In the blink of an eye, we arrived at the fencing competition.
According to custom, the four inner chambers first select five of the strongest disciples for the sword contest. The twenty disciples draw lots to compete in pairs to determine the final ranking. The higher the ranking, the more immortal materials can be obtained as rewards, and there is even a chance to receive sword skills from the headmaster. In the past thousand years, Tianjian Sect has produced seven great masters with Yuandan cultivation and above, including the current headmaster Yuying Zhenren. These seven great masters have won the first place in the sword contest of the year.
Therefore, for the more than one hundred disciples of Tianjian Sect, the fencing competition is the most important event in recent years. If they can get a good ranking in the fencing competition, not to mention the rewards of immortal materials, they can also stand out in the entire cultivation world.
Since the Tianjian Sect stipulates that only disciples over the age of sixteen are eligible to participate in the fencing competition, for young disciples like the eldest grandson Zijun and Yi Xichen, this is their first time to participate in a fencing competition, so they attach even greater importance to it.
The internal selection of each pavilion was carried out very quickly. Although only five winners could be selected from dozens or even hundreds of disciples, the disciples of each pavilion usually practiced together and participated in various trials together. The elders and the disciples themselves knew who was strong and who was weak. Therefore, it was not all the disciples of the pavilion who actually participated in the competition. Instead, the elders first designated ten strong men. After the competition among these ten people, the five strongest ones were left to represent the pavilion in the fencing competition.
In just two days, the elders of each pavilion selected five disciples to attend the conference, and sent the list of five to Shennong Temple in the afternoon for confirmation by the headmaster.
There was no doubt that the eldest grandson, Zijun, and Yi Xichen were both on the list of the top five candidates in the Medicine Pavilion. Yao Budu sent the list to the Shennong Temple, and they waited outside the Shennong Temple. According to the rules of previous years, after True Man Yuying confirmed the list, the selected disciples would draw lots to decide their opponents for tomorrow's competition.
After noon, Yi Xichen and his eldest grandson, Zijun, set out for Shennong Temple. They had been preparing for many days, their swords had been strengthened, and their clothes had been changed. The eldest grandson, Zijun, was very calm. In his memory, the sword competition was nothing, and he had seen bigger competitions. But for Yi Xichen, this was the biggest competition he had ever participated in, so he remained excited.
"Zijun, who do you think the other three pavilions will choose? Senior Brother Lu should be on the list."
"The members of the Sword Refining Pavilion are Lu Ziyao, Xiao Kui, Wang Qingqiao, Jin Cheng, and Yue Xiaorou; the members of the Sword Guarding Pavilion are Gongsun Di, Bian Liang, Xia Fangshu, Qiu Kui, and Huang Tianbai; the members of the Sword Repairing Pavilion are Shi Xi, Wu Mo, Zhao Tang, Zhao Qing, and Yang Qianshou."
Yi Xichen asked casually, just wanting to hear what Changsun Zijun thought were the most powerful disciples in the other three pavilions. He did not expect Changsun Zijun to directly name out the names of the other fifteen people, and he could not help but be very surprised.
For all the young disciples, the sword competition was their first opportunity to compete with other inner-chamber disciples. Before this, they had only heard of other inner-chamber disciples but had never seen their abilities, or had only met them occasionally. For example, all the disciples knew that the eldest grandson Jun was a natural spiritual root, but no one knew how powerful he was without fighting him, so the disciples of the Sword Refining Pavilion dared to easily provoke him just because he was a disciple of the Medicine Pavilion.
Yi Xichen asked: "Have you seen the list?"
The eldest grandson Jun shook his head. Because he had eight years of memory, he had participated in the fencing competition, so he had some impressions. However, these memories were probably just his delusions.
Yi Xichen understood what was going on by looking at his expression, but didn't say anything.
Soon, they arrived at the Shennong Temple.
Below the chronology of the Shennong Temple, a list of twenty people had been posted. All the selected disciples were waiting outside the temple, awaiting the next draw.
The two of them went to look at the list first. Refining Sword Pavilion: Lu Ziyao, Xiao Kui, Wang Qingqiao, Jin Cheng, Yue Xiaorou...
Yi Xichen was startled and turned around to look at his eldest grandson Jun, who also looked thoughtful.
