Chapter 20: The Top Eight
With the end of this scene, Su Huai walked out of the ring, only to find that Su Qi had been waiting under the ring as before, "Why, I won so fast today," Su Huai blurted out.
Su Qi lost all his former pride, and said dejectedly, "Lost."
"You won't really meet my opponent yesterday, right" Seeing Su Chita pull his head, Su Huai asked with some uncertainty.
Su Qi straightened his head and looked at Su Huai, and then put on a bitter and hateful look and said, "It's better to meet her, I met Lin Yuwan's little girl today, and I don't know what medicine she took wrong, so she came up and beckoned to be ruthless to me, and he was knocked down by him before three rounds of fighting" After speaking, he didn't forget to point to the torn clothes on his left shoulder and said, "Na, this is what he cut."
After listening to Su Qi's story, Su Huai couldn't help but look at his right hand, presumably he vented what happened in the woods on Su Qi, Su Huai said apologetically, "Then you are really unlucky."
"It's so ugly to lose, I don't know how to explain it when I go back," Su Qi said worriedly.
"In this ring, there is only a difference between winning and losing, how can there be any good or bad looks," Su Huai said.
"That's not necessarily, if it's like Chu Huaiyu, you will hit the opponent without the power to fight back, standing in the ring, that's called a majestic one" said Su Qi with a look of yearning, and turned his head to Su Huai and said, "Which is like you, you could have used Tianluo to win easily with your sword finger, but you have to come to a hard fight, and this is too much."
Su Huai looked at Su Qi with a look of hatred of iron and steel, and explained, "Chu Huaiyu's kung fu is honed in the battlefield, and it is a place where the real fight to the death, so the lion fights the rabbit also needs all his strength, for me, every opponent I meet is a touchstone, not only a competition, but also a transformation of myself."
"Forget it, forget it, it's a mess, but you'll have to go back with me tonight, so I can explain a little more," Suqi said.
Su Qi wanted to take Su Huai back together, mainly because he was afraid that it would be difficult to explain if he lost the game today, if he was accompanied by Su Huai, he said that it was not necessary for Su Ziyang to forget about losing the game as soon as he saw Su Huai happy, as long as Su Ziyang did not speak, Su Zhong would not blame himself in front of him.
Su Qi's thoughts were naturally clear to Su Huai, and he readily agreed, "Okay."
And things went as smoothly as Su Qi expected, Su Huai's arrival made Su Ziyang very happy, and there was no sense of blaming Su Qi for losing the game, after all, no matter how much he blamed, he couldn't bring back the lost game, it was better to plan for Su Huai's future games. And Su Zhong just told Su Qi to take good care of Su Huai in the later games, Su Qi naturally agreed, and now the most lively place in Chaoyang City is the martial arts arena, even if Su Zhong doesn't say it, Su Qi will follow Su Huai.
On the second day, when Su Huai and Su Qi arrived, the entrance of the martial arts arena had been crowded, but during the martial arts competition, in addition to the contestants, referees and necessary order maintenance personnel, the rest of the people who wanted to watch the game could only be in the stands, but now the stands are already seams, and these people who can't accommodate them in the stands think about whether they can come to the martial arts arena to try their luck.
Just when Su Huai and the others wanted to push through the crowd and squeeze in, a group of people walked out of the martial arts arena, and saw that their neat appearance was like a person in the army, and the leader was Chu Huaiyu, this guy was really iron-faced and selfless when performing official duties, but after a while, a way was cleared, Chu Huaiyu naturally noticed Su Huai, but his original face was changed to a smile and said, "Brother Su is here, then just go in with me."
"Thank you" Su Huai said, "Brother Chu also took over the city defense during the competition" Su Huai couldn't help but feel a little admiration in his heart when he saw Chu Huaiyu using it freely when commanding the army to deal with things.
"Why, if Brother Su wants to learn, why don't you go to the army with me to practice," Chu Huaiyu smiled.
"If you really need us to go to the battlefield one day, we will definitely take the lead," Su Huai said.
After hearing this, Chu Huaiyu turned to look at Su Huai and said seriously: "Then I hope there will never be this day."
Chu Huaiyu's words deeply shocked Su Huai, Su Huai had always simply thought that Chu Huaiyu was simply belligerent, but he never thought that Chu Huaiyu's belligerence was to stop the war, only by making himself strong enough, the enemy would not dare to attack easily. And a net worth like Su Huai may only go to the battlefield when the two countries are in a big war, and Chu Huai, who has been stationed in the army all the year round, has experienced too much life and death, so he naturally doesn't want to have another war.
