In all fairness, the younger generation of martial artists from the imperial court present were actually quite good. A few of them would have been able to occupy a place on the Ranking List of Young Masters.
However, Su Xin and the others wanted elites who could represent the imperial court and compete with the Golden Horde Kingdom and the martial arts world of the Central Plains. As such, the standards were naturally much stricter.
As such, the dozen or so people who went on stage were stopped after less than 10 moves. It was only when Tie Chen from the Tie family came on stage that the situation was broken.
The Tie family had many secret martial arts, but the most famous of the Tie family's martial arts were Tie Ao's Eagle Claw and Heavenly Peng Capturing Dragon.
However, the Eagle Claw was originally an ordinary martial art, while the starting point of the Roc Capturing Dragon was too high. Even warriors at the Innate Stage could not cultivate it.
As such, there were not many people in the Tie family who had the willpower to practice the Eagle Claw at a low level and wait until they reached the Divine Transformation Realm to learn the Roc Capturing Dragon and Tie Ao's path in the past. The time and price they had to pay were too high.
However, Tie Chen was a person with great perseverance. He completely gave up his identity as a disciple of the Tie family and became the deputy chief of detectives of the Liangzhou Road from a street patrol constable. His Eagle Claw had also reached a higher level. It was impossible to tell that it was just a low-level technique. It was somewhat similar to Tie Ao's when he was young.
Therefore, in less than ten moves, Tie Chen had already broken both of his opponent's arms. Moreover, he had already shown mercy.
There was no mediocre person present. Everyone could tell that if Tie Chen went all out, it was very likely that he would directly crush his opponent's head in three moves.
Su Xin nodded and said, "Not bad, Tie Chen is selected."
Tie Chen nodded and bowed to Su Xin and the other two. "Thank you, my lords."
Everyone's eyes were filled with envy when they looked at Tie Chen. However, there was no jealousy in them.
Tie Chen's strength was obvious. The reason he was selected had nothing to do with his identity as a disciple of the Tie family.
After that, the few people who went up on stage were still a bit weaker, so they were stopped by Su Xin. It wasn't until more than half of the competition that Su Xin chose two more people. One was Yuan Cheng, who was related to Yuan Wude, and the other was Chen Xing, who used to be a Windchaser Patrol Officer.
These two people could be considered to be truly capable. However, in Su Xin's opinion, they were slightly inferior to Tie Chen.
After all, Tie Chen was the face of the Tie family's younger generation. Before he rose up, he might not have received any preferential treatment from the Tie family, but now that he had stood out, the Tie family would be idiots to ignore him.
Moreover, looking at Tie Chen's current attainments in the Eagle Claw Art, even if he did not receive guidance from Tie Ao, he must have seen some of the martial dao insights left behind by Tie Ao.
When the number of people decreased, it was finally the turn of 'Cold Sharp Sword' Zhang Yuefan, who was a little nervous previously, to enter the arena.
In fact, although Zhang Yuefan had made a great contribution in Six Fan School, his strength was not as amazing as the people present. The last time he made such a great contribution, it was entirely because of his means, courage, and meticulousness.
Therefore, he did not know if he would be selected this time.
In any case, he only knew that his strength was far inferior to Tie Chen, Chen Xing, and Yuan Cheng who had already been selected.
However, it was useless to worry now that things had come to this. Zhang Yuefan directly walked onto the stage and pulled out his longsword. Immediately, a cold sharp light appeared.
This Cold Sharp Sword was personally given to him by the Autumn Moon Sect's Sect Leader when he was undercover. He even wanted to take him in as his last disciple. However, the Jianghu and the imperial court were ultimately not on the same side, so the Autumn Moon Sect was betrayed by him without hesitation.
At this moment, Zhang Yuefan's opponent also appeared. It was a handsome young man holding a short knife. After seeing Zhang Yuefan, he immediately revealed a cold smile, "Zhang Yuefan, I didn't expect you to still be alive. You're quite lucky. Congratulations."
"Yin Zicheng!"
Zhang Yuefan clenched the Edgeless Sword in his hand and a trace of ferocious killing intent appeared in his eyes.
Everyone knew that he had made a great contribution three months ago, but only he himself knew that it wasn't his immediate superior who assigned him to be a spy in Autumn Moon Gate, but he was purposely framed by the person in front of him!
One had to know that the Autumn Moon Sect's Sect Leader had the strength of the Divine Transformation Realm. It was fine to send Zhang Yuefan, a warrior in the Xiantian Realm, but his role was at most to collect information. In the end, the higher-ups actually asked him to weaken the Autumn Moon Sect's strength. This was clearly an impossible mission, or even a trap for Zhang Yuefan!
If he wanted to complete the mission, he would definitely fall into a dangerous situation. If he did not complete the mission, he would either return to Six Fan School to be punished or stay in the Autumn Moon Sect for the rest of his life.
The reason why his superior made such a decision was very simple. It was because he had offended Yin Zicheng!
Yin Zicheng was not a Windchaser Constable. He was a secret agent of the Bureau of Investigation. However, his uncle was the famous Chief Arrester of Six Fan School, the 'Smiling Yama' Yin Wuchang.
