Chapter 22: Martial Arts Conference (2)
As the morning dawned, there were more and more Taoist priests on the road, most of whom did not know each other, and the larger Taoist temples held banners, with as few as seven or eight people and as many as twenty people, and Guo Song found that the number of them was the least.
Not long after, they came to the square outside the gate of the Zixiao Heavenly Palace in Zhongtai, the Zixiao Heavenly Palace is the Taoist Palace where the Son of Heaven came three times, covering a huge area, built with golden splendor, the palace is magnificent, just a heavenly palace occupies a full 20 acres of land, up to more than 30 meters, and the gold plaque has the three big characters of 'Sanqing Palace' written by Tang Xuanzong Li Longji imperial pen handwriting.
The square was crowded with nearly a thousand Taoist priests, all of whom were Taoist priests outside the palace, which was a very polite official written title, commonly known as the wild road.
The Taoist priests are very young, which is also limited by the rules, and the Taoist priests who participate in the martial arts must be over fourteen years old and under thirty years old.
Guo Song looked up and looked around for the little eagle, and finally found that the little guy actually stopped on the eaves of the heavenly hall of the Zixiao Heavenly Palace, looking at him condescendingly.
At this time, Mu Zhenren and Huo Lizhen came over, and Huo Lizhen said to everyone: "I have already signed up, Qingxuguan is in Xuanhu Palace, we are in Red Ape Palace, we have to break up temporarily." ”
The two families hurriedly wished each other success, Guo Song was a little puzzled, and asked Mu Zhenren: "Master, didn't you say that you were competing in Zixiao Heavenly Palace?" ”
"Zixiao Heavenly Palace is the last eighty people to win the competition, the initial competition and the advanced competition are arranged in the Xuanhu Palace and the Red Ape Palace, the two palaces each take forty people, which are subdivided into two groups, A and B, the third is in Group A, and you are in Group B."
"What is the reason for this?"
"Age!"
Gan Lei smiled and said: "Under the age of twenty is Group B, and over the age of twenty is Group A, each of the two groups will take twenty people, and the last eighty people will fight in Zixiao Palace, regardless of age........
Gan Lei's voice stopped abruptly, he looked ahead blankly, Guo Song followed his gaze, and saw a group of young Dao girls coming in front of him, walking in line, exactly twenty people, all of them with beautiful appearances.
The Taoist priests got out of the way of a big road, and the originally noisy square became very quiet, looking at them silently one by one, the Taoist aunts had frosty faces, did not squint, each carrying a long sword, and under the leadership of the three old Taoist aunts, they walked directly into the gate of Zixiao Palace.
Guo Song's eyesight is excellent, he recognized his brother's sweetheart Li Wenyu at a glance, she is in the fourth row, although she is the same expressionless, but when she walks over here, her eyes turn slightly to this side, ordinary people can't see it, but if you know the relationship between her and Gan Lei, you can faintly feel a little subtle.
Gan Lei was like being struck by lightning, he scratched his head and grinned like a fool.
Guo Song now believes that his cheeky senior brother has really touched the heart of this Dao girl.
"Master, the one on the left of the fourth row!" Guo Song told Mu Zhenren in an extremely low voice.
Mu Zhenren nodded, "The taller and chubby one in the seventh row is called Wu Hui, your senior brother once had a year of infatuation with her, and he stole a pair of shoes from her, but three old witches came up the mountain to force me to apologize." ”
Guo Song's poof! A laugh came out loud, it turned out that the allusion to stealing shoes came from here.
Gan Lei was still giggling, he didn't know that his old bottom had been leaked by his master.
"Let's go! Go to Xuanhu Palace. ”
Mu Zhenren led the two of them to the Xuanhu Palace in Xitai.........
The martial arts conference is a four-day competition, the first three days are the preliminary round and the semi-finals, called the martial arts preliminary and martial arts sprint, and the fourth day is the martial arts championship, that is, the final.
There is no team competition in all competitions, only individual competitions, and the opponent is determined by drawing lots, of course, not by the contestants themselves, but by the three real people of the Xuanhu Palace who are responsible for drawing lots.
"That's it!"
Wu Miaozhen pointed to a note marked with ink dots in the cardboard box, and the registered Taoist priest next to him hurriedly handed him the note.
Wu Miaozhen opened the note, and the name inside was Qingxuguan Guo Song.
With a blank face, he took out another note from his bosom and handed the two notes together to the registered Taoist priest, "These two people are drawn as the opponents of the first round. ”
The registered Taoist priest opened another note, and the name on it was Zhang Qinghu of Xuanhu Palace.
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A total of more than 2,400 Taoist priests participated in this year's martial arts meeting, and 1,200 people were allocated to the Xuanhu Palace and the Red Ape Palace.
