Outside the Tianwu Gate of the Great Zhou Imperial City, there is a huge square with a radius of thousands of feet.

Usually, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty receives foreign envoys and watches the Imperial Forest Military Exercise in Wumen Square on this day, highlighting the martial might of the Great Zhou Dynasty. And the five-year Great Zhou Martial Arts Selection is naturally also in this Tianwumen Square.

There was still more than an hour before noon.

On Tianwumen Square, a large number of people of the Great Zhou have already gathered.

Among them, in the center of the square, in an area of two or three hundred zhang, there were three or four thousand young men who were no more than twenty years old, and these people were the Great Zhou warriors who were going to participate in the first martial arts. Outside of this area, three thousand Imperial Forest troops stood with halberds to maintain order here. Further out, there are the onlookers in Beijing......

"The martial arts selection is worthy of being the biggest festival of martial arts in the Great Zhou Dynasty. This is only the first day, there are more than 3,000 young martial artists, the first martial arts is a total of ten days, in these ten days, I am afraid there are 50,000 or 60,000 people who participated in the first martial arts promotion, right?"

On the top of the Tianwu Gate Tower, two young people, a man and a woman, were surrounded and watched the first martial arts in the square below.

These two men, both seventeen or eighteen years old, were richly dressed.

Being able to climb the Tianwumen Tower to watch when the Great Zhou Martial Arts was selected, it is obvious that the status of this man and a woman is very unusual, at least they are also princes and grandsons.

"Five years ago, when I arrived in Da Zhou, it happened to be the end of the first martial arts promotion. ”

"In the future, martial arts and school competitions will be attended by two or three thousand people at most, which is still too far behind the tens of thousands of people who are participating in the grand event now......"

The woman on the upper floor of Tianwumen City, blonde hair and blue eyes, tall and beautiful, is none other than Princess Dai Lin'er of Huoluo!

"The Great Zhou martial arts selection is indeed a rare event, a martial arts selection, enough to select hundreds of martial arts talents for the Great Zhou, if you can win the championship in the martial arts selection in one fell swoop, you can directly enter the army, be reused, and stay up for a few years of qualifications, that is, the captain, the captain, lead an army, make meritorious contributions, until the marquis worships the general, enjoy the highest glory......"

Beside Dai Lin'er, the young man said slowly.

"The great-ancestor of my Cheng family stood out in the first martial arts selection of the Great Zhou Dynasty, entered the army, and made great contributions with the Great Zhou Taizu's expedition to the Southern Barbarians and Northern Qiang, and finally was named the hereditary 'Marquis of Anwu'. In terms of merit alone, the great-ancestor of my Cheng family is no longer inferior to any national prince. It's a pity that the Duke of the Great Zhou Dynasty can only be awarded for the founding merits, which is a disadvantage that is difficult for my Cheng family's great-ancestor to make up......" The young man said proudly.

"Your Cheng family is the Marquis of Anwu, who has been hereditary since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and is deeply rooted in the army and has a very high prestige. But what about the Yang family compared to the Duke of Zhenguo?"

Dai Lin'er asked the young man casually as she looked at the plaza below.

Hearing Dailin'er's words, the young man smiled slightly.

"Yang Qian, the Duke of Zhenguo, is known as the first general of the Great Zhou today, and his prestige in the army is naturally extremely high!"

"But if you want to compare my Cheng family with the Yang family, there is no need, my aunt is the wife and wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, and now our two families are both prosperous and lossy. In the entire Great Zhou army, I am afraid that only the Divine Martial King Qianyulong can be compared to us!" the young man said.

This young man is the eldest son of the Cheng family of Anwu Hou, Cheng Ziyang!

The Cheng family of Anwu Hou is the maiden family of Mrs. Cheng of Zhenguo Gong; Mrs. Cheng is Cheng Ziyang's aunt!

Zhenguo Gong and An Wuhou are two forces with great strength in the army, and now the marriage of the two families has reached the peak of their power in the army.

In this regard, although Cheng Ziyang was extremely proud, he didn't want to say more to Dai Lin'er at all.

"Princess Lin'er, we originally made an appointment to arrive at Tianwumen, why are you so late?" Cheng Ziyang changed the topic and asked Dai Lin'er. ...,

"It's nothing, it's just that I didn't expect that there would be so many people in the capital during the martial arts selection, which caused the roads to be a little congested. Originally, I asked four guards to open the way in front, but unexpectedly, I met a son, who scolded my guards for being overbearing and molesting his maids...... There was a slight delay. Dai Lin'er said lightly.

"Oh, who dares to stop the princess's car?" asked Cheng Ziyang with an eyebrow.

"I didn't ask, but judging by his bearing, it should be everyone's son. I asked Xiaoya to pay his maid ten gold cakes, and I learned about it. Dai Liner said.

"I see. ”

Cheng Ziyang didn't ask much: "Although the princess was late for a while, she still rushed over in the middle of the hour, not late!"

"Princess Lin'er, let's watch the martial arts selection. In this martial arts primary, the strong qi refining will be directly promoted, and as for the strong under the qi refining level, they need to participate in the initial extraction, and the hero will be judged by his strength!"

Cheng Ziyang said, and Dai Lin'er continued to watch the first martial arts.

"Princess, please see, there are a total of three knife stands on this martial arts beginner field, and each knife holder has a long knife on it. The first handle weighs 223 catties, the second weighs 342 catties, and the third weighs 507 catties. If you can lift the first long knife, even if you pass the selection!"

"If you can lift the second handle, you will have a powerful power comparable to that of a beginner Qi refining martial artist, and as for the one that can lift the third handle...... Hehe, from the first martial arts selection, no one can do it!" Cheng Ziyang said.

On the ground of the martial arts beginner in the square below, three knife holders were established.

Three long knives, the shortest one is five feet, the longest one is seven feet, two fingers thick, made of stainless steel, all of which weigh hundreds of pounds. The three long knives have been used since the first martial arts selection of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and after a hundred years, there is no trace of rust on the blade.

At this moment, those martial artists who participated in the first draw of the martial arts were trying to lift these long knives.

The heaviest of the three long knives is only more than five hundred catties, and it is easy for these warriors to hold the weight of five hundred catties.

However, it is ten times more difficult to hold the handle of a long knife and lift the heavy blade five or six feet long, and it is impossible to do it without extraordinary wrist strength and arm strength!

"Drink!"

A warrior was trying to raise his first long knife.

This martial artist is just a middle-level quenching body, his physique is poor, he holds the handle of the knife with both hands, and he can't lift the long knife even a little bit with the click of bone friction!

If you can't lift the long knife, you will fail at the beginning of the martial arts!

The warrior was sweating on his forehead, and seeing that he couldn't succeed, he gritted his teeth suddenly, overdrew his strength, and with a "squeak", the long knife was actually raised by him by three feet.

This warrior was overjoyed in his heart, and was about to continue to raise the knife in his hand, but at this time, he only heard a crisp sound of "click", and under the huge pressure of the knife body, the two wrists of this warrior could not support it, and it was directly crushed, and a terrible voice suddenly came out of the warrior's mouth......

The people of the Great Zhou Jing who were watching around all burst out in surprise.

"The beginning of martial arts, even so tragic?"

I don't know when, Yang Shuo has already come to the crowd of onlookers.

"My strength has not yet entered the level of qi refining, and if I want to pass this martial arts debut, I also need to raise these long knives. I don't know, among the three long knives, which one can I lift......" Looking at the three long knives, Yang Shuo said secretly in his heart.