The idea is certainly beautiful, but often the reality is always cruel, so Long Chen is not bold enough to take all the nearly four thousand tenth-level magic stones as a bet for the time being, he has never been a person who likes to gamble, even if he thinks that he is eighty percent sure that he can get the first place in this Xuandou Conference.

Moreover, Long Chen actually didn't have a chance to bet at all, this time he went to the gathering place of the participating members of the Ning Family's Inner Mansion to stay temporarily, and if he wanted to leave, he probably had to wait until the end of the Xuandou Conference.

Since three days ago, all the participating members of the Xuandou Conference jointly organized by the six major families have already lived in the inner mansions of the six major families to which they belong, and the Ning family is naturally no exception, a total of sixteen young venerables under the age of twenty, except for the three members of the inner room, the others have been arranged in a side hall that is not usually used.

After entering the inner mansion of the Ning family, Long Chen parted ways with Qiangzi, and the place where the family members and the participating members lived was not in the same place, where it was, Tong Yuan did not mention it, but said that after the Xuandou Conference began, the family members would be in the viewing seats, and it was easy to see.

After walking around in the huge inner mansion of the Ning family, after walking for nearly twenty minutes, Ning Haiyan's footsteps stopped in front of the entrance of a large hall, Long Chen looked up, and the plaque hanging on the main hall was engraved with the words "Jiahe Palace", pondering that this was the temporary residence of the members of the Ning family.

"Take him in, and don't forget to tell him the rules. ”

Ning Haiyan said a word to Tong Yuan, and then turned around and left, Jiahe Hall is located in the northeast of the Ning family's inner mansion, this is a relatively important area, it is impossible to enter with Tong Yuan's identity, and Ning Haiyan must accompany him.

Although he didn't see a few people on the way in, Long Chen still noticed that there were many places where secret sentinels were set up through the feedback of the Xuan's breath, and there were at least twenty or so Xuanzhi with strength above the intermediate level and above lying in ambush, and the guards were quite tight.

"Let's go. ”

Tong Yuan called out and led Long Chen into the Jiahe Palace, and at the same time solemnly instructed: "After the accommodation arranged for you later, don't go out and walk around, especially at night, there are many Venerable people in ambush around here, if you trespass into those places that you shouldn't go, the consequences will be quite serious." ”

"Got it. ”

After Long Chen stepped on the steps, he glanced back at the environment outside the Jiahe Palace, and most of the things he could see were carved attics, as well as unknown trees full of white flowers, the scenery was very beautiful, but he really couldn't see anything special here.

In this Jiahe Palace, which is at least twenty meters high and has a very wide area, there are naturally a lot of rooms, and when Tong Yuan was taken to a side room on the second floor, Long Chen didn't see even a single member of the contestants, he originally thought that he needed to live with other contestants, worried about the secret leakage, after all, he couldn't restrain his Xuan Qi all day long, and now it seems that there is no need to have such concerns, after all, although everyone is in the camp of the Ning family at this stage, once the Xuan Dou Conference really starts, it is still possible to become an opponent after all。

Tong Yuan took out the key to open the closed lock on the door, pushed the door open, and said to Long Chen, "You live here these days. ”

"Yes. ”

Long Chen nodded, entered the room to take a look, and found that this room was not just a bedroom, there was also a study, and a secret room that could be completely closed, what surprised him was that there was an Earth Spirit Array Stone in the secret room, and when Long Chen walked back to the study after shopping around the room, Tong Yuan, who was sitting on the chair, spoke: "Now I will tell you some details of this Xuandou Conference, sit down first." ”

After Long Chen sat down, Tong Yuan slowly explained: "Let's talk about the arrangements of this Xuandou Conference first, the estimated time is one month, the total number of participants I have told you before, for one hundred and ten people, the first is to draw lots for the knockout round, according to the order of the lottery to determine the specific time of the game, every day from nine o'clock in the morning, to eleven o'clock at noon, and then from two o'clock in the afternoon to four o'clock in the afternoon." That is, there are only four hours a day for Xuandou. ”

Long Chen interjected and asked, "Is there a time limit for each game?"

"Yes. ”

Tong Yuan nodded and said: "Each game is up to ten minutes, I'll tell you about the specific rules later, let's finish the arrangement first, basically, until the final finals, all the previous events are determined by drawing lots, so you may also meet members of the Ning family." ”

Long Chen counted according to the number of participants, and said suspiciously: "If it is all a lottery duel, it seems that the number of people is not right." ”

Tong Yuan smiled slightly and said: "That's true, so, after the first round of elimination, there will be one bye in the second round, and there will be no byes in the third and fourth rounds, but there will be a bye in the fifth round, and there is no way, who let the members participate this time is only one hundred and ten." ”

In the first round of elimination, 110 people participated, and in the end, only 55 people entered the second round, and only one person had a bye, while in the third round there were 28 people, 14 people in the fourth round, and only seven people in the fifth round, so there must be one bye again.

