Chapter 7: Assessment (1)
There is no nail in the mountain, and the years do not know the year. In a blink of an eye, Xie San has been joining the Tiger Roaring Gate for more than a year, and everyone has been busy recently, because in ten days, these students will face the most important assessment in their lives, and there is no one. This assessment will determine the future direction of these students, whether they will enter the temple as a general, or become a top martial arts master, or an outer or inner disciple, etc., in short, this assessment is very important.
The cultivation of basic swordsmanship is boring, and there are few who can persist in long-term practice, but Xie San and Zhao Pengfei are two of the few who have almost never stopped. After all, children are playful, and they are in awe of their teachers, except for some students who like poetry and songs, most of them are still decent, even if they want to become generals, they must have a good martial arts.
The practice of dragon and tiger qigong is uneven, and some students from the mountains who have practiced martial arts since childhood have taken a lot of advantage, even so, a hunter like Xie San, who has practiced martial arts since childhood, has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and in more than nine months, the first posture can still be insisted on for an hour. Sticking to the second posture for more than an hour is the basic requirement for practicing the second posture, and at this time, Xie San has already begun to practice the second posture. Most of the other new students can only hold on for half an hour, even Zhao Pengfei. Xie Hu is on par with Xie San, and he has a tiger energy.
In the cultivation of Wind Shadow Step, Xie San has made progress, and now it has reached the point of Xiaocheng. This is thanks to the practice of dragon and tiger qigong, the flexibility and flexibility of the body have been greatly improved, once unfolded, it is really like a willow in the wind, like a shadow, the body twists freely in the air, every step falls is extremely strange, unpredictable, extremely fast, in the blink of an eye, the shape of the transposition, the trace is indistinguishable.
This assessment requires the assessment of all items, including Dragon and Tiger Qigong, Wind Shadow Step, Phoenix Dance Knife Technique, Basic Swordsmanship, Poetry and Songs, and Articles. In addition to footwork, knife and sword skills, which need to be practiced separately, the other items are uniformly assessed.
On this day, all the new students were summoned to the Yanwu Hall in the east attic of the courtyard, where three elders stood in a row on the north side, and thirty-five new students stood in front of them in five columns. The middle elder is none other than the sect elder Shen Simin, this time the assessment is presided over by Shen Lao, and the other two are the second elder Wen Tiangui, the immortal wind Dao Gu, and Ouyang Feng, who is in charge of article teaching, dressed as a Confucian student. Shen Lao is over seventy years old, and he is still in good spirits, his hair is gray and tied in a bun, his three-inch beard is also gray, and his temples are bulging. The aspect is broad-eared, his eyes are like electricity, and he scans everyone.
"Everyone has been in the school for more than a year, and it is another year of assessment time for new students in the sect, and I will preside over the assessment of the sect today, I hope you will work hard to achieve good results, and make meritorious contributions to the sect in the future, and strive for glory for your family." The voice is loud and full of majesty. "The content and rules of the assessment are....... The first place can choose two rewards on the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion, the second place can choose one reward on the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion, and the third place can also choose one reward on the first floor. Let's start the assessment, the first assessment is dragon and tiger qigong, please stand apart from each other at a distance of one zhang, and practice the first posture. ”
Thirty-five students immediately stood apart and began to strike the first pose. The three elders sat on the north side, and the stewards had prepared tables, chairs and papers. The three elders carefully looked at each student's posture and wrote and drew on a piece of paper to record each student's performance. As time passed, about forty minutes or so, finally the first student could no longer hold on and sat on the ground. With the first one, one after another, students sat on the ground to rest and recover. Half an hour later, there were still twenty-four people who still held out. Seeing this, Shen Lao also shook his head inadvertently, obviously not very satisfied with the student's performance this time.
An hour and a half later, there were still nine people left, and at this time, in addition to Xie San and Xie Hu, Zhao Pengfei was still insisting, but Wang Deyi was already sitting on the ground. After another twenty minutes, Zhao Pengfei also sat down, and at this time, only Xie San, Xie Hu, and the twin sons Lu and Sun Wu of a dart head in Wolong City were still insisting on in the field. At this time, Shen Lao finally showed a smile on his face, there were still a few good seedlings.
An hour later, the four of them were still holding on, their faces began to sweat profusely, and finally ten minutes later, the twin brothers sat on the ground one after another, Xie San Xie Hu was also shaky, gritted his teeth again and persevered for about ten minutes, Xie Hu also sat on the ground, and then Xie San insisted for a few minutes and also sat on the ground. Shen Lao immediately announced that the first place in the first assessment was Xie San, the second place was Xie Hu, and the third place was Sun Lu. This is the end of today's assessment, and tomorrow we will hold an assessment of sword footwork.