Chapter 16 Selection of Newcomers
Qin's Manor, children gathered!
Five or six hundred newcomers, under the guidance of the manor steward, all came to the martial arts arena.
Everyone looked solemn, because the next clan selection would largely determine their future fate.
In the crowd, Qin Yun saw Qin Haishan and the others, but they all avoided Qin Yun's gaze unnaturally.
Those children who also belonged to Qinghe County hid from him even more far, as if they would be infected with the plague if they were close to Qin Yun.
Qin Yun didn't care, just looked ahead.
A huge wooden platform was erected on the east side of the martial arts arena, on which three clan elders and twenty deacons sat upright, and the Vermilion Bird Banner on Muyang Road at the corner of the stage was hunting in the wind.
These twenty-three clan representatives are mainly from the Qin family's seven houses, and many of them are high-level figures in Muyang Dao.
They are responsible for presiding over and supervising the entire selection process, and it is very important for each family to recruit new blood to strengthen themselves, so it will be extra grand.
In addition, these clan representatives also want to select some outstanding children for their own use through selection, so every time they return to the sect, there is inevitably a battle between open and secret battles.
Of course, on the surface they talked and laughed very well, as if they were as close as real brothers of the same race.
"There are more people this year than last year, I hope there will be more good seedlings, the last batch of people is really not good!" A red-faced old man in the middle of the stage said with a smile: "Our martial arts hall is in great need of people now. ”
The beautiful woman in the white dress sitting on his left side snorted coldly: "You old immortal, which time is not the most people you picked away, what do you want?"
She has silver hair and a dragon-headed cane, no wrinkles can be seen on her white face, and her speech is old-fashioned, making it difficult to judge her true age.
The red-faced old man seemed to be a little jealous of her, touched his nose and sneered: "There is no shortage of people in your Danyao Hall, as long as it is a female baby for you to choose first, it is not suitable for them to fight and kill in Wutang, as for the others"
He squinted at the other thin old man on the right: "Old Tie, are you going to rob me again this time?"
The thin old man smiled faintly and said: "Your martial arts hall is short of people, and our foreign affairs hall is even more short of people! If all of them are given to your martial arts, then how many people will still be left to do things? All of them will stay at home and sit and eat empty!"
"This time, even if the ancestor comes in person, you have to leave a group of people for me!"
His voice was like a rusty knife grinding gravel, very hoarse and ugly, and his tone was calm but categorical.
The red-faced old man smiled: "How can there be no people who do things, in addition to your Foreign Affairs Hall, don't you also have family tasks? ”
"Hmph! The people in your martial arts hall are all treacherous like ghosts, there are good tasks to fight for, let us people from the Foreign Affairs Hall gnaw bones, if this continues, you can play by yourself, I don't care about anything!"
"Okay, good!" The red-faced old man obviously didn't want to anger the other party, and said with a smile: "I'll leave you a batch this time, so it's okay, right?"
The two elders of the hall exchanged words and swords, and the other twenty deacons all sat still and waited for the ceremony to begin.
After half a burnt of incense, a middle-aged deacon looked at the hour, got up and walked to the front of the stage, and said loudly to the hundreds of newcomers below: "The selection of the Qin clan to return to the sect has officially begun!"
He stretched out his right arm, and a deep voice echoed over the manor: "Everyone is divided into left and right, the children of the Forging Body Realm, please stand to my right, and those of the Qi Refining Realm to the left!"
The crowd began to stand in a cheering line, with about a third of the people standing on the left.
Qin Yun was secretly a little surprised, he didn't expect that there would be so many people who penetrated the martial arts, you must know that the age difference between these children and Qin Yun is similar, at most no more than nineteen years old.
Because in addition to having the Qin bloodline, the requirements for the selection of the Returning Sect must be less than twenty years old, and at the same time, they must have a martial lineage, otherwise there will definitely not be only a few hundred people standing here.
Generally speaking, a martial artist can open the pulse when he is forging the Seven Heavens of the Body Realm, and after the pulse opening is successful, he can continue to temper his body.
Therefore, most people will open their pulses as long as they reach the Seventh Heaven of Forging to quickly improve their strength realm, and it is rare for people like Qin Yun to open their pulses after the Great Perfection of Forging Bodies.
After everyone stood in line, the middle-aged deacon continued: "Now I announce the rules for the selection of returning to the sect, listen carefully!"
All the newcomers' children must first join Muyang Dao, but the excellent children can choose their favorite hall.
The main hall of Muyang Road consists of seven halls: the martial arts hall, the torture hall, the foreign affairs hall, the casting hall, the pill hall, the newcomer hall and the guest hall.
In addition to absorbing the Keqing Hall with a foreign surname, the children of the Forging Body Realm can only choose the Casting Hall for forging weapons, the Pill Hall for refining pills, and the Newcomer Hall for training novices.
The disciples of the Qi Refining Realm have two more choices, the Martial Hall and the Foreign Affairs Hall, the Martial Hall specializes in cultivating outstanding children, and the children who enter the Martial Arts Hall can learn all kinds of advanced martial arts swordsmanship and internal qi heart techniques, which is the well-deserved first hall of Muyang Dao.
