"When! While! While! While! ”

Xiao Tuan's sword technique is very sharp, fast as lightning, dense as a rainstorm, I have no chance to fight back at all, so I can only defend with all my strength. That's when I cried out, it turned out that he lured me to attack him first in order to break my defensive posture that I had put in place before.

But at this time, it was too late to wake up, and it was impossible for me to scold him for being cunning and cunning, so I could only persevere, relying on the protection of dodge and shield to avoid being cut by him. Master Xiao Tuan was unforgiving, and slashed me dozens of times in one breath, all of which were blocked by my shield. Fortunately, my shield is a real iron shield, if it was a wooden shield for practice, it is estimated that it would have been cut by him a long time ago!

"Smack!"

A crisp pounding sound like a storm was followed by a dull cracking sound. Master Xiao's wooden knife is broken!

He stopped, and just stood there looking at me, smiling. But I was already tired enough under the full defense before, and I didn't expect him to suddenly stop the offensive, but took two steps back, and I didn't have the courage to step forward and counterattack for a while.

Xiao Tuan Master threw away the broken wooden knife and said to me: "Your shield is good, but your sword skills are a little worse, and you lack courage. ”

I hesitated and asked, "Then ...... me?"

"Congratulations, you've been hired! Come to the tryout tomorrow! Master Xiao said, turned around and left.

After the interview, there is still a tryout?

I'm a little confused. However, the master still gave me an answer. It will take two months for the gladiatorial arena to reopen at the earliest, so the gladiatorial groups and the ghost gangs and families that raise ghost slaves still have time to train new gladiators and ghost fighters. I passed the interview, but I still need to perform well in the next tryout before I can sign a permanent contract, otherwise I may be eliminated.

I shrugged my shoulders and said to myself, "Anyway, I haven't had anything to do lately, so I should just come and exercise my body!" ”

So I showed up on time at the training ground of the Black Tiger Regiment the next day. I thought that with my cultivation and experience, I should be the main player when I came to the Black Tiger Regiment, even if I was not the pillar. But the head of the Xiao group didn't give me face at all, and directly arranged me to the lowest age group, running with a group of teenage kids every day, lifting barbells, and practicing physical fitness.

I started out with a lot of criticism, but I soon found out that I wasn't always able to outrun those imps! What a shame!

I didn't have any professional training before, and I used my spare time to learn some basic moves from the coach of the police academy and Wei Dahu, and I actually relied more on my own on-the-spot performance when fighting. Now I finally have the opportunity to receive the most formal combat training, and it is still devilish training.

The first is a 10-kilometer trail run a day. Of course, the so-called "off-road" is nothing more than a deliberately uneven track built on the periphery of the training ground, with trees and rocks in the middle as obstacles, simulating the environment in the wild. I can't outrun the group of imps who have been practicing long-distance running since I was a child, and I am at the bottom almost every time.

However, I did much better in strength training such as lifting a barbell because I was also an adult and was in my prime. But the strength and conditioning coach who was in charge of guiding us didn't think so, he thought that my standards should be higher, so he tried his best to put weights on me, and it seemed that he would not be satisfied if he didn't crush me!

In addition to long-distance running and barbell lifting, the switchback running, standing jump, and reflexes that train explosive power also make us new tryouts unbearable. Half of the Yin cultivators who were recruited at the same time as me had the idea of going to the center in the middle of the process, and one by one they gave up the trial training in advance.

But I just don't believe in this evil in my heart, what those little kids can do, why can't I do it?

And these are actually basic training, and laying a good foundation will definitely be of great benefit to me in the future. So even though I had a lot of dissatisfaction in my heart, I still gritted my teeth and persevered. Finally, after a month, my physical performance has improved rapidly, and I am also in the upper middle level of the group.

After a month of physical fitness, the head of the Xiao group finally reappeared and summoned the rest of us to announce the results of the trial.

He said, "I'm going to take a crash course when I brought you in." The Colosseum will reopen next month, and time waits for no one. If you are physically qualified, you can sign a formal contract with us and start the next step of your martial arts training. As for those whose names I don't read, they are not qualified, please leave on your own! ”

As a result, only me and another Yin cultivator named Sun Cang remained, and the elimination rate was very high.

Master Xiao looked at the two of us, and there was no more words of praise, only lightly threw down a sentence: "If you encounter any problems when signing a formal contract, just ask Master Jin!" ”

In fact, my contract issues were a bit more complicated than I had imagined. I went to participate in the trial of the Black Tiger Regiment on a whim, and I didn't discuss it with the Teng family. You know, I still belong to the Teng family, and there are still six years left to fulfill the ten-year contract I signed when I went down to Yin City.

