"Knock...... Knock ......"

In a melodious bell, a new day begins.

Li Ding heard Hua Rong say that this bell is called Kaishan Chime, which is worth a secret place behind Feiyuan Pavilion, and it only rings in the door celebration, and it will ring eighty-one times from the time of Yin to the time of Chen.

According to Li Ding's understanding, it should be another place with a small enchantment, although it has been not a short time to enter the Jinguang Gate, but there are clear regulations in the door rules, as a registered disciple, many places in the door are not allowed to enter.

After a change of clothes, I came out of my room, and it was just dawn. Because the pharmacy disciples were only responsible for the elixir, Li Ding avoided some complicated things to prepare for the door celebration, but when he returned to the pharmacy later yesterday, Hua Yang still explained at the first time that the door celebration did not need to gather in the main hall, but the celebration must be attended on time and dressed neatly.

The melodious sound of the bell came slowly, shaking the heart. There was a rare lack of lights in the pharmacy, and Huayang should not be there, Li Ding immediately walked towards the pharmacy on the other side, and found that it was brightly lit from a distance.

Pushing the door in, he found that except for Huayang sitting on a chair to command, everyone was busy.

"Get up, you don't understand the classification of pills, go over there and help pack the gift box." Seeing Li Ding, Hua Yang pointed to a wooden table and said.

"Oh. Seeing this, Li Ding realized that he had gotten up late, and responded a little embarrassed, and immediately trotted to the wooden table, where he saw two teenagers putting small bottles into brocade boxes of corresponding colors.

The two teenagers are both disciples of Qi Zheng, first-grade alchemists, they should have long been accustomed to such things, and their movements are extremely skillful. Li Ding took a look at it and started to move, in order not to make a mistake, his movements were naturally much slower.

Chen Yu, Lin Xiao's disciple next to him, was also doing the same thing, but what he put into the brocade box was a small jade bottle. On the other side, the chubby Lin Xiao and Qi Zheng, who had a cautious face, packaged a jade bottle of higher quality, and at a glance, they knew that the level of the elixir inside was not low, and the decoration of those brocade boxes was also more exquisite, so they naturally had to be more careful.

After all the pills were packed, almost an hour had passed, and at this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the pharmacy.

"It's just right, it should be you, Senior Brother Qiu, and they are here. Hearing the footsteps, Huayang stood up and said to Lin Xiao.

"Qiu Xingwu came to get the pill. As soon as Huayang's voice fell, a loud voice came from outside the door.

"It's ready, Master Qiu's nephew come in. Huayang said lightly, and then the door of the pharmacy was pushed open, and a middle-aged man in black with a tall figure walked in, it was Qiu Xingwu, the son of the Great Elder Qiu Zhengyi, and there were more than a dozen young men in black behind him.

Without saying much, these people began to take those brocade boxes into their arms from the wooden table in an orderly manner, and then exited the pharmacy in turn, until they were all cleaned up, Qiu Xingwu bowed down to Huayang and said: "There is the Laohua Hall Master, the trial ground has also been prepared, and the Huatang Master and the two junior disciples can go over at any time." ”

Huayang nodded slightly, Qiu Xingwu turned around and said goodbye, Huayang said to everyone: "Today is the big day of Menqing, if you are not ready, hurry up and prepare, before the opening chime is finished, you must rush to the test ground." ”

"Yes. Everyone should arrive, and then there was a burst of cheers, seeing this, Huayang shook his head helplessly, but everyone had already rushed out of the pharmacy and ran down the mountain, obviously everyone had already prepared.

On the path down the mountain, except for Li Ding and a few people, there was not a single disciple in the sect, and they should have all gone down to the trial ground, but Li Ding knew in his heart that in fact, there were secret sentinels everywhere here, in case some ill-intentioned people called the opportunity of the door celebration to come to Jinguangmen to make trouble.

These are all things that Hua Rong said to him, Li Ding naturally didn't know what accidents might happen, but he found that there were disciples of the Golden Light Sect guarding the gates of each hall, which obviously made some sense.

This is the first time Li Ding has seen so many classmates, and many people Li Ding doesn't know, but Lin Xiao doesn't seem to be in a bad mood, and he keeps introducing Li Ding along the way. When he was able to go down to the outside of the training ground, he knew most of the middle-aged men and women he had never seen before, as well as some other young disciples.

"Li Ding, why are you here!"

In the crowd, a red shadow suddenly flashed over, grabbed Li Ding's arm and said cautiously, it was Hua Rong. Lin Xiaoqi and the others behind Li Ding all smiled when they saw this scene, said hello to Hua Rong, and walked separately to the trial ground.

"So many people?" Li Ding asked with some surprise as he looked at the training ground full of people. Although I had seen the trial ground crowded on the path down the mountain before, it was not as shocking as it was here.

Hua Rong smiled and said, "There will be a lot of people coming every year, but I also heard from Elder Qiu just now that there are a lot of people who come to participate in the assessment this time, so it should be more lively than in previous years." ”

The two of them squeezed through the crowd and toward the center of the training ground. Li Ding found that a high platform five zhang square had been erected there at this time, and dozens of wooden chairs were placed in front of the platform facing the Eight Gods Temple, and it was obvious that someone would sit on it later. And there is a white stone plate in the center of the platform, and there is a black pillar standing on it, which looks somewhat similar to the one in the Feiyuan Pavilion, but it is much smaller in size.

