The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, Becomes a Disciple of Yue Buqun

At this time, Yue Buqun's face was radiant, his steps were brisk, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. He was no longer as tired as he was yesterday.

Ning Zhongze was the same, his face was rosy and he looked in good spirits.

"It's strange, why did Master and Master's wife come so late today? Usually they come earlier than us."

Shu Qi, who was beside Jiang Ning, muttered in confusion.

He is about the same age as Jiang Ning, but a little older, so he is also Jiang Ning's senior brother.

Some of the disciples who heard his doubts had the same expression, while others, such as Shi Daizi and Tao Jun, pursed their lips and smiled mysteriously.

"For the past two months, your master's wife and I were not in Huashan, so we didn't have time to evaluate your hard work. Today, we will see what your achievements have been in the past few months."

Yue Buqun stood in front of all the Huashan disciples, with his hands behind his back, and spoke calmly.

As soon as he said this, most of the Huashan disciples couldn't help but feel nervous. It was not because they hadn't worked hard during this period, but because the students were nervous before the exam.

Looking at the nearly forty disciples standing in the training ground, Yue Buqun showed a smile.

There are nearly forty disciples now, and next will be fifty, sixty, eighty, and a hundred.

He will carry forward the Huashan Sect!

"According to the old rules, you will fight in pairs. Your master's wife and I will see how you have improved. Come in groups. Who will go first?"

No one speaks.

Jiang Ning didn't respond either.

He is a junior fellow student, and none of the senior fellows stepped forward, so he stepped out just to attract attention.

Yue Buqun frowned slightly when he saw this.

No one volunteered? Then he would call the roll.

"Dayou, you and Genming are in a group. You two go first."

"what?"

Lu Dayou let out a confused cry.

Yue Buqun frowned and scolded: "What? Hurry up."

"Yes Yes."

Lu Dayou nodded quickly, and walked out from the crowd of disciples with Gao Genming, with a cowering look on his face, and so did Gao Genming.

It’s not that they have been neglecting their practice during this period and are afraid of being punished, but they are nervous. They are afraid of making a fool of themselves when they are the first group to step out.

The other Huashan disciples made room for them and stood in a circle to watch them.

Being watched by so many people at the same time, including his master and his mistress, as well as a younger junior fellow apprentice who was stronger than them, Lu Dayou was extremely nervous. He could feel his heart pounding, cold sweat began to seep out of his forehead, and the hand holding the sword was shaking slightly.

When he raised his head and looked across, he found that Gao Genming was not much better than him, with a look of kidney deficiency on his face.

Chapter 14: Martial Arts Talent

Chapter 14: Martial Arts Talent

The way they looked made Yue Buqun's brows twist uncontrollably before they even started fighting, and he couldn't help but scold them.

"What are you dithering for?!"

After being scolded by Yue Buqun, Lu Dayou trembled, then drew his sword and stabbed at Gao Genming opposite him.

Gao Genming looked at the attack coming at him and raised his sword in panic to block it.

The two men immediately started fighting.

Jiang Ning watched the fight between the two men at the edge of the martial arts training ground with no expression on his face.

There is nothing interesting to watch. Lu Dayou and Gao Genming are just two noobs fighting each other. At the beginning, they were so miserable, but after getting better, it got much better. It can be seen that these two people really practiced hard and improved compared to the previous few fights. (I won’t write about the fighting process in detail. It’s not the protagonist’s battle, so I’ll just skip it briefly. I’m too lazy to waste words.)

Although the fight between Lu Dayou and the other man was just a fight between noobs in Jiang Ning's eyes, it was very intense in the eyes of the children who had just started learning. They were all stunned at the sight.

Watching the fight between the two, Yue Buqun's expression turned from gloomy to bright.

"Humph!"

"what!"

At the end of the fight, Lu Dayou and Gao Genming shouted at the same time, then took a step back and stopped.

The fight between the two of them was over.

Lu Dayou and Gao Genming put away their swords and saluted Yue Buqun.

"Master."

"Although the fight was a mess earlier, I can see that you two put a lot of effort into your training."

Yue Buqun commented on their performance.

"Pass."

As soon as these two words came out, Lu Dayou and Gao Genming finally felt relieved.

The main reason was that their previous performance was so poor that they were afraid that Yue Buqun would give them an unqualified grade, and they would be punished then.

"Go down."

Yue Buqun waved his hand to let the two men leave, then looked at the disciples who were watching.

"Who will be the next group?"

This time, there was no need for Yue Buqun to call out names. Soon two female disciples volunteered to step forward. They had just discussed this together, and after they stepped forward, they immediately began to duel with swords.

Different from male disciples, the style of female disciples' moves tends to be elegant and pleasing to the eye.

