As soon as the season enters midwinter, the snow at the top of each peak of Wutong is several inches thick, and the mountainside is still verdant, which is a rare beauty in the south of the Yangtze River. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This kind of scenery has been admired by many literati and artists in the past, but unfortunately, with the replacement of the national throne and the invasion of Yiren and bandits in recent years, Qiyang's situation has deteriorated, and few elegant people are willing to come here.

The people on Ying Tianfeng are used to seeing such a scene. Even Ye Tian, Gu Liuli, and Su Linglong had at least seen similar scenery in early spring. If there is anyone who is an exception, probably the entire Ying Tianfeng, there are only Zhong Linfeng, who came to the mountain at the turn of spring and summer, and Qin Xin, who has never been out before.

It has been a few days since the people of Chang'an who went to Anlan returned. Qin Xin is now the senior sister of the righteous disciples of the Chang'an Society, and naturally she will come back with Ye Tian and them. The first thing she did when she came to the mountain was to take Lin Shiyun and Zhong Linfeng to the top of the mountain every day. Ye Tian was sure in Su Linglong's place, knowing that there was a master secretly guarding Qin Xin's safety, so he didn't bother the girl's interest, and let the three little girls go to the waves for a few days.

In fact, he didn't have time to pay attention to it these days.

The selection stage of the competition for the place list of the Martial Arts Conference was successfully concluded, minus those who withdrew for some reason, and a total of 66 people finally qualified. Among them, there are 20 people who have cultivated to the fourth grade, 39 people who have attained the fifth grade, and only seven who have attained the sixth grade.

This number and proportion can be said to be not much different from the previous situation.

Because the second round of the selection stage of the battle for the ground list is a round-robin competition in each theater, so don't look at the fourth-grade martial artists almost have an advantage in front of the fifth and sixth ranks, but there are various factors such as disdain to bully the weak with the strong, competing with the four-rank martial artists, being injured and unable to continue after the evenly matched battle, unexpected or underestimated that the enemy is defeated, unbalanced divisions and rule restrictions, etc., the actual qualifiers have always been the most five-grade, the second four-grade, and the least-six.

However, the fact that the total number and proportion are normal does not mean that other aspects are also normal. For example, half of the seven sixth-rank martial artists who came out of the line were actually from the same sect, which attracted great attention at once.

According to their respective circumstances, specific situations, and the rules and regulations, Ye Tian formulated a utilitarian qualifying strategy, so that the people who participated in the Chang'an Club, especially including Chen Jingqiu and Ye Siyu, all advanced to the third and final stage of the official competition for the star position in the land list, which even he felt like a dream of unbelievable. Even if this is not the final result, as soon as the news is transmitted back to Qiyang, it still causes the shock of the entire Qiyang martial arts.

There are millions of martial artists in the world, and there are less than 1,000 young martial artists who have reached the fourth rank of cultivation before the age of 30, about 7,000 for the fifth rank, and nearly 100,000 for the sixth rank. However, excluding those who have stopped here for the rest of their lives and stepped into it in a year or two, it is estimated that there are only two or three hundred people who can be called young talents. Therefore, many people are self-aware, and if they are not necessary, they will not compete for the 72 Earth Evil Star Positions, so as not to be embarrassed and make jokes at that time or in the future.

But it is precisely based on this point that it shows more and more the extraordinaryness of the people who entered the "finals"!

If it is said that the previous Qiyang sects have been looking at the Chang'an Society with the positioning of "a veritable second-rate force", then under the above-mentioned cognitive habits, after Ye Tian's people temporarily returned to Ying Tianfeng with a 100% qualification rate, many of them suddenly couldn't sit still.

Like Deacon Wang of the Pailing County-level Martial Arts League and Peng Gaoyi of the Qiyang Prefecture-level Martial League, needless to say, the relationship between the two of them and the Chang'an Association goes without saying, and they represent the attitude of their respective sects behind them, and it is inevitable to go up the mountain to congratulate them. Yang Qinglan of the Qiao Yongwu League in Pailing Linxian County got acquainted with Ye Tian when he chased Tu Zhangwu and took advantage of the Li family, and also came to congratulate and give gifts. In addition, those sects based on the other six peaks of the Wutong Mountains except for Ying Tian and Lingyun have never had any conflicts with the Chang'an Society, on the contrary, they are also receiving the favor of the Chang'an Society, and they have also come to the door to express their closeness to this big landlord.

And as the news spread throughout the Qiyang folk, there was an endless stream of people who wanted to seek art, and the number of people who wanted to join the Chang'an Society to become a congregation was increasing day by day. The liveliness on Ying Tianfeng seemed to be not inferior to the county seat for a while, which made the few people in charge of the Chang'an Association feel excited and proud, but they were really busy, and it was difficult to have a moment of leisure.

Considering that he still had to try to pull a few incumbents of the land list to dismount, after Ye Tian had entertained the guests in the first few days, he announced that he would recruit disciples from the outside at the end of November, so that the Chang'an Society would restore its previous tranquility.

His decision was understandable to most people, but they all thought it was unwise. At this time, the reputation of the Chang'an Society is in full swing in Qiyang, so it should strike while the iron is hot, who knows what the situation will be after the end of the martial arts conference? If at the most important moment when seeing the true chapter and setting the height, the Chang'an Society will not be able to go further, and even if even Qiu Rubai can't keep his star position, wouldn't it make people feel that it is just a flash in the pan, and it is not famous at all?

Zhou Chengjian, who has been arranged to follow Xu Haoran to be in charge of the construction of Chang'an College, is one of these people. He thought that Ye Tian and they were young and vigorous and inconsiderate, and he didn't think of this, so he took the initiative to find Ye Tian and them to tell him his opinion.

As if he was completely analyzed for Chang'an, he waited for Ye Tian's repentance and entrusted with a heavy responsibility with contempt in his heart, but Ye Tian only smiled lightly: "Chengjian has a heart." ”

Zhou Chengjian only thought that Ye Tian didn't understand at all: "Master, this matter will do more harm than good, think twice!"

Ye Tian still said with a smile: "Okay, you can go back." ”

"Master, you will go to Anlan again in a few days, you really can't delay it!"

"It's because we're about to leave that we're arranged. Okay, the order is changed overnight, and it is useless to believe. Haoran can't be busy alone in the academy, so you can go back and help. ”

Seeing that it was useless to talk for a long time, and was sent back to the academy, Zhou Chengjian left angrily.

Gu Liuli said: "There are probably a lot of people like Zhou Chengjian who think like this. ”

Ye Tian smiled: "Normal, after all, we can come this far, it is beyond many people's imagination." I'm afraid few people will think that we can really make the list. ”

"That's because they underestimate us, and they're going to surprise these people this time. ”

"I hope they will continue to look down on us, so that they don't see us as fierce rivals and think about suppressing us for three days. ”

Su Linglong said curiously: "Then what are you doing on the land list?"

"No way, the truth is that we don't fight, and they have been constantly looking for fault. In this case, we simply riveted our efforts to develop, and stood in a position where they looked up as soon as possible, so that they could feel powerless. ”