Chapter 157: Meeting the Enemy at the Alchemy Conference
Turning around, Liu Gan, who had adjusted all night, still had a bit of joy on his face, and took his two disciples out of the inn early in the morning. He said that he was going to attend a gathering of fellow practitioners to share his experience in Dan Dao, so he would not come back for dinner.
In fact, since Liu Gan came here, he spent most of his time attending parties outside. For alchemists, the gathering of alchemists from all over the world is indeed a rare opportunity to communicate. In addition to exchanges, some special products from various places will also be traded with each other.
However, to Ye Zan's surprise, when it was almost noon, Liu Qian came back with two disciples, and the expressions on their faces were quite ugly.
Ye Zan was sitting at a table in the lobby eating. Seeing this, he couldn't help asking curiously: "Old Liu, what's the matter? Didn't you say you won't be back at noon?"
With a gloomy face, Liu Gan sat down next to Ye Zan, without saying a word, picked up a jug of wine on the table and poured it down. It's just that most of the wine leaked out from both sides of the mouth of the jar, which directly wetted the front of his clothes.
And one of Liu Gan's disciples stood beside him and said angrily on behalf of his master: "Those people are too hateful, their attainments in alchemy are not comparable to my master, and they slander my master out of thin air."
"Old Liu, what's going on?" Ye Zan asked Liu Gan.
There was a wry smile on Liu Gan's face, he shook his head and said, "Elder Ye is worried, it's just that someone brought up some old things again."
Old things? Ye Zan immediately understood that even if he didn't have the way of insight, he could still make a good guess.
The so-called old things are nothing more than those things that Liu Qian was discredited here in the past. What stealing alchemy scriptures and betraying the sect, how to deceive the Lishan faction, etc. As for why it was found out again, it obviously has something to do with Na Jiang Ziliu and Jin Hongze.
"Hehe, Lao Liu, that's why I said, your state of mind still needs to be tempered. If you want to be a alchemy master, skills are important, but your state of mind is even more important. Change, the elk tends to be on the left side but doesn't blink, you are indeed far behind." Ye Zan said shaking his head. He just found such a powerful sentence from ancient Chinese, and used it to fool people. In fact, he may not even be able to do it himself, such as things like not changing color and not blinking.
However, after hearing Ye Zan's words, Liu Gan stood up all of a sudden, muttered several times in his mouth, and suddenly bowed to Ye Zan and said, "Elder Ye, what a conversation is really awakening dreams!" Middleman, I really need to sharpen my mind."
"Haha, it's good if you can figure it out, don't thank me all the time, sit down and eat." Ye Zan said with a smile.
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There is one thing below that is unknown. After Liu Gan sat down, he asked Ye Zan with a bit of thought: "I don't know where is this famous mountain Taishan?" "
"Ah, well, it's not a famous mountain, so don't worry about these details. For dinner, the food here is pretty good." Ye Zan laughed, and immediately changed the topic to the dinner table.
"Oh, it must have collapsed, otherwise how could there be such a sentence, what a pity." Through that sentence, Liu Gan made up an answer by himself.
"Yeah, it's broken." Ye Zan nodded repeatedly.
In a blink of an eye, it was finally time for the alchemy conference to officially start, but there was not much change in the ancient city, there were no gongs, drums, and firecrackers. It just started like this, but at some intersections, large notices were posted, saying some activities of the alchemy conference.
In fact, the so-called Grandmaster Examination, or Master Examination, is not such a strict exam, and it cannot even be called an exam. It means that alchemists show their alchemy skills in front of everyone, and it is enough to meet the standards of masters or grand masters. Of course, in the alchemy conference, some identification cards will also be issued to prove that the other party does have the level of a master or grand master.
As for when to show, there is no fixed time. In the very center of the ancient city, a high platform has been set up, with several rows of alchemy furnaces placed on it, and flames burning below. It can be said that anyone, at any time, can go on stage to show their skills.
The herbs used to demonstrate the skills are all provided by the alchemy conference in order to avoid being faked. However, it is not for nothing to use these herbs. If you succeed, you have to keep the pills, but if you fail, you have to pay for the herbs.
On the first day, Ye Zan, Liu Gan and others came to the high platform in the center of the ancient city. On the high platform, not a single alchemy furnace was empty, all the alchemists were there, either nervous or casual, refining their own pills and showing their respective skills.
And around the high platform, there are also quite a few alchemists, commenting on the people above. Some people nodded slightly, and some showed disdain. Whenever someone came down, someone went up immediately and began to be judged by others.
"Fellow Daoist Ye, Fellow Daoist Liu, my master asked me to invite some of you over there." Xun Hongwen appeared next to Ye Zan and the others, and said to them after seeing the ceremony.
As the host of the Dao of Alchemy Conference and the master of Dao of Alchemy, it is naturally impossible for Yan Xinghe to watch the display on the stage from the crowd below. On one side of the high platform, there is a two-story wooden building. Yan Xinghe and several alchemy hosts are sitting on the second floor watching the situation below.
