Chapter 11: Praying Mantis Cicada
Chapter 11 Praying Mantis Catch Cicada
Although Liu Ruyan was a little confused, he was able to reach the top four in the Grand Competition, and he was also an outstanding student among the martial arts academy disciples, and he was by no means a stupid person.
She has the feeling that Wu Yuan deliberately lost to herself.
only.
"Why? Doesn't Wu Yuan want to go to Yunwu Palace?" Liu Ruyan was in a state of confusion: "Besides, if he is really a disguise, his strength is too terrifying."
The more she thought about it, the more startled she became.
Recalling the last shot, if Wu Yuan really provoked it on purpose? If you really want to fight, I'm afraid that you can kill her with three or two moves!
too scary!
However, there was a lot of confusion in her heart, and Liu Ruyan's face showed no strangeness, as if there was only surprise, and she was lucky to have won this battle.
How many people can refuse the opportunity to enter Yunwu Palace?
"This little girl, really didn't notice? Or is she also an actress?" Wu Yuan was calm in his heart, but his face was full of annoyance.
It seemed that he really regretted losing this battle.
Hoo!
Wu Yuan got up, his face was livid, and he quickly walked into the waiting area with his head down. Wu Sheng and Luo He, who had been waiting all this time, came up immediately.
"Brother Yuan, what's going on?" Wu Sheng couldn't help but ask.
"Brother Yuan, don't be discouraged, you are younger than them, it's normal to lose once." Luo He comforted.
"It's okay." Wu Yuan shook his head, forcing a smile on his face.
"Hmph, Wu Yuan, I thought you were so strong, but looking at it now, you are going to Nanmeng Martial Academy just like us." A sarcasm sounded: "Senior Brother Xu is the one who entered Yunwu Temple this year!"
Everyone in the arena looked sideways.
The speaker was a martial arts disciple who was following Xu Yuanhan.
As the son of the guarding general, Xu Yuanhan himself is strong enough, and he has a group of followers in the martial arts academy.
Especially those descendants of the "Nanmeng Army" sergeants, naturally willing to follow him.
"Cheng Xiao, are you looking for smoke?" Wu Sheng glared.
Others are afraid of Xu Yuanhan, but Wu Sheng is not.
His father was the centurion of the 'City Guard Army', and his status was far inferior to the guarding general.
The guarding army and the Nanmeng army are naturally irresistible.
As the two important military forces in the county, they restrain and oppose each other, which is deliberately maintained by the senior management of Hengyunzong.
"Wu Yuan, the person who takes good care of you." Xu Yuanhan suddenly spoke, his voice indifferent.
"Wu Sheng is my brother, not mine." Wu Yuan smiled and said, "Also, I hope you take good care of your dogs and don't bite people randomly."
"A dog that bites a man should be smoked."
"Let's go." Wu Yuan strode directly towards the special spectator seats for martial arts disciples. Wu Sheng and Luo He looked at each other and smiled, and hurriedly followed.
"Call me a dog?" The martial arts disciple named Cheng Xiao seemed to have just woken up and wanted to chase after him.
"Be quiet." Xu Yuanhan frowned and said, "The decisive battle is imminent, if you make any noise, go to the viewing platform."
"Senior Brother Xu, I was wrong." Cheng Xiao smiled mischievously.
Xu Yuanhan looked at Wu Yuan's back in the distance, and was also a little puzzled.
Wu Yuan, did you accidentally lose to Ruyan Liu?
"do not care!"
"Now, the only thing that hinders me from entering Yunwu Palace is Liu Ruyan." Xu Yuanhan took a deep breath.
It is his desire to enter the Yunwu Palace.
Ruyan Liu? He never paid attention to it.
…
"I actually lost."
'Huan Xinyan', who was watching the battle from one side of the seat, frowned slightly: "Liu Ruyan's strength is good, only one step behind Xu Yuanhan, but in the previous big competitions, she was obviously not Wu Yuan's opponent."
The outside world doesn't know much about it, only looking at Xiaobi in the past, they will only think that Wu Yuan, Xu Yuanhan, and Liu Ruyan are about equal in strength.
As the teacher of the martial arts academy, Huan Xinyan saw the last martial arts competition with his own eyes.
Wu Yuan seems to have only a certain advantage, but Liu Ruyan and Xu Yuanhan are actually powerless to fight back.
"Could it be that Wu Yuan lost the duel on purpose?" Huan Xinyan was a little surprised: "It's unavoidable, it's too real."
