98. On the eve of the conference

Zhang Guanhua pinched his nose and poured the paste into his mouth. Bu Ziyi hurriedly went to the courtyard and scooped a scoop of water and sent it to Zhang Guanhua. Zhang Guanhua gulped two sips of water and said, "I won't succeed in this earthquake martial arts conference, only it depends on you." Li Hao said with a smile: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, it's just a small earthquake martial arts conference, and I can win the top spot in two or three clicks." Bu Ziyi patted the top of Li Hao's head and said, "You were lucky last year, and I won't let you go again this year." Li Hao smiled and said: "What? Do you want to really compete with me this year, or do you want to divide the winner with rock-paper-scissors again?" Wang Xue said: "You look down on people too much, I'm still here! There can only be one leader in the Zhenwu Conference, and this person must be me." Bu Ziyi sneered and said, "Little girl, if I have a good memory, I remember that you lost the first competition last year." Wang Xue said: "That's right, the person who won me is a demon of the Wicked Gang, and I have already taught him a lesson when I was in Qili City." If you have the courage to stop me from winning the championship, I will clean it up with you, and I will say ugly things ahead, and you will not blame me for ignoring my comrades. ”

Wu Tian suddenly said: "Don't forget that there is me, I can usually take care of you, but when I get to the ring, I won't be soft." Wang Xue and Li Hao Bu Ziyi couldn't help but be stunned, although the three of them were ruthless and wanted to win the top prize, but if they really met in the ring, they would be tolerant, and no one would care about who won and who lost between the brothers and sisters, and Wu Tian was a child, he only knew how to read storybooks, and never took the matter of the ring competition to heart. Wu Tian squinted his eyes and shouted, "I'll ask you, among the people in this room, who has the highest kung fu?"

Wang Xue said: "Senior brother, I remember that day in Weifeng County, you said that you would also make a move at the Zhenwu Conference. Liu Yue nodded and said, "That's right, I'm going to personally clean up the arrogant people of the Giant Dog Gang." Li Hao Buziyi was stunned, surprised and happy in his heart, glanced at each other, and thought: "If Senior Brother Liu wants to attack, how can I have a share in that head?" Don't say that I am far from Senior Brother in martial arts, even if I can defeat him, how can I compete with him?" But I heard Liu Yue say again: "I went out to fight in the Zhenwu ring, just to compete with the Giant Dog Gang, if I meet you in the ring, I will directly admit that I will step down, and I will not use force with you, you can rest assured in this section." Bu Ziyi said: "No, no, no, senior brother, if I meet you in the ring, I admit defeat, how can I make you admit defeat to me?" Li Hao won the top spot last year, and he wants to play a winning streak this year, but if Liu Yue comes to the stage, then he has no chance of winning the championship, and when he heard Liu Yue say this, he hurriedly said: "Bu Ziyi, you listen to the senior brother, if the senior brother really admits defeat to you in the ring, this may be the only time you win him in your life." Bu Ziyi shouted: "You want to win the first place, I don't want you to get your wish, I have to win my senior brother." Li Hao was told through by Bu Ziyi, his face turned red, his expression was very embarrassed, and he said: "It's all your own brother, why do you embarrass me?"

Liu Yue said: "Don't quarrel with the two of you, I don't know how many heroes of the rivers and lakes will arrive at the Zhenwu Conference, and it is uncertain who will be able to win the top spot, how do you know that the leader of this session must be someone from my Habamen? "I made up my mind that if I saw any powerful Jianghu players in the ring, I would take care of them by myself, and let Li Hao Buziyi and them win the championship as much as possible.

In the past few days, everyone has been practicing martial arts in the courtyard in the morning and evening, and they dare not slack off in the slightest.

The day of the earthquake conference is getting closer and closer, and it is less than three days.

On the morning of this day, Wu Tian went out of the town to fish, according to the distance calculation, he should have rushed back in the afternoon, but it was just noon, he hurried back, shouting: "Senior brother, senior brother!" Liu Yue set up a small table and wooden chair in the courtyard, and was having dinner with Buziyi Wang Xue, listening to Wu Tian's shouting, he hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks and stood up, and asked: "What's wrong, Wu Tian, what's wrong?" Wang Xue also put down the chopsticks and walked to Wu Tian's side, and asked: "What's wrong?" Wu Tian, don't worry, say slowly. Bu Ziyi knew that Wu Tian was clumsy, he was panicked as if something big had happened, in fact, it must be a trivial matter, he just ate food at the moment, ignored him, and thought: "You rushed back early, then you must have dropped the fishing net into the river again." But I heard Wu Tian hurriedly say: "I bumped into several senior brothers and hosts of the Zhenwu Sect at the bottom of the mountain, and I heard them say that this year's Zhenwu Conference is different from previous years, and new rules have been added. "Gasping for air. Bu Ziyi was slightly stunned, and thought: "This time it's not a trivial matter. He took a big bite of rice from the bowl and pulled it into his mouth, and walked to Wu Tian to listen to him while chewing.

