Turning around, Liu Qian, who had been adjusting all night, still had a bit of joy on his face, and left the inn with his two disciples early in the morning. He said he was going to attend a gathering of fellow practitioners to exchange experiences on alchemy, so he didn't come back for dinner.
In fact, Liu Qian has always been out here attending parties most of the time. For alchemists, it is indeed a rare opportunity for alchemists to gather together from all over the world. In addition to communication, they also trade some specialties from various places with each other.
However, what surprised Ye Zan was that when it was almost noon, Liu Gan came back with two disciples, and the expressions on each of their faces looked quite ugly.
Ye Zan was sitting at a table in the lobby eating. When he saw this, he couldn't help but asked curiously: "Old Liu, what's wrong? Didn't you say you won't be back at noon?"
Liu Gan had a gloomy face and sat down next to Ye Zan. Without saying anything, he picked up a jar of wine on the table and drank it down. However, most of the wine leaked out from both sides of the jar, directly soaking the front of his clothes.
One of Liu Qian's disciples stood by and said angrily on behalf of his master: "Those people are so abominable. Their attainments in alchemy are not comparable to that of my master, so they slandered my master out of thin air."
"Old Liu, what's going on?" Ye Zan asked Liu Qian.
A wry smile appeared on Liu Qian's face, he shook his head and said, "What makes Elder Ye worried is just that someone brought up some old things."
An old story? Ye Zan immediately understood that even if he didn't have any insight, he could still make a pretty good guess.
The so-called old things are nothing more than those things that Liu Qian was smeared here back then. What about stealing the Alchemy Scripture and betraying the family, how to deceive the Lishan Sect, etc. As for why it was revealed again, it obviously has something to do with Jiang Ziliu and Jin Hongze.
"Haha, Lao Liu, so I said, your state of mind still needs to be tempered. If you want to be a master of alchemy, technology is certainly important, but state of mind is even more important. You must be able to achieve the goal of being able to collapse before you. "Change, the elk is moving to the left but its eyes are not blinking, you are indeed still far behind." Ye Zan shook his head and said. He just found such a high-quality sentence from ancient Chinese and used it to fool people. In fact, he himself may not be able to achieve such a thing as keeping his color unchanged.
However, after listening to Ye Zan's words, Liu Qian stood up all of a sudden, muttered several times, and suddenly bowed to Ye Zan and saluted, and said: "Elder Ye, these words really wake up the dream." "Young man, I really need to temper my state of mind."
"Haha, I wish you could figure it out. Stop thanking me all the time. Let's sit down and eat." Ye Zan said with a smile.
"However, I have something unclear." After Liu Qian sat down, he asked Ye Zan with a bit of thought: "I wonder where this famous mountain is, Mount Tai?"
"Ah, this is not a famous mountain, so you don't need to worry about these details. Eat and eat. The food here is pretty good." Ye Zan laughed and immediately changed the topic to the dinner table.
"Oh, it must have collapsed, otherwise why would there be such a sentence? What a pity." Through that sentence, Liu Qian came up with an answer in his own mind.
"Yeah, okay, collapsed." Ye Zan nodded repeatedly.
In the blink of an eye, it was finally time for the Alchemy Conference to officially begin. However, there were not many changes in the ancient city. There were no loud gongs and drums and no firecrackers. It just started like that. At some intersections, large notices were posted, explaining some of the activities of the Alchemy Conference.
In fact, the so-called grandmaster examination, or master examination, etc., are not very strict examinations, and cannot even be said to be examinations. It is for the alchemist to demonstrate his alchemy skills in front of everyone and meet the standards of a master or grandmaster. Of course, the Alchemy Conference will also issue some identification cards to prove that the other party is indeed a master or grandmaster.
As for when to show it, there is no fixed time. In the center of the ancient city, a high platform has been erected, with several rows of alchemy furnaces placed on it and flames burning below. It can be said that anyone, at any time, can come on stage to show off their skills.
The herbs used to demonstrate skills are all provided by the Alchemy Conference in order to prevent anyone from cheating. However, using these herbs is not in vain. If you succeed, you will have to keep the elixir, but if you fail, you will have to pay for the herbs.
On the first day, Ye Zan, Liu Qian and others arrived at the high platform in the center of the ancient city. On the high platform, not a single alchemy furnace was empty. Alchemists were all there, either nervously or casually, refining their own elixirs and demonstrating their respective skills.
There were also many alchemists around the high platform, commenting on the people above. Some people nodded slightly, and some showed disdain. Whenever someone came down, someone would immediately go up and start being judged by others.
"Fellow Daoist Ye, Fellow Daoist Liu, my master asked me to invite a few of them over." Xun Hongwen appeared next to Ye Zan and others, and said to them after seeing the ceremony.
