The main hall of Sinong Palace is located on the north side of the second floor of Haoyang City.
Walking along the streets surrounding the mountain, Xu Ke and his party rushed towards the palace.
Along the way, we also met teams from various villages affiliated with His Highness Sinong.
Seeing these teams, Xu Ke understood something.
It turns out that it's not that the sect is too bad, nor is the Sinong Palace too bad, it's just that the "Hedongfang" where he is located is too bad.
If the Sinong Hall is the lowest among the sect's palaces and institutions, then "Hedongfang" is the lowest among all the halls in the Sinong Hall.
In Hedongfang's team, there are mostly "senior brothers", and there are only about a hundred or so young disciples like Xu Ke and others.
Most of the teams in other workshops are young disciples, with the oldest in his forties. Whether it is his personal image or his overall mental outlook, he is completely incomparable to the rabble like Hedongfang.
"Hey... isn't this a nursing home? Are you here to take the assessment too?"
"Junior brother, you are wrong. They are not here to participate in the assessment, they are here to go through the motions, and then go back."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Some people from other teams encountered on the road pointed at the crowd in Hedongfang, laughed and ridiculed them.
In the Hedongfang team, all the young disciples were so angry that their faces were red, but those "senior brothers" turned a blind eye and didn't take it seriously at all.
Maybe they have experienced too much, and reality has already dulled their spirits, making them not care about these ridicules at all.
Amid the pointing of other teams, Hedongfang and his party hurried to the hall of Sinong Hall.
This is a majestic hall. Its shape is a bit like the Forbidden City hall that Xu Ke has seen before, but it is not so gorgeous. The blue-gray stone hall looks simple and heavy.
In front of the main hall is a huge square.
At this moment, there are already two teams in this square.
"Those farmers are coming!"
"Oh, those mud-legged people are really here."
When Xu Ke and others entered the square, there were voices of discussion and ridicule among the two teams originally standing in the square.
"That's the team from Lingjiu Fang and Lingcha Fang."
Senior Brother Wang pointed at the two teams in the square and introduced them to Xu Ke. There was a hint of envy in his words, "They are all subordinates of Prince Sinong. Their lives are much better than ours."
Xu Ke smiled and didn't answer.
Those who work in Lingjiu Fang and Ling Tea Fang look down on those who farm. Among the farming disciples, other branches looked down upon Hedong Fang.
Chains of contempt are everywhere!
After waiting in the square for more than an hour, the teams from the various villages under the command of His Highness Sinong finally arrived.
Xu Ke turned his head and glanced around. The huge square was densely packed with people.
His Highness Sinong has jurisdiction over thirty-six farms and two workshops. The number of people in each farm is more than a thousand, and the total number is forty or fifty thousand.
This is just the Sinong Palace. The entire Haoyang Immortal Sect’s palaces and pavilions add up to hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.
With hundreds of thousands of disciples, the scale of Haoyang Immortal Sect is not small.
However, Xu Ke didn't know much about the outside world, and he didn't know what position the Haoyang Immortal Sect held in the world of cultivation.
The only thing that is certain is that Haoyang Immortal Sect is definitely not a top sect.
After all...according to what Xu Ke heard, the real person in charge of the teaching only has the perfect cultivation level of Jindan. The upper limit of the strength of this world of immortality is not the Jindan realm, right?
Just when Xu Ke was thinking wildly, a bell sounded.
"quiet!"
Hearing the sound of the bell, the masters of each branch hurriedly shouted to their own team.
Obviously, this is where the boss of Sinong Palace is about to appear.
As a result, the entire square was silent, and everyone held their breath and stood upright.
Even the "senior brothers" in Hedongfang stopped being casual and became serious.
The next moment, streaks of escaping light flew out of the hall and landed on the steps in front of the hall, revealing five figures.
The man in front of him was wearing a yellow Taoist robe, with black hems on the collar and cuffs, embroidered with the golden sun and black flame pattern, and a golden lotus crown on his head, with a layer of flames emitting from his body, as if there were burning flames.
This person is none other than Master Minghong, the master of the Sinong Hall.
There were four other people standing behind the hall master, lined up on both sides, all wearing yellow robes, but their crowns were replaced by Five Sacred Mountain Crowns. These four people are all elders of Sinong Hall.
"Meet the Palace Master!"
"Meet the elders!"
Under the leadership of all Fangzheng, the disciples of Sinong Hall saluted the hall master and elders one after another.
"No gift!"
The master of the hall, Master Minghong, waved his hand, glanced at the audience, and said: "According to the decree of the head master, on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, a sect competition will be held. In this competition, all of us, Si Nong Palace, must attend Go all out and don’t slack off.”
Having said this, Master Minghong paused.
Then……
Everyone in the audience bowed and saluted, saying: "I obey the order of the Lord of the Palace!"
Later, Master Minghong continued: "This competition is divided into three levels."
"The first round is the internal assessment of each workshop under His Highness Sinong."
"In the second round, the winners recommended by each workshop will participate in the selection and assessment of Sinong Hall."
"In the third round, Sinong Palace selects and assesses the winners to represent Sinong Palace in the sect competition."
Huh? This is different from what I heard!
Hearing the words of the palace master, Xu Ke was stunned for a moment. Didn’t Senior Brother Wang say that he only needed to take the Sinong Hall assessment? Why did someone appear to represent Sinong Palace to participate in the sect competition?
Originally, Xu Ke thought that this sect competition was equivalent to a "Sinong Hall year-end assessment", but he did not expect that there would actually be a sect competition.
After thinking about it, Xu Ke also understood.
Perhaps in Senior Brother Wang's view, the idea of "participating in the sect competition on behalf of the Sinong Hall" is completely meaningless, so there is no need to even mention it.
Being able to participate in the promotion assessment of Sinong Palace is already a big deal. Do you still expect that a rotten place like "Hedongfang" can produce a genius who can represent Sinong Palace in the sect competition?
Xu Ke can understand this small mistake made by Senior Brother Wang. But...this completely messed up my plans.
According to the original plan, Xu Ke planned to get the first place in the promotion assessment without any controversy, ensuring that he would be promoted to the serving disciple of Sinong Hall smoothly.
There is nothing wrong with the plan itself. The problem is, once you get the first place without any dispute, you have to represent Sinong Palace in the sect competition.
What exactly is the sect competition? Is it still better than farming?
This is certainly not possible. Disciples from other palace institutions don’t know how to farm.
From the perspective of the entire sect, no matter which palace institution you are a disciple of, no matter what skills you have learned, the only universal assessment criterion is strength!
Therefore, once you represent Sinong Palace in a sect competition, the competition will be about combat effectiveness.
Of course, this is not a problem. Competing at the same level, Xu Ke still has confidence.
The only question is, will it cause a lot of trouble after winning?
I am the most troublesome person.
Well...if you show enough fighting power and make people feel that it won't affect the interests of others, there shouldn't be much trouble.
Sufficient fighting power brings enough deterrence that people dare not mess with him easily.
If it does not affect the interests of others, there will be no fundamental conflict of interests, and others will not take risks to deal with me.
This should be no problem.