Deliberately lose, not difficult!
But losing just right, so that everyone can't see the slightest flaw, is more difficult than winning directly!
Huan Xinyan was not sure that Wu Yuan lost on purpose.
... "Wu Yuan lost?" A trace of surprise flashed in the eyes of General Xu who was sitting at the table.
"hehe."
Dean Zhang smiled, and said softly: "General, as I said, Wu Yuan knows how to advance and retreat. In this way, no one can say anything."
"Yes." General Xu nodded, he understood what Dean Zhang meant.
If Wu Yuan directly gave up and refused to participate in the competition, even if there is an excuse of 'age', as long as someone reports to the patrol team, there is always a risk.
Was publicly defeated in the competition? And it wasn't defeated by Xu Yuanhan, everyone was speechless!
This is an upright plan.
"However, did Wu Yuan lose to Ruyan Liu on purpose? Could it be that Ruyan Liu cooperated on purpose?" General Xu frowned again.
As a fourth-rank expert, how vicious is his vision?
Just now, Liu Ruyan's shot that defeated Wu Yuan was as fast as lightning, and it didn't seem like a fake at all in his eyes.
Not only him.
The six in-stream masters who inspected the team did not find anything abnormal.
"General, when the water is clear, there will be no fish." Dean Zhang said softly.
General Xu pondered for a while: "Okay, I understand, this matter, let's stop here, now, it's up to Yuan Han to defeat Liu Ruyan."
"Yuanhan's physical strength is extraordinary, and he has a clear advantage in strength." Dean Zhang said confidently: "Although that girl Ruyan is not bad, she is obviously weaker."
He asked himself that he knew his disciples very well.
Available only after a quarter of an hour.
"Losing!"
"Xu Yuanhan, actually lost to Liu Ruyan?" Dean Zhang was stunned: "How is this possible?"
General Xu's face was livid.
The two were shocked, but neither noticed.
Not far from them, the middle-aged man in a blue official robe on the central seat showed an imperceptible smile and whispered to himself: "Xu Shouyi, anyone can enter the Yunwu Palace, only you My son can't do it!"
he.
It was Jiang Dongque, the county guard of Licheng, a third-rank official under Hengyunzong's command.
"General Xu, it's a pity for Yuanhan." Jiang Dongque said loudly, with a trace of regret on his face, as if he really felt sorry for Xu Yuanhan.
"Thank you, Governor Jiang, for your concern." General Xu's face was cold, and he immediately got up and left the table, followed by the accompanying generals.
Leave the officials of the county guard, generals and patrol personnel.
"Please inspector Liu to 'give an order' to the first person in the competition, and I will give him silver later." Jiang County Sheriff smiled.
Yun Wu Ling, holding it can enter Yun Wu Palace.
Five hundred taels of silver is a reward from the sect.
... The many wealthy people and ordinary people who watched the ceremony from all directions in the arena were talking about it.
"Ruyan Liu won!"
"She actually defeated Xu Yuanhan, the last shot was really a thrill."
"If you win, you win! After so many years, a woman finally entered the Yunwu Palace after I left the city." Almost no one expected it.
Liu Ruyan, an unremarkable little girl, unexpectedly defeated Wu Yuan and Xu Yuanhan, the two favorites one after another, and won the first place in the big competition.
Although there were many female martial arts experts in Middle-earth, the natural disadvantages of the body made the number of female martial arts experts relatively rare.
On one side of the ring.
"Xu Yuanhan, actually lost to Liu Ruyan?" Luo He and Wu Sheng couldn't believe it.
It should be noted that before Wu Yuan won the first place in the martial arts competition, Xu Yuanhan had won the first place more than ten times in a row.
Under the circumstances that Wu Yuan had already been eliminated, he actually lost.
It's a shipwreck in the gutter!
"The boat overturned in the gutter? No!" Wu Yuan frowned slightly: "Liu Ruyan, the set of marksmanship she used is completely different from the marksmanship I used in the battle, and it has never been used in the martial arts academy."
This set of marksmanship is not very brilliant, and even has many omissions, which are full of fatal weaknesses in Wu Yuan's eyes.
But her opponent was Xu Yuanhan who was only fifteen years old.
Wu Yuan figured out after a little deduction that this set of marksmanship, which has never been revealed, was probably practiced by Liu Ruyan specifically to target Xu Yuanhan.