Among the 1,200 people in the Xuanhu Palace, Group A and Group B over the age of 20 account for almost half.
This means that Guo Song's group B has about 600 people competing for twenty places, and five hundred people will be eliminated in the first two days, and the remaining 100 people will enter the martial arts sprint competition on the third day, competing for twenty tickets to enter Zixiao Heavenly Palace.
Ganlei's group A is not much better, and it is also 600 people competing for 20 tickets.
In the same way, the Red Ape Palace also has to decide forty places.
In the end, the eighty people from the two palaces won the decisive battle in the Zixiao Heavenly Palace.
This is a quadrennial event in Kongtong Mountain, and the top 10 winners will receive extremely rich prizes.
On the east square of the Xuanwu Palace, there is a huge gossip map made of bricks, which can allow eight pairs of players to compete at the same time.
Guo Song has already known his game point, he is the tenth round of the Xun position, that is, the southeast position, the opponent does not know for the time being, during the game, the opponent will appear in the Xun position at the same time.
The bottom of the martial arts practice square was full of young Taoist children, they sat farther away, and they could see the competition on the stage, but Zixiao disdained to sit with the wild daoists, they sat in the north, the team was neatly aligned, all black Taoist robes, it looked quite imposing, as if to let the wild daoists understand what the rules were.
It's a pity that the wild Taoist children from various Taoist temples are not interested in their sitting posture at all, and they have no intention of following suit, so everyone sits on the ground in groups of three or five.
Ye Daotong sat in the south, Guo Song and several Daotong sat under a big tree, at this time, someone patted him on the shoulder, Guo Song turned around, it was the third senior brother Gan Lei.
"Senior brother, what's the matter?"
"Come here!" Ganlei's face was a little ugly.
Guo Song followed him to the corner against the wall, there was no one here, and he saw that the muscles on Gan Lei's face twitched, and his eyes were full of anger.
"Senior brother, what's wrong?"
Gan Lei gritted his teeth and said, "I just found out, why did you choose twenty young Dao Gu to enter the Zixiao Heavenly Palace?" ”
"Why?"
It was Bai Yun Zhenren's old miscellaneous hair who made the decision, if the Zixiao disciples could make it to the top three, they could choose one of the twenty Dao Sisters to join the dual cultivation.
Only then did Guo Song understand where Gan Lei's hatred came from? There is very likely to be a hatred of taking a wife!
"Maybe they don't like Senior Sister Li, so they won't choose her."
"Who says it won't!"
Gan Lei grabbed Guo Song's neck violently and yelled in his ear: "That Lei Lingzi, who is known as the number one master, has been pursuing Wen Yu all along, I'm going crazy." ”
"I'm going to be strangled to death by you!"
Guo Song struggled to break free of his hand, and glared angrily: "My own woman fights by herself, it's my business!" ”
Gan Lei slowly lowered his head, "Little junior brother, I'm sorry, I lost my temper just now. ”
Guo Song saw that he was like a rooster who had lost before fighting, and he pitied him and annoyed him.
"Senior brother, since you like her, then work hard and strive to get into the top three, even if you can't kill her, at least let Senior Sister Li know that you are working hard for her, instead of admitting defeat before you compare, I believe that your fate is yours, and others can't take it away!"
The blood surged on the top of Gan Lei's head, his eyes flashed with fire, and he gritted his teeth and said: "You're right, whoever dares to rob my woman, Lao Tzu will fight with him!" ”
He turned and strode away.
Guo Song shook his head, this time Senior Brother is probably really in trouble.
He lowered his head and thought about it, and came to the outside of the Xuanwu Palace to find the master, according to the rules, Mu Zhenren could not enter the competition site.
Mu Zhenren saw Guo Song from afar, and couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly walked forward and asked, "Old Five, you were eliminated so quickly?" ”
"Master, the competition hasn't started yet! I want to exchange a sword with you. ”
Guo Song still decided to use his master's ironwood sword, even if he injured his opponent, he would be able to speak.
Mu Zhenren handed him the wooden sword and smiled: "It seems that you finally want to open it." ”
Guo Song nodded silently, took the iron and wood sword and said, "The disciple has entered!" ”
"Go ahead!"
Guo Song took two steps, then stopped and turned back to the master and said, "Master, pay attention to the third senior brother, he may find trouble with Lei Lingzi in private." ”
"That's him looking for death, Lei Lingzi's martial arts are much higher than him."
"That's why the disciple is worried."
Mu Zhenren snorted, "Paying for my life for a woman, I don't have such a disciple!" ”
Guo Song was speechless, it seemed that the master knew everything, he bowed down to the master, turned around and walked quickly into the Xuanwu Palace.