The scorching summer midday sun is like a blooming gardenia, and it is not the smell of sunlight that fills the air, but the incomparably strong smell of gunpowder that is burned.

As usual, except for a few young children who are tirelessly and bored, all the other adults in the streets of Yanglong Ancient Town are hiding at home, trying to survive this hot moment. Finally, the sun dragged the tired "body" and set with difficulty, and the streets were noisy again.

"Dog, it's time to go home for dinner." A voice came from not far away.

"Oh, here it is!" In the middle of the street, not far from the voice, a young boy shouted and ran home after saying goodbye to a few friends.

He has a dark face, his deep eyes are full of carefree and happiness, and his name is very ordinary, called Dogdan.

At the end of the street, a middle-aged woman dressed in pale yellow stood in front of her house, looking kind, waiting for her child's return.

Her name is Ma Lanfang, she is the mother of the dog, and she is dressed as a peasant woman. Although she dresses simply and plainly, she has an inner uprightness and elegance in her gestures, and vaguely, it gives people a different momentum from ordinary women.

In Yanglong Ancient Town, in fact, no one knows where Ma Lanfang and Goudan really come from, only that five years ago, their mother and son settled down here with the help of the town mayor Li Tianlai. On weekdays, Ma Lanfang rarely goes out, but her son is a dog, who seems to be unable to hold back all day long, running around. At this time, she saw the dog running back from a distance, and said with a smile on her face: "Look, when is it, I don't remember going home for dinner!" ”

Dogan grinned and said, "Mother, do you remember what day it is?" ”

Ma Lanfang smiled: "Today is my son's birthday, of course I remember this, okay, hurry up and go into the house, today there is your favorite lotus egg cake." ”

After hearing this, the dog was overjoyed, and without hesitation, he stepped over the threshold and rushed in. Then I only listened to the dog in the house "Wow! He exclaimed, "It smells so good!" It's still delicious lotus egg cake made by my mother. As soon as he finished saying this, there was a strange sound in the room, Ma Lanfang was stunned for a moment, looked at the red dog's face, and then understood. Because the dog ate the egg too quickly, he hadn't digested the piece of lotus egg cake that had just been stuffed into his mouth, but he was in a hurry to eat another piece, and just like that, one of the lotus egg cakes in his mouth choked in his throat before he could swallow it in his stomach.

It was a very painful thing to be choked in his throat, he couldn't bear it, and he wanted to spit out all the lotus egg cakes stuffed in his mouth without tears, and inadvertently, he swept his mother's concerned and worried face, and somehow, with a difficult bitterness, he swallowed all the lotus egg cakes stuffed in his mouth. Slowly, after a gust of wind and clouds, he rubbed his stomach full of loads, and said with a smile: "It's delicious." Ha ha! ”

Ma Lanfang's worried face slowly turned into a trace of helplessness, shook her head, and looked at her son's overjoyed expression, her heart was full of relief.

Three days later, in the early morning.

The weather in Yanglong Ancient Town has become a little cold, the surrounding fog is filled, and the breeze is blowing, and you can vaguely see a few dark clouds floating in the sky that are very low and heavy.

"Hurry up, dog, you won't be able to catch up." A few children like dogs urged loudly in front of Dogdan's house. After a while, the dog hurriedly put on his shoes and rushed out of the door, ran to the middle of the friends, scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I'm sorry, I'm late." After that, he ran straight to the front of everyone, looked back and grinned at them, and grimaced: "Today's competition must be very exciting, if you don't hurry up, it's really late." The partners were shocked at first, and then realized that they had been tricked by the dog. Some of them angrily scolded the dog, some yelled at him about how cunning, treacherous, and unrighteous he was, and some seemed to not want to waste more energy, so they simply didn't even say anything to scold him, but just showed contempt at the dog.

"Don't run!"

But it was the few partners closest to the dog, who suddenly pounced and screamed while he got carried away. For them, the dog seemed to have expected it, and at the same time as they were about to pounce, his body subconsciously took a few steps backwards, and then turned and ran away. It's just that before he could run a few steps, he looked back and saw that they were not in a hurry to chase after him, and slowly, rushed to those partners behind him and raised their butts, with an extremely provocative posture.

It seemed that he couldn't stand it anymore, and his partners were all like arrows in the direction of the dog, and while chasing, they were "angry" and said: "Stop, don't run, see how we teach you, don't run......" Obviously, the dogan was not stupid enough to stand in place to "greet" them, and kept the same high speed and galloped towards the street square.

For Yanglong Ancient Town and several towns around Yanglong Ancient Town, today can be regarded as a relatively grand day - the Golden Scale Competition.

The Golden Scale Tournament is held every five years and has been passed down for thousands of years.

In the center of the venue, even though the fog was everywhere, the people around were crowded in black, and there was no end in sight from front to back.