"Knock...... Knock ......"

Two loud bell chimes came from afar, and they should be the last two chimes.

The crowd gradually parted, and dozens of figures of various ages slowly walked out of the Yagodi Temple, walked in the direction of the high platform, and then sat down one by one in front of the high platform and on the chairs above.

"What is this for?" Seeing that Yu Lao Huayang was sitting on the stage, Li Ding asked Hua Rong a question.

Hua Rong is not very old, but her understanding of this celebration ceremony is that she can be Li Ding's teacher. He smiled at Li Ding, and said, "Did you see the four people sitting next to Yu Lao in front of you?"

Li Ding took a look, and saw that the four people were the people of the four families he saw outside the manor, so he said, "They are the people of the four families, right?"

Hua Rong nodded, and was about to speak, but heard a delicate voice say, "Well, it just so happens that I know these four people." The black-robed old man's name is Xue Qi, who is Xue Yun's grandfather, and the other one who only has a few white beards is called Lin Xuetong, who is the head of the Lin family, a family of alchemy. The red-haired man on the side is called Zhou Kang, saying that he is the head of the Zhou family, but he has nothing, since he married Xue Yun's aunt, everything is based on the Xue family, I think the Zhou family will lose in his hands sooner or later. ”

"My grandfather didn't like him either, and he had a fight with him that year. Hua Rong replied casually, but she reacted, and when she looked back, she saw Ye Xinyi looking at Li Ding with a coquettish smile, and saw that Li Ding lowered his head and didn't dare to raise it.

Hua Rong looked at both sides with a puzzled expression, and suddenly said to Ye Xinyi: "Senior Sister Ye is good or bad, why didn't she appear during this time, but she stared at Li Ding as soon as she came, are you really interesting to him?"

These words made Li Ding stunned, and he raised his head suddenly, but saw that Ye Xinyi's eyes were flickering under the flattering face, and there was no special meaning at all, as if he wanted to see through what Li Ding was thinking, so shocked that Li Ding hurriedly coughed lightly and turned his head to the side.

"Giggle......

Ye Xinyi laughed coquettishly, she was wearing a light blue tunic dress, and her low placket faintly revealed a deep groove, which looked more and more delicate and moving. In fact, as soon as she appeared, she had already attracted countless eyes around her, but her strength was there, and there were several followers with indifferent expressions standing behind her, and ordinary disciples only dared to watch from afar.

Li Ding pointed to Xue Qi and asked Hua Rong: "He is Xue Yun's grandfather, is Xue Yun originally from the Xue family?

In the midst of the boiling voices, Hua Rong looked up and introduced the people sitting in the back two rows to him, mostly representatives of some sects from Lingyan Island or Nanming and some famous Wang clans. Naturally, there are some people that Hua Rong doesn't know, but these are not a big deal for Li Ding.

"Why is he here?" Li Ding suddenly wondered.

In that group of people, Li Ding actually saw Yuan Gang, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and his face changed. But he heard Ye Xinyi say: "Do you really have any grievances with the Yuan family?" Then you have to be careful, this Yuan family's reputation is notoriously stinky in Lingyan Island. ”

"Really?" calmed down, Li Ding said without looking back. For Li Ding's ignorance, Ye Xinyi smiled slightly, and didn't say anything, just walked towards the front with a group of followers, and also sat on a chair in the back row.

Only then did Li Ding realize that the last row in front of him was all disciples of the Jinguang Sect, and it was obviously divided into four columns, although the number of people was different, but it was distinct. Looking at the other directions of the high platform, those people in different clothes should be ordinary people who came up to the mountain to watch the ceremony, but these people are consciously standing behind a temporary yellow line, three feet away from the high platform.

"This is?" Li Ding asked Hua Rong suspiciously.

As if she understood what Li Ding meant, Hua Rong pointed to the front and said, "The yellow line is called the prohibition line, in order to prevent outsiders from interfering with the celebration." The four columns in front of it are the four major societies in the door, and from the left, they are the Bully, the Blue Light, the Black Rock and the Lightning. Among them, Banai and Blu-ray are the strongest, and the disciples in the door must join one of them, because the instructor is stationed in various clubs, so I asked you to join Blu-ray at the beginning, don't look at their small number, but their strength is no worse than Bafeng. ”

"In this case, it should be that only the best people in various societies can be qualified to be accepted as official disciples, and the others shouldn't stay in Jinguangmen for too long, right?" Li Ding asked thoughtfully.

Looking at Li Ding's appearance, Hua Rong nodded and said, knowing that he remembered some unpleasant things again, he suddenly bit and said: "That's natural, but there are exceptions, just like you, the medicine hall is no better than other places, even if you don't make great progress in the realm, as long as you don't take the initiative to leave, you can stay forever." ”

Hearing this, Li Ding was startled, and suddenly he seemed to understand something, looking at Hua Rong's eyes, he couldn't help but tremble slightly, and said lightly: "You...... Why are you doing this?"

After being silent for a while, Hua Rong said, "I don't know why, since the first time I saw you, I thought you were very special. I believe that one day you will ......"

The noise around the "buzzing ......" suddenly boiled and seemed deafening.

"What?" Li Ding asked loudly, he couldn't hear Hua Rong's last words, but at this time, Hua Rong just smiled at him and put his eyes on the high platform.

There, several Jinguangmen disciples had already taken the stage to start a one-on-one fighting performance.