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Chapter 198
When he stepped off the stage and passed the lady's seat, he searched for Ye Zhaoyan in the crowd openly, without blinking his eyes.

Some young female relatives were glanced at by him, lowering their eyelids shyly.

He finally found Ye Zhaoyan at the end of the table, and when she saw her looking over, he couldn't help grinning brightly.

Ye Zhaoyan was terrified by Shi Youle's stare, and couldn't help but turned his head and gave him a cold look, with a hint of coolness.

Shi Youle was startled by her look, hurriedly lowered her head, and left in a hurry.

Ye Zhaoyan looked away and thought to himself, what's wrong with this man?Why are you staring at me?Is there a flower growing on my face?

Seeing this scene, Li Xiaojiu, who was traveling with Shi Youle, couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, thinking to himself, You Le's mind is really pure at this time!
This girl Ye is probably attracted by Shi Youle!
The competition continued, and several young masters came up to compete.

Soon, there were only the last five young masters left in the entire arena, among them, besides Shi Youle, Li Xiaojiu, Ju Jian, and two young masters from Zhuo Wang's family.

These five people are all highly skilled in martial arts, but it happens to be an odd number, so it is not convenient to compare them two by two.

"What's going on? Didn't the number of people who signed up originally be even?" Jiang Tianyou couldn't help but asked the butler Jiang next to him.

"That's right, how do you compare, there are only five sons left?" Steward Jiang was also puzzled.

The two were wondering when a little maid presented a letter to Butler Jiang.

Jiang Tianyou took it over and took a look, his frown relaxed.

At this moment, two figures came quickly from a distance and rushed to the crowd.

The two people who came were a man and a woman. The man was tall and handsome in a green shirt, while the woman was small and smart in an orange gauze skirt.

It was Ji Sinian and Tang Peirou.

As soon as Ji Sinian arrived, he looked for Ye Zhaoyan among the crowd of female relatives. Although Tang Peirou had told him that Ye Zhaoyan was safe, he still had to confirm with his own eyes before giving up.

Seeing the Patriarch's expression, Steward Jiang immediately understood and said, "There is also a Mr. Ji who signed up this time, and he was delayed for a while because of his business."

Under everyone's dumbfounded gazes, Ji Sinian drew lots with the other five people.

A moment later, Steward Jiang announced the results of the lottery: Shi Youle played against Li Xiaojiu, Ji Sinian played against Ju Jian, Zhuo Yibai played against Zhuo Mingxuan.

Seeing such a result, everyone was surprised and understood.

It seems that only one family is allowed to occupy one of these three quotas, even the royal relatives are no exception.

On this point, the host Jiang's family was somewhat fair.

Some people nodded in appreciation of the Jiang family's strength of character.

"It's obviously because the traces are too obvious and will cause people to criticize!" A middle-aged man sighed disdainfully, as if he had seen through Jiang's intentions.

Another man also agreed and said: "Indeed, this is obviously because we are afraid that our small families will unite to condemn the Jiang family, so we came up with such a method."

"You people, don't speculate about the organizer's intentions, otherwise, your life will be difficult." An old man scolded coldly, his eyes full of contempt.

After hearing the old man's words, those people fell silent.

The final competition began soon, and the first match was Shi Youle vs. Li Xiaojiu.

Shi Youle and Li Xiaojiu are outstanding members of the younger generation in the same class, and they have been companions for many years. This time they finally have the opportunity to compete in front of many aristocratic families, and they will go all out.

"I know all the tricks of Mr. Shi, so I don't know what secret skills I have to show today to win against me?" Li Xiaojiu teased.

"Li Xiaojiu, stop threatening me, I still have a lot of tricks that you don't know! Today, I will defeat you!" Shi Youle shouted while fighting with Li Xiaojiu.

From the corner of his eye, he glanced at a beautiful figure in the audience, thinking about what to do after victory, he couldn't help feeling a little excited,
The two fought in the arena, using all their strengths, all kinds of moves emerged one after another, and the fight was wonderful.

Seeing how powerful these two are, the eyes of the noble ladies from the aristocratic families were filled with admiration.

Such a young and handsome boy, although not blessed by an official status, is still the son of a well-known family with a superior family background.

This charm alone is enough to make people's hearts flutter.

Li Xiaojiu has never brought out his trump card, but Shi Youle has used several unique skills in a row, which is astonishing. Everyone in the audience praised him, even the noble daughters of the big families couldn't stop nodding, praising Shi Youle's talent and courage.

Seeing that the other party's physical strength was mostly exhausted, Li Xiaojiu took the opportunity to use his trump card, and with a very strange pace, instantly deceived himself, and slapped Shi Youle's chest with his palm.

Annoyance flashed in Shi Youle's eyes, he didn't expect the other party to make such a move.

He hurriedly dodged to avoid Li Xiaojiu's attack, but unexpectedly Li Xiaojiu's footsteps moved again, his speed increased again, and he attacked him with the palm of one hand and the long knife with the other.

Shi Youle turned pale with shock, and quickly swung his sword to block, only to hear a loud "Dang!" sound, Shi Youle's sword almost broke, and a tyrannical counter-shock force made him retreat several steps.

Li Xiaojiu succeeded in one move, and attacked again, slapping Shi Youle non-stop.

Shi Youle didn't dare to take it hard, and kept dodging while defending, but he didn't get any cheap for a while.

At this moment, Li Xiaojiu's palm suddenly changed, and he quickly attacked Xiang Shi Youle.

"Oops! Hit the game!"

Shi Youle was taken aback, and quickly waved the sword in his hand to resist his attack, but Li Xiaojiu's attack was too fast, approaching his chest in an instant.

A look of determination appeared in Shi Youle's eyes, he gritted his teeth, and took the palm abruptly, the purple crown on his head was blown away, his wrist was numb, and the sword in his hand almost dropped to the ground, making a crisp sound.

He finally stabilized his footsteps and did not back away.

"Pfft." As a mouthful of blood spat out from Shi Youle's mouth, the sword in Shi Youle's hand was firmly placed on Li Xiaojiu's neck.

His actions made everyone around him dumbfounded, including Li Xiaojiu.

None of them expected Shi Youle to be so desperate for the competition.

"Xiao Le you" Li Xiaojiu supported him worriedly, he thought Shi Youle would run away.

There was a perfect understanding between the two, and the premise for him to make such a move was that he expected that the other party would be able to dodge it.

"Li Xiaojiu, you have lost." Shi Youle laughed loudly with blood on his mouth.

Li Xiaojiu helped him up and walked down the stage with some fear, his tone was a bit annoyed, "Xiao Le, if you have to win, I'll let you do it, why take such a risk?!"

Seeing him angry, Shi Youle smiled flatteringly and said, "I know you'll let me, but that would be too invincible! If I can't even defeat an opponent of your age in an open and honest manner, then wouldn't I be too victorious?" Useless?! But I promise it's only this time!"

　Tomorrow is the martial arts competition with the few remaining people, and of course there will be emotional scenes.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)