After the short-haired girl appeared, the other Rongguo students in the courtyard quieted down, and they only looked at the girl quietly from the corner of their eyes, looking at her eyes full of anger, and no one dared to touch her moldy head at this time.

The girl walked to the stone table in the middle of the courtyard, and only then did she stop, her face was gloomy, her eyes were like torches, she looked at Wang Zhi and Li Gang lying on the ground, and asked sharply: "I heard just now, it was you who lost to Jiang Guo?"

"Spare your life, we're just careless, and we won't be next time. Wang Zhi and Li Gang hurriedly knelt on the ground, trembling all over, and begging for mercy with trembling voices.

The tall boy who taught Wang Zhi and Li Gang before walked in front of the short-haired girl, he was a few years older than the girl, and his body was half a head taller, but his attitude towards the girl was very humble. The rules of the Glorious Continent have always been that the strong are respected, regardless of age, and obviously, this thirteen-year-old girl with short hair is the strongest among these people.

The tall young man leaned down and pleaded: "Lian Ying, I have already taught them a hard lesson just now, and they also know that they are wrong, so spare them." “

The girl named Lian Ying glared at the tall boy fiercely, and said angrily: "Wang Zhen, you should know that what I hate the most is Jiang Guo, I can give in to anything, but I will never forgive you for losing to Jiang Guo." ”

Looking at the angry girl, Wang Zhen didn't dare to say more, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his eyes couldn't help but pass a touch of horror, and sighed helplessly in his heart: Hey, Wang Zhi, Li Gang, I can't save you anymore, who made you commit her taboo.

With his hands slightly spread out, Lian Ying's face was filled with a hideous murderous aura, and said, "Do you break it yourself, or let me do it?"

Hearing this, Wang Zhi and Li Gang's hearts suddenly stopped for a second, the two looked at each other, and then they stood up from the ground and said, "Damn, Zhu Lianying, you are too ruthless, you actually want our lives, we will fight with you." “

Anyway, it's all death, it's better to fight, if they can win the girl, they don't have to die.

After that, the two of them set up a formation, Wu Yao in his body rose rapidly, Wang Zhi grabbed a handful of grass from the ground, and under the effect of hardening of the heart, the tender grass became like steel nails, and at the same time, Li Gang also urged the heart image, glue, I saw his chest bulging, and his mouth was aimed at the girl.

Looking at the two of them, the corners of Lian Ying's mouth were lightly raised, the dark pupils of his eyes, his anger turned into a cold killing intent, and he sneered: "Look for death." “

The girl raised her palms, and the faint Wu Yao quickly flowed, making her hands glow with a little cold light.

After a slight pause, the girl suddenly made a move, she first dodged Wang Zhi's flying grass and Li Gang's glue in a row, and then rushed to the front of the two, waved her palms, and slapped Wang Zhi and Li Gang's bodies continuously. The girl's palm technique is very light, but the speed is extremely fast, so that the onlookers can only see a picture.

After the fight, Lian Ying flashed behind the two, and then put away his palm.

The battle is over.

Wang Zhi and Li Gang both had their eyes wide open, their faces were pale, and their bodies froze in place. They regretted it, Lian Ying's strength far surpassed the two of them, and the thought of what would happen next made both of them tremble in fear.

In the next second, under the gaze of countless eyes, Wang Zhi and Li Gang's bodies suddenly burned, and they struggled and screamed in the flames. Seeing such a tragic scene, many people closed their eyes, Wang Zhen also turned his head, and sighed in his heart: "Hey, it's better to choose suicide, so you can still leave a whole corpse." “

A moment later, only two ashes were left on the meadow, and even the bones were burned to ashes.

Wang Zhen has seen such a terrifying scene many times, this is Lian Ying's mental image ability, those who are recruited will spontaneously combust their bodies, and in the end, there are no bones left, and they become ashes, which is really terrifying.

Glancing at everyone, Lian Ying said: "You all listen well, this time Rongguo and Jiang Guo's merit selection exam, you must win, and the person who loses, this is his fate." “

Everyone looked at each other, all speechless, and had to nod again and again.

Wang Zhen looked at Lian Ying, the girl's face shrouded in a layer of turbulent anger. Although the girl's behavior was very cruel and ferocious, Wang Zhen also understood her anger and sighed helplessly in his heart.

Zhu Lianying was born in a family of Rongguo generals, her father and two elder brothers were all generals of Rongguo, but seven years ago, in the war between Rongguo and Jiang Guo, Lianying's father and two elder brothers died on the battlefield. Since then, the girl began to hate Jiang Guo, it was Jiang Guo who killed her family, and from that time, the girl swore in her heart that she must destroy Jiang Guo, for her father, for her brother, and to avenge her hatred.

