The next morning, the sky was still covered with some clouds, and a biting cold blew through and blew on people's faces, like a knife cut.

When this cold season has not yet passed, the kendo competition in the Sword Boy Competition will officially kick off, and compared to the opening ceremony, it will undoubtedly be the most popular event in the whole Yanjing.

When the sky is bright, the whole Yanjing is noisy and noisy, and people can be heard everywhere shouting to go to Dianjiangtai in advance to take a good position to watch the kendo competition.

The atmosphere in Yanjing is a little depressing, not only because of this kendo competition, but because the city itself gathers people and things from all over the square, from princes and nobles, high-ranking families, down to ordinary people, peddlers and pawns, etc., but under the peaceful scene, there are always undercurrents surging.

The competition for talents, between the major forces in today's Tianfang Empire, has reached a white-hot stage, the slightest disturbance in the world can touch the keen nerves of the various sect forces, and now this Tianfang triennial sword boy competition is the focus of the competition of the major forces.

The goal of all the forces is to come to one thing, that is, to select outstanding talents, add fresh blood to the forces, and continue to consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the forces.

It is precisely because there will be a large number of young talents emerging in each Sword Boy Competition to be divided by various forces, and they have already tasted the sweetness, so they will naturally not let go of this event that will be different from previous events.

In addition, every year, no matter in any event, there will be a part of the ineligible to participate, no way and relationship, but there is a potential to improve the youth or teenagers also flock here, with a variety of ways and methods to show and sell themselves, but there are also lucky will be some forces to take a fancy and poach, so as to complete the leap of the dragon gate of the deeds of the deed, which is widely spread, which also makes every year no matter what kind of event or competition, there is always this part of the people active in Yanjing.

In this world dominated by high-ranking families and sectarian lords, it is the best choice for the common people to gain a broader space for development, to get ahead, and to rely on these forces.

The top seven forces in the Heavenly Empire, except for the four major sword Taoist families, the threshold is too high, which makes many people stop, and those three major sects have become the ideal choice for many people to sharpen their heads and want to enter, which makes the number of groups among these three major sects the largest.

But in terms of strength, they can still only be on par with the four major kendo families, although the four great kendo families are also recruiting disciples, but they are taking the route of excellence, and the talents they have cultivated are comparable to the three major sects that recruit disciples, and the elites born after the big waves are comparable.

In the Celestial Empire, many small families and small forces, what they want to rely on the most, in fact, are still these kendo families, because the kendo family has a long history of inheritance and is the most cohesive, although they control one side and are strong and arrogant, but only for the sake of interests, except for special circumstances, they rarely do stupid things like plotting rebellion and usurping the throne.

Because people believe in a saying, there are thousands of families in this world, but it is difficult to have a thousand years of dynasties.

Often when the dynasty changes, the first to be wiped out is the royal family of the previous dynasty, so that the bloodline is cut off, but there has never been a family that will completely disappear because of standing on the wrong side, or participating in the dynasty hegemony, also except for some very special factors, these families are at most sluggish, silent for decades, but eventually they will rise again, recover their vitality, and continue to pass on the bloodline.

Even when the power of the imperial court was at its strongest, there were occasionally some ambitious, wise and martial emperors who would do everything possible to suppress, weaken, or even uproot these families, but at this time, these families were able to bend and stretch, and the spirit of the turtle with a shrunken head was vividly embodied, making people unable to speak.

Therefore, in this world, after the change of dynasties, when the royal family is strong, the family will mostly shrink and fall silent, very honest and obedient, and cooperate with the court, and even lose part of the benefits ceded to the court to reach a compromise, so that the court has no excuse to deal with them.

On the contrary, if the imperial family is weak, then the power of these families will rise sharply, and even control the government, depose the emperor, and support the puppets to seek the greatest benefit for themselves, no one knows how strong the combined power of the family will be, but they know that if these families want to abandon this dynasty, even if the emperor is wise and powerful, they can only watch the dynasty perish.

And today's Celestial Empire, it is at the transition stage when the power of the imperial family begins to turn from strong to weak, and the power of the family and the sect has also begun to emerge.

The most intuitive embodiment is those kendo talents, in the past, the vast majority of talents must have been recruited and absorbed by the royal family first, and the family sect picked up at most a leak, and now, when the family and the sect are strong, these talents have flowed into the mouth of the family and the sect, and the royal family can only pick up a leak.

