Chapter 42: Yanji
It was another fresh morning, and the morning glow was all over the sky, and it was as gorgeous as a brocade. In the Yancheng of Huoyun Country, all the people put down their work in their hands, full of expectations, and walked on the central avenue, Shili Street, which was crowded with people and could not be passed.
The five-year Huoyun Guoyan Gathering was held today. It's an exciting day, it's a big festival.
Yanji is divided into two rounds, outside the city and inside the city, and the city is the imperial city. Outside the city is a peripheral competition, a ten-mile long street, divided into a thousand areas, one-on-one, wheel battles, a total of five rounds, a thousand people are selected. These 1,000 people will enter the city for the next round of competition, and 500 of them will have a chance to enter the Fire Cloud Army.
A thousand battles began at the same time, two thousand people waved all kinds of blades, fighting hard, "clanging ......" the sound of weapons colliding, and the cheers of the people fighting, one after another. The red clouds in the sky are like blood, there is a big battlefield on the ground, the waves are turbulent, you can't see the edge, the battle involves everyone, ruthless and tragic, but there are more cheers from onlookers.
"Good ——!" a young man with a black knife on his back shouted in the middle of the mountain, it was Xin Mu, so many battles, he couldn't watch it at all, he could only squeeze where to see. He huddled in the crowd, looking at the strange weapons, all kinds of martial arts, cheering for the winner, sighing for the loser, and shouting for the exquisite moves. He didn't just come to see the excitement, he came to learn the combat experience, learn the changes in the battle, the combination of offense and defense in the battle, and so on.
Half a day later, inside the Imperial City. A thousand of the winning champions, with happy faces, stood neatly on the square of the Tianhuo Palace, quietly waiting for the next competition.
In the square within a radius of two miles from the Tianhuo Palace, there was a circle of Huoyun troops standing around to maintain order, with fiery red armor and flame-shaped helmets, like a circle of burning flames, surrounding the entire Tianhuo Square, solemn and domineering. This is a solemn moment, this is a moment that decides the fate of half of the people, whether you can join the Huoyun Army or not, it depends on the competition. Xin Mu and Lei Xiang quietly joined the team.
Fire Emperor Lei Zhentian, Yan Bo, and the ministers of the Fire Cloud Kingdom sat on the steps of the high Heavenly Fire Hall. General Lei Huo walked up to the stone platform with majestic steps, cleared his throat, and said loudly: "First of all, congratulations to all of you on your successful promotion! Those who have entered here! There is already one foot in the Fire Cloud Army!" Speaking of this, Lei Huo paused, and a joyful clatter sounded in the crowd, "But!" Lei Huo turned his words, "The other foot is thousands of miles away! Whether you can enter the Fire Cloud Army depends on whether you can step into the other foot!"
General Lei Huo paused and pointed to a row of lifelike stone fire dragon horses carved on the sidelines, "Today's competition is very simple! Those are ten fire dragon stone horses, and more than five of them can be lifted to join the Fire Cloud Army, and those that can be lifted all of them can enter the most rear-end Yanji total duel." ”
"Ah!" the crowd of onlookers and onlookers were in an uproar. "I'm afraid it's hard to lift a real fire dragon horse! These fire dragon stone horses are the same size as a real fire dragon horse, I'm afraid they weigh thousands of catties!"
"Who can have that strength!"
"Quiet!" Thunderfire shouted, "Go!"
More than a thousand people lined up in turn, ready to start lifting the stone fire dragon horse. A strong man of five big and three thick walked forward, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and his two arms were as thick as his thighs. He strangled his belt, circled around the first stone horse, stopped behind the horse's buttocks, and reached out to hug the hind legs of the stone horse, as if he were licking the horse's buttocks, and the crowd couldn't help but snicker.
"Get up!" I saw the man shout, his stomach straightened, and he used the strength to feed, but the stone horse did not move. "Get up!" the man roared, his face flushed, and the stone horse remained motionless, expressionless, like a deaf man, and could not hear the roar of the big man at all. "——!" The big face of the five big and three thick men turned purple, "Whew!Whew!" panted, and after trying hard three or four times, he shook his head and finally gave up.
"Time is limited, the second. Lei Huo shouted, "When one person comes up, the other immediately follows!"
A young man with a silver spear on his back walked out of the crowd, wearing silver armor, broad shoulders and thin waist, his face was as white as jade, and he looked more handsome than a woman.
"It's him!" Xin Mu and Lei Xiang glanced at each other, and it was the white-faced young man who beat away the four big men in the "First Floor of the World" with one move, "There is nothing strange about it! His cultivation is not just here!" Xin Mu nodded, this young man with a white face like jade was indeed a strong hand.
"Little white face. Hey!" There was a sneer from the crowd, "Look at his white and tender appearance, like a girl, it's useless at first glance." ”
"That's it, it's not a waste of time for him to go up!"
The young man with the silver spear on his back, as if he hadn't heard everyone's discussion at all, that face was really carved out of white jade, without a trace of expression, he walked to the fire dragon stone horse unhurriedly, took a deep breath, squatted, a pair of slender white hands poked into the horse's belly, and slowly stood up.
"Ah——!h
"Get up. ”
He lifted it. ”
"It's easy! ”
Xin Mu stood quietly in the crowd, watching the young man with a face as white as jade lift the fire dragon stone horses one by one and put them down. Lifting these stone horses of several thousand catties is an impossible task for people who practice physical realm. For people who practice the Qi Realm, there may not be any difficulty, but it is rare that the face does not change, it is rare to be so calm and relaxed, so calm, this cultivation is probably not only the Qi Cultivation Realm, this kid is actually a master of the Rehmannia Realm.
"Good!" the people in the square cheered, hiding their ignorance.
The participants in the competition walked up one by one, some people could lift one or two, some people could lift more than five, some people couldn't lift one, only a handful of people lifted all ten dragon stone horses.
The last one to go up was Xin Mu, he came to the fire dragon stone horse, adjusted his breathing, and secretly ran "Chixia Decision", his whole body was full of strength, his hands probed into the ground of the stone horse's abdomen, and his legs, waist, back and shoulders worked together, and slowly picked up the stone horse. The stone horse was heavier than expected, estimated to have the weight of three intact Xuanmen knives, Xin Mu lifted the stone horse, and then slowly put it down, slowly breathing and breathing, and walked towards another fire dragon stone horse.
When he reached the eighth seat, he gradually felt struggling! With the completion of "Chixia Decision", Xin Mu's cultivation had already entered the middle and late stages of the Qi cultivation realm, although he did not have a great success, it was almost there. He concluded that the white-faced boy must be a master of the Rehmannia Realm. He moved his arm and exhaled, he couldn't stop here, he wouldn't stop here! No one could stop him, let alone a few stone horses!