On the eighteenth day of the lunar month, the snow that had fallen for two months in Ningxiao City stopped for the first time.

The sun was shining, and Ningxiao City was also full of people, and almost half of the people in the city gathered at the junction of Hengluo Street and Xunyang Street at this time - the Hanxing Conference began.

The five-year Hanxing Conference was the biggest event in Ningxiao City, and the people who came to watch the ceremony early in the morning crowded Hengluo Street and Xunyang Street. But most of them could only watch from afar, and the real dignitaries and nobles had already chartered the wine shops and restaurants on both sides of the street, drinking a little wine leisurely, while waiting for the start of this Hanxing Conference. After all, on such days, the location of these restaurants and restaurants is very sought-after, and the vendors naturally have to sit on the ground and raise the price, and being able to watch a Hanxing conference here is not only lively and rare for the dignitaries, but also a symbol of status, so no one will question the price of the restaurant wine shop in the past few days.

Wei Lai and others, who had already signed up for the Hanxing Conference, also came to the contestant area planned by the government for them early, whether it was Sun Daren, Longxiu and others, or Qian Qian's sisters and brothers, they were all very excited at the moment, and they were listening intently to the civil official standing in front of the Hanxing Monument reading out the rules of the Hanxing Conference.

The civil official is a middle-aged man, his face is red at the moment, and he speaks in a low tone and frustration, and he works extremely hard. On his left side stood the master of Ningzhou, and on his right side stood the prince of Dayan, thinking that no one would let go of this opportunity, and they all wanted to perform well, even if it was just a little support, it was a great blessing for him. This is the way this world is, and the momentary joy of the higher person can often change the life of the lower person.

"This Hanxing conference lasted for five days. The first four days are defensive battles, the last day is a qualifying battle, the first day of defense is a direct attack and defense of the ring, the second day is a single-elimination system of attack and defense of the ring, the third day is a double-elimination system, and the fourth day is a three-elimination system. The final day's qualifying battle was only played in the top 325. And you must have heard that the Venerable of the Heavenly Que Realm generously donated money to rent the Mountains and Rivers Map to Ningzhou, and the three hundred and twenty-five people before the final ranking battle could get the opportunity to go to the Mountains and Rivers Map. ”

"Therefore, the young talents who want to go to the mountains and rivers to find opportunities have to cheer and squeeze into the top three hundred and twenty-five in the first four days, and according to the method discussed by the Tianque Realm and the state pastor, after the opening of the mountains and rivers map, the top of the list will first enter the mountains and rivers map, and after an hour of the round of flowers, followed by the list eye, and then followed by the top ten, the top thirty, The former official does have a bit of demagogic ability, and his words were subdued and frustrated, and the young people and girls in the audience who participated in the Hanxing Conference were flushed, and they looked like they wanted to fight to the death and fight for a good future for themselves.

Of course, some people listen to it with enthusiasm, and some people listen to it in the clouds.

Sun Daren looked at Wei Lai blankly and asked, "Ah Lai, what does that guy mean by single elimination and double elimination?"

Wei Lai probably also thought that it was impossible to understand these things with Sun Daren's brain, and he smiled slightly and wanted to explain, but before he could say the words in his mouth, Long Xiu on the side instinctively mocked: "You don't know this?

After the number of dragon embroidery did not leave any affection, Sun Daren's face was a little unbearable, and he said stiffly: "I am a brother who has lived with Alai, and you are a woman who knows a fart." ”

Wei Lai also knew that the two of them had never dealt with each other, and he took it as fun to watch the two bickering on weekdays, but today was obviously not the time, so Wei Lai took over the conversation at that time and said: "Take today as an example, the attacker can directly challenge the defender on the Hanxing Tablet, once he wins, he will replace the defender's ranking, and the rankings of everyone including the defender and the next one will be extended one place in turn." Tomorrow, the Champion Ring will become a single-elimination offensive and defensive ring, where the challenger needs to defeat another challenger before challenging the defender, and so on in the double-elimination and triple-elimination systems, where the challenger needs to defeat two and three challengers before he can challenge the defender. ”

Wei Lai's explanation was simple and detailed, and Sun Daren's elm head was really listening, not to mention Liu Qingyan and others on the side.

"But in this way, wouldn't it be unfair to the challenger in the next few days?" Sun Daren quickly had new questions.

Wei Lai said with a smile: "Where is the absolute fairness in this world, such a setting schedule is already relatively fair, after all, there are tens of thousands of people on the Hanxing list, that is, the people who are at the bottom of the rankings are coveted by thousands of people in the competition for the top three hundred and twenty-five places alone, you are good to look at the faces around you, most of them are quasi-holy sons from various sects in the north, today they are all running for the mountains and rivers, and the competition for the top three hundred and twenty-five places is destined to be very fierce." If you want to compare them one by one, I am afraid it will be difficult to do it without a hundred days. And this kind of competition system can more or less make the already compact competition relatively fair. ”

