Sun Wanliang sat behind the counter, fiddling with his abacus, his eyes as big as beans gleaming, staring at the customers coming and going.
Business in Yunlaiju has been good these days.
In fact, as the largest restaurant in Zhenchao Pass, Yunlaiju's business has always been good.
But business has been particularly good these days.
Even at night, the first and second floors were still brightly lit. A high platform was set up in the center of the building. Someone ordered opera, and the actors with painted faces danced on the stage. The guests upstairs and downstairs cheered, and there was a lot of excitement on the stage and downstairs.
The sound and color are blurred.
There are many men going into the building to drink with their arms around their backs, and there are also women in gorgeous clothes. They are accompanied by their male companions, and their smiles are particularly charming.
Sun Wanliang knew that most of these people were monks.
The world is divided into three realms - the upper realm, the demon realm and the lower realm.
Among them, the upper realm is also called the fairy world, and the creatures in the upper realm are called gods.
The creatures in the upper world are yearned for and worshiped by the creatures in the lower world because of their abundant resources and long life span.
And monks are the group of people in the lower world who are most likely to become immortals in heaven.
This is not something that ordinary people can cultivate.
Therefore, in the lower realm, monks are also the status that mortals yearn for.
It’s a rare opportunity to see so many monks, so why not take the time to take a second look?
Sun Wanliang looked at it for a long time and found that this monk was no different from ordinary mortals.
The same two arms and two legs, eating, drinking, having fun, indulging in beauty, but... not particularly immortal.
There are some who are silent and some who are extremely noisy.
For example, there were more than a dozen men and women sitting at the table by the window, and the noise was particularly loud. Some of them had such loud voices that the entire Yunlaiju was filled with their voices.
"Zhenchaoguan is indeed a good place, with mountains on its back and water on its side, with beautiful scenery and beautiful people!"
On the round table by the window, a burly man with a beard stared closely at the slender figure of the actor on the high platform, and said with a smile, "Rong'er, how are you, my teacher treats you well? I specially brought you here to open your eyes!" Sitting next to him was a short-haired girl in her twenties, who was actually as tall as him. Her thin ocher-colored shorts were stretched tight by her lean muscles. After hearing this, she looked away from the actor on the stage and muttered.
Said: "I have seen better-looking ones."
When the big man heard this, he slapped the girl on the back of the head unceremoniously, "You girl, what are you thinking about all day long? Is this the eye-opener I mean?"
"..."
How could it be that she was overthinking it?
He summoned himself, who was taking part in the trial, to the Chao Tide Pass. After arriving, he and a group of fellow apprentices kept staring at the beauty on the stage...
"Then... what Master said is..."
"This is the weapon refining conference held once in a century!"
"That's what Master said before..."
"Yes! That's the one!"
"But before I leave the sect for the trial, Master said I have to wait another ten years."
"Well... I remember the wrong time, master. Ten years later there will be an alchemy competition, hehehe..."
"..."
Speaking of this weapon refining conference, the lower realm is held once every hundred years. The monks who come to participate in the competition must first compete in their respective continents. After the competition is over, the top performers from each continent will come together to compete.
This kind of competition is similar to the imperial examination competition for mortals. The difference is that those who have achieved fame in Qingyun Continent can directly become an official.
After the immortals pass the competition, in addition to the improvement in the level of the weapon refining, the results of the top winners will be selected into the list of magical weapons in each continent and the lower realm.
In addition, there is also a very considerable amount of spiritual stone rewards.
"Among the six sects, only the Dan sect and the Qi sect hold such activities every hundred years. No wonder Brother Huwei got it wrong! Hahaha! Xiaorong, don't mind. After all, your master is almost a thousand years old and has a short memory.
Very normal!"
The equally big uncle on the side laughed loudly and slapped the girl. If this force were used on an ordinary woman, she would vomit blood in minutes.
Xiao Rong regarded it as normal, but was still speechless for a long time.
"Speaking of this weapon refining competition, I don't know whether the leader will lose to our Shanhe sect or the Guiyuan sect!"
"What do you mean by this, where is the Lingxian Sect?"
"Skills have specializations. When it comes to the fighting sects of the Lingxian Sect, not to mention the Qingyun Continent, only the Zhengcang Sect of the Qingcang Continent and the Donglai Sect of the Fengdu Continent can rival them.
