While speaking, Tang Ran of the Tang Sect and Tang Xun of the Tantric Sect had already walked to the square table in the center of the ring, and the two of them saluted Lou Xiaoyi together and saluted each other.

Bai Yixue heard Lou Xiaoyi's name reported in his mouth, and his heart sank: "Most of the antidote to Buddha Touqing is stored in the medicine crossbow room, if it is really as Tang Zhuo said, after Tang Wei leaves, the lock and key of the medicine crossbow room is in the hands of this person?"

Tang Ran was the leader of the young "fire character" generation of Xianzong, and won the trust of the sect leader Tang Zhuo; among the disciples of the Tang Sect, although Tang Xun was older, he was simple-minded and fond of martial arts, and he regarded Tang Rong's insight in the forging of hidden weapons and the development of poisons as a guideline. Although Tang Xun's reputation in the rivers and lakes is far inferior to Tang Cry and Tang Stagnation, he has been immersed in poison for a long time, has studied deep thoughts, and has exquisite attainments, and is not under Tang Cry and Tang Stagnation, so he was appointed by Tang Cry as the head of the medicine crossbow room.

At this time, a disciple of the Tang Sect took two wine bowls, and each bowl was filled with wine. Ling Zhaoxu said: "In this second competition, one person will put his own poison in the wine, and if the other person can dissolve the poison, he will drink all the poisonous wine in the bowl. After a round, if there are no casualties, the poisoner and the poisoner are exchanged, and then the competition is repeated, until the winner is decided. ”

Bai Yixue frowned, and thought: "The first game is very ornamental, why did the second game suddenly increase the anger?" said: "If the person who turned the poison actually looked away, wouldn't it be a risk of his life?"

Ling Zhaoxu said in a low voice: "Honorable envoy Gao Jian! Among the three competitions, the second one is particularly dangerous, if the person who transforms the poison is not properly poisoned, or if he is reckless and capable, he will be killed on the spot immediately, then there are also people." ”

Shen Lingshan's heart was pounding, and he pouted: "It is a martial arts competition, of course, it is necessary to compete and distinguish the winner and loser, but there is also a difference between civil fighting and martial arts." If you fight for your life and see blood to your bones, isn't it too angry? It's not fun at all. Bai Yixue couldn't help but glance at her, her eyes full of approval.

Ling Zhaoxu looked embarrassed, and said, "Yes, yes, I also think...... It's not fun at all. ”

Seeing that Xiaoyi went upstairs in the ring, he took out a copper coin from his arms, and said with a smile: "Two little brothers, let's still follow the old rules, let's guess first." ”

It turns out that the second game is different from the first one, the person who takes the lead in turning the poison can dissolve the poison given by the other party, and if it can't be resolved, he has to admit defeat on the spot, even if the latter is unable to turn the poison, the two sides are tied and end peacefully. If the person who transforms the poison is arrogant and acts rashly, and dies on the spot, there is no need to compete again in the second round, and the poisoning side easily wins. Therefore, the person who took the lead in poisoning, the competition has not yet begun, and he has already had the upper hand, and the latter has taken the lead. Because of this, the second competition of the previous "Catch Fish" conferences was tossed by the emcee of the conference, and the two sides of the competition decided which side would come first by guessing the pros and cons of the copper coin.

Unexpectedly, Tang Xun stepped forward and took the Shaoxing Tongbao from Lou Xiaoyi's hand, and with a slight pinch of his thumb and index finger, he had folded the copper coin in two. Tang Ran was stunned, Lou Xiaoyi's face sank, and said, "Second brother, what do you mean by this? Could it be that you are going to break the old rules?"

Tang Xun smiled slightly, pressed his right hand lightly, and the two copper coins were embedded in the wooden table, flush with the tabletop, and said: "In front of the old man Lou, how dare Tang Xun break the old rules? ”

As soon as these words came out, Lou Xiaoyi was surprised, Rao was the first time he had presided over the five sessions of the Tangmen martial arts competition, and it was also the first time he encountered such a situation, and he was speechless for a while. Tang Ran on one side was even more surprised, Tang Xun looked confident, which made him suspicious: "Tang Xun is so fearless, could it be that he already knew the poison I used today in advance?"

Suddenly, a black shadow flashed, and Tang Siyou, who had been closing his eyes and recuperating, was like a strange bird, rising from his seat and jumping to the center of the ring. He came to the wooden table, stretched out his palm on the table and patted it, "snort", "snort" two soft sounds, the two copper coins jumped out of the table by force, and his left hand waved in the air, and the two copper coins were held in his hands. Lou Xiaoyi stepped forward and asked, "Brother Tang, what do you have to say?"

