Chapter 173: The bye is despised
As the three super sects of martial arts, although there are many internal discords, the five Taiji sects have maintained a consistent external tradition.
If the disciples of the five Tai Chi sects meet outside, they will still treat each other as if they were the same sect and give them the care and help they can.
However, compared to Shaolin Wudang, the Taiji Sect is much worse in terms of the integration and utilization of cultivation resources, so there is a consensus in the martial arts world that the first of the three super sects is Shaolin, followed by Wudang, and Taiji ranks third.
Despite this, the Tai Chi Five Sects True Transmission Disciple Selection Contest still attracted all the martial arts sects from all walks of life to observe, and they all brought their own young and outstanding disciples.
The day has finally come to the ninth day of the first lunar month, and the solar calendar is Valentine's Day in the West, but now most people do not have the concept of Valentine's Day in their minds.
Martial arts cultivators are accustomed to getting up early, and before seven o'clock in the morning, the courtyard of the Chen family's ancestral hall, the venue of the competition, was already overcrowded.
In the middle of the compound is specially built for the selection competition, a circular martial arts ring with a height of one meter and a height of five meters, and a yin and yang Taiji pattern in the center of the ring.
On the main platform facing the gate of the compound, there are three rows of tables and chairs, and there is tea on the table.
The rest of the directions are not so exquisite, all of them are filled with benches, and now they are basically full.
At seven o'clock, a Chen Taiji elder on the main stage struck the small bell in front of him hard, and the selection competition officially began!
Chen Yu stood up and said solemnly and loudly:
"The True Transmission Selection Contest starts now, please come forward, all participating disciples!"
So the eleven participating disciples of the five sects of Tai Chi got up from their seats and walked to the main stage, the most eye-catching of which were Wu Jiajia and Chen Haiying, the two female disciples, especially the tall and fair-skinned Wu Jiajia, who was definitely not inferior to Zhang Lingquan in terms of appearance, but this woman's lips were slightly thinner and the corners of her mouth drooped, looking very cold and arrogant.
Chu Zhen, the youngest of the eleven disciples, also attracted a lot of attention, many of them had just heard that the Chen clan had added a new disciple to the competition, and they all thought that the Chen clan had hidden a trump card before it was finally revealed.
Chu Zhen was actually wearing a blue-on-blue and white-striped sportswear for physical education class today, coupled with his slightly immature appearance, compared with the other ten participating disciples, he was obviously here to make up the numbers!
All the participating disciples stood in front of the main stage, Chen Yu took out a "lottery box" wrapped in red paper from his side, shook it slightly, and the box made a sound of "桄曄曛曻".
Chen Yu said loudly to everyone:
"There are eleven table tennis balls in this draw box with numbers from one to eleven written on them. The two disciples who draw the number one and the second are against each other, the third and the fourth are against each other, and so on. The disciple who drew the eleventh round had a bye in the first round! For the sake of fairness, the three disciples of Chen's Taiji came up first to draw lots. ”
Chen Haiying was the first to come up and drew the fifth, and the other Chen disciple, Chen Haihang, drew the nineth.
This "lottery box" was tantamount to transparency to Chu Zhen, and Chu Zhen's original idea was to help the Chen clan first solve a late stage disciple of the Transcendent Realm of another sect by drawing lots.
Now that he has to draw lots first, Chu Zhen has no choice but to draw the eleventh number one "as a matter of course"!
When they saw that this disciple who looked like a middle school student actually won the eleventh with a bye, everyone present couldn't help but be in an uproar.
Most of the people shook their heads and sighed, this little guy really had shit luck, and he entered the second round without moving "one knife and one shot"!
The leading grandmasters of the five Tai Chi sects on the main stage all breathed a sigh of relief at the same time!
The leaders of all sects did not want to see the strong disciples of other sects have a bye, and the lowly Chu Zhen has a bye, but it is a result that everyone can accept.
The mentality of the other major sects is closer to the mentality of the melon-eating masses, and they all think that Chu Zhen is here to be funny.
Only Shaolin's Xingtu master recited "Nan Wu Amitabha", and secretly said in his heart: Good and good, with such good luck, it is worthy of being the reincarnation of the Buddha!
After all the disciples have drawn lots, the results of the match are announced:
No. 1 Wu Jiajia vs. No. 2 Wu Changshun, No. 3 Sun Feiyun vs. No. 4 Wu Changming, No. 5 Chen Shichen Haiying vs. No. 6 Wu Xiaotian, No. 7 Sun Feiyu vs. No. 8 Yang Zhengwei, No. 9 Chen Haihang vs. No. 10 Yang Zhengwen, and No. 11 Chu Zhen had a bye.
Judging from the surname, the top ten disciples all belong to the descendants of the five sects, but the one who has a bye is Chu Zhen, who has a foreign surname.
The Wu clan and the Sun clan were the most satisfied with the result of this draw, especially the Sun clan was the happiest, and the disciples of their two twin disciples were not strong.
The Wu clan was the most dissatisfied with the results of the draw, and the opponents of their two disciples were much stronger than themselves!
Of course, the Chen clan and the Yang clan were not very satisfied with the results of the draw, the two sects were close, but their strongest disciples had to meet each other in the first round!
Chen Zhaofan had told Chen Yu before that Chu Zhen would definitely be able to get a place to enter the Yin and Yang Creation Pool this time.
However, Chen Yu still pinned his hopes on Chen Haihang, after all, this was his personal disciple, and Chu Zhen was there after all!
After announcing the results of the match, an elder of the Chen clan stood in the center of the ring and announced three rules of the competition:
First, if one of the two sides of the competition is knocked down or forced out of the ring, or voluntarily admits defeat, it will be regarded as a loss.
Second, it is strictly forbidden to play killers during the competition, and try to avoid seriously injuring the opponent.
Third, any weapons and hidden weapons are prohibited in this trial.
Next, the "much-anticipated" Tai Chi True Transmission Disciple Selection Contest officially began.
The first match was a game without suspense, and it took less than a minute for Wu Jiajia, who was in the late stage of the Transcendent Realm, to kick Wu Changshun in the early stage of the Transcendent Realm out of the ring.
Chu Zhen, Chen Haiying, and Chen Haihang sat together, only to hear Chen Haiying snort coldly, and said to Chen Haiying with a smile:
"Haiying, why don't I help you get her, uncle?"