Chapter 21: Swordsmanship wins
Two days have passed in the blink of an eye, and this morning, the second round of the preliminaries began.
The second round will be played for two days, and according to the matchup table, Xia Yan will be on the first day.
Xia Yan got up very early that day and went straight to the vegetable market first.
The game must have been played in the morning, and there was still dinner at home at noon.
It is said that half of the eldest son eats away Lao Tzu, and Jiang Xiaoai's half-grown girl is similar.
The little girl is still growing at the age of sixteen, and she is born with divine powers, and the amount of food is like that of an animal.
Tu Su eats very gently, that is a superficial phenomenon, but in fact, this girl's appetite is unpredictable.
Xia Yan eats more when she does more, and she eats less when she does less, so far Xia Yan has not found out her bottom.
When I came back from the vegetable market with vegetables, I saw from a distance that He Yongnian was at the door of his house with his 30-member band and pestles.
When Xia Yan got closer, he saw He Yongnian with two dark circles under his eyes, and said in a hoarse voice: "Senior Xia, we haven't slept much in the past two days, and we specially arranged a new song to cheer you on." ”
When Xia Yan looked at these people, they looked very haggard, all of them were vain, and their eyes were bloodshot.
He had no choice but to put the food in his hand on the ground and clenched his fists: "Everyone, it's hard work." ”
"Where, where."
"Senior Xia Yan is polite."
"Actually, it's not just for you, we want to perform ourselves."
"A stage with thousands of people, I can't ask for it."
Xia Yan looked left and right, found that there was no one missing, and asked, "Where is Miss Xiaocui?" ”
"Hey, Sister Yao, it's more realistic." He Yongnian looked a little helpless, "I used to cheer for Senior Chen, Senior Chen is an old customer of Cuihua Building, and he has that treatment." As for Senior Xia, you don't go to that place on weekdays, they don't have a relationship with you. But it's okay, we have a friendship with you, Senior Xia, let's go. ”
Xia Yan bent down and picked up the ingredients on the ground again: "You wait for me for a while." ”
"Hey, why does Senior Xia still buy vegetables in person?"
"I don't understand, Senior Xia has guests at home these days."
"What guest?"
"A big and a small two beauties."
"Yes, the small one is Jiang Xiaoai, the big one, we have seen it on the ferry, hey, it seems that a fairy has descended to earth."
"Senior Xia is not shallow."
"Hey, these two girls come every day when they get to the meal, and they leave after eating, this is to treat our senior Xia as a cook."
"What do you know, there is no free lunch in the world, and since the food has been eaten in the stomach, you can't pay something?"
"Give something?"
"Then how do I know, ask Senior Xia to go."
"Don't chew the root of your tongue, those two women, I guess we can't beat them together, I can't afford to provoke them."
There was a commotion at the door, and Xia Yan had already gone to the kitchen to place the ingredients.
After washing his hands, he picked out a long sword from the practice room and put it in the sheath, Xia Yan took the sword and went out.
The person walked outside the door, and Gu Zhantang came.
The madman Gu was still dressed in black, holding a white-sheathed long sword, his hair was scattered, and he didn't care about the group of people around him, and looked up at the sky at forty-five degrees.
"Alright, let's go." Xia Yan waved his hand.
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The flock of flying cranes in Wushan Town landed on the viewing platform in the northwest.
As soon as he arrived here, Xia Yan thought of Chen Wenbing again.
This viewing platform, Chen Wenbing has been wrapped for half a month.
Counting the days, Chen Gongzi went down the river, and in these two days, he should have gone out of the southwest boundary.
After a little distraction, and then in the stands, the second round has officially begun.
The whole venue began to be lively, but the northwest viewing platform was very quiet.
Xia Yan turned his head to see that this group of young people had indeed not closed their eyes for a few days, and they were all nodding and napping there.
Among the thirty people, He Yongnian still had his eyes open, but he was also half-open and half-closed, shaking his head from time to time, as if he didn't want to sleep.
"It's okay for you to sleep for a while, I'll call you then." Xia Yanchong He Yongnian said.
"Hey, okay." He Yongnian closed his eyes at this time.
"In their state, they can't easily wake up from this sleep." Gu Zhantang said softly on the side.
"Let them fall asleep." Xia Yan waved his hand, "They insisted on coming, because they were afraid that I would be eliminated in this round and have no chance to perform." ”
"So what do you mean is to let them sleep well, are you sure you can give them the next chance to perform?" Gu Zhantang asked.
Xia Yan smiled and didn't say anything.
"Your opponent in this round is the winner of the ninth game of the first round, named Liang Qiutai, the triple peak realm." Gu Zhantang said, "I haven't fought against this person, but looking at his first round, his swordsmanship is okay, and his actual combat power will not be worse than Jiang Xiaoai in the early stage of the quadruple." If you are so careless, you will capsize in the gutter. ”
"Thanks for the reminder." Xia Yan nodded, and then began to watch the battle seriously.
In the second round of the South Campus preliminaries, the overall level is indeed much higher than the first round.
In the first round, half of them were in the early stage of the triple, and even mixed with Xia Yan's double peak.
Only in the middle of the triple stage can there be a Yuanyi protective body, and if the defense goes up, the scene will naturally be stabilized.
These people don't have it, and they can only fight to win.
As a result, most of the battles ended quickly, and the winner was decided in one or two moves.
Except for Xia Yan, those below the middle stage of the triple basically lost.
And in the second round, except for Xia Yan, who is in the early stage of the triple, the others are above the middle stage of the triple.
