The Legend of Zhu San
030: Tournament Starts
The Day of Implementation of Martial Tournament finally arrived. The atmosphere of the Liu Imperial Palace Square had been bustling since the morning.
Thousands of soldiers were seen standing guard around the vast square. In the middle of the Square is seen a fighting arena where the tournament will be held.
The arena was twenty-five meters long and fifteen meters wide. A large podium was on the long side of the arena.
On the podium that Emperor Liu Feng will see the martial tournament fight that will be held for two days.
To the right of the podium was a row of seats for the Sect Chiefs participating in the martial tournament.
The arrival of the Sect Chief in this tournament, in addition to accompanying the best disciple of his Sect, also showed their appreciation towards Emperor Liu Feng.
It was no secret that right now, the Liu Empire was in quite a worrying matter of security.
News of the robberies of both merchants as well as noble families and wealthy people, occurred in various places in the major cities of the Liu Empire.
That was what actually made Emperor Liu Feng decide to hold this Martial Tournament .
In addition to searching for young seedlings in the Liu Empire's military, it was also to establish good relations with both the White Stream Sect and the Neutral Flow.
From General Duan Li, Emperor Liu Feng learned that there were movements from several Black Stream sects and some great nobles in Liu empire.
But Emperor Liu Feng was a wise Emperor and did not rashly make a decision. Everything He thought carefully.
As there was not yet any very strong evidence of it, Emperor Liu Feng had not taken any decisive action on the nobles who were suspected of having established cooperation with the warriors of the black sect.
But the information of the movement of the black warriors, troubling him as Emperor.
Despite having tens of thousands of soldiers, fighting them from the warriors was not an easy matter.
Given the vast difference between the warriors and the imperial soldiers.
The only way to overcome them is to ask for help from the White Flow swordsmen and the Neutral Flow.
That was why in the invitation letter of the tournament sent out in secret, Emperor Liu Feng asked the Sect chief to attend the event of that tournament.
“Your Majesty the time has come, Please your majesty give your welcome and open this event.”
The words of Prime Minister Xiu Shuen, made Emperor Liu Feng aware of his daydream.
“Good ..”
Emperor Liu Feng immediately stood up and moved to the front of the podium. The boisterous atmosphere instantly came to a halt as the Emperor stepped his feet.
In his speech, the Emperor thanked those who fulfilled the invitation.
Then the Emperor encouraged the participants of the tournament that those who had participated in the tournament would become officers in the Liu Empire's military if only they wanted to become soldiers.
In addition, Emperor Liu Feng also told all the participants that those who became champions would get a prize worth ten thousand Gold Pieces.
For the second rank will get a prize of seven thousand Gold Pieces, while the third and fourth champion will get a prize of five and three thousand gold pieces.
It was immediately greeted by the participants with enthusiastic faces. The prize money, for those in their teens, is huge.
Zhu San who was on the opposite side of the front of the podium looked at the Emperor with deep respect.
The place Zhu San was located was a place reserved specifically for the people who wanted to watch the fight in the tournament.
While the Right side of the Imperial Podium was filled by the nobles and other military officials.
While on the Left Side of the Podium is filled by the parak of the sect Head and sect Elders who accompanied the Participants of the tournament.
At least a dozen sect heads have been in the place and two of them are recognized by Zhu San namely Grandma Qin Rui and Chairman Xie Bing.
While in the section of the seats for the participants, Zhu San only recognized three people, namely Qin Yu and Xie Han as well as the figure of the noble youth named Yao Shin.
“Hmmm so the young man will be entering the tournament as well apparently. Such low ability dare to participate in a tournament of this size?”
Zhu San asked in his mind, upon seeing Yao Shin. He was also second-guessing about which Sect Yao Shin came from.
In this tournament, there had been at least thirty-two participants from the twelve sects present, three of whom were from neutral streams one of which was the Golden Spear Sect.
Meanwhile, a Monk from the Temple of Holy Light, appeared to advance up the arena and stopped while in the middle of it.
“Please Attention the Participants, I am Monk Fangzeng of the Sacred Light Temple Sect. will be the referee in this tournament and simultaneously read out the rules in this tournament.”
The voice coated by that high level of power, echoed throughout the Liu Imperial Palace Square.
From the pressure of his inner strength, it was seen that Monk Fangzeng who was an Elder of the Sacred Light Temple Sect, had a high level of ability.
This was not surprising, as the Temple of Holy Light was one of the three strongest Sects in the Liu empire.
Liu Empire Highly looked to a sect famous for its Buddhist teachings, one of which taught about its just and honest nature.
So the imperial side saw that the right referee in this martial tournament, was someone from the sect of the Temple of Holy Light.
Monk Fanzeng also immediately read out the rules in the martial tournament this time by mentioning some important points firmly.
Some of them are prohibition to kill fellow participants, attack certain parts that are dangerous and also prohibited from destroying power in the property of the opponent.
After making sure the participants of the tournament understood the rules of the tournament, Monk Fanzeng aided by a few soldiers, immediately conducted a draw.
Some Sects sent two of their best participants who were between twelve to twenty years old.
The draw lasted less than thirty minutes. After the fight scheme is completed in filled with the name of the participants who will fight, the participants also re-occupy the seats that are intended like them.
Monk Fanzeng also immediately announced that the preliminary round will begin soon.
The first participant who would compete was Xie Han from the Fire Sword sect against Yuan Hong from the Golden Spear Sect.
“It looks like this fight will be quickly finished.” Zhu San said so in his mind as he looked at the figure named Yuan Hong who was the Prince of the Golden Spear sect head Yuan Du.
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