The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the shadows of the trees are heavy. On the top of the grave mountain, an inky crow had just found a tombstone to settle on, and after opening its mouth twice, it was startled away by a strange shadow!

At this moment, when it is approaching, the hundreds of thousands of graves in the Xiling Cemetery stand silently, layer upon layer, and you can't see the edge at a glance. It's a desolate, secluded, eerie, and uninhabited place. And in the middle of the night, one or two ghosts came out of individual tombs from time to time, and wandered towards the back mountain.

On the back mountain, the wandering spirits and wild ghosts gathered more and more, and there were some living people who were also shuttling back and forth. But people are not frightened, ghosts are not disturbed, and people and ghosts even greet each other, and they seem to be quite familiar with each other. If ordinary people saw this strange scene, they would inevitably be so shocked that their jaws dropped!

It's not a ghost market tonight, but it's no less lively than a ghost market. The shops were still closed, and the stalls on the periphery had been emptied, except for a few rows of chairs and a few stoves in the open field, which were lit by a few ghost fires. Could it be that there is another feast tonight?

No! There is no one to have a banquet tonight, but I will participate in the Teng Jiayin Dining Cooking Competition Night!

There are a total of five stove positions on the field, and the sects that participated in the election tonight are Yuanbaomen, Fire Dragon Gang, Liushengmen, Jiugongge and Lao Bing's family, and each of the five major sects sent one person to participate in the competition. Among them, the other four factions were all disciples from the sect, and I was the only one from outside. However, it is said that this has happened before, and other sects have not raised any objections.

Although these Yin cultivation sects in the provincial capital are big factions, the number of disciples of each family is only one or twenty. If one or two people were selected to go to Yin City every three years, I am afraid that they would have been forced to disband a long time ago. Gradually, the term "guest elders" appeared!

According to the rules of the rivers and lakes, the guest elders are not disciples in the sect, but they are only temporarily invited to the platform to build momentum or help solve problems. And the Teng family held the election just to attract talents to work for them, as for whether it was the official disciples of each sect, they didn't care too much, so they acquiesced to this practice.

However, my qualifications were too low, and Yuanbaomen did not hire me as a guest elder. I didn't care too much about this, I just wanted to use their quota as a springboard to break into the Yin City, and both sides took what they needed. When Donald introduced me, he called me his nephew and said that he was a close disciple of his old friend. Well, that's the truth!

The row to the left of the participating stove is the judges' seat, and it is the five supervisors of the Xiling Cemetery Food Supervision Committee who are seated: Weng Shopkeeper, Master Qian, Lou Zhifu, Diao Dashuai and Miss Qimeng. Each of the five supervisors has one vote, each of which is worth a maximum of 10 points, and the winner is the one with the highest total score.

These judges have different tastes, each has its own good, and the relationship between them is good and bad, and it is already difficult for the five of them to sit together. Such a combination of judges to the scoring link will definitely make the competition full of variables, and I don't know who can profit from it, and who will touch the mold?

The row to the right of the stove is the cheering seat, and the people and disciples of the five major sects are seated. Before the race officially started, I also sat inside, chatting with the horse bench for a while. Even if the other young disciples did not participate in the competition, they were full of interest, and they were all talking to each other.

The focus of their discussion is nothing more than who can win from this competition and get a chance to enter the Yin City. But entering Yin City is not the most attractive place for them, and who can win is the key. Because, after the list of candidates came out, the good deeds opened the handicap for the five of us early and set up a peripheral gambling game!

According to Ma Xiaostool, this time our five candidates are all very strong, and there are no particularly popular candidates, so the betting situation is more scattered, and there are optimistic about anyone.

I couldn't laugh at this, so I asked him, "Honestly, did you bet?" ”

"It's down!"

"Who do you crush to win?"

"It's got to be you!" Ma Xiaostool had a righteous and awe-inspiring expression, patted me on the shoulder and said, "I know your details and have great confidence in you." You have to play hard, too! ”

"I don't need you to remind me of this, I want to win more than you!" I replied angrily, and finally added, "If you really win, you must treat me to dinner!" ”

"No problem!"

Directly opposite the stove is a VIP seat. At present, it is several members of the Xiling Cemetery Committee who are already seated, and Donald Lao Guo is also among them. Each Yin Cultivation Sect has only one position in the committee, and since Tang Laocao was present in person, there is nothing to do with Hou Da Pot, the "acting member". He could only honestly sit with us in the disciple's seat and cheer me on.

There is still a seat in the middle of the VIP seat, which is reserved for the big boss of the Teng family. I once asked Ma Xiaostool about the situation of this big boss, and he told me that the big boss is called Teng Dewang, and on the surface, he is not only the big boss of Xiling Cemetery, but also the boss of Youlanxuan, and is generally called "Mr. Teng". But secretly, Teng Dewang was also the representative of Yin City in the provincial capital, and developed the Xiling Ghost Market to collect and exchange the Yin Yuan scattered in the Yang world.

