Niuliu Mountain, to be precise, should be called "Niuliuji".

The Axe River reaches here, splits into two, and then merges after bypassing the Niuliuji.

After being divided into two, the width of the river did not shrink, but became wider. The width of each of the two forked rivers is more than 30 zhang, which is not narrower than the original whole river.

Niuliuji is more than 60 zhang high, in the form of double peaks, but one of the peaks is artificially flattened, and the competition platform is built.

The other peak next to it is ten zhang higher than the Wutai platform, which happens to be used as a viewing seat.

The scenery of Niuliuji is charming, the trees on the mountain are verdant, the trees are uneven, the vines are verdant, there are ancient trees towering to the sky, and there are also bamboo forests like the sea.

Although the rocks and shallow soil of Niuliuji are craggy, all kinds of plants and trees still break the soil and gravel between the cracks of the stones, and grow luxuriantly.

The Axe River is murmuring and crystal clear, with a breeze and ripples.

Occasionally, there are small shrimp with green skin and silver scales, playing in the water, walking through the mud of the aquatic grass river, living like a fresh natural picture.

A month has passed in a blink of an eye, and the much-watched Dongyi "Ten Directions to Fight" event has also begun.

Because the Niuliushan competition was jointly held by the Central Plains Dynasty and the Dongyi Alliance, the opening ceremony was also very grand.

The Dongyi Alliance and the Ten Great Families each sent three high-level Refining God Realms to give speeches! At the same time, the six of them are also the judges of this competition.

Although the number of people is an even number, there may be three votes against three votes, but even if it is a fierce and "evenly divided" competition, you can always see the subtle differences; Some of the bigwigs of the referee team are old men, and they are still very scruples about face, and they basically do not favor their own side, so the probability of three to three is extremely small.

At the same time, the Central Plains side and the Dongyi Alliance each sent three people, which can be regarded as a kind of performance of checks and balances, if one side has obvious favoritism, the other side can also fight on the basis of reason, and the worst is just a draw.

At this time, the cow stream was already crowded and lively.

In previous years, there were about 30,000 people watching the Niuliushan competition, and because of the size of Niuliuji itself, the viewing platform was always overcrowded in the past, and it was really crowded.

This year, due to special reasons, only 10,000 people are allowed to watch the game, so relatively speaking, it will not look too chaotic.

In addition, most of the people who are qualified to watch the battle are of high quality, and only a few are arrogant and do not pay attention to public morality.

And this time the Niuliu Mountain competition is very delicate, there are six high-level refining gods in the town alone, and they all represent a big force. So even those few thorns are now extra cautious and careful.

After everyone was in place, an old man from the Dongyi Alliance's Refining God Ninefold Realm began to preside over the competition. This is Dongyi's territory, so it is natural to give people face.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Although there have been occasional frictions between the Dongyi Alliance and the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years, they are still based on peaceful coexistence. The Niuliushan competition specially invited young talents from the Central Plains to come to learn from each other, which is also intended to promote exchanges and understanding between the young people of our two sides and enhance the friendship between the two sides. I hope that all the talents will stop at the point, and they will never hurt the harmony! ”

A set of seemingly beautiful opening remarks, in fact, there is no nutrition, who doesn't know the relationship between the Central Plains and Dongyi, it is about learning martial arts, and who knows what interests are involved behind it.

After the opening remarks, several bigwigs were introduced, and the audience applauded warmly. After a few people briefly said two sentences such as "the friendship between the Central Plains and Dongyi lasts forever", they got to the point.

The members of the Central Plains team and the Dongyi team each fought in a row, and they reported their names to each other face to face and at close range, and they were familiar with each other.

Zishang is also among the Central Plains team, under the pseudonym Baili Shang.

This was done by the elders of the Baili family, saying that he wanted him to learn from the young warriors of Dongyi, increase his experience, and at the same time contribute to the face of the Central Plains......

In this way, Zishang was forcibly pulled into the ranks.

In the information provided to Dongyi, Baili Shang was nineteen years old, in the late stage of the Qi Refining Double Realm, so Zishang spent a lot of time "putting on makeup" before going out, and he looked a little older.

Standing opposite Zishang is a Dongyi woman, and it is difficult to judge from her appearance alone to say how old she is...... However, since you can participate in the competition, it must be every thirty.

"Oh my God! The...... Belch...... Brother Tai is really strong enough......"

Zishang was secretly surprised in his heart, Dongyi is really a fierce people! should be at the age of a flower-like jade, but he has grown the figure of a big man! The skin is also very rough, and the strength of the "torture" like this seems to be good!

Zishang hugged his fists and said: "In the lower hundred miles of Shang, in the late stage of the Qi Refining Dual Realm!" ”

The female man simply clenched her fists and shouted, "Huang Lu, late stage of the Qi Refining Triple Realm." ”

Don't look at her, although she looks good enough, her voice is still more feminine.

After a pause, she said again: "I have an impression of you, and the information says that you are only nineteen!" ”

In this regard, Zishang only smiled faintly and did not explain.

"Hehe, the young man is quite handsome, and his smile is more cute, haha!"