"Moreover, the first three hundred and twenty-five rounds of offense and defense were already very fierce, and being able to defend their position on the first day was enough to prove their strength, and it would inevitably take a lot of energy. If the latecomers want to sit back and enjoy the success, they have to fight the winner and loser with the rest of the speculators to qualify, which is also the protection and fairness of the defenders of the first day of the energy battle. ”

Hearing this, Sun Daren also nodded knowingly, and said no more, obviously after the end of the initial excitement passed, Sun Daren also felt the tense and even slightly murderous atmosphere that permeated the front of this Hanxing Monument. He lowered his head and muttered: "I don't know if these more than 300 places, in the end, there will be a few that belong to Ningzhou." ”

It was probably rare to see this heartless guy show such an expression, and everyone who heard this was also stunned, and looked up at the huge stone tablet in front of them. The stele stands tall, just like every day for thousands of years, and countless names flashed on the stele, and those are all young talents from Ningzhou, they are Wei Lai of Ningzhou.

After today, most of the people in these positions will be replaced by sects or great clan disciples from all over the northern realm, and then they will take the identity of the winner of the Ningzhou Hanxing Conference, and go to the mountains and rivers that have just opened up the fortune of Ningzhou, and obtain opportunities and creation. When they go away, the land of Ningzhou is destined to be in shambles, heading towards the abyss that has been in ruin since then.

This is a thing that makes people angry and stuffy just thinking about it, but it is precisely the real owner of Zhenningzhou, the prince of Yanting, who has personally brought the future of billions of living beings in the land of Ningzhou to the front of the Tianque Realm, with a smile on his face and groveling.

The people have not forgotten the country, and the country bears the people first.

This is probably the most helpless and embarrassing thing in the world.

Wei Lai's heart couldn't help but feel a little melancholy, he couldn't help but remember what Xiao Mu had said to him in the wine shop a few days ago, and he was inexplicably more moved.

But before he could digest such emotions, the impassioned voice of the civil official sounded again: "Now!"

"The Ningzhou Hanxing Conference has begun!"

Saying that the civil official retreated, in the cheers that were still unknown or just pretended to be peaceful, Yuan Sleevechun, who was full of spring breeze, stepped out, and he waved to the people, with a pro-people posture. After enjoying the cheers that lasted for a hundred breaths, Yuan Zhichun walked to the front of the Nahan Star Monument, his face sank, and behind him, the golden dragon that represented his status as a prince and also represented the luck of Da Yan surged towards him. His hand slowly pressed towards the Hanxing Monument, and the dragon behind him raised his head and roared. At that moment, some kind of qi was pulled, and then it spread out in all directions.

Bang!

A heavy muffled sound rang out, and the huge open space around the Hanxing Monument began to loosen, and in the exclamations of everyone, stone platforms ten feet square suddenly rose from the surrounding ground.

Those stone platforms spread out from the Hanxing Monument to Hengluo Street and Xunyang Street, and stone platforms rose from the ground of the street, and although the people's homes that had experienced several Hanxing Conferences had already expected that there would be such a place, and the position where the stone platform rose had already been surrounded by armor, and it would not hurt the people, but such a scene was still too terrifying, and the exclamations were endless.

In the blink of an eye, the entire Hengluo Street and Xunyang Street are covered with square stone platforms three zhang high and several zhang apart from each other, and these stone platforms are the rings of the upcoming Hanxing Conference.

"You find your own planned ring according to your respective rankings, and the official will notify you of the upcoming challenge nearby, please don't stay away from your own divided ring, once the challenge begins, the time champion of half a pillar of incense will be regarded as admitting defeat if he does not come to the stage, please keep in mind that you must keep in mind. ”

The civil servant shouted again, and the crowd began to part, and the enthusiasm of the people soared, and they all knew it......

It's time for the show to begin.

According to the rules of the Hanxing Conference, the top three have their own rings independently, four or five people share one, the bottom five of the top ten share one, and every ten people in the bottom 100 share one.

When Wei Lai first came to Ningxiao City, he had fought with him under Xu Yunian's provocation, so his ranking fell to ninety-seven, and according to the rules, he would wait in front of the fourteenth ring. And Xu Yunian was defeated by Wei Lai, and the ranking fell, in the ninety-eighth, he came to the fourteenth ring with Wei Lai, and when the two arrived, the rest of the monks ranked between ninety and ninety-nine had already arrived, Wei Lai and Xu Yunian were still celebrities in Ningxiao City, and those monks who had already arrived naturally nodded to Wei Lai and the two. But after that, they fell silent.

It can be seen that even Xu Yunian, who is invincible on weekdays, is quite nervous at this moment, standing there with his fists clenched and expressionless.

To be among the top 100 of the Ningzhou Hanxing List, except for a few highly talented freaks, most of them are children from the Ningzhou clan, who have enough resources to cultivate, and also have a vision that ordinary people do not have.

They naturally knew the difference between this Hanxing Conference, and they also knew that their position would be coveted by many outsiders, and it wouldn't be long before those outstanding peers from various sects in the Northern Realm would challenge them. A big war that is not only related to personal destiny but also to Ningzhou's face will start one after another, and for these young generations who have been envied and praised by the world on weekdays, this is indeed a big test.

