The chivalrous spirit is fickle

There was a sound of people gasping for air from the crowd. They looked at the fallen Yulin League disciple and suddenly felt a chill in their crotch. They involuntarily closed their legs.

"How dare you hurt someone, you thief!"

At this moment, another figure appeared and shouted loudly. It was a breeze with a sword. In an instant, a sword light was cut out and attacked Shi Gu.

Shi Gu narrowed his eyes slightly, moved his lips slightly, and spit out a sword light, instantly cutting off the attacking sword light.

At the same time, an old man in a gray robe descended from the sky, looked at Shi Gu coldly, and said in a cold voice,

"The five major sects have an agreement that any private fights are prohibited during the martial arts convention. How dare you hurt someone in public? Don't you take the rules of the five major sects seriously?"

Shi Gu thought about it carefully, then frowned and spoke softly to the gray-robed old man.

"You are pretending to be your mother."

"..."

The atmosphere suddenly froze, and the onlookers began to wonder if there was something wrong with their ears. The old man in the gray robe turned pale and veins bulged on his forehead.

Shi Gu thought he was not good at arguing with others, so in order to avoid such things, he learned a lot of swear words.

Those words were very dirty and unpleasant to the ears, so Shi Gu was always very restrained. For example, at this moment, Shi Gu spoke very patiently.

"Any fool can see that this brat was sent by you to deliberately provoke me. After I take action, you will come out to show off and say that I broke the rules."

"I say, you don't think this is some perfect plan, do you?"

Hearing this, the grey-robed old man's face became extremely interesting. This plan was indeed extremely crude, and anyone could see it, but generally speaking, no one dared to say it out loud. After all, daring to ruin the Yulin League's good deeds was no different from seeking death.

Therefore, the gray-robed old man never thought that someone would say it so bluntly.

The crowd's attention gradually shifted to the gray-robed old man with strange looks. In fact, they were also very curious about how the gray-robed old man would explain this matter.

The grey-robed old man's face flushed. He was not good at arguing. After holding it in for a long time, he finally uttered a dry sentence.

"Don't talk about these irrelevant things. Anyway, you broke the rules."

Shi Gu rolled his eyes and replied immediately.

"I also scattered your mother's ashes."

As soon as the words fell, the crowd couldn't help but burst into laughter, even though they knew they shouldn't do that. After they realized what was going on, the laughter immediately got louder.

What are you afraid of? With so many people laughing together, can you really kill us all?

Amid the laughter, the gray-robed old man looked more and more embarrassed. In a rage, he stretched out his hand, but the wrinkled hand turned into a giant hand the size of a carriage in an instant and grabbed towards Shi Gu.

However, at the same time, another figure fell from the sky, stopped in front of Shi Gu, and struck out with a palm, which landed on the giant palm.

The two palms collided, and the gray-robed old man's body shook. He quickly retracted his giant palm, but he involuntarily stepped back several steps.

Then, a man in white clothes fell to the ground, with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes. It was Shen Zhui from the Yulin League. It was he who repelled the gray-robed old man with a palm.

Seeing this, everyone was shocked. In their opinion, Shi Gu would definitely be able to take this palm strike, but they did not expect that this palm strike was taken by Shen Zhui who suddenly appeared.

The grey-robed old man is a low-level elder of the Yulin League, but he is also a warrior in the middle stage of the eighth-grade martial realm. However, he was repelled by a single palm strike from the young Shen Zhui. So what level of strength is this man at?

The old man in gray robe steadied himself, his face ashen, and he looked at Shen Zhui with some fear, as if he was just a disciple and Shen Zhui was an elder.

Shen Zhui looked at the gray-robed old man with a cold expression and was burning with anger. This matter was not arranged by him, but he did not object. As long as Shi Gu could be taught a lesson, he would naturally be happy to see it.

But now the matter has been made into a mess, especially since the elders in the family were angered by a few words and attacked in rage. If this matter were to spread, it would probably become a laughing stock.

Shen Zhui's eyes swept across the gray-robed old man and he said coldly.

"Elder Ma, you've gone too far. Please step down."

The gray-robed old man felt bitter when he heard this, but he could only respond in a low voice.

"Yes."

After saying that, the gray-robed old man turned around and turned into a ray of light and disappeared. Shen Zhui's face was cold. He slowly turned around and looked at Shi Gu, and said proudly.

"You are just as the rumors say, a sharp-tongued person. I will come to find you in a few days."

"Until then, you have to live well."

After saying that, Shen Zhui waved his sleeves, turned around and left, without giving Shi Gu any chance to speak, as if saying one more word to Shi Gu would dirty his ears.