Although the marriage between the royal family and the Ye family in the four major kendo families, and the support of the powerful sect of the shadow guard, it still looks very strong on the surface, but in fact, the influence of the royal family in the shadow guard has been weakened.

And this situation, after being seen by the family and other sects, coupled with the fact that the prestige of the Sword Pavilion is also declining, they began to become active and strive for maximum benefits for themselves, and the schools gathered in this sword boy competition, as the royal family's cultivation and output of talents, will naturally become the main object of the major forces.

...... The place of the kendo competition is in the Dianjiangtai adjacent to the Taiyuan, where the competition venue is ready-made, and the number of spectators can be accommodated, except for the 'General's Building', which only the royal family and important ministers gather to watch the game, even if some people can't watch the game up close, there are two restaurants with the highest architectural specifications and the most luxurious, and you can also sit on the top floor of the restaurant, drink wine and tea, or listen to the music leisurely to watch the game.

'Jianyue Tower' is located in one of the luxury restaurants near the Taiyuan, that is, the consumption of this restaurant is ridiculously expensive, the average little rich family consumes here once, I am afraid that they will have to go bankrupt, the rich family comes to consume once, they have to lose several layers of meat, and its consumption level is second to none in the entire Chaoyuan Continent, and the 'Holy Banquet Building' of the same specification and grade opposite him is almost comparable.

Now, because it is the first opening game of the Sword Boy Competition, even these two luxury restaurants with outrageous consumption that make people vomit blood are actually overcrowded, especially the top two floors where you can directly and clearly watch the overall situation of the game.

It goes without saying that the guests here are naturally the main figures of those highest-level forces.

In the usual early morning before dawn, the restaurant has not yet opened for business, but this morning is different, I saw the door of Jianyue Building, the owner of the restaurant personally led a group of people have already stood respectfully at the door, greeting a luxury carriage with a sword servant to open the way, slowly approaching, ordinary people can only stand aside to make way for this carriage.

After these carriages drove here one after another, each one of them was a heavyweight, which would cause a lot of exclamations and discussions around them, except for a few old men and middle-aged people, who just nodded to each other and entered the restaurant after getting off the carriage at the same time and seeing each other.

But the most striking thing was the several young people who got out of the carriage that came one after another, and when these young people got off the carriage, it immediately caused a stirring of the onlookers, and even some young girls with a spring hold on their chests and screamed at these people with admiration and admiration on their faces.

Among this young man, there is Lu Yufeng, an outstanding genius of the young generation who won the championship in one fell swoop with the strength of a fourth-level swordsman in the last Sword Boy Competition, and was finally poached by the Divine Sword Sect.

And in the past three years, after the cultivation of the Divine Sword Gate, this Lu Yufeng has broken through the first-class sword hero in just three years, only nineteen years old, and has become the youngest sword hero in the world, which has attracted much attention, although he looks ordinary, but his eyes are bright, coupled with a blue and white sword shirt of the Divine Sword Gate, it also looks extraordinary, and there are still many people who know him now.

Together with Lu Yufeng, he is also an outstanding representative of the young generation of Shenjian Sect, Lu Yufeng's senior brother Ji Shijie, who is twenty-three years old this year, but he already has the strength of a third-level sword hero, and his strength has caught up with the previous generation.

The two of them came to watch the Sword Boy Contest with a great elder of the sect today, the purpose of which was to select outstanding talents for the Divine Sword Sect, and the head of the sect also intended to train the two of them, so that they could establish their own team, so as to accumulate prestige among the younger generation of the sect, and then entrust them with important tasks to lay a good foundation for the transfer of power to the next generation.

Because Lu Yufeng was the leader of the last Sword Boy Competition, a young genius, and a great success, many forces vied with each other, but in the end, he was taken advantage of by the Divine Sword Sect, which naturally made other forces envious and jealous.

"Hmph, that's it!"

Just when the two of them got out of the car, it happened that a young man and an old man from the Zhengjian Sect also got out of the car at the same time as them, and after the young man saw Lu Yufeng, he pouted his lips with disdain, and happened to be seen by Lu Yufeng, Lu Yufeng's expression sank slightly, and as a result, Ji Shijie glanced at this person playfully, and whispered something to him, Lu Yufeng suddenly showed a disdainful smile at the person, and followed upstairs.

Later, when the young man saw this smile, his face was very gloomy, if it weren't for the elder next to him, he would have gone up and competed with that guy again.

(To be continued)