Chapter 169

Ou Peng spoke eloquently for a long time before finally saying, "Young Eagle Hall disciples, the first rank of commoners is the beginning of the Misty School's disciples. Only after you pass the first rank of commoners can you be considered a true disciple of our Misty School. Since the first session of the Martial Arts Exhibition, the previous Sect Masters have always announced the start of the Exhibition at your place. Today is no exception. I now announce that the Martial Arts Exhibition has officially begun!

I hope you can achieve good results and live up to the people in the Sect who care about you, and live up to the sweat you've shed! "

At this point, the audience burst into thunderous cheers and applause.

Zhang Xiaohua also seemed to understand from the applause. He Tianshu's strange expression, Jiang Mohan's appearance, and Shangguan Yun's and Yu Deyi's faces. The first rank of commoners was clearly a test for the ten-year-old disciples of the Misty School. It was a competition for children, so why did the Lotus Flower Escort Agency and Huan Xi Mountain Manor blindly meddle in it? Even looking at the surrounding children, many of them were only seven or eight years old. These were all extremely talented people, and perhaps their subordinates had real martial arts. Letting Yu Deyi and the others compete with these children, if they lost, they would naturally lose face. Even if they won, what was there to say?

Were they very proud?

Zhang Xiaohua also instantly understood the real reason why the Lotus Flower Escort Agency and Huan Xi Mountain Manor hadn't participated in the Martial Arts Exhibition for decades.

The predecessor of the Misty School who set the rules was truly filthy to the extreme. Who would compete with these children who weren't even ten years old?

Did you welcome the people of Huan Xi Mountain Manor and the Lotus Flower Escort Agency to participate?

If you didn't welcome them, then just say so. Why did you have to beat around the bush and only allow them to participate in the first rank of commoners?!

Zhang Xiaohua was completely speechless.

However, looking at the group of children whose eyes were bloodshot because of Sect Master Ou's encouragement, and comparing their height, Zhang Xiaohua didn't seem to be much taller than them. Then looking at Shangguan Yun and Yu Deyi who were standing there with their hands tied, Zhang Xiaohua was secretly delighted.

In a while, how would you compete with the children?

Could it be that Yu Deyi could break the children's palms?

What about Gang Leader Ou's expression?

Zhang Xiaohua thought maliciously.

Leaving aside the little devil in Zhang Xiaohua's heart that was secretly laughing, the hundreds of youths in the arena were methodically divided into different groups by some disciples who didn't look young, and rushed to their respective arenas.

Only Zhang Xiaohua and the other two stood to the side as if they were idling around. Once again, they received a lot of supercilious looks from the other youths.

The people on the big fighting ring had already dispersed, and Ou Peng was nowhere to be seen. Most likely, he had gone outside to continue fooling the other members.

There was only the sound of hurried footsteps in the square. There was no noise like when Zhang Xiaohua saw children walking in the Guozhuang House. Zhang Xiaohua was secretly amazed. This God's favored son was really different. Thinking about it, if she was his age, wouldn't she be jumping for joy?

These children were indeed so calm, as if they were used to this. All of them had the appearance of great talents.

Suddenly, Zhang Xiaohua thought of something. No wonder Second Brother didn't participate in this Martial Arts Exhibition. If he came to compete with these children for a rank one commoner robe, how funny would that be?

Not long after, the flow of people in the square stopped. All the youths were in their positions. Steward Xu hurriedly ran over with three small plates in his hand. With an apologetic expression, he said to Zhang Xiaohua and the others, "The three of you have been waiting for a long time. Because Huan Xi Manor and Lotus Escort Agency haven't participated in this competition for decades, their special plates have long been lost. These plates have just been obtained from elsewhere. It just so happens that a few disciples are ill and can't participate. Please use these plates."

After he finished speaking, he handed over the plates. Zhang Xiaohua's eyes were sharp and she had already seen the numbers on them. They were respectively: 7, 705, and 666. Seeing Steward Xu hand over the plates to her, she wanted to reach out and take the plate with the number 666. However, she didn't expect that Shangguan Yun and Yu Deyi would both step forward and stand in front of her. How could Zhang Xiaohua's height be compared to theirs? With this step forward, they immediately blocked her behind them. After the two of them finished choosing, Steward Xu only had a plate with the number 705 left in his hand. He held it up, his eyes full of smiles as he looked at Zhang Xiaohua with interest.