Some people were in awe, some were envious. Some were unwilling to accept it. They were in awe of Shen Zhui, who could defeat a low-level elder with a single palm strike at such a young age. They were envious of the pressure and bearing of a superior like Shen Zhui. They were unwilling to accept that they were born in the same era as such a person and were destined to be a supporting role.

Shi Gu looked at Shen Zhui's back, also feeling deeply moved, and couldn't help but scold his two disciples.

"You two take a good look at me. Tsk tsk tsk, the enemy who killed my brother is right in front of me, but I can still hold back and not take action."

"What kind of bearing and vision is this? There are very few people like this in the world."

Shen Yue and Su Xue looked at Shi Gu with strange expressions, thinking in their hearts, "Master, do you want to listen to what I am saying? Don't add fuel to the fire."

Shi Gu ignored the strange looks from his two disciples, and instead looked at Shen Zhui's back with a smile and sighed.

"Alas, I have offended such an incredible person. What should I do?"

"If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have smashed his brother's head like a watermelon."

"The brains were all over me. It was fishy and smelly. It was more disgusting than shit."

At some point, the surrounding warriors fell into silence again, looking at Shi Gu in shock and suspicion, wondering if this man was crazy. Master Shen didn't even take action, but you still had to provoke him.

Shen Zhui, who had not walked far yet, paused, turned around suddenly, and looked at Shi Gu with murderous intent, but he did not make a move after all. After a cold snort, he turned and left, leaving only a sentence.

"Don't be impatient, I will definitely kill you."

Looking at Shen Zhui walking away, Shi Gu no longer spoke in a sarcastic tone. He just sighed helplessly and strode forward.

From the memory of the woman in green skirt, Shi Gu saw the scene of Shen Zhui taking on the Rejuvenation Technique, so he deliberately angered Shen Zhui, wanting to see if Shen Zhui had practiced the Rejuvenation Technique.

But unfortunately, he did not succeed.

Shen Yue walked beside Shi Gu and couldn't help but speak softly.

"Master, Shen Zhui is really patient. He won't do anything even when you're pushing him so hard."

Shi Gu nodded slightly and spoke in a low voice.

"He is indeed a person who can endure things, but it's a pity that people like him, the more they endure things, the more petty they become."

"Look, he keeps saying he wants to avenge his brother, but he never said it was his brother who first wanted to kill us."

"Regardless of right and wrong, the Yulin League is now filthy."

As Shi Gu spoke, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, looking helpless.

Two hundred years ago, the Yulin League was once a sect admired by heroes in the martial arts world. It punished evil and promoted good, regardless of life and death. But two hundred years later, it became a completely different sect, becoming the most despicable sect of the Yulin League at that time.

As Shi Gu was walking, he suddenly frowned and looked in a complicated direction, only to see Ye Xing sitting cross-legged under a peach tree, sleeping with a knife in his arms. A violent murderous aura emanated from him, making people feel cold all over.

The murderous intent was not pure. It was like countless chaotic thoughts gathered together, full of confusion and hostility, like a demon.

Shi Gu's pupils shrank slightly, and he looked at Ye Xing, his face changed slightly, and he couldn't help but be amazed and murmured in a low voice.

"To gather such a chaotic murderous aura in one place, does this fool want to die or become a demon?"

Shi Gu, who had been in seclusion for several years, did not know the up-and-coming Ye Xing, let alone that Ye Xing claimed to be the next Zhu Tian Jie Sha.

At the same time, Ye Xing, who was under the peach tree, slowly opened his eyes and looked forward with some confusion, but Shi Gu had already retracted his gaze and left.

Ye Xing looked around and found nothing, so he frowned, stood up with his knife in his hand, and murderous aura spread all around him, crushing the surroundings like an overwhelming force, as if he was trying to establish his authority.

After a moment, Ye Xing sat down again in doubt.

Just a moment ago, Ye Xing felt that the murderous aura he was emitting had lost control and became more violent and chaotic than ever before, as if he had met a natural enemy.

"Is it an illusion?"

Ye Xing muttered to himself and soon put the matter behind him. His control over the murderous aura was quite difficult, so he didn't take it to heart. In his opinion, one day he would be able to completely control the murderous aura.

Boom, boom, boom.

A bell rang, signaling the start of the competition. Ye Xing put away his sword and strode into the depths of Taoyuan.

As the sound of the bell spread throughout Taoyuan, people rushed deeper into the garden, and several people were already standing where the bell rang.

Here, Taoyuan is divided into four passages, separated by long red cloths, and not connected to each other. At the entrance of each passage there is a big character, which means "qin, chess, calligraphy and painting".

