Chapter Twenty-Seven: Eighth Place
Those Xuanshui Sect disciples on the top of the mountain, their eyes all looked at the teenagers rushing towards the steps, and the few people standing at the front were all smiling and nodding slightly, it seemed that they were very satisfied with the level of the teenagers who participated in the assessment this time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"The time is just right, these little guys really arrived so soon, it seems that what Elder Wang said is right, this assessment of each Xiuzhen family has sent the best of the juniors, there are indeed a few good seedlings, huh? Who's that little guy? The golden-robed middle-aged man in front of everyone on the top of the mountain spoke.
This middle-aged man in a golden robe has bright eyes, his appearance is extremely majestic, and his momentum is fully revealed.
I don't know how Qiu Jizi got here, he just stayed in the open space at the south gate of Xuanyin City until everyone dispersed before leaving, and it has only been more than ten minutes since he left the open space at the south gate, I really don't know how he appeared here.
The people surrounding Qiu Jizi followed his gaze and looked down, and their faces also showed surprise.
At this time, on the road down the mountain, Nan Guo Yan was in front of these teenagers, less than a hundred steps away from the steps, and the teenagers behind followed closely, and the farthest one was only fifty or sixty steps behind Nan Guo Yan.
More than two hundred steps behind Nan Guoyan, Zhao Lengfei's lonely figure was very conspicuous, and everyone on the top of the mountain showed surprise after seeing him.
After the registration review, Elder Wang deliberately drew up a list, and counted those applicants with good qualifications and strong strength, and those who had the hope of passing the assessment, most of the high-level leaders of Xuanshuimen had seen the portraits and information of the people in the list, and the dozen or so people in front of Zhao Lengfei were all noticed when they signed up, and all of them were written into that list without exception, so the high-level leaders of Xuanshuimen on the top of the mountain had a slight impression of these dozen or so teenagers.
These people are all old monsters who have lived for an unknown number of years, and their eyes are very vicious, and they can see Zhao Lengfei's actual age at a glance.
Zhao Lengfei was able to closely follow the children of the Xiuzhen family who were four or five years older than him to this point, and his strength should not be underestimated, which naturally attracted the attention of the high-level officials of the Xuanshui Gate on the top of the mountain, but the list provided by Elder Wang did not have his information.
"How could Elder Wang, such a potential little guy, miss it?" The people at the top of the mountain were surprised and speculated about the reason.
In a few breaths, Nan Guoyan reached the bottom of the steps, he stepped on the stone steps with a bang, the speed did not decrease by half a minute, and he rushed towards the top of the mountain in three steps.
The teenagers behind him arrived at the bottom of the steps but their performance was different, some of the teenagers did not lose the same speed as Nan Guoyan, and some of the teenagers were swaying, and after standing firmly, they could only walk slowly up step by step, looking very difficult to walk, and two teenagers actually fell in front of the stone steps strangely.
The strange appearance of those teenagers Zhao Lengfei saw clearly behind him, although he didn't see the reason, but he was on guard in his heart, and when he chased down the steps, the two teenagers who fell down hadn't even stood up, he glanced at the two teenagers, and just about to lift his feet and step up the stone steps, he felt as if his back had been pushed hard, and his body stumbled and almost fell.
Zhao Lengfei immediately guessed the reason, he stepped on the stone steps with his front foot, and at the same time quickly ran the internal force to stabilize his body, as he expected, as soon as Zhao Lengfei stepped on the stone steps, the thrust disappeared, but the sandbag on his back instantly became several times heavier.
When the teenagers approach the stone steps, the iron sand in the sandbag is attracted by the magnet, which will naturally act on the back of a strong thrust, so there will be a person who is unstable or even falling, after stepping on the stone steps, the thrust becomes gravity, and the speed will naturally slow down.
Zhao Lengfei looked up at the teenagers in front of him, the front was still Nan Guoyan, at this time he had climbed halfway up the steps, and in second place was the white-clothed young man among the twin siblings, he was seven or eight meters away from Nan Guoyan.
