Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 966
The water battle is a feature of the Soochow Intermediate Ceremony, which is the first round of the Intermediate Ceremony.

Thinking of the middle-level ceremony, Xu Canghai's eyes darkened slightly.

"The young man is awesome," he said calmly while looking at Ji Jiashu, "Mr. Chunhua thinks he will bring many surprises to everyone in the middle-level ceremony. I will wait and see."

After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Xu Bingqing whose expression changed, "Qing'er, let's go."

"Father, but..." Xu Bingqing looked unwilling.

"Let's go," Xu Canghai said calmly, "The sparring is over. If you are not convinced, save it for the middle-level ceremony."

Xu Bingqing clenched his lips, and lowered his head under the pressure of his father's cold gaze, but from the corner of his eyes, he couldn't help looking at Li Ji who was holding a huge que, and then at Ji Jiashu who was pale, and when he saw the girl standing behind Ji Jiashu, Amazing jealousy shot out of her eyes!
The intense hatred almost overwhelmed her!

Why was she able to retreat unscathed today?

Ying Baoyue noticed Xu Bingqing's eyes, but her expression was still calm, "What else is the saint?"

"You..." Xu Bingqing's breath was unsteady.

"Bingqing!"

At this time, Xu Canghai, who walked to the side of the stage, did not turn his head, and shouted loudly!
Xu Bingqing shook his body, lowered his head again, bit his lip and followed Xu Canghai to leave.

"Let's go too," Ying Baoyue supported Ji Jiashu's arm and nodded to Li Ji as the master and daughter of the Northern Wei Dynasty left. The two walked down the high platform step by step.

"Chunhua, are you okay?" Seeing the two walking down, Chen Zichu, Zhao Guang and others rushed over.

"Fortunately," Ji Jiashu rubbed his chest. In such a situation just now, there must be someone who bears the anger of the Northern Wei Guoshi. He is very lucky that it was him.

"You're tall," Ying Baoyue glanced at him beside him, "Next time, don't rush in front of a heavenly cultivator, that's not your own father."

Although for the sake of Ji Mo's sake, Xu Canghai would not kill Ji Jia under the tree, but did he think that no one would feel guilty when he rushed out like a sandbag?

"I know," Ji Jiashu smiled, "but you don't have the right to accuse me, do you?"

His eyes fell on the wound on her shoulder from the battle, "Your sword is healed?"

Ying Baoyue choked, Chen Zichu, Zhao Guang and the others looked at each other and laughed helplessly.

"Thank you anyway, but don't do it next time," Ying Baoyue took a deep breath, and looked at the masked man standing in the middle of the stage, she wanted to thank him too.

"You don't have to thank me, this is what I should do," Ji Jiashu smiled slightly, watching Ying Baoyue frowned and wanted to say something, he changed the topic in due time, "Listen, the process of this year's intermediate ceremony will be announced soon! "

A bell rang from the top of Hanshan Mountain, because of what Xi Rong and Xu Bingqing had done, no one dared to challenge on the stage just now, so the meeting ended like this.Then finally entered the last link of the Great Court before the banquet.

That was the opening ceremony of the Intermediate Ceremony.

The attention of the teenagers was immediately attracted, and Chen Zichu's eyes lit up, "Where will the first round of this year be held?"

Different from the elementary ceremony, the middle-level Soochow ceremony does not have crowd battles and individual battles, and there are only four rounds in total.

Emperor Taizu Emperor Yingdi hated repetitive things, and the primary ceremony tested the foundation of practitioners, so the venue and events were pre-determined, giving young people time to prepare.

But the middle-level grand ceremony is much more flexible. Except for the last round of the four rounds, which is a must for each round, the events and venues of the first three rounds are all pre-determined, and they can be selected from a certain range, which is extremely wide.

The specific competition of each round has become the biggest suspense before the start of the annual intermediate ceremony.

A wide range means that the requirements for practitioners are extremely high.

The items and location of the intermediate ceremony are secrets among secrets. No one can know in advance except the King of Soochow and the National Master of Soochow. Practitioners can only learn as much as they can, hoping that everyone can be proficient in everything.

Of course, although there is a change of session, the items in each round still have a general scope, so that practitioners will not be completely blinded.

Listening to the bell ringing in their ears, the practitioners who had guessed the project for more than a month became excited.

"I remember that the scope of the first round was field combat, the scope of the second round was military warfare, and the third round was six arts, right?"

"Soochow's field battle must be related to water. The last competition seemed to be ice skating?"

Young people's excited discussions sounded in the crowd, and Ying Baoyue's face lit up when he heard it.

Field battle?

ice skating?

Is she coming to the Winter Olympics?

Forgive her for almost shaking her body when she heard the word field battle for the first time.

Um, sorry, she was the one who got dirty.

From the excited discussions of the people around, Ying Baoyue finally understood that this "field battle" refers to a battle in the wild.

It is somewhat similar to the off-roading in the mountains and forests that was carried out in the Southern Chu people's battle before.

Southern Chu has many mountains, while Eastern Wu has many waters.

Southern Chu chooses mountains, and Eastern Wu chooses water.

Therefore, traditionally, the venue for the first round of the Soochow Intermediate Ceremony is often related to water, so it is also called a water battle.

This kind of battle in the wild is extremely difficult and dangerous. It is the same as the first round of the Southern Chu people's battle, and it is also the round with the most dead.

"Everyone be quiet!"

At this time, Dongfang Yi's solemn voice sounded from the altar, and the practitioners under the stage immediately fell silent.

"The venue for the first round of this year's Intermediate Ceremony has been determined," Dongfang Yi waved his hand, and two ceremony officials carried a huge wooden frame onto the high platform.

On the wooden stand was a scroll more than two feet long.

"You must be very curious about the place where the water battle will be held this year." Dongfang Yi held the lower end of the scroll, and there was a sound of drums beside the altar, and with a bang, the old man pulled the scroll open in front of everyone.

A huge map rolled down.

All the young people held their breath and raised their heads, and gasped when they saw the location on the map clearly.

"Sea of ​​the Dead!"

"It's over, it's over, it's dead, it's actually in the sea of ​​the dead!"

When seeing this place clearly, Ying Baoyue's eyes trembled slightly.

Sea of ​​the Dead.

The terrain of Soochow is close to the sea, and there are many huge lakes connected to the sea along the coast.The Sea of ​​the Dead is one of the most famous free lakes. Its position varies from east to west, from south to north, and the surface of the lake changes from time to time.

And this is not the weirdest thing, there is a small island in this water area called Xiaoyao Island, there is a forest on the island, the perennial fog is like a maze, it is said that you can see the souls of the dead, so it is called the forest of the dead.

This is where the name of the Sea of ​​the Dead comes from.

Although it is different from the cloud forest, there are no famous beasts that would kill people in the Sea of ​​the Dead, but when it comes to this strange lake, many practitioners, especially those inland with poor water quality, look a little ugly.

"As you can see, the place where the first round of the water battle of this year's Intermediate Ceremony will be held is in the Sea of ​​the Dead in Soochow," Dongfang Yi declared solemnly, ignoring the pale faces of the practitioners in the audience.

"The Forest of the Dead in the Sea of ​​the Dead must be familiar to everyone," Dongfang Yi said quietly, "The content of the first round this year is that everyone needs to cross the sea from the coast with their own abilities to get the tokens that have been placed in the Forest of the Dead. "

"Once you cross the sea, you will be dead or alive."

"The number of tokens is limited, competition is allowed."

The old national teacher announced quietly, "The one who gets the token first will pass this round."

(End of this chapter)