Chapter 8: Martial Arts (I)
When the sky was dark and the morning sun was rising, the teenagers who had been tossed to death the day before were dragged out of bed and continued up the mountain path to participate in the apprenticeship ceremony that would determine their future lives.
The day before, these teenagers experienced all kinds of ups and downs, their bodies and spirits were repeatedly tossed, basically no one could sleep well this night, all of them had dark circles under their eyes, their steps were vain, and their bodies were shaky, after all, the oldest of them Han Luoxing was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and the youngest was only eight or nine years old.
The man who led them up the mountain was a young man in his twenties, wearing an aqua blue short shirt, embroidered with the word "mirror" on his chest, and carrying a somewhat exaggerated heavy sword on his back, which did not match his delicate facial features. This person claimed to be Huang Jiansheng, a disciple of the Spirit Mirror Sect, and also the future senior brother of these young people, who came to take them up the mountain to participate in the ceremony.
"Your selection doesn't seem to be very fierce this time, and you are a little tired, when we were selected, we were besieged by hundreds of wolves in the forest all night, killing the mountains all over the stumps and blood, and many people were carried up the mountain the next day......
Huang Jiansheng sighed a few words, and introduced the surrounding scenery and places while leading the way, a bit like a tour guide.
"There are seven big islands in our Lingjing Gate, now this is called Wanshi Island under everyone's feet, it is the main island, and the door master also lives on this island, the mountain we are now on is called the Stygian Water Peak, which is the highest place in the Black Mountain Islands, it is said that it is the place where the water god worked together in ancient times, and later the water god died in Buzhou Mountain, and his Stygian Water Sword slowly turned into a mountain, which is now the Stygian Water Peak......"
"This place is called the Haze Cloud Pavilion, our Lingjing Gate owner likes to come here to play chess, especially now in summer, the wind here is very strong, very cool, several of our brothers usually like to come here to enjoy the cool and talk about the road, look down, the other six big islands are in the sea of clouds, mountains and fog, very spectacular and majestic. ”
When the young people heard this, they looked down from the pavilion curiously, and sure enough, they could see the morning sun in the distance rising from the clouds, golden like a huge egg, and several other islands were faintly visible under the clouds. And Huang Jiansheng also pointed out with great interest: "You see, the slightly smaller island, in the center, is Longshan Island, and a little further aside, there are a lot of reefs around, called Lihua Island, and that ......."
"Senior Brother Huang!" A shout suddenly came from afar, interrupting Huang Jiansheng's introduction, everyone looked over, only to see a person walking on the mountain road, dressed almost exactly the same as Huang Jiansheng, also wearing an aqua blue shirt, but did not carry a heavy sword, but pinned two short knives around his waist, this man looked older, twenty-four or five years old, his temperament became a lot more stable, and after walking in front of everyone, he began to count Huang Jiansheng:" Look at you, you can't do such a trivial thing, let you lead the way, it's better for you to take them to see the scenery...... The three masters, as well as the major island owners, valley masters, and fairies, have all finished washing, and Da Dao Ding has also moved to the martial arts arena, and all the brothers and sisters are busy, how can you still be so leisurely? I thought that you had at least walked to the Guansong Pavilion and came down to meet you, who expected to see you all the way to the Haze Cloud Pavilion, such a little thing can't be done clearly, how disappointed you have to be to the master? Doesn't the master always teach us on weekdays, and the details determine success or failure? Look at you......
"Okay, okay, Senior Brother Bai, I know it's wrong, don't nag it......" Huang Jiansheng hurriedly said to him, and introduced to the young people: "This is my senior brother Bai Ping'an, and he will also be your senior brother in the future." ”
The young people hurriedly saluted, although Bai Ping'an nagged, but his face was charitable, he replied politely, and pulled Huang Jiansheng to nag, this time, no one introduced the scenic spots, and the speed of everyone going up the mountain was also faster.
For Ning Wushu, although climbing the mountain was very tiring, everything in front of him was quite interesting.
In the past, she lived in a house and could only meet two bear children of her age, but after experiencing yesterday's "living and dying together", she began to feel the joy of dealing with her peers. After settling down last night, the teenagers also communicated, and she also knew the names of many people, in addition to Han Luoxing, who was full of righteousness, the knife that played with flying knives, and the little fat man named Fan Man, who was born with divine powers, and the animal skins worn by the young man named Qingshan were all hunted by himself, and there was a girl named Xu Mengxuan, who was also an official in the family, and there were many other people, she could name them.
Yesterday set fire to the boat, which can be regarded as an amazing move, this hand breakthrough also made the other teenagers react and admire, which made Ning Wushu, who had no sense of existence at home since childhood, quite proud, the girl's previously suppressed naughty heart gradually revealed, and at this moment, seeing Huang Jiansheng being counted all the way by Bai Ping'an, he actually had the idea of gloating, and laughed secretly, which was almost impossible before.
Finally, the mountain climbed higher and higher, the fog became lighter and lighter, the summer sun cast on the body, all the teenagers began to sweat, the cicadas in the forest overshadowed the birdsong, and the so-called martial arts arena also arrived.