"Pass."

After the two female disciples finished their sword-fighting competition, Yue Buqun nodded, and Ning Zhongze also nodded with a smile.

Afterwards, one by one, Huashan disciples came out in pairs and started to duel with swords. They had all agreed on their opponents for the duel.

Jiang Ning just watched them fight, and no one asked him to join a team.

It's not that he has bad relationships with people, but his strength is the strongest among these disciples, and no one would be so tactless as to challenge him to a duel.

In every previous assessment within the sect, Jiang Ning's opponent was Linghu Chong.

Among the second-generation disciples of Huashan, only they two have reached the level of second-rate masters, and the rest are hovering at the third-rate level. Therefore, in every internal assessment, the Huashan disciples automatically put him and Linghu Chong in the same group. Now that Linghu Chong is not in Huashan, naturally no one will compete with him.

Although Lao Denuo was also a second-rate master, he hid his strength and fought back and forth with Shi Daizi.

"Pass."

"Pass."

"Unqualified."

"Pass."

Yue Buqun evaluated the Huashan disciples in groups. Most of them passed, but a very small number failed and were severely punished. They were forced to practice martial arts for two more hours every day and carry ten loads of water from the foot of the mountain to Huashan every day.

The internal assessment set up by Yue Buqun was not to find ways to punish disciples in order to demonstrate the authority of a teacher. Its main purpose was to urge disciples to practice. As long as the performance in the internal assessment was not too outrageous, even if the performance was similar to the previous internal assessment, Yue Buqun would allow them to pass.

After all, practicing martial arts is against the will of heaven. If you don't make progress, you will regress. As long as you neglect practicing martial arts, your martial arts will regress. Since the performance is the same as before, it means that you are at least practicing seriously.

Not everyone can make rapid progress in martial arts training. Martial arts training requires talent. Not everyone has a natural talent for martial arts. Some people have practiced hard for half their lives, but their martial arts skills are not as good as those of a young person.

Sometimes the greatest progress is not making any progress.

Ordinary people are the majority.

As the disciples in the sect passed the assessment or failed one by one, there were not many disciples who had not yet been assessed, and Jiang Ning was one of them.

"Junior brother! Are you okay?"

A cry of surprise was heard, and one of the Huashan disciples in the last group quickly put away his sword and looked nervously at his fellow apprentice opposite him. There was blood on his sword.

"I'm sorry, Senior Brother, I didn't mean it."

The fellow apprentice opposite him covered his wound with his hand, his face pale.

"It's okay, Senior Brother. It's nothing to worry about. It's just that my Kung Fu is not good enough. It has nothing to do with you."

Seeing that a disciple was bleeding, Yue Buqun said, "Since Songnian is injured, your fight should be temporarily stopped."

Swords and knives have no eyes and are bound to hurt people. Even though it was a competition between fellow disciples, Yue Buqun was prepared for unexpected events. As long as no one was killed and no serious consequences were caused, there would be basically no problem.

"Yes."

The two disciples saluted, and then the Huashan disciple who had taken action helped the injured fellow disciple out of the center of the training ground.

Now Jiang Ning is the only one who has not taken the assessment.

Yue Buqun looked at Jiang Ning, pondered for a while, and said: "Ning'er, under normal circumstances, Chong'er should have sparred with you, and the other Huashan disciples could not spar with you. But Chong'er is not in Huashan now, so this time, I will personally test your progress in your sect assessment."

Although he said so, Yue Buqun did not think that Jiang Ning would fail the assessment.

Jiang Ning is the one among his group of disciples that he needs the least to worry about. He is hard-working and self-disciplined, so there is no way he can regress.

But this is the rule of the sect. Even though Yue Buqun feels that there is no need to test Jiang Ning, he still has to do it, otherwise other disciples will feel unfair and unbalanced.

"Yes."

Jiang Ning nodded and stepped out.

He has been at the level of a second-rate master for some time. Although he feels that he is getting stronger every day, he has no one to compare himself with. It would be good if Yue Buqun was willing to test him personally.

"Master, this disciple is rude."

Jiang Ning said this first, and Yue Buqun smiled and signaled Jiang Ning that he could take action.

Jiang Ning's eyes suddenly turned cold, his expression became very indifferent, and then he put his hand on the hilt of the sword.

Zheng~

The hilt of the sword was raised, revealing a glimmer of silver light from the scabbard, and then it slowly came out of the scabbard.

However, when the sword was halfway out of its sheath, some of the other Huashan disciples noticed something was wrong at the foot of the mountain.

Someone is going up the mountain.

A man and a woman, the man was about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, and the woman was about sixteen or seventeen years old.