Tang Siyou's long left index finger flicked, and the copper coin flew down on the wooden table, dripping and turning, and when the copper coin settled, Lou Xiaoyi looked at it, and the copper coin that had just been broken into two pieces was re-glued together by him with internal force. Tang Si's strange eyes rolled and said to Tang Xun: "Second brother, this competition is a big matter, how dare you make such a mistake?"

Tang Siyou has a very high rank in the tantric sect, and his temperament is very irritable, Tang Xun hurriedly said: "How dare the disciple make a mistake? It's just ......"

Tang Siyu was stunned, two cold lightning bolts shot out of his eyes, and shouted: "Do you dare not listen to my words?"

Tang Xun had a stubborn temperament, and when he saw his sharp eyes, he was not moved at all, and said: "Qi Yu Lao, since the disciple has already spoken first, how can he take it back?"

Tang Siyou was stunned, he never expected that Tang Xun would dare to speak against him in public, glared at Tang Xun fiercely, and sneered: "Very good, very good." ”

Seeing this, Tang Ran smiled slightly, and said: "Second brother, you are also good for you, why are you so stubborn?" Seeing Tang Siyou's obstacle, he was afraid that Tang Xun would regret it, and deliberately made a statement to provoke him.

Tang Xun's face was blank, and he was silent.

Tang Siyou wanted to let Tang Xun and Tang Ran guess the first again, in order to determine the order of poisoning, the rules of the conference were like this, and it was understandable. Seeing the deadlock between the Tantric sects on the stage, the group of heroes at the east end of the square suddenly became noisy, and everyone sneered: "The big husband has said his word, and the horse is difficult to chase, and now he is going back on his word, do you want to be shameless?" "People have no faith, they don't know what they can do, shameless, shameless!" "Ge Laozi, are you ashamed or not ashamed of the old man?" "The head of the building, you have always been fair, and this matter must be judged by your old man and make a decision." "Yes, two wins in three games, according to the old man, the winner of today's martial arts competition has been released, and there is no need to compete again." "Old man Lou, you don't have to be so embarrassed, this competition has already decided the winner, it's better to hurry up and make an announcement, everyone is still waiting to drink and celebrate." ”

Tang Siyou looked at Xianzong's supporters with cold eyes, his withered skin became more and more ugly, he suddenly stretched out his right hand that was as dry as a chicken claw, grabbed the copper coin on the table, and said, "Okay, since the old seventeen said so, then the old man will do it for you, guess." Before the words fell, the audience was already booing. Tang Ran smiled and looked at Lou Xiaoyi. Tang Mang, who had been sitting upright, said "hey", then wanted to get up, thought for a while, sat down again, and said in a loud voice: "What is the system!" He shook his head as he spoke, his face full of disdain.

Tang Siyou relied on the old and sold the old before, but he didn't take Lou Xiaoyi's question, Lou Xiaoyi's heart was already a little unhappy, and at this moment, seeing him so nonsense, he couldn't hold it anymore, and said abruptly: "Seventh Brother Tang, as the saying goes, 'If the rules are not right, you can't be square; Since the second brother is the main thing, and he has already spoken first, why should he Lao brother take a seat? ”

Tang Siyou snorted and said, "What's wrong with the old man controlling his own disciples? As he spoke, he threw the copper coin in his hand upward, and the Shaoxing Tongbao fell on the wooden table, dripping and turning.

Lou Xiaoyi stuffed his chest and said coldly: "Today's matter, I, an outsider, will still be in charge!" With his right arm stretched, the five fingers of his right hand formed a claw, and the claw center was forward, the copper coin was suddenly sucked into the heart of the claw, but his left hand was extremely fast on Tang Siyou's right shoulder, and he whispered: "Seventh brother, you are also a figure with a head and a face, if you stiffen in this ring and hurt your harmony, it will not look good on everyone's face." Please return to your position quickly!" said his right palm, and the copper coin in his palm had been pinched into powder by his internal force, and it was scattered one after another.

Tang Siyou couldn't help but be secretly frightened when he saw him exposing his hand, and felt that Lou Xiaoyi's left hand was like an iron hoop, and he secretly carried it several times, but he was unable to get rid of it, but his shoulder bone was painful. He knew that it was difficult to get benefits, so he laughed a few times and said, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Others are okay, can you not give your brother Lou's face?"

At that time, the day was empty, the cool breeze was gusting, and dozens of miscellaneous servants shuttled between the banquets, adding water to the group of teas and replacing fruits.

