Everyone walked to the playground under the leadership of Lu Zhilin, Li Yichen found that there was a high platform at the back of the ten competition rings built yesterday, which was about one person higher than all the rings, and there were rows of chairs on the stage, and some people were already sitting on the chairs, and Dean Lu Gang of the college was sitting in the middle and chatting with the people on both sides.

The annual competition of the college has always been the most important event in Tangjiang Town, and when it comes to the top 100 and top 10 competitions in the ninth grade, the patriarchs and squires of the major clans in Tangjiang Town will attend.

Sitting on Lu Gang's left hand side is the patriarch of the Lu family, and the current ranking of the Lu family is Ding, Shi, Han, Tong, and Sheng. At present, the same generation is the largest generation of the entire Lu family, and the current patriarch of the Lu family, Lu Zhoutong, is the old man of the same generation, and Lu Gang is only the Shengzi generation, if it were not for the fact that he is the dean of Tangjiang College, then he is not qualified to sit next to Lu Zhoutong at all, let alone sit in the middle position, and Lu Zhoutong is to sit with him.

Sitting on Lu Gang's right hand side was the patriarch of the Zhong family, and the patriarchs of several major families like the Guo family and the Xing family, as well as all the squires and celebrities in Tangjiang Town, also came over and sat on either side of the two patriarchs.

Lu Gang, who was sitting in the center of the platform, was talking happily with the two patriarchs around him in a low voice, at this time he was full of red faces, and the smile on his mouth never stopped, his whole face was like a pile of folds, and from time to time there was a burst of hearty laughter.

This time of year is Lu Gang's most glorious moment, surrounded by the major patriarchs and squires and celebrities in the town, listening to their flattering words, and at this time, if the students below perform well, the major families will also provide a large amount of money to the academy as a reward.

Students of all grades, under the guidance of their teachers, came to the playground one after another, and soon the empty playground began to become noisy. There were nearly 3,000 teachers and students in the nine grades of Tangjiang Academy, and when these people all came to gather on this huge playground, the entire playground still did not feel a trace of crowding.

looked at the time and felt that the students were almost here, and at this time, a middle-aged man standing in the back row on the high platform walked quickly to Lu Gang's side and lowered his head, whispered a few words in Lu Gang's ear, and then returned to his original position.

After the middle-aged man returned to his original position, Lu Gang confessed to the two patriarchs, Lu and Zhong, and then stood up and walked slowly to the front of the high platform.

"Time has passed, and now we have ushered in the annual big competition of our Tangjiang College, which is a time to test the achievements of the students after hard work in the old year. At this important moment, the patriarchs of the major families such as Patriarch Lu and Patriarch Zhong and the celebrity squires of our Tangjiang Town also took time out of their busy schedules to come here to review everyone's achievements. ”

As soon as Lu Gang's voice fell, as if he had been rehearsed in advance, the entire playground resounded with thunderous applause.

After the applause lasted for a while, Lu Gang pressed down with both hands, and suddenly the applause from the audience immediately stopped, and the entire playground was silent again.

"The time of the distinguished guests who came to the college today is very precious, in order to show these distinguished guests the best side of our college, we will start the top 100 competition of the ninth grade in the morning, and then hold the competition of other grades after the top 100 competition.

The top 100 tournament is also divided into ten groups like the group competition, the first place in each group is divided into each group as the seeded players, and the second place in each group is used as the second pot player in the group stage, and so on. After the top 100 competition, the third place in each group will be rewarded with ten taels of gold from the academy, the second place in the group will be rewarded with fifty taels of gold, and the first place in the group will participate in the top 10 competition tomorrow afternoon in addition to the reward of one hundred taels of gold from the academy.

In addition to the reward of one hundred taels of gold, the top three in the top ten competition will also be rewarded with the elixir and sword provided by the Lu family and the Zhong family, the third place in the academy will be rewarded with a low-level elixir, the second place will be rewarded with an intermediate elixir, and the first place in the academy will receive a high-level sword in addition to a high-level elixir.

Okay, now let's ask Lu Zhou, the patriarch of the Lu family, to draw the seeded players from our ninth-grade top 100 competition for the lottery grouping. ”

As soon as Lu Gang's words fell, there was deafening applause on the playground, and when he was hypnotized by Lu Gang's tirade, he was a little excited when he heard that the rewards for this year's competition were so rich, hoping to achieve a good result in order to obtain the reward of the college.

Amid the applause among the students, Lu Zhoutong walked to the front of the high platform and stopped at a table with a transparent box without a lid on it, and in the box were several folded pieces of paper with their names written on them, all of which were written with the names of the first place in each group in the group competition.

Lu Zhoutong is about eighty years old, and because of his martial arts practice, his spirit is relatively vigorous, and he usually maintains it better, so he looks younger than his actual age from the outside.