The Foreign Affairs Hall is responsible for various affairs of the temple, such as patrolling the mountains and hunting, gathering minerals and medicinal herbs, and even guarding the bodyguards.
It sounds like doing chores and doing dirty work, but the responsibilities undertaken by the Foreign Affairs Hall are very heavy, and the tasks assigned are often dangerous, and they are not something that ordinary people can undertake.
The real miscellaneous work is tiring and tiring, and some of them are done by the servants of the Taoist hall.
The disciples of the Foreign Affairs Hall have a higher salary, and they have a great degree of freedom in their ordinary lives, and as long as they complete the task, they can also accumulate family merits, and there are many opportunities for promotion.
As for the Casting Hall and the Pill Hall, they are the best choices for children who do not have enough talent for martial arts, and if they can stand out in these two halls, their future achievements are also unlimited.
You must know that in the Kyushu Continent, powerful casters and pill medicine masters are welcomed and respected no matter where they are, and they can even enter the Imperial Palace Ouchi and the sect to become worshippers.
Of course, you can also learn martial arts in the Casting Hall and the Pill Hall, especially the Pill Medicine Master, who rely on their own refined pills to improve their strength.
And the disciples of the Xinren Hall, as long as they succeed in opening their pulse before the age of eighteen, they can also apply to join the Martial Hall or the Foreign Affairs Hall.
As for those children with ordinary qualifications and nothing to achieve, the family will never raise useless people!
After the middle-aged deacon announced the rules, the selection officially began.
Among the nearly two hundred disciples who had reached the Qi Refining Realm, there were as many as one hundred and thirty or forty people who chose to join the Martial Hall, including Qin Yun.
Of the 400 Forging Body Realm disciples, three-quarters of them chose the Newcomer Hall.
There are nearly 100 people who have joined Dantang, and most of them are women.
On the vast continent of Kyushu, the pill pharmacists were mostly women, because although refining the pill was boring, there was not much danger, but it required patience and care, and it was the most suitable for women.
The rest of them all chose the Foreign Affairs Hall and the Casting Hall, and the two together were not as many as the Dan Hall, which made the thin old man on the stage look very ugly.
The red-faced old man really wanted to include all these Qi Refining Realm disciples, but he also had to take care of the face of the thin old man and the balance of the power of the hall, and eating alone would attract jealousy.
Therefore, he stood up and announced that the children above the First Heaven Realm of the Qi Refining Realm could directly enter the Martial Hall, and those of the First Heaven Realm needed to be screened by competition and strive for the qualification to enter the hall!
Among the more than 140 disciples who chose the martial arts, there were only 20 children in the First Heaven Realm, and there were more than 120 people left who needed to compete for 60 places, which was basically two to one.
The middle-aged deacon wrote the names of more than 100 people on a piece of paper and drew lots, and the children who were drawn came to the stage to compete, and as long as they won, they could join the martial arts.
A famous disciple ascended the wooden platform and fought in front of the elders and deacons, most of whom had learned swords since childhood, and often had to fight for many rounds to determine the winner.
"Next, Qin Yun, Qin Suifeng!"
Qin Yun, who was named by name, gritted his teeth and stepped onto the wooden platform.
At this moment, he was depressed in his heart, helpless, and no one present knew about it.
In yesterday's battle, Qin Yun was not lightly injured, and after the gray-clothed old man treated him in the morning, he warned him that he would never do anything with others within ten days.
His left arm is temporarily useless, and his true qi can't be used, so what does he rely on to compete with the other party for this place?
It's just that knowing that he is invincible, Qin Yun is not willing to retreat without a fight.
As soon as Qin Yun stood on the wooden platform, his opponent immediately entered the field.
It's just that this opponent's way of appearance is much more beautiful than Qin Yun's, he walked out of the crowd and walked to the wooden platform, jumped up ten feet high with a slight tip of his toes, turned lightly in the air, and stood firmly in front of Qin Yun.
This disciple named Qin Suifeng is handsome and has a refined temperament, and his white clothes are fluttering, which can be called a jade tree in the wind, coupled with the extraordinary light body lifting technique that has just been revealed, which immediately attracted a lot of applause and admiring eyes of many girls.
He took the bladeless long sword that he had tried, and the horizontal sword bowed to Qin Yun in front of him: "Please advise!"
After Qin Yun returned the salute, Qin Suifeng's expression froze, and he raised his sword lightly and took the lead.
I saw that the long sword in his hand instantly turned into a swimming dragon, light and fast, extremely fast, and approached Qin Yun in the blink of an eye.
Qin Yun immediately raised his sword to block, using the sword-breaking style of the basic sword technique.
Qin Yun practiced this sword move no less than a thousand times, even when he was injured and couldn't run his true qi, the sword move he cast was still extremely standard, and it happened to seal the opponent's sword path.
Syllable!
Under the exchange of two swords, the long sword in Qin Yun's hand flew out of his hand and landed far away from the stage.
Under the gaze of everyone's surprised eyes, Qin Suifeng's sword only paused slightly, and then continued to advance forward, and the tip of the sword stopped on Qin Yun's chest!
Qin Yun, defeated with one sword!