Yin Wuchang was definitely a veteran in Six Fan School. He was of the same generation as Tie Zhan. He had even competed with Su Xin for the position of one of the Four Great Arresters in the past.
Although Yin Wuchang had failed in the end, his position in Six Fan School was second only to the Four Great Arresters.
Zhang Yuefan's superior was only the newly promoted Chief Arrester of Windchaser Constable, who was only in the Divine Transformation Realm. It was very easy for Yin Zicheng to use his relationship with Yin Wuchang to frame him.
This time, Zhang Yuefan had used all his means to get through the crisis and made a great contribution. However, he knew that as long as Yin Zicheng was there, he would still receive a lot of missions like this.
Therefore, Zhang Yuefan clenched the sword in his hand and revealed a cold killing intent towards Yin Zicheng.
Fortunately, he was not overwhelmed by anger. He knew where he was.
Although Lord Su had said before that the winner would stand and the loser would lie down, the problem was that everyone belonged to the imperial court. If he were to be so cruel to his colleagues, how would others and the lords think of him?
That was why when Tie Chen attacked earlier, he could have defeated Lu Xuan in three moves. However, he wanted to drag it out to ten moves. He only crushed Lu Xuan's hands and rested them for a few months.
Yin Zicheng, who was on the opposite side, smiled disdainfully. There were three big shots watching on the stage, so he could not go too far. Therefore, Yin Zicheng sneered, pulled out his sword, and rushed towards Zhang Yuefan.
Naturally, their little tricks could not be hidden from Su Xin and the others on the stage. They were all experienced in Jianghu. Who had not seen this kind of open and secret fighting?
However, they did not say much. This kind of thing was good enough for everyone to know. Wherever there were people, there would be Jianghu. It was impossible to want all places to be harmonious, as long as they knew their limits.
At this time, on the stage, Yin Zicheng and Zhang Yuefan were evenly matched. Both of them were at the Innate Divinity Realm, but Zhang Yuefan's combat experience was higher than Yin Zicheng's.
Yin Zicheng's uncle was Yin Wuchang. After all, Yin Wuchang was a Harmonious God Realm warrior. The inheritance in his hands was not ordinary. With his careful guidance, Yin Zicheng was one level ahead of Zhang Yuefan in terms of Martial Dao.
However, at this time, Yin Zicheng's eyes suddenly revealed a trace of coldness. The short sword in his hand shook, and he deliberately moved Zhang Yuefan's sword to the side. However, his figure flashed and was directly exposed to Zhang Yuefan's sword.
At the same time, he shouted, "Stop! Brother Zhang, stop, I admit defeat! "
Zhang Yuefan's expression instantly changed, but it was already too late. He didn't expect Yin Zicheng to make such a move, so he used his full strength in this attack. It was too late to retract it now.
Therefore, he could only watch the sword pierce into Yin Zicheng's abdomen. It was only half an inch away from piercing his dantian!
Yin Zicheng covered his wound and shouted with a pale face, "Zhang Yuefan! We are colleagues after all. I did not expect you to be so vicious. You want to cripple my martial arts in a competition. Don't you want to participate in the Saber Seizing Assembly? Okay, I admit defeat. I'll give it to you, okay? "
Everyone present was in an uproar, and their expressions changed as they looked at Zhang Yuefan.
He dared to kill in front of three Yang God Realm experts. This person was finished.
However, there were a few people present who could see that something was wrong, such as Chen Mancang and Tie Chen.
Although they did not know Yin Zicheng's strength, he would definitely not make such a mistake. Therefore, this time, he must have done something behind the scenes.
However, they did not say anything. After all, they were not related to Zhang Yuefan, so they would not stand up for him.
Yin Zicheng was still yelling and screaming, putting on an aggrieved look.
This time, he was determined to cripple that Zhang Yuefan.
In his opinion, he was definitely not qualified to participate in the Saber Seizing Assembly with his strength, so he simply used himself as bait to frame Zhang Yuefan and completely cripple him.
However, this step was also very dangerous. If there was the slightest mistake, and the sword was half an inch lower, he would really be crippled.
His vicious behavior was somewhat similar to his uncle, the Smiling Yama, Yin Wuchang. He was vicious to others, but even more vicious to himself.
However, although Yin Zicheng was vicious, he lacked the overall situation. He did not know what the Saber Seizing Assembly meant. If he had known, then he would not have done such a thing today.
Su Xin stood up and looked at Yin Zicheng without the slightest emotion. He said, "Do you really think the three of us are blind? How dare you do such a thing behind the scenes! "
Hearing this, Yin Zicheng's face immediately revealed a panicked expression, and he hurriedly said, "Lord Su, you've misunderstood. I really made a mistake just now, but I didn't think that Zhang Yuefan would be so ruthless, directly wanting to cripple my martial arts!"
Seeing that Yin Zicheng was still quibbling, Su Xin's eyes suddenly revealed a cold look. He shouted coldly, "Shut up!"
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