From the outside, Lu Zhoutong looks like he is in his sixties, with gray hair, thick eyebrows and thick eyes, slightly thin cheeks, a wisp of goatee on his pointed chin, two front teeth in his mouth have fallen out, and there is a little leakage when he speaks.

Lu Zhoutong's strength is not the highest in the Lu family, and the cultivation of the intermediate level can only be said to be below average, but because the Lu family has thirteen rooms, and Lu Zhoutong is a descendant of the long house, like Lu Shidi and Lu Tongzuo, several of them were born in the long house. Lu Zhoutong should be called Lu Shidi as the sixth grandfather according to his seniority, although Lu Tongzuo is his peer, but he doesn't want to take care of family affairs at all, so he passed the position of patriarch to him.

"Lu Heping, the first group!"

Lu Zhoutong walked to the table, stretched out his hand and took out a piece of paper from the box, opened it and read it.

Lu Heping is also one of the geniuses of the younger generation in the Lu family, at the age of seventeen, he is already a first-level cultivator, and he is currently ranked sixth in the academy, closely following Kang Jian.

"Yang Xiaoxia, the second group!"

After reading the name on the first piece of paper, Lu Zhoutong reached out and took out the second note.

Among the top ten students in the college, there are only two girls, Yang Xiaoxia and Wang Xiaoyan, so these two are called the double pearls of the college by the good people of the college. Yang Xiaoxia is also a first-level cultivator, ranking seventh in the college.

Soon, the seeded players of the ten groups have been drawn and grouped, and Li Yichen, as the first place in the group competition, also participated in the group as a seeded player, and was divided into the fifth group.

"It seems that Kang Jian and they are all unlucky, they were in a group with themselves in the group stage at that time, or they must be drawn as seeded players now. ”

After seeing the list of ten seeded players come out, Li Yichen secretly sighed there, several of these seeded players are students outside the top ten in the college's rankings, if Kang Jian, Lu Ming and Wang Xiaoyan didn't all get together in the same group as themselves in the group competition, they would definitely be able to occupy a place among the seeded players with their strength.

"Now I have asked the patriarch of the Zhong family to draw lots for the second tier of players. ”

After Lu Zhoutong divided all the seeded players into lots, Lu Gang stood up and announced the lottery guests for the second pot of players.

Completely opposite to Lu Zhoutong's emaciated body shape, Zhong Dashan is a fat man with a bloated body. In his sixties, he has a shaved head, and his scalp is shiny and shiny, and he can reflect the figure of a person. A big round face, and the fat on the face piles up the chin in two.

If Lu Zhoutong won the position of patriarch because of his good background, then Zhong Dashan obtained the position of patriarch completely because of his wealth, Zhong Dashan has a carriage and horse shop under his hand, which occupies half of the entire Tangjiang Town, plus some other shops, he can be called the richest man in the Zhong family.

Like Lu Zhou, Zhong Dashan walked to the table and didn't say anything, and directly pulled out the list of second-tier players from the box.

Each time a name is announced, a teacher from the college will fill in the name on a large white cloth and fill it into the corresponding group.

"It seems that this will make them healthy, and their luck is not bad, and it seems that they will meet and fight in the top 10 competition. ”

After the end of the lottery grouping, Li Yichen looked at all the lottery groups, Kang Jian's luck this time was not bad, Kang Jian was divided into the fourth group as the second tier player, and the strongest seed player in this group was only a student in the top 20 of the college, Kang Jian was fully capable of breaking through from the group with the first place in the group.

I don't know if it was due to the deliberate arrangement of the academy or if they were suddenly transferred, Lu Ming and Wang Xiaoyan were also in a group that was not very strong.

Because in the group competition at that time, Li Yichen's eighth group included four students whose strength could enter the top ten in the college's ranking, including Li Yichen, so in the top 100 competition, Li Yichen's group strength was relatively much worse than in the group stage. In the entire fifth group, except for Li Yichen, Lu Zhiyu, who is the strongest second-tier player, is only ranked twelfth in the academy.

Seeing all the lists in the group, Li Yichen is full of confidence, and believes that it is no problem to break into the middle of the top ten with his own strength as the top of the group.

In order to better show the true strength of all students to those guests who came to watch the competition, the top 100 competition is also a group round-robin competition like the group competition, each student has to go through nine games in the group, and the student with the highest points will participate in the final top 10 round-robin competition as the group leader.

Ten competition rings have already been set up on the playground, and each group's competition is conducted in their respective rings. The first match of each group is a competition between the seeded players of the group and the players in the last pot.

"The top 100 competition for the ninth grade of Tangjiang College starts now, please go to your respective arenas to prepare for the competition!"

After all the top 100 students had been drawn, Lu Gang announced the start of the annual ninth-grade top 100 competition.