Chapter 231: First Heard of the Blessed Land!

"It was the Lord of the Mansion who said he wanted to recommend me to participate in the Alchemy Competition!" Xu Dao nodded, "But I don't know much about this Xijing Dao Alchemy Competition, so I want to ask!"

"It's normal that you don't know much! After all, although you have amazing talent, you haven't been in this field long enough. I never told you about this before, and I was worried that you would be too ambitious!" Ge Lao said.

Old Wang also nodded, "The way of alchemy has a long history. It is impossible to trace its origin, but from various relics that have been opened, it can be confirmed that this way appeared almost at the same time as the way of Qi refining. In fact, it is even older than the way of martial arts."

"At the beginning, the way of alchemy belonged exclusively to the lineage of Qi refining, but later a master made a move and made changes to it, which made the elixir popular and became an indispensable thing for martial artists, and even gave martial artists the opportunity to practice the way of alchemy."

"And this Xijing Dao Alchemy Competition originated from a relic of Xijing Dao!"

"Relics?"

"Yes, it is better to say that it is a small blessed world than a relic. In this blessed land, there is a very complete alchemy heritage. In order to explore this blessed land, there is an alchemy competition."

Xu Dao was surprised. He thought that the alchemy competition was a group of people who were given an alchemy furnace, and then started to refine pills, and finally evaluated according to the time or the quality of the pills! I didn't expect it to be like this.

"Then there will definitely be many people participating in this alchemy competition?"

"Yes, Xijing Dao was established during the Taizu period. A total of six major Daozhous were established, East, South, West, North, Central, and Jingzhi. One Dao governs six counties! The county city can nominate 30 people each time, and the prefectural city can nominate 5 people each time! Under a county, there are at least a dozen prefectural cities, and even dozens of them. The total number is very large!"

"That's nearly a thousand people!" Xu Dao roughly calculated.

"Not only that, the Xijing Dao Medicine Refining Competition has been going on for thousands of years and has long been famous, so people from other states and counties will also participate, but the number of places will be less, but the total number is not a small number."

"Therefore, there will be thousands of people participating in each Xijing Dao Competition, and every alchemist who is nominated is a genius among geniuses! So many geniuses competing on the same stage is definitely a grand event in the medicine refining world! In addition, this kind of event is only held every thirty years!"

"When will the next time be?"

"More than a year later!" Ge Lao counted with his fingers. "When I was young, I also participated once, but my ranking was average. There are still too many geniuses!"

"I also participated. Although my ranking was not high, I gained a lot." Wang Lao also nodded.

"With so many people participating, there may be even high-level alchemists among them. I am afraid I am not a match. Even if I am given another year, I can't catch up!" Xu Dao felt that with his current level of medicine refining, I am afraid that the ranking will not be too good!

"Don't worry, you'll understand once you go! As for the rest, we can't say much, because those who participate in the competition will sign a soul oath and must not reveal the contents to the outside world." Ge Lao comforted.

Xu Dao suddenly realized that there was such a thing. This alchemy competition seemed very interesting. Even the assessment content could not be told to others at will!

"What is the origin of that blessed land? Have you figured it out? This kind of competition has been going on for so many years, there must be someone who has explored it clearly, right?"

Ge Lao and Wang Lao shook their heads at the same time, "No! In other words, if the Xijing Dao Medicine Refining Competition is no longer held, then this blessed land will be completely explored!"

"Why? It's just a blessed land. There are so many powerful people in Dali. It's impossible that after so many years, we still can't figure out the situation of a small world."

"Because this blessed land will only be opened once every thirty years, and each time it is opened, only alchemists can enter, and no one else can enter. This is also the reason why Xijing Dao holds the Medicine Refining Competition, in order to explore this blessed land and ruins."

"I see, this blessed land is really interesting, and there is such a restriction." Xu Dao finally understood why the Medicine Refining Competition is held only once every thirty years. It's not that they don't want to hold more, but they really have no choice.

"What the Lord of the Palace said just now, that there will be something that can increase the soul as a reward, is it true?"

"Of course it is true. In the ruins, as long as you perform well enough, you will definitely get great benefits!"

In this way, Xu Dao was relieved. Things that can increase the soul are indeed rare. In fact, not only alchemists need this thing, but all cultivators have a demand for it. When they reach a certain level, the soul will have a demand. If the soul is not strong enough, it is destined to not go far.

This thing is not much needed by himself, but the people around him need it, the master and the mistress need it, and A Niang, Xiao Mei and A Bao need it.

As long as it is true, he must go, but it doesn't matter if the time is one year later, he also has enough time to prepare.

...

In the garden and square of the city.

This is where the Liu, Xie, Wang, Li, and Chen families in the county are stationed.

These families are not as powerful as the Yan family in the county, but the head of each family is also a master, which is not weak.

The difficulty of inheriting a noble family is not to cultivate a master, but to have a master in every generation, and to ensure that there will not be a lack of successors.

These families have overcome this difficulty, and can ensure that a master will pass away, and a new master will be born.

Some people suspect that they may have mastered some secret method to transfer the master's cultivation to the next generation of successors. Because only in this way can we ensure that every generation can have a stable master.

This also explains why the number of masters in these families has not increased.

And why are these families interested in Jiaozhu? Of course, they want to add a master to the family.

Just like the Yan family, who doesn't envy two masters in one family? Who doesn't want it?

At the same time, they have the most important purpose, which is to prevent the Yan family from getting this thing.

Even if they can't get it, they can't let the Yan family get it. After the Yan family gets it, Yan Chengdao will use it for himself. The key is that if Yan Chengdao uses this thing to train a new master, it will be the most troublesome.

And this probability is not small. From their speculation, this is the case.

With Yan Chengdao's talent, it is completely unnecessary to use this thing, so why is he so eager to snatch it? That can only be a family with three masters!

If this were to happen, the power of the Yan family would further increase in the county city, and at the same time, their living space would be further squeezed. Facing the power of the Yan family, their families could only unite to resist. If there were three masters in one family, then there would be no hope.