I can see the blood bar and my purity is extremely high

Chapter 461: I didn’t become the champion because I didn’t get enough votes.

Four days later, the martial arts imperial examination was held as scheduled.

It was different from what Lu Wenwu had imagined, the ancient imperial examination was a simple competition to see who could win.

The preliminary projects of the martial arts examination are more like a screening.

It is indeed necessary to sift through it.

Since there was no restriction on cultivation level in the Houtu Empire's martial arts examinations, martial artists from all walks of life across the country flocked to the imperial capital.

Not to mention the inns in the city, even the stables in the inns, the woodshed and water rooms in the city, and even the villages next door that were a little closer were already full.

If a warrior has not entered the Bone Tempering Realm, his digestive ability will be greatly enhanced and less filth will be excreted.

The military examination has probably not been held yet, but the Houtu Empire can already consider moving the capital to another city as the imperial capital.

Warriors have larger appetites than ordinary people.

With so many warriors just eating and drinking, if you don’t have some strength, you really don’t dare to take part in this level of martial arts examination.

At this time in the imperial capital, there were hundreds of thousands of warriors scanned by Lu Wenwu's spiritual sense alone. Most of them were flesh-refining warriors who came out to try their luck.

There are very few warriors in the Bone Tempering Realm, only about ten thousand.

As for the Pulse Forging Realm, which is regarded as the master among masters in the eyes of ordinary people, there are only a hundred or so of them.

Come to think of it.

If so many warriors all have to rely on fighting in the ring to gradually determine their rankings, then given the productivity of this era, there will really be a lot of fighting.

The right way is to eliminate the vast majority of talents as quickly as possible.

As the first stage of the martial arts examination, the assessment items are simple and unpretentious.

It's simply the degree of vitality of the blood.

Regardless of one’s state of mind, gender, age or status, as long as the level of Qi and blood is sufficient, one will be allowed to pass.

If the Qi and blood are not strong enough, even the Meridian Forging Realm will not be effective.

In fact, among the warriors who came to participate in the martial arts examination, one-third of the Pulse Forging Realm were eliminated.

Most of them are old warriors who are already old and have passed the peak of their cultivation, and whose energy and blood have begun to decline.

Perhaps they can even burst out with great strength if they cheer up.

But in terms of the vitality of their Qi and blood, many of them have weakened to the point where they are not even as good as those at the peak of physical training.

Perhaps whether a warrior has sufficient qi and blood cannot determine whether he is strong.

But whether the qi and blood are sufficient can definitely determine whether a warrior still has enough drive and potential, even if it is the kind that cannot be developed until death.

The blood and energy test in the first stage eliminated more than 99 percent of the warriors, leaving only a handful of thousands.

Except for dozens of Vein Forging Warriors and nearly a hundred Flesh Refining Realm warriors with extremely strong Qi and blood, the rest are all experts in Bone Tempering Realm.

Lu Wenwu is one of them.

He simulated the Qi and blood strength of a Bone Tempering Realm and passed it easily with his youthful appearance and sturdy build.

All warriors who enter the second level have one common characteristic.

That is youth.

None of them is old, and the oldest is only over 40 years old. They are still at the end of their prime and have the possibility to fight for progress.

Once you are over fifty, your Qi and blood will uncontrollably decline.

Even with rare and precious medicine, it can only delay a few years. This decline due to age is irreversible.

Unless one is fortunate enough to cultivate a breath of innate fetal breath and enter the innate realm, prolonging one's life by a hundred years, one can continue to maintain the peak of qi and blood and strive for a higher realm.

What Lu Wenwu had not expected at all was that the Houtu Empire announced that all warriors who entered the second level would have the opportunity to participate in the Divine Weapon Ceremony and try to make the national divine weapon recognize its master.

Lu Wenwu originally thought that the Houtu Empire would be more restrained. At least they would wait until there were only a few dozen people left before letting everyone try, right?
Are these two thousand people qualified?
Those who know about it think that it is an attempt to let the magic weapon recognize its master, while those who don’t know think that it is waiting in line here to advance to the next level!

However, what surprised Lu Wenwu even more was.

The Houtu Empire has almost made it clear to everyone: I’m going to reveal my cards now. I’m not going to act any more. I just have ulterior motives, so what?

However, no warrior chose to withdraw. Instead, they became more and more fanatical, as if the Houtu Empire was really planning to give the national treasure to someone other than the royal family.

