After walking up the airport for a while at the Nanshi toll station, and then turning onto a trail, we arrived at the agreed venue. It was still dark at this time. There were only a few sparse cars in the parking lot, and the stage at the venue had already been set up. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to confirm that this was it.
It seemed that the aristocratic family didn't pay much attention to casual cultivators. In the dead of night, I put out the black-haired animal alert, climbed into the back seat and slept, waiting for the appointed time to arrive.
It wasn't until dawn that I woke up.
There were a lot of Xuanmen monks gathered at the venue. Most of them were under forty years old. There was no difference. They were all casual cultivators. However, not all casual cultivators were friendly and united when they met. Several groups of people gathered together independently. , each fighting.
This is why the aristocratic families are united and the casual cultivators are fragmented. Without rules, even a square circle cannot be formed.
On the other side of the stand, several small tables have been set up, and three middle-aged men dressed like great masters were sitting there taking notes on the list.
A group of people were waiting in line to sign up. There were about a hundred people there. I sighed and took the time to fall asleep again. When I woke up, it was already nine o'clock.
After seeing everyone's registration finished, I got out of the car and slowly filled in my name.
"Are you Xia Yitian?" The three people looked at me intently and stood up in unison.
"What's wrong?" I was a little surprised and startled.
"Haha, thank you for your hard work, Duke Xia. Grand Duke Xia is here too. He's inside. It's really a feast for the rich and powerful this time." One of them laughed and stretched out his hand to shake my hand.
"The one who graduated from Xia University?" I smiled and could only shake hands with him, but Xia Ruize came out again to improve my class.
A few people smiled awkwardly and steered the conversation elsewhere. They had studied my name thoroughly and thought it was just like the rumors. Xia Ruize and I don't get along, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.
But Xia Gong is Xia Gong after all. If we make a good friendship, we might be able to leave a line for future conversation. There are too many cases where the concubine and the young master have counterattacked. Maybe they will actually succeed inadvertently?
It seems that the more I distance myself from the relationship, the more others think it is true. The Xia family is indeed very powerful. As the saying goes, invisible pretense is the most deadly. The Xia family does not speak, but every move shows their magnificence.
One of the middle-aged men took me to the venue at the back. He introduced it to me along the way: "Xia Gong, you are unmoved and actually participated in the selection in person. It is really an example for us people. If it were anyone else, they might just reveal their identity or use their bank account. Tsk tsk. It’s really the small details that make a big difference." See you together.
My heart almost stopped laughing, damn, I’m always really out of money! If you were rich, would you participate in the selection meeting of a wealthy family like yours?
I really don’t want to participate in this business of chasing monkeys!
"Yes, you are right." I said calmly on the surface, letting them decide whether it was true or not.
The middle-aged man looked at me wearing ordinary clothes and became envious again: "Xia Gong is extraordinary in appearance, but his clothes are similar to those of us ordinary people. He is also very talkative and much more approachable than Xia Gong."
"It's okay." Although I'm not short of money, I'm too busy, and the only clothes I'm wearing are street stall goods worth a hundred or more yuan.
While talking, I walked out of the alley and arrived at the distribution center of the venue. As expected, a group of Xuanmen monks were standing here, some gathered together and many alone.
I glanced at it and was attracted by a group of people.
The clothes this group of people wear are of good quality, and they are all brand-name clothes. Regardless of whether they are Taoist cultivators, there are also many who are not rated as aristocratic, but have a certain strength in their own county or city. These people use Crouching Tiger It would not be wrong to describe it as a hidden dragon.
"Even a stinky beggar came to attend the Xuanmen Family Conference. Do you think fighting is child's play?" Suddenly, a loud voice in the crowd reached everyone's ears.
"The threshold for this conference is too low. Look at this Taoist robe. Both sleeves were removed by yourself, right? Is it unconventional to wear it after it's so ruined?" The guy dressed like my father-in-law held out his hand and thought. I wanted to bang the Taoist's clothes inside, but my hand was slapped away.
I took a closer look, wasn't this Li Poxiao?
"I don't know if the Xuanmen Family Conference will give me some charity. We are so poor. If it weren't for Brother Jin and Brother Lan, I would have thought I was in the wrong place and came to the vegetable store." A group of people gathered around. Li Poxiao was taunting there.
But Li Poxiao is indeed a special person. He wears a Taoist robe with two sleeves broken off, and even has a few holes poked in the hem. Others think he is a beggar, but I don’t know that he was made after a bloody battle. There are some obvious positions that follow me. The ghost will be related to him. I don’t know where he picked up the rubber band, but it actually tied his head. I think he is really satisfied.
Thinking that he probably had no blue talisman and magic salt, and probably couldn't get out the yellow talisman, I felt desolate in my heart.
However, Li Poxiao stood in the crowd, even though he was in ruins, he did not feel any inferiority complex because of it, as if he was listening to others talking about things that had nothing to do with him. His magnanimity made people admire him.
