Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Unexpected
Li Wufeng and Mu Tianfeng were both defeated because they met together, and both were out.
This matter made the rest of the people secretly happy, because without two strong opponents, it would be relatively easy to enter the top twenty, after all, these two people are not ordinary ruthless characters, and if anyone touches them, they will be unbearable.
There are 30 places that can enter the Martial Arts Pavilion this time, and there are regulations before the game, as long as you enter the top 20, you will definitely be able to enter the Martial Arts Pavilion, and the remaining ten places will be decided by the presiding party of the Martial Arts Conference.
Han Guang, as the general person in charge of the martial arts conference, has a great right to speak.
Li Wufeng and Mu Tianfeng's martial arts and backgrounds are excellent, although they are all out, but it does not affect the imperial court's attention to them, Han Guang and the others have already discussed, and among the remaining ten martial arts pavilion lists, Li Wufeng and Mu Tianfeng will be circled first.
This caused a wave of envy again.
Mu Tianfeng is the person Lu Xuanyi likes, and Mu Tianfeng is also very willing to accept Lu Xuanyi's solicitation in private, with the prince as his backer, he got a place, and others have nothing to say.
Not to mention Li Wufeng, he is the heir of the Li Mansion, and it is not a problem to get a place.
Xuanpingfang.
"Well, there's one last round left, is there any confidence. Li Wuchang looked at Jiang Minglun and Zhao Xun with serious faces, and opened his mouth to ask.
The martial arts conference is not as good as the literary fight, the more dangerous the martial arts conference is the more backwards, and if someone is seriously injured and dies, it will also be a loss for the imperial court, so when there are only twenty people left, it will not continue.
Tomorrow is the final round.
There are still thirty-nine people left in the martial arts conference, and there are no other accidents except for Mu Tianfeng and Li Wufeng, who were both defeated and injured.
Lu Xuanyi, Lu Xuanhong, Lu Xuandong, Su Ming, Han Dade, Guo Yunlei, Lin Di, and Liu Xuan were all promoted, they are all first-class ruthless characters, and it is not easy to meet anyone with Jiang Minglun and Zhao Xun's martial arts.
Zhao Xun smiled: "I estimate that it will be difficult to survive, the opponent in the last game took me a lot of effort, and it will be even more difficult in the future, but Minglun may still have some opportunities." β
To be honest, based on Li Wuchang and Zhao Xun's previous estimates, Jiang Minglun is definitely able to enter the top twenty, but now it seems that it is still a little difficult and requires a certain amount of luck.
Jiang Minglun smiled freely and said: "Let's go with the flow, it is a good thing to be able to enter the Martial Arts Pavilion, but I always think that even if you enter the Martial Arts Pavilion, it can only be regarded as the icing on the cake for those who practice martial arts, and the martial arts mainly have to rely on yourself, otherwise even if you get the magic secret or the divine soldier, it will not help." β
After a pause, he continued: "Let's just say that I am stunned, although I have not learned any decent knife techniques, but with my own efforts, I have not created such a sharp knife technique as the 'Two Stunned Five Styles', I don't think it is worse than any knife technique." β
Zhao Xun nodded and agreed.
The two stunned five styles, they have all tried it, it is indeed a first-class and one powerful knife technique, with the strength of the two of them more than one step higher than Li Wuchang, it is also quite difficult to encounter the two stunned five styles.
If Li Wuchang has a six-grade level, he can definitely easily enter the top 20 with two stunned five-styles.
Li Wuchang was modest, and said seriously: "Brother Xun, Minglun, whether you can enter the Martial Arts Pavilion or not, the two of you have received the attention of the imperial court, do you have any plans, do you want to mix up with the official body? If you have this idea, I can ask my father to pay attention to it and see if there are any good positions." β
Zhao Xun waved his hand and said, "To be honest, I can't be an official with this temperament, and I don't want to be an official, I just want to meet all the masters when I participate in the martial arts conference." β
He still had some enthusiasm, but last winter, after watching a lot of scenes of the government massacring the victims, he was a little disheartened and no longer wanted to enter the court.
Jiang Minglun sighed and said, "Let's talk about it!"
Seeing him like this, Li Wuchang and Zhao Xun knew that he remembered his father, who had worked loyally in the Jin Palace, but in the end, his legs were broken, his martial arts were abolished, he was expelled from the palace, and his family was harmed.
In this case, anyone will be resentful.
Li Wuchang smiled and said: "It's okay, you don't have to be an official to do big things, or you can continue to follow me, the second ancestor, it's not bad, you can not only worry about food and clothing, but also occasionally do some small things for the people, just like last winter, those disaster victims can improve their lives, and Brother Xun and I have a lot of credit." β
Zhao Xun laughed, he still remembers the sensation caused by the sentence "Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road".
Jiang Minglun smiled again and nodded.
It's actually not bad to follow Li Wuchang to do things, he is at ease, he is not short of money, and he can also act chivalrous.
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The final round was very brutal, with a total of 39 people, and all but one of the other 38 people had a bye, and each of the other 38 people went through a fierce battle.
Zhao Xun was unlucky, he ran into Su Ming, and the two sides fought for hundreds of moves, and finally Su Ming defeated Zhao Xun with a stunt at the bottom of the box, and Su Ming himself suffered a lot of internal injuries.
Jiang Minglun was a little lucky, he didn't meet the seeded player, he met a six-rank intermediate master, the two sides fought more than 100 moves, Jiang Minglun passed the mountain with his stunt and got a ticket to the martial arts pavilion.
