Chapter 16: The Contest of Arts

The two-month-long competition finally started today.

The young men, who couldn't hold back and wanted to show off their cultivation skills, had already been waiting in the training ground where they were practicing swordsmanship. At first, when only a dozen people gathered, a group of teenagers looked at their familiar faces and did not feel any tension, but when the sky was getting brighter, dozens of people in the whole house flocked from the back mountain like a hundred birds coming out of their nests, and when they stood in the field one by one, the atmosphere suddenly rose. More than ten teenagers who had been talking happily were suddenly affected by other people, and their mouths seemed to have a new piece of coptis in their mouths, and they couldn't say a word. There was silence in the field for a moment. At this moment, the sound of the waves crashing on the stone cliff a few miles away seemed to come gradually, and Zhi Ning stood upright with her body in her arms, and the sudden silence made her secretly swallow saliva in her heart, and her body trembled slightly because of nervousness.

Four rings that had been erected overnight stood in the middle of the arena. Suddenly, several black shadows flashed from a distance, and the young people had been practicing for half a year, and at this time, their five senses were already many times stronger than back then, only to feel that in the blink of an eye, a strong wind drifted by, and the blue-clothed old man Mu Shan had led several black-clothed young ninjas to appear in the ring.

Mu Shan lowered his eyes and slowly looked at the people in the audience, and said loudly: "The two-month agreed period for the art competition has arrived, and this stage is the result of testing the physical arts, sword skills, and longitudinal techniques that you and others have learned on this island......

On the stage, Mu Shan also said to himself what needs to be paid attention to in the competition, and Li Yunlan in the middle of the stage still listened carefully on her face, but secretly praised Qiao'er for the accuracy of her intelligence in her heart, as she said, this competition is really very beneficial to women, and it is really God to help herself.

It turned out that because the number of women was less than that of men, the draw was first performed by men in pairs, and when the number of winners was equal to that of women, the women were divided into four groups to compete on stage. The competition lasted for five days, and the first 16 players were selected in the first four days of the competition until the last day.

That is to say, there is less chance of having a chance with the man in front of him, and when he plays later, he only needs to not be in a group with the two at the same time, and the chance of winning is much greater. Thinking of this, Li Yunlan suddenly had a smile on her face.

"Ma Can, Xu Weizheng, the two of you compete on the first stage in the east, Liu Gengyin, Zhou Yuesan...... The two of you" Mu Shan left after speaking, only Mu Ling stood on a high place and began to call the man's name, and the person who was named immediately jumped to the stage, and when the eight people on the four platforms stood still, the four young ninjas who had just stood beside Mu Shan immediately stepped forward to distribute the bamboo sword, although it was strictly forbidden for the participating disciples to maliciously hurt each other, and no one was allowed to fight to the death. But after all, the teenagers have only just practiced swordsmanship for half a year, and they still can't hold the measure, so they are only allowed to use bamboo swords to compete with each other on the stage at the moment, and when they reach the top sixteen, they can control their own strength before they can use the iron sword when they practice.

At the beginning, I saw a group of teenagers on the stage, you came and shouted back and forth, and the two of them thought it was funny, but when I saw it again, I only felt that these people on the stage were only using the basic tricks, and even a few people were much worse than themselves. Suddenly there was no interest in watching it any further. On the other hand, Shen Shiyi followed the crowd and shouted, at this moment there was a teenager on the stage who lived in the same room with him was fighting against people, and he who had been suppressed by the island's practice all day for a long time may have been released for a short time, and the young man's heart was undoubtedly revealed in a burst of shouting.

The red bean pulling Zhi Ning was originally going to find Shen Shiyi to practice swordsmanship together, but when he saw Shen Shiyi in the crowd who was flushed with excitement in the direction of Zhi Ning's finger, he suddenly lost interest like Zhi Ning. The two of them turned their heads to look around, except for the men who were standing under the stage and eager to try, the girls had almost all finished, and the two of them stood in the crowd It seemed a little abrupt. Hongdou leaned on Zhi Ning's ear and said: "Third and third sisters, the other women have almost finished, anyway, the eleventh competition should be in the afternoon or tomorrow, why don't we hurry up and practice one or two more." ”

Zhi Ning looked at Shen Shiyi, who was very excited in the field, thinking that there were more than 100 teenagers on the island, and I am afraid that I would not be able to finish the comparison today, the two of them had watched several competitions with others, and found that the order of the competition was arranged according to the order in which everyone stood during the weekday practice. Shen Shiyi's body has grown a lot taller in the past six months, and he stands at the back of the army on weekdays, so it must not be his turn in the morning. Zhi Ning reluctantly followed the red bean to the outside of the practice field.

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Hongdou pulled Zhining and said with a smile: "Eleven hasn't been so happy today for a long time, Sansan sister, you can let him go, don't always take care of him, he will always grow up."

Here, Zhi Ning let out a long sigh. was about to make a gesture, but saw that the red bean in front of him had stopped, and it turned out that the two of them had inadvertently arrived at the place where the longitudinal technique was cultivated.

I only heard Hongdou say again: "Third and third sisters, it turns out that we often learn swordsmanship when we practice, but we have never tried to learn the longitudinal technique, otherwise we will take advantage of today's opportunity to have a competition, maybe the day after tomorrow we will be divided into a group and have an understanding in advance, what do you think?"

