Crossing the Sword

"The sword points to the south and points to the north, and the iron is all over the ground without any shine!" Jingwei read Ye Shisan's second couplet proudly, jumped and clapped her hands excitedly, and praised Ye Shisan's literary talent and elegance. It was as if she had come up with this second couplet.

When Kualeng heard the second half of the couplet, he snorted angrily and said to Ye Shisan, "Okay, I'll wait for your first half!" After that, he turned around and walked into the dining hall. The two people with him looked at each other awkwardly and followed him in dejectedly.

But at this time, there was a person whose face was even uglier than Kwa Leng's.

This person is of course Zhuan Meng, the prince of the San Miao Kingdom, who comes from the northernmost part of Shenzhou. In his opinion, this second couplet is clearly aimed at him. He glared at Ye Shisan coldly and said fiercely: "I am also waiting for Brother Ye's first couplet. I hope that when Brother Ye asks the question, he will tell me first, so that he won't be beaten by that kid Kualeng."

Ye Shisan laughed and said, "Okay. Buddy, change the wooden sign." As soon as he said this, he attracted many people's strange looks. In order to show off, most people would try their best to come up with a difficult couplet, which usually took two to three days, but Ye Shisan was different. He could come up with the second couplet after seeing the first couplet, so that the first couplet of Kua Leng was taken down less than half an hour after it was hung up. Now he actually came up with a question without even thinking about it, which was really a bit surprising.

The girls were even more curious about him, thinking that Zhang Tianya was not only a martial arts expert but also a talented writer, and they all looked forward to the couplet he would come up with.

After a while, the two wooden signs were replaced. Ye Shisan wrote the first couplet on them with a flick of his finger. Then he smiled and continued to walk into the dining hall. He was not worried about others matching the first couplet. Instead, he was looking forward to it. He also wanted to know what the second couplet would look like if it was matched.

Everyone outside was focused on Zhuan Meng, which made him feel very uncomfortable. He muttered the first couplet of Ye Shisan: "Carrying a tin pot across the West Lake, the tin pot fell into the West Lake and regretted the tin pot." Then he was silent for a long time, frowning and thinking hard for a long time. When everyone else was almost impatient, he finally said, "Wait for me to go back and study it carefully."

Although there seems to be no West Lake in this era, it is still reasonable to understand it literally as a lake in the west.

Not only Zhuanmeng, but even Kualeng, who had already returned to the dinner table, rushed out with great confidence when he heard that Zhang Tianya had come up with the first couplet, trying to save some face. But in the end, of course, he came out beaming with joy, but went back depressed.

Seeing the two opponents like this, Ye Shisan was secretly laughing in his heart. This is absolutely impossible, even Mr. Su Dongpo, who wrote it at the beginning, couldn't come up with a couplet. Although I heard that there are two lower couplets in later generations, they are not neat either. Just you two? Humph, just forget it!

Just like that, in the next few days, Ye Shisan's life continued as usual, while many contestants from other countries were racking their brains to think about the absolute of "Ye Shisan".

Until the day before the competition, Bai Yu sent a list of names, which was the competition schedule. It seemed that in order to take care of the chances of female players to qualify, there would basically be no male-female duels in the first half of the competition. Among all the female players, Ye Shisan was most optimistic about Bai Yu. If she performed well, even Ye Shisan himself did not think he would be sure to win, let alone those female players.

Ye Shisan's first opponent was a famous guy, Yi, a master from Youxiong Country. The introduction said that Yi, like Ye Shisan, had no background, but was valued by Emperor Xuanyuan and was promoted to participate in this competition. He was good at archery, and it seemed that he must be the guy who shot the sun in the legend. However, Ye Shisan still wanted to learn his archery skills. But unfortunately, this was a ring competition, so he probably had no chance to see it.

The two people Ye Shisan wanted to teach a lesson to the most. Kualeng's opponent was Xing Tian, ​​and it was probably difficult to have a reasonable reason to teach him a lesson. He would definitely be eliminated by Xing Tian in the first round. Zhuanxu's son Zhuan Meng's opponent was Meng Lei. Ye Shisan didn't like these two guys. When he saw that they were competing, he secretly wished them both a defeat.

After looking at the schedule, Jingwei also ran over and complained as soon as she entered the room: "My sister insisted on going to see Ling Fei, but she was embarrassed to go by herself, so she had to drag me along. But luckily I was smart and found an excuse and ran out, hehe." Then she saw the schedule in Ye Shisan's hand and said helplessly: "My luck is really bad. I actually played against Sister Baiyu in the second game. Oh no, it seems that our Shennong Country can only rely on you. You must win the championship."

She had always lived in the Fuxi Temple, so when the schedule came out, she and Bai Yu were the first to see it. Therefore, she didn't need to look at the details. Her first game was against a player from a small country. With her current ninth-level cultivation, she should be able to handle it, but after knowing that she would face Bai Yu in the second game, she had already made up her mind to give up.

Ye Shisan smiled helplessly and said, "I'll try my best." In fact, he didn't have much confidence in the first game. Of course, if they were fighting on the ring, it would not be difficult for Ye Shisan to beat Yi. But there was another rule behind the rules. If both players agreed to change the venue, they could use a special teleportation array to teleport to other terrains to fight. The audience could use the "live broadcast" created by magic to watch the game process.

According to the rules, Ye Shisan could refuse, and then he wouldn't have to face Yi's terrible bow and arrow. However, that was not the duel he wanted. If he wanted to fight, he would fight the strongest Yi, the Yi who could shoot arrows with a bow! Only if he could defeat the opponent under such circumstances would he admit his victory. As for the win or loss, he didn't take it too seriously.

As a warrior, Ye Shisan was absolutely upright when competing. However, this uprightness was only limited to competitions. If he hated someone and wanted to kill him, he would definitely do whatever it took.

After chatting for a while, Ye Shisan suggested: "Let's go out for a walk, to see my first opponent, and by the way, to see if anyone can match that couplet." He said "that couplet" instead of "my couplet." Although he had plagiarized someone else's work, he still didn't want to use it to show off.

When Bai Yu heard Ye Shisan mention the couplet, she interrupted and said, "Brother, you may not know yet? Now you have become famous for your literary talent with that first couplet. Even my father praised you after hearing that couplet." Looking at her expression, she was obviously proud of her brother Ye Shisan.

Ye Shisan couldn't say that he had plagiarized the couplet, so he could only smile bitterly and said, "I don't deserve it."

The three found Yi under a big tree outside the wing of Youxiong Kingdom. Yi was sitting in the shade under the tree, playing an unknown tune with a leaf.

After living here for a few days, the contestants had some contact with each other, at least they could be considered to know each other. And Yi was a kind person, so Ye Shisan thought of coming to say hello to him first.