Nan Guo Yan's body technique is still light and powerful, you can step up three or four steps in one step, and it is only a matter of minutes to reach the apex, although the white-clothed young man behind him also performed a not weak light martial arts technique, and the speed was not half a point slower than Nan Guo Yan, but it was impossible to catch up with Nan Guo Yan in the last hundred and ten steps, if nothing else, the first assessment was not Nan Guo Yanmo.
Nan Guoyan and the few people behind the young man in white were two or three meters away from each other, and all of them showed their light skills with all their might, desperately rushing upward, it seems that no one wants to be overtaken by the people behind them at this last critical moment.
Zhao Lengfei's Feng Xiangbu is a kind of quite high-level light skill, after use, it can greatly reduce the weight of the body, and increase the speed to the extreme in an instant, if the Feng Xiangbu is cultivated, not only can the weight of the body become a tenth of the real weight in an instant, but also can control the weight of each part of the body at will, and integrate it with other kung fu, and it will make the power of other kung fu increase by half.
Zhao Lengfei didn't succeed in practicing this light skill, and after using all his strength to make the wind Xiang step, he could barely reduce the weight of his body to a quarter of the original, don't look at it, it was just reduced to a quarter of the original, which was enough to increase his speed several times in an instant.
But because of the sandbag on his back, Zhao Lengxiao's speed could not be seen to have increased, he only barely maintained his original speed, but compared with the light skills used by the previous two to strengthen the strength of the lower limbs, step by step speed, it was still more than three or four times faster.
Seventy or eighty meters high steps, if it is in normal times, any of these teenagers can fly up in a few breaths, but at this moment they have already run thirty miles of mountain roads with the weight of you chasing me, and many teenagers have used up their strength, plus they are carrying sandbags weighted by magnets, not to mention flying up, it is good to be able to hold on to the end point.
Especially the two teenagers in front of Zhao Lengfei, they seemed to have exhausted their strength in the chase just now, and after climbing to a third of the height, they no longer had the physical strength to rush to the top of the mountain with light skills, and as soon as their strength was discharged, the movements of the two immediately slowed down, and they could only grit their teeth with their hands and feet and insist on climbing up, Zhao Lengfei overtook these two teenagers when they reached the middle of the stone steps.
At this time, Nan Guoyan had already reached the top of the mountain, and the white-clothed young man who followed him was only three or four meters away from the top of the mountain, and it seemed that there was no suspense about the first and second in this assessment.
The girl closest to Zhao Lengfei in front was the girl among the white-clothed twin siblings, and Zhao Lengfei had more than twenty steps and a distance of five or six meters from her.
The girl obviously fell into this position because her physical strength could not keep up with her brother who was second in line, and her light skills were the same as those of the young man in white, her arms drooped and divided backwards, like arrows, and she could step two or three steps with a light tap of her toe with one foot, but her movements were much slower than the young man in white.
Zhao Lengfei exerted his full strength to show the wind and Xiang step, a few points faster than the girl in white, so he caught up with the other party less than five meters away from the apex, after he and the girl in white stepped on the same stone steps side by side, the girl in white had a thin face, turned her face and glared at Zhao Lengfei fiercely, and then listened to her scream, stomped on the stone steps with both feet, and flew diagonally to the top of the mountain with a "whoosh..."
The girl in white flew over the remaining four or five meters of steps in the air like this, Zhao Lengfei was shocked when he saw the girl reach the top of the mountain so strangely, but he did not hesitate in the slightest, and only reached the top of the mountain one second later than the girl.
"Whew..."After taking a few steps to the top of the mountain, Zhao Lengfei bowed down, pressed his knees with both hands, and gasped for breath, and immediately two Xuanshuimen disciples stepped forward to help him untie the sandbags on his back.
The two Xuanshuimen disciples who helped Zhao Lengfei untie the sandbag changed slightly after sensing the weight of the sandbag, but they didn't say anything after they looked at each other, and after the two of them untied the sandbag on Zhao Lenghai's body, they put it together with the sandbag untied by Nan Guoyan and others, and didn't let the others on the top of the mountain see anything unusual.
After the sandbag was removed, Zhao Lengfei raised his head and stood up straight, at this time, both the people from Xuanshuimen and the teenagers who reached the top of the mountain a few steps earlier than him all focused on him.