Lou Xiaoyi looked up at the sky, and said loudly: "The second competition has officially begun, and the second brother has already drawn the way, so please ask the seventeenth brother to come up with the question first." ”

Tang Ran responded: "Yes, thank you Mr. Lou." Turning to Tang Xun, he said, "Second brother, then the little brother is better to be respectful than to obey his fate!" Tang Xun nodded slightly. Tang Ran walked a few steps, came to the table, picked up a wine bowl with his left hand, raised it to his nose, and looked at the bowl intently, after a while, he saw that with a flick of his right index finger, a stream of pink powder had been sprinkled into the bowl of wine.

Bai Yixue saw it clearly, when Tang Ran was concentrating, his right hand quickly crossed his waist, thinking that he had taken some poison from the medicine bag and hid it in the nail of his right index finger. ”

Tang Ran raised the wine bowl with both hands, handed it forward, and said, "Second brother, please!" Tang Xun took the wine bowl and raised it in front of him, his eyes fixed on the poisonous wine in the bowl, and he lowered his head and meditated. On the square, hundreds of people also looked at the bowl of wine in unison, and thought in their hearts: "This bowl of wine already contains Tang poison, if anyone takes a sip, they will report to the Netherworld Mansion on the spot." ”

After a while, Tang Xun suddenly spoke: "Seventeenth brother, you have improved the use of Artemisia on the snow again, congratulations." ”

Tang Ran's heart froze, his face remained silent, and he said lightly: "Oh?"

Shen Lingshan saw that Bai Yixue's eyes showed an inquiring meaning, and said softly: "A sprig of artemisia on the snow has an analgesic effect, but if it is taken raw internally, or with wine, it is highly poisonous. ”

Bai Yixue said with a smile: "Poison can be medicine, and harm can also be beneficial." ”

Shen Lingshan pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "This poison is also common, let's see how he uses it in the Tang Sect." "Listen intently. I only heard Tang Xun say: "Uncle Tang Rong's "Poison Sutra" said that although the poison of a branch of Artemisia on the snow is strong, it is lost in violent, and the poisoned person vomits, salivates, palpitations, delirium, and mania, and cannot die in three hours, but if it is accompanied by the sac juice in the red poisonous moth toad sac, it is as beautiful as a pink peach, and the sex is abnormal, and it can kill people by a little bit, and it must be killed in an instant. Congratulations to the seventeenth brother, he finally caught the red poisonous flower moth toad in the Bibi Pond. He said it slowly and logically, but to Tang Ran's ears, it was moving and terrifying. Shen Lingshan listened carefully, and meditated in his heart: "Red Poison Flower Moth Toad? I only heard that there are black eye poison toads, flower-backed arrow toads and colorful flower toads, all of which are highly poisonous things in the world, but I have never heard my father say anything about red poisonous moths and toads, I am afraid that they are rare things." ”

Shen Lingshan's guess is good, the red poisonous flower moth toad is a unique giant toad in the Bibi Lake at the junction of western Sichuan and eastern Tibet, and likes to eat the local poisonous flower moth. However, this red poisonous flower moth toad likes to hide in the mud hole of the water of Bi Phosphorus Pond, and because of its large size, its skin is easy to lose moisture, and it only comes out late at night to forage for food, and it is hidden during the day, and has the habit of hibernation, so it is extremely difficult to find.

In order to find the red poisonous moth toad, Tang Ran went to Bi Phosphorus Lake alone a year ago, and suffered from the hardship of tracing and finding traces, mosquito bites and insect bites, and spent more than three months, and finally caught a live red poisonous moth toad on the shore of Bi Phosphorus Lake on a full moon night. He was very thoughtful, only the sect master Tang Zhuo knew about the trip to Bi Phosphorus Pond, and after catching the red poisonous flower moth toad, he was also alone in refining the sac juice in the red poisonous moth toad's sac, secretly developing new poisons, and was determined to make a splash at the martial arts competition and make miraculous achievements. Clinker he was so painstakingly lonely, Tang Xun actually explained the origin of this poison in one word, and under the shock, he was suddenly afraid, and his mouth grew up, and he couldn't speak for a while.

Seeing that Tang Ran had a frightened look on his face, Tang Xun was sure that what he said was true, smiled slightly, took out a dark pill from the medicine bag on his waist, put it in his mouth, raised the bowl of poisonous wine to his lips with both hands, tilted his neck, "Gudu", "Gudu", and drank a large bowl of poisonous wine into his stomach in an instant.