Liu Yue said: "If you have something to say slowly, Wu Tian, first pant evenly." Wu Tian took two big breaths and said, "I heard those senior brothers of the Zhenwu Sect say that from this year's conference, not only must a leader be selected, but also the title of 'the first sect in the world' must be chosen. Wang Xueqi said: "What are you talking about, what is the first sect in the world?" Wu Tian said: "That Zhenwu senior brother said, the fight in the ring is like a wheel war, the more people of the sect will have a greater chance of winning, and the smaller the number of sects will have less chance of winning, so that those heroes and knights who have no sect and no faction on the rivers and lakes will be difficult to win the championship, so for the sake of fairness, this conference has added the title of 'the first sect in the world', and the gang sects can compete with each other in group battles, and the winner will be the first in the world, and then the "head leader" and " The two titles of "the first sect in the world" can be chosen to fight. ”

Bu Ziyi thought to herself: "That's really fair. Wu Tian, you can get such important news when you get off the mountain, this is really remarkable, I thought you lost the fishing net as soon as you arrived at the river, so you hurried back, haha, I underestimated you. Casually asked, "Where are your fishing nets?" Wu Tian smiled apologetically and said, "I fell into the river by mistake." Bu Ziyi's face sank, and she said in her heart: "You are really still the clumsy Wu Tian." Wu Tian saw that Bu Ziyi's face was not good, and he hurriedly said: "I asked those Zhenwu senior brothers for the news, and then rushed to the river to fish, who knew that today's river is windy and urgent, and Uncle Zhang's boat is not easy to row, I ......"

Bu Ziyi waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, let's talk about your fishing later, let's talk about the Zhenwu Conference first." You said that the conference should not only decide the leader, but also decide the title of 'the first sect in the world', and it is indeed reasonable to add this rule. Senior brother, what do you think?" Liu Yue said: "You are not people who love fame, I know that if you want to win the top spot, in fact, you are just a child who is greedy for fun. However, the masters of all sects and factions and all walks of life on the rivers and lakes, which one is not good at making a false name, and which one does not like to put gold on his face? This leader and the title of the world's number one will inevitably attract a large number of good players in the rivers and lakes to fight, although it is only a competition and there will be no worries about your life, but if you want to win the championship, it will not be very easy. Wang Xue said with a smile: "Senior brother, don't worry, I will not only win the first place in this conference, but I will also win the title of 'the first sect in the world' for our Haba Gate." At that time, no matter where you go, someone will point at you and say: 'Look, look, this is Liu Yue, the head of the first sect in the world, and his junior sister is the famous heroine Wang Xue!'" Bu Ziyi grinned and asked, "Are you praising your senior brother or yourself?" Liu Yue smiled and said: "I don't care about the first or second in the world, and I don't care if I can be the best or not on the day of the conference." There are only three things I care about, one is to defeat the Giant Dog Gang, let them know that they know that it hurts, and they will no longer dare to bully people everywhere in the future; second, you must be careful when you compete, victory or defeat is secondary, and not getting hurt is the big thing; third, since you are determined to compete on the stage, then you will fight seriously, and play all the martial arts you have learned in the past few years, although you will not be ashamed of defeat, and you will not lose anything anyway, but if you go to the stage to compete with a playful mind, you will not only be looked down upon by your opponents, but I will not spare you. Especially you, Wu Tian, don't let me see any storybook jokes in the ring this time. Wu Tian smiled: "No, no." ”

Wang Xue smiled and asked: "Senior brother, I know you don't like to be famous, but this time I helped you become the number one sect in the world, and I personally won another leader, you have to reward me well!" Wu Tian said: "Impossible." Wang Xue hurriedly said: "I am determined to win, what is impossible!" She is young and martial, but she has the idea of wanting to win in her heart, and these words are not casual jokes. Wu Tian said: "I heard the host of the Zhenwu Sect say that the title of the first in the world is separate from the leader, if a person wants to compete for the leader, he is not allowed to compete for the first sect, and vice versa, if you help the sect to fight for the first, you are not allowed to attack on the platform of the leader." Wang Xue was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "This is unfair, unfair, sister, I have this ability to win-win, why don't they allow it?" Wu Tian spread his hands and said: "The rules are not set by me, and it is useless for you to ask me!" Liu Yue said: "In this way, we are not very clear about the rules of the fight for the number one title in the world." Zhenwu, I had to ask earlier. ”

