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Anyi Province, Jiuyou County, Jiangning City.

The forest corridor carried the road, the red apricot barricade wall, and in the magnificent courtyard, the man in brocade and jade clothes half-tilted his head, as if he was thinking about something that had been prepared for a long time.

"Tomorrow is the day of the empire's 'martial arts test', and he ...... in the east."

The mottled old man standing behind him showed a look of reminiscence, and the young man in his memory was always amazing.

After a pause, the old man said: "Don't worry, with the qualifications of the young master, it is easy to pass the martial arts test and enter the first-class sect." ”

The man sighed lightly and paced several times, which showed the status of this matter in his heart: "The people in the city call me Zhuo Bantian, my reputation covers half of Jiangning City, and I am more majestic than the city lord, but who knows my name when I leave Jiangning City?"

Zhuo Bantian had a slight self-deprecation on his face, but he didn't care: "When I was young, I traveled all over the world, and compared to those, Jiangning City was too small after all. ”

"If Dongliu wants to jump out of the dry well of Jiangning, it is not enough to worship the first-class sect, his goal is to be the top sect of the empire!"

That's what Wu'er has to do! Zhuo looked proud for a long time.

Similar pictures are not limited to the Zhuo family, some other families, and even ordinary people's families, but whenever there are children to participate in tomorrow's martial arts test, the elders are hopeful.

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In the 100-foot-long and wide-100-foot martial arts arena, thousands of men and women spread their legs slightly, sometimes gasping, half-squatting on the ground and standing on horse stakes, horizontal and vertical neatly and vertically.

The one-armed middle-aged man looked at the scene in front of him, his face was not different, but he nodded silently in his heart: "Yes, yes, this year's disciples are much stronger than previous ones, both in terms of physical fitness and the degree of effort, there has been a significant increase." ”

"And Zhuo Dongliu, Yang Ning, and Mu Yi can be called geniuses who are difficult to produce in three years, and this year there are three people at the same time, even if they are placed in the county town, they are not inferior. There are also some other disciples, who are also quite extraordinary, and this year's ceremony of recruiting disciples from the major sects, Jiangning City can finally shine. ”

The one-armed man's gaze swept over the disciples.

The empire has always focused on future development, established martial arts academies in various provinces, counties, and counties, and implemented a 12-year compulsory education in martial arts, which is divided into nine years of introductory martial arts and three years of basic martial arts.

The thousands of men and women in the martial arts arena are the third-year disciples of the basic martial arts in the martial arts academy, they have been admitted to the hospital since they were five or six years old, day and night, cold and summer, after twelve years of tempering, and then they will either pass the "martial arts test" of the empire to worship the major sects, practice advanced martial arts and become martial artists, or fail to become ordinary people from then on to live an ordinary life.

When his gaze turned to a thin man, the one-armed man's original good mood was immediately destroyed.

The man stood on his stake like everyone else, his posture was standard, his figure reflecting the morning light and looking a little relaxed, his breath was steady and without the fatigue of the other disciples, and he was holding a piece of wood and a sharp knife in his hand.

"That's not right...... The marks made by the carving knife should be smoother and lighter, achieving a natural harmony, and at this time, my meticulous and deliberate pursuit is contrary to this beauty. The young man was concentrating on the wood carving in his hand.

At the moment, wood carving is his whole world.

The appearance of the wood carving is a three-eyed, hideous face of the monster, at the moment is angrily opening the bloody mouth, four hooves and stomping; just from the appearance of the point of view, the wood carving has reached the point of vividness, if it is painted with cinnabar and other kinds of paint, it is completely a miniature version of the monster. Such carving skills are rarely matched even in the entire Great Qin Empire, but the man is obviously not satisfied.

The three-inch-long, willow-leaf-thin knife in his hand flew in the air, but it did not fall on the wood carving, and the man closed his eyes as if carving in an image.

"The stele says: everything has a law, carving a piece is also in it, if you want to move first quiet, if you want to sing first listen, if you want to do it first stop......"

The man realized the magic of every word, and gradually sketched a false demon beast in his mind, still the original three-eyed and four-hoofed appearance, but it was a completely different posture, the demon beast crawled its body, its three eyes wanted to dazzle out, and its head looked at the sky and roared with all its might, as if it wanted to break free from the invisible restraints on its body.

This is a demon beast that pursues freedom and dares to fight against the heavens, and it is a demon beast in the heart of a man.

