Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 136 Everything is as usual

The first match of the Tianjie group ended, and the atmosphere in the martial arts arena was almost ignited by the warrior No. 17 from the Jingzhou official martial arts school in the Tianjie group.

On the viewing platform, with the results of the first match of the Heavenly Class Group finalized, everyone's anxious hearts were finally at ease.

The middle-aged man who had been trying hard to suppress his emotions and was sitting on one side of the viewing platform was no longer as frantic as before and needed to try hard to restrain himself. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief.

As the representative sent by Jingzhou to watch the ceremony, the middle-aged man stood out from the crowd even though most people on the viewing platform were nervous. He was undoubtedly the most nervous one.

In previous Five States Martial Arts Shows, the atmosphere on the viewing platform was never as tense as it is now.

In fact, the representatives from each state who go to the host state for the Five States Martial Arts Show are relatively fixed. Each state simply selects people from the officials of the official martial arts school and the city lord's mansion to become representatives.

The only two people who are qualified to sit on the viewing platform in the official martial arts schools of the five states are the director and deputy director of each state's official martial arts school.

Of course, if both of them are unable to spare the time, the City Lord's Mansion may select a suitable candidate with higher reputation from the management of the official martial arts school to represent the state to attend the ceremony.

The officials of the City Lord's Mansion are also selected by each state from the heads of several relevant departments responsible for hosting the Five States Martial Arts Show. The situation is similar in each session and there will not be any major changes.

If the Five States Martial Arts Show is held in the city, the mayor of the host state will probably give a speech.

But in most cases, the previous Five States Martial Arts Shows were rarely held in the city.

Since the city lords of each state probably will not leave their state, they will naturally not appear at the martial arts arena.

Among the five states, each state has a fixed number of representatives who can sit on the viewing platform, but it will basically not be and cannot be less than two.

Even though there is a fixed number of representatives from each state sitting on the viewing stand, there is no fixed number of officials accompanying the team.

Therefore, each state can send a sufficient number of officials to fully support the disciples of the official martial arts school in their state and provide them with help and needs.

This move not only ensures their safety, but also helps them achieve good results.

Therefore, there are almost no unfamiliar faces among the representatives of each state, and most of the relevant officials in charge of organizing the Five-State Martial Arts Show in each state know each other.

Since the officials from the five states are all familiar with each other, they will naturally not be as polite to each other as when strangers first meet.

In fact, based on the experience of previous five-state martial arts performances, there were many cases where representatives from different states quarreled.

After all, even if the representatives of the five states are familiar with each other, in the case of a joint martial arts performance among the five states, the excitement of the performance of the martial artists in each state and the final results of each state will more or less affect some things, and there will inevitably be some sense of competition.

In previous Five States Martial Arts Shows, there would be a strange scene where the states would argue fiercely on the viewing platform, refusing to give in to each other, but chatting and laughing in the audience.

Now, the entire viewing platform was silent, and the biggest reason was the arrival of Prince Rong.

Prince Rong Chu Yunzhan is the sixth prince of the current emperor and also the second legitimate son, with a very noble status.

In Yuan Country, the royal family held such authority, let alone the Crown Prince, that no one dared to neglect him in the slightest. However, the vast majority of those in the viewing platform were completely unaware of the Crown Prince's arrival.

Below the viewing platform, after Director Yan flew to the platform on a giant wooden sword and sat down on the platform, everyone quickly began to withdraw their attention and busy themselves with their own things.

Warriors of all levels were walking hurriedly between the training grounds, so it was difficult for them to devote more energy to paying attention to what was happening on the viewing platform.

The distance between the audience and the viewing platform became even farther.

If the warriors participating in the competition can roughly guess the identity of the people they are familiar with based on the figure on the viewing platform, then the spectators who come to watch the game can't even guess who is sitting on the viewing platform even if they want to, just based on a blurry figure.

Jiang Xuan did see everyone on the viewing platform rise to their feet for the last arrival. But he only saw a silhouette, not the face. As for the rest, he couldn't see anything else clearly.

According to the style of previous Five States Martial Arts Shows, representatives from the host state and the other four states were to speak in turn, but this time no one made a speech when the Five States Martial Arts Show officially began. This was unprecedented.

If one were to say that they wanted to keep a low profile or simplify things, since the scene was indeed very grand and the layout of each place was carefully designed, it would not be right to say so.

Others may not know this, but the representatives from various states who came to watch the ceremony at the martial arts arena are very clear about it!
Qizhou, as the host province of the Five Provinces Martial Arts Show, had naturally asked the Crown Prince for his opinion in advance, but the Crown Prince only intended to watch the ceremony and had no intention of saying anything at the opening of this Five Provinces Martial Arts Show.

Therefore, since the Crown Prince had no intention of speaking, the officials of the five states could not bypass the Crown Prince and steal the limelight.

They even dared not to make the decision without the Crown Prince's consent, let alone solemnly introducing his identity to everyone.

Before the Five States Martial Arts Show began, the Crown Prince's intention was simply to "keep everything simple and keep things as normal." Because of this, the series of protective measures prepared by Qizhou officials for the Crown Prince's safety had no chance to be implemented.

On the surface, there were no additional restrictions on the spectators who came to the martial arts arena to watch the fights.

But this does not mean that everything is really as the prince said.

Privately, Qizhou sent the entire Qizhou City Lord's Mansion's personal guards, that is, City Lord Bai's personal guards, to this Mi Cui Peak, and they patrolled the area without stopping.

After all, since it concerns the prince, few people dare to relax in the slightest.

Ever since Warrior No. 17 turned the tide of battle and the result of the competition came out, everyone on the viewing platform turned their heads to look at the prince as if inadvertently.

But no one, whether they took a quick glance or took a few more glances at the risk of being discovered, noticed the change in the prince's expression.

Ever since the prince came and sat down on the viewing platform, there has been no significant change in his expression.

This prince didn't seem to care who won or lost between Warrior No. 17 and Warrior No. 130, nor did he care about the dispute between the government-owned martial arts school and the private martial arts school. His expression was still as calm and indifferent as when he first arrived.

In the eyes of everyone, the prince next to them was only of such a young age that it was not reasonable for him to be indifferent to everything, nor was he completely unaffected by external voices.

They guessed that perhaps, it was simply because the prince, as a member of the royal family, had faced the struggles of various forces, and he might have been exposed to them since childhood and deeply influenced by them, thus developing the ability to keep his emotions hidden.

(End of this chapter)