Chapter 38: Life or Death
The person who spoke was about twenty years old, dressed in a brown Taoist robe, holding a sword with a simple style in his hand, and arched his hand: "My name is Chen Heming, a disciple of the outer sect of the Maoshan faction. Brother Tai doesn't mind, they are like this, I'm used to it. ”
Chen Heming is slightly taller than ordinary people, his facial features are as distinct as carvings, and he has a friendly smile on his face.
Li Qiang saw that this person was behaving kindly, and said politely: "Jiuyang, my name is Li Qiang." ”
After saying hello, Chen Heming stood down beside Li Qiang, and sighed one after another: "Hey, a small sect like ours is easy to be bullied by the orthodoxy of a sect like Longhu Mountain."
Two days ago, one of my junior disciples of the Maoshan faction just went to talk to Shen Xinyin, the junior sister of Longhu Mountain, and was almost thrown out by the bandits in Longhu Mountain.
Isn't it just a little junior sister, who doesn't have it? In other words, my little junior sister Yue Lingxuan of the Maoshan faction, in terms of appearance and temperament, she is not inferior to Shen Xinyin of Longhu Mountain.
Eh, Brother Li Qiang, are you listening?"
Li Qiang's temperament is slow, Chen Heming is biased and speaks very fast, Li Qiang almost didn't react for a while, and even chewed Chen Heming's first sentence.
"Ahh ”
He said, "We're a small sect......
The master said that Pingliang Dao is the source of all paths, but it seems that the disciples of the Longhu Mountain and Maoshan factions don't know it.
His Maoshan faction is not a small sect.
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The bells and drums are playing, the race is about to begin, and the adventurers have to return to their assigned positions.
Chen Heming wanted to say something more, but now he had to say, "I'll come back to you after the first round." ”
It wasn't until Li Qiang took a seat that Chen Heming's words slowly entered Li Qiang's mind.
Maoshan faction's little sister Yue Lingxuan, such a beautiful name. But what does what just happened have to do with the little junior sister?
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Although the preparation time for this adventurer's race was rushed, the lineup of spectators can be called luxurious.
Li Shimin, the son of heaven of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chengqian, the crown prince, Yuan Tiangang, the national teacher, the prime minister, the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Gao Shilian, the left leading army Wei General Cheng Yanjin, the Qingqiu County Gongcui Yixuan, and dozens of other noble and high-ranking officials present.
The rules and list of the adventurer's tournament were set by the Ministry of Rites, and a total of 64 participants competed in a single duel in the ring.
Poison and hidden weapons are not allowed in the game, and the side that falls unconscious, falls off the field, and admits defeat fails.
The winner advances, and the loser is eliminated until the championship is contested.
If the opponent is seriously injured or even killed during the game, the competition will be disqualified.
The referee announced the players' matchup tables, and the players who played in the first round have already entered the ring.
I don't know if it's deliberately arranged, the first scene is Li Qiang vs. Longhushan Zhang Wei.
The battle is about to begin, just wait for the referee to sound the gong to start the game.
The middle-aged man sitting on the first table under the right hand of Tang Emperor Li Shimin stood up and bowed to the ground towards Tang Emperor Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, on the occasion of this grand event, the minister has a proposal." ”
The person who got up was Cui Yixuan, the prince of Qingqiu County, with a crown of nine guns, a green coat, embroidered nine chapters, and a sword and dart decorated with gold and jade.
Cui Yixuan's family is the Qinghe Cui family, and he is also a representative of the Shandong clan who entered Beijing this time, and this competition was held at his suggestion.
Now that the bell and drum have already sounded, and the contestants of the first round have already entered the ring, what does he propose?
Li Shimin was a little displeased, but he still said patiently: "What does Cui Aiqing propose?"
"Your Majesty, this is the first adventurer competition of my Datang Dynasty. Most of the contestants are disciples of Longhu Mountain, Maoshan Mountain, and the Tang Dynasty Mansion, each with morality and extraordinary skills, and the ring has restricted their performance. The minister proposed that this competition should be a document, regardless of life or death. ”
Life or death!
This competition was proposed by Cui Yixuan, for which he recruited the best outer disciples of the two major sects of Longhu Mountain and Maoshan to enter Beijing. Now that the competition is about to begin, he proposes to live or die!
Cui Yixuan obviously came prepared, and the suggestion he made at this moment was that he felt that he had won, and he wanted to take this opportunity to slap the royal family in the face!
After hearing this, Cheng Yanjin immediately stood up: "Old Cui, what are you old boys up to do again? Aren't the adventurers human? Injured and disabled, send them to your home, will you take care of them?"
The civil and military officials also whispered to each other, this is just a game of competition, why is it so?
