The triennial Sword Boy Contest has always been a major event that has attracted the attention of all parties in the empire, in order to show the abundance of talents in front of the countries of the Eastern Continent and the grand occasion of all the people watching the battle, the venue of the Sword Boy Contest is also built majestic, at least it can accommodate tens of thousands of people to gather here to watch this grand event.

After Nie Lin, Yang Yuxiao, and Lu Xueyan came out of the rest place, they followed slowly at the back of the crowd all the way.

Before entering the venue, you have to go through three checkpoints, the first is that you are not allowed to enter with weapons and are subject to inspection, the second is to verify the identity card information of the participating institutions and participants to avoid impersonation, and the third is to submit the list of participants for the first competition.

However, many contestants from universities have already been familiar with these rules after arriving in the capital, so when they pass through the checkpoint, they have not encountered any obstacles, and many of the participating teams from universities have poured into the venue in an orderly manner like a quiet flow of water.

When Nie Lin and the three of them were at the checkpoint, after Yang Yuxiao submitted the list of participants, the staff asked a guard next to him to find a flag they had already made and hold it, and led them into the passage into the venue.

About fifty paces through the passage, there was a heavily guarded gate, through which the procession of each school was led by a guard carrying a flag.

The teams of these academies generally have dozens of people, as few as seven or eight people, and probably the least is Nie Lin's team, only three people.

The people who followed behind them couldn't help but whisper that there were only three people who came to participate in the Sword Boy Competition, and it was the first time they had seen them, but they didn't take it to heart, because it meant that their competitiveness would be much smaller.

After entering the passage through the gate of the passage, a boiling noise suddenly reached the ears of everyone in the venue.

Because the opening ceremony is approaching, so at this time tens of thousands of people in the venue have been full, crowded, and the passage for the participating teams to enter is in a more eye-catching place, when they poured out from there, it was really the attention of the public, and some teenagers in front of them were very nervous because of the first time, this kind of big scene, so that they almost fell when they walked.

Yang Yuxiao is from a descendant of a family, although this kind of big scene is also the first time for him, but his cultivation is still very deep, his expression remains the same, Lu Xueyan has also experienced this kind of scene, and he can also deal with it indifferently, but when he entered, he still wore an ordinary face scarf, but it was not too eye-catching because of her appearance. For Nie Lin, this kind of scene naturally would not have any impact on his ancient state of mind.

After entering the venue, the participating school teams have already been assigned a fixed position, Tianlu Academy because it belongs to the middle school, so they were divided into the north of the venue, where the teams are all the teams of the middle school, so there are a lot of people, and in the northeast of the venue, there are the teams of the big school, because the number is not very large, but it is more eye-catching.

In front of each team, there was a guard with a solemn face, holding a flag in his hand and standing straight at the front, when Nie Lin and the three of them stood where they belonged, they saw that there were two columns next to them that were still empty, and the other people who arrived early were also looking at each other everywhere.

Lu Xueyan was a little petite, standing between Yang Yuxiao and Nie Lin, plus wearing a veil and lowering his head slightly, so it was not too eye-catching.

After waiting for less than half a burnt of incense, at this time, there was also a team of people in the empty column next to them, and there were only four people.

However, when the team stood in their positions, Nie Lin glanced at these people, and there was no surprise, among the four people, three of them were the same people they met in a small town halfway.

As soon as these people came, they looked a little surprised when they saw Nie Lin and the three of them, especially the girl who was as frosty as Lu Shen, after watching Nie Lin's eyes blink, she came to the vicinity of Lu Xueyan and said in a low voice: "Sister, we meet again!"

"Silence, no private conversation!"

Lu Xueyan remained silent and didn't speak, at this time, the guard in front suddenly turned his head and glared at Shen Rushuang, and reprimanded, Shen Rushuang pursed her mouth dissatisfiedly, quietly glanced at the guard, and then stopped talking, but kept sweeping her eyes over Nie Lin and the three of them.

After all the participating teams entered, after a while, I heard a very loud voice from the whole venue, which echoed in the whole venue: "His Majesty the Emperor has arrived, playing ceremonial music, greeting!"

Whoa!

At this time, on the entire 10,000-person venue, many spectators stood up one after another, holding the highest courtesy, and most of the other people knelt down directly, and among the participating teams in the venue, there were also a small number of teenagers kneeling, which made the venue a little chaotic, some people were standing, and some people were kneeling.

However, this kind of scene is not uncommon in the Celestial Empire, in the Celestial Empire, people with the status of swordsmen do not need to bow down, but civilians are necessary, which is also a courtesy to the swordsman.