Li Wuchang was watching from the audience, and when he saw his opponent being slashed by Jiang Minglun, Li Wuchang jumped up excitedly.
Miscellaneous.
Lu Xuanyi, Lu Xuandong, Lin Di, and Liu Xuan all passed easily.
Lu Xuanhong met Guo Yunlei, and the excitement of this competition was second only to Li Wufeng and Mu Tianfeng, and in the end, Lu Xuanhong had a slight advantage.
Zheng Wenlong encountered Han Dazhi's low-key ruthless character, Zheng Wenlong held on to more than 70 moves before he was defeated, and it can only be said that he played his own style and did not lose face.
Lu Ting, who Li Wuchang has been paying attention to, actually passed the test, which is really good.
The others Li Wuchang are not very familiar.
At this point, the martial arts conference ended, and among the top twenty, Chang'an City accounted for a small half, and the others were mostly elite children of big families or big gangs in various places.
The next thing is that the imperial court recruits and assigns official positions.
The first few hundred have received the attention of the imperial court, most of them have accepted the recruitment, mixed into a military position, placed in the Praetorian Guard, the Ministry of War, the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, the city defense army and other departments, and some people took the initiative to ask for Ying, to go to Jizhou, the imperial court gave a position, Xuanjie Lieutenant started, is the eighth grade military attachΓ©, for ordinary people, this is already a very high starting point.
In addition to imperial solicitation, there are also private solicitations.
Generally, it is necessary to wait for the imperial court to select before private individuals can solicit it.
Of course, there are exceptions, for example, Lu Xuanyi took the first step to recruit the ruthless character of Mu Tianfeng as a personal guard, the prince's guard, which is a terrible errand.
After Lu Xuandong did not fall behind, he was even more powerful, and recruited two masters, both of whom had six-rank beginner strength.
In other aspects, the major families in Chang'an City have selected some young masters as their generals, and most of them are children of poor families.
Although Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun had no intention of becoming officials in the court, they also recruited a lot of people, but they were all politely refused.
The highlight of the martial arts tournament is naturally the martial arts pavilion.
The top twenty have been set and cannot be changed, and two of the remaining ten places have been dispatched, namely Li Wufeng and Mu Tianfeng.
In addition, through the competition of many forces, the brothers Zhou Chengwang and Zheng Wenlong each got a ticket because of the power of their respective families.
Tang Ruoyang, the eldest son of Yangzhou Thorn Shi Tang Feihu, also got a ticket.
Guo Yunlei got a ticket with Lu Xuandong.
The rest of the people who got the tickets all had backgrounds.
is the same as Li Wuchang guessed before, and there is really no Zhao Xun's share.
Zhao Xun was not sad either, and behaved very freely.
Unexpectedly, Li Wuchang also got a ticket, which surprised him.
To say that the Li Mansion is powerful, it can only guarantee that Li Wufeng gets a ticket, why does Li Wuchang also have a ticket.
"King Qi has spoken for you!" Li Lingwu explained the reason.
"King Qi, I didn't help him much, and I couldn't help him anything, why did he speak for me?" Li Wuchang was a little puzzled.
To be honest, Li Wuchang and Lu Yuanzhi, the king of Qi, have never had any dealings, except for a few words last time.
Lu Yuanzhi is extremely low-key, rarely befriending court officials, and even less when he participates in court affairs, this time he specially spoke for Li Wuchang, and it would not be because Li Wuchang sent him two internal injury pills.
Li Lingwu didn't know the reason, and analyzed: "Maybe I think you're interesting, you also know that King Qi likes poetry, and your Dongli Restaurant often has new poems coming out, or because he fell in love with your medical skills, he had a good relationship with you in advance just in case." No matter what, you have to prepare a gift and go to the Qi Palace, don't lose your courtesy. β
Li Wuchang nodded, and then asked, "Father, what are the good things in the Martial Arts Pavilion?" So many people are rushing to it, is it really as rumored, there are divine weapons or peerless exercises in it?"
Li Lingwu smiled and said: "Dayan established the country with martial arts, extremely heavy military equipment, the Martial Arts Pavilion was established by Emperor Taizu back then, and there are indeed a lot of good things in it, all of which have been collected from the land of Dayan Kyushu for many years, and the things in the Martial Arts Pavilion can be roughly divided into five types. β
Then he counted them down.
"First, there are a lot of exercises and secrets in it, including first-class swordsmanship, sword skills, body techniques, etc., which are very useful for ordinary people, but they are of little use to big families like us, because all major families have family traditions, which are better than the exercises in the Martial Arts Pavilion. β
"Second, there are all kinds of divine weapons, swords, guns, swords, halberds, sticks, whips, axes, hooks, everything, all forged by masters, and the materials are very good, your eldest brother has always wanted to go to the Martial Arts Pavilion to pick a good sword. β
"Third, there are all kinds of rare pills, the best should be the Sutra Protector Pill, but the number is very small, this time the thirty people, at least half of them are going to the Sutra Protector Pill. β
"Fourth, there are all kinds of miscellaneous books in it, most of which are lonely fragments, and there are countless of them, which may be useful for those who are interested, but generally no one pays attention to them. β
"Fifth, there are all kinds of materials in it, including rare medicinal materials, as well as materials for building weapons, this is also very useful, you kid will probably be interested, you know medical skills!"
Li Lingwu finished speaking in one breath.
After listening to this, Li Wuchang nodded silently.