The Teng family is not conspicuous in the sun, but in fact, they own many industries, and they are all low-key businesses such as Xiling Cemetery and Youlanxuan. However, their biggest business is still in the underworld, mainly concentrated in Zuoqiu City.

In addition to the strength and prestige in the provincial capital, the Teng family also often held elections in other cities and counties to absorb talents for their use. It is no exaggeration to say that the entire Guangnan is looking forward to the Teng family. However, the main direction of the Teng family is in Yin City, and they are not willing to compete with the Taoist Sect for territory in the Yang Realm. It seems that this is also an important reason for the decline of the Yin Cultivation Sect.

The Xiling Cemetery Committee where Tang Laoguo and his party are actually only in charge of the ghost market, and cannot manage the entire cemetery. Shops that set up shops and stalls in the ghost market have to pay rent to the committee, and all the yin yuan earned must be exchanged by the committee. Half of the income from the ghost market was deducted by the Teng family, and then handed over to several major sects to divide up.

Therefore, how to please the Teng family is the top priority of the major Yin cultivation sects. This is also an important reason why Donald is in a hurry and must win in this competition. After all, the yin meal of Yuanbaomen is one of the few signboards that Yuanbaomen can get its hands on, and there is no one!

According to Ma Xiaostool's "line report", the exorcism competition in which Yuanbaomen participated on the other side had been completed, and Yuanbaomen was unexpectedly defeated. In other words, now the only hope that Donald can continue to win the support of the Teng family falls on me!

A competition held by a living person has attracted great interest from all the ghosts in Xiling Cemetery. Although there are only five supervisors who are qualified to sit at the table, the ghosts who join in the excitement on the periphery are three layers inside and three layers outside, surrounding the entire competition field!

On the one hand, it is the old customers who are very interested in this kind of yin cooking competition, and on the other hand, there are also good people among the ghosts, who also open the handicap to accept bets. I turned my head to look and found that in a corner of the periphery, Diao Dashuai's subordinates openly set up a gambling table, shouting at the old customers to go over and place bets.

After all, Diao Dashuai is also one of the judges, I wonder if he will have a preference for a certain player because of the betting situation?

But Diao Dashuai sat in the judges' seat and was still very arrogant, teasing Miss Qimeng from time to time, and didn't take this kind of discussion to heart at all. The committee knew that he was a thorn, and as long as he didn't make too much trouble, they would just turn a blind eye.

was making a noise, and someone on the periphery suddenly shouted loudly: "Mr. Teng has arrived!" ”

This sentence quickly set off waves like a boulder falling into the water. The people sitting in the inner perimeter all stood up consciously, and the group of demons standing on the periphery separated a gap to give way. Several committee members walked out very attentively to greet him and invited Mr. Teng to the chairman's seat.

Teng Dewang looked to be seventy years old, but he was in good spirits and walked steadily. He is now the head of the Teng family, so he naturally has a special majesty when he speaks and acts, and he starts to speak after sitting down. And his voice is also very loud, and there is no need for a microphone at all to make everyone present hear him clearly.

"Xiling Cemetery has been developed for more than 30 years, and it is thanks to the great help of your peers and old guests that it has today's grand occasion! I, Teng Dewang, would like to say to all of you: Thank you! ”

Teng Dewang is really a ** lake, as soon as he came up, he first said a word about the scene, and hugged his fists for a week to thank everyone. Naturally, everyone also wanted to give him face, and immediately responded with a warm applause.

"On this good night, my colleagues in Xiling are holding this cooking competition here, which can be regarded as having some fun for everyone! At the same time, I also hope that all major sects will accept disciples and cultivate more young talents, so that we can have a future in the Yin cultivation lineage! ”

Mr. Teng's words didn't seem to sound wrong, but Ma Xiaostool, who was sitting next to me, immediately complained: "Hey, this Mr. Teng can only talk!" Their Teng family has selected all the good seedlings of each faction, but they refuse to stand up for us in the provincial capital, how can our Yin Cultivation Sect compete with the Taoist Cultivation Sect in the yang world? ”

"Shh

Ma Xiaostool's master, Lin Dachopsticks, sat in front of him, and when he heard the apprentice's inappropriate complaints, he turned his head and frowned and "shhhh Seeing this, Ma Xiaostool quickly shut up and didn't say anything.

Actually, I also think that Ma Xiaostool's words are not unreasonable. The Yin Cultivation Pulse really lacks a joint force to fight against the strength of Dao Xiu, and it is necessary for a gate valve giant like the Teng family to ascend to the top. But instead they did something to dig into the corners of their own families, which is really disappointing!

But it's not our turn to interject in this kind of thing, so let's focus back on the game. Thankfully, Teng Dewang's speech ended quickly, and he simply announced that the match could begin. The audience applauded again, and I was finally on the stage!