The Zhenwu meeting was still held on the open grassland on the west side of Bozi Town. Before dawn that day, Liu Yue took Wang Xue, Li Hao, Bu Ziyi, and Wu Tian to the square. Wang Xue saw that in addition to the ring on the grassland this time, a lot of wooden tables and chairs were placed around, among which two or three tea sheds were also built, and the three rings in the center of the grassland were also expanded and renovated, much wider than the original, thinking that the reputation of the Zhenwu Conference was getting louder and louder, and there were more and more people from the rivers and lakes who came to compete in the martial arts, and Zhenwumen did not dare to snub the heroes of the world, so he did not hesitate to decorate the ring with a lot of money to show the majesty of Zhenwumen. At that time, it was still early, and in addition to the Haba Gate, there were only a few presiding officers of the Zhenwu Gate and a few servants hired by Lifu on the grassland. Liu Yue, Li Hao and others sat down at a wooden table, Wang Xue couldn't sit still, and walked back and forth around the wooden table.

After a short time, several people from the Zhenwu Sect walked in, led by a short, fat middle-aged man. When Wang Xue and Liu Yue had their first meeting last year, they saw Liu Yue chatting with this person for a long time, and knew that this person's surname was Jin Mingdu, and he was the head of Zhenwumen. Wu Tian said with a smile: "Zhenwumen came quite early. Li Hao said in a low voice: "Of course, the Zhenwu Conference is hosted by the Zhenwu Sect, they are the main masters, and it is not appropriate to come too late." ”

When Jin Du saw Liu Yue, he hurriedly walked over, hugged his fists and said: "Liu Zhangjiao came so early! We have not yet prepared everything, please forgive me for any neglect." "Habamen's last generation did not leave Liu Yue's successor before Xie Shi, but Liu Yue's senior brother Xiao Yuansheng disagreed with the master and left in a negative mood, so Liu Yue naturally took over the teaching. It is inconvenient to explain such things to outsiders, Liu Yue heard him call himself the head of the sect, and he did not refuse at the moment, and hurriedly got up and returned the salute, saying: "The younger brother has just arrived, your elder brother Zhang Luo has a grand party, inviting the world's heroes to be here, everyone is too late to thank you, how dare you say that you are sluggish?" Li Hao Bu Ziyi stood up when Liu Yue got up to speak, and saluted Jin Du with a fist, only Wu Tian was still sitting on the chair, looking at Jin Du with a smile. Li Hao grabbed Wu Tian and glared at him quietly.

Liu Yue and Jin Du exchanged a few more kind words, and then asked: "Jin Zhangjiao, I heard that the Zhenwu Conference has added a 'No. 1 sect in the world' game since the beginning of this session?" Jin Du smiled and said: "This is indeed the case! The champion of the competition can only be one person, if there are a total of 100 people who come here to compete today, and one of the sects is very prosperous, and there are as many as 80 disciples of the sect who came to sign up for the competition, then eight or nine out of ten of this champion are the disciples of this sect, so how can it be a fair fight?" Liu Yue smiled slightly, and thought to himself: "You have clearly set the rules, a sect of up to four people to sign up for the competition, how can there be eighty junior brothers and sisters taking turns to attack? Besides, if these eighty people are extremely straw bales, the champion will also be lost." Hehe, you Zhenwumen not only in order to make a name for yourself, but also in order to win over the relationship, so you made a 'world's first sect' of the vanity, in order to attract all the major sects to fight, you can not only take the opportunity to get acquainted with others, but also take the opportunity to study the strength of other factions of martial arts, you Zhenwumen is shrewd, not to find Zhang Leicheng to partner in business is really wronged. ”

Liu Yue's speculation was indeed true, but this matter had nothing to do with him, and he did not want to say it. I only heard Jin Duqi say: "Before this year's Zhenwu Conference, my disciples had widely distributed invitations, inviting heroes from all sects and factions to come and show their faces, and the rules of the martial arts competition were clearly written on the stickers, didn't Liu Zhangjiao know?" Liu Yue thought to himself: "I have never heard of any invitations. He laughed a few times dryly, and didn't answer Jin's question. Jin Du hurriedly said: "Brother Liu didn't receive the invitation, it was a dereliction of duty on my subordinates, and when the conference is over, I will severely punish them." All the invitations were written by me and a few personal disciples, and the content of the posts was the same, only the date and place of the competition and the rules of the competition, and there was no mention of any sect and the title of the head of the sect. Brother Liu didn't receive the invitation, that's because my subordinates are not doing well, it's not that brother, I look down on you and forget you, brother, I apologize to you here. Liu Yue knew that Zhenwumen was confused when doing things, and it was not unusual at the moment, so he smiled and said: "You don't have to apologize, you will tell me the rules of the competition in a while." Jin Du smiled and said, "Of course, that's of course." ”

