Chapter 19: Broken Sword (3)

The news that Tang Sancai defeated Yun Yan in the competition spread far and wide.

At noon, when the disciples had lunch in the dining hall, almost everyone was talking about it. No one thought that Yun Yan would lose to a junior sister who had just started for a few months, although it was a pity, but after all, the gap in qualifications was there, and it would always make some people feel unacceptable for a while.

Even the people of the "Tang faction" who were violently confronting the "Yun faction" in the audience before have all become much more low-key, and they don't take the initiative to talk about it with others, but just blindly bow their heads and pick up rice, as if the winner is not their little sister who is the pearl of their palms.

As for the reasons, it is self-explanatory. The so-called words are better than knives, no one can bear to stab the beauty in the heart again at this time, especially when he thinks of Yun Yan's frightening red eyes when she left the scene in a bad mood.

Some people even went to the elders specifically for this reason, questioning the rationality of using spells in the martial arts for the purpose of selecting the participants of the sword trial conference. As a result, he was told that since the sword trial conference was first held, there had never been a word prohibiting the use of spells in its rules, so he had to go home in a huff.

This matter, together with Ah Bao's blockbuster victory in the ring yesterday and his victory over Zhong Caiwei, quickly fermented, and became the talk of all Shangyao disciples after tea and dinner every day. I didn't expect that on the second day of this year's martial arts, there would be two results that made everyone jaw-dropping, but everyone's attitude towards these two was very different, how much they regretted Yun Yan's defeat, and how much they questioned Ah Bao's victory.

When Ah Bao came to the dining hall with a bucket and a rag, he happened to hear someone talking about "what would happen if the two sides of the competition were Ah Bao and Yun Yan", saying that if Ah Bao met the opponent in the first competition was not Zhong Caiwei, I was afraid that he would not be so lucky, and at the end he was sad for Yun Yan's bad luck for a long time, and did not notice the eyes of the people around him who gave him warnings.

When everyone saw Po coming, they all took away the lively look on their faces, buried their heads and struggled to pick up rice in their mouths, and even a few even choked on their esophagus because they ate too quickly, and their faces turned red.

Ah Bao didn't say much about this, but silently cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks left by the other disciples after eating as usual, and occasionally when she passed by one or two disciples, she would hear someone greet her politely, and she would smile politely.

Since she won the competition yesterday, some people in the faction seem to have begun to gradually change their opinion of her, but it is only a minority, most people think that she can win because of luck, because Zhong Caiwei was merciful when she later performed the Ten Thousand Swords Technique, after all, Zhong Caiwei once bullied Ah Bao with Yun Yan, and it is completely reasonable that she did not use her full strength in the battle because she felt guilty about Ah Bao.

She's a real fight, and at least people don't treat her as if she were air, but will keep their voices down and whisper about her. This is not the same as the result she imagined in advance, although she is a little unwilling, but there is nothing she can do.

"Ignore them." When Ah Bao returned to the kitchen with a large pile of dirty dishes and chopsticks, Gu Ah Weng comforted her and said: "People are like this, once something is different from their own cognition, the first thing that comes to mind will never be their own mistake." When you win the next game, they'll know how stupid their preconceptions were. ”

After speaking, he waved his hand and rubbed Po's head a few times, as for whether it was to appease her or simply to wipe her hands with her hair, it is unknown.

The few competitions in the afternoon were overshadowed by the one between Yun Yan and Tang Sancai, and there was no suspense in itself, so there was nothing to look forward to. Po glanced at it from a distance, and was about to go back, when he saw some familiar figures hurrying in the direction of the ring.

Due to the fact that the two competitions in the east ring in the afternoon were attended by the disciples of Yuan Yang Zhenren, out of the consideration of avoiding suspicion, the elders of the overseer have been replaced by Yuan Yang Zhenren to Wufang Zhenren. The person who walked quickly towards this side was none other than Xiao Se, a disciple of Wufang Zhenren who had a few encounters with Ah Bao yesterday.

The battle was in a stalemate in the ring, but he didn't look at it when he saw him, but walked quickly behind Wufang Zhenren, leaned over and said something in Wufang Zhenren's ear, the expression on the latter's face immediately became solemn, and without thinking, he got up from the Taishi chair, explained a few words to Xiao Se, and then quickly left the ring.

Everyone didn't know why, and they turned their heads one after another, and the two people on the stage didn't know what to do when they saw this situation, and they were both stunned for a while.

