annihilation

Chapter 45 Knock Out

The crowd preparing to take part in the assessment on the square was divided into two rows. A small part of them took part in the assessment of the Academy of Arts and stood on the left, and the vast majority of those who took part in the assessment of the Academy of Martial Arts stood on the right.This is the case every year in the assessment. There are far fewer students in the Academy of Arts than in the Academy of Martial arts. This is not because everyone doesn't like studying, but because the Western Chu Kingdom is a country that emphasizes force. Even with the same official rank, the status of generals is slightly higher than that of civilian officials.

In a blink of an eye, more than 1 people lined up, and some of them had already entered the Minsheng Academy to start the assessment.

Lu Yang and Li Xiaopang stood at the back, and there were thousands of people waiting for the assessment ahead, and it would take a while before it was their turn.

After about half an hour, there were not many people in front of them. According to this speed, it only takes half a cup of tea before it will be their turn.Li Xiaopang glanced around and saw that no one was paying attention to them, so he lowered his voice and said, "Lu Yang, your cultivation level is not enough, should you go to the Academy of Arts first? After you enter the Academy and become a formal student, you can find a way to enter the Academy of Martial Arts ?”

Lu Yang had thought about this problem before, but in the end he rejected this solution.

With Lu Yang's excellent memory ability, it is not difficult to enter the Liberal Arts Academy, but Minsheng Academy may not agree to abandon literature and pursue martial arts.

Lu Yang shook his head and said, "No need, when I see the instructor, ask him if he can see the dean. As long as I hand over the letter to the dean, maybe I can make an exception and enter the martial arts academy."

"Letter?" Li Xiaopang was startled, and said, "You still know the dean?"

Lu Yang smiled and said, "If I know the dean, do I still need to stand here and line up?"

Li Xiaopang thought for a while, and what Lu Yang said made sense, and asked again: "Then how did you get the letter?"

"I know a senior who has some friendship with the dean, so he wrote a letter for me." Lu Yang didn't want to tell others about Mr. Su, so he said it briefly.

Li Xiaopang's eyes lit up, and he sighed: "I didn't expect you to know such a senior. If only I met you a few years ago, maybe I could break the rules and enter the academy instead of waiting another three years."

"A few years ago, I was a poor boy who had just escaped from Lu's residence. Even if you asked me about it, I couldn't help you get the letter paper!" Lu Yang thought in his heart, but he didn't say it out, just smiled lightly .

The time for half a cup of tea passed in a blink of an eye, and Lu Yang and Li Xiaopang entered the Minsheng Academy one after the other.

The academy is very large. After entering the door, you can see a straight road. The mainland is paved with stone strips. It is extremely flat and about three feet wide, enough to accommodate several carriages passing side by side.After walking a distance of about a hundred feet, two other courtyards appeared in front of them. Those who participated in the assessment of the Arts Academy entered on the left, and those who participated in the assessment of the Martial Arts Academy entered on the right.

Lu Yang came to the other courtyard, and at a glance, the other courtyard was full of teenagers and girls, most of them were men, and there were also women, only a few dozen or so.Most of these boys and girls were downcast and depressed, they obviously failed the examination, only a few hundred people were excited, with a faint smile on the corners of their mouths.

The courtyard is very large, three points larger than the square. Fan Yuanpeng stood in the middle of the courtyard, with a huge stone tablet in front of him.The stone tablet is three feet high and half a foot wide, and looks very simple. If you look closely, you can see that there are countless lines carved on the stone tablet. Those lines are very strange, just like the formations in Xianxia novels.

Li Xiaopang has already been here once, and he is very familiar with the use of the stone tablet. Lu Yang stared at the stone tablet and said, "This stone tablet is very magical. You can judge a person's cultivation level. As long as you punch a punch on the stone tablet, the stone tablet will release the punch." It emits bright light. If it is yellow light, it means the cultivation base of Huang rank, and the brighter the yellow light, the higher the cultivation base; if the whole stele emits dazzling yellow light, it proves that it has reached the state of Dzogchen in the late Huang rank."

At this moment, there were still several people in front of Lu Yang who were being assessed. Fan Yuanpeng pointed to the person at the front with a solemn expression, and said, "It's your turn. Raise all the strength in your body and punch the stone tablet."

"Yes." The boy stepped forward, took a deep breath, and punched the stone tablet.

There was a muffled bang, and the stone tablet remained motionless like a rock, as if the boy's true strength had been absorbed by the stone tablet.

The next moment, the stele emitted a yellow light. Although the yellow light was not weak, it did not reach the dazzling Chengdu.

Fan Yuanpeng's face darkened, he glanced at the young man with some displeasure, and said, "Middle stage of the Huang rank, unqualified." He paused, and continued to ask: "Do you have any specialties?"

The young man seemed to know the result, and he was not nervous, he said: "Master Fan, I have been proficient in swordsmanship since I was a child, I don't know if this is considered a specialty?"

"Swordsmanship?" Fan Yuanpeng frowned, seeming to be interested, and said, "You show me a set of swordsmanship. If you are really proficient in swordsmanship as you said, I can make an exception and let you enter the academy. If not, Don't come back for three years."

The young man nodded, drew out the long sword at his waist, raised his right hand suddenly, and attacked Fan Yuanpeng.

The long sword danced, transformed into sword flowers, and came to Fan Yuanpeng at an astonishing speed.

This young man's swordsmanship is indeed well cultivated. Although he has not cultivated to the point of perfection, he will definitely not reach this level without several years of hard work.If you don't look at the attack power of the sword technique, but only look at the flamboyance, it's really good to appreciate. For a while, many people around applauded.

