As the old saying goes, things smell good from a distance, but stench up close. Most people only feel disgust towards the middle-level leaders they can see, and know all the dirty things they do in private.
However, we always have some beautiful fantasies about the upper class that we cannot reach, thinking that they are gentle, elegant, and even have a broad mind and care about the people.
Even if there are occasional foolish decisions, it must be the work of the people below who have misinterpreted the scriptures!
Just like what was sung in ancient operas, the emperor must be a good person, but he was deceived by treacherous ministers and villains!
But in reality, human nature is just that. Apart from being more materialistic, the upper class is not that upper class at all!
At this moment, as everyone was praising him, they didn't expect that Zhao Wuji, the eldest son of the Zhao family, would inform the Zhao family's chief steward as soon as he sat down. He shouted angrily, "How arrogant! How dare you kill someone from my Zhao family! In the finals, I'll let my Zhao family attack him with all their might and kill him right there on the ring!"
"Yes!" The Zhao family's housekeeper agreed immediately.
Then, with the host’s shout, the finals officially began!
A total of eighteen people advanced to the finals, including five defenders from the Zhao family. It seems that there are not many people from the Zhao family.
But in fact, it is far more than that!
In addition to the defenders, the Zhao family will also arrange a large number of their own people to participate in the competition under other names, pretending to be outsiders, and pre-book a large number of places.
The reason why Jiang Fan was able to discover it was because he sensed that there were no less than ten faint murderous intentions coming from the crowd!
This also means that there are at least ten people from the Zhao family in it! Taking up more than half of the finals spots, it really is a good thing that the water is kept in the field!
The rules of the finals are very simple. Two people draw lots to compete in a ring match. They can freely choose weapons without any restrictions. The winner will continue to draw lots for the finals until the battle ends and the winner is the champion!
It depends on both strength and luck.
If you are unlucky and meet the favorite to win the championship right from the start, then even if you have the ability to be third or fourth, you will lose early and have a bad reputation.
And if you meet a big guy with extremely good luck and draw lots with noobs all the way, then even if you are only at an average level, you can still make it to the semi-finals and get rich rewards.
It seems a bit unfair, but it is exactly the effect that the wealthy Zhao family wants.
It can help them manipulate the draw and arrange the ranking they want.
It also lets everyone know that luck is much more important than strength! This will make everyone more superstitious about luck and reduce their ambition!
As the old saying goes: If the punishment is unknown, the power will be unfathomable, and the people will fear their superiors!
What this means is that as long as the law is not announced, its power will be endless, and the common people will not be able to guess it, and can only be afraid!
Luck, too!
Only unpredictable things are the most terrifying!
In fact, the military science category is pretty good.
The Zhao family, who specializes in liberal arts, went even further, even throwing away half of the qualification forms of a large number of applicants!
They call it bad luck! Recruiting him will also affect the fortune of their own wealthy family!
Soon, Jiang Fan's draw results came out.
The opponent in the battle is the best swordsman in this conference, Lei Wanshan!
As soon as the result came out, everyone started talking about it!
"Damn it! This guy is so unlucky! He runs into the favorite to win the championship right from the start. He's probably done for now!"
"Alas, who made him so crazy that he dared to kill someone from the Zhao family in public! Young Master Zhao had good intentions and let him into the finals. But the people below will definitely not let him go easily!"
"What a pity! He has such great talent but his brain is not working well. He has offended the Zhao family and will die miserably on the spot!" Everyone shook their heads and looked at Jiang Fan with pity.
You should know that in every conference, swords are used by the most people, resulting in extremely fierce competition, and the winners are usually the strongest in the entire civil and martial arts conference.
Among them, the strength that Lei Wanshan just demonstrated is no less than that of the late innate stage, and he even has the potential to be at the great perfection of the innate stage!
The Thunderbolt Blade Technique he used just now was so powerful that it actually moved the heavens and the earth. It was so powerful that it frightened his opponent into surrendering! It's no exaggeration to say that he is a near-champion!
After a while, the two of them came forward.
Jiang Fan looked at the bald, thick-browed middle-aged man holding a tiger-head machete in front of him. He didn't hide the sinister look on his face at all. He immediately understood his identity and said directly, "You are from the Zhao family, right?"
"Haha, kid, are you scared now? It's too late! I will use your dog head to sacrifice to the soul of my fifth brother!" Lei Wanshan did not refute and admitted it directly.
"It's not that I'm afraid, but when facing the Zhao family, I don't have to show mercy. If it's other people, I have to stop at the right time, which is really troublesome." Jiang Fan replied with a smile.
"Boy, you're looking for death!" Lei Wanshan was immediately furious when he heard this. He didn't expect Jiang Fan to be so arrogant when he was about to die. He immediately swung a machete with great force and chopped towards Jiang Fan quickly!
Wherever the broadsword passed, there were faint flashes of lightning. It was indeed that he had reached the realm of innate great perfection, and was only one step away from the realm of Martial Saint who could mobilize the power of heaven and earth!
It can be said that he is the strongest master Jiang Fan has ever encountered since entering the provincial capital!
He was also the strongest master Jiang Fan had ever encountered in Tiannan Province! Even stronger than the previous Master Ma who had forcibly broken through to the Great Perfection of the Innate Realm with the help of the Dark Stone!
Lei Wanshan's swordsmanship was very fast, and he kept pressing Jiang Fan, thinking that this would prevent Jiang Fan from having the chance to shoot!
But he was obviously overthinking it. Jiang Fan didn't even bother to use arrows. He just dodged Lei Wanshan's full-strength attack with his bare hands by simply leaning sideways. Lei Wanshan was so tired that he was breathless and furious.
"Is all you can do is hide? Useless thing! Then let's see how you can hide from this move!" Lei Wanshan sneered, and attacked with all his strength, using a killing move!
"Thunder is rolling in the sky!"
The next second, accompanied by the sound of "boom boom boom"!
Lei Wanshan's internal energy transformed into countless lightning bolts that exploded under the steel knife, instantly wrapping up Jiang Fan like an electric net, leaving him with no escape!
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