Legend of the Knight

Chapter 265
At the beginning of the new year, a major event in the Central Plains Wulin, the Wulin League was finally held.

The scene of the martial arts alliance this time is extremely grand. Because of the preheating of the two previous Tianshu incidents, the participation of Jianghu martial arts people in the major martial arts events that occurred has greatly increased, so that there are hundreds of Jianghu sects participating in this meeting. There are nearly a thousand martial arts people from all corners of the country.

Of course, the key to so many people coming may still be what Huang Xiaoshi said at the beginning: All the people who come are guests, and Shennong Baicaomen covers all food and lodging.

You have let the word go out like this, wouldn't it be a little sorry for your pride if you don't come to eat you for nothing.

Under the auspices of Shennong Baicaomen and Tiangangmen, this alliance was held very smoothly. The fly in the ointment is that Huang Xiaoshi, one of the representatives of the new generation of martial arts masters that everyone most wants to see, is absent.

People from Shennong Baicaomen said that Huang Xiaoshi went to the Western Regions to deal with business matters.

The world is big, and the food is the biggest.

Everyone felt very sorry for Huang Xiaoshi's absence, but there was no other way but to turn grief into appetite.

Although the meals provided by the Wulin League are only the simplest three kinds of rice (steamed buns), pickles, and vegetable soup, it can't stand the crowd.

People who practice martial arts have a big appetite, and now they don't need money to eat, as long as they don't take it away, they can eat as much as they can, that's great.

I saw that after every meal, the waistbands of these big men with fat waists and round arms were probably loose.

The food consumption of the Wulin League this time is astonishingly large, and it is unknown where Shennong Baicaomen can provide so much rice noodles.

This "open to eat" has been repeatedly mentioned until many years later. Only then did some people belatedly wonder whether Shennong Baicaomen had already started hoarding food reserves.

……

At the beginning of the Martial Arts League, the sponsor Jiang Tianxiong, on behalf of the major martial arts sects (the seven most capable sects), proposed a martial arts proposal. expensive.

Jiang Tianxiong's words naturally made many people applaud, but in fact this initiative is useless.

The reason why many people practice martial arts is not because they are stupid and can't talk to others.

If you can win by fighting with your mouth, then I also practice martial arts with a hammer.

Of course, Jiang Tianxiong has been famous for decades, and it is not easy for others to say no to such commonplace things, anyway, just follow suit.

Then, the main event came.

Jiang Tianxiong went on to speak, saying that after soliciting the views and opinions of various sects, everyone felt that a martial arts leader should be supported. If there is a martial dispute in the world, the martial arts leader can be consulted for adjudication.

There must be some people who are in favor of this proposal and some people who are against it, but the pros and cons are very complicated.

Let’s take the people who support the leader of the martial arts as an example. They are in favor of the leader of the martial arts, not necessarily because they think the leader of the martial arts is good, but simply against the joint management of the six major factions.

Over the years, the relative dominance of the six major factions has been decreasing. Coupled with the influence of the decline of the Tianshan faction and Xiaoyaogu among the six major factions, many people no longer agree with the co-management model of the six major factions.

Everyone feels that the rules established decades ago need to be changed.

There are also some people who agree with the leader of the martial arts alliance. They feel that the martial arts world is so big that one person's dominance is definitely not comparable to the six major factions. There may be a lot of space between coming and going. Is there a chance?

There are also some people who are in favor of the leader of the martial arts league, purely to watch the excitement, they just want to see a large group of masters fighting around, to open their eyes.

The voice of opposition is relatively weak, and the main reason is that I can't choose myself after choosing and choosing, so why should I support it? Besides, a certain sect has a relationship with me.

There is also an opposing voice that believes that this is a conspiracy by the six factions. They took advantage of Huang Xiaoshi's absence to replace the system of the six major factions with the martial arts leader system.

It's just that the establishment of the martial arts alliance leader this time is not for everyone to discuss. It has been decided before the martial arts alliance is held, and it is useless for you to object.

……

Afterwards, Jiang Tianxiong announced that the rules for the election of the leader of the martial arts are still the same as the rules a hundred years ago, divided into preliminaries and finals.

The preliminaries are divided into several promotion systems, and the rules are the same as those of the Young Heroes Tournament, until there are less than ten contestants.

The final adopts a single-round competition system, that is, everyone has to play against all opponents once. If there are ten finalists, each person will play 9 games. The winner gets 3 points, the tie gets 1 point, and the loser gets 0 point. [-] points, the person with the highest score in the end is the leader of the Wulin League, the second highest is the left envoy of the Wulin League, and the third is the right envoy of the Wulin League.

This set of screening methods was proposed by Huang Xiaoshi after everyone decided to become a martial arts leader. The advantage is that luck and ability restraint are excluded. The king who wins the championship in the end must be a strong man who can be recognized by everyone.

The disadvantage is that it takes a long time and the players play too many games.

However, Huang Xiaoshi's proposal was immediately recognized by the various sects, and the ability to continue fighting is also an important ability for warriors.

After Jiang Tianxiong announced the rules of the competition, he made a request for contestants.

The requirements for the contestants are very simple, that is, they must have both virtue and skill.

Let’s not talk about art, wait a minute anyway, this is what everyone is comparing.

Germany, this standard also made a quantitative indicator:
[-]. Not wanted by the court.

Second, the rivers and lakes have a good reputation.

As soon as these two conditions are met, many people's self-confidence comes.

I have not been wanted by the court (I have no guts to do bad things), and I have a good reputation in the world (I have no name), so that does not mean that I can also participate in the competition.

This time, the reason why these two extremely vague concepts are mentioned is because the moral concepts of Jianghu people are not the same as those of other groups.

