After confirming the champion of the second arena, he began to look at the number and results of the competition in the second arena. From the beginning to now, there have been six games in the second arena, and the first three contestants were all from Zhuque Villa.

Situ Honglie, this man is undoubtedly the owner of Zhuque Villa and Situ Yanggang’s father.

After winning three games in a row, the champion was determined, and then this person left the ring. Yang Yan from Zhuque Villa took the fight. Yang Yan stepped down after winning two games in a row, and was replaced by Qiu Qianli from Baihu Villa to defend the ring. Qiu Qianli

I also won the last game and am currently playing the second game.

After reading the book, the hidden secret is not good. Situ Honglie from Zhuque Villa was the first to appear. He was aggressive and came with bad intentions. It was by no means as simple as fighting for the champion. It was very likely that he came to avenge Situ Yanggang, although there was only Bai Hu at this time.

The Villa will guard the throne, but Xuanwu Villa and Qinglong Villa are not excluded.

Since the second arena was located in the northeast, I turned around and looked to the left. Sure enough, dozens of warriors gathered outside the arena in the northeast. Just by looking at their clothes, I knew that these people were from the four major villas including Zhuque Villa, because

The colors of their clothes are red, white, black and cyan, which are very conspicuous and easy to distinguish.

The imperial court did not prepare seats for everyone participating in the competition, but it did not prohibit them from bringing their own, so many people watching and waiting for the competition were sitting. At this time, the four village owners, including Situ Honglie,

Just sit on the big chair with a wide backrest.

I have never seen Situ Honglie before, but the red robe is enough to identify him. Situ Honglie is over sixty years old, tall, with brown hair and yellow beard. He is not angry and has a strong reputation.

While looking at this person, Situ Honglie was also looking at him. Although Situ Honglie did not do anything radical, he felt a strong murderous intent the moment their eyes met. His previous guess was correct, this person was here.

A large part of the war was directed at him.

Situ Honglie was sitting in the third seat, and the person sitting at the top was a middle-aged man wearing a blue silk robe. In fact, this man should be similar in age to Situ Honglie, but this man has good looks and looks quite young.

Sitting in the second place is a woman in white. This person should be around forty years old. Not all women in white are beautiful. This person has a rather fierce face, with a leopard head and eyes, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, with arms folded around her.

, leaning back on the wooden chair, in the cold field of view.

The person sitting under Situ Honglie was an old woman in black clothes. She must be about seventy years old, short and thin. She was leaning on a cane and taking a nap with her eyebrows lowered and her eyes closed to rest.

The crutch used by this person is not an ordinary crutch, but is made of multiple black rattans wrapped around each other. It is dark and shiny, with a cold light in it.

Although there were not many people in the Four Villas, everyone outside the venue kept a respectful distance from them, keeping at least two feet away from them.

After looking at everyone, he withdrew his gaze. The four major villas, including Zhuque Villa, were undoubtedly advancing and retreating together. Except for the people from the four major villas, their camp only had a few people from other sects. This shows that the four major villas themselves

He has a high regard and disdains forming cliques and calling in helpers.

The appearance of the Four Mountain Villas makes people feel very heavy. Arrogant people must have their reasons for their arrogance. The Four Mountain Villas may not encounter Longhu Mountain in the early stage, but in the later stage, these people will definitely be Longhu Mountain's strong enemies.

After seeing the second arena, I walked to the northwest corner. The champion of this arena was Long Haotian from the Beggar Clan. He also won three games in a row to confirm the champion. After that, he stepped down to rest, and other people came on stage to defend the arena. At this time,

The person on the stage is Ouyang Chuanfeng, the right protector of the Beggar Clan.

Since the arena they occupy is located in the northwest, everyone from the Beggar Clan gathers in the northwest of the square. Among all the camps outside the venue, the camp belonging to the Beggar Clan has the largest number of people. It is not that there are many people from the Beggar Clan, but that the sects that vassal them are the most numerous.

In order to avoid the fate of being dismissed, many small sects have taken refuge in the Beggar Gang.

At this time, Long Haotian was sitting on a large carved chair with his legs crossed, a look of arrogance on his face.

