Chapter 836: The Conference Begins

The three major conferences of the inner court, which were expected by thousands of people, finally arrived.

The procedure of the conference has been posted long ago, and all the students know that today is the day for the alchemist competition, so early in the morning, the students went to the largest open-air square in the back mountain of the college.

A temporary high platform was built in the center of the open-air square, on which there was a pill furnace. There are stands around the square, and there is a rostrum directly in front of it, which is a little higher than the temporary high platform.

When Sima Youyue dragged Han Miaoshuang and Su Xiaoxiao to go, Fatty Qu and the others had already sat down in the stands. Seeing the three people coming in, the fat man waved at them.

Sima Youyue led them up, and the place was already reserved for them.

"It's too late for you, if no one occupies a seat, you have to stand below."

Sima Youyue smiled, "I know you guys will keep us. There's nothing to do if you come early."

Han Miaoshuang saw that tens of thousands of people were in this square, not to mention that the upper seats were full, and half of the people standing below were still there.

"so many people!"

"This is the first time I have seen such a spectacular scene in the academy." Su Xiaoxiao also sighed.

"Brother, haven't you participated in it before?"

"After I entered the college, there was one of the three major conferences. But we didn't attend it at that time, and we weren't in the college. So we haven't seen it." Su Xiaoxiao said.

"The three conferences are held once every ten years, and Xiaoxiao has only been here for eighteen years, so I haven't participated in them." Han Miaoshuang said, "Everyone is in retreat at ordinary times, and those who are outside are outside. Generally, they will all attend the three conferences. gather together."

"So, this is a rare event for the academy." Sima Youyue looked at the hundreds of alchemy furnaces placed below, probably the number of alchemists in the inner courtyard, and asked: "Are all alchemists competing together? "

"Yes indeed!"

"Is it the same for high and low level competitions?"

"It's definitely different!" Fatty Qu said, "Ouyang and the others said that the first row in the front is for free play, the rows behind are for the seventh-rank alchemist competition, and the ones behind are for the sixth-rank alchemist. "

"What's the difference between the first row and the ones behind?" Sima Youyue was puzzled.

"It's used by those eighth-rank and ninth-rank alchemists."

"There are still eighth-rank and ninth-rank alchemists?" Sima Youyue's eyes widened, "At that level, you can be a teacher, right?"

"That's what I said, but it is said that almost no one has used this row." Wei Ziqi said, "After all, it is impossible to become an eighth-rank alchemist at the student stage. But it is said that someone has achieved it before. So this position has always been reserved.”

There is a rule in the inner court, no matter what occupation or status, you can only stay until you are 400 years old at most, and you will graduate automatically when you are 400 years old.

At this time, all the alchemists who participated in the competition took a note from the two boxes, showed it to the teacher on the sidelines, and went to the corresponding alchemy furnace.

"Can they only use the alchemy furnace prepared by the academy?" Fatty Qu asked when he saw that Bei Gongtang and Ouyang Fei had also drawn their numbers.

"No." Han Miaoshuang said, "The quality of these pill furnaces is not very good. Those students can use the pill furnaces prepared by themselves or others. In fact, very few people will use the pill furnaces prepared by the college. A teacher will come and take back the pill furnace."

"If that's the case, why does the academy still prepare pill furnaces for them?"

"A tradition handed down from the past."

After all the students entered the square, several teachers came up together, passed by each student, and asked if they wanted to use their own pill furnace. If the other party said yes, they would take away the college's pill furnace, and the students would use their Take out the alchemy furnace.

As Han Miaoshuang said, most of those students chose to use their own alchemy furnaces, and only a few kept the college's alchemy furnaces.

In the first two rows, none of the students went.

When the preparations were almost done, a group of teachers led by Mao Sanquan walked in from the outside and sat down on the rostrum.

A teacher standing at the side cleared his throat, and began to talk about the opening remarks of the competition to the students present. He first talked about the importance of the three conferences in the academy, and then the importance of rankings and so on. Then he talked about the arrangements for the past few days, and finally he talked about the rules of today's alchemy competition.

"This year is the same as previous years, divided into two rounds. The first round is to refine the elixir designated by the academy, and the second round is for everyone to play freely. The first round will be ranked according to the grade of the elixir that everyone refines and the time it takes. , Rank 6 ranks behind Rank 7."

"The second round is free play. Within the specified time, you are free to refine a kind of elixir, and the teachers of the academy will judge your performance based on the grade of the elixir you refined."

"Your final ranking will be based on your results in the two rounds. Now, the alchemy competition officially begins."

"There is a Dan recipe under your table, the sixth grade is the same, and the seventh grade is the same. There are three materials on the table, you have two hours to learn the Dan recipe, and you have three chances to refine it. Let's get started now."

The alchemist students took out the alchemy recipes in the desk drawer and began to study them.

Han Miaoshuang leaned in front of You Yue and said, "I heard from Jiang Junxian that the academy's competition is similar to Danby's rules, and we will probably be similar to this by then."

"Eldest brother knows?"

"He used to participate in Danby." Han Miaoshuang said, "At that time, he went there under the name of the young master of the Jiang family. It was also that Danby. He was favored by the master and accepted as an apprentice. Now that I think about it, his purpose is Take this opportunity to approach the master."

"When did that happen?" Sima Youyue asked.

"Fifty years ago." Han Miao brushed the hair around her ear and said, "That guy first followed Master, a few years earlier than me."

"I didn't expect that we would go to the competition this time without the master." Su Xiaoxiao said.

"By the way, alchemists have Dan competitions, so do weapon refiners have weapon competitions, formation masters have formation competitions, and animal trainers and spirit seekers have corresponding competitions?" Sima Youyue asked.

"Beast trainers don't seem to have this kind of competition, but other professions do. The master only focuses on alchemy and doesn't pay much attention to other competitions, so he doesn't know much about it." Han Miaoshuang said, "Director Mao should know. How did you think of asking?" this?"

"I thought of it for a while, so I asked casually." Sima Youyue smiled.

In the previous life, Ximen's family did not have outstanding alchemists and weapon refiners, so they didn't have much contact with these things. Just now, she also suddenly thought of this question. They are all forces on the mainland. Since there is Danby, there should be other forces as well.