"On behalf of the head of the real person, find a few elders to discuss important matters, and now the competition in the Quartet Ring is supervised by high-level disciples." Xiao Se said goodbye and sat down on the Taishi's chair.

"The competition is still in progress, and the real person in charge of the sect is passing on to the elders at this time, but what is important?" Someone in the audience asked.

Xiao Se glanced at him and said, "What is the specific matter, the real person in charge of the acting family did not say. At the moment, my role is only to supervise and ensure the fairness and impartiality of the competition, and everything else is not within my responsibility. After speaking, he looked at the two people on the stage and ordered them to continue.

This remark obviously had the opposite effect of wanting to cover up, and now everyone had no intention of paying attention to the battle situation in the ring, but began to guess what was important, so that the Fuqing Zhenren, who had always attached importance to martial arts, couldn't even care about the competition at this juncture, and had to call all the overseers to the main hall together.

One of the female disciples closest to Ah Bao said to her companion: "My family lives in Yanshui City, and yesterday I received a letter from my father, saying that another village massacre had occurred in a village in the mountains north of Yanshui, which was exactly the same as ten years ago. ”

When Bao heard the word "Tu Village", his whole body shook uncontrollably. Ten years ago, the world's shocking picture storage time was talking about the tragedy that happened in her hometown. As the only survivor of the tragedy, she once woke up in the morning to fell asleep at night every day, thinking all the time about how to investigate the truth of the matter and how to avenge her family.

However, as time passed, the various immortal families joined forces to investigate to no avail, and this matter was gradually covered with a layer of dust, and it turned over in everyone's hearts, until in the end, no one would mention a word or a word about this matter.

But for Po, this matter has always been like a thorn full of barbs, deeply rooted in the bottom of his heart, and will only be buried deeper and deeper with the passage of time. Forcibly removing it would only make her heart a blur of flesh and blood, and all she could do was not let herself linger in grief all day long as she once did, but quietly waited for the day when she was able to bring up the old story again.

Now that the past has reappeared, Po feels that the opportunity she has been waiting for ten years has finally begun to appear, which makes her feel a faint excitement in her heart when she hears the word "Tucun", in addition to being shocked.

The companion next to the woman noticed Po who was standing not far away, and saw that the expression on her face was very terrifying, so he hurriedly pushed the woman and motioned for her not to continue. Several people glanced at Po with complicated eyes, and then hugged each other and left quickly.

Ah Bao wanted to hear more news from the female disciple, but seeing that she avoided him like a ghost, it was difficult to catch up with her. Helpless, he had to stay where he was and wait until the end of the competition, stopped Xiao Se before he left, and asked him if the matter discussed between the Qing people and the elders was related to the slaughter of the village.

Xiao Se stared at her with an inexplicable gaze for a long time. At the end, he frowned, and the expression on his face was terrifyingly serious: "The state of affairs is not yet clear, and it should not be spread outside. If it weren't for the close relationship between you and Senior Brother Chu, I wouldn't have said it even if you came to ask me today. ”

Ah Bao was a little confused, firstly, she didn't know what this matter had to do with Chu Zhaoran, and secondly, she didn't know how Xiao Se knew that she had a close relationship with Chu Zhaoran, after all, no third party should know about the matter of the two of them except Gu Aweng.

However, Xiao Se interrupted her thoughts in time: "There is a village a hundred miles north of Yanshui City, and a few days ago, someone found that all the people in the village died mysteriously overnight. ”

He lowered his voice: "Those disciples investigated in the deep mountains for a day and a night, and they didn't get any useful information, but they brought back the first-order broken sword. He paused, his eyes flickered slightly, and he seemed to hesitate for a moment unbearably before adding: "Judging from the shape of the hilt, it should be Senior Brother Chu's Flying Star Sword." ”

When Ah Bao heard this, she felt as if something was exploding in her head, causing her eardrums to buzz, and everything around her became ethereal, and her whole person seemed to have become a wisp of smoke, floating lightly when blown by the wind.

She saw that Xiao Se in front of her seemed to be saying something, but her ear holes seemed to be stuffed with clumps of cotton wool soaked in water, which made her dizzy. In the hot weather of midsummer, cold sweat quickly soaked through the tattered old Taoist robe on her body.

Suddenly, his chest was stuffy, and he couldn't get up in one breath, Ah Bao leaned back, and the whole person fell to the ground, and he fainted on the spot.