A middle-aged man stood at the front of the passage with a smile on his face, looking at the people gathering there, and spoke loudly.

"My fellow practitioners, I am Shangguan Yunsheng from the East Sea Sword Sect. I will be the host of this preliminary competition."

"Please look, everyone. The four passages behind me are the four events of this competition. Please go into the passage that corresponds to your strengths."

"As for how to win and how to determine your qualifications to officially participate in the Martial Arts Conference, please look at the card in my hand."

As he spoke, Shangguan Yunsheng took out a strange stone tablet and spoke to everyone.

"This is the Strange Stone Order. After you enter the passage, the tests will be different, but as long as you can obtain three or more stone tablets, you will be qualified for this martial arts conference."

Chapter 46 Peach Blossom

"This is the Strange Stone Order. After you enter the passage, the tests will be different, but as long as you can obtain three or more stone tablets, you will be qualified for this martial arts conference."

"This competition will last for three days. During these three days, you can choose a different competition every day, but you only have one chance each day. Also, private fighting is prohibited during the competition, and you are not allowed to steal other people's strange stone orders."

"After three days, anyone who obtains three Strange Stone Orders will be eligible to participate in the Martial Arts Convention."

Shangguan Yunsheng smiled slightly, bowed to everyone, and spoke loudly.

"I wish you all good luck in the next three days."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shangguan Yunsheng stepped aside, revealing four passages behind him. The crowd surged and then each walked towards the passage of their choice.

Without any hesitation, Shi Gu and the other two separated and walked towards three different passages. Shi Gu chose painting, Shen Yue chose chess, and Su Xue chose books.

Among the four arts of calligraphy, Su Xue is only good at handwriting, but cannot write any good articles. I am afraid it will be difficult for her to pass this test.

Shi Gu walked slowly into the passage, but saw that in the peach garden, there were countless drawing tables, pens, ink, paper and inkstones ready. A white-haired old man was standing under the peach tree, speaking to everyone with a gentle expression.

"Everyone, my name is Wang Song, and I am the examiner here."

"It's very simple to get a Strange Stone Token from me. Please draw a picture. If it catches my eye, you can get a Strange Stone Token."

"But everyone can only get one Strange Stone Token from me, and if you fail to get the approval of me, the old man, you will not be allowed to come again in the next two days."

"It's not too late for you all to withdraw now."

Upon hearing this, some people frowned and remained silent, some hesitated, and after a moment of silence, someone turned around and left.

After a moment, Shi Gu looked around and found that more than half of the people had left. He raised his brows slightly, a little puzzled. Why did these people not even try and just choose to give up so easily?

At this time, a young boy with immature eyes and eyebrows seemed to be curious about this question and asked his senior brother beside him.

"Brother, why did so many people leave at once?"

Hearing this, the young man's senior brother smiled bitterly and said in a low voice.

"Little Junior Brother, you may not know that this old Mr. Wang Song is quite famous in the art of painting, but he is also notoriously strict. To get a painting that gets his approval, you can't just be good at painting."

"Those who want to fish in troubled waters naturally dare not stay in front of Mr. Wang, or they will be scolded."

The young man was startled when he heard this, his face turned pale immediately, he clenched his sleeves, and was very nervous.

Shi Gu was standing next to the two men. He heard what was said clearly and raised his eyebrows slightly.

At this time, Wang Song waved his hand, smiled as if bathed in the spring breeze, and spoke to everyone.

"Everyone, please take a seat."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone took their seats, sitting cross-legged in front of the drawing table with great respect. Shi Gu chose a seat far back, but did not sit cross-legged. Instead, he chose a comfortable position and lay down.

Wang Song stood under the peach tree, reached out to pick a peach blossom, lowered his head slightly, sniffed the fragrance of the flower, and spoke slowly.

"I don't know where to go, Taohua still smiles at the spring breeze."

"Today, we will use peach blossoms as the theme and make a painting. There is no time limit."

"Do you have any questions?"

Hearing this, everyone nodded, no one asked questions, but in this silence, two people raised their hands.

""I have.""

Shi Gu raised his hand in surprise. He didn't expect that besides himself, there would be someone else who would say that he had questions. He turned his head and saw a girl with clean eyebrows and eyes holding a sword, who was raising her short hands and looking at Shi Gu with the same surprise.

When their eyes met, Shi Gu raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking that the sword-holding girl looked a little silly.

Wang Song frowned slightly. The girl holding the sword was none other than Zou Si from the East Sea Sword Sect. She loved swords like crazy and was quite famous among the younger generation, so he naturally recognized her.