Zhi Ning also had this intention, but he never had a chance to mention it, and it happened that there were only two of them in the practice field today, so it could be regarded as just in time. After thinking about it in his heart, Zhi Ning gestured again and again to agree. Just as he was about to walk to the high pole where he practiced on weekdays, the red bean here caught up with a few steps and reached out to hold Zhining. said with a smile: "Third sister, I just suddenly thought that you and I are practicing here on weekdays, and I have already developed a habit here, but if you don't look like this place when you come to power the day after tomorrow, how will you adapt to it." Otherwise, from today onwards, you will walk in my usual practice place, and I will walk here. Let's see who walks through this pole first. ”

As you said, Zhi Ning made another gesture of consent

The two walked to each other's positions, each glanced at each other, and the red bean shouted in his mouth: "One, two, three" The red bean sounded three times in his mouth, Zhi Ning's feet immediately rushed forward, and when he walked to the edge of the giant tree, he kicked his feet violently, and his body suddenly jumped straight up, and when the strength was insufficient in mid-air, Zhi Ning grabbed the trunk with both hands and branched out, and when he used his strength again, he swung his body and jumped towards the bamboo pole, so that the two went back and forth, and Zhi Ning had stood firmly on the crown of the giant tree. This tree is not far from the tree that Zhi Ning had learned before, Zhi Ning knew that he was moving very fast, and he had the heart to look at the speed of the red bean, so he turned his head to look at the red bean. I saw that on another giant tree, the red bean was also upside down at the moment, and the red bean standing on the canopy took a breath, and also looked in the direction of Zhining.

The two looked at each other from a distance, and almost at the same time poked out their left foot and walked to the bamboo pole, at this moment the bamboo pole was already one and a half feet high from the ground, and Ning Chu walked on the pole of other people's practice, slightly nervous in his heart, and quickly gathered his mind, no longer looking at the red beans to concentrate on passing the bamboo pole. It has been half a month since he practiced in private, and when Zhi Ning practiced in private, he even put the rope on the two thinner branches of the tree two zhang high, and the feeling of staggering and falling at any time Zhi Ning often recalled that he still felt sorry for his boldness at that time.

Compared with the bamboo poles in the branches, today's bamboo poles are not only a little unfamiliar to Zhining, but they are several times easier than the ropes that Zhining walked on that day. But I don't know if it was something I stepped on just now, or if I was a little nervous in my heart, Zhi Ning actually felt that this bamboo pole was much more slippery than the rope. On the slippery and even somewhat reflective bamboo pole, Zhi Ning cautiously moved forward, and saw that he was about to come to the end, when the mutation protruded, only to hear a crisp cracking sound on the side of the red bean, and the red bean screamed. When Zhi Ning heard the scream, he stepped on the bamboo pole on tiptoe in a hurry, and his body fell on the trunk of the tree. Turning his head to look in the direction of the red bean, he saw that the red bean was screaming at the moment and holding the broken bamboo in the middle of the left and right hands, and seeing that the hand was about to slide away from the bamboo pole inch by inch, Zhi Ning couldn't hide it in a hurry, so he was about to shout to the red bean, saying that it was too late to see the red bean's body suddenly shake in mid-air, and the left hand of the less half of the bamboo he was holding suddenly slipped away. With the middle support strength lost. The red bean swung towards the tree with the long bamboo he had grasped in his right hand, and there was a clattering and breaking sound in the air, followed by a thump and a crashing sound. The red beans that had not yet reacted first hit the tree with the bamboo pole, and saw that the bamboo, which was less than ten inches away from the tree and could not bear the weight of the fall, scattered in a breaking sound, and the red beans that had just been swung to the tree by the bamboo were about to swing down the tree with the last bit of strength of the bamboo. Seeing that the dizzy red beans that had been hit were about to fall to the ground along the tree. There was another click, and a crooked branch that had just been swung up by the red bean took advantage of her strength to carry her down, but fortunately, the red bean was thinner and the branch had not completely broken.

The twists and turns of the fall here stunned Zhi Ning, and it wasn't until the red bean was caught by the branch that Zhi Ning suddenly came to his senses, turned over and fell under the tree, and was about to run under the red bean at the place where Zhi Ning was about to run. The familiar cracking sound sounded for the third time. The outer crooked branch could no longer bear the weight of the red bean, and broke again. Fortunately, it was less than eight feet from the ground at this time, and Zhi Ning ran forward a few more steps under his feet, and finally took the red bean in his arms.

"It's so dangerous, third sister, did I almost fall to my death?" The red bean in his arms Xu had not yet woken up from his dizzy state, and asked a little naïvely.

Zhi Ning's eyes suddenly turned red.

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In the afternoon, Zhi Ning settled down with the red beans who had just slept after lunch, and along the way thought that the red beans had just asked him to go to see when Shen Shiyi would be able to take the stage before going to bed. When I arrived, I found that Shen Shiyi had finished the first game, and the list posted on the newly placed wooden shelf in the field was impressively written that Shen Shiyi had won. At this time, Shen Shiyi had already joined the crowd again, shouting and cheering there. Zhi Ning stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, and the two walked past to the side. Zhi Ning was afraid that his younger brother would be worried, so he hid and didn't say anything about the red beans, but He Yan said that the two of them were not able to watch Shen Shiyi's game. Here, Shen Shiyi smiled indifferently: "Sister, I know that the two of you are most at ease with me, these opponents are not yet here for you to watch the game today, and you will come to see me tomorrow, I will continue to cheer for them." After speaking, he patted Zhi Ning on the shoulder like an adult. He turned around and went to the stage again.

The bamboo pole was a new bamboo that was replaced the day before yesterday, and how could it be broken today. Zhi Ning thought about the red bean all the way, and when he returned to the front of the room, he saw the bamboo pole on his wall that had not been replaced for nearly half a month, and Zhi Ning suddenly remembered what happened on the red bean pole today, and immediately raised his foot to look at the soles of his feet, only to see that the soles of his shoes that are cleaned once every two or three days on weekdays are greasy and greasy at the moment.

She walked quickly to the wall, only to see that the bamboo pole she walked on weekdays had been sawed open a deep mark, and Zhi Ning's eyes froze.