Chapter 41: Preliminaries
"Brother Lu, this way!" Li Yu couldn't help but exclaim happily when he saw his acquaintance.
Lu Danqing looked around when he heard this, and saw Li Yu waving at him. couldn't help but squeeze through the crowd, came to Li Yu's side, and shouted to Li Yu: "Brother Li!"
"Brother Lu!" Li Yu replied happily. Lu Danqing greeted Chen You and the others one by one. When it was Qin Huang's turn, Li Yu pointed at Qin Huang and said to Lu Danqing: "This is my younger brother, Qin Honghuang." If you are worthy of my brother, he will be your brother. ”
Lu Danqing looked at Qin Huang when he heard this, and called, "Brother Qin." ”
Who knew that Qin Huang looked at Li Yu and said, "You worship." What do you do with me. ”
When Li Yu heard this, he immediately got angry and said: "I am a brother with Brother Lu, and you are my younger brother again." So what's not your brother?"
Qin Huang didn't speak when he heard this, but stubbornly twisted his head to the side and didn't look at Li Yu.
"You!" Li Yu was about to open his mouth to reproach Qin Huang, but Lu Danqing grabbed him and said, "Brother Li, I don't think you should force Brother Qin." We'll all make our own deals. ”
Li Yu glared at Qin Huang and said to Lu Danqing: "He is still young and stubborn. You don't blame him. ”
Lu Danqing smiled and shook his head. Li Yu asked again, "Your faction sent you alone?"
Lu Danqing pointed to the square in front of the hall and replied, "Senior brother came with me." ”
Li Yu looked in the direction of Lu Danqing's finger, and saw that Cheng Chun Shangxian was sitting in the front row of the square, talking to an old man with long eyebrows on the side.
Li Yu looked at those people and asked Li Yu, "Are those the heads of the major factions and ancestors?"
Lu Danqing replied: "Yes." The front row are all the heads of the ancient sects, the back are the heads of the famous sects, and the last ones are the heads of ordinary sects. Speaking of this, Lu Danqing suddenly remembered something, turned to Chen You and said, "Master Chenyou, you can also go and sit there, this is a place where disciples of all factions gather." ”
Chen You was also looking at the square in front of the hall, and when he heard what Lu Danqing said, he said to the disciples: "Go and sit there for the teacher, and wait for yourself to pay more attention." After speaking, Chen You walked to the square in front of the hall, and was led by a boy to the corner of the last row and sat down.
At this time, in the middle of the front row of seats in the square in front of the palace, a white-bearded old man stood up. The old man stretched out his hand and patted his head, and an object flew out of his heavenly spirit cover, becoming larger and levitating into the air of the high platform.
Li Yu saw this object, the whole body seemed to be cast in bronze, small at the top and large at the bottom, hollow and tongueless. There are patterns such as sun, moon, mountains and rivers, birds, beasts, fish and insects. It is also engraved with the rhyme of the mystical Taoist law and the golden seal book.
It's a big bell.
The white-bearded old man stretched out his hand and pointed, and the big bell rang "dang", echoing endlessly between the mountains and forests for a long time. The listeners suddenly woke up like a dream, and the spiritual platform was empty.
Li Yu couldn't help but admire when he heard that this bell was so refreshing. Turning to Lu Danqing, he asked, "What kind of magic weapon is this, why is it so magical?"
Lu Danqing looked at the big bell and replied, "This bell is an earth treasure artifact. It is the first treasure of the place where the gods were born, and the name of the bell is 'Warning World Hong Bell'. It means to warn the world that the number of heavenly orders is limited, and don't waste time in a muddy way. This bell was held by the heads of the Heaven Replenishing Sect for generations, and now it is the magic weapon of the immortals of Qianyang. After speaking, Lu Danqing stretched out his finger and pointed at the white-bearded old man.
Li Yu made it clear when he heard this.