However, Teng Boli also understands my current predicament, and I have contributed a lot to the Teng family, so he should know it in his heart. So when I took Master Jin to the door to find him, he didn't embarrass us, but transferred my contract to the Black Tiger Regiment at a low price.

Therefore, the contract between me and the Black Tiger Group was changed on the basis of the original contract, which was also six years, and the basic salary was still 100 yin yuan per month. Of course, people who are willing to come to be gladiators will not value such a small amount of money, and the greater income comes from appearance fees and bonuses.

The appearance fee is based on the level and type of competition participated, and can range from 100 to 500 per game. The bonus depends entirely on the situation of the bet, and is similar to the commission in the caravan and expedition before, but it must be won to get it, and there is no hair if you lose.

In addition, what makes me feel more satisfied is that the contract stipulates that the armor and weapons I wore during the game will be provided by the Black Tiger Regiment, and I don't have to pay for any damage. In case of injury or illness, the medical expenses are also fully borne by the Black Tiger Regiment. Of course, I don't want to cash in on that benefit either.

The only clause that made me hesitate for a long time was that the termination fee of the contract was a bit high. High benefits require high pay, and Master Jin increased the termination fee standard in the original Teng family's contract several times, which was clearly to prevent me from changing jobs halfway. After all, training a gladiator to become a talent requires a lot of resources to be invested in advance, and it is impossible to become famous and then let us pat our ass and leave.

According to this standard, if I want to terminate the contract early, I will have to pay 500 Yin Yuan every month for the rest of the contract period, and the total amount for six years will reach 36,000, which is almost an astronomical amount for me now!

But thinking that I don't have anywhere else to go at the moment, I gritted my teeth: signed!

After signing the "Deed of Sale", Xiao Tuan Master was finally willing to personally ** my fighting skills with Sun Cang. This is also one of my weaknesses, after all, I have learned too many things before, and most of them are wild. Xiao Tuan Master patiently corrected many of my previous mistakes one by one, and taught me many new moves, which are the most practical fighting techniques.

"Whether it is a death match or not, it is a game that can kill people." Master Xiao said to us, "Besides, because there are too many restrictions on our Yin Cultivation in the rules, we can only rely on the ability of real swords and guns to defeat Ghost Cultivation. There can be false tricks, but fancy work is absolutely not allowed! In the gladiatorial arena, carelessness and pride are their worst enemies! ”

So, in addition to the physical training, he also gave us a mental lesson, explaining the various tactical changes and experiences in martial arts.

Indeed, the physical fitness, skills, and equipment of the battle are important, but the tactical and psychological games are also very important. In a game where the weak defeat the strong, the winning side often relies on stronger psychological endurance to reverse the disadvantage and turn defeat into victory.

Sun Cang, who trained with me, was originally a dart master from Shilinzhai. His cultivation is only the third primary level, but his strength is very good, his body is stocky, his shoulders are big and his waist is round, and his weapon is a double hammer. Since Yin arts, talismans, and formations are not allowed in the gladiatorial arena, a slightly lower cultivation will not have much effect.

In addition, along with us who received the personal guidance of the head of the Xiao group, there were three young people trained by the Black Tiger Regiment itself, and the best of them was Yang Yi.

Yang Yi's cultivation has just been promoted to the third intermediate level, and he is the newcomer that Xiao Tuan Master values the most at present, and also focuses on cultivation. For some reason, Master Xiao always likes to arrange for me to practice with Yang Yi, and it seems that he deliberately wants to cultivate the confrontation between the two of us.

Yang Yi, who made the double sword, very difficult to deal with. He is too flexible, and the double sword is clearly a full-attack style of play, once he is suppressed, he will definitely not die. But my shield is the strongest defensive equipment, and even the head of the Xiao regiment can carry it down in person, so naturally I won't be afraid of him.

In contrast, my cultivation and strength are slightly stronger, while Yang Yi's skills are higher, and the two of us always fight to a tie with one attack and one defense. Xiao Tuan Master was very satisfied with this, thinking that we were both the best sparring partners for each other, so he arranged for us to fight almost every day.

After I survived the initial discomfort, I gradually fell in love with this Black Tiger Regiment training camp. It is actually a very rewarding thing to be able to hone one's martial arts without distractions and to be able to continue to make progress. And such a high-intensity, high-confrontation training mode works very well, and in just two months of crash course, I really made rapid progress!

Two months later, Xiao Tuan was finally satisfied with my performance and thought that I had met the standard to be able to play. Out of an abundance of caution, he signed me up for a heads-up tournament as my first gladiatorial match.