CHAPTER XXII

When the martial arts examination is in progress

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The martial arts examination is different from the literary examination, and it can be a unified examination.

It's all about fighting, fighting, still fighting.

If you want to win, you have to fight to the end.......

Therefore, the time of the martial arts examination every year is much longer than the time of the literary examination. Therefore, after the candidates for the literary examination are over, the remaining three hundred people have to wait for the preliminary examination of the martial arts examination to go to the palace examination together. During this period, many of the top 300 candidates will go together to watch the martial arts competition. Even if they don't understand the essence of martial arts, they still have a good time. But in the martial arts arena of the martial arts hall, it is very rare to see the figure of Guozijian, the sworn enemy.

Even this year, it's just a little bit more.

The reason is naturally that it is rumored on the streets and alleys that the top three in the literary examination actually participated in the civil and military double examination at the same time. Although it is not uncommon to take the literary examination and the martial arts examination at the same time, it is almost every year. But like this, most of the students who have achieved the top three excellent results in the literary examination are weak scholars, what is the result of participating in the martial arts examination?

But when Showu, the third of the top three they were waiting for today, appeared, they were stunned. The image of the top three weak scholars has nothing to do with him.

His burly figure stood there completely like a martial arts practitioner, in his forties, and had already reached the True Martial Realm. If this is placed in some treasure countries, it must at least be at the level of the elder head, although it is not the most prominent here, but it is also among the first-class candidates.

In this scene, the duel with Zhangwu was a master of the Zen Martial Arts Realm in his thirties.

Although I know that the gap in strength is there, the possibility of losing is too great. The opponent took a deep breath, punched the wind, and roared towards Zhangwu. I only saw Zhangwu's palms coming out together, and the true qi of his whole body burst out - it was like a coiled dragon and a crouching tiger on the top of a high mountain, and his palms crossed the heavens and the earth.

In just that palm, the opponent of the Zen Martial Realm had already fallen on the periphery of the martial arts arena and had lost his ability to fight. But he was not taken by Zhangwu, at most he suffered some flesh and skin injuries.

After the battle ended with lightning speed, Zhangwu walked back to Jiang Heng without saying a word after hearing the results announced by the examiner, and stood silently beside him, not angry but mighty, as if he intended to take a step back and stand behind Jiang Heng's heels.

This standing posture allows people to see at a glance the distinction between the main and secondary between Zhangwu and Jiang Heng.

Who is this young man?

A master of the True Martial Realm stood beside him without saying a word.

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Jiang Heng's eyes calmly observed the situation around him, although among the people who participated in the martial arts examination this time, there were many children of the family and princely disciples. But their performance in the crowd is no different from that of ordinary candidates. Most of the reason is that the system under the throne of Nanqi is very strict, even if they are high-flying and domineering on weekdays, they don't dare to roar on occasions like the martial arts examination, too public.

During - there was such an example.

It was the son of a family, claiming to be the young master of the Nangong family, and when he entered the martial arts arena, he had to be carried by his subordinates with a chair and carried him in.

He said that he wanted to conserve his physical strength and fight, but too many people understood that he was just trying to show his identity. In this regard, those princes and princes who were even more noble than him stood indifferently in the crowd, and they were far away from such people.

And the result of this young master was swept out of the martial arts arena by an old man who swept the floor.

He was smashed outside the lecture hall, and shouted loudly in front of the little young master: "Old guy, do you know who I am? You dare to do something to me! Lao Tzu is the ...... of the Nangong family."

At this moment, in the group of candidates, a small number of disciples of the martial arts hall recognized the identity of the old man who swept the floor at a glance.

Before he opened his mouth, he had already bowed to the sweeping old man on one knee: "I've seen the old general Ning Yuan!"

"Old General Ning Yuan???"

Even for an outsider like Jiang Heng, who had recently studied the records of General Wu Mu's life, he knew what kind of existence this General Ning Yuan was.

Ning Yuan is not his name, but his official position - Ning Yuanjun.

His real surname is Zhang Mingchengxuan, an ordinary name, but he has an extraordinary life. Nanqi anti-demon famous general, is one of the most relied on generals Wu Mu during his lifetime, from the micro to the colonel, the official to the southern Xinjiang Shenwei four compartment commander, Langzhou observation envoy, Gaoyang Guan Road Ma Bu Army deputy chief.

In his life, he defeated Cao Cheng, pacified Jiqian, recovered Xianghan, and experienced hundreds of battles.

Zhang Chengxuan, a veteran general, has a career as a horse, is good at using a tiger's head and a golden gun, has strong military force and outstanding military achievements. General Wu Mu sat down and the general Shuren was defeated by the Demon King, just as General Zhang Chengxuan came to defect, and dozens of shots killed the Demon King. During the rescue of the southern frontier border, General Zhang Chengxuan fought against the demon king Xiyan, worked hard to cultivate all his life, cut off one of his ears, and rescued the second, fourth, and fifth sons of General Wu Mu, who were being surrounded by the demon king Xiyan. In the midst of the defeated army, he used his body as a shield to protect the three sons of General Wu Mu, who had died at that time, and fought all the way back.

Saved the three bloodlines of General Wu Mu.

Therefore, the old general Zhang Chengxuan is like an uncle to the descendants of Wu Mu. Even Huaiyu, who has now become the king of Chu, also called Zhang Chengxuan with honorific title when he saw him: "Uncle Zhang". The rest of the people even come to worship him every year.

It's just that after the old general witnessed the death of General Wu Mu in the southern border, he was disheartened, and since then he has lived in seclusion in this martial arts hall and become an old man sweeping the floor.

Even so, his position is still something that no one dares to shake.

So here, those princely children, those children of the family, as long as they know him, who dares to be presumptuous in front of him.

That's nothing more than self-defeating.

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After the young master of the Nangong family learned Zhang Chengxuan's identity, his whole face was completely bloodless, and he immediately knelt on the ground, slammed his head on the ground, and kept kowtowing to admit his mistakes.

After dozens of knocks on his face, his scalp was broken, and blood flowed out, only to hear Zhang Chengxuan, the old man sweeping the floor, wave his hand: "Let's go! Don't come to take the martial arts exam again in the next five years!"

The Nangong family is one of the four major families in Nanqi Prefecture, and if the young master with a prominent identity is in front of him, he will also instantly roll up his tail.

Left with his subordinates in embarrassment.

And the old sweeper disappeared into the crowd again.

It's as if his appearance was a gust of wind, coming when he comes, and when he leaves, it's time to go.

And the competition still has to continue.

And after a long time, Zhang Junbao beside Jiang Heng also had his turn to appear.

Suddenly, the eyes on the field focused again and fell on this kid.

After all, it is the second place in the literary examination, and many people are naturally curious about what kind of combat power this country boy with an ordinary identity and background can show in this martial arts examination.

Especially his strength to cultivate the martial arts realm, this kind of cultivation that is completely inconspicuous among the candidates for the martial arts examination-