Murder and arson can only be called happy rivers and lakes. If the requirements are too strict, probably no one is eligible to participate except for monks from Shaolin Temple.

After nearly ten days of stage-by-level preliminaries, the ten finalists according to their popularity are: Fang Yunhua, Jiang Yu, Ziyangzi, Fu Jianhan, Xiao Yao, Tang Guannan, Ren Jiannan, Shi Yi, Wuming, and Gu Yuexuan.

For some reason, the old seniors of the previous generation did not participate in this campaign for the leader of the martial arts alliance. Maybe some of them had already intended to retire, or maybe they knew that if they were on weekdays, they would say that their seniority is still alive. You have to be a little bit small, if you fight with the juniors with sharp swords and sharp guns, you may not be their opponents.

Instead of being ashamed, it is better to leave an old face for yourself.

Except for the older generation, the masters in the prime of life did not give up participating, but judging from the results, the contestants who entered the finals of this martial arts competition were frighteningly young.

Among the ten people, Ziyangzi, the head of the Qingcheng School, and an unknown monk from the Shaolin Temple were the oldest, and the other eight were only in their early twenties.

Among these ten people, three are sect masters, namely Fang Yunhua, Ziyangzi, and Gu Yuexuan. The sect's disciples include Jiang Yu, Xiao Yao, and Wuming.

Tang Guannan, Ren Jiannan and Shi Yi, the three of them seldom walked around in the rivers and lakes, especially Tang Guannan.

Although Tang Guannan is the eldest son of the Tang Sect, but because the Tang Sect is too low-key, he has never shown his face in the arena, and he didn't even make it to the list of martial arts rookies.

In the end, the only one who has no family and no sect is Fu Jianhan.

Fu Jianhan took his father back to the countryside of Luoyang to recuperate after his father was severely poisoned after he participated in the book snatching.

After traveling in the rivers and lakes for a while, Fu Jianhan put away his former heart of regarding the heroes of the world as nothing, and devoted himself to practicing internal skills and swordsmanship, and now his skills have greatly increased.

As I said just now, this entry into the top ten popularity rankings is the degree of optimism of everyone.

The two hanging at the back, one is Wuming, and the other is Gu Yuexuan.

Wuming has never been out of Mount Song in his life, and basically squatted in the Shaolin Temple. If it wasn't because the Shaolin Temple couldn't find other candidates, he wouldn't come to the competition this time.

Therefore, Wuming is really a person who lives up to his name, and it really is Wuming.Almost everyone didn't know who this monk was, they only knew that he was a disciple of Shaolin Temple.

However, this kind of nameless who is already the top of the passerby can still surpass Gu Yuexuan in the popularity list, abruptly only ranking ninth. From this, one can imagine what is going on with Gu Yuexuan now.

If it weren't for Gu Yuexuan being the head of Xiaoyao Valley, and if it wasn't for the fact that the six major factions still take care of each other, Gu Yuexuan might not even be eligible to sign up now.

In the eyes of others, Gu Yuexuan is not qualified just because of his reputation in the second river and lake.

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In the final finals, everyone needs to play 9 games. Considering that the fighters still need to have a certain amount of rest time, they played three games in the morning, noon and evening, for a total of three days.

Three contests a day, this kind of intensity is terrifying.

In the actual combat competitions of later generations, players have to go through up to a week of treatment and rest after the competition before starting recovery training.

It was a 9-game streak in the finals, and everyone didn't think there was anything wrong.

When you have practiced martial arts to the extreme, the competition is endurance. When it really comes to the martial arts battle, can you also rest for seven or eight days after a fight?

It really is that Lu Yao knows the horsepower.

After the first day was over, several players lost their strength. From the first game on the second day, some people announced their retirement one after another.In the end, only five people finished the game, and the other five retired before finishing the game.

The final rankings are Fang Yunhua, Gu Yuexuan, Wuming, Fu Jianhan, and Xiao Yao, among which Fang Yunhua has a record of all victories.

After nearly half a month of the martial arts league competition, Fang Yunhua stood out from thousands of martial arts masters, defeated all the others and won the championship, becoming the first martial arts leader in a century.

According to the competition rankings, Gu Yuexuan was appointed as the left envoy of the Wulin League, Wuming was appointed as the right envoy of the Wulin League, and the Wulin League was successfully concluded.

After the Martial Arts League, the abbot Wuyin of Shaolin Temple handed over the position of abbot to Wuming. In the same month, Wuyin died of illness.

In the end, it can be said that the real power of the Wulin League is still in the hands of the "old" forces.

Of course, some people are still dissatisfied with this situation, thinking why Shang Jingzhong and Huang Xiaoshi, the first place in the rookie rankings, did not participate in the competition, and some people think that if Dongfang Weiming is still there, Gu Yuexuan will definitely not get the left envoy position.

Some even lamented that if Shang Jingzhong, Fang Yunhua, Huang Xiaoshi, and Dongfang Weiming could have a four-person battle, it would be so exciting.

It should be said that the scene will inevitably be extremely exciting, but many people are afraid that they will not be able to withstand the impact of the aftermath.

After the martial arts league in the Central Plains was successfully held, the momentum was like a rainbow. Everyone only thought that whatever the Heavenly Dragon Sect, the Earth Dragon Sect, and the Shenlong Sect, one would kill one, and two would kill one pair.

It's just that Tianlong Cult suddenly disappeared in the Central Plains, and this change made everyone puzzled.

Afterwards, many people wondered if the Tianlong Sect was afraid of the Central Plains martial arts, so they thought that the members of the Demon Sect were mediocre.

……

In March of Yangchun, the leader of the Demon Cult led his subordinates back to the Central Plains.

I am back again.

(End of this chapter)