"Yes, it is this kind of meaning, only when it is given to the wood carving, the wood carving can be regarded as having a trace of demeanor. The man's mind was immersed in the demon beast in the image, where the first knife began to be depicted, and what should the second knife be, and the copying of each piece of scale armor slowly emerged in his mind step by step.

No master carver dares to carve like this, and to move the knife in his imagination is tantamount to talking on paper, and people's mental strength is limited, how huge the workload of a complete carving work is, how can it be completely calculated in the mind.

It is said that some people who have cultivated to a high level of profundity, their minds increase with the increase of strength, and the thoughts and things that flash in an instant are dozens of times that of ordinary people.

A flash of sword light pulled the man back from his thoughts, and the wood carving in his hand had broken.

When he opened his eyes, he found that the one-armed man standing in front of him was holding a long sword in his hand, and his originally serious face trembled with anger.

"Luo Ning, I said, don't let me see you make wood again!"

The one-armed man said coldly, his face full of frost did not diminish because of a sword cutting off the wood carving, and his eyes were full of anger that hated iron but not steel.

The man known as Luo Ning smiled, looked at the flat incision of the wood carving in his hand, and said, "Congratulations, the teacher's swordsmanship has improved a lot, and the sword edge is smoother than last time." ”

The one-armed man Zhou Fan didn't look at the other party, he was a teacher of the martial arts academy, and said coldly: "Luo Ning, cultivation lies in oneself, I don't want to care about how I usually do it, but tomorrow is the 'martial arts test', which will determine the fate of your life, and you are still acting so nonsense." ”

Luo Ning slightly restrained the smile on his face and nodded.

Seeing this, Zhou Fan was angry. Luo Ning is in the middle and upper posture among the disciples, but he likes the unpopular skill of carving, and he waives a knife regardless of time and occasion, making a lot of jokes.

Luo Ning, Zhuo Dongliu, Yang Ning, and Mu Yi are rare geniuses in the previous martial arts academies in Jiangning City, their qualifications are ten times better than yours, and they still work hard and don't dare to be distracted in the slightest, don't make mistakes!"

"I'm working on it too. Ronin said.

Zhou Fan sneered when he heard this: "You carve wood against the air during the day and the night sky at night, and you are also working hard?"

There was a burst of laughter among the disciples.

Since ancient times, gardening, carving, painting and other skills have been difficult to reach the hall of elegance, unable to enter people's eyes, Luo Ning abandoned his cultivation and preferred carving, even to the point of madness, in Zhou Fan's view, it is tantamount to self-destructive future.

Luo Ning shook his head helplessly: "They can't be distracted while cultivating, because they can't do two things......; For example, when I read a book, I can only watch one of the books at the same time, and I can only watch one of the books at the same time, and I can watch the contents ......of the two books at the same time without affecting each other.

Zhou Fan: "Ignorance!"

Luo Ning: "......"

"Isn't that that more powerful than Zhuo Dongliu, Yang Ning, and Mu Yi?" Zhou Fan sneered.

"I don't know, after all, I haven't tried. Ronin replied.

There was another burst of laughter among the disciples.

"Then let's try it now?" Zhou Fan teased.

Luo Ning thought about it, but finally shook his head and stopped talking.

Zhou Fan was speechless when he saw Luo Ning, and he didn't want to pretend to deal with it, he looked at the disciples and said: "The 'martial test' is not a dispute between the Jiangning City family, not only these familiar friends and classmates in front of and behind you are competitors, but your competitors also include the disciples of the Martial Academy from the county town and all the provinces!"

"Within the borders of the empire, they are all opponents!"

"Zhuo Dongliu, Yang Ning, Mu Yi. Zhou Fan said by name: "Although the qualifications of the three of you are incomparable to ordinary people, there are still a lot of them in the entire empire, so you must not relax until the last moment, all the teachers in the martial arts academy are looking forward to the three of you being able to worship the top sects in the empire, Tsinghua Authentic Sect and Peking University Authentic Sect!"

The three of them listened to it and secretly exerted themselves.

Zhou Fan turned his head and glared at Luo Ning:

"Luo Ning, you are stubborn by nature, not pragmatic and studious, I will punish you to stand in the horse village until the end of your coursework, can you take it?"

Luo Ning didn't respond, his eyes looked at the void sky, and his face was expressionless for a long time.