"Hey, isn't this Pavilion Master Xiang? I heard that Pavilion Master Xiang is having a good time lately."
An unpleasant voice came, and a burly middle-aged man led several people towards Xiang Tian.
Zhenbao Pavilions are spread across the entire continent. The Zhenbao Pavilion of the Emperor of Heaven only has a headquarters in the Emperor of Heaven. Zhenbao Pavilions with branches in other countries have their own headquarters.
In the Treasure Pavilion’s annual alchemist ranking conference every few years, the pavilion masters from dozens of cities gathered together. Naturally, the pavilion masters who had hostile relations faced each other tit for tat.
Ye Xingchen stood quietly behind Xiang Tian without saying a word. What he had to do now was to watch quietly and wait for the Alchemist Conference to start.
"Ben Lei, you're fine." Xiang Tian snorted coldly and said immediately.
Ben Lei, the Pavilion Master of Xuantian City, has a cultivation level similar to that of Xiang Tian. The place Ben Lei is in charge of is only ranked one higher than Yan City.
If Yancheng's ranking improves this time, he will be the Pavilion Master of Xuantian City who will be dismissed.
Once a person has power, no one is willing to give it up and choose to become an unknown person.
Everyone has desires. When this desire is expanded, no one can resist this desire for power.
Xiang Tian is also a scheming person, and most of yesterday's assassination was carried out by Ben Lei's men.
Fortunately for Xiangtian, the person he brought this time was Ye Xingchen. If it were another person, he would definitely be injured or even die without noticing.
"I heard that Yancheng is selling fifth-grade elixirs recently. I don't know if it's true or not." Ben Lei said angrily.
"Huh, you don't need to know whether it's true or not right now. You just need to know that the Pavilion Master who will be eliminated this time must be you." Xiang Tian said in a cold voice.
Hearing this, Ben Lei suddenly turned extremely ugly and wanted to get angry, but finally held back.
Now is the Alchemist Conference. If you take action here, you will definitely be held accountable by the headquarters, and in the end the gains will outweigh the losses.
Ben Lei is a villain. He never does anything that is not beneficial to himself, so he will not make such a stupid decision.
"Then we'll see." Ben Lei said angrily and walked away.
After all the pavilion masters exchanged pleasantries, they immediately came to the center of the venue.
The Zhenbao Pavilion is very wealthy, so the place chosen by the Zhenbao Pavilion is naturally huge.
Looking at it, the entire stadium can accommodate tens of thousands of people sitting at the same time, and has a mezzanine for all guests to watch the game.
In addition to the three old figures on the main seat, there was also a familiar figure to Ye Xingchen, that was Elder Lingyun.
Looking at Lingyun who was chatting and laughing in the main seat, Ye Xingchen's mouth curved slightly.
"Hey, what I'm most looking forward to is the Alchemist Conference in Zhenbao Pavilion. Guess who will win this year?"
"Needless to say, it must be Shi Hao. He has won the championship three times in a row."
"Tsk, tsk, I don't think so. Maybe it's Fang Tong. You know, in the last competition, Fang Tong only came close to winning the championship."
"Haha, no matter who wins the championship, there will be something good to watch anyway."
Everyone in the audience was talking excitedly.
According to the ranking, Ye Xingchen was taken to the alchemist seat at the end.
When Xiang Tian took Ye Xingchen to register his identity information, the registration staff couldn't believe it. The representative of Yancheng was actually an underage boy.
When Ben Lei saw Ye Xingchen becoming a representative, he almost laughed out loud. A young boy could also become a representative to participate in such a grand alchemist competition.
In fact, all the alchemists participating in the competition are no less than thirty years old, so Ye Xingchen's appearance is indeed unacceptable to everyone.
According to the rules of the Alchemist Competition, the competition is divided into three stages. The first test is to test the knowledge of alchemy.
When all contestants have entered their positions according to their rankings, the examiner will announce the topic loudly to all contestants.
"You want to stump me with this little knowledge?" Ye Xingchen murmured in his heart with some disdain.
Immediately, he picked up the pen and ink and began to write on the paper.
Compared with others who had to think hard for a long time before slowly writing the answer they thought was correct, Ye Xingchen had already written all the answers in just one minute.
"It seems that there is no one in Yancheng. Let a young boy come on stage. Judging from his fluent writing of answers, he is probably writing randomly." Ben Lei sneered.
"The pavilion master is wise. I think the one who will be dismissed from the position of pavilion master this year must be Xiangtian." People around Ben Lei echoed.
Hearing this, Ben Lei was in a good mood. Although the initial assassination plan failed, it was naturally a good thing to watch Xiang Tian lose his position as the Pavilion Master with his own eyes.
Soon, everyone turned in their answers and waited quietly for the review and final scoring by Lingyun and the other four people.
The competition assessment is divided into three levels. Each level will accumulate points. Only the one with the highest accumulated points will be the champion of the competition.
Since it is a competition, there are naturally rewards. According to the previous rules, the first place will be rewarded with ten days of training in a karst cave and a mysterious weapon.
Ye Xingchen was not interested in mysterious weapons, but the karst cave might be a treasured place for cultivation. Ye Xingchen naturally wanted to try to see if he could achieve a breakthrough in his cultivation.
After the noisy discussion, everyone fell silent, because the next step was to announce the first place candidate for the first level competition.
"I announce that the person with the highest points in this level of assessment is Ye Xingchen." Mr. Ling said in a loud voice.
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned again because they didn't know who Ye Xingchen was.
"Hey, who is this Ye Xingchen? Is he the new dark horse?"
"It's not easy. To be able to defeat Shi Hao and Fang Tong at the same time, the person who came here must be evil."
"Interesting, really interesting, hahaha, I didn't expect that this time an unknown person would win the first game."
Everyone in the audience started talking.
Of all the people present, only Xiang Tian and Lingyun knew that Ye Xingchen would definitely get a high ranking, but they were shocked to win the first place at the beginning.
The first competition was about identifying medicinal materials and labeling the methods of using them.
"Judge, I want to see the first place's answer." It was Shi Hao who spoke.
"I want to see it too." Fang Tong immediately agreed.
Hearing this, everyone became quiet again. They also wanted to know how exciting the answer was to being able to defeat these two best alchemists at the same time.
"Are you questioning the judgment of the four of us?" Lingyun said angrily.
"Don't dare, we just want to observe and learn, and be convinced that we lost." Shi Hao said.