Encounter on a narrow road

Imperial College.

The huge martial arts school grounds.

Five examiners are already standing in front of the martial arts school grounds.

Surrounding the martial arts campus were a sea of people from royal families, officials and people.

Ye Fan, Ling Qingshan, Hao Ziming and other sixty or seventy Wuhou supervisors had already arrived, waiting for the five examiners to announce the questions of the first round of martial arts examination.

However, because Rui Zifan, Qin Ning and a group of Wuhou were procrastinating on the road and never arrived at the martial arts school, the examiners did not announce the start of the martial arts test.

After a while, Rui Zifan, Qin Ning and a small group of supervisors finally arrived.

"The first round of the palace examination martial arts test has begun! There are five martial arts test questions, one question for each examiner. The question I set is as follows: Charge to the Star Tower!"

Liu Guoliang glanced at all the supervisors and announced calmly: "All the supervisors will gather on the first floor of the Star Tower, and then rush to the eighteenth-floor tower. There are one hundred score cards on the eighteenth-floor tower. The points are reduced to one point. Each person can get a score card and exit the tower. In other words, the first supervisor who rushes to the 18th floor of the Star Tower will have a perfect score of 100. The scores of the other supervisors will be reduced in the order they come out. , if you leave the tower after one hundred people, you will get zero points."

When the Wuhou supervisors who were referring to Liu Guoliang heard this question, they suddenly showed strange expressions.

The martial arts test questions and scoring standards proposed by Prime Minister Liu are completely different from the rules for the literary test questions.

The scores for the last literary test questions fluctuated hugely.

As for the martial arts test questions this time, there was only a one-point difference between each supervisor. No matter how quickly the first place candidate emerges from the Star Tower, he will only be one point ahead of the second place candidate.

Unless Ye Fan falls behind the martial princes and comes out of the Star Tower, he may lag behind Rui Zifan, Qin Ning and others.

But this situation will never happen, because many supervisors know that Ye Fan once entered the Star Tower. Judging from that situation, he, Ling Qingshan, and Hao Ziming stayed in the tower for the longest time and persisted for the longest time. Very adaptable to being in the tower for a long time.

Rui Zifan couldn't help but grit his teeth.

He somewhat understood that Prime Minister Liu was clearly trying to prevent Ye Fan from losing points significantly! Regardless of whether Ye Fan comes out of the tower in second place or tenth place, the points lost are only one to ten points, which is completely affordable.

This is obviously secretly helping Ye Fan.

But the method used by Liu Guoliang is beyond reproach, because the scoring rules for the examination questions are the same for everyone. If he is strong enough, he can also get higher scores than Ye Fan in the literary test.

moment.

All the more than one hundred Wuhou candidates boarded the first floor of the Star Tower of the Imperial College and waited in the huge hall on the first floor, which was thousands of feet tall.

Before the Star Tower was opened, everything was normal in the tower, and there was nothing unusual in the Pentagonal Hall.

The Wuhou supervisors gathered in twos and threes to chat and divided into two large groups, each occupying one side of the hall.

One group was Ye Fan, Ling Qingshan, Hao Ziming, Bao Hua and other Wuhou supervisors, about sixty or seventy people. Many of these people were a group of Wuhou who supported the monarch in the Jinluan Palace and were very close to Ye Fan.

The other small group was Rui Zifan and Qin Ning, which was obviously much smaller, about twenty or thirty people. Most of them are related to the demoted courtiers, feudal ministers and clan relatives. Although there are few of them, everyone is quite powerful, and almost all of them are among the top fifty candidates for the Imperial Academy.

Qin Ning whispered: "Brother Rui, what are the arrangements for the tower attack later?"

Rui Zifan said in a ferocious voice: "When the martial arts test starts, we will seize the passage leading to the second floor of the tower and block them from behind. Let's go through first. In this case, we can grab twenty or thirty points! Leave Ye Everyone in the group will put down twenty points."

"Okay, just listen to Brother Rui!"

"Do you want to take the pill?"

"Take it! Otherwise, we have a small number of people and can't stop them. After taking the elixir, our strength will be greatly increased, so we can suppress them."

All the surrounding martial princes looked solemn, nodded one after another, bit the wax layer surrounding the elixir in their mouths, and swallowed it.

Raging fires began to burn in their bellies.

…

"Brother Ye, when you rush to the tower later, be careful that Rui Zifan and his group are secretly using harmful means to stop you during the chaos! They were procrastinating before arriving at the martial arts school grounds. I'm afraid they were discussing countermeasures in private on how to deal with you. "

Bao Hua reminded Mark in a low voice.

"Hmph, they dare! Our numbers are far greater than theirs! If they dare to use secret methods to stop Brother Ye, we will fight them in this tower."

Hao Ziming's eyes suddenly darkened.

Ling Qingshan frowned slightly and said thoughtfully: "Not to mention, the possibility mentioned by Brother Bao is very high. Rui Zifan is so far behind, he must be eager to make a comeback. This martial arts test is the last chance. If he can't stop Brother Ye from entering, The top three. Then in the second round of the palace examination, they have no chance at all. Therefore, it is a good opportunity to take action in the Star Tower!"

Ye Fan looked around at everyone and said with a faint smile: "What will happen if Rui Zifan loses another fifty points in this star tower? Will he be mad?!"

"Losing more than fifty points? Doesn't this mean we have to leave the tower after fifty people?"

"Rui Zifan is extremely powerful. He must be one of the top three to leave the tower. How could he be ranked fifty behind before leaving the tower?"

"Brother Ye, does he mean...?"