Su Huai followed Chu Huaiyu's back to the place where the crowd gathered in the martial arts arena, and the two pushed aside the crowd and walked towards the center of the arena, while Su Qi stood on the edge of the crowd. A total of eight people participated in the competition today, in addition to Su Huai and Chu Huaiyu, there were Lin Yuwan, Lin Xiao, Shangguan Hong, Shangguan Xue, Luo Gao, and Yue Tao. There are six places to go to Xuantian Sect, which means that two of the eight people can be eliminated, but these eight people are all the best after the big waves, and today's competition will be more fierce than in the past.
The eight people on the field are now in the spotlight, perhaps intentionally to let these young people enjoy this rare moment, but the box of the lottery has not come up for a long time, Su Huai stood among the eight people, and always felt a strange gaze staring at him, looking for his gaze, but saw that the owner of the gaze was Shangguan Yue, the two looked at each other, Shangguan Yue's eyes showed the meaning of evasion, and turned his head to the side. Su Huai looked at it for a moment, Shangguan Yue was still thin and beautiful, with faint circles around her eye sockets, slightly tired.
With a commotion in the crowd, two soldier-like people carried a box to eight people, which also meant that the game officially began, Su Huai drew his number from the box one by one with the seven people, and the number drawn by Su Huai was No. 3, that is, in the No. 3 ring competition, Su Huai walked towards the No. 3 ring at the same time, there was also a person who went to the No. 3 ring, it was Shangguan Hong. Obviously, Shangguan Hong also noticed Su Huai, the two looked at each other, Su Huai smiled indifferently, and Shangguan Hong showed a satisfied smile, and both of them walked towards the ring without hurry.
In contrast, the other three also found their opponents, Chu Huaiyu against Luo Gao, Shangguan Xue against Yue Tao, and Lin Xiao against Lin Yuwan.
Relatively speaking, people are more optimistic about the game between Su Huai and Shangguan Hong, after all, Su Huai's reputation is also very high now, and it is rumored that Su Huai is a closed disciple of Shangguan Yunkai, this duel will determine who is the real successor of Shangguan Yunkai, and Su Huai, a rising star, has a long-established figure against Shangguan Hong, which has made the audience on the stage excited.
There was a lot of talk in the stands.
"I think Shangguan Hong will win, people have followed Shangguan Yunkai since childhood, and they must have learned the ability to take care of their families"
"Su Huai will definitely win, I heard that Shangguan Yunkai gave away all his personal swords, that is a high hope."
Shangguan Yunkai on the side of the corner listened to the audience's discussions, snorted coldly, and glanced at Master Wuwei with squinted eyes.
Master Wuwei stroked his beard, looked at Su Huai in the field with a smile, turned to look at Shangguan Yunkai and said, "Who do you think will win?"
"Hong'er has been my true inheritance since she was a child, how could she lose to a monk who became a monk halfway" Shangguan Yunkai said with some indignation, in Guyang Temple, Master Wuwei used the method of agitation to let Shangguan Yunkai give the Kaiyun Sword in his hand to Su Huai, and returned to Chaoyang City, Shangguan Yunkai was a nose for Su Huai's Shangguan Yue, and in addition to the recent discussions about Su Huai and his affairs, these made Shangguan Yunkai very unhappy, when did he suffer such a loss, Su Huai's adventures were all thanks to the master of Wuwei, and he called Su Huai a monk who became a monk halfway to vent the grievances in his heart.
After hearing this, Master Wuwei still smiled and said, "According to the poor monk, Master Su Shi will win."
"How can you see it," Shangguan Yunkai asked.
"Monks don't lie," Master Wuwei still had a smile on his face.
"Hmph" Shangguan Yunkai snorted coldly, turned around and looked at the game in the field.
In the ring, the other three have already begun to compete, but Su Huai and Shangguan Hong are still facing each other.
"I didn't expect to meet Brother Su here, but I was unexpected," Shangguan Hong stared at Su Huai and turned to the Kaiyun Sword in Su Huai's hand and said.
"Hehe, I feel the same way below," Su Huai smiled lightly.