In the noise of everyone, soon after, an old man who was nearly half a hundred tall walked out of the ring, he walked to the center of the ring and stopped to look at everyone in the ring, from left to right. Then in the place where his eyes had been inspected, the people in that area slowly quieted down, and after a while, until he was the only one left in the audience, he said: "Fathers and fellow villagers, martial arts friends, today is the five-year Golden Scale Competition, in order to spread the martial arts spirit of Yanglong Ancient Town and surrounding towns for thousands of years, we have selected a Taoist friend with high martial arts attainments here in the past few days to lead us to inherit the spirit of martial arts." This time, I will meet friends with martial arts, so far, I will ask Lin Yuxiang, the overall champion of the last Golden Scale Competition, to read out the rules of this year's Golden Scale Competition. ”

In an instant, the thunderous applause of ......the audience was deafening.

In the midst of thousands of applause, Lin Yuxiang walked to the ring with a smile; He was in his forties, with thin eyebrows and square face, and his whole body looked a little thin, gently, he lifted the stack of heavier "Golden Scale Competition Rules" in his hand, paused, and read aloud: "The first article of the rules of the Golden Scale Martial Arts Competition, both sides of the competition are friends, and they must not hurt the lives of others. The second ......" time passed slowly in Lin Yuxiang's reading, and it took him about half a cup of tea to read the "Golden Scale Contest Rules", and then I saw him put his hands together in the middle, and said with a smile: "I remember five years ago, but now I remember it vividly." He paused slowly, as if recalling the painful past of many years ago, and inadvertently, a slight imperceptible wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. In fact, in Yanglong Ancient Town, no one will not know the name Lin Yuxiang, even if it is a child smaller than a dog's egg, it is also a lot of ears; Lin Yuxiang participated in the last Golden Scale Competition, when he was only twenty-five or sixteen years old, he was proud of his youth, and he passed the leaping dragon competition with a set of 'Yuqing Immortal Classics' [Note: No one knows where Lin Yuxiang's immortal classics came from] and was invincible; However, he has always been lonely and cold, and he disappeared inexplicably on the second day of the competition; It wasn't until one evening half a year later that he reappeared. At that time, he was unkempt and haggard, and he did not look at all the original spirit, and many people asked him afterwards what happened in the middle, he thought about it, and always smiled bitterly and stiffly without answering. Those who asked him could only shake their heads helplessly when they saw that he refused to say this, and after many years, people probably gradually forgot about it, and it seemed that it was never mentioned again.

Then again, Lin Yuxiang pondered for a moment and continued: "All martial arts friends who are about to compete must not be careless, do not be ambitious, there are people outside the people, there are mountains outside the mountains, remember, remember!" With that, he walked to the seat of the ring and sat down without looking back. Although most people felt inexplicable about the last sentence Lin Yuxiang said, with the rhythm of everyone's joy, thunderous applause rang out again in the audience.

In the end, the old man who walked into the ring for the first time reappeared in the ring and said very excitedly: "The Golden Scale Tournament has officially begun!" First of all, Li Feng, the young master of the Imperial Jue Sect, faced off against the disciples of the Heavenly Spirit Sect. Immediately after that, two teenagers in their twenties walked out of the field.

Standing on the left side of the ring, the handsome and calm young man named Li Feng. The right phalanx is mighty and upright, and it is silent; The two of them each clasped their fists in courtesy. The right fist of the formation martial arts was struck, and its momentum was as fast as the wind, Li Feng remained silent, just flashed sideways, and easily dodged; The ghostly figure of the formation martial arts attacked from the back again, and hit Li Feng's back spine with hatred, Li Feng reversed in the air, and the 'divine dragon faded' did not retreat but advanced, and attacked and went away; The divine dragon of the Imperial Jue Gate is dominant, and it really lives up to its reputation.

Not far away, Li Feng's heart was also uncomfortable, if it weren't for his deep internal strength, his eyes and eyes to distinguish the position of his palms, he would definitely be seriously injured by his shadowy shadow palms; The two of them secretly pondered for a moment, and then raised their vigilance against each other, Li Feng Huo Ran attacked the formation, and the formation did not dare to wait slowly, and waved his fist to meet the enemy; In this way, the two of them went back and forth in a hundred strokes, and they were equal. The formation of martial arts began to win, Huo Ran, with a move of 'Spirit Shadow Palm', secretly added nine layers of internal force Pingqi to fight out. Li Feng was in mid-air, and a shallow smile appeared invisibly at the corner of his mouth. Just when the formation was full of confidence, Li Feng was a vertical body, the ghostly figure turned sharply to the right side of the formation of the martial arts, deceived the body and approached, and said coldly: "Little trick" At the same time, the left hand became a claw and grabbed the vacant position of the right hand of the formation martial arts. Jin Wu's face was cloudy, but his clenched hands were covered with five crimson blood marks.