When Hao Ziming, Ling Qingshan, Bao Hua and other Wuhou heard this, they were all stunned and looked at each other.

However, they soon came to their senses and realized that Ye Fan wanted to take action in the tower to stop Rui Zifan and others.

"What a great idea! We don't have to wait for them to make the first move. Let's just make the first move and crush them to death!"

Hao Ziming's pupils suddenly lit up, if he could really stop Rui Zifan and his group from reaching fifty people. After this martial arts test, wouldn't he be able to successfully enter the top ten!

Because half of the current top ten are from Rui Zifan's side. If he squeezes them out, he can naturally rise in the rankings significantly.

"This method is feasible! Brother Ye takes the lead, and I am willing to follow!"

Ling Qingshan's body was also shaken, and his eyes flashed.

In terms of total score in the literary test, he ranked fourth on the overall score list, a full thirty-eight points behind Rui Zifan and eight points behind Qin Ning.

To be honest, he didn't have much confidence that he could overtake Rui Zifan and Qin Ning in the martial arts test, but he might be pushed further.

But if they and the Wu Hous join forces, Rui Zifan and his gang will be unable to get out of the Star Tower quickly.

Then his total civil and military scores in the first round can surpass Rui Zifan and Qin Ning in one fell swoop, and he has great hope of entering the top three in the palace examination!

"Do it!"

"The benefits are so great! Why not do it!"

The group of Wuhou around Ye Fan were very excited.

Except for Ye Fangao, who ranked first in the literary test, Ling Qingshan fourth, and Hao Ziming 11th, Bao Hua, the highest ranked, was only 15th, and the rest were also far behind. Among the top thirty in the literary test, more than half of the positions were occupied by Rui Zifan and his group.

If Rui Zifan can be pushed down to the 50th place, then their ranking will be greatly improved, and they can take over the previous ranking. In the second round of the palace examination, it will undoubtedly be more beneficial to them.

Ye Fan nodded slightly, a cold light flashed in his eyes and said: "Today's battle for the palace examination will determine who will have the upper hand in the Canglan court in the next few hundred years. There must be no womanly kindness! Since Rui Zifan is very unconvinced, then let's Until he is completely defeated."

…

The five examiners and the people watching the exam are already under the Star Tower.

A guard of the Star Tower turned to Liu Guoliang and asked respectfully: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, what mode is the Star Tower activated?"

The Star Tower has many functions.

In addition to opening the tower once a month for practice, it also has other functions. For example, create a large number of vitality fantasy beasts for actual combat trials, or start high-intensity stress tests.

"Turn on the high power mode of the Star Tower!"

Liu Guoliangdao.

The guards of the Star Tower immediately nodded and activated the high-power mode.

…

The seal of a meteorite in the first floor of the Star Tower was completely unsealed in an instant.

Mars meteorite, 100% of its power is activated.

Suddenly, the entire hall was filled with rich fire energy, and huge flame flowers appeared in mid-air, floating and blooming. The power of this Mars meteorite is extremely terrifying. A flower of flame is almost comparable to a flame released by the ninth level of Huo Wuhou with all his strength.

All the Wuhous felt the waves of fire rolling in, and everything around them seemed to be on fire. They must resist the fire energy with all their strength and avoid hitting those floating flame flowers.

Rui Zifan took the Flower of Burning Blood and Soul-Burning Pill, his face flushed, and he felt an extremely powerful force of vitality in his body, surging like a tide.

He was originally at the fifth level of the Wuhou Realm, but the power of the Flower of Adhering to Pills skyrocketed to the seventh level of the Wuhou Realm, and he couldn't help but be very satisfied.

"Rush! Grab the door from the first floor to the second floor first!"

Rui Zifan suddenly became confident, shouted to everyone around him, and shot out immediately, rushing towards the entrance of the passage on the second floor of the tower thousands of feet away.

The entrance to this passage is not large and can only accommodate a few people at a time. As long as they seize this position and arrange two or three Wuhou to guard the passage, they can prevent Ye Fan and others from entering the second floor of the tower.

"Brother Rui grabs the seat first! I'll help you stop Mark!"

Qin Ning is not far behind either.

He glanced at the other side of the hall, wanting to see the speed and position of Ye Fan, Ling Qingshan, Hao Ziming and others. But the strange thing is that he only saw Ling Qingshan and Hao Ziming rushing towards the passage on the second floor of the tower at full speed. Ye Fan was not among them and disappeared.

There was a thump in his heart, and he felt something bad. However, he didn't know where Mark was.

Wuhou's speed was extremely fast.

The distance of a thousand feet is only a dozen blinks of an eye.

Rui Zifan and Qin Ning rushed the fastest, their figures flying rapidly in the hall, dodging the extremely threatening flame flowers, and they were less than a hundred feet away from the entrance to the second floor passage.

They couldn't help but be overjoyed. As long as the two of them worked together to block the passage, Mark would not be able to get through.

When the twenty or thirty Wuhou from their group rushed in, they were done. It is entirely possible to pass through first, and then leave a few people to guard the passage and block Ye Fan for a while.

In this way, Ye Fan and his group will lose at least twenty or thirty points on this martial arts test question. Their group as a whole has gained twenty or thirty points.

"blow!"

Suddenly, behind a huge flame flower that was 1 foot long and closest to the entrance of the second floor passage. A lilac light and shadow suddenly appeared and stabbed towards them like lightning.

"who?!"

Rui Zifan didn't expect that someone would appear near the entrance of the passage before him. His expression changed in shock, and a high-level Jinxuan sword in his hand flew out hastily to resist the attack of lavender light and shadow.