Hearing such an arrangement, Long Chen couldn't help but say to himself with some surprise: "I didn't expect it to be arranged like this, and there were three chances to have a bye." ”

Tong Yuan said with a smile: "Sometimes luck is also part of strength. ”

There were seven rounds in total, and aside from the byes, it meant that if he wanted to win the first place, he only needed to defeat seven people, which was much less than Long Chen expected, and he originally thought that the six families would be divided into groups of four or three people like the Lancheng Xuan Academy did when they held the Xuan Dou Conference in the Misty Continent.

As if seeing Long Chen's doubts, Tong Yuan explained: "The reason why the duel is carried out by drawing lots before the finals is mainly to save more time than a four-person team or a three-person team, at least twelve Xuandou games can be conducted in one day, the first round can be completed in only five days, the second round is three days, the third round is two days, and the fourth round is one day, even if there is an accident in the middle of the contestants, as long as it does not hurt the meridians, it will only take a month to complete the entire Xuandou Conference." ”

Regarding the rules of this Xuandou Conference, Tong Yuan also explained to Long Chen in detail afterwards, and after talking about this, he left Jiahe Palace.

Defeating the opponent within the ten-minute time limit, or forcing the opponent's Xuan Qi to run out of energy for victory, in this regard, is similar to the Xuan Dou Tournament once held by the Arashiro Xuan Academy, but there is no such thing as a draw here.

That is to say, even if the Xuan Qi of both sides is exhausted, they must rely on hand-to-hand combat to divide the victory and defeat, and the most special thing is that every Xuan Dou has a sect-level Xuan Dou by the side to personally supervise the battle, which is equivalent to the referee, and the referee has the right to terminate the Xuan Dou at any time.

There are still twelve days before the Xuandou Conference is really held, and Longchen needs to spend all these days in this room, Tong Yuan just left for a while when a young maid came, specially waiting for Longchen's daily life, but for Longchen, whose schedule is not fixed at all, this is obviously redundant, so he politely declined.

After the maid left, Long Chen left the house and walked around the Jiahe Palace, preparing to find Zhu Zicheng and ask about the information about the Six Domains City of the Hainei Continent, he was brought here by Tong Yuan as soon as he returned home from the Ancient Refining Tower, and he didn't have a chance to learn about this matter.

Since Zhu Zicheng participated in this Xuandou Conference and took refuge in the Ning family's camp, he must also live here.

It's a pity that Long Chen walked around on the second and third floors of Jiahe Palace, and the other participating members met a lot, but they didn't see Zhu Zicheng's shadow.

Maybe they all considered that they might become opponents after twelve days, and those participants who walked out of the house saw Long Chen, except for a polite smile, they were all very indifferent, and no one would take the initiative to talk and refuse to be thousands of miles away.

This Xuandou Conference, for every member of the contestants, is a great opportunity to leap into the dragon gate, good performance, it means that the status of the six families is more and more consolidated, if you can get the appreciation of the six masters, the benefits will not need to be said.

Moreover, the contestants are all young members under the age of 20, this is an extremely confident age of blood and strength, especially at such an age to step into the honorable level, can be called the pride of the sky, who does not have a pride in their hearts not to admit defeat? In order to achieve victory, I believe that no one will hide and will do their best!

After just walking around, among the five participating members he met, there were three middle-level Venerable Masters between the ages of eighteen and twenty, which couldn't help but surprise Long Chen, it seemed that in addition to the members of the six inner rooms, there were also middle-level Venerables among the external members.

Unable to find Zhu Zicheng, Long Chen could only return to the room on the second floor of the Jiahe Palace, and after closing the door, he walked into the secret room with the Earth Spirit Array.

Long Chen was ready to improve the third stage of the Fan Chen Refining Sect in advance, although the Fan Chen Refining Sect that had been changed to the second stage was enough to meet the needs of Long Chen's sprint to the high-level Venerable, but since he had time now, of course, he would prepare for the high-level Venerable in advance.

After all, once the forbidden canon is completed, it will take Fan Chen's Xuan Sect to refine the Xuan Method to increase the amount of Xuan Qi in the future, especially in the case of using the Void Breaking Realm in the Vientiane Thousand Luo Pagoda in the ground level shooting field.

In the Jiahe Palace, every day there are waitresses who specially deliver delicious meals, tea, snacks, etc. to the participating members who live in the palace, this time Longchen did not gnaw on the hard steamed buns in the hidden bag, and every time he was full of food and drink, anyway, he didn't need money.

During this period, Zhu Zicheng took the initiative to find Long Chen, and Long Chen also learned some information about the Six Domains City of the Sea Continent from his mouth.

What exactly are those ingestions that have invaded the Six Domains City going to do? In the secret room, Long Chen couldn't help but think about this question from time to time, but he couldn't figure it out.

Twelve days passed quickly.

In the early morning of the next day, under the stars and moons of more than 20 members of the Ning family, Ning Changde, the current head of the Ning family, came to the entrance of the Jiahe Palace, accompanied by three members of the Ning family's inner room, two men and one woman.

(Tianjin)