Tang Ran was stunned and stood on the ground in a daze. You must know that for today's competition, he has been carefully planning a year ago, and his hard work has paid off, and finally let him find the extremely rare red poisonous moth toad, take its sac juice, and secretly refine it into a new poison. He was full of expectations for this competition, just waiting for a fight to become famous, but what he was waiting for was a crisp defeat. In an instant, the thousands of hardships and twists and turns of Bi Phosphorus Lake seemed to appear in front of him one by one, and his ambition also turned into ashes in an instant, and he stood for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh and said astringently: "Second brother, the younger brother has lost!"

Tang Xun saw that his face was gray, and he was overwhelmed with misery, and he suddenly felt unbearable in his heart, and said softly: "'a thousand songs and then know the sound, watch a thousand swords and then recognize the weapon.'" 'Seventeenth brother, you don't have to be discouraged, the road to art is already arduous and abnormal, and the most taboo is impermanence, but the word 'constant' is valuable. If you can persevere, you will eventually achieve something. ”

Tang Ran's face was as pale as earth, and he bowed down and said, "Thank you, second brother, for your teachings." ”

Tang Xun smiled and said, "Don't dare." Born with an end and learning without an end, martial arts is as vast as a sea of smoke, broad and profound, how can there be a poor time? He has no interest in fame, money, and beauties, but he is fond of martial arts, and seeing that Tang Ran is also pure in martial arts, he suddenly feels like a fellow person, and he feels sorry for each other.

Tang Ran said: "Yes." Just ask the second brother to come up with the question, and the younger brother will teach sincerely. Tang Xun's hand was convincing to him, and his words were very sincere. Bai Yixue in the audience was secretly complaining in her heart: "If Tang Wei really handed over the antidote to Buddha Touqing to this person, how would it be good?"

Tang Xun smiled and said, "Seventeenth brother, you're welcome." "The left hand picked up a bowl of wine, the right hand raised, a light blue smoke popped out of the sleeve, floating down the bowl, the left hand shook slightly, the wisp of light smoke instantly dissolved into the wine, the original slightly yellow wine, under the sunlight, faintly presented a phosphorous blue color.

Tang Ran took the wine bowl, and brought it to the tip of his nose like Tang Xun, bowing his head and contemplating. Hundreds of people in the square stared at the bowl of poisonous wine in his hand, and everyone knew in their hearts that the "catching fish" conference had reached a critical point, and if Tang Ran could not dissolve the poisonous wine applied by Tang Xun, then in the first two competitions, the Sutra and Tantra would each win one and tie, and the competition would be held in the third decisive game; if Tang Ran could solve this poison, according to the rules, the two sides must continue to play the test until one side admits defeat and decides the winner. It is precisely because of this that in the previous martial arts competitions, the second game of poisoning and poisoning was the most thrilling, and in this link, the good hands of the two sects of Xian and Tantra also suffered the most casualties.

After about a cup of tea, Tang Ran frowned, and pondered hard about the poisonous wine, during which he repeatedly wanted to put down the bowl of poisonous wine to show that he was defeated, but he was unwilling to do so, and picked up the wine bowl again, racked his brains, thought hard, and looked miserable. There were good-natured and soft-hearted people in the audience, and when they saw him in such a situation, they couldn't help but feel pity, and they almost wanted to persuade him to admit defeat.

Shen Lingshan looked carefully, Tang Ran held the poisonous wine, inserted two thumbs into the wine, and the wine was dripping, remembering that he had previously hidden the poison in the nail of his right finger, and suddenly woke up: In the kung fu of this tea, Tang Ran had put several antidotes hidden in the nails into the bowl of poisonous wine in turn, in order to have the effect of resolving the poison in the wine, but unfortunately he failed to do so. In late autumn and early winter, the weather had already turned cold, Tang Ran meditated, and his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, some of which dripped into the bowl along the end of his nose.

Suddenly, Tang Ran made an "oops", raised his head and fell back, the bowl of poisonous wine in his hand was spilled on the ground, and the floor of the ring was burned to the ground, and a puff of light smoke rose in an instant. Tang Ran staggered, fortunately Lou Xiaoyi beside him was quick-eyed, and his right hand stretched out to support his back, but he saw that Tang Ran's face was pale, and a trace of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth. It turned out that when he searched his intestines and scraped his stomach, he suddenly felt a tingling pain in his chest, and then his throat was sweet, and a mouthful of blood had gushed into his throat.

Lou Xiaoyi looked concerned and said, "Brother Seventeen, are you okay?"

Tang Ran waved his hand slightly, and said with a wry smile: "I...... Lost. After settling down, he said to Tang Xun: "Second brother, the younger brother's skills are not as good as others, and he is convinced, you ...... You've won. At this time, the young disciples of the Tang Sect Xianzong rushed forward and helped Tang Ran down.