Immediately, the ceremony began, and I saw that the door in front of the venue was open at this time, and a team of guards and ladies entered the venue first, and then I saw a middle-aged man dressed in a luxurious robe and wearing a purple cloak, followed by a peerless beautiful woman, and several young men and women entered the venue, which should be the emperor and the princesses.

And after the people of this royal family came in, they were some important ministers of the empire, as well as representatives of major families and sects.

After the royal family took their seats on the throne, the emperor beckoned, and at this time, a ceremonial official still said in that loud voice: "The ceremony is over!"

After another commotion, the whole room fell silent, and then the ceremonial officer once again began to read out a large number of contents before the opening of the Sword Boy Contest in that loud voice.

Nie Lin has been expressionless at this time, but his state of mind is still a little turbulent, Lu Xueyan, who was listening to the reading, suddenly keenly felt that Nie Lin seemed to have something strange behind him, and a sword intent filled around his body.

This is a killing machine!

Startled, Lu Xueyan quietly turned around, but although Nie Lin's expression made her unable to see joy and anger, she could feel a vague coldness, Lu Xueyan was curious in her heart, what happened to make him have such a subtle change in mood?

Of course, Lu Xueyan didn't know that Nie Lin's state of mind at this time did produce a trace of waves at the moment when the emperor and the stunning woman entered the venue, and the reason why a fierce murderous intent flashed in his mood was because the emperor in front of him was not the prince he knew in his previous life who was about to inherit the throne.

And the emperor in front of him is actually the younger brother of the prince, and the woman he loved in his previous life actually became the princess of this person, and his killing machine is precisely because of this, if it is the prince he knew in his previous life, then he does not have such a strong hatred for this woman, because the prince's feelings for this woman are deeper than him, and he is also friends with the prince, and he also knows that after this woman abandoned him, the person who married him was the prince, and he had already let go after he was reborn.

But now, what he saw was a different scene, coupled with the shame he had in the past, which made him hate this woman extremely strongly, and even produced a strong killing intention, it doesn't matter if this woman loses him, but she actually lives up to the prince, which is absolutely unforgivable.

He hid this murderous intent in his heart, but he was still keenly aware of it by Lu Xueyan, Nie Lin ignored Lu Xueyan's eyes looking at him, but quickly thought of the big plot and small plot mentioned in the secrets left by Wangqiu in his heart, which couldn't help but make him wonder in his heart whether there was a shadow of a god behind the Ye family's rapid rise in just a hundred years and becoming the head of the four great sword families in Tianfang.

"The Ye family seeks the country, the Tang family seeks to annihilate, the Yang family seeks the pavilion, the Liu family seeks survival, the sword seeks profit, the sword seeks chaos, and the shadow guard seeks to connect, all of which are the small plans of the great plan of the world, the fall of the Sword Pavilion begins, the long song breaks the alliance, the Tao does not conspire, and the cholera of the Eastern Continent is not far away!"

In my heart, I silently remembered this passage from Wangqiu's annotation again, combined with the marriage between the Ye family and the royal family, the children of the Ye family continued to occupy many important official positions in the empire, called the public title and knighthood, and held the military power, stationed in the royal shadow guard, etc.

"It seems that after this time, we must find a time to talk to Lu Zhaonan about this matter!" Nie Lin thought secretly in his heart.

He felt that after he was toyed and hurt by this woman in his previous life, coupled with the death of his master and brothers, he took the extreme path without any preparation, which does not rule out that he also has the shadow of being framed by design, because of his identity as a sword venerable and because of his friendship with that prince, it will make some people and forces deeply jealous, so they design to get rid of him first, and then get rid of that prince, and then support a new puppet...... When Nie Lin used the thinking of this life to think about the various experiences of the previous life, he couldn't help but secretly laugh at himself in his heart, he was questioning, in his previous life, his emotional intelligence was too low to make him feel ridiculous, and even felt stupid, the twenty-year-old Jian Zun, even if the kendo realm is profound, there is really a huge flaw in the heart surname, it is not unreasonable not to teach those wise men to use him as some examples of vigilant people.

"Nie Lin, Nie Lin...... What are you thinking?"

At this time, Lu Xueyan suddenly reminded him, making Nie Lin retract his thoughts, raise his head, and see that the people on the left and right had already begun to leave the field, leaving their individual teams still on the field.

Yang Yuxiao said: "Brother Nie, you can't be distracted during the game, I'll go to the Wenhui Pavilion first, you prepare, it's the shooting competition in the afternoon!"

After speaking, after Yang Yuxiao raised his fist, he left first, and when Nie Lin followed the entourage to leave, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the empty seat of the royal family where the person had left, and said in his heart: "In this life, I will definitely expose your true face!"

(To be continued)