But Cui Yixuan's body bowed down to Tang Emperor Li Shimin without the slightest meaning of getting up: "Competition, death and injury are fateful." Most of the contestants are decent and decent, and I believe that they have their own measure, and even if they are damaged, it is just that their own strength is not good. ”
The adventurers themselves are mortals, and before this competition, Tang Emperor Li Shimin was unprepared. However, he, Cui Yixuan, took all the best of the disciples of the two outer sects of Longhu Mountain and Maoshan who are the leaders of the world's Taoist sects in his hands, and won the battle.
At this moment, Tang Emperor Li Shimin was difficult to ride a tiger, and Cui Yixuan believed that whether Tang Huang agreed or not, he had the upper hand.
In this game, he not only wants to win, but also to win fiercely!
The civil and military officials felt that His Majesty had fallen into a dilemma.
If you agree at this time, you will fall into Cui Yixuan's trap. If you don't agree, you will lose royal face.
"Yes. ”
What the?
Li Shimin's three words of understatement surprised all the civil and military officials present.
Cheng Yanjin slowly sat down when he heard this.
Cui Yixuan's body was still bowed there.
Cui Yixuan didn't care whether Li Shimin agreed or not, but he originally thought that Li Shimin would say more, and he was ready for enough reasons to deal with it.
In his heart, he has deduced countless times that the monarch and ministers at this time are right, and there is no such situation.
Li Shimin didn't hesitate, and he didn't see too much emotion.
I agreed.
The tone is like pulling a homely thing in the harem at this moment.
"I have agreed to this matter, does Cui Aiqing have any other proposals?"
"The minister is gone, Your Majesty. Cui Yixuan thanked him and sat down a little depressed.
Things were a little different from what he had imagined, and he didn't know what went wrong.
In the ring, the eunuch came over to convey the new rules, and in the martial arts arena, life and death do not matter!
The adventurers who participated in the competition were in an uproar, especially those who were not disciples of the two factions of Longhu Mountain and Maoshan Mountain.
The time of this competition was rushed, and only some adventurers near Chang'an participated in the campaign.
Some of the selected people just know how to do it, or they have some skills and luck. At this time, competing with the Taoist decency on the same stage, he was already a little weak-hearted, and when he came to the stage, he actually changed the rules all of a sudden, regardless of life or death!
A few timid or grumpy people quit the game on the spot, they just came to play games, not to play with their lives.
"Haha, it's good to retreat, save us from wasting energy to deal with this waste. Longhu Mountain Zhao Ping looked at the figures of several retirees leaving, and laughed.
New rules, life or death.
Li Qiang and Zhang Wei in the ring also knew about the change in the rules, and the two stood still on both sides of the ring.
After a gong sounds, the game begins.
Zhang Wei was wearing a white Taoist robe and stood with a sword in his bearing: "The kid on the other side, have you heard the new rules? Life or death doesn't matter! I am Zhang Wei, who is the number one in the formation among the disciples of the outer sect of Longhu Mountain, you should quickly abstain, lest you wait until the fight is over, and you will be missing arms and legs, and you will blame me for the weight of my hands." ”
Formation first?
Li Qiang suddenly felt a little kind, when he was a child learning from his master, his favorite and most solid course to learn was the formation, but in this ring, he couldn't arrange the formation in advance, what was the use of the first formation? Could it be that he also had a Qimen secret technique that was triggered instantly?
Li Qiang hugged his fists and asked: "Brother Zhang Wei, may I ask you and I are competing in the ring at the moment, how should the formation be used?"
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That's right, this one-on-one macho PK, what's the use of being the first in formation?
Zhang Wei was choked on the spot by Li Qiang's words, but he didn't think that Li Qiang's words were a consultation, but only regarded it as a sarcastic provocation, so he shot back loudly: "Boy, report your name, I won't kill the unknown under the sword." ”
Li Qiang said sincerely: "We just met under the ring, my name is Li Qiang, do you have a bad memory?"
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Zhang Wei remembered that the kid on the other side was the person who had a flying sword slower than a snail in the ring just now, and he thought that he would dare to talk back to him on this little bit.
Zhang Wei couldn't help but reprimand angrily: "I remember, you are the wild boy whose flying sword is slower than a snail, where are you from, and where is the dojo?"
"Senior Brother Zhang really has a bad memory, I am a teacher of the Pingliang Dao Sect, and I also said it in the ring just now. My dojo is in Kongtong Mountain. ”
"Don't your Kongtong sect's masters teach you the rules? ”
"That...... Senior Brother Zhang, I am the Pingliang faction. ”
"Do you people in Pingliangshan still have rules!"
"It's Kongtong Mountain. ”
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Zhang Wei was a little dizzy, they have always been accustomed to taking the mountain as the faction and the pie as the mountain. When I met a mountain and sent a different faction, I couldn't figure it out for a while.
But what does this little sect have to figure out?
Zhang Wei shouted: "I don't care what mountain or faction you are, come and suffer death and eat my sword!"
With that, he pulled out a sword flower from the long sword in his hand, and his whole body suddenly fluoresced, and he quickly attacked Li Qiang.