If you have the intention to protect the body, then you can't make a move to determine the winner, the risk is too great, and it will be mostly grappling.
Therefore, this first game was played for a full ten minutes.
From start to finish, the referee didn't intervene until one of the students was cornered on the edge of the ring and fell with one foot in the air.
The next two sword debates are similar to this situation.
The fourth scene was a little special, Mao Xueyi appeared.
Mao Xueyi's cultivation is sword drawing, and fighting is the first move, and he won again.
Xia Yan was the fifth, and when it was his turn to get off the field, the entire Northwest Viewing Platform was snoring.
Xia Yan turned his head and looked, hey, this group of Kuo Shao slept so soundly, and a few snot bubbles were blown out.
In the current situation, the people who were called were also confused, and the performance would not be good, so they simply let them continue to sleep.
Xia Yan's long sword came out of its sheath and was held behind him and got off the viewing platform.
This time, there was no need to delay the time, Xia Yan crossed the steps in a few steps, and landed on the sword fighting platform.
The referee knew him and pointed to the northwest viewing platform: "No performance today?" ”
"Oh." Xia Yan clenched his fists and arched his hands, "The musicians are tired, another day." ”
The referee smiled and slowly raised his right hand: "Then you guys prepare." ”
Xia Yan looked at his opponent.
Liang Qiutai, who looks to be in his twenties, as long as he doesn't compare with Xia Yan, he is the older of the participating students.
This person's six-year school system should be full, and this is his last school palace sword.
The triple peak cultivation is very good, but it doesn't stand out in the South Campus, let alone compare with the students of the other three old campuses.
Such a person, such a school's six-year cultivation results, is actually Xia Yuntian's expectations for Xia Yan back then.
I didn't expect this son to be favored by the cultivation sect, and he graduated with a decent cultivation, and from then on, there was a triple peak family head in the Xia Mansion, and it was okay to keep the family's business.
But with such an expectation, Xia Yan's predecessor has worked hard for ten years, but it is still far away.
And now, Liang Qiutai is standing in front of him, and the goal template of this predecessor when he first entered the palace is clear in Xia Yan's eyes.
He holds a sword in his right hand, and the sword is raised flat on his chest.
Looking at his posture again, his body was facing Xia Yan, he did not turn sideways slightly, and his right shoulder did not sink.
Then look at his footwork, the left and right feet are naturally separated, the knees are slightly bent, and he takes a horse step.
Finally, looking at his eyes, he was not staring at the long sword in Xia Yan's hand, but Xia Yan's hand holding the sword.
This shows that the effect of Xia Yan's last round of spiral sword strength made him jealous.
His footwork, posture, and the position of the sword, is a defensive stance.
It seems that his spiral sword strength, he has made up his mind not to face each other, but to resolve it from the side with internal strength.
To break the spiral sword strength, this idea is correct.
But in this way, in the swordsmanship confrontation, he is tantamount to giving up the first move and fighting a defensive counterattack.
These imminent battle information quickly swept through Xia Yan's mind, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited.
In terms of swordsmanship, he took the lead, and Gu Maniac didn't dare to fight like this, let alone this Senior Brother Liang.
At this time, the referee's right hand fell.
Xia Yan won't be polite to him.
First laughed at the first hand, and a "drill sword" only pierced the door.
With a "click", the sound of thunder sounded, and Xia Yan crashed headlong into the opponent's body protection Yuanyi.
It felt like crashing into a wall, and the other party's protective intent was obviously stimulated to the extreme.
The long sword placed horizontally in Liang Qiutai's hand shook diagonally, wanting to swing away Xia Yan's drill sword, and at the same time dissolve Xia Yan's spiral sword strength from the side with internal strength.
But with this sword, Xia Yan didn't plan to use spiral sword strength at all, and only used swordsmanship to fight the enemy.
He had already calculated the opponent's sword move, but he changed his move halfway, and a sword slapped on Liang Qiutai's right wrist.
The long sword in Liang Qiutai's hand suddenly took off, and Xia Yan did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but hurriedly took a few steps back.
The feeling of being shrouded in the other party's protective body is really uncomfortable, so hurry up.
As soon as the long sword fell to the ground, the Liangqiutai people were stunned.
The long sword is out of his hand, and he immediately loses according to the rules, which is clear at a glance.
Not only was he stunned, but the referee's reaction was a beat slower.
When Xia Yan took the initiative to retreat, the referee stopped between the two in a flash, looking at Xia Yan with a surprised face.
Xia Yan blinked and hugged his fists.
The referee turned to look at Liang Qiutai: "Don't be stunned, pick up the sword, it's going to be cleared here." ”
"Oh!" Liang Qiutai woke up in shock and went to pick up his long sword.
At this point, the audience reacted:
"Senior Liang is so dignified, how can the long sword get out of his hands?"
"Xia Yan, what kind of road is this?"
"I don't know, the referee didn't say it."
"yes, it's confusing."
"Hey, I heard that Xia Yan's family is very rich, will Senior Liang be bought?"
"That shouldn't be, Senior Liang has always had a good character."
"It is estimated that Xia Yan is using his mutated sword species again."
"What kind of mutant sword species is this guy, it's weird."
The audience was noisy, and the Liangqiu platform on the stage was not shocked.
He picked up the long sword, put it into the scabbard hanging from his waist, looked solemn, and clenched his fist at Xia Yan:
"The seniors recruit well, and the juniors admire."
Xia Yan returned the salute solemnly: "Accept." ”
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