The hatred in her heart turned into the motivation for cultivation, the girl practiced desperately every day, although she was only thirteen years old, she was already a seven-force star, coupled with her mental ability, Wang Zhen believed that Zhu Lianying would definitely be able to lead the students of Rongguo to win the merit selection exam.

Lian Ying slowly recovered from her anger, she sat on the stone bench, glanced around, and suddenly asked, "Why didn't you see those two brothers, where did they go?"

Wang Zhenmeiyu frowned slightly, and said helplessly: "The two of them went out." Said it was too boring to stay in the inn and go out for a walk. “

The corners of his mouth twitched, and Lian Ying said indifferently: "Forget it, anyway, their two brothers are not from our Rongguo, let them go." “

"Hehe, it's best for the two brothers to meet the Jiang Guo student named Yang Ming, maybe they can clean him up by the way, after all, these two brothers are Liang Guo's students. Wang Zhen smiled in his heart, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

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Chaohua County, the national capital, in Qionghua Restaurant.

Qionghua Restaurant is the largest restaurant in Chaohua County, most famous for Qionghua wine and Qionghua drunken chicken, many people often have to queue for a long time to taste this delicacy, the longest one, it is said that it is a full three days.

The restaurant is full of people, and every seat is full. But Xin'er is the county lord of Jiang Guo after all, and when he saw that it was the county lord who came to the restaurant in person, the store quickly vacated a table on the second floor, leaned against the window, and when he turned his head to look, he could see the lively street downstairs.

The county lord sat down facing south, Yang Ming and Liu Qianyu sat opposite each other on both sides, and Lin Dong and Cai Yin sat opposite the county lord.

After Xin'er finished ordering, she said, "The Qionghua drunken chicken here is very famous, you must try it." “

Having heard of this famous dish for a long time, Lin Dong smelled the fragrance in the air, and his mouth watered. Cai Yin sat obediently, with an expectant look in her eyes, but compared to Qionghua's drunken chicken, Cai Yin was more curious about Yang Ming and Liu Qianyu, these two people held their arms, their expressions were serious, their eyes stared at each other coldly, those two eyes seemed to be two sharp swords, competing, making the air between the two of them much colder.

With a pair of small eyes, she looked at Yang Ming, and then at Liu Qianyu, Cai Yin couldn't help but think in her heart: "Who is this person, Yang Ming doesn't seem to like him very much, but he looks quite handsome." “

Since Yang Ming defeated Liu Qianyu in the competition of the lifting assessment two months ago, Liu Qianyu left the Martial Arts Academy according to the gambling contract, this is the second time the two have met, and they are still sitting at the same table.

When the enemies met, they were very red-eyed, and neither of them showed good faces.

In fact, Yang Ming was still smiling at the beginning, after all, he and Liu Qianyu were not enemies, they just fought once, but it was also a pure competition, but Yang Ming's overtures did not exchange for Liu Qianyu's good face, from the first time the two met just now, Liu Qianyu's eyes have always had a hostile coldness, which made Yang Ming very unhappy.

Yang Ming is also competitive, of course he can't admit defeat, so he also competes with him.

You stare at me, and I stare at you, to see who is afraid of whom.

"Ahem," looking at the two who refused to admit defeat to each other, Xin'er coughed helplessly and said, "It will take a while for the food to come up, and before that, I have something to say to you." “

Hearing Xin'er's words, Yang Ming shifted his gaze to Xin'er, ending this meaningless stare.

"You should all know about the war between Jiang Guo and Rong Guo seven years ago. But do you know what the war was for?" asked Xin'er suddenly.

"I remember that there was a war because of the disagreement between the two countries over the demarcation of the border. "I've heard people say that it's like fighting for a mountain called Border Mountain in the middle of the border between the two countries. “

This is also what the boy has heard, and he doesn't know the specific details.

Xin'er nodded and continued: "That's right, it's this Border Mountain, but the battle for territory is only on the surface, what Rongguo really wants is the armor iron ore buried in the Border Mountain. ”

"According to the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty more than 900 years ago, the border mountain has always belonged to the land of Jiang Guo, but because this mountain is remote, and it is very barren, and there are few people around, so for hundreds of years, Jiang Guo has not managed this mountain, over the years, only occasionally one or two woodcutters from Rongguo went up the mountain to chop wood, and Jiang Guo did not take this to heart. Until seven years ago, when a woodcutter in Rongguo was chopping firewood on the border mountain, he inadvertently dug up a piece of black ore, and later it was identified that this ore was armor iron, and the news spread to Rongguo, and soon Rongguo sent people to go up the mountain to investigate, and the result of the survey was that there was a large amount of armor iron ore buried in the whole mountain, the number was so large, and the mainland was rare. After the armor ore was discovered, Rongguo declared that the armor ore in the border mountain belonged to Rongguo on the grounds that it was discovered by his own woodcutter. But the border mountain has always belonged to the territory of Jiang State, how could Jiang State agree, the two countries could not argue, so a war broke out. “

Hearing this, Lin Dong slapped his palm on the table and said angrily: "What kind of bullshit is this? Could it be that the silver I found in your house is mine?"