Zhang Xiaohua had no choice but to take the number 705. She stole a glance at the plates in Shangguan Yun and Yu Deyi's hands and thought maliciously, "One is 7, very brainless. The other is 666, I'll let you be alone for the rest of your life!

How dare you compete with me? "

When Steward Xu saw that the three of them had already divided the plates, he clapped his hands and said, "Alright, the three of you, come with me. Let's participate in the competition of the Martial Arts Exhibition together."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and led the three of them to the center of the square. They walked to a small ring in the center. There was a group of youths who looked about the same size as Zhang Xiaohua. Half of them were even taller than Zhang Xiaohua. Zhang Xiaohua was happy. If she was in this group, wouldn't she be very ordinary?

Even if she lost, it wouldn't be too embarrassing.

But coincidentally, Steward Xu said, "This is a group with small numbers. Whoever is number 7, stay here and be in the same group as them."

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaohua's face was full of regret. Yu Deyi, on the other hand, stood out very reluctantly. Standing in the group of youths, she was a head taller than them!

Zhang Xiaohua was secretly happy again. Haha, who asked you to compete with me for the number?

Shangguan Yun's situation was the same. However, his group of youths were obviously younger and shorter. Shangguan Yun was also from a tall family.

In the end, only Zhang Xiaohua followed Steward Xu to a corner. In fact, when she saw Shangguan Yun's group, Zhang Xiaohua had an ominous feeling in her heart. Moreover, looking at the age and height of each group, Zhang Xiaohua's premonition became stronger.

When Steward Xu stopped in front of a small ring in the corner, Zhang Xiaohua's heart immediately turned cold. Her premonition had come true!

In front of her was a group of half-grown children who were shorter than her by a head. Looking at their faces that still had milk hair, Zhang Xiaohua secretly complained in her heart. Could it be that this group of children were only seven or eight years old?

The two disciples who were looking after this group of children were about the same age as Steward Xu. The two of them were tidying up their affairs. Steward Xu said to them, "Old Li, Old Ma, these are the people from Huan Xi Manor who are participating in the written examination. Take care of them."

One of them raised his head in amazement and said, "Why is someone from Huan Xi Manor in our group?

Why don't we let him go to the first group? "

Steward Xu smiled and said, "It's the same no matter which group. Old Ma, his number is two hundred and fifty. He happens to be in your group."

Old Ma looked at Zhang Xiaohua and shook his head, saying, "Alright, if you say so, then so be it. Anyway, I don't care."

Steward Xu nodded at Zhang Xiaohua and said, "Then you'll be in this group and listen to Leader Ma's arrangement."

Zhang Xiaohua hurriedly cupped her fists in thanks.

Steward Xu smiled and turned around to leave.

Old Ma pointed to the group of children standing next to him and said to Zhang Xiaohua, "You go over and stand with them first. We'll be done here soon."

Zhang Xiaohua responded and obediently stood over.

Zhang Xiaohua stood among the children who were a head shorter than her. She looked left and right and felt very bored, so she called out in a low voice, "Little brothers."

As soon as her voice fell, a child who looked a little older next to her looked at Zhang Xiaohua with clear big eyes and asked curiously, "Your surname is Chang?"

Zhang Xiaohua was stunned and said with a smile, "Little brother, big brother's surname is not Chang. Big brother's surname is Zhang."

When the child heard this, he immediately stopped smiling and said with a straight face, "Since your surname is not Chang, then don't call me little brother. Wait until your surname is Chang."

Suddenly, Zhang Xiaohua's smile froze on her face. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry in her heart. She had just given a nail to that Jiang person, and now it was returned to her. She couldn't even say anything.

Thus, Zhang Xiaohua said self-deprecatingly, "Could it be that there's no one with the surname Zhang here?"

All the children were silent. The child with the surname Chang narrowed his eyes and said, "There is."

When Zhang Xiaohua heard this, she immediately asked, "Which one is it?"

The child smiled and said, "There was originally one, but unfortunately, he ate secretly last night and had diarrhea this morning. He couldn't come to the competition, so you took this 705 number plate."