As the host of the Alchemy Conference and the master of Alchemy, it was naturally impossible for Yan Xinghe to watch the display on the stage with the crowd below. On one side of the high platform, there is a two-story wooden building. Yan Xinghe and several other hosts of the Alchemy Conference are sitting on the second floor watching the situation below.
Ye Zan and others, led by Xun Hongwen, arrived at the second floor of the wooden building. However, as soon as he came up, Liu Qian's expression changed slightly. If it weren't for what Ye Zan said before, he might have exploded at this time. It turned out that on the second floor of this 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 on, come here quickly." Seeing Ye Zan and others coming up, Yan Xinghe immediately greeted them and asked them to sit next to him.
However, at this time, Jin Hongze snorted coldly and said in a bad tone: "Evil disciple, you still have the nerve to come back!"
Ye Zan stretched out his hand to stop Liu Qian, looked at Jin Hongze with feigned surprise, and said, "Oh, this must be the Lord of the ancient city, but I don't know who the villain is calling?"
This ancient city does not have a city lord, but is jointly controlled by several major sects. Who dares to say that he is the city lord here, unless he is desperate.
"Junior, don't talk nonsense. Are you the one from the Jade Qing Sect who took in this evil disciple like me?" Jin Hongze was not frightened and asked Ye Zan with a gloomy face.
"Don't call me an evil disciple. Elder Liu Qian is the elder of my Yuqing Sect's Alchemy Hall. My senior brother Hushan Zhenjun also wants to call him Taoist friend. Who do you think you are?" 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, why should you imitate the people in the market and engage in verbal quarrels?"
However, I didn't expect that Jin Hongze would not even give Yan Xinghe face, and said reproachfully: "Fellow Daoist Yan, this is the place where we and the masters watch the alchemy meeting. How can we let others come up and disturb us?"
Indeed, several of the people present here, including Yan Xinghe and Jin Hongze, are real alchemy masters. Najiang Ziliu was just standing behind Jin Hongze. When he looked at Liu Qian, his eyes were quite proud.
"I am sitting here just to make it easier to watch the performances of my colleagues below. When did this become a privilege? Even if it is a privilege, Fellow Daoist Ye is a friend of my Alchemy Sect. I invited him to come. Fellow Daoist Jin, do you have any objections?" Yan Xinghe's face also darkened.
"Haha, Fellow Daoist Yan has said so. How dare I have an opinion? Who doesn't know that the Alchemy Sect is the leader of the Alchemy Way? How dare I say anything more when I am an inferior alchemist." Jin Hongze spoke and glanced at the other people. Several alchemy masters.
Jin Hongze's words were really mean-spirited, and he was obviously trying to sow discord between the Alchemy Sect and several other masters. Obviously, this Jin Hongze is not a person seeking death. If he dares to say such words, he probably has a lot of backers behind him.
In fact, no matter where you are, no matter which industry you are in, a dominant company will be hated by others. Just like at the beginning, the Yuqing Sect could be regarded as the leader of the righteous path in the Shenhua Realm. However, after the catastrophe, many of his colleagues made trouble for him, until he was reduced to a third-rate sect.
The same goes for the Alchemy Sect. Since it has such a status, the disciples at the top and bottom will definitely do some hateful things intentionally or unintentionally when doing things. Moreover, most of them must be intentional. After all, if large sects want to develop, they need more resources, which will inevitably affect the interests of others.
Moreover, the Danding Sect itself, such a huge sect, is bound to have various factional disputes. Although Yan Xinghe is the alchemy master, he cannot represent the entire alchemy sect. There will always be various opinions in the sect.
Seeing Jin Hongze looking over, the faces of the alchemy masters looked a little embarrassed. But after hesitating for a moment, someone still stood up and said to Yan Xinghe: "Fellow Daoist Yan, after all, this Alchemy Conference is not a sect exam for the Alchemy Sect. It is better not to appear too arbitrary in some matters."
"Fellow Daoist Li?" Yan Xinghe didn't expect that someone actually supported Jin Hongze, and he seemed quite surprised for a moment.
Seeing this situation, Ye Zan shook his head secretly. Is it true that every family has a sutra that is difficult to recite
"Guys, why bother arguing about such a trivial matter? If the people below look at it, wouldn't it make people laugh?" Ye Zan took two steps forward, turned to look at Jin Hongze, and said with a bit of 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 Qian over there, turned to Ye Zan and said, "Why, your Excellency is only at the Foundation Establishment level, is he also a master of alchemy?"
Jin Hongze is very cunning. Logically speaking, when Ye Zan asked this question, the topic should have been brought to Liu Qian. Then Liu Qian showed off his superhuman alchemy skills and slapped him in the face.
However, Jin Hongze did not follow common sense and extended the topic to Ye Zan. After all, as he said, Ye Zan, a practitioner of the Foundation Establishment Realm, could never reach the level of an Alchemy Master. (To be continued.)