Long Canghai finished speaking for a few minutes.
The middle-aged man on the martial arts arena said in a loud voice: "Since Your Majesty, you didn't say the rules of the sect conference. Then I'll talk about the rules of the sect assembly here.
There are three rounds of the primary competition for the sect conference, which will be held in three days. Each round is a knockout round, and the contestants draw lots to randomly assign their opponents. Every day is divided into morning and afternoon games, after a round, the winner directly advances to the score of three points, the loser is out of the game for zero points, if the two sides are drawn, the two sides are out of the game for zero points.
The second round is also a random selection of opponents from the winners of the first round, the winner will score three points, the loser will be out of the game with zero points, and if the two sides are tied, both sides will be out of the game with zero points.
The same is true for the third round.
If nothing else, the 25 players after three rounds will be drawn, and the contestants who draw the 25th will have a bye in the fourth round and directly enter the fifth round.
In the fourth round, the winner will receive three points and the loser will receive one point.
The thirteen winners of the fifth round will enter the challenge.
Now, I'm going to talk about the rules of the challenge.
Everyone can challenge a total of three times in the challenge, and everyone has a chance to challenge, with the winner scoring three points, the two sides drawing scoring one point, and the loser scoring zero points.
After the three challenges, the top 10 will be ranked according to the points, and the top 10 will be selected to enter the final qualifying stage.
Qualifying, and then draw lots to select the opponent. The points rules are the same as those of a challenge.
The top five in the total points of the final qualifying competition can receive rewards from the royal family, and the sect where they belong will also receive the support of the royal family's cultivation resources, and the specific rewards will be announced at the end. For six to ten contestants, the royal family will provide five different categories of rewards: Beast Bone, Secret Realm, Weapon, Pill, and Spirit Grass.
At that time, you will distribute it yourself.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've already made the specific rules clear, and it's up to you next!"
"Then, I announce the official start of the primaries!" the middle-aged man finished speaking, and walked directly out of the middle ring.