Zhang Xiaohua couldn't help but wail in her heart. Poor child, why did he have to steal now? How unlucky!

Sigh, she didn't know if this unlucky child was referring to her?

Or was it a child who stole food that she hadn't seen before?

Not long after, Team Leader Ma and Team Leader Li finished preparing everything and walked over. They said to Zhang Xiaohua and the others, "Alright, everyone is ready. This year's competition will be the same as previous years. Our group will have ten people, and we'll follow a round-robin system. Everyone in the group will fight against the other nine people. If you're knocked off the stage or can't fight back, you'll be considered to have lost. If you fight for more than an incense stick's worth of time, you'll be considered to have tied. If you win, you'll get three points, if you draw, you'll get one point, and if you lose, you'll get one point.

Oh right, during the competition, you can't kill anyone. If you do, you'll automatically lose the right to compete. Also, you must pay attention to your strength and try not to injure others. If the other party has already admitted defeat or has lost the ability to fight back, you must immediately stop. If you injure someone, it will be considered a failure and a point will be deducted.

Do you all understand? "

All the children said, "Understood!"

Thus, Zhang Xiaohua's participation in the Martial Arts Assembly competition officially began.

Team Leader Li lit an incense stick at the side and then counted two numbers. Immediately, two children walked out from the crowd and quickly walked to the front of the stage. With a leap, they displayed their light body techniques and leaped onto the stage that was as tall as a person.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Xiaohua immediately understood why he felt awkward looking at those stages in the public square earlier. These stages didn't have ladders!

Zhang Xiaohua couldn't help but complain. What should he do? When it was his turn, how was he supposed to go up?

However, the competition on the stage quickly made him forget about this problem.

Valuing the enemy was the same as valuing oneself.

From the beginning, Zhang Xiaohua had never dared to underestimate the Misty School opponents. Even when he had initially planned to participate in the Martial Arts Assembly, he had always treated the Misty School opponents as his opponents. But just now, facing those children who were much younger than him and a head smaller than him, he really didn't have any thoughts of treating them as his opponents.

To tell the truth, he had underestimated this bunch of Misty School children!

However, the children on the stage had given Zhang Xiaohua a solid lesson. You can't judge a book by its cover, just like how the sea can't be measured with a pint pot!

The two children on the stage, although they weren't old and weren't small, but when they displayed their martial arts, they weren't careless at all. One of his fists opened and closed, attacking openly. His fists were heavy and full of inner strength. The other one's light body techniques were excellent, like a swallow returning to the forest, a butterfly flying to the flowers, dodging left and right with ease.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiaohua who was below the stage was dumbstruck. Were these still children who weren't even ten years old yet?

Looking at those ingenious moves and light footwork, could it be that they had trained hard for many years? Furthermore, looking at those fists which gave rise to the wind and his palms which were fierce, it was needless to say that they contained inner strength. Such a small wimpy child was able to cultivate such powerful inner strength mental cultivation methods. This, how could an ordinary person survive?

However, Zhang Xiaohua had forgotten that the Misty School only recruited disciples once a year, and those who were recruited were all geniuses who were one in ten thousand. How could an ordinary youth from the countryside like him compare to them?

Furthermore, this Misty School's Young Eagle Hall was originally the cradle for nurturing the future disciples of the Misty School. They didn't participate in the affairs of the association. Most of the people in the hall were martial arts masters who had rich experience in educating people. They taught according to their aptitude, had a large amount of precious medicinal herbs, and also had rare inner strength mental cultivation methods, fist techniques and a series of advantageous conditions. How could they not have such powerful martial arts?

In fact, this was the real reason why the Lotus Flower Escort Agency and Huan Xi Manor hadn't participated in the Martial Arts Exhibition for decades!

Most of the guards and escorts of the Lotus Flower Escort Agency had joined the agency with their skills. Their qualifications and conditions were absolutely incomparable to this group of talented youths. If they were to compete, it was really hard to say who would win and who would lose.

As for Huan Xi Manor who could participate in the Martial Arts Exhibition, they were naturally inferior to the Lotus Flower Escort Agency, and were at a disadvantage in the competition. After a long time, they even stopped participating.

Alas, thinking about it, no matter who it was, they couldn't compare to a group of ten year old youths. Whose self-esteem wouldn't suffer a serious blow?

