Chapter 638: Sword Trial Conference
The Star Sword Gate Sword Trial Conference is the day when the Star Sword Gate selects talents, and the disciples in the sect can only pass the sword test, become a disciple in the room, and then learn something, and then get the consent of the Elders' House, only in this way can they go down the mountain to experience and break into the hall, just like the meteor sword Oumu. If a disciple of the outer chamber can't even pass the sword test conference, and is not valued by the Elders' House, then he is very likely to stay in the mountains for the rest of his life, obscure, and live for the rest of his life.
Although the sword trial meeting was not attended by Ou Zhen, the master of the sect, it had to be held as usual, and someone had to lead it.
Therefore, this year's sword trial conference was presided over by Nangong Feiying, the elder of the Nangong family of the four famous families of the Star Sword Gate, assisted by Li Yu, the elder of the Li family, and complemented by Nangong Cheng and Li Haiqing and other juniors.
This person's prestige within the Star Sword Sect is extremely high, even no less than Ou Zhen, and far better than Li Tianhao, and he can be said to be a hundred echoes in the Star Sword Sect. But this person is also more conservative than Ou Zhen, although this person has the qualifications to go down the mountain, but in his life, he has not gone down the mountain once, so he has almost no fame in the rivers and lakes, and no outsiders have seen him at all, let alone know what his martial arts are.
Probably because of family reasons, Nangong Feiying is such a conservative person, so his son was also disciplined by him. Nangong Cheng is one of the four talents of the Star Sword Sect, and he is also a senior brother, and his martial arts will definitely not be worse than the other three junior brothers and sisters, but he is also like his father, he is almost a nobody in the rivers and lakes, and few people know who he is. Those who have heard of him know that he is Ou Zhen's great disciple at most. He has three junior brothers and sisters who are above the swordsman list, so in the eyes of outsiders, Nangong Cheng, the senior brother, should not be too bad.
His two junior brothers and one junior sister have all made a name for themselves in the rivers and lakes, but he Nangong Cheng has never left Xingjian Mountain.
The Great Sword Pavilion, on the martial arts field, the holy flame is swaying.
The disciples of each sect stood one after another, dressed in plain clothes and famous swords, majestic and majestic.
Nangong Feiying and the elders ascended the sword test platform in turn, and then the sword test ceremony began, first sacrificing heaven and earth, the sacrifice was completed, and then each disciple drew lots in turn and chose the opponent to test the sword. Every year in the sword trial conference, generally two people from each family will be selected, and there are also two disciples with foreign surnames, that is, 10 disciples are selected every year to become disciples.
If one company really can't pick a qualified candidate, then the place may be divided among the other three. The same is true for disciples with foreign surnames, if there are no qualified people, they will be selected from among the candidates of the four famous families.
Since Li Tianhao left the Xingjian Sect and disappeared, the Li family has been in decline for many years, and has not selected qualified candidates for the disciples for two consecutive years, which makes the Li family have a dull face and feel very ashamed. At this time, the Li clan was led by another quasi-elder, Li Jin, and this year they planned to regain their dignity that had been lost for many years.
Li Jin is Li Tianhao's cousin, and the Li family was originally a talented person, and there was only one elder Li Tianhao. However, because Li Tianhao had been away for many years, the Li family had to be led by someone, so he made an exception to promote Li Jin to be a quasi-elder. It's just that this Li Jin originally had low martial arts and limited talents, and the Li clan was even more chaotic under his management, which caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the Li clan. Among them, the person who is most dissatisfied with Li Jin is Li Tianhao's son Li Sungjae.
Lee Sung-jae has always believed that the son inherits his father's business, and since his father is not there, the Lee family should be led by him. However, his qualifications are too shallow, and the elders are all his elders, so it stands to reason that he is not qualified to sit on an equal footing with his uncles, so no one supports him at all.
After Li Jin became a quasi-elder, he was unable to become a full-fledged elder because of his limited ability. He managed the Li family for two years, and in the past two years, the Li family has been defeated and lost in the sword trial conference, if no one in the Li family can become a disciple today, I am afraid that Li Jin, the position of a quasi-elder, is very likely to be lost.
You must know that in the Star Sword Sect, if a family wants to get ahead, they must have enough disciples in the room, and then enter the Sword Trial Hall to practice the original essence of martial arts, so that they can be out of the way. No one in the Li family has been selected for many years, and the quota has been snatched away by other families year after year, which will only make other families stronger, and the Li family is getting weaker and weaker, and even never has the day to come.
Although Li Chengzai has strong martial arts, he is more than ten years older than Nangong Cheng and the others, and he is a disciple of the previous Star Sword Sect Master, so he has lost his qualifications to run.
Of course, he is also qualified to enter the Sword Trial Hall to practice martial arts, but in order to enter the Sword Trial Palace, he must first obtain the consent of the Elders' House. The other three each have two formal elders, and there are many quasi-elders, but the Li family has only one quasi-elder who can't speak. In this way, the Li family will inevitably be squeezed out by the other three, and Li Sungjae is the person with the most chance of coming out of the Li family, so he is also the target of the other three.
In the initial examination, disciples with the same surname are generally asked to avoid each other, and compete with brothers with different surnames, so that they can cut each other down and select elites. In addition, there is another advantage of the martial arts competition with different surnames, that is, they will not show mercy to their subordinates, and they can see the true kung fu of the disciples.
Only after passing the initial examination can you become a disciple in the second examination.
Generally speaking, after the initial examination, three to five disciples of each family will pass the preliminary examination, and then add the disciples with foreign surnames who have been sponsored, and the re-examination will be conducted together to select the disciples who entered the house that year.
The reason why the Li clan has been wiped out for two consecutive years is because in the past two years, no one among the Li disciples has been able to pass the initial examination. Seeing such a scene, the quasi-elder Li Jin had no choice but to laugh at it to show his helplessness, but Li Sung-jae was heartbroken.
If this continues, I am afraid that in the future, disciples with foreign surnames will gradually surpass his Li family, and then it will be really embarrassing.
The so-called "people are poor and short-minded, and horses are thin and long-haired". Li Jin seems to be such a person, and it seems that the rise and fall of the Li family is also irrelevant to him.
In addition to Nanlu Feiying being an elder in the Nangong family, his other cousin, Nangong Feihu, is also an elder. Ou Zhen of the Ou family is the master of the door, not to mention, there is also Elder Ou Ke in addition to him, and there are also two of them. The Li family has two elders, Li Yu and Li Bu, of which Li Yu is the father of the top ten swordsmen, the Phantom Sword Li Haiqing. In addition to this, each family also has a number of quasi-elders, so I will not outline them one by one. Only in the Li family, there is only one Li Tianhao, and I don't know where anyone is, counting Li Jin, there are just two.
The quality of the first test is not high, many of them are disciples of three-legged cat kung fu, and they also came to the stage with luck, and when they faced the enemy, they were put to the ground by the opponent in three or two strokes, but they just abandoned the sword and admitted defeat, which was not very interesting.