The drinkers on the side couldn't really hear their conversation, and could only vaguely see the movements and expressions of the two.

Seeing the girl talking to the man with a smile on her face, and then she didn't care at all about drinking with the man in front of the jar, their hearts were even more sour.

What's so good about that man? With a full beard and sloppy face, how did he let that fairy-like girl fall in love with her?

Zhong Mengxi didn't think so.

In fact, she came all the way to Junnan County for this man.

Now that the man had agreed to her invitation, how could she not be happy?

"Where do you live? I'll come to you tomorrow? ”

The man didn't speak.

Zhong Mengxi seemed to understand something, "I live at Fuxiang Inn, how about you come to me tomorrow and then we go over together?" ”

……

"Master, this is the talisman I drew yesterday."

Ten weak water talismans and ten flying fire talismans are all fourth-order top-grade.

Chen Daoren took these talismans and glanced at them, the vitality was pure and rich, and the operation was smooth, all of them were good talismans.

"It's not bad, let's go."

Yu Xia was stunned for a moment, it was impossible for the master not to find out that he was promoted, right? Why don't you say anything......

The two went out of the inn directly, found a noodle stall, and each asked for a bowl of fresh and spicy noodles for breakfast, and then walked to the south of the city.

"Master, what are we going to do today?"

"Attend a convention."

"What?"

Yu Xia was stunned for a moment, didn't they happen to pass by here on their way to find the ancestral master Taoist temple?

Chen Daoren stopped, turned his head and glanced at her, "Don't have so many questions, you'll know when you get there." ”

"Oh." Yu Xia answered in a low voice, and honestly followed behind Chen Daoren.

There is a merchant candle temple in the south of the city, and many people from all over the world gather today.

Although it was August, Junnan County was still hot and unbearable, and it was so hot that Yu Xia was sweating profusely.

"Master, what's going on, even if there are a lot of people, it won't be hot like this, it's almost catching up with Futian."

Yu Xia followed behind Chen Daoren, and the open space in front of the temple was already crowded with people. Yu Xia glanced at it and found that most of them were Xuanshi, and there were even a few familiar faces among them, who were guests of the Fuxiang Inn that he had seen at dinner yesterday.

Yu Xia found out that there were a few Xuan Masters in Junnan County, but for some reason, they were all crowded here today.

Chen Daoren didn't care about those people, and walked straight to the temple gate, there were two men in dark color suits standing by the door, Yu Xia glanced at it casually, and found that it was two five-grade Xuan masters.

Chen Daoren took out an invitation card with gilded characters from his arms, and after the two of them checked it, their expressions changed slightly, and they were about to clasp their fists and salute, but Chen Daoren raised his hand to stop them.

"Lao Dao took the apprentice and went in by himself."

Yu Xia followed Chen Daoren into the temple, there were many fewer people in the temple, but the scorching aura was heavier, Yu Xia felt that the bricks, stones, plants and trees in the temple looked almost distorted under the shroud of this scorching aura.

Only then did Chen Daoren answer Yu Xia's previous question.

"Shang Candle is a sword master thousands of years ago, and he is also a sword casting master, and the Shang Candle Temple was built around the sword casting pool of the original Shang Candle. The sword-forging pool is not a pool of water, but a pool of earth and fire. ”

Yu Xia followed Chen Daoren through an archway, and saw many strangely shaped stoves at a glance, besieging a circle, and in the center of the circle was a dry pool, and a stone tablet was erected inside, on which were written the three big characters of "Sword Casting Pool".

"Isn't this the Earth Fire Pool, how can it look like an ordinary dry pool, and what are those stoves around it?"

Chen Daoren rarely rolled his eyes at Yu Xia, but led her to a position with an excellent view on the side and sat down, and patiently explained to her.

"The Earthfire Pool used to be a pool, but it has changed over time. Nowadays, the source of the earth fire is deeper, and the Junnan people have built a casting furnace on the edge of the original earth fire pool, so that they can better use the power of the earth fire and eliminate many dangers. ”

"It is these casting furnaces that make the Shang Candle Temple a dream place for many casters, but thousands of years have passed, and the power of earth and fire has long been less than the original, so the building furnace will only be opened in August of every leap year."

"Are all the mystic masters around outside coming for these casting furnaces?"

Yu Xia suddenly thought of the crowd in front of the temple, and noticed that after they entered the city yesterday, many inns in Junnan County were full, why did so many people gather in a small county town?

The answer is obvious.

Chen Daoren nodded, "Some of those people are casters who want to use the casting furnace, and some of them are just like us, watching the excitement." It's a pity that the casting furnace is limited, and the seating of the Shang Candle Temple is also limited, so you can't enter without an invitation. ”

"Who sent the invitation?" This question Yu Xia wanted to ask Chen Daoren when he entered the door, and he could be regarded as seizing the opportunity at this time.

"Although Junnan County also has a county order, but in essence, it has been controlled by the Shangsun family, the Shangsun family is a relatively well-established family, famous for casting, but three hundred years have passed, and it is difficult for the younger generations to produce people who are worthy of great responsibilities, so they hold a casting conference every four years, and select the winners to be absorbed into their own family training."

As he spoke, Chen Daoren pointed to the group of people standing in front of the archway.

"Those are the casters who came to the casting conference."

Yu Xia looked in the direction pointed by Chen Daoren, and sure enough, he saw more than a dozen Xuanshi in different clothes standing there, mostly cultivating to the fourth grade, and there were even two fifth-grade Xuantai, which looked like they were specially designed for the casting conference from all over the country.

If you win the casting conference and enter the Shangsun family, the profound heritage of the above Sun family will definitely benefit a lot, and even if you fail to win, it is also a rare experience for the caster to be able to use the earth fire caster once.

No wonder there were so many people in front of the temple.

It's a pity that the casting furnace is limited.

Yu Xia just glanced at it, and there were only sixteen stoves in total.

"And how did those casters get the invitations?"

Yu Xia asked curiously.

"Some of the forces in various places that are friendly with the Shangsun family will have a place to be promoted, and if they find a caster with good talent, they will nominate him to participate. And the Shangsun family will also give certain benefits to those forces depending on the ability of the person being lifted. If the nominated caster wins the championship, the head of the Shangsun family will personally cast a magic weapon for that faction. ”

This is a mutually beneficial and win-win situation.

The Shangsun family can inherit for three hundred years without being defeated, and it does have some ability.

In front of the Shang Candle Temple, two men finally squeezed from the crowd to the edge of the temple gate.

The two power-suited masters guarding the door stopped them.

In their opinion, one of these two people is an ordinary scholar who has no cultivation, and the other is only a second-grade cultivator, and they are basically not qualified to participate in the casting conference.

The scholar-like man immediately said, "We have an invitation!" ”

As he spoke, he took out an invitation card from his arms and handed it to the two masters, the invitation card had a black background and a red flame pattern on it, which was the symbol of the Shangsun family.

The two gatekeepers glanced at each other and let the two of them in.