When the Qianyang Immortal waited for the bell to subside, he spoke: "Today, the Central Continent factions can participate in the biennial Dao Discussion Grand Meeting, and I am very honored to be the host of the Heaven Replenishing Sect. It is also fortunate that the Xizhou Brahma Gate can also participate again, reproducing the glory of our Zhongzhou Taoist event. ”
After Qianyang finished speaking, he turned around and bowed to the heads of the various sects sitting behind him.
After the various factions returned the salute, Qianyang turned around and said to the disciples of the various factions: "Since the ancient god emperor Taixu first opened the Dao Conference, he has always adhered to the tradition of 'first dividing the superior and the inferior, and then determining the Dao'. The same is true for this conference, but this time there are a large number of participating sects, and this competition method has to be changed. ”
As soon as Qianyang raised his hands, the huge "Ask the Roof" was overturned, and from the mountains and forests flew a waist-thick giant tree, and eight small platforms were built around the "Dao Furnace". On each small terrace, eight directions are written in a stone arrangement to distinguish them.
The disciples of all the sects present were shocked by the Qianyang method, and even the heads of the various sects who were sitting were also talking for a while.
Qianyang also said: "Due to the special number of people in this conference, I discussed with all the heads and decided that this conference will be divided into youth groups and youth groups, and they will face off in groups. Those who are under the double ten are teenagers, and vice versa. When I was young, I sent a boy to give a number plate to the disciples of each faction, the young one is a green card, and the young one is a yellow card. The two groups will face off in the preliminaries in these eight rings at the same time, with the winners advancing and the losers eliminated until each of the two groups decides 16 finalists. The preliminaries are one day long and this is the beginning of the showdown!"
After speaking, Qianyang stretched out his hand again, and the big bell rang, and the centennial conference on Taoism began.
Li Yu saw the crowd around him, and one by one the boys of the Heaven Replenishing Sect were holding stacks of wooden cards, asking their ages and distributing them to the disciples of each faction. The older ones get the yellow wooden cards, and the younger ones get the cyan wooden cards. In front of so many sect heads and ancestors, no one dared to lie about their age and take advantage of opportunism.
When it was sent to Li Yu, Li Yu took the green card and looked at it, only to see that it read "Southeast One Hundred and Twenty-Three". He turned his head to look at the green card in Lu Danqing's hand and saw that it read "East Fifty-Six". Li Yu looked at the number plates of all the brothers again, and when he saw that none of them were assigned to the same ring, he couldn't help but shout lucky. Li Yu immediately said to Lu Danqing: "Fortunately, you and I are not in the same ring, so we don't have to meet on stage so soon." ”
Lu Danqing arched his hand when he heard this, and said with a smile: "So good brother, the younger brother will wait for the eldest brother in the subsequent duel." With that, he said goodbye to everyone and walked towards his ring.
The crowd said goodbye to each other and walked towards their respective rings. It's just that when he was leaving, Yunxiao grabbed Li Yu and said, "Xiaoyu, you must win." When you win the first prize, I... I'll tell you the good news. After saying that, he ran away with a red face.
Li Yu heard that he didn't know why, and when he was wondering, he saw that someone in the ring had already started to compete. Immediately hurriedly ran to the "southeast" ring.
When he came to the "southeast" ring, Li Yu saw that there were many people around the stage, and there were two people on the stage who were competing. A boy from the Heaven Patching Sect was sitting on the side of the stage, recording the number plates of the players who were going to play next.
Li Yu handed his number plate to the boy and said, "Star Picking Sect Li Huanyu." The boy glanced at the wooden card, wrote down the name of Li Yu's brand number, and said: "There are a total of thirty-two people on this stage, and four players will be selected in three times to advance." You wait to be called. ”
When Li Yu heard this, he waited aside and watched the competition on stage.
After watching it for a while, Li Yu turned his head to look around, but he inadvertently saw the person who was competing in the ring with the word "Nan", and there was a long scar on his handsome face.
"It's him!" Li Yu's heart moved.
At this time, the man happened to win, and when his eyes swept over, he saw Li Yu looking at this side. The man was stunned for a moment, then showed a sneer, touched the scar on his face at Li Yu, and turned around and walked out of the ring.