Wei came to look at the people beside him, three women and five men, the oldest was estimated to be twenty-five or six, and the younger ones were also in their early twenties. The Hanxing Conference had just begun, and everyone seemed to be still waiting and watching, and had not challenged the top rankers, but Wei Lai also knew that this was just the calm before the storm, and he took advantage of this leisure to look around. On the high ring, Xiao Mu, who was carrying a long knife, stood with his hands in his hands, his face was cold, and his body was full of energy, as if he felt Wei Lai's gaze, and the man also looked at Wei Lai, and nodded imperceptibly at him. Wei Lai's gaze moved downward, and in the second ring, Ah Cheng, who was wearing a long robe, lowered his eyebrows and chin, and his long hair combed into a ponytail fell behind him casually, and under the breeze, the ends of his hair were slightly raised and fell gently.

Speaking of which, Ah Cheng was originally ranked third on the Ningzhou Hanxing list, but with the second place Yu Tong leaving Ningzhou, Ah Cheng's ranking immediately moved up one place.

As for the third place, there was no one in the ring, and it was already a position that belonged to Ning Chuan, the son of the Ning family.

Wei Lai was deeply impressed by this guy, whether it was the other party's age a few points younger than him, or the two swordsmen beside him were undoubtedly extremely eye-catching, but since he came to Ning Xiao City, Wei Lai had seen the other party again, even if it was such a grand event today, it seemed that Ning Chuan had no intention of attending. Wei Lai was secretly a little strange, but he didn't take it too seriously, and turned his head to focus on the direction of the end of Hengluo Street.

He gathered the spiritual power around him into his eyes and looked at the place.

It was the ring where the last three hundred Kaiwai Masters were located, and according to Wei Lai's arrangement at the beginning, many children who walked out of Jinniu Town would challenge everyone in this ring today, not seeking to win, but only to let the many Northern Sect deacons present see the potential of these children.

And according to the plan, the fight has begun in the ring at this moment, the child on the field at this moment is about twelve or thirteen years old, and his appearance is quite immature, Wei Lai vaguely remembers that the other party seems to be named Tong Shang, originally the son of Gu Ren, the prefect of Wupan City, who died in his early years, and his father was busy evacuating the people in the big water in Wupan City, and he died in the big water, and then he was adopted by Xue Xinghu. is a bit stubborn for his nature, but his nature is not bad, and he is quite down-to-earth. At this moment, his opponent is a man in his early twenties, holding a spear, and the two divine gates around him roar, every time the spear is shot, there is a spiritual power emerges, and the spiritual power has a tendency to be released.

Tong Shang's cultivation is not weak, the foundation laid by the thirteen divine blood plus the almost golden Lingtai Lingyan, if you talk about the strength of the internal force, he wins a lot of this man, but after all, he is young, and he does not have much combat experience, under the attack of the other party, he only has the power to parry but has no ability to fight back, and he is in danger for a while. But Rao is so Tong Shang did not lose in a short time, but relied on a ruthlessness and his majestic spiritual power to resist the opponent's attack again and again. As the battle continued, the onlookers, who were not concerned about such a level of battle, began to gradually gather around Tong Shang. Wei Lai was too far away to know the cultivation of those onlookers, but from the outfits of those onlookers, it was not difficult for Wei Lai to see that there were disciples and deacons from various sects mixed in. And as such a competition continues to happen, I think more people will focus on that place, and what Wei Laiyi or Xue Xinghu has to do after that is to screen out the sects that throw olive branches to the children and send the children into it.

Thinking of this, Wei Lai also retracted his gaze and returned to the place where he was.

And at this moment, the Hanxing Conference also began to have a small half an hour, and those forces that coveted the mountains and rivers finally couldn't hold it anymore and began to challenge the people on the list. Because the Hanxing Conference adopts a system of downward order, that is to say, the winner gets the ranking of the loser, and the loser ranks next, so that the contestants who are ranked lower in the 325th are likely to be squeezed out of the top 325 even if they defend their ring, so for those who are interested in competing for the opportunity of the mountain and river map, their goals are probably locked in the top 100.

The surrounding rings have begun to compete, and there are some victories and defeats, and most of them are won by outsiders to achieve the final victory, Ningzhou's luck has been stripped too much over the years, and the entire land of Ningzhou has shown a thin spiritual power, and it is not easy to practice in Ningzhou, plus these outsiders are all leaders in the major sects or clans, and their strength is not bad, so they can be sent to compete for the rest of the mountains and rivers.

It was only half an hour, and Wei Lai didn't do anything, and his ranking fell from ninety-seven all the way to one hundred and sixth.

He looked at the hundreds of people around him who had fallen out with him, their faces were extremely ugly, and the cheers of those outsiders who sounded from time to time were in stark contrast to the silence of the people of Ningzhou at this moment, which also cast a depressing atmosphere on today's Hanxing Conference.

"The son of the sixty-eighth prince of the Ghost Rong Kingdom, Tuoba Chengshan challenges the one hundred and seven defenders of the Han Star List, Xu Yunian, please play on both sides!"