In May, the regional qualifiers officially began.

Schools throughout Tokyo were divided into different small areas for preliminary screening.

The rules of the regional qualifiers are that the first five games are played in full five innings, and winning three innings is considered a success. For the remaining games, you only need to win three innings. The order of the games is doubles No. 2, doubles No. 1, singles No. 3, singles No. 2, singles No. 1.

In the regional competition where Hyotei is located, there are a total of 12 teams participating, and 4 seeded schools will advance to the next round.

Seigaku is in another group of regional competitions.

This time, Jingguang and Keigo didn't play much.

Only two or three regular players were sent out, and the rest were non-regular players.

If the doubles team of Oshitari, Mukahi, Meido and Feng go into battle, they will go all out from the start.

If a non-starter is chosen for the doubles, then Hiyoshi will be the third singles player, Taki will be the second singles player, and Akutagawa or Feng will be the first singles player.

Bingdi has trained the strength of the next batch of reserve players to the greatest extent, and also ensured Bingdi's absolute victory!

Of course, as a singles player, Akutagawa had no chance to play except for the first five games of the first and second rounds, when he resolved the battle in 30 minutes.

For this reason, he even complained to Jingguang on the phone for a long time.

Atobe Keigo sat firmly in the supervisor's seat and did not participate in the competition.

Atobe Kagemitsu was hidden by Taro Sakaki as a trump card.

Therefore, he did not appear in the Hyotei team in the regional competition.

even so,

Hyotei Academy is still making great progress.

All five games were won 6:0 or 6:1, defeating all the rival schools in a row. Even when they were not the main team, each game took no more than half an hour.

It was very quick and smooth, and I was the first to secure a spot in the regional qualifiers.

The onlookers were all shocked.

"Although... although I know that Hyotei is very powerful, but... isn't he too strong?"

"No, last year, they weren't that good last year..."

A tennis player who was also present last year murmured: The strength of these starting players seems even more unfathomable than last year.

Throughout the entire regional qualifiers, no school allowed its starting players to play for more than 20 minutes!

"what happened?"

“It’s incredible!”

“They are even stronger than they were at the nationals last year!”

......

The onlookers were talking about it.

It's not like the people of Bingdi didn't hear it,

It's just that no one cares and no one wants to help them solve their problems.

After all, they have improved, that's a fact.

Hyotei Academy is determined to win the national championship this year.

Atobe Kagemitsu did not show up at the regional competition at all because he was making a very important ointment - "Black Jade Ointment"!

Of course, this name was chosen by Jingguang as a joke.

It's not as magical as the ones in martial arts legends, but its medicinal effect is very close.

Among the many traditional Chinese medicines, there is one that has a very similar effect to the "Black Jade Duanxu Paste" - Dipsacus asper.

Dipsacus root, also known as dragon bean, is bitter and slightly warm, and grows in valleys. It can treat typhoid fever, replenish deficiency, and is used for wounds, carbuncle injuries, fractures, and can repair tendons and bones. Long-term use can improve energy and strength.

"Ben Jing" records: It is used to treat typhoid fever, replenish deficiency, wounds, carbuncles, fractures, repair tendons and bones, and women's lactation difficulties. Long-term use can increase energy and strength.

As the name suggests, it can reconnect broken tendons and bones. Of course, it can also treat women's metrorrhagia, muscle growth, wrist injuries, bad blood, low back pain, and joint pain.

It is also recorded in "Bencao Gangmu": Dipsacus asper can help Qi, regulate blood, replenish the five labors and seven injuries, break up knots and blood stasis, reduce swelling and poison, treat intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, fistula, breast abscess, scrofula, bruises, all diseases of women before and after childbirth, yellow and swollen face, reduce urination, stop spermatorrhea, hematuria, fetal leakage, and cold uterus.

This also shows the wide range of functions of this medicine.

However, for Jingguang at present, its main function is to repair tendons and bones, and it is used for tendon injuries and fractures.

During Jingguang's study and travel abroad for more than a year, the herb Dipsacus asper was specifically and prominently explained by his teacher, and he was also asked to make it many times. It is a very useful medicine!

The medicine that had been prepared previously had been used up when they parted overseas. After Jingguang came back, he was busy training himself. In addition, the medicine Dipsacus asper had to be ordered two months in advance, so it only arrived recently.