According to Huang Jiansheng and Bai Ping'an, on weekdays, this martial arts arena is enough to accommodate hundreds of people from the Lingjing Gate to practice at the same time, and it is a very large square, but when they really saw it, everyone couldn't help but marvel.
This is more than enough, even if thousands of people practice here at the same time, I'm afraid it won't occupy half of the square, right?
The martial arts arena of the Lingjing Gate seems to be made by cutting off a section of the mountain peak, it is circular, smoothly spread among the steep peaks, there are canals on the field, winding and stretching, like some strange shape, there is living water surging in it, and I don't know where it is attracting the mountain spring, from the martial arts field, you can see that there is a magnificent hall on the mountain peak not far away, and it is the main hall of the Lingjing Gate. On the mountain wall on the side, it is engraved with "Wise Man Enjoying Water", and the pen is peaceful and solemn.
The young men followed Huang Jiansheng and Bai Ping'an to the martial arts arena, and there were already hundreds of people standing on the sidelines, divided into three groups, one of which was the largest number of people, and the two senior brothers who led the way were dressed similarly, all of them were water blue, and they were all people in the Lingjing Gate. The other group of people were mostly dressed in short coats, and at a glance, they were full of tattoos and tattoos, full of wild atmosphere, so that a young man like Qingshan, who came out of the mountains, couldn't help but take a few more looks, it was the Heavenly King Sect.
And the group of people with the smallest number on the sidelines, there are men and women, dressed more ordinary, looking like ordinary people, but all of them have a dusty temperament, not like ordinary characters, both men and women have a handsome face, they are from Fengshen Pavilion.
When these people saw the teenagers, they all showed curious faces, after all, these teenagers are the protagonists today.
Huang Jiansheng and Bai Ping'an took the teenagers all the way to the middle of the huge bronze tripod in the middle of the martial arts arena, thinking that it was the "Great Dao Ding" that Bai Ping'an said before, and they didn't know what it was for. Afterwards, Huang Jiansheng resisted the urge to introduce the surrounding "scenic spots" to the future juniors and sisters in front of him, and ordered: "You guys just stand here, and the apprenticeship ceremony will begin immediately." Then he and Bai Ping'an walked to the disciples of the Spirit Mirror Gate.
Ning Wushu looked up at the huge avenue tripod in front of her, and saw that the tripod was full of words that she couldn't understand, but she had read it in the book before, this was a kind of writing thousands of years ago, called inscription, which was added by the ancients to the bronze ritual vessel to remember the reason for casting the vessel, the role of the characters to be commemorated or sacrificed, and the small seal she had learned was a bit similar, but it was still quite troublesome to recognize.
This tripod is more than three zhang high, which is simply the height of a building, and the teenagers standing in front of it can only be just enough to be tall.
Just when the eyes of the teenagers were attracted by the Great Dao Ding, they suddenly heard everyone in the martial arts arena say in unison: "The disciples of the three pillars of the world greet the master!"
The young people hurriedly looked over, only to see a group of figures appear in front of the main hall not far away, and as the voices of everyone on the field fell, those people got up lightly and leaped towards the martial arts arena.
"Good, such an exaggerated light skill!" Han Luoxing couldn't help but exclaim, and even used an adjective like "exaggerated".
Liu Wenxun, whom they saw yesterday, was not worth mentioning in front of the light skills displayed by the figures in front of them. These people spread out like birds, descended from the wind, or tore through the air like cannonballs, or strolled down the thin mist on the top of the mountain as stepping stones, like gods, and the young people of the Zhijiao were stunned.
In just a moment, these masters came to the martial arts arena with their own powers and fell in front of the teenagers.
"Ahem, let me introduce, in front of you is the top person in today's martial arts. ”
After Yun Feiyu landed, he paced out and briefly introduced the group of top people in front of him to the teenagers.
The names of the Seven Island Lords, the Six Fairies, and the Five Grain Lords were too many and complicated, and they couldn't remember them at once, so Yun Feiyu only briefly talked about their identities, focusing on the identities of the three masters.
Ning Wushu listened to Yun Feiyu's introduction, but gradually set his eyes on Lin Wangshu's body and couldn't take his eyes off.
"Is this person who looks like a teacher the master of the Lingjing Gate? The first in the world in martial arts? Such a powerful ...... But...... He looks like his mother, he really looks like ......"
Just when Ning Wushu stared at Lin Wangshu in a daze, the first person in the world's martial arts seemed to have a sense and also cast his gaze.
At this glance, Ning Wushu only felt that he saw the stars and the sea in his eyes, like a huge abyss about to suck himself in, and her head became dizzy in an instant, she quickly shook her head to get herself out of the dizziness, and then she didn't dare to look anymore and lowered her head.
But after a moment, the girl couldn't help but look up, wanting to look at the face that seemed to be like her mother.
And what she saw was that Lin Wangshu never took his eyes off, he was still looking at himself, and when he saw himself raising his head, Lin Wangshu smiled and nodded at her gently.