The young man didn't really want to attack Fan Yuanpeng. When the sword flower came to Fan Yuanpeng's body, he took it back and said proudly, "Mr. Fan, my swordsmanship is pretty good, right?"

Fan Yuanpeng said coldly, "This is also called swordsmanship, do you think it can kill people?"

The young man's face was a little ugly, and he couldn't help asking: "Teacher Fan, why can't my swordsmanship kill people? In the village, I used to go up the mountain to kill ferocious beasts like wolves, tigers and leopards."

"With your swordsmanship, you can kill ferocious beasts. It's just a trick." Fan Yuanpeng snorted coldly when he saw that the young man still didn't give up, "If you attack me, if you can touch the corner of my clothes, you will win gone."

The young man said with confidence, "Teacher Fan, if I win, let me enter Minsheng Academy, how about it?"

"Yes, I'm afraid you don't have a chance." Fan Yuanpeng was too lazy to talk nonsense, and changed the subject, "Let's start!"

The young man let out a low cry, and swung the long sword again, this time faster than before. The moment the sword was swung, hundreds of sword flowers turned into sword shadows, and went straight to Fan Yuanpeng's chest.It has to be said that the sword shadow was very fast, and it came to Fan Yuanpeng in an instant, and when it was about to touch the corner of Fan Yuanpeng's clothes, an unexpected scene appeared.

Fan Yuanpeng snorted coldly, raised his right hand, passed through the shadow of the sword at an extremely fast speed, and immediately opened the hilt with a palm.

With the sound of "bang dang", the long sword in the young man's hand was shot down, and he stepped back three steps before stabilizing his figure.

The young man's face changed drastically, he looked at Fan Yuanpeng in surprise, shook his head and said, "Impossible, how could you shoot down my long sword?"

"As I said just now, your swordsmanship is really fancy, but you don't have much attack power. Could it be that you will use your sword shadow to scare the opponent away when you face thousands of troops in the future?" Fan Yuanpeng said coldly, "Unqualified, go down!" one."

Unwilling, the young man picked up the long sword and said, "Give me one more chance."

"I've given you the opportunity, but you didn't grasp it." Fan Yuanpeng said sharply, "Get out of the way quickly, or I'll drive you out of here." After saying that, he released a huge momentum again.

The young man sighed, bowed his head and walked aside, his eyes full of regret.

The next examiner to play was also cruelly eliminated because his cultivation base was too low.

Among the first few people, except for one person who reached the Dzogchen realm in the late Huang stage, the rest were unqualified.

Lu Yang frowned. He didn't expect the failure rate of the assessment to be so high, so he asked in a low voice, "Since they are all unqualified, why do they come here to take the assessment?"

Li Xiaopang understood the situation in this regard, and said: "You may not be clear, but in fact, most of these people's strength has reached the stage of Dzogchen in the late stage of the Yellow Rank, but they have just broken through not long ago and have not yet stabilized. They I came here to take a gamble to see if I could display my full strength, but I didn’t expect that one would be more nervous than the other, and in the end they could only display their strength in the late stage of the Huang rank, and were eliminated miserably.”

Lu Yang nodded suddenly. If he had just broken through the Dzogchen realm in the late stage of Huang Jie, and the day of the assessment was approaching, he would also come to take a gamble.

Not long after, it was Lu Yang and Li Xiaopang's turn. Li Xiaopang came to Lu Yang and said, "I'll go first. Think about how to deal with Teacher Fan later."

Lu Yang nodded, patted Li Xiaopang on the shoulder, and said, "Come on."

"Don't worry!" Li Xiaopang said confidently, "I will definitely succeed this time."

Li Xiaopang came to Fan Yuanpeng in a flash, bowed in front of him, then took a deep breath, raised all the strength in his body and punched the stele.There was another muffled bang, and a dazzling yellow light was released from the stele. At this moment, everyone subconsciously closed their eyes.

The yellow light dissipated, everyone opened their eyes, and most of them looked at Li Xiaopang enviously, because he passed the assessment.

Fan Yuanpeng nodded and said, "What's your name?"

"Li Xiaopang." Li Xiaopang replied.

Fan Yuanpeng took out a stone waist card from his sleeve, threw it to Li Xiaopang, and said, "You take this, wait over there first, and enter the martial arts academy together after the assessment."

"Yes, Teacher Fan." Li Xiaopang bowed and bowed before turning around and walking not far away.

The moment he turned around, Li Xiaopang glanced at Lu Yang, and his eyes clearly reminded Lu Yang that if he couldn't do it, he should give up the assessment, and it would not be too late to come back next year.

Fan Yuanpeng glanced at Lu Yang and said, "Next."

Lu Yang passed by with strides, bowed in the same way, clasped his fists and said, "Can we start?"

Fan Yuanpeng could tell at a glance that Lu Yang hadn't reached the assessment standard at all, not even reached the pseudo-realm. He waved his hand and said, "You can go. If you give up now, I can let the past go and take the assessment next year. On the contrary , if you insist on taking the assessment, you will lose the qualification for the assessment within three years, you should think about it."

The so-called false realm means that it hasn't been long since breaking through to a realm, and the cultivation has not yet stabilized.

Without even thinking about it, Lu Yang replied, "I want to participate."

"Another person who doesn't see the coffin and doesn't give up. I want to see where you get your confidence." Fan Yuanpeng was too lazy to talk nonsense with Lu Yang. He thought that Lu Yang was as stubborn as those people, and waved his hands. , "Did you see that stele? Punch with all your strength, and it will tell you your current cultivation."