Just enough to restrain Xu Yuanhan's superiority in weapons and strength.
In the end, one trick narrowly won!
"That's right, Liu Ruyan and I used very little physical strength to fight against the enemy, while Xu Yuanhan used up a lot of energy in the previous battles." Wu Yuan secretly said: "And judging from the confrontation between the two, Xu Yuanhan obviously underestimated the enemy. It fell into a disadvantage."
On the other hand, Liu Ruyan was extremely crazy when he fought against each other.
Mental arithmetic but no mind!
Physical strength has a certain advantage.
The difference in strength between the two sides is not that big. In the end, Xu Yuanhan was defeated and he was not wronged.
This is a duel between warriors, strength is not absolute, performance on the spot and will to fight will affect the final result.
"Really, man is not as good as God." Wu Yuan shook his head slightly.
His original intention of participating in the Grand Competition was to confirm this matter and avoid other risks, so as not to attract the attention of Hengyunzong's high-level officials.
It also subtracts the concerns of General Xu and Dean Zhang.
For Wu Yuan, he doesn't want to waste time on these trivial matters.
But in the end, Xu Yuanhan failed to win the first place?
"It's troublesome." Wu Yuan frowned and said to himself, with a trace of coldness in his eyes: "I hope, the Xu family, can be more sensible."
He doesn't want to cause trouble, but if he can't avoid it, he can only find a way to settle it.
…
The big competition came to an end, and the tens of thousands of spectators dispersed one after another, without causing any disturbance.
Liu Ruyan entered the Yunwu Palace.
Jun Zongwuyuan also began to confirm the final list of the 'Nammengwuyuan'.
As expected by many martial arts disciples, Wu Yuan chose to refuse!
"Next year, I will participate in the Martial Academy Grand Competition again, and try my best to enter the Cloud Martial Hall." Wu Yuan had a good reason.
Sufficiently, the admissions teachers at Nanmeng Wuyuan did not refute.
If there is hope to go to Yunwu Palace, who would like to go to Nanmeng Wuyuan?
"Brother Yuan, we had to part ways, and I thought you could go to Nanmeng Martial Academy with us." Wu Sheng said regretfully.
"yes!"
Luo He said with emotion: "Brother Ruoyuan goes to Nanmeng Martial Academy, where the Wu clan is located, and we will be more comfortable then."
"The Wu family is not much stronger than your Luo family. Your father is the head of the family." Wu Yuan punched Luo He in the chest and said with a smile, "Okay, let's all work hard."
"It's only been three years since I went to Nanmeng Martial Academy. The conditions there are good, far surpassing the county's Zongwu Academy. Practice hard and strive to become a martial artist when you come back."
Becoming a sixth-rank martial artist is the minimum requirement for heirs of many big families.
"Brother Yuan, I will definitely work hard to become a master." Wu Sheng was full of fighting spirit: "At the end of the year, see you when we come back."
"Warrior?" Luo He had a bitter face.
Wu Yuan and Wu Sheng looked at Luo He, but laughed.
…
Many martial arts disciples dispersed, and Dean Zhang did not ask Wu Yuan alone for questioning. Naturally, Wu Yuan would not ask for trouble, and left the martial arts academy directly.
And just arrived at the door.
"Patriarch, mother?" Wu Yuan stared in astonishment at the carriage not far away.
Patriarch Wu Qiming and his mother Wanqin are waiting for him.
During the big competition in the morning, many people from the Wu family came to watch the battle.
Although Wu Yuan did not win the first place, the top four results are also exciting enough.
It was just that time was tight at that time, and Wu Yuan didn't communicate much with the patriarch Wu Qiming and the others at that time.
"Patriarch, mother." Wu Yuan strode up directly.
"Going to Nanmeng Wuyuan?" Wu Qiming asked directly.
"No! I will participate in the Grand Competition next year and go to Yunwu Hall." Wu Yuan said.
"Alright." Wu Qiming nodded and said, "Yunwu Palace is much better than Nanmeng Wuyuan. I support you to fight for another year."
Wu Yuan nodded.
Patriarch, don't be confused about big things.
"Patriarch, you and my mother are here, why don't you just ask about this matter." Wu Yuan frowned.
This matter was discussed long before the Dabi.
"We are here for your marriage." Wu Qiming said directly.
ps: Thanks to the leaders of "Song Chuyu" and "Wenxuan Emperor" for their rewards, they are all the old leaders of the previous book, thank you very much
(end of this chapter)