Listening to Huang Lu's flirtatious words, Zishang's face immediately darkened, as if he had been molested by a man. It's blasphemous, and it's an indescribable cold.

The meeting between the two sides was brief, and after a brief introduction, they returned to the waiting area to wait.

Officially, the competition was conducted in a free manner, but in practice it was impossible to do so.

On the one hand, in order to meet the audience's viewing needs, the competition is mainly performed in order from low strength to high strength. The martial artists of the low-level Qi Refining Realm came out first to compete with each other, and then the ones with the highest strength came out in the back.

On the other hand, anyone who asks to come on stage must get the consent of the Maison's top brassips, and sometimes they even name some people to play.

Zishang is in the late stage of the Qi Refining Dual Realm, and nominally belongs to the Baili family, basically belonging to the first batch of martial artists to come to power.

There are ten major families in the Central Plains, and Dongyi also has seven tribes and eight noble surnames, namely Xu, Li, Zhao, Huang, Ma, Tan, Hao, and Jiang.

Basically, there is a main surname for each tribe. However, there are two noble surnames among the largest Xu Yi tribes in the Dongyi tribes, one is the surname Xu, and the other is also the surname Ying.

A long time ago, the Ying clan was a big clan comparable to the surname Xu, but there was a huge conflict within them for a while, and the Dongyi Alliance mediated and decided to let some of the Ying people move to the Central Plains as a shadowshadowing.

That part of the Ying clan accounted for forty percent of their entire clan, and after arriving in the Central Plains, they became their own lineage, and the part of the Ying surname in the Xu Yi tribe was greatly reduced in strength due to splitting, and it is still suppressed by the surname Xu.

When Yinghao overthrew Dashang and established the Dahao Dynasty to fight against Dongyi, the people of the Dongyi Alliance scolded him for being shameless and forgetting his roots, so the people surnamed Ying in the Xuyi tribe should be surnamed Huang.

Because the surname Huang is much stronger than other tribal surnames in terms of number and strength, and meets the standard of your surname, the surname Huang is one of the noble surnames.

The Xu Yi tribe has two noble surnames, and for a long time, no one can shake the dominance, so the leader of the Dongyi Alliance has always been surnamed Xu.

In addition, the two surnames "Li" and "Jiang" in the eight noble surnames are also related to the two major families of Li and Jiang in the Central Plains, similar to the history of the two surnames Ying and Huang, but they are different.

In short, the relationship between these two noble surnames and the two great families is very delicate, so I will not mention it here for the time being.

Among the eight noble surnames of Dongyi, the strongest is undoubtedly the surname Xu, and the surname Xu Tianjiao is naturally the children of the three leading families of the ten families, Gongsun, Concubine and Dongfang.

followed by the four surnames of Li, Zhao, Huang and Jiang, corresponding to the four families of Qi, Baili, Li and Feng.

In other words, the first to appear were the weakest Murong, the children of the Jiang family and the three clansmen of Dongyi Hao, Ma, and Tan.

The low-level Qi Refining Realm martial artists who could participate in this competition were actually even fewer than the middle-level Qi Refining Realm martial artists, with a total of only a hundred people. The main thing is to give those Tianjiao under the age of twenty-five who are under the age of twenty-five at the Central Plains Family Small Summit an opportunity to learn.

And these people are much more powerful than ordinary low-level Qi Refining Realms, the amount of true qi in the bodies of low-level Qi Refining Realm martial artists is not too different, and some Tianjiao can even leapfrog in the low-level Qi Refining Realm interval.

What's more, he has the strength of a mid-level Qi Refining Realm martial artist!

The martial arts platform had a radius of nearly thirty zhang, so three competitions were held at the same time, and more than one hundred and twenty battles were held in the low-level Qi Refining Realm.

Among them, the eye-catching ones are: Gongsun Baima, Qi Yi, Wind Blowing Clothes in the late stage of the Triple Realm, and ...... Sub-merchants.

It is normal for the first three to receive attention, they are five, six or seven in this small summit, and they are very strong. However, Zishang, a nineteen-year-old young man in the late stage of the Triple Realm, actually swept through the Triple Realm and defeated two Triple Realm martial artists. In the end, he competed with the Dongyi youth "Zhao Xudong" in a hundred moves, but unfortunately lost.

This Zhao Xudong is a Dongyi talent on a par with the wind blowing clothes!

Before, Zishang was fighting with others several times, and although he rested for a while, he still had consumption.

Therefore, whether it is Zhao Xudong or Fengyi, they estimate that if they compete with Zishang in their heyday, they will win or lose five or five points.

In this way, through this competition, Zishang became a dark horse and was known by everyone in the name of Baili Shang!

Huang Lu, a Dongyi woman who couldn't see her age, said to the people around her in the viewing area, "I already knew that this kid was not ordinary, look!" Awesome! "I look like I'm very familiar with the businessman.

Originally, Zishang still felt that he had given all the limelight to "Baili Shang", and he was a little unhappy; Now I catch a glimpse of Huang Lu's appearance, but I am extremely glad that I have a pseudonym "Baili Shang".

