Chapter 177 Collision
Lu Chong stood quietly in front of the open window of the inn room, and a gust of east wind blew across his face with a hint of coolness. He considered those vicious and powerful attack methods last night, and was a little worried about the personal guards who followed him. Although they were all meridians, their strength was still very weak.
Lu Chong asked Chu Li to gather the personal guards and selected two three-mechanics practitioners from the personal guards as deputy captains, so that each captain could lead nine personal guards, one team as a vanguard for exploring and collecting information, and the other team deviated in the middle as a specialist for transmitting information back and forth, while Chu Li followed Lu Chong with nine people as the main war guards.
Each guard team member distributed a cylindrical needle flying weapon for self-defense, especially Wei Yunyuan and Han Xinchen, who were swearing to follow Lu Tong, each carrying a heavy burden on their bodies, filled with various wooden flying and highly poisonous hidden weapons, so that Lu Tong felt a little relieved to dress up and move forward.
After more than ten days, we finally arrived at a city gate that was more than ten feet high. A five-meter-wide hanging wooden bridge was crossed in front of the city gate. A wide moat surrounded the entire city gate. The mighty soldiers under the city gate were alertly patrolling every passing pedestrian.
When Chu Li handed over the documents of the Imperial City Grand Master to the soldiers guarding the city to check, all the soldiers respectfully saluted to the entire carriage convoy. A city guard who looked like a battalion came quickly to pay tribute to Lu Chong, and personally accompanied the carriage convoy toward the center of the imperial city.
Half an hour later, I saw a magnificent and magnificent castle from afar. The closer I went, I could see a bright golden gate. On the top of the gate were two powerful and powerful fonts: Imperial City.
A lieutenant from the Imperial City Guard led more than 20 strong and powerful cavalry to run over. After verificing the documents of the Taishi, the lieutenant ordered the guards to open the gate of the Imperial City and welcome the Lu Taishi's carriage convoy into the interior of the Imperial City.
The inner part of the imperial city is the outer hall and the inner court. The lieutenant led a team of cavalry escorting the carriage toward the inner court. Chu Li looked at the huge palace community, the grand area, the rammed palace walls, and the gilded bronze tiles and exquisite corner towers, and not only sighed.
After another quarter of an hour, before everyone arrived at the inner court of the imperial city, they were replaced by a guard who commanded dozens of people at the gatehouse. After passing through various wide and open courtyards composed of countless corridors and attics, they arrived at a complex palace with a rigorous layout, closed, diverse form and gorgeous decoration.
The general of the imperial city handed Lu Chong's grand tutor's document to an old man in the palace. The old man nodded and asked the general to arrange Lu Chong's personal guards. While saluting Lu Chong respectfully, he led Lu Chong to the foreground of the palace.
When he arrived at the front hall of the palace, the old man asked someone to report to the king, and then led Lu Chong to sit down at a table next to a huge golden short table, and added a cup of extremely fragrant hot tea to Lu Chong with his own hands.
Lu Chong sat quietly in front of the table and watched the decoration of the hall. This gorgeous hall with a huge scale and unique style makes people feel the magnificence here. I believe this is an important place for the king to discuss matters. The huge long and low table in the middle is the throne of the king, and many dark purple tables placed on the side are the seats of the top officials.
Not long after, Lu Chong heard a very light footstep. Lu Chong turned his head and saw a middle-aged man wearing a golden robe walking in. A kind smile appeared on the middle-aged man's face. Lu Chong immediately stood up and bowed to the middle-aged man to pay homage and saluted: "Lu Chong meets the Lord of the Country."
The middle-aged man laughed and said, "The Grand Master Lu doesn't have to be too polite. When the Lord of Chuzhou recommended me, I still had doubts. I met today and it turns out that he was the youngest Grand Master in Changguo."
As he said that, he turned his head and ordered the old man: "Go and beat the drum and send a message to all the Grand Tutors to come to the hall for consultation."
Only a vibrating sound could be heard, and the sound of beating the drums made a wonderful rhythm. Although this sound seemed extremely loud in Lu Chong's ears, people below the martial arts realm could not hear it. Lu Chong suddenly felt the magic of this timbre drum.
A quarter of an hour passed, and six people came in one after another in the hall, bowing to the king of the country. Lu Tong first saw four old men with indifferent expressions, and then came in a tall, fierce middle-aged man, probably Wei Fu of the "Black Star", and finally came in a young man in his thirties. There was a lazy smile on his thin cheeks. It should be Bai Jianfei, the newly promoted imperial city master.
After everyone sat in a row, everyone glanced at Lu Chong, who was sitting in the last seat. Only the fierce middle-aged man sitting diagonally opposite stared at him with a vicious look, and Lu Chong looked back without showing any weakness.
The king sat in front of the short long table and said loudly: "Today, the youngest Tai Shi Lu in our country has arrived. This is a trend towards prosperity in our country. In just about a year, our country has added three imperial city Taishi, and our Taishi has reached seven. This is the first time among the nearby Three Kingdoms that have the largest number of Taishi, so it is worth celebrating."
"I arranged a palace feast at the end of the month, and everyone would celebrate it well. However, this month, a royal villa was built, and other villas were also under construction. There are three new imperial city masters in front of me. Let's discuss which imperial masters this villa will give to them to live in?"
Among them, a white-faced old master sitting in front said: "It should be a arrangement method of coming first and coming later. However, our country has always attached great importance to the level of strength, so I suggest that the three new masters compete, so that they can communicate with each other, and the strong can be regarded as being among the strong."
The kind old man next to him nodded. Sitting opposite him was a thin old man and a sinister old man. He originally planned to say something, but when he heard the white-faced old man say this, he stopped and did not express his opinion.
Wei Fu, who was sitting under the head of the sinister old man, spoke: "Since Master Li proposed this kind of competition that is conducive to enhancing communication, I think it is very good, but since it is a competition, you have to do your best, otherwise it will not have any effect in the competition. So I suggest that you sign an agreement first, and if there is casualties in the competition, you should not be investigated."
The king, who was sitting at the short table, frowned slightly. The two old men on Mr. Li's side looked at Wei Fu with some strangeness, and the two old men, thin and sinister, nodded slightly, as if they thought that the competition should be like this.
Bai Jianfei didn't say anything, lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking. When Lu Chong saw the proud look of Wei Fu, he immediately continued: "Since Master Wei is so sure to win, I am certainly willing to play with you. But I am young and reckless, Master Wei should be more tolerant."
When everyone saw that the young master who had just entered the imperial city dared to speak like this, they all showed a strange expression. Even the king who was sitting at the short table looked at him with admiration, thinking that the young master should have a gap with Mr. Wei, or that he was really a skilled martial arts.
After determining the method of the competition, everyone discussed the specific competition process. The three people draw lots to decide the two who compete first, and then the winner who came out of the competition and the remaining one person were then competed, and finally the final winner was drawn.
The result of the lottery was that Lu Tong drew a good lottery. The competition was first played by Tai Shi Tai Shi Wei Fu and Tai Shi Bai Jianfei. The winner then fought with Tai Shi Lu Tong. The competition date was set for three days, and the venue for the competition was set at the school ground for the Imperial City Guard training. At that time, a competition range was set with ropes to allow the Imperial City Guard to watch the battle from a distance, which could inspire their fighting spirit.
Chapter completed!