Guardian Zuo Gongsun Chengwei was also on the sidelines. At this time, he was talking to several leaders from other sects. It seemed that the other party wanted to request to join the Beggar Clan war group. Gongsun Chengwei was not interested and seemed not to be tempted.

Since he was wearing official uniform at this time, Long Haotian and others did not recognize him and did not linger too much. After reading the record of this event, they walked to the fourth arena in the south.

There were only two proctors in this arena. After asking, I found out that there were originally three people. One of them felt unwell and left early. The so-called unwell was just a nice way of saying it. To put it bluntly, he was carried away because he was frightened.

The leader of this arena is the Salt Gang from Jiangnan. As the name suggests, the Salt Gang is a gang that traffics in private salt. Don’t underestimate the salt gang. People can avoid eating meat, but they cannot avoid eating salt. If calculated based on the number of gang members, the amount of salt

The Gang is the second largest gang after the Beggars Gang, but they are much richer than the Beggars Gang.

Most of the activities of the Salt Gang are in the south of the Yangtze River, while most of the activities of the Beggar Gang are in the north of the Yangtze River. However, this does not mean that the two sides have no intersection. The Salt Gang and the Beggar Gang are hostile, and the reason for their hostility is nothing more than grabbing territory and competing for profits.

Like the Beggar Gang, the Salt Gang is not a very particular sect and does bad things on a daily basis, but at a critical moment, the Jiangnan Green Forest Sect still chooses to rely on them and join them in advancing and retreating together with the Salt Gang.

In fact, many sects who took refuge in the Salt Gang did not like the Salt Gang, but there was no way. The court only set up nine arenas. Those small sects that were unable to occupy a unique position could only choose sides, while the major sects in the same area became

Their first choice is that there are not many sects like the Four Villas that are in the same spirit even though they are separated in the southeast, northwest and northwest.

After seeing the situation in the fourth arena, he walked towards the arena in the middle of the square, waved to the three invigilators who stood up to greet them, and then picked up the notebook on the table.

The first thing that catches the eye

Just three words: Longhu Mountain. Looking at the details, Zhang Mo took the lead and won the championship with three wins. Then he replaced other people to help defend the ring.

He had noticed that Longhushan's camp was due east of the square. This time he turned to look east again and happened to meet Zhang Mo's eyes. Zhang Mo looked solemn and waved to him, motioning for him to come over.

Understanding, nodded slightly.

Because he was late and didn't know the situation in each arena, he did not go to Zhang Mo immediately, but went to the east arena and continued to read the book.

The arena due east was occupied by the Shaolin Temple, which was what he expected, but what he didn't expect was that the person guarding the arena at this time was actually Shi Xuantong, who ranked second in the martial arts competition with him.

Shi Xuantong had just won at this time. When he saw it, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes. He had not fought with him before, but was resigned to defeat without fighting. However, this did not mean that he was afraid. The reason why he was scared this time was because

At this time, he was the imperial censor, and he was not sure whether he would be criticized for being an official of the imperial court and going out to fight on behalf of his master.

Seeing that Shi Xuantong only nodded slightly to himself and did not criticize him, Shi Xuantong felt relieved, took a deep breath, and continued to defend the ring.

Naturally, Shi Xuantong will not be criticized, because if the situation is unfavorable to Longhushan, he may also come on stage to help defend the ring.

The champions of the two arenas in the southeast and due south directions are Wushuang City and Liangyi Mountain respectively. As the saying goes, dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and mice give birth to burrows. The inheritance of skills and the continuation of blood are very similar. Wushuang City

Yao Wenzhong was the top scorer in the martial arts examination before, and Chong Wanqing of Liangyi Mountain was the first-class Jinshi in the martial arts examination. ??

He knew little about Wushuang City, but he knew that Liangyi Mountain was the court of Yuqing. Liangyi Mountain occupied an exclusive arena, which meant that Yuqingzong had not joined forces with Qingzong.

Three Qing Dharma branches are divided into three parts, the Three Mountains are Qing, the Five Mountains are Taiqing, and the Nine Provinces are Yuqing. Now the Taoists of Shangqing and Yuqing are fighting each other. The palace sects under Taiqing Sect are not united. Some people choose to fight with Liangyi Mountain.