Yi Xichen immediately looked down again. The names of the fifteen people in the Sword Guarding Pavilion... the Sword Repairing Pavilion... and the other three pavilions were exactly the same as what his eldest grandson Zijun had just said!
Yi Xichen found it unbelievable, but his eldest grandson Zijun felt very complicated.
When the truth and falsehood are clearly distinguished, it is not difficult to distinguish. However, when the truth and falsehood are mixed together, even the smartest person in the world finds it difficult to distinguish them clearly. The story written by Jindan Da Yine is a fan fiction that roughly follows the original work. The eldest grandson Jun recalls the past, some of which are absurd and ridiculous, while others are natural. It is difficult for him to believe that everything is false, but the facts also clearly show that it is impossible for everything to be true.
Before he saw the list, the eldest grandson Jun hoped that reality would match his memory, so that he would not be too absurd; but he also hoped that reality would continue to go against his memory. Since it was wrong, he would simply deny it all and start over. The confusion of truth and falsehood was too confusing. So now that he found that the list matched, he was both happy and upset.
"You are going too far!"
"How ridiculous! All we want is justice. How can we say that we are deceiving others?"
The eldest grandson, Zijun, and Yi Xichen were so amazed by the match between the names on the list that they did not notice the disciples' situation. When they heard the people arguing, they looked back and found that there were more than the twenty disciples waiting there.
Disciples from different inner chambers wore different uniforms, so even though Yi Xichen didn't recognize them all, just by looking at their robes, he discovered that there were only five people on the list from both the Medicine Chamber and the Sword Repairing Chamber, while there were ten and eight people from the Sword Refining Chamber and the Sword Guarding Chamber, respectively.
The eldest grandson Zijun and Yi Xichen looked at each other, put the matter of the list aside, and walked over.
"Senior Brother Lu, what happened? Why are there so many people coming to your Sword Refining Pavilion?" Yi Xichen asked.
Lu Ziyao looked guilty and sighed: "This... I really can't accept it."
On the ground, the disciples of the Medicine Pavilion and the Sword Repairing Pavilion stood on one side, and the disciples of the Sword Refining Pavilion and the Sword Guarding Pavilion stood on the other side. The two sides were at loggerheads. The disciples of the Sword Refining Pavilion and the Sword Guarding Pavilion had high cultivation levels and many of them came. In the confrontation, they clearly had the upper hand, and some disciples of the Medicine Pavilion couldn't help crying.
After listening to their arguments for a while, and with Lu Ziyao's explanation, the eldest grandson Zijun and Yi Xichen understood the current situation. It turned out that after the four elders selected the five strongest disciples in their pavilions according to the custom of previous years, the disciples of the Sword Refining Pavilion and the Sword Guarding Pavilion thought that it was unfair to divide the quotas of the four pavilions equally. The disciples of the Sword Refining Pavilion and the Sword Guarding Pavilion were more outstanding, so the quotas should be increased, or the quotas of the Sword Repairing Pavilion and the Medicine Pavilion should be reduced.
You have to know that as long as you are qualified to participate in the sword competition, you are recognized as the 20 strongest disciples of Tianjian Sect. Even if you lose every game and only rank 20th, you can still get a lot of spiritual stones and immortal materials as rewards. So these 20 places are extremely precious. For the disciples of the Refining Sword Pavilion who think they are the proud sons of heaven, being treated the same as the disciples of the Medicine Pavilion is simply intolerable.
The two sides were arguing fiercely when several elders came out of Shennong Temple and someone shouted, "The headmaster is here!"
All the disciples stepped back quickly and saluted the master and the four elders. The eldest grandson Zijun and Yi Xichen also returned to the team of the medicine pavilion.
The head of the Heavenly Sword Sect, Jade Immortal, has a square face and two thick eyebrows. He is a serious and stubborn person. He does not accept disciples. He is obsessed with swordsmanship and usually only cares about his own cultivation. Only when something big happens in the sect, he comes out to take charge of the situation. Today's incident was initiated by the disciples of the two major pavilions. Whether the elders Qiu Jian of the Sword Refining Pavilion and Lin Zhen of the Sword Guarding Pavilion favor their own disciples or convey the disciples' voices, at least they did not suppress the matter, but allowed the disciples to come to the outside of the Shennong Temple to build momentum and report the situation to Jade Immortal.