Shangguan Hong looked at Su Huai with a breezy look and said, "It's useless to say more, see the real trick under your hands." After that, he pulled out the long sword in his hand and stabbed at Su Huai.
Su Huai backhanded a sword to push away Shangguan Hong's attack, and then flipped his wrist, swept towards Shangguan Hong, Shangguan Hong turned on one side, and his body leaned back slightly to let Su Huai's blow, and at the same time his left hand charged towards Su Huai, but it was a palm wind coming towards Su Huai, at this time the two were closer, Su Huai couldn't dodge and slapped out with a palm, the two palms touched, Su Huai only felt a heat wave on his face, in this cold and biting weather, at this time, it was better than the hot sun, and even the body felt a burst of heat.
Su Huai had heard Chu Huaiyu mention that the internal force practiced by Shangguan Hong was the Yanyang Decision, which belonged to the superior fire attribute exercises, and it was also one of the few exercises that could make one's internal force carry the power of the five elements below the prefecture level, and the martial arts displayed by the Yanyang Decision were extremely hot. The reason why Chu Huaiyu was able to win when he fought with Shangguan Hong was all based on the hardships he had endured in the battlefield and the will he had honed, to put it bluntly, Chu Huaiyu did not have any special restraint method, it was all based on his own will and body's ability to bear it, but such a restraint method only belonged to Chu Huaiyu, but it was not suitable for Su Huaiyu.
The heat in the body made Su Huai extremely uncomfortable, mobilizing internal force to suppress it and excrete it from the body, Shangguan Hong was willing to let go of this rare opportunity, and rushed towards Su Huai as soon as his feet supported the ground, attacking Su Huai like a storm, Su Huai wanted to use the smoke step to open up some distance from Shangguan Hong, but Shangguan Hong's moves were too sharp, pressing step by step, Su Huai only had the share of parrying, because it was Shangguan Hong's own scorching palm wind, so that Su Huai was also distracted to suppress the heat in the body, but Su Huai's form was not as good as a moment, and it was suppressed by Shangguan Hong.
On the stands, Su Ziyang, Su Zhong, and Su Yi looked at Su Huai's game in the field with anxious faces, "Father, I'm afraid it's not good for Huai'er to go on like this" Su Zhong said worriedly.
"You haven't lost yet, what are you panicking about" Su Ziyang shouted, in fact, Su Ziyang didn't have a bottom in his heart, after all, the scorching heat of Yanyang's body was really difficult to deal with, not to mention that Shangguan Hong's internal strength was already a cut above Su Huai, and in the case of one or the other, even he didn't know how Su Huai could win.
In the ring, Su Huai was still at a disadvantage, but he couldn't tell the winner for a while, Shangguan Hong held a long sword and swayed freely, a sword picked up Su Huai's Kaiyun sword, Yu Jin did not disappear and stabbed Su Huai's chest, in the crisis, Su Huai's left hand hit Tianluo around the sword and pointed at Shangguan Hong's long sword to bounce it away, Shangguan Hong attacked Su Huai with a palm again, seeing that the palm wind was close at hand, Su Huai's left foot stepped back, and his right hand held the Kaiyun sword on his chest and turned to the left with his body quickly, "dang" The palm wind hit the Kaiyun Sword just right, and Su Huai didn't have time to think about it with a sword, but it forced Shangguan Hong out of the Zhangxu.
When the two of them stood firm again and looked at each other, Su Huai found that he had just used the Kaiyun Sword to block Shangguan Hong's palm, but his body no longer felt the feeling of heat, and the remaining heat was like a warm breeze blowing on his face, without any discomfort, this scene couldn't help but remind Su Huai that when he was fighting with Hu Yanao, the Kaiyun Sword could break Hu Yanao's icy true qi, could it be that the Kaiyun Sword could not only break the ice system and the fire system, but also the power of the five elements, these thoughts were fleeting in Su Huai's mind, and he didn't dare to think about it and pay attention to Shangguan Hong's movements 。
Shangguan Hong did not immediately attack Su Huai, after all, the previous advantage was gone, but now it was difficult to find such a flaw.
Shangguan Hong glanced at the Kaiyun Sword in Su Huai's hand, and then looked at Su Huai and said, "I was still discovered by you, I thought I could defeat you in one go."
Su Huai smiled indifferently and said, "It turns out that this Kaiyun Sword can break the scorching qi of Brother Shangguan."