Under the guidance of Xun Hongwen, Ye Zan and others came to the second floor of the wooden building. However, as soon as he came up, Liu Qian's face changed slightly. If it wasn't for what Ye Zan said before, he might explode at this time. Originally, on the second floor of the wooden building, there were not only Yan Xinghe and others, but also Liu Gan's enemies Jin Hongze and Jiang Ziliu.
"Fellow Daoist Ye, fellow Daoist Liu, come here, please come this way." Seeing Ye Zan and the others coming up, Yan Xinghe immediately greeted them and told them to sit next to him.
However, at this time, Jin Hongze snorted coldly, and said in a bad tone: "Sinister, you still have the face to come back!"
Ye Zan reached out his hand to stop Liu Gan, looked at Jin Hongze pretending to be surprised, and said, "Oh, this is the lord of this ancient city, but I don't know who this villain is calling for?"
There is no city lord in this ancient city, but it is jointly controlled by several major sects. Who dares to say that he is the city lord here, unless he wants to die.
"Don't talk nonsense, junior, could it be that you are the one from the Yuqing sect who took in my scoundrel?" Jin Hongze was not frightened, and asked Ye Zan with a gloomy face.
"Don't talk about every villain, Elder Liu Gan is the elder of my Jade Qingzong Pill Hall, and my senior brother Hushan Zhenjun also calls him a fellow daoist, what are you?" Ye Zan also said unceremoniously.
Seeing that the two sides were about to quarrel, Yan Xinghe quickly stood up and said, "What are you doing? You are all practitioners, so why bother to fight like those people in the market place?"
However, I didn't expect that Jin Hongze didn't even give Yan Xinghe face, and said reproachfully: "Friend Yan, this is the place where I wait for the master to watch the alchemy meeting, how can I let others come up to disturb me at will."
Indeed, several of you present, including Yan Xinghe and Jin Hongze, are true Alchemy masters. That Jiang Ziliu was only standing behind Jin Hongze, and when he looked at Liu Gan, his eyes were quite smug.
"I'm sitting here just to watch the performance of fellow practitioners below more easily. Since when has this become a privilege? Even if it is a privilege, Daoyou Ye is a friend of my Dandingzong. I invite him to come. Fellow Daoist Jin has an opinion?" Yan Xinghe's face also darkened.
"Hehe, Fellow Daoist Yan has already said that. How dare I have an opinion. Who doesn't know that the alchemy sect is the leader of alchemy. How dare I wait for the alchemist who is not a top-notch alchemist to say more." Jin Hongze spoke, and glanced at the other Several alchemy masters.
What Jin Hongze said was really out of his mind, and he was obviously trying to provoke the relationship between Dan Dingzong and several other masters. Obviously, this Jin Hongze is not a person who wants to die. If he dares to say such a thing, he probably has a lot of backing behind him.
In fact, no matter where it is, no matter what industry it is in, a dominant family will be hated by others. Just like at the beginning, Yu Qingzong was also called the leader of the righteous way in this realm of Shenhua, but after the catastrophe, many colleagues fell into trouble, until he became a third-rate sect.
The same is true for Dan Dingzong. Since they have such a status, when dealing with affairs, the disciples will definitely do some hateful things intentionally or unintentionally. Moreover, most of them must be intentional. After all, if the big sect wants to develop, it needs more resources, so it will inevitably affect the interests of others.
Moreover, Dandingzong itself, such a huge sect, inevitably has various factional disputes. Although Yan Xinghe is the alchemy master, he can't represent the entire alchemy sect. There will always be different opinions in the sect.
Seeing Jin Hongze looking over, the faces of those alchemy masters looked somewhat troubled. But after hesitating for a while, someone still stood up and said to Yan Xinghe: "Friend Yan Xinghe, this Alchemy Dao Conference is not a grand examination of the Alchemy Cauldron Sect after all. It is better not to appear too arbitrary in some matters."
"Li Daoyou?" Yan Xinghe didn't expect that there were people supporting Jin Hongze, and he seemed quite surprised for a while.
Seeing this situation, Ye Zan shook his head secretly, is it true that every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite?
"Guys, why bother arguing over such a trivial matter? Wouldn't it make people laugh if the people below looked at it?" Ye Zan took two steps forward, turned to look at Jin Hongze, and said with a smile on his face : "As you said, as long as you are a master of Alchemy, you can sit here?"
Jin Hongze narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced at Liu Gan over there, turned his head and said to Ye Zan, "Why, your Excellency is only at the Foundation Establishment Stage, so you are also a Grandmaster of Alchemy?"
Jin Hongze is very cunning, logically speaking, when Ye Zan asked this question, the topic should be brought to Liu Gan. Then Liu Gan showed his supernatural power, showing superhuman alchemy skills, and slapped his face.
However, Jin Hongze didn't play his cards according to common sense, but extended the topic to Ye Zan. After all, as he said, Ye Zan, a foundation-building practitioner, could never be at the level of a master of Alchemy. (To be continued.)