Yang Ming's face was gloomy, and he said: "How can others reason with you if they want to rob you? That so-called reason is just an excuse for Rongguo to send troops." “

Xin'er nodded in agreement, "Yang Ming is right, there is no reason to talk to the robbers at all. Seven years ago, Rong Guoxing's national forces invaded Jiang on a large scale, and they were about to seize the border mountain, and Jiang had no choice but to fight. Although, in the end, Jiang Guo barely won the war, but he could not completely recover the border mountain, for seven years, Rong Guo has been sending troops to harass the border mountain, so that Jiang Guo can not mine the armor iron ore in the mountain. “

"Yesterday, in order to solve this matter, the envoys of Rong Guo and Liang State came to Jiang State, and they sent a war letter to their father on behalf of King Rong, proposing that the two countries jointly hold an excellent selection examination this time, and which country's students finally won the exam, and the border mountain would be owned by which country. “

Xin'er then said the purpose of the two countries to jointly hold the excellent selection examination, to put it bluntly, this exam is a big competition between the two countries, whoever wins, who can own the border mountain, and also own the armor iron ore in the border mountain.

"King Jiang agreed?"

Xin'er said helplessly: "Father has no choice, this time Rongguo has the support of Liang Guo." If you don't agree, I'm afraid there will be another war, and the current Jiang country can't afford another war. If this matter can be resolved through a competition between students, the casualties between the two countries can be minimized, which is also a good thing for Jiang Guo. “

At this time, Xin'er suddenly approached Yang Ming, and whispered in her ear: "I heard that the idea of using the merit selection examination to solve the dispute between the border mountains between the two countries was exactly what An Shice suggested to Rongguo. “

"What?" Hearing this, Yang Ming was taken aback, and an inexplicable uneasiness suddenly rose in his heart.

"Xin'er County Lord, what is the armor iron?" Lin Dong touched his head and asked.

Liu Qianyu couldn't help but roll his eyes, and said coldly: "Hasn't the academy ever taught? Armored iron is the hardest substance on the continent, ten times harder than ordinary steel. Weapons made of armor are naturally much sharper. “

"Now that all countries are expanding their armies, they also urgently need to build more weapons, I think the reason why Liang will help Rongguo this time is also for the armor iron mine. “

Yang Ming nodded, agreeing with Liu Qianyu's opinion.

At this time, Xin'er took out a dagger from her waist and pulled it out, the blade was extremely sharp and flashed with cold light. "This dagger is made of armor iron, but it is like clay. ”

After speaking, he handed it to Lin Dong, Lin Dong touched the dagger, tapped it with his fingers, made a dull sound, and couldn't help sighing: "Wow, it's so hard, it's indeed much harder than ordinary blades." ”

Only then did the young man understand why Rongguo did not hesitate to start a war to snatch the armor iron ore. As the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your weapons, and the quality of weapons will affect the strength of the army, and good weapons will naturally enhance the combat effectiveness of soldiers a lot.

"Yang Ming, Liu Qianyu. Xin'er looked at the two of them in turn, and said sincerely: "Now that the enemy is present, I hope that the two of you can put aside your previous grievances and fight against Rongguo together." ”

"Yang Ming, can your previous bet with Liu Qianyu be invalidated? Let Liu Qianyu return to Xiuwu Academy and participate in this merit selection exam? You and Liu Qianyu are both rare talents in Jiang Guo, and this merit selection exam is related to Jiang Guo's safety, one more person, one more hope." ”

Xin'er held Yang Ming's hand, her eyes full of expectation.

Yang Ming really couldn't refuse Xin'er, he looked at Liu Qianyu opposite, and the hostility in the eyes of the two eased a lot, but neither of them answered.

Just as the teenagers were talking, the shopkeeper walked over to Xin'er's table with a plate of Qionghua drunken chicken, and was about to shout, "Cai, here ......."

At this time, a young man at the table next to Xin'er suddenly grabbed the arm of the shopkeeper and said unceremoniously: "Wait a minute, this plate of drunken chicken, we want it." “