At this time, other sects walked in one after another, some sects only came a few people, some sects came more than ten people at once, some sects took a fancy to their identities and sat down in the tea shed, and some gangs were informal, sitting directly on the grass, and hundreds of people had gathered around the tea shed ring. Jin Du arched his hand to Liu Yue and said, "I have to go and say hello to a few old friends." He turned around and whispered a few words to a servant, asking them to order some tea to entertain Liu Yue and the others.

Wang Xue saw Jin Du walking away, and said in a low voice: "This Jin master speaks lowly, and his face is always full of joy, no matter how he looks at it, he doesn't look like a martial arts practitioner, let alone the head of a faction, he looks like a businessman." Wu Tiandao said: "That's right, look at his virtue, his martial arts must not be very good." Li Hao reprimanded softly: "Don't judge people by their appearance, aren't your Senior Brother Liu also full of smiles and smiles? What do you say about his martial arts?" Wang Xue and Wu Tian glanced at Liu Yue, and the two of them laughed.

Bu Ziyi tugged at the corner of Wang Xueyi's clothes and said: "You don't understand, Zhenwumen does not hesitate to work hard and lose money to hold a martial arts competition, in addition to making a name for himself in his sect, he also wants to win connections and make friends with some big names in the rivers and lakes." They have the heart to make friends with people, and they are polite to everyone. Wu Tian said with a smile: "In this way, they can be regarded as profitable, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are businessmen." Bu Ziyi smiled: "It's profitable, otherwise there will be any sect in the world that has a lot of money and nothing to do, what kind of martial arts competition will be held?"

At this time, a host of the Zhenwu Sect walked over with two servants. Li Hao saw the man walk in, gently pushed Wu Tian, and said in a low voice: "The people from Zhenwumen are here, you speak carefully." The two servants served tea and placed it on the table. The host saluted Liu Yue and said, "Master Liu, the head of my family ordered me to explain to you the rules of the conference in detail. I also apologize to you for the invitation. Liu Yue smiled and said, "Your head teacher is always so polite. The host laughed a few times kindly, and said: "This competition will elect a leader and a number one sect in the world, and the rules of the leader Liu Zhangjiao must be clear, that is according to the traditional offensive and defensive style of fighting alone, and the person who wins in the end is the leader, this rule is no different from previous years." Liu Yue nodded and asked, "Then how does this world's number one sect fight?" Before the host could answer, a person suddenly said faintly at the back table: "The competition is imminent, you don't even know the rules, I'm afraid you can't sit firmly in this position of head teacher." Liu Yue's heart sank, and when he turned around, he saw a big man with knotted muscles sitting at the table behind him, and the big man in black clothes, black robes and black cloak was Bo Shanyuan, the leader of the Liangshan Gang who had met. The three of spiders, worms, and butterflies sat on the haystack next to Bo Shanyuan, looking at Liu Yue and the others and just sneering.

Bu Ziyi slapped the table and stood up, and shouted, "You scum of the rivers and lakes have also come to the Zhenwu Conference to compete?" Bo Shanyuan smiled and said: "Good boy, the few jars of holy water you begged for on my mountain Yi Peak last time tasted good, come and show me, can your arms and legs move at will now?" Bu Ziyi's face turned red. shouted: "Last time, I was conspired against and fell into your poisonous water, otherwise your family heirloom stinky water would be begging me on your knees, and I would never drink it." Bo Shanyuan smiled and said: "What are you angry about, since my family heirloom poison came out, you are still the first person to taste it, come and tell my father, what is the taste of that poisonous water?" I am really curious." Bu Ziyi raised her eyebrows and shouted: "If you want to know what it tastes like, you can taste it yourself!" Liu Yue waved his hand to stop Bu Ziyi, and said: "The rules of the martial arts competition have always been to solve problems in the ring, and the most taboo is that someone will turn over old accounts and take revenge offstage, and our grudge with the Liangshan Gang, if it can't be resolved in the ring today, it will not be too late to settle it tomorrow." Bo Shanyuan sneered: "Why wait until tomorrow, after a while, I will settle old accounts with you, and this side of the ring is your Liu Yue's Xingtai." Suddenly his face changed, and he said sharply: "Say, do you want to compete in the ring of the 'No. 1 Sect in the World', or do you want to compete for the top spot?"

(End of chapter)