The Heavenly Domain is located in the northwest of the Nine Heavens Domain, and compared to the summer in the south, August in the Heavenly Domain is not very hot. However, as the temperature rises, the residents in the city have changed out of the thick clothes of the spring cold period, and the dress of the sari shirt has become the mainstream, and some men are bare-armed, wearing only a sleeveless undershirt.

"Chen Yuan, I haven't seen you for a long time, what have you been busy with lately? Chen Yuan came out of the dormitory, just closed the door, turned his head and met Zhang Ling'er and Feng Sanqi, Feng Sanqi smiled and waved his hand to him, Zhang Ling'er opened his mouth to say hello and asked.

Chen Yuan also smiled and waved at the two of them, and said as he walked towards the two: "Recently, I have been studying at the teacher's place, and the time schedule is relatively full, so there is no way to go to class at all, and I just have time today to go to the city for a walk." I eat the same thing at the teacher's place every day, and I don't have any tricks at all, so I plan to improve my food today. ”

"Improve the food?" Hearing that Chen Yuan was going to the city and improving the food, the sisters and brothers' eyes suddenly lit up. "I'll go, I'll go!" "And me. The two hurriedly said that they wanted to go with Chen Yuan.

"Looking at the way you guys, aren't you going to class?" asked Chen Yuan with some confusion. Zhang Ling'er said of course: "Although I am going to class, I suddenly feel that occasional relaxation is good for future study and cultivation, so I decided to accompany you to the city." Feng Sanqi on the side nodded approvingly, Chen Yuan looked at the righteous and awe-inspiring appearance of the sister and brother, and couldn't help but smile.

Walking in Youtian City, Chen Yuan can feel a long and ancient atmosphere, the road in the city is spliced with stone slabs, all kinds of stone slabs are naturally put together, and they have been extended. From the main road, hundreds of criss-crossing alleys are zigzag, long or short, wide or narrow, deep alleys with high walls, simple and long. The rows of indigo-colored tiled houses and the mossy walls, coupled with the sound of copper rings on the red lacquered wooden doors of each house, seemed to give Chen Yuan a feeling of returning to ancient times.

The three of them walked on one of the busiest main streets in Youtian City, and the vendors on both sides of the road were enthusiastically selling their goods, from clothes to toys. The vendors set up a simple shed on the side of the road, in which two tables and chairs, a hot pot, and a few pots of herbal tea were placed, which was a place to rest and satisfy hunger.

People come and go in the restaurant inn, when the three of them come out, it is the time of lunch, the aroma of wine mixed with the aroma of food wafts out from the restaurant inn, and the unique taste of the special snacks in the street stalls is mixed together, constituting a special smell, what is the specific feeling of this smell, there is no way to express, but Chen Yuan prefers to call it "human taste".

Cultivators are busy improving their strength every day, cultivating in one place, even in the deep mountains and old forests, and they don't pay much attention to all aspects of life. However, Chen Yuan believed that only in this kind of place where people gathered and the atmosphere of life was strong, it was the best place to cultivate.

Here, you can feel the human heart and humanity, and it is the best training environment for your own heart. People always say that cultivating to a high level is to return to the basics, and that return to the truth refers to ordinary people, who need to eat, drink, sleep, laugh and scold to reveal the normality of life. Those monks who are pure-hearted and have few desires and do not eat the fireworks of the world, I am afraid that they have all taken a detour.

"Chen Yuan, borrow some money. Just as Chen Yuan was sighing indiscriminately, he suddenly felt that the corners of his clothes were pulled, and then Feng Sanqi's secret words came from his ears. Chen Yuan looked at Feng Sanqi's gaze, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, it turned out that there was a gambling house diagonally opposite, and this kid was addicted to gambling again.

Chen Yuan secretly glanced at Zhang Ling'er, who was standing on the side of the road and bargaining with a small vendor, and gave Feng Sanqi a look, and the two quietly entered the gambling house. "It's still you, in order to prevent me from gambling, my sister took all the money from me. Feng Sanqi put on a bitter gourd face and said to Chen Yuan.

"I do have some money here, but it's okay, a small gamble is pleasant, a big gamble hurts the body, just play for a while, understand?" Chen Yuan Zhengse said, Feng Sanqi grew up in the casino since he was a child, and the habit of gambling has been deeply rooted in his bones, and he can't change it at all for a while, Chen Yuan simply let him look at it, and it will be good to look at it himself, and there will be no major problems.

Entering the casino, Feng Sanqi naturally put his hand on Chen Yuan's shoulder, and asked, "It's all here, don't you play two?" Chen Yuan shook his head, it's not that he rejects these things, it's just that he is not interested.

Seeing that Chen Yuan didn't go, Feng Sanqi squeezed to the gambling table with a few gold yuan, looking at Feng Sanqi's excited appearance, Chen Yuan found that Feng Sanqi in the casino was the real him, usually following Zhang Ling'er and being submissive, just like a little brother, but when he got to the gambling table, his bold strength was completely revealed.

I don't know if it's today's luck or what, Feng Sanqi not only didn't lose but also made a small profit. However, he remembered Chen Yuan's instructions, played a few games, and then retired from the table. I don't know why, although the two are about the same age, they have experienced so much together, and they faced life and death together at the last moment of the Hanqi Mountain Range. For Chen Yuan, Feng Sanqi always has a sense of fear like a brother entering his father, although he didn't realize it himself, but as long as it was Chen Yuan's orders, Feng Sanqi didn't seem to have disobeyed it.

