The competition started at nine o'clock, and early in the morning, the monks of the other courtyard prepared hot water for breakfast, and after washing, Chu Xiang and a few people did not eat the prepared breakfast, so they set off for the competition area. Nowadays, there is a shortage of food, although 30 tons of food are brought back, but it is better to consume less or consume less, and it is easier for three people to obtain food than others, and they cannot let others work because of their own appetites, and such unearned gains are detrimental to their personality.

All the way to the competition area, the people of the Mountain Guest Alliance did not come to look for trouble, and when they arrived at the competition area, Chu Xiang said to Leng Ruyue: "Do what you can, you know if you don't." ”

Leng Ruyue has been a little unenergetic all the way, and when she heard Chu Xiang's instructions, her eyes lit up, and she went to her ring with some joy.

There was still more than an hour before the start of the competition, and the competition area was already crowded, with tens of thousands of people gathered in the competition area, and the black pressure was overwhelming. The ring area was encircled, surrounded by armed armies outside, only the contestants and referees could enter and exit, and the audience could only watch from the distant hillside.

Before the competition began, the cheerleaders of various gangs had already begun to shout and cheer dutifully, and the audience area on the hillside was like thunder, gongs and drums were noisy, and flags were waving, cheering for the players of their own sects. Many of these cheerleaders had already entered the audience area last night to seize advantageous positions, and they basically couldn't enter the range of 500 meters in the ring area when they came in the morning. Looking from the bottom up, the black pressure is full of heads, I am afraid that there are hundreds of thousands of people, the scene is surging, shoulder to shoulder, the scene is extremely hot, some people who can't get close to the ring, can only watch with binoculars from afar.

Under the maintenance of the heavily armed army, there was no confusion at the scene, and the people entered as instructed, in good order, and there was no commotion. A few days ago, the military had already issued detailed rules for the martial arts conference, and those who made trouble in the competition area and disrupted the order of the conference would be killed without asking the reason.

A team of soldiers with loaded guns is no joke, and the commanding heights in the distance do not know how many snipers are waiting for battle, and the entire arena is under the strict monitoring of the military, and any disturbance will be discovered at the first time, and no one wants to test the majesty of the army with their own lives.

A few days ago, all sects and organizations of all sizes received a notice from the junta that they would work together to maintain the stability of the congress, and those who performed well would be rewarded, and those who deliberately caused trouble would be blacklisted by the military. With the situation in Wucheng, no sect can compete with the junta, and for the relatively powerful junta, each sect is just an ant-like existence, and can only act according to orders and jointly maintain order.

The ring area is separated by a cloth belt, and there are road signs at every other section, Chu Xiang's ring is No. 17, at 8:30, the scorekeepers entered the arena, and a soldier wearing a military uniform and wearing a scorekeeper logo came to the No. 17 ring to verify the identity of Chu Xiang as a referee and verify the identity of the first contestant, and all the players in the first game came to the stage and waited for the game to start.

In addition to the referee and scorekeeper, there are ten porters and two doctors in each ring, and there is also a drone above the head of each ring, which broadcasts each game in real time, which can be described as well-arranged. One hundred rings, all the matches of the first round will be completed today, that is, more than 70 matches will be completed in each ring, and the schedule is very tight.

At nine o'clock, the high-powered horn on the city wall sounded: "The first Southern Martial Arts Conference in Wucheng starts now." ”

There was no long opening speech, no chattering nonsense, one sentence announced the start of the martial arts conference, the horn fell silent, and the recorder signaled Chu Xiang to start and retreat to the ring more than ten meters away.

"Let's go." Standing on the edge of the ring with a negative hand, Chu Xiang said.

At the beginning of the competition, the ten people on the stage did not immediately start fighting, but each retreated to the edge and began to look for an alliance, but after a stronger player made a decisive move, a scuffle began in the ring.

The result of the scuffle was quite tragic, and there were ten people in the ring, three were killed, two were seriously injured, and five were slightly injured. Seeing that the situation was not good, it was difficult to avoid it, and a seriously injured person and a lightly injured person jumped out of the ring. The killing was red-eyed, and the remaining four lightly injured people fought again, and in the end only two were left standing in the ring, the other was lying on the seriously injured, and the other two were dead.

"The end." There were only three living people left in the ring, and Chu Xiang said at the right time to stop the two from continuing to fight.

At the end of the battle, the recorder came to record the results, and the three people who did not die in the ring moved on to the next round.

The porters carried the wounded and dead to the logistics area at the city gate, where the military's logistics team treated them, and then notified the contestants' emergency contacts, and if they could not be reached or did not have an emergency contact, they were left to fend for themselves, and the bodies were transported to the foot of the mountain, and the unclaimed ones were buried on the spot.

After the aftermath of the first session was completed, the second session began immediately, the recorder verified the identity of the contestants, and ten contestants took the stage. Witnessing the tragic situation of the first competition, everyone did not dare to make a reckless move, and occupied a favorable position in the corner, first to ensure their own advantages, and then find someone to form an alliance. However, the ideas of several people on the stage seemed to be in vain, and a fierce-looking man stood fearlessly in the middle of the ring, as if he wanted to hit nines.