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaohua had always been beaten down by others, so she didn't care about this time. No matter if it was a youth or a toddler, it was just a matter of one more blow or one less blow.

Very quickly, the time it took to burn a stick of incense was up. The two children in the ring didn't have a clear winner, and Leader Ma treated it as a draw. Following that, two more children entered the ring.

The following match didn't end in a draw, but the strength of the two was almost the same. In the end, it was a child who looked slightly older who used a deceptive move to deceive his opponent's eyes. With a sweep of his leg, he kicked his opponent to the ground and won.

The third match was the child surnamed Chang. Zhang Xiaohua paid attention. That child used a set of palm techniques. He circled around his opponent and attacked. His opponent was obviously no match for him, and only used a set of fist techniques to meet his opponent. After a short while, he was exhausted and couldn't care less. He was ambushed by Chang Mou and stamped on his chest, forcing him to forfeit and surrender.

After Chang Mou won, he wasn't complacent. Instead, he gave Zhang Xiaohua a provocative look before jumping down from the ring. Like a willow catkin, he landed without a sound. Zhang Xiaohua couldn't help but admire him. What a wonderful Qinggong.

After watching the first four matches, Zhang Xiaohua had a general impression of the other eight children in her group. There were three children who were the best, then there were two children who were slightly worse, and there were three children. Zhang Xiaohua felt that they were about the same as her, so they should be the worst.

She didn't know how good the martial arts of the last child who would compete with her was.

When Zhang Xiaohua looked at the child next to her, she found that he was also staring at her.

Zhang Xiaohua couldn't help but laugh. This little brat!

However, why didn't he think about it? There were ten people, and five of them had a place to advance. You just joined and wanted to snatch a place away. Furthermore, you wouldn't get any benefits from this place. If you could do such a thing that harmed others without benefiting yourself, why couldn't others stare at you?

Following that, it was Zhang Xiaohua's turn to be the last two in her group. After that child received Team Leader Ma's nod, he immediately walked forward and with a "Flying Sparrow Hawk", he flew up the ring. His posture was very light, and it was obvious that his Qinggong was quite good. Zhang Xiaohua, who was behind, secretly praised him in her heart. But looking at the sixteen eyes beside him, they were probably used to seeing this.

Zhang Xiaohua quickly walked to the front of the ring and looked left and right. From time to time, she touched her chin. Then, she walked to a corner under the ring and placed her palms on a support. She was about to climb up!

Team Leader Ma immediately shouted, "Number 705, what are you doing?"

Zhang Xiaohua turned her head and said, "Team Leader Ma, I'm going up the ring?"

"Up the ring?" Team Leader Ma was also stunned and asked curiously, "Then why are you going below the ring?"

Zhang Xiaohua had an innocent look and said, "I'm going to climb up. If I don't go below the ring, where else can I go?

Your Misty School is really something. Such a high ring, why don't you set up a ladder or something?

Our Lu Town's opera stage has a ladder! "

"Bang ~" Team Leader Chang almost fell on the spot.

Then, with a trembling voice, he probed a little and asked in disbelief, "Number 705, don't tell me you've never learned Qinggong before?"

Zhang Xiaohua found it strange. She looked at Team Leader Chang and said, "I've never learned it before. What's so strange about it?"

Team Leader Chang stared at Zhang Xiaohua for a long time as if he was looking at a monster. He asked again, "Then how long have you been practicing martial arts?"

Zhang Xiaohua tilted her head and thought for a while before saying, "About a year."

"Pu ~" Team Leader Chang spat out a mouthful of blood. Oh, that's not right. It was a mouthful of turbid air. Then, he said weakly, "Then you dare to participate in the Martial Arts Exhibition?"

Zhang Xiaohua found it even more strange and said, "Why can't I participate?

I won't get hurt or take anyone's life. I'm here to learn more. "

Team Leader Chang was speechless. He waved his hand weakly and said, "Forget it, don't climb up. Who knows how many years have passed since our Martial Arts Exhibition was founded. There has never been a contestant who climbed up the ring. You can be considered the first. In a while, I'll go find Steward Xu. The rules of this Martial Arts Exhibition need to be changed. Anyone who climbs up the ring will be considered to have forfeited!"

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