The excitement of the group made Lu Wenwu somewhat suspicious. Did Xiaobao and he make a wrong judgment?

Or have these people gone crazy trying to grab a possible chance to prolong their lives, and are willing to risk their lives for that innate ability to fly high?
Lu Wenwu didn't know about this.

At least from the analysis of the Eye of True Vision, these warriors were so excited that they didn't even have any suspicion and were incredibly carefree.

The second stage of the martial arts imperial examination seemed a bit abstract.

The Thick Earth Empire took out a long box that looked like a blood pressure monitor, with a rectangular groove inserted at one end of the box.

There are dense scales on the groove, and inside is a stone ball the size of a baseball.

The testing method is to put your head against the other end of the box without a groove, and input qi and blood power into the box. As long as the ball can be pushed up to a high enough scale, it is considered a success.

The three realms correspond to three different standards, and you will be qualified if you pass them.

The other contestants had no idea what was going on and just followed the instructions.

Lu Wenwu felt it was a bit abstract.

The people in this world don't know what mental power is, and they don't practice it, but they have figured out a way to roughly detect mental power.

This instrument, which is made of special materials but is simply made, is used to detect the strength of the mental power contained in the energy and blood.

Testing mental strength, this is normal.

It is not normal to detect mental strength in this world.

Because the warriors in this world do not cultivate their souls, they do not know what mental power is.

It is also useless for the advancement of the martial arts system.

So the question is, why test something that is not used?
If there are warriors who realize that mental power is a good thing and needs to be transformed through soul cultivation, then why is there no corresponding technique in this world?

Even if there is no practice method, there is no information at all?
This is obviously not reasonable.

Lu Wenwu calmly displayed his pulse-forging level of mental strength and passed the test again with ease.

No one else suspected him of cheating.

First of all, no one knows what this test is actually about.

Secondly, is.
Isn't it normal to have a hidden trick when traveling around the world?

Are there still honest boys these days who would start talking to each other as soon as they meet?

The number of people eliminated in this stage was much smaller, and in the end only about 400 people were left.

All members passed the Vein Forging Realm, and only thirteen people passed the Flesh Refining Realm, and the rest were in the Bone Refining Realm.

In the third level, it’s finally time for the classic one-on-one fighting arena battle.

It's not the kind of fight where you have to sign a life-or-death agreement. As a martial arts exam that requires the whole country's strength, the officials actually ordered everyone to put friendship first and competition second, and both sides should stop when the competition is over.

It is expressly prohibited to maim or severely injure opponents in the ring.

If it were just this extent, it could still be considered understandable.

After all, we may be working together in the future, and as comrades in the army, we should not hurt the harmony.

But the following rules are a bit confusing.

If you severely injure or kill your opponent in the game, even if it is not intentional, your score will be greatly deducted and your priority in participating in the Divine Weapon Recognition Ceremony will be greatly reduced.

In serious cases, the offender will be directly deprived of the qualification to attempt to claim the national sacred weapon, and will only be allowed to participate in the sacred weapon ceremony to watch.

Even the top martial arts champion is still like this.

At the same time, although the martial arts competition is conducted according to traditional rules, the competition will continue until only one person remains.

However, the title of martial arts champion and the ranking in the Divine Weapon Recognition Ceremony at the Divine Weapon Festival are determined by the judges' scores.

In other words, even if you can sweep all the contestants, you may not necessarily be the champion.

This suddenly gave Lu Wenwu a strange sense of déjà vu.

He remembered that he seemed to have seen a similar thing somewhere.

It seemed like in the final of a football match, the opponent scored more than a dozen goals, but in the end, because the number of votes was not as high as the other team, he ended up being the runner-up.

There are more than 400 people in the competition, and it takes an extremely long time just to complete one round of competition.

In addition, the competition schedule cannot be arranged too tightly, and participants must be given enough time to rest and recover, so the entire competition process becomes longer.

After about two months, the GDP around the imperial city increased greatly and the economy achieved substantial development.

This martial arts imperial examination has finally come to the final battle for the championship and runner-up.

One of them is naturally Lu Wenwu who is disguised as a Pulse Forging Realm expert.

For him who can flexibly control every muscle fiber and even blood and flesh cell in his body, this is not difficult at all.

The other party is a real genius in the Pulse Forging Realm. At the age of thirty, he has already cultivated to the peak of the Pulse Forging Realm and is only one step away from the Innate Realm.

But no matter how talented you are, it's useless in front of Lu Wenwu.