Chu Xiang began to speak, and the fierce man standing in the middle burst out, and after more than ten seconds, he was the only one left on the stage, and it turned out to be a dozen nines, and he won a big victory.

At the end of the game, this time there was only one qualifier, and nine were eliminated with serious injuries.

After the fierce man eliminated the other nine people, he stared at Chu Xiang with cold eyes, and the meaning of the challenge was very obvious. Chu Xiang ignored this person's provocation, he was a referee and not a player, if every player challenged him, wouldn't he steal the light of the player, this is not what a referee should do.

Seeing that Chu Xiang didn't react, the fierce man slowly walked out of the ring.

The speed of the event was much faster than Chu Xiang expected, and there were very few fights that lasted for a long time, and the problem was solved in two minutes at most. One competition after another began and ended, each one was very tragic, an average of three people were killed, three were seriously injured, and one of the intact ten remained, and those who could advance intact were absolute powerhouses, with overwhelming strength over others.

Although it is said to be three out of ten, in fact, the number of people who can enter the next round is less than two on average for each game with serious injuries and those who cannot continue to the next round, and the number of games that can enter the next round is less than two on average, and the elimination rate of the competition system is still high.

In the nineteenth game, a monster appeared on the field, a young man with a pale face suddenly appeared around the black fog, and then screamed in the ring, except for two people who jumped out of the ring immediately, the other seven people all died tragically, and the bones were gone, and they were melted by the black fog. I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, the thick black mist shrouded Chu Xiang as well, but when he put away the black mist, Chu Xiang was still intact in place.

"You are very strong, looking forward to the battle we will eventually meet, remember, my name is Xu Wen." The young man licked his scarlet lips and stared at Chu Xiang, looking very narcissistic.

Chu Xiang's expression did not fluctuate at all, and he announced the end of the game.

This young man has awakened the demon body, and he has awakened it very early, and he can already control the dark power on his body as he wants, but unfortunately the level of evolution is too low to devour Chu Xiang.

In the twenty-fourth game, there were strange people again. A very beautiful, bewitching, very good figure of a young woman appeared on the stage, this is the first woman to appear in the No. 17 ring, after Chu Xiang announced the start of the competition, the woman screamed, the remaining nine people on the field all bled at seven tips, six people died on the spot, the remaining three were seriously injured, the ten porters in the audience were also seriously injured, and more than a dozen players who were too close to the competition were affected and retired injured.

Terrifying sonic attack, this is the first time Chu Xiang has seen such an attack method, invisible and shadowless, it is difficult to prevent, it can be said to be invincible in the same level, and it is a terrifying range of damage.

Seeing that Chu Xiang's face remained unchanged and was not affected at all, the young woman twisted the waist of the water snake and walked in front of Chu Xiang, exhaled like an orchid, and reached out to hook Chu Xiang's chin: "Little brother, you are so powerful, my name is Xie Yan, shall we go to open a room tonight." ”

In front of the public, he openly seduced Chu Xiang, but unfortunately Chu Xiang was not interested in such a woman at all, his slightly squinted eyes did not squint, he did not see the movement, and his body had taken two steps back to announce the end of the game.

Xie Yan twisted the waist of the water snake and walked out of the ring, the recorder behind Chu Xiang dared to come over, if he hadn't stood behind Chu Xiang just now, his life would not have been saved now, and he asked with some fear: "Brother, how do you remember this scene?" ”

"Xie Yan is promoted alone." Chu Xiangdao.

There are still three people on the field who are not dead, Xie Yan has already stepped down, according to the rules, it should be that the three people on the stage have been promoted, but before Xie Yan stepped down, Chu Xiang had already announced the end of the game. If it weren't for Chu Xiang announcing the end, Xie Yan would probably kill the remaining three, so that the three of them would die, of course, it was not as good as the result now, and the three people on the stage couldn't even block a sonic attack, such strength would have no effect on making them advance, it would only delay the schedule, it would be better to eliminate them directly.

The reserve porters quickly arrived, carried the injured players and porters away, and replenished the ten porters, and the game continued.

Due to the tight time, the game did not stop to rest at noon, and the military government directly sent the boxed lunch under the ring, and Chu Xiang squatted next to him while eating the boxed lunch, while watching the battle in the ring, and he was not afraid of affecting his image.

After Xu Wen, in the forty-seventh game, there was another person with a demon body, but not long after this person's demon body awakened, he only had the power of the bone forging level, and he was eliminated by a master of Yi Tendon in the same scene.

The game went on very quickly, an average of less than two minutes per game, but it took more time to verify the identity and record the results, but the average down was only about ten minutes, even if it was such a fast speed, seventy-three games still took more than ten hours to complete, and the last dozen games were already dark, fortunately, the event organizers had already prepared, under the illumination of high-power lamps, the entire ring area was like daylight.

