There is an indescribable beauty in Longquan Villa in March, most of the trees are still a little silver, and some have young buds, green and white, very pleasant.

Longquan Lake is full of spring, not half of the snow, the emerald lake, the breeze blows the layers of waves, and the tender wicker by the lake also moves with the wind.

At this time, more than eighty teenagers gathered by the lake that few people visited, and Ma Chuan was among them.

Ma Chuan had gathered here after listening to the words of the deacon of Shonai, and although he came to this place every day, he was full of doubts, so he asked the official disciples who had befriended him.

After asking, Ma Chuan learned that those formal disciples who had studied martial arts in the Chuangong Hall for three years were actually laying a foundation. Today is to evaluate them, and to determine what kind of Master they can worship based on the degree of excellence in the assessment. If it's too low, no one may accept it, and the future martial arts attainments will be like that.

Ma Chuan was very happy, as the first person to become an official disciple as a miscellaneous disciple, Zhuang Nai still attached great importance to him and treated him as an official disciple.

While Ma Chuan was happily chatting with others, Wang Daoming appeared with more than eighty people in green robes.

"The weather was nice today, just in time for the race raft. Wang Daoming let the young man and the green-robed man stand in two phalanxes. "I'm sure you've seen or heard of rowboats outside, and Honjo also has them, and it's in this lake that you can race rafts. ”

When Ma Chuan heard this, he thought to himself, this lake doesn't even float, how can he race a raft.

"These are your brothers, they have also participated in the race raft before, and now it is up to you, and they will protect you along the way. Wang Daoming pointed to the green robe on the right. "The rules of the competition are that each person has a raft, paddling by hand, towards the island in the middle of the lake, the farther you row, the higher your state of mind, the more important the seniors in the village. ”

Seeing the people in front of him walking towards the lake, Ma Chuan was a little worried, but he was secretly relieved to see that those green-robed people put the six- or seven-foot-long raft into the lake and did not sink.

Ma Chuan nervously got on a raft, and after seeing that it was only slightly sinking, he sat down with peace of mind. Speaking of which, since there were two teams of transparent troops on the spiritual platform in his heart, he could quickly calm down when he encountered tense things.

On a tower by the lake, there were more than a dozen people in different costumes, most of whom were half a hundred years old, and there were even more ancient and rare old people, the youngest of whom was Wang Daoming, who was still by the lake just now, and came here for some reason.

Looking down from the tower, more than 100 rafts are divided into 80 pairs on the surface of the lake, and there is a large wooden board behind each raft, on which are written the numbers from one to eighty, and the number of each pair of rafts is the same, which looks very spectacular.

"Let's go!" By the lake, Ma Chuan was followed by a man in a green robe who was also paddling a raft, but this man in a green robe was paddling with an oar.

Ma Chuan touched the raft and found that it was very soft, like animal fur, and it was long. Seeing that everyone else had started, he also sat down, put his hand in the water, and began to paddle forward with great effort.

"Scald me!" After walking less than three zhang, Ma Chuan's face changed and he withdrew his hand, but after a closer look, his palm was not red or swollen, and there was nothing strange at all.

The face of the green-robed man next to him was not good-looking: "If you can't give up, you see that someone over there has already given up." ”

"No!" Ma Chuan turned his head to look, two or three people of his age, or older, had already walked back accompanied by the green-robed people, and one of them almost fell into the water, but fortunately, the green-robed people around him saved him.

Ma Chuan rowed for more than ten zhang without incident, and during this period, several young people gave up. He withdrew his hand again and sighed into it.

This time he felt that the cold was biting, and the cold was unbearable, and when he wanted to give up, he thought of his family, not only ten transparent soldiers supported him without hesitation, but also five patriotic soldiers rushed to the Lingtai to reinforce him, making the total strength reach three troops.

Ma Chuan rested for a while, and continued to row forward, the lake was hot and cold, and it was getting worse and worse, Rao is he kept reminding himself to practice strong martial arts to go back to protect his family, and he couldn't help it.

After experiencing the cold lake again, Ma Chuan's idea of giving up became stronger and stronger, but he still had a trace of clarity in his heart, and finally held back, trembling and stretching his hand into the lake again.

"Hmm!" Ma Chuan put his hand into the lake this time, to his surprise, the lake water was like a hot spring at this time, very comfortable.

After Ma Chuan happily paddled a paragraph, he realized that the lake water became the same as a hot spring, which was not a good thing, and it would actually cause hallucinations, and he fell into the hallucination unconsciously. The content of the halluciation made him blush.,It's actually playing with the girl who often fantasizes.。

To Ma Chuan's surprise, he could feel the situation on the spiritual platform in his heart at this time, and the five patriotic soldiers, in the process of paddling, gradually faded the orange on their bodies and turned into transparent troops.

In this way, although Ma Chuan was immersed in the beauty of illusion, the raft under his feet was swift and steady, and he had no intention of stopping.

Among the crowd, the older teenagers gave up more and more, and the younger ones also gave up.

The younger the boy gradually showed physical exhaustion and had to give up.

With the help of nine Kingdom soldiers and five soldiers from other vassal states, Ma Chuan's physical strength and perseverance surpassed that of the rest of the Saipi Raft.

Before he knew it, Ma Chuan had reached the edge of the island in the middle of the lake.

"Senior brother, you have finished the game. The people in the green robe were a little surprised to see Ma Chuan's face "tide" red, but he could still reach the island in the middle of the lake.

"Ahh

"Senior brother, let's go back. The face of the blue-robed man was ugly, and the more he stayed on the lake, the more uncomfortable he became.

"Island in the middle of the lake!" Ma Chuan came to his senses.

"Exactly!" The green-robed man saw that Ma Chuan had already rowed back, and his face looked better.

On the tower by the lake, an old man with a sixtieth birthday touched his gray goatee and said, "The old man has decided to accept that kid from No. 35 as an apprentice!"

"Congratulations to the owner, this thirty-fifth can actually go to the island in the middle of the lake, the mood is high, it is rare. An old man in black who was half a hundred years old said, his small eyes were a little sleek.

"I still hope that the owner of the village will think twice, and his mood is high, but it doesn't mean that this kid has good roots and strong perseverance. Another old man with white hair said.

"Great Elder, I think you want to take that kid as an apprentice yourself, who doesn't know that your Great Elder is majoring in internal strength, and he has very high requirements for the apprentice's state of mind. For so many years, you haven't accepted an apprentice, and now that you're in your twilight years, you're in a hurry. I can understand this, but the owner of the village finally fell in love with an apprentice, you can't rob him!" the old man in black said righteously.

"Protector Li is right. Great Elder, you can't rob this kid with the owner! Actually, there are still many good qualifications in this batch of disciples, so I'll go back and help you pick a few. Wang Daoming also said in a resolute tone.

"Great Elder, you have to focus on the big picture. The other chimed in.

"Yes, he could be our future owner. Another elder said.

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"I don't rob the owner, you are satisfied. Seeing that everyone was opposed, the Great Elder blew his beard and glared, but he was helpless. "Hall Master Wang, remember what you just said, you don't need to pick and choose, I only need one of the top three to be my apprentice in the following competition. ”

"Great Elder, if you don't look at it again, maybe someone will be able to reach the island in five years. "One of the elders was in a hurry.

"I can't afford to wait any longer at my age. The Great Elder's tone was very firm.