The Yuqings share honor and disgrace, while some people choose to advance and retreat together with the Shangqings of Longhu Mountain.

The champion of the last arena is Daji Temple, and the first person to take the stage is named Ninggu Rinpoche.

Seeing that this person's name was so strange, he turned to look outside the venue. Only when he found the tantric monk standing outside the venue did he realize that Daji Temple was a tantric temple. He had seen the old monk surrounded by nearly a hundred people before.

The old monk riding an elephant he saw on the road the day Guyan was treated for his injury.

After reading the documents of the nine arenas, I have a general understanding of the situation on the field.

Currently, the champions of the nine arenas are Prajna Temple, Beggar Gang, Zhuque Villa, Yan Gang, Longhu Mountain, Liangyi Mountain, Shaolin Temple, Wushuang City, and Daji Temple.

If divided according to the identities of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, Zhuque Villa, Beggar Gang, Salt Gang, and Wushuang City should belong to Confucianism, occupying four seats.

Buddhism

Shaolin Temple, Prajna Temple and Daji Temple occupy three places.

Daomen's Longhu Mountain and Liangyi Mountain occupy two seats.

But such a division can only represent their respective identities, but not the positions of the nine sects, because each of the nine sects has their own ideas, and no one knows what will happen next after seizing the title of the Nine Punishments.

Who will they cooperate with when they are the three major champions?

After reading the book, he walked towards the east side of the square. On the way, he passed by the Liangyi Mountain camp. A group of Yuqing Taoists looked at him strangely. At first, he didn't understand why, but after thinking about it, he understood the reason. Previously, during the competition for the head armor,

Huang Daji from the Beggar Clan once deliberately shouted that he was practicing Hunyuan Divine Skill, and Hunyuan Divine Skill was a long-lost qi training method of the Yuqing Sect. The Yuqing Sect must have gotten the news, so he looked at him like this.

he.

He could only choose to ignore the strange looks in the eyes of everyone in Yuqing, but his mood became increasingly heavy. The reason why Liangyi Mountain did not join forces with Longhu Mountain was probably because of the Hunyuan Divine Art.

Zhang Mo asked him to come here in order to introduce him to the elders of his own camp. He was wearing official uniform and it was not convenient to perform the head-offering ceremony. Instead, he performed the layman's hand-over-hand ceremony. In order to show respect for his seniors, he bowed deeply when he handed over his hands.

Yi.

Until this time, there were still many small sects that had not found a camp. They asked friends to introduce the nine champions to them. When Zhang Shan was greeting everyone, he was called away by a Taiqing Taoist priest to talk to several leaders of the small sects.

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After greeting everyone, he asked Zhang Mo in a low voice, "Uncle, are you sure?"

"It's not difficult to fight separately." Zhang Mo looked solemn.

Hearing the underlying meaning of Zhang Mo's words, he felt a little frustrated, "I am the one who caused the trouble at Zhuque Villa, and the Yuqing Sect might hate me too."

"The young master of Zhuque Villa is entirely to blame. If you don't kill him, he will kill you," Zhang Mo said. "As for the Yuqing Sect, they already think highly of themselves and have little contact with us. It has nothing to do with you.

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"The Hunyuan Divine Technique is originally the Qi training method of the Yuqing Sect," he said in a low voice, "I have no intention of hiding anything. To prevent them from misunderstanding and enmity, I want to teach them the Qi training method of the Hunyuan Divine Technique."

Zhang Mo hadn't answered yet. Zhang Shan, who had had a brief conversation with a few people, came back. Hearing this, he frowned and waved his hands, "If you don't give it, why should you give it to them? They lost their own Qi training method, so what does it have to do with you?"

Seeing that they were still talking, Zhang Shan raised his eyebrows and glared, "I won't give it if I say no. If they are in the same boat with us and you want to reciprocate, I won't stop you. But now if you teach them the Qi training method, they still think that

We are afraid of them."

Seeing Zhang Shan's resolute attitude, he stopped insisting, "Everything is decided by my uncle."
Chapter completed!