It's no wonder that he is only one step slower than those teenagers from the Xiuzhen family, he can't even think about it, Zhao Lengfei can't care so much for the time being, he doesn't pay attention to what other people look at his expressions, he also looks at the teenagers in front of him.
The five people he noticed at the beginning were all here, and there was another man and a woman that he had never seen before, and the two were also fifteen or sixteen years old, except for Zhao Lengfei on the top of the mountain, who was sweating profusely and panting heavily, no one was as tired as him, and the other seven people were not sweating, and even their breath did not change, it seemed that they had not done their best at all just now.
"It seems that even if I use all my strength, it is impossible to surpass these guys, I can only get the eighth place in the first assessment, the strength of these guys in front of me is really strong, could it be that they are all from the Xiuzhen family?"
Zhao Lengfei sighed slightly in his heart, at first he thought that he had the strength to get the top five, but the result was much worse than he expected.
Zhao Lengfei raised his eyes and looked ahead, and the entire top of the mountain was actually a huge stone platform that could accommodate thousands of people, which was very smooth, as if the top of this hill had been cut away.
After a while, the four people in the back also climbed to the top of the mountain one after another, the situation of the first three people was better, they gasped for breath like Zhao Lenghai, and finally the girl fell down because of serious physical overdraft, just reached the top of the mountain, fortunately was supported by the Xuanshuimen disciples who were quick on the side, they helped the girl untie the sandbag and check it, and made sure that the girl was only out of strength, and then helped her to the side to rest.
"You go over there to get the ranking badge for this assessment and the things you need for the next assessment, and then rest on the top of this mountain and wait for the others with peace of mind." An old man with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, wearing the clothes of an elder of Xuanshuimen, pointed to the row of long tables on the side and spoke.
Zhao Lengfei and the dozen or so teenagers went over to receive their respective ranking cards and another cloth bag, his ranking is indeed eighth, the cloth bag is different from the first assessment, it is very small and light, Zhao Lengfei took it and did not open it directly, but first walked to the corner of the mountaintop platform and sat cross-legged, what he needs most now is to recover his strength.
The other teenagers did the same, and each found a place to meditate and rest on the top of the mountain.
There is still a big difference between the physique of people who have practiced martial arts and ordinary people, and they have just run so far with weight, it stands to reason that it is difficult to recover their physical strength for a while and a half, but Zhao Lengfei only meditated for more than ten minutes before adjusting his breathing steadily.
With the recovery of physical strength, the fatigue of Zhao Lengfei's body disappeared for the most part, and he opened the cloth bag and took out the contents one by one, a piece of paper with the content and rules of the second assessment, a dagger with the word "Xuan" printed on the handle, a bag of about half a liter of water, and two fist-sized light green unknown fruits.
"This second item is really a bit difficult." Zhao Lengfei read the contents of the paper and had a general understanding of the second assessment he was going to take.
According to the paper, all the teenagers who pass the first item will be moved to the south of Xuanyin Mountain by the Xuanshui Gate using the Shifting Array, where all the teenagers will be arranged by the Xuanshui Gate examiners to enter the Xuanyin Mountain, and within three days, they can obtain three daggers printed with the words "Xuan", "Water" and "Gate" respectively, and successfully climb over the Xuanyin Mountain, and arrive at the open space at the south gate of the Xuanyin City, only then can they pass this assessment, and the same as the first assessment, the sooner they arrive, the better the results.
Zhao Lengfei glanced at the other teenagers scattered on the platform on the top of the mountain, most of them didn't show any expression after seeing the things in the cloth bag, and one or two people smiled slightly after reading it, thinking that this second assessment was not difficult for them either.
Zhao Lengfei looked at these eleven people one by one, and kept their appearance firmly in his heart, after doing all this, Zhao Lengfei continued to close his eyes and recuperate, and the behavior of the other teenagers was the same as him.
"Elder Liu, what do you think of these dozen teenagers?" Qiu Jizi looked at the twelve teenagers who were resting separately on the platform, and asked the kind old man beside him.