After a "performance" of trying his best to release the sea, Lu Wenwu and his opponent fought repeatedly for thousands of rounds, and finally "narrowly won" by half a move before "exhaustion", and took the lead among many warriors.

It also presented a thrilling WWE from another world to the many onlookers at the scene.

How does it feel for Lu Wenwu to be the top martial arts champion?
The answer is: I don’t know.

Because he is not the top martial arts champion.

Just like the rules mentioned before.

Although he defeated everyone and was the strongest genius of the younger generation in Houtu Empire, his score from the judges was not ideal, so he didn't even get the title of third place.

Just barely made it into the top ten.

Many viewers expressed their dissatisfaction for him, believing that this ranking was absolutely a shady deal and demanded a re-ranking.

But under the suppression of the aura of an innate master, all criticisms quickly disappeared and ceased to exist.

Lu Wenwu himself didn't really care about this ranking.

As long as one can participate in the so-called Divine Weapon Festival, nothing else matters.

However, there was one thing that made Lu Wenwu feel a little strange.

Among those who spoke up for him, there were no warriors, only ordinary people.

In the past, whether it was the opponents who were easily defeated by him, or those onlookers who were eliminated in the first round, they all shouted the slogan "We, the warriors, should cultivate our virtues and cultivate ourselves."

There are also some other slogans that are not so neat, most of which also show the integrity and backbone of the warriors.

Basically, they are the kind that say "I have pride, I am not a vulgar person" and so on.

But when it really came to the issue of the national defense weapon recognizing its master, there was not a single warrior who spoke up for Lu Wenwu.

Even among the onlookers, no warrior pointed out that this way of judging was unfair, and they seemed to have completely accepted it - including the middle-aged warrior who had risked his life to speak up for him when he entered the city.

It was as if in this matter, all the simplicity and honesty of the honest middle-aged man had disappeared without a trace, and he had become a completely different person.

This made Lu Wenwu extremely surprised.

What do you mean?
Every warrior in the entire city is an award-winning actor and a double-faced person?
Are they all hypocrites who say one thing and do another?
Lu Wenwu had already scanned the martial arts examination site with his Eye of True Vision, and found that these martial artists truly all agreed with this outrageous rule, and no one felt that Lu Wenwu was being treated unfairly.

This is the case.
It's hard to describe.

If it was a matter involving their own interests, Lu Wenwu could understand why the warriors kept silent.

It's better to be prudent and protect yourself.

But those warriors who were eliminated in the first round or even didn't participate in the competition, and just came to watch, didn't say a word. Is this a bit
It doesn't make sense to cover it up with the fear of being repaid later.

Even the warriors at the Forging Veins Realm are afraid of it, but the common people are not?
This is unreasonable!

After returning to the inn, Lu Wenwu and Xiaobao discussed the matter again.

Apart from speculating that the national treasure might have some ideological influence on the warriors within the range of luck, the man and the cat really couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.

It's really too weird.

What scene have I not seen? (crossed out)

I have never seen such a scene!

With such mixed feelings, Lu Wenwu and many other warriors who had competed with him were summoned to the palace to meet the emperor of the Houtu Empire and prepare to participate in the Divine Weapon Ceremony.

As they entered the palace, the guards took away everyone's weapons.

Xiaobao and Maomao stayed in Lu Wenwu's inner world, watching the live broadcast through the images projected by Lu Wenwu.

The imperial palace of Houtu Empire is somewhat similar to the palace of ancient Shenzhou in structure and layout, but it is different from the imperial palace of ancient Shenzhou at the back.

It is not a classic imperial garden, nor is it a religious place for worshiping Buddhism or Taoism.

Instead, it is a giant sacrificial site that is countless times larger than the altar of heaven in ancient China.

The altar is a three-tier open-air circular platform, large enough to accommodate thousands of people standing at the same time.

The surface of the altar is paved with green jade, and the circles of white jade columns and railings are not carved with dragons symbolizing the majesty of the emperor, but instead with snakes one after another!
The eyes of each snake were inlaid with enchanting rubies, and the tips of the two fangs were a breathtaking purple, more enchanting than amethyst and more gorgeous than violet.

Right in the center of the top floor of this circular altar, a pitch-black snake sword floats above it with its tip pointing downward.

At the end of the hilt is a lifelike black snake head.

The entire sword seemed to be an extension of its limbs.

This is the Black Snake Sword, the guardian weapon of the Houtu Empire!

(End of this chapter)