Chapter 40: The Rite of Passage (Part I)
"It's coming, it's finally coming!"
The peony that has not been seen for a long time fell from the sky and landed on the gladiatorial platform.
Yan Qingcheng's eyes lit up, and the peony that was belatedly attracted was too eye-catching; Usually she always wears a loose long skirt, but today she changed into a white tights, and the trench coat outside has not been neatly dressed, and the bewitching curves can be seen at a glance.
Xiao Sprinkle screamed excitedly in the audience and blew the hooligan whistle loudly.
Cheng En couldn't stand it anymore and kicked him hard in the ass.
Peony seemed to have just returned to the branch base, and rushed over in a hurry to change her clothes, breathing a little quickly.
"Yan Qingcheng, your opponent is Peony." Song Beichen was expressionless and continued to finish the interrupted words.
"You?" Yan Qingcheng frowned.
"yes, me." Peony was very interested, and her eyes flashed.
"Where have you been for the past two days? We're all worried. Yan Qingcheng didn't frown because he misjudged his opponent, and he didn't have to fight with Xiao Sage; A few days ago, the peony suddenly disappeared without a trace, and Yan Qingcheng has been worried about this time, for fear that the peony will have an accident, so he is very anxious.
"This ...... This ......" Peony stuttered a little, she didn't know how everyone explained to Yan Qingcheng, so she could only scan the audience with her residual vision, hoping that someone would stand up and help her round the field.
"I sent Xiao Peony out," unexpectedly, it was Mo Yun who opened her mouth to respond, "She is carrying out a covert operation that I am mainly responsible for, and she may not notify all the core members." ”
"Yes, yes, it's Grandma Mo who asked me to go!" Peony hurriedly responded.
Song Beichen knew very well what the true face of this so-called "covert operation" was, and it was impossible for the branch to let a young man carry out the real covert operation, but he did not express any in-depth investigation if he followed the rules.
Yan Qingcheng carefully observed the four people in the audience, and none of them had a surprised look on their faces, which means that only Yan Qingcheng didn't know about it.
There was something wrong in his heart, and in their hearts he was just an outsider? Even Peony hid it from him.
"Hey, why are you suddenly stunned? It's time to come back to your soul. Peony stepped forward, stretched out his little hand and waved in front of Yan Qingcheng.
Yan Qingcheng looked at the peony in front of her closely, the girl's eyes were clear and transparent, and they were full of joy, not fake at all; Yan Qingcheng is a very sensitive person, he believes in his own senses, and the girl in front of him truly regards him as a companion.
"I'm fine, I'm just happy to see you come back safely." Yan Qingcheng shook his head, leaving the negative emotions just now behind.
"Oh, that's good."
The ceremony continued, and Mo Yun in the audience took a war sickle that was exactly the same as Yan Qingcheng's hand and threw it at the peony.
The peony caught it steadily, and held it in the air and danced a knife flower, skillfully.
"By the way, Elder Song said that you are my opponent for the test of combat power?" Yan Qingcheng watched Peony skillfully wield the war scythe, and was a little surprised.
"Do you look down on me?" Peony handed the scythe to his right hand, and the scythe blade pointed at Yan Qingcheng.
"No," Yan Qingcheng considered his words and glanced at Xiao Shao, "it's just...... I've never seen you use a weapon other than Uncle Chic. ”
Xiao Sa's face darkened, and he was quite embarrassed to be ridiculed in front of several gods.
"Hmph, don't forget, I saved you in the first place."
"I'm not the powerless scholar I was at the beginning." Yan Qingcheng's hands holding the war scythe tightened.
Peony's description of the rescue operation was very exaggerated, and when Qingcheng asked Xiao Sa for verification, he only got an "easy" answer, so he subconsciously thought that Peony just did a little backup work.
"Then it's up to you!" Peony blinked and turned his head to look at Song Beichen.
"The distance between the two sides is twenty meters," Song Beichen shouted, "None of the scythes you use are unbladed, but they are painted with red paint, and anyone who has three paints on the non-vital parts of his clothes, or one on the vital parts, will be judged to be incapacitated and defeated; Yan Qingcheng, the test of your combat power is to hold on for a quarter of an hour under the attack of Peony. ”
"What if I beat Peony?" Yan Qingcheng looked at Peony's triumphant appearance and wanted to hit her verbally.
"If you defeat her, then your good days will come to an end, wait to be hunted down by her to the ends of the earth!" Without waiting for Song Beichen to answer, Xiao Shi squeezed his eyebrows and shouted.
"You shut up honestly for me!" Cheng En was furious, this guy was too skinny, and he joked regardless of the occasion; He was thinking about asking Mo Yun to help teach him a lesson, otherwise God knows what kind of words Xiao Shi could say.
Perhaps because he was a former teammate, Mo Yun glanced at Xiao Sa lightly.
Xiao Shi suddenly became honest and didn't dare to speak again.
"Ahem, if you defeat Peony, you will naturally pass the test." Song Beichen ignored the living treasure beside him, he looked at the peony moving his hands and feet on the stage, and a trace of fierceness appeared on his expressionless face, probably meaning that he wanted Yan Qingcheng to clean up the peony, so that she would not always be arrogant, and save her excess energy every day and cause trouble everywhere.
"Understood." Yan Qingcheng understood and tapped his chin slightly.
"Are you ready?" Peony lowered her eyes, as if she didn't notice the silent communication between the two.
"Of course, ladies first, please attack first." Yan Qingcheng put the war sickle in front of him, stretched out his left hand and said to Peony.
Peony suddenly opened her wings, and her eyes became extremely sharp; She grasped the end of the sickle in her right hand and carried it around her back and slashed forward.
The two are still quite far apart, and Peony is swinging a sickle!
She certainly wasn't wrong, and she began to accelerate as she wrapped the scythe behind her, closing the distance by ten meters before charging her slash; But it was still a bit far from it, so she gave up running and jumped up directly, striking a top-to-bottom pounce position; At the same time, she spread the long feathers at the ends of her wings, revealing the sharp bone spurs hidden in them, and stabbed at Yan Qingcheng in an enveloping posture.
Peony uses the fastest and most powerful melee attack method in the Wing Clan, and uses the advantage of long-handled weapons and wing length to seize the lead, beautiful and deadly; The defender had to take into account three aspects of the attack, the scythe from directly above was powerful and difficult to block, and the bone spurs from both sides were as fast as the wind and could not be dodged; If the defender is a little slower, they may be hit with a single hit.
But Yan Qingcheng didn't panic, he was already used to this kind of swift move when Mo Yunna was training.
He cocked his scythe up straight, a smile on his face.
"Come on!"