"Master Qiu, I think those little guys from the Xiuzhen family are comparable in strength, I heard that these people are all among the best potential people in the family, both in terms of qualifications and temperament are outstanding, I really don't understand what these old guys of the Xiuzhen family think, they have always cherished themselves very much, how can they be willing to send the future pillars of the family to our Xuanshui Gate this time?
What puzzles me the most is the little guy who won the eighth place, this kid is not from the Xiuzhen family, and he is much younger than other teenagers, even if he is extremely talented, and has a famous teacher to guide martial arts, his strength should not be as good as the next few teenagers who practice martial arts, I really don't know how his strength came about.
As far as I know, this young man was personally reviewed by Elder Wang when he signed up, Elder Wang shouldn't have discovered the strength of this child, but Elder Wang actually didn't write any news about this child in the announcement list, which makes me a little puzzled, this young man is afraid that he will break the record of the youngest age for a child of a non-Xiuzhen family to pass the assessment in a hundred years, from this point of view, the level of young disciples recruited this time is really far beyond the previous sessions. ”
"Elder Liu is right, there are a few little guys who have made me all tempted, in a few years, those masters of the inner gate will fight because of robbing disciples, this first assessment is much more difficult than in previous years, these little guys can easily pass, it is indeed not simple."
Another old man with gray temples beside Qiu Jizi also said with a smile.
After touching about half an hour, there began to be teenagers arriving at the end one after another, these teenagers first received the next assessment items like Zhao Lengfei and then rested on the platform, the difference is that after reading the second assessment description, most of these teenagers have changed their faces slightly, and some teenagers have begun to look for or win over the people they know around, it seems that they hope to join forces to deal with others in the second assessment, after all, the assessment instructions clearly stipulate that it is reasonable for multiple people to act together.
Zhao Lengfei didn't want to find someone to cooperate, he didn't think that anyone could snatch things from his hands, including Nan Guoyan and the pair of brothers and sisters in white, he really couldn't beat them, but there should be no problem in escaping.
Of course, no one came to woo him, after all, except for the dozens of teenagers who arrived at the top of the mountain at the beginning, the teenagers who arrived later did not know Zhao Lengfei's rank and strength, and as soon as they saw his height, they set him as the target of snatching in their hearts, and they would not have the idea of pulling him into the gang at all.
The rules clearly state that as long as you are willing to hand over the dagger, you can't continue to embarrass the other party, and even if you lose your dagger, you can still snatch others, that is to say, as long as you have some strength and luck, you can hope to pass the assessment, so Zhao Lengfei is not worried that he can't pass the second assessment at all, he just cares about what kind of ranking he can achieve in the end.
Just when Zhao Lengfei felt that his physical strength had almost recovered, the Qiu Sect Master, who had been meditating with his eyes closed just now, announced that the time was up, and all the remaining teenagers who had not yet reached the top of the mountain failed the assessment and were eliminated.
Zhao Lengfei estimated that there were about four hundred teenagers who reached the top of the mountain, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised in his heart, the first assessment was so difficult and so many people could pass, it seemed that there were really a lot of powerful teenagers.
How did he know that his sandbags had been tampered with, the sandbags of other teenagers were twice as light as he imagined, if other people's sandbags were really as heavy as he imagined, the teenagers who passed the first assessment were afraid that they would not even be half of what they are now.
Hearing the Qiu Sect Master announce that the time for the first assessment had arrived, the young men who were lying or sitting on the platform stood up one after another and looked at Qiu Jizi's Xuanshui Sect disciples.
One of the middle-aged people stood up, holding a long scroll in his hand and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the first assessment has ended, and now it is up to me, Zhang Lu, the deacon of the outer gate of Xuanshui Gate, to announce the teenagers with outstanding results in the first assessment." ”
"First place: Nan Guoyan
Second place: Bai Feng
Third place: Yan Tu
Fourth place: Xia Yuner
Fifth place: Han Qi
Sixth place: Musen
Seventh place: Baifu
Eighth place: Zhao Lengfei
Ninth place: Wu Feng
10th place second laugh
Eleventh Sun Yuanwu
12th place Gongye Ya"
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