"That also depends on whose hands it is," Shangguan Hong rushed towards Su Huai as soon as he finished speaking.
This time, Su Huai already had a way to deal with the scorching palm wind, so he was not as passive as before, while using Linyan to maneuver with it, and at the same time using Tianluo around the sword finger to disrupt Shangguan Hong's offensive, Shangguan Hong's every palm was taken over by the Kaiyun Sword, although Tianluo around the sword finger was used in a bit hastily, but the Kaiyun Sword was also able to resolve Shangguan Hong's moves one by one, Su Huai no longer had to be distracted to resolve the feeling of heat in his body, and the fight between the two in the ring had changed from the previous unilateral suppression to the current evenly matched.
The two have been fighting like this for a long time and can't help each other, but the competition in the ring needs to be divided into winners and losers in the end, not to mention that this battle is very important for Shangguan Hong, because the opponent is Su Huai, and he wants to prove to everyone that only he Shangguan Hong is the only disciple of Shangguan Yunkai, not Su Huai.
Shangguan Hong held the sword with both hands and slashed at Su Huai, this sword was extremely powerful, but it was a sword that cut Su Huai out, when Su Huai retreated, Shangguan Hong drew a sword style and then slashed towards Su Huai with a sword in his chest, at the moment when Shangguan Hong's sword fell, a wave of air surged towards Su Huai, where the air wave passed, the ground was roasted out of cracks.
Su Huai was forced to the edge of the ring by Shangguan Hong in the previous battle, and then after Shangguan Hong's fierce sword, now Su Huai is already standing in a corner of the ring, Shangguan Hong's qi wave is like a huge moving fireball, forcing Su Huai to retreat, so he can only take it hard.
And when Shangguan Hong drew the sword style, Su Huai also concentrated the internal force on his fingers, pointed at Shangguan Hong Yaoyao, seven sword qi like hair were entangled together and instantly collided with the oncoming air wave, the two collided like a point to break the surface, the sword qi did not stay through the air wave, and the moment the sword qi passed through the air wave, it was divided into seven, and shot towards Shangguan Hong in different directions, the sudden scene caught Shangguan Hong off guard, Tianluo around the sword finger was known for being fast, when Shangguan Hong reacted, the sword qi was close in front of him, Shangguan Hong's feet jumped up and dodged three sword qi in the air, and then swung his sword to block two, When it landed, his body tilted and wanted to dodge the remaining two sword qi, but unexpectedly, it was a little slower after all, and a sword qi cut a thin hole on his right hand holding the sword, which was harmless, but the other sword qi passed through Shangguan Hong's left shoulder, Shangguan Hong snorted, and a trace of blood flowed down his shoulder.
And Su Huai's side, although the qi wave was passed through by Tianluo's sword fingers, its power did not decrease much, and it was still surging towards Su Huai, not to mention the terrible heat contained in the qi wave, that is, the impact power carried by the qi wave itself carried huge power, Su Huai held the hilt of the sword with one hand and leaned against the spine of the sword and leaned on his chest, the internal force of the whole body was running rapidly, when the Kaiyun Sword came into contact with the qi wave, its huge impact force squeezed Su Huai back continuously, and although the scorching power was partially blocked by the Kaiyun Sword, the remaining scorching heat still roasted Su Huai to the point of almost breathlessness。
When the air wave passed and the ring returned to calm, Shangguan Hong held the sword in his right hand, his left hand naturally drooped, and the blood on his shoulder still dripped down his body.
Although Su Huai didn't look like any external injuries, he looked particularly embarrassed, his clothes were in tatters, like a strip of cloth hanging on his body, the hairband on his head had disappeared for some time, a puffy hair was scattered on his body, and there was even a smell of burning, half of his feet were already hanging outside the ring, Su Huai took this blow and it was thrilling and dangerous, compared to the embarrassment of the appearance, Su Huai's body was even worse, Shangguan Hong was such a powerful blow, and the Kaiyun Sword didn't have time to absorb all its scorching power, and now Su Huai's body was burning, and his body was scorching, Su Huai knew that with his current body, If you want to eliminate all the burning sensation in your body, you must meditate and regulate and will consume a lot of internal force, but the current situation does not allow Su Huai to do this, the more you drag it back, the more unfavorable it is for yourself, Su Huaiqiang took a mouthful of internal force, barely suppressed the burning sensation in his body, and rushed towards Shangguan Hong.