Coming out of the gambling house with Chen Yuan, it happened that Zhang Ling'er also bought what he wanted, Chen Yuan quietly pulled Feng Sanqi to sit in a small tea stall next to the gambling house, and asked for three bowls of herbal tea before greeting Zhang Ling'er. Zhang Ling'er, who was looking for them everywhere, heard the greeting and hurriedly ran over.

"I just bargained with that little vendor and made my mouth dry, you two have been here all along?" Zhang Ling'er raised her head and drank a large bowl of herbal tea, sighed comfortably, and asked.

Feng Sanqi was a little nervous when he heard the question, Chen Yuan patted his leg without a trace, and said to Zhang Ling'er: "The two of us just sat down and walked around, what did you buy?" "I, I bought ······" Under Chen Yuan's clever change of topic, Zhang Linger did not notice the whereabouts of the two, but introduced the clothes she bought. With Chen Yuan's liberation, Feng Sanqi can be regarded as relieved, according to Zhang Ling'er's violent temper, if he knew that he would gamble again, Feng Sanqi would have to lose his skin if he didn't die.

At noon, the three of them came to a tavern, simply asked for some dishes, and a pot of tea, and sat down for lunch. Originally, Chen Yuan planned to purchase some ingredients and cook by himself to improve the food, but the time was not early, and it was too late to go back and make it himself, so under the recommendation of Feng Sanqi, the three of them came to this small shop.

The decoration of the small shop is very ordinary, and there are very few people in the store, but the dishes are surprisingly delicious, the cooked sauce beef is full of marinated fragrance, the vegetarian fried side dishes are fresh and delicious, and even the dessert glutinous rice dumplings are sweet and soft, Chen Yuan suddenly found that the dishes in this store are not worse than those made by himself. From Feng Sanqi's mouth, Chen Yuan learned that this shop was opened by an old man who had been engaged in the chef industry for more than 30 years, and he had no children and no daughters under his knees.

After lunch, the three of them returned to the Taoist Academy, and after a little relaxation, they devoted themselves to cultivation and study. In the afternoon of "Dangdangdang", the bronze bell standing in the bell tower in the center of the Taoist Academy was runged, and all the teachers and students of the Taoist Academy were gathered on the large square where the bronze bell was located.

Under the bell tower, the dean Guo Rui and the chief of the eight university palaces are there, the chief of the school palace is equivalent to the person in charge of the school palace, they belong to the high-level of the Taoist Academy, usually the dragon sees the head but does not see the end, and now they all appear here There must be something big to announce.

"Please be quiet. Guo Rui looked at the square, and the people from the university palace had almost arrived, cleared his throat and said. He didn't shout loudly, he just said a word as if he was talking normally, but his voice clearly appeared in the ears of thousands of teachers and students of the Eight Great Palaces.

The noisy voices in the square suddenly stopped, and everyone no longer discussed the reason for the convening of the bronze bell, but listened carefully to the dean's speech.

Seeing that everyone in the square was quiet, Guo Rui continued: "I summoned everyone here this time to inform you of something. According to the practice of our Youtian Dao Academy, in order to test the strength of the students and the cultivation results of the past year, a college competition will be held in early September every year.

This time, the college competition is still divided into three groups, namely the freshman group, the elite group and the hall group. New students who have been enrolled in the freshman group for less than one year can register, students who have been enrolled in the elite group for one year and less than five years can register, and students who have been enrolled in the hall group for more than five years can register.

In addition to the annual elite group of the palace group of the same reward, under the discussion of the college's senior management, in order to encourage the new students to work hard and exercise the spirit of the new students to have the courage to challenge, this year's new group rewards have undergone some changes, let me talk about the content of the new student group.

The first place in the freshman group will be rewarded with a Shengsheng Xuanyuan Dan, a judge grass, three Chiyang Zijin Copper 10 kilograms, and 30,000 contribution points, the second Judge Grass plant, 10 kilograms of Chiyang Zijin Copper, 20,000 contribution points, and the third place Chiyang Zijin Copper 10 kilograms, 10,000 contribution points.

Because there have been changes in the freshman group, I would like to emphasize here that as for the rewards of the elite group and the hall group, you will see it on the academy's bulletin board later. After the notice of this matter, the bulletin board of each university palace will post detailed registration rules, competition procedures, competition formats and reward and punishment systems.

Although this competition is voluntary, I still want to say that this is a rare opportunity to show and prove yourself, and the most important thing is that in the competition, you can clearly understand your own strength and shortcomings, and through this competition, you can better break through yourself and lay a solid foundation for future cultivation.

And the old students all know that every year in the big competition, the winners of the three groups will be incorporated into the academy guard, the reserve team of the Nethersky Ghost, so as to enjoy higher-level resources, and even join the Nethersky Nether, representing the entire Nethersky Domain, to challenge the geniuses of other domains.

So, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I hope you don't miss it. You are all rare geniuses in the Nether Heaven Domain, do you want to be used as a ladder by others, and watch others get such a chance to represent the whole domain? No, of course you don't want to! Children, if you want not to be trampled under the feet of others, then seize the time to cultivate and prepare, and then prove yourself in the ring of Dabi!"

Guo Rui's impassioned speech instantly ignited the enthusiasm of all the students, "Sign up! I must sign up!" Even Feng Sanqi shouted that he wanted to participate in this academy competition, and for a while, the atmosphere of the Youtian Dao Academy completely changed, and everyone seemed to be working hard to cultivate, so as to prove their worth above the academy competition.