"Brother Li." I walked over, stretched out my hand and said hello to him.
Li Poxiao nodded and ignored me, proudly waiting for the organizing committee's list of group fights.
I have black lines all over my head and I am so depressed. You are still so arrogant. You really deserve to be ridiculed. Poor people must be hateful, and arrogance also requires capital. Arrogance without capital is just showing off, and it is not without reason that a group of people are teasing him.
"Haha, brother, is this your friend? You'd better advise him to leave quickly. The threshold of the Xuanmen Conference of the Aristocratic Family is not low. What if he comes here with such passion and is beaten to death in a moment?" One of the men said Seeing that I actually knew Li Poxiao, he came over to persuade me.
In fact, despite my simple clothes, this shoulder bag is not simple. It is brand-name and waterproof. The contents inside are so bulging that they are about to burst out. It can be seen that there are countless magic weapons. Anyone with a discerning eye will be shocked at a glance. , I might be scolding me for pretending.
The shoulder bag was given by Zhao Qian and it was expensive.
"Hey, are you, like him, just coming to the organizing committee to get lunch? Haha..."
"What are you talking about? Get out of the way, you idiot? Do you know who he is? What are you talking about!" The middle-aged man who brought me in had a sign around his neck and pushed a group of brothers away.
These people wanted to do it, but seeing that they were staff members, they shut up and started discussing who I was.
I ignored this group of people and went to Li Poxiao's side and said, "Brother Li, let's do this. If we can't keep it together, there will be a battle today. With your equipment, I really don't think it's fair. I'll give you the blue talisman and magic salt. You must You pick a few of these things. If we want to fight, we can have a good fight and no one will have any regrets. What do you think? Just think of it as compensation for me taking your Taomu Sword before."
Li Poxiao glanced at me and hesitated for a moment: "Yes, but I will not accept your favor, and I will not show mercy until justice is done in the future. So, do you still want to help me?"
"So what, I don't understand your righteousness, I only know what I should do now." My eyebrows also frowned. Li Poxiao is the ultimate in slaying demons and defending the Tao, a typical example of a moth flying into a flame. He and I are completely different .
I took out a small box of blue talismans and a small bag of magic salt from my backpack and gave them to him. Li Poxiao took them and wanted to put them into his sleeve pocket, but found that he had no sleeves. He felt a little embarrassed for a moment, so he Put it in his trouser pocket.
"It hasn't started yet? What time is it already! Hurry up! There are so many things this year, why are you doing this preliminaries? Are you looking down on our Rice Town Liu family?"
"How can I open the market? It's been a long time!"
"What are you doing? You haven't opened it yet. I'm tired of waiting. Hurry up and I'm going to kill Liu Kaidong!"
"Damn it, you don't know who is going to kill whom. Your Radar Dragon deserves to be here. Believe it or not, I'm always using your head as a stepping stone!"
When I gave Li Poxiao something, the crowd below was already shouting. Seeing that the situation was a bit out of control, the staff took the microphone and started to admonish.
It didn't work at all, and the crowd became impatient as time passed.
These people all came here after seven o'clock. I was still sleeping at that time, but now it is ten o'clock. The casual cultivators also have tempers. If the aristocratic family is not punctual, everyone's temper will rise.
But soon a group of announcements were displayed on the TV wall, and then a woman in her twenties, wearing a low-cut dress, ran onto the stage in a panic with a microphone: "Everyone, please be quiet. I am from the organizing committee." Host Li Qin, the conference will start soon. Because the schedule is a temporary extra match, the list has changed a lot, but now the match list is completed. You can go and get it. How about you have a good idea? "
The host was also very smart, directing people to the battle table, and the staff quickly came out with a stack of forms and distributed them to the people who kept jumping in line to make promises.
There were a few interludes, where some people used dirty tricks, others released bugs, cursed, cursed, and even threatened to fight, but they were suppressed by the organizing committee.
After everyone had finished, Li Poxiao and I started almost at the same time, and both went to get the battle tables. Apart from the two of us, there were three or four people who were also slow. It seemed that they were good at cultivating qi.
After receiving the battle list, I found that there was no martial arts after the name, and the strength evaluation was not marked. I just knew the order of my own competition. Li Poxiao and I were not in the same group, so we were all separated.
But the person I faced this time was called Radar Dragon. I felt a little lucky. Actually, I had never heard of it. I looked around suspiciously and found that several people were looking at me. It turned out that many people knew me, but I didn’t. Get to know them.
"Now that everyone has got the battle list, I will now invite the organizing committee's special judge Xia Ruize, Mr. Attracting everyone's attention, she quickly drew all the crowd's eyes to her chest.
When I heard that Xia Ruize was on the stage, my heart started beating wildly, and several people on the stage all looked at me.
