Chapter 9 The arrival of the annual festival
Autumn goes and winter comes. In a blink of an eye, it has been seven months since the Niu Xiao breaks through. Now is the coldest day of the year, and of course it is also the most lively day of the year, because the annual annual festival has arrived.
This year's annual festival in Niujia Village is more lively than in previous years, because this year there are many more warriors in Niujia Village, three strong men who broke through to the acquired realm, nine people who broke through to the secret spirit, and seventeen or eighteen people who broke through to the Ming spirit. These people are the backbone forces to defend the village and go out to hunt in the future.
With so many more people all at once, Niujia Village's combat power has risen sharply. Niujia Village, which was originally ranked in the middle of Jiuzhuang 18 Village, suddenly became the strongest village below Jiuzhuang, but this ranking has not been recognized by Jiuzhuang 18 Village.
Now that the New Year Festival is approaching, every household prepares the New Year’s things, and various delicacies. The little dolls who have not practiced are even running around the village in new animal skin clothes, looking carefree.
When the moon was in the middle of the sky, the whole village was concentrated on the martial arts training ground. Standing in front were the village chief and several older generation people, and then Niu Xiaoniu's father Niu Tiezhu's generation, and finally Niu Xiaoniu's generation.
"The New Year Festival begins!!" an old man shouted loudly.
Then, under the leadership of the village chief, the whole village worshiped the spiritual positions of the ancestors of Niujia Village that had been placed in front of him. After the worship, everyone sat on the table that had already been set, but they did not turn on their chopsticks.
"The New Year's Festival martial arts competition begins, and the participants come up to draw lots and decide on the opponent!" The juniors who had been informed by their parents at home suddenly lined up in an orderly manner to draw lots.
Originally, Niu Xiaoniu was still wondering, there were still a few days before the New Year, but why did he prepare for the New Year Festival so early? Later, Niu Tiezhu told him that the eighteen villages of Jiuzhuang are like this, and the annual festival is a few days in advance. Then, the best of this year's juniors were selected at the New Year Festival, and five people were released in one village, and then they were gathered in the number one Wohu Village to compete, and then a new ranking was ranked according to the competition.
However, because Jiuzhuang all has a broken third-rate martial arts, Jiuzhuang has never missed the rankings, but there are some wins and losses between them. Therefore, their 18 villages can only compete on their own, because they can't compete with the people in Jiuzhuang even if they want to compete.
Speaking of this, Niu Xiaoniu understood that the New Year Festival is not only about worshiping ancestors, but also about showing the power of his next generation like the surrounding villages during the New Year Festival. To put it bluntly, it is to see if the village will not fall.
Of course Niu Xiaoniu participated, but although they were voluntarily, they were not involuntarily because this was not only a time for others to remember you, but also a time for showing their strength like their peers.
During these seven months, Niu Xiaoniu has practiced to the late stage of Mingjin with the help of a large amount of blood and the superb Baji Manniu Fist. In fact, he can practice so quickly because of the Baji Manniu Fist he created.
Although the Baji Manniu Fist is just a poor martial art, and perhaps even martial arts are not considered a good one, it also allows the people in Niujia Village to exert stronger power. Therefore, the village chief secretly gave Niu Xiaoniu a ginseng for two hundred years. It was with the power of this ginseng that Niu Xiaoniu could practice so quickly, and there was no unstable state at all.
Now his cultivation is the same as his elder brother Niu Dalei, but Niu Dalei is already twelve years old this year, and he is four years older than Niu Xiaoniu.
When I heard that I had to compete with other villages during the New Year Festival and then use it to determine the ranking of the villages, Niu Xiaoniu made up his mind to attend this New Year Festival because it was the best opportunity to learn from other people's village kung fu. Maybe it was impossible to see anything for others, but it was different for him.
Don’t forget that he is a person with mysterious jade pieces. When he sees others using martial arts, jade pieces will evolve in his mind. Even if it is not a complete martial art, jade pieces can also extract some of the essence of the residual moves and then integrate them in classification. Of course, Niu Xiaoniu now only has the classification of boxing techniques.
If he could participate in this New Year's Festival, his Baji Manniu Fist might evolve into a truly inequality martial arts, and he could also see other martial arts. Most importantly, he could see the power of the younger generation in this world, although this is just a small place in the mountains and forests of the southern border of Tianling Great 6.
The lottery was still in an orderly manner, because except for those who were unable to participate in the Imperial Period, all the people in the Ming Dynasty were up, and there were more than 100 people. Fortunately, the elders were all from the village, so they had known that everyone under Imperial Period would participate, so they prepared enough signs.
After everyone got the lottery, the elder said loudly: "All participants have a quarter of an hour to prepare, and they will officially start after a quarter of an hour."
The number of participants this time was exactly even, so the competition was carried out in a pair of two-way battles. Although some of them were young and did not break through the Mingjin period, this time because Niu Xiaoniu often taught and the appearance of Baji Manniu Fist, the elders also made an exception and let those who had not yet reached it. Mingjin participated, first, to increase their knowledge, and second, to hope to create a few more good seedlings.
Those who participated were working hard to adjust their mentality, while those who did not participate were discussing who could win.
"Who do you think will be qualified to go to Wohu Village this year?"
"That's all, you can see that Niu Dalei is the best among them in normal times. Now there are Baji Manniu Fist, Niu Dalei will definitely be able to go."
"There are also Niu Hu. He is as powerful as a bull. Adding the Baji Manniu Fist is like a tiger."
"Niu Erfeng is not bad, he has made great progress. Brother Tiezhu's two sons are good."
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The many villagers were discussing fiercely according to their usual performance.
"Hmph, what you said is wrong. Brother Maverick must have won!" A six-year-old child next to him retorted loudly in discontent.
"Hahahaha, what do you guys know?" The adults next to them burst into laughter when they heard the child's words.
"But I heard that the Mavericks have also made breakthroughs in Mingjin, so maybe they still..." Some people are optimistic about Niu Xiaoniu.
"I admit that Xiao Niu is a genius, but you don't think about it. Xiao Niu is four years younger than his brother. The gap between this period cannot be recovered by genius." Some people analyzed.
"Yes, Xiao Niu is a genius, but he is too young." Someone sighed.
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Chapter completed!