Li Yu turned his head and couldn't help but think, "I don't know if Senior Sister and Xiaocao will meet this Nie Chengfeng." With his cultivation, if he is unlucky, the senior sister is afraid that she will be more than lucky. ”
While Li Yu was pondering, a shout came: "One hundred and twenty-three Li Huanyu in the southeast!
Li Yu woke up when he heard this, and hurriedly ran to the ring. I saw a young man of the same age as Li Yu standing on this stage, who was waiting for Li Yu impatiently.
Li Yu made a mockery and said, "Li Huanyu, the star picking faction, please advise more." The young man pursed his lips and replied, "What are you talking about, just start fighting." With that, the boy stretched out his hand to cast a spell, and muttered the spell in his mouth.
Seeing this, Li Yu couldn't help but say the magic trick silently, and a huge fireball suddenly appeared in his hand. He was about to throw it at the young man, but his hand froze halfway.
Just listening to this young man, the Dharma was read intermittently. When I finally read it, there was only a small flame in my hand, and the candle was not as big as it burned.
When the young man saw that the spell was successful, he couldn't help but look at Li Yu happily, but he saw the fireball in Li Yu's hand that was the size of a watermelon. The young man looked down at the small flame in his hand again, and suddenly his face collapsed, withdrew the spell, and turned around and jumped out of the ring with a helpless face.
"One...... One hundred and twenty-three, Li Huanyu wins!" came from the audience. Li Yu looked at it, and saw that everyone in the audience was looking at him with a shocked face.
Li Yu went down to the stage, and the record boy stammered: "You... You win once, wait... Wait until later. ”
Li Yu nodded yes. And noticing that there was something wrong with him, he looked both sides. I saw that the players around me were standing far away from him, and his face was full of surprise.
Li Yu didn't know why, so he asked everyone, "What's the matter?"
One of the surrounding contestants asked, "Dare to ask Brother Tai where he came from?"
Li Yu heard the words and replied: "Pick up stars in Xia Dustpan Mountain and send Li Huanyu." ”
When the group heard this, they immediately talked about it. Li Yu only heard someone say, "I haven't heard of the Star Picking Sect?" ”
Someone else asked, "Where is the dustpan mountain?" Who knows?"
A group of people discussed for a long time, only to hear one person shouting to Li Yu: "You shouldn't have lied about your age and ran to our youth group to fish in troubled waters, right?"
Li Yu frowned and replied, "You are going down right, sit up straight." No leave at the age of 15. What the hell is wrong with you?"
At this time, a voice came: "The fireball you cast just now is actually bigger than that of several of my senior brothers." If you really didn't hide your age, you were a genius. But you're not a disciple of a famous sect, so they can't believe it. ”
When Li Yu heard the sound, he saw that the person who spoke was dressed in a red robe, with a colorful word "fire" embroidered on his chest. He looked very burly, clasping his hands and looking at Li Yu with a provocative face.
Li Yu was looking at this person, only to hear the record boy shouting: "No. 85 Huo Chizi, to No. 91 Zhang Xing." ”
The red-robed man glanced at the boy and went on stage to compete with a tall and thin boy.
Li Yu didn't say much when he saw the red-robed man on stage, so he directly sacrificed a fireball that was a few points bigger than Li Yu's fireball, and threw it at the tall and thin young man opposite with a wave of his hand.
The tall and thin boy shot several water arrows in succession to counterattack, but the water arrows were like a drop in the bucket, and as soon as they encountered the fireball, they steamed into bursts of mist. Seeing this, the tall and thin boy hurriedly dodged, and the fireball smashed to the ground, bursting into a huge firelight, blowing the tall and thin boy directly away and falling to the edge of the ring. The boy struggled twice, but never got back up.
"Shhh There was a gasp from the audience. The record boy shouted again: "The blazing son wins three games!
The red-robed man called the blazing man got out of the ring, glanced at Li Yu defiantly, and then turned around and left.