The first round of the game didn't end until nine o'clock in the evening, seventy-three games down, Yi Jin masters emerged in endlessly, and a large number of pith refining masters also appeared, just in the No. 17 ring, Chu Xiang saw thirteen pith refining masters, and the thirteen people all advanced to the next round intact, there was a game where two pith refining masters were on the same stage, but there was no death match, but the others were cleaned up and stopped.

During the competition, there were nine people who intended to challenge Chu Xiang, and one of them was a master with a sword, looking at his sword path, like Emei's way, Chu Xiang did not respond. In addition to the master of refining the marrow, there were also seven awakened demon body people, twelve awakened demon clans, one suspected great witch, and six women in the ring.

At the end of the first round of the competition, everyone returned to the city, and most of the spectators went back to eat and rest, and a small number of people took the opportunity to seize the advantageous viewing position to prepare for tomorrow's competition.

When the referee was more tired than Chu Xiang imagined, the reward for a whole day's hard work was only 500 merit points, plus a boxed lunch and a dinner.

The organizer specially arranged a restaurant for the referees to eat, and a hundred referees ate in the same restaurant, and Shi Wuzheng easily found Chu Xiang's figure.

"How? Your side? Chu Xiang asked.

"It's very tragic, almost half of the people died, but there are really a lot of masters, there are more than a dozen at the level of refining the marrow, and the number of Yijin levels is too many to count." Shi Wuzheng said.

"It's normal for people to die in martial arts at this level, and those who only have the Yijin level are probably better off not being promoted." Chu Xiangdao.

"It's true, you can't stop fighting at all, and in the next round, the masters are more concentrated, and it's a melee again, and if you're not careful, you'll die." Shi Wuzheng nodded.

"Are there a lot of people trying to hit you?" Chu Xiang suddenly asked.

Gongsun Qi smiled bitterly: "There are too many masters, and a referee was killed in the ring next door, and there are several provocations in my ring, and I am not sure that I will win two of them." ”

"Who told you to be so handsome?" Chu Xiang rarely showed a bright smile.

"It's a chore." Shi Wuzheng could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

The meal was very rich, and when the two of them were eating, they received the results of the first round of the competition from the organizers, and after looking at the summary, the total number of people who advanced was 13,567.

"This number is a bit terrifying, more than 10,000 people have advanced, at least one-tenth of them are masters of refining the marrow, and the rest are basically all masters of Yijin." Chu Xiangdao.

Shi Wuzheng nodded and said, "Hurry up and eat, I'm going to go back and gather them to discuss the follow-up situation." ”

The two quickly finished eating, Shi Wuzheng called all the participants to summon the doormen, and Chu Xiang also called Gongsun Qi and Leng Ruyue and asked them to meet at the Nanhua Courtyard.

When he returned to Nanhua Courtyard, there were two sneaky guys following the two of them, and Shi Wuzheng also noticed the stalker behind him, and said, "How to deal with it?" ”

"Leave him alone, he must be from the Mountain Guest Alliance." Chu Xiangdao.

Gongsun Qi glanced at Chu Xiang with some concern, and said, "If they make trouble again, do you want to make things bigger?" ”

Chu Xiang smiled and did not answer.

The two returned to the Nanhua Courtyard, and to Chu Xiang's surprise, Leng Ruyue and Gongsun Qi were both promoted, and Gongsun Qi's promotion was a matter of course, but Leng Ruyue's promotion was somewhat unexpected. Only two Wudang disciples brought by Shi Wuzheng were promoted, Wudang was outstanding, they all passed the screening competition easily, but in the first round of the knockout round, six people were injured and lost, listening to what they said, all four were besieged by other players and led to elimination, it is estimated that their dress is too conspicuous and they have become the target of the public, but fortunately they are not seriously injured, which is probably due to Wudang's exquisite footwork.

After Shi Wuzheng consulted the opinions of the two finalists in detail, he saw that the two insisted on continuing to compete, so he didn't say more. Similarly, Leng Ruyue, who only has the level of Yi Jin, also firmly stated that she must continue to compete, and Chu Xiang will let her go. During this time, Leng Ruyue's strength improved rapidly, and she crossed two thresholds in just two months, and it was the time when her confidence soared, and she would not know that the sky was high if she didn't suffer a little.

The Wudang disciples were too recognizable, and they were in a state of injury, Shi Wuzheng was not worried that they were outside, that night, eleven people were crowded in the same room, eight Wudang disciples were meditating against the wall, but they were not too crowded, and Chu Xiang, Gongsun Qi and Shi Wuzheng continued to talk about martial arts.

Leng Ruyue listened to the three of them chatting until midnight before returning to the room to rest, if it weren't for the fact that there were many people in the wing room and there were Wudang disciples, Leng Ruyue would definitely not leave, listening to the three of them talk about martial arts until dawn. You must know that there are not many opportunities to listen to lectures like this, Leng Ruyue is very envious of those Wudang disciples, they are lucky this time, and they can listen to the three of them talk about their experiences and specific moves all night.