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Hu Wei said, "But when it comes to weapon refining in the auxiliary department, the only ones in Qingyun Continent are our Shanhe Sect and the Guiyuan Sect."
"Yes, every hundred years, the first one is selected from these two sects."
"Huh, but don't make a conclusion too early!"
The monk from the Guiyuan Sect at the next table heard this and said, "Don't forget that various sects have recruited disciples in recent years. Maybe in this weapon refining competition, the rest of us will be overshadowed by those young leaders!" "Yes, the training of our auxiliary department is different from that of the combat department. Although we also value spiritual root talent and qualifications, there will always be one or two spiritual roots that are not high-level every hundred years, but they have enough understanding in this regard. One day
Share it!"
"Speaking of young leaders, in the past six months I have heard about a female disciple of the Lingxian Sect who is very outstanding."
"Yes, yes! I heard about it too! Among the newcomers who were tested in various sects, they were outstanding in strength, and they were also very good people. The most important thing is that they looked like--"
"I told you to go this way, but you refused to listen, which caused us to take a long detour! It's already dark today!"
In the night, a man walked in wearing a scarlet brocade suit. He was not tall, but had a face that was even more beautiful than a woman's, and his eyebrows were extremely flamboyant.
As soon as the man came in, he cursed and interrupted many people's conversations. When he saw someone looking at him, his almond-shaped eyes glared, "What are you looking at! Get out of the way!"
The man stepped aside blankly, but his eyes still stayed on the man.
But then, his eyes were attracted by the person behind the man.
"Black or not, no one asked you to come!"
A tall woman in black followed closely behind the man.
He is dressed solemnly in black, but he has a painting-like face with dark eyebrows and green eyebrows. His water-like phoenix eyes are slightly raised. He obviously has an extraordinarily flamboyant appearance, but his temperament is more calm, and his voice is not that of a man.
So unscrupulous and unscrupulous.
But after noticing that everyone in the room was looking this way, he lowered his voice slightly.
"I won't come? Can you two noobs get here alive?"
"Rookie? You are quite good at learning and applying it - I didn't see any danger along the way. On the contrary, it was someone. If we hadn't been dragging us everywhere to eat and drink, we would have already arrived at the earthquake pass!" At first, the woman's voice was still subdued. Later, perhaps because she was irritated by the man, she ignored it and finally matched her open face.
As soon as these two people came in, the bright building suddenly became brighter. Everyone subconsciously held their breath and watched the two people walking out of the painting arguing endlessly, not even caring about the performance on the stage.
When I heard something funny, I couldn't help but shake my head, thinking that it was the young master and young lady from that aristocratic family who came to watch the fun.
After all, in addition to some cultivation sects, Qingyun Continent also has many aristocratic families who have cultivated immortality for generations.
Some people sneered, thinking that the two children were not low-key enough to make noise in public, and it looked like they had not been beaten severely.
"Hey, the one following you at the end must be the servant. This servant is too incompetent. The master is so noisy and has an expressionless expression on his face."
Huwei also looked over there, looking at the clothes of the two people, and he obviously acquiesced that these two people were the young masters and ladies of a certain aristocratic family.
After hearing his words, the people at the same table noticed another man following them.
He is quite tall, and the pale green cloth he wears is obviously a bit too small. The well-proportioned muscle lines are tightly outlined on his body. His head is lowered throughout the whole process, and his bangs cover his eyebrows, so his specific appearance cannot be seen.
Just follow the two of them without saying a word.
After that, a large group of women wearing bamboo hats came in one after another, laughing and walking in. They all had long skirts flowing, bringing a burst of fragrance.
The woman surrounded by people in the middle paused for a moment after entering the door, and then was pushed upstairs.
"There are really many young people here."
The monks were filled with emotion.
"Maybe that powerful little girl from the Lingxian Sect will come too."
"That's right. The disciples participating in the weapon refining competition are not very strong in martial arts. The sect usually arranges escort disciples, and the escort disciples are relatively strong."
After talking for a long time, I found that the young disciple beside me didn’t say a word.
Huwei lowered his head, "Don't you have a friend in Lingxian Sect? From the same town?"
Ronger nodded, but her eyes were fixed on the direction the young man and woman left just now, her lips pursed into a straight line, and after a long while, she murmured something to herself in a voice that only she could hear.