……

In the entire process of the low-level Qi Refining Realm martial artists, the victory and defeat of the Central Plains and Dongyi were not much different.

After the end of these low-level Qi Refining Realm discussions, it was a transition period, and it was also a relatively exciting time.

Because the top four of this small summit are about to play!

Gongsun Chunzhou and Yu Qin, the two of them fought against Tianjiao in the middle of the Dongyi Quadruple Realm in the early stage of the Quadruple Realm!

Yu Qin fought with his opponent for 200 moves, and he accidentally lost it, but his opponent was also uncomfortable and almost exhausted.

Gongsun Chunzhou was calm and composed, and spent three hundred rounds with his opponent, and finally caught the slightest flaw, defeated him, and won bursts of cheers.

Dongfang Yuesheng, twenty-three years old, has completed the triple realm of qi refining, challenging the young talents of Dongyi who has just entered the quadruple realm, defeating the enemy in a hundred moves, and astonishing the audience!

The fourth place in the small summit is the Tianjiao of the Li family, whose overall strength is below average-Li Qixian!

The realm at the pinnacle of the Triple Realm also challenged the early martial artists of the Quadruple Realm, defeating the enemy in one hundred and fifty moves. The dazzling swordsmanship and body skills made everyone look at it.

Compared to him, the Baili Tiger, who is also at the peak of the Triple Realm, is overshadowed, and he can still defeat Dongyi Tianjiao at the same level, but he doesn't have the ability to challenge the next level.

After the wonderful leapfrogging challenge of these four people, it was the competition of the mid-level Qi Refining Realm Heavenly Pride!

There were 113 men on both sides, and there were 200 duels, which lasted until the next morning.

This time, the Central Plains Tianjiao did not perform well, with only 80 wins and two draws in 200 games.

In the pinnacle duel of the Sixfold Realm, except for Gongsun Yueyi, who stepped into the Sevenfold Realm, won, Dongfang Ziyang and Yutu ended miserably.

The three Central Plains bigwigs of the referee team were pale, and they could see that the Central Plains youths were not playing abnormally, but even so, Tianjiao of the Dongyi Alliance still won more victories.

Especially in the battle at the level of the Sixfold Realm, Dongfang Ziyang had a record of fifty moves with the peak martial artist of the Sixfold Realm, but this time his opponent, Xu Bozhou, who was in the middle of the Sixfold Realm, defeated him with only one hundred moves.

The strongest young man on Dongyi's side, "Xu Yuan", with the divine power of the gods, made a heavy halberd, and with the realm of the late stage of the Sixfold Realm, he actually burst out with the power of the Sixfold Realm, and injured Gongsun Yueyi, who had just entered the Sevenfold Realm!

The bigwigs of the Central Plains were shocked by the strength and talent of Dongyi youth, and they were also very dissatisfied with the results of the competition.

The three of the Dongyi Alliance smiled calmly, didn't talk much, and occasionally looked at each other, and could see a flash of surprise and excitement in each other's eyes.

This battle ended with the peak duel between Gongsun Yueyi and Xu Yuan, but the battle was far from over.

In the original plan, the personnel of the two sides would stay here for seven to ten days, and there were thousands of fierce battles, and finally the six judges argued a leaderboard.

Of course, it is not public.

And the significance of this leaderboard...... It's about politics.

The Central Plains and Dongyi are both very weak on the surface, and the army is generally a martial artist in the body refining realm, and even ordinary young and middle-aged people. Middle- and grass-roots officers are generally Qi Refining Realm martial artists, and there are very few bigwigs in the God Refining Realm.

But in fact, how could a huge dynasty and a huge alliance of Dongyi tribes lack talents?

Those things on the surface are just to make excuses for the people behind the scenes, and act as a fig leaf.

Those people who hide in the dark and manipulate the pattern of Shenzhou will not directly break out into conflict unless they have to, their patience is far beyond ordinary people, as long as it is not a devastating war, they always like to create all kinds of "games" and "gambling games" to fight the winner.

In order to prevent most people whose ideological realm is not as high as those of these bigwigs, the boycott of such "games" and "gambling games" is ostensibly a cover for all kinds of cooperation and exchanges.

The Niuliushan competition is such a "game".

The conflict of interests involved is also the question of the ownership of the vast regional sphere of influence from Meng Zhuze to Laiyi in the next ten years.

In the early stage of the Dahao Dynasty, in order to stabilize the government. The Dongyi forces are eyeing these places and have stretched out their tentacles to try to occupy them.

Now, after more than 30 years of governance, the Dahao Dynasty has also begun to regain control of these marginal areas, and in this way, the contradictions between the two sides have arisen.

The disputed area accounts for one-fortieth of the total area of the Dahao Dynasty, and there are many ancient ruins, which are of great value.

Each person represents a certain area, and the stronger the strength, the greater the range. Like Zishang, it also represents the area of several villages.

The current situation can only vaguely judge the approximate sphere of influence obtained by the two sides, with the Central Plains accounting for less than 40 percent and the Dongyi accounting for more than 60 percent.