True Man Yuying looked at the disciples standing on the sword-practicing ground with a sharp gaze: "I have heard about the matter, Lu Ziyao, Gongsun Di, do you think that the rules of our Tianjian Sect for the sword-fighting competition are unreasonable?" He pointed to the two senior disciples of the Sword Refining Pavilion and the Sword Guarding Pavilion, asking them to represent the opinions of all the disciples.
Lu Ziyao looked embarrassed and said nothing. Although he admitted that the disciples of the Sword Refining Pavilion were undoubtedly stronger than those of the other three pavilions, rules were rules and had their reasons. How could they be changed at will?
Gongsun Di, however, stood firm: "Yes, Master, we think this is unfair and hope that you can make the decision and change the rules."
Sun Xiaoqian, a disciple of the Medicine Pavilion, whose eyes were already red from crying, pulled Yi Xichen's sleeve and asked for help: "Brother Yi, what should we do?"
In Yaoge, the one with the deepest cultivation is undoubtedly the eldest grandson Zijun, but he is not a person who likes to argue with others. The most eloquent person is Yi Xichen, and the poor disciples of Yaoge can only hope that Yi Xichen can win back a city for them.
Yi Xichen sneered. Yuying Zhenren's tone sounded like he was going to call the disciples who had made trouble to account, but his presence here made his stance very clear. If he really believed that the sect rules could not be changed, he could have just refuted a few elders in Shennong Hall and let them teach the disciples on their own. The fact that he came out to ask questions in person showed that changing the rules was not beyond questioning.
The most protective of a person is a person who does not take poison. He took a step forward and cursed with a red and white face: "Gong Sun Di, you!"
Yuying Zhenren raised her hand to stop him: "Elders, there is no need to argue anymore. I have already heard your speeches in the hall just now. Now I want to hear what the disciples have to say."
This statement further encouraged the disciples of the Sword Refining Pavilion and the Sword Guarding Pavilion. Although Lu Ziyao did not speak, Xiao Kui and others rushed to speak.
Xiao Kui'e fiercely glared at his eldest grandson Zijun and Yi Xichen, stepped forward and said, "Master, the rules of the sword competition have long been outdated. The four major sects each select five disciples. The twenty selected people represent the twenty strongest disciples of our Tianjian Sect. However, the four major sects have different strengths, so how can the selection be divided equally?"
"Junior Brother Xiao is right." Bian Liang of the Shoujian Pavilion said, "To qualify to participate in the sword competition is already a great honor. We represent not only the four major pavilions, but our entire Tianjian Sect. If our Tianjian Sect competes with other sects in sword competitions and debates, and other sects think that the top 20 people of our Tianjian Sect are no better than them, wouldn't that be a disgrace to our Tianjian Sect's reputation!"
The disciples of the two great pavilions all reconsidered the matter.
The disciples of the Sword Repairing Pavilion and the Medicine Pavilion could only repeat over and over again that this was the rule. Compared to Xiao Kui and others who often took it as a matter of sect honor, it was obvious that they could not stand the test of time.
This incident did not happen in the impression of Changsun Zijun. The fanfiction author made some choices about the original plot, and all the plots that were useless in promoting the main CP relationship were deleted. Now he looked at the arrogant appearance of the dozen disciples, sneered in his heart, and was about to draw his sword - the arrogant and cool Changsun Zijun specializes in dealing with all kinds of dissatisfaction. Since we are talking about strength, then let's talk with strength. Whether it is Lu Ziyao or Gongsun Di, he doesn't take them seriously.
At this time, Yi Xichen held his hand. The eldest grandson Zijun looked at him in confusion, and Yi Xichen shook his head at him.
Yi Xichen knew the strength of the eldest grandson Zijun best. He believed that it would not be difficult for the eldest grandson Zijun to win the championship in the fencing competition. However, this matter concerned the entire medicine pavilion, so it was not appropriate for the eldest grandson Zijun to come forward.
So Yi Xichen stepped forward, cleared his throat, and said with a smile: "May I ask all the brothers, since you think the rules are unreasonable, then what was the basis for the young master Fenglian to set such a rule and use it for a thousand years?"
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