The Shuttle Pavilion, inside the secret room.

"Whew..."

Liu Wentao took the documents that had just come down this week, leaned back on the sofa chair, looked at them carefully for a long time, and then sighed a little tiredly.

Zhang Xin, who was sitting next to him, also had a little worry on his face, and asked in a low voice, "Martial Arts Association, how is the reply?"

"Ambiguous attitude. Liu Wentao shook his head and handed the documents in hand to his wife, "It seems that this year's ladder competition, our martial arts hall is very dangerous." ”

The ladder competition is a genre competition, which is different from the martial arts tournament, although it is also a knockout system, but this is a competition between martial arts schools to determine each other's rankings, and it is a battle between Taoist systems.

The higher the ranking of the martial arts school, the higher the ranking, the more permissions and resources it gets, and the fewer and fewer restrictions, and it can step from the municipal martial arts hall to the state or even federal level martial arts hall.

But the further down the ranking, the more it will even fall out of the scope of the regular school, and it will be reduced to a non-mainstream martial arts school, and it will be removed from the association. Even the original martial arts hall will be demolished and reclaimed, and it is forbidden to openly accept students, and all the benefits and resources given by the federation before will also be recovered.

Most importantly, if you are removed from the list, you will no longer be recognized and protected by the Martial Arts Association, which is very fatal. Between the martial arts schools, the intensity of the tilting is very large, and if the small and medium-sized schools were not protected by the association, they would have been crushed into powder by the large schools long ago. In addition, they will also be harassed and hacked by social organizations.

For example, a few months ago, an underground organization like the Inumen Society was obviously much stronger than the Shuttle Pavilion, but it didn't dare to do it directly, and even hesitated for a long time to even make a secret move, for fear of being tracked down by the Martial Arts Association.

Therefore, the importance of the association to the martial arts school can be imagined.

If you are lucky enough to break out of the competition, you can be promoted to an orthodox school recognized by the Martial Arts Association.

The martial arts world has never been a comfortable place, and in order to maintain the healthy vitality and progress of the various schools, the association has formulated such rules from the early days of its establishment.

The shuttle hall has been held for three consecutive years, and it is at the bottom of the genre competition, if it still doesn't work this time, then it may be a high probability to be removed from the association.

Don't look at the bottom of the pike boxing ranking, but there are still a bunch of unpopular schools staring at it below, trying in vain to replace it.

Liu Wentao has been troubled by this for many years, so he is not even going to give the position of hall master to his own daughter, but to a more talented new apprentice.

He needs a strong successor, and no matter who the other party is, as long as he can lead the Budokan out of the predicament and retain the Dao system of the Shuttle Fist, he is willing to pay any price.

But now...

The time frame for the ladder is too tight, with less than a few months left, and even the growth of a genius takes time.

"Is there no other way?"

Zhang Xin took the document, but after looking at it a few times, there was also an indelible sorrow on her delicate face.

As a fifth-level martial artist, she naturally knew what the contents of this document meant.

"I've looked for anyone I can find, but no one can help us with this kind of competition. Liu Wentao shook his head and said in a deep voice: "The two schools of Fire Fist and Lion Claw have been waiting for this day for several years, and there is no reason for them to give up this hope of promotion." ”

The Fire Fist School and the Lion Claw School are both the kind that do not enter the stream, and there is no formal martial arts hall venue, but the current masters of the two schools have already stepped into the level of sixth-level martial artists, which is very close to the Shuttle Fist school.

What's even more serious is that in the new generation of these two small schools, there are fifth-level martial artists. And Shuttle Boxing is completely the opposite, even the big apprentice Pan Sheng is just a third-level martial artist, and he is completely green and yellow.

Orthodox martial arts school, the strength of the sect leader is very important, but the more important thing is whether there is a new generation of strong people, if no one inherits, after the death of this powerful sect master, the entire school will also decline and decline, and the inheritance will be cut off.

The group of martial artists is not the older they get, the stronger they are, but the complete opposite. No matter how strong a martial artist is, he will maintain his peak state for thirty years at most, and after the age of fifty or sixty, his muscles, skin, bones, qi and blood will begin to decline, and his strength will only be half of what he was young.

"Xian Xian's cultivation is very short, and he is already a fourth-level martial artist. Zhang Xin hesitated for a few seconds, with a hint of hope in her eyes: "If she can break through to level five before the ladder match, we may be able to turn the situation back." ”

"Fifth level...?" Liu Wentao raised his head and glanced at his wife, "The cultivation speed of Slender Slender can be called a demon, but from the beginning to the present, she has only practiced for three months, and she has accumulated a lot of money and broken into the fourth level, that is because of her strong talent." But after the fourth level, it needs to accumulate to a certain degree of total Dan Qi, and quantitative changes can cause qualitative changes, which requires water grinding, otherwise, even if the level of her shuttle fist is in place, she still can't be promoted. ”

The first four levels of a martial artist can still rely on talent, but after the fourth level condenses the Dan Qi, if you want to be promoted, you need to polish and accumulate your own Dan Qi and accumulate a certain amount of Dan Qi. There is no skill to speak of in this one, as long as the Dan Qi is exercised, so any martial artist who can condense the Dan Qi can basically step into the fifth level.

But this seemingly simple accumulation process requires a long time of water grinding, in this process, some people will spend five or six years, and some people will spend more than ten years.

The practice of martial arts, grinding a sword for several years or more than ten years, is so boring and tedious, and it consumes extremely time and energy.

"It's only been two months since the start of the ladder. Liu Wentao took a deep breath before slowly exhaling the turbid qi: "In such a short period of time, Xian Xian wants to accumulate a large amount of Dan Qi and break through to become a fifth-level martial artist... The odds of success are so low..."

When he was young, the process of accumulating Dan Qi took six or seven years. Even if Xu Xianxian, the successor, is talented and demonic, this time is shortened to one-fifth, and it will take more than a year.

Smack.

Just when the two couples were talking, Xu Xianxian pinched the chicken steak in his left hand and seven or eight mutton skewers in his right hand, and swaggered in pushing the door in.

After jumping from the dormitory building, Xu Xianxian was looking for food at a stall outside the school, and happened to receive a call from her master Liu Wentao, asking her to come to the martial arts hall.

"Master, master, do you have something to do with me?" Xu Xianxian took a bite of the mutton skewer, and the large amount of chili powder smeared on it made her brows frown slightly, and she said a little vaguely while eating: "How to wipe the sea and then beware of the words of the Middle Impide, be cautious... (Why are you still talking in such a place, mysterious)"

“... Do you see that the little fairy is so cute, so innocent, is it suitable to fight on stage?" Seeing this doll-like little girl, Zhang Xin's brows furrowed, but then she turned her head and smiled bitterly at her husband: "I am still reluctant to let her compete, she is too young and has no experience, I am afraid that she will be hurt." ”