Chapter 162: Return to the Oga Empire Again (Extended Length)
After a few days and nights of recuperation, Lu Zhe regained his peak state, and the day of the Alchemist Conference had arrived, and Lu Zhe returned to his hometown, the Oga Empire, two days before the opening of the Alchemist Conference.
Lu Zhe came directly to the imperial capital, as soon as he arrived in the imperial capital, he went to the Alchemist Guild non-stop, on the way to the Alchemist Guild Lu Zhe noticed that the flow of people in the imperial capital was obviously much more than before, and there were many people wearing alchemist robes on the street, it seemed that they should also come to participate in the alchemist conference.
Coming to the church-like building, looking at the magnificent building in front of him and the familiar five big characters, Lu Zhe's heart suddenly rose with a sense of nostalgia. He took out his alchemist badge from his bosom and put it on his chest, then walked inside. The doorman saw that Lu Zhe was wearing the badge of an alchemist and let Lu Zhe in without much hindrance, Lu Zhe suddenly recalled the first time he came here, at that time, if it wasn't for the old doctor by his side, he was afraid it would be difficult for him to come in.
"Why are you in such a hurry, you wait for me," Ya Xuan said as she chased after Lu Zhe.
"Stop!" suddenly shouted the guard at the door.
Ya Xuan was turned away by the two guards, she crossed her hands on her hips, and said angrily: What are you doing?
The doorman on the left looked at Ya Xuan, with a look of surprise in his eyes, but his face was silent, and he said loudly: This is the Alchemist Guild, idlers are not allowed to enter!
As soon as Ya Yan heard this, she immediately disagreed, and shouted: I am also an alchemist, why don't you let me in?
"Are you an alchemist, where's your alchemist badge?" asked the guard on the right, looking at Yanan.
Ya Yan touched her chest, then took out a badge from her bosom and handed it to him, shouting: You see what this is!
The doorman took a closer look. I saw that the alchemist badge that Ya Yu took out was engraved with six golden medicine tripods, which was a symbol that only the senior alchemists of the six tripods could have!
The guard took the badge from Ya Xuan's hand and looked at it carefully. It was discovered that this Alchemist badge was not the same as the Alchemist badge issued by their guild. He pushed the badge into his waist and shouted, "Just because you are also a senior alchemist of Liuding? You and I are blind, and you have to look at the actual situation to fake.
Seeing that the guards confiscated her badge, Ya Yan was stunned, and suddenly shouted: What are you talking about? Who faked it? You return my alchemist badge, you return me! She said and pounced on the guard.
The guard pushed her away and warned: "This is the Alchemist Guild, how can you allow this shrew to go wild here, come here."
As soon as he gave the order, two people ran out of the guild hall, and they picked up Ya Yan and walked out.
"Fuck off. Auntie, how can my body be touched by people like you?" Ya Yu shouted, and then kicked the two people who were holding him away with a left kick and a right punch.
The guard hurriedly waved his hand when he saw that Ya Xia's strength was good, and eleven or twelve guards ran out of the guild's hall, and they lined up, their spears aimed at Ya Xia. The guard pulled out the sword at his waist and came behind everyone, and said, "I didn't expect you to be quite powerful, take it for me!"
Ya Yan put on a posture and prepared to fight, and at this moment, Lu Zhe ran out of the guild hall. He looked outside and knew something was wrong. He hurriedly came to the middle and said, "Everyone, what's going on?"
"Who are you?" the guard with the sword asked, looking at Lu Zhe.
"I'm ......" Lu Zhe opened his mouth to explain, but as soon as he spoke, Ya Yan rushed to say: He is my father-in-law!
Everyone and Lu Zhe were stunned.
"My aunt, don't make a mess for me, okay?" Lu Zhe's tears were about to fall.
Ya Yan snorted. Lu Zhe looked at the heavily armed guards behind him. Pulled Ya Xuan and asked, "What trouble have you caused again?"
Ya Yan looked at Lu Zhe, the anger on her face turned into grievance, and said: They won't let me in.
"They won't let you in? Aren't you an alchemist?" Why didn't they let you in?" Lu Zhe asked puzzled.
"How do I know," Ya asked rhetorically.
"Where's your alchemist badge?" Lu Zhe asked.
Ya Yan held out her hand and pointed at the sword-wielding guard. Dao: He confiscated it.
Lu Zhe was stunned for a moment when he heard Ya Xuan's words, and asked, "Why did he confiscate your alchemist badge?"
"How do I know. You ask him to go," Ya said angrily.
Lu Zhe shook his head and then came to the guard, who was immediately polite when he saw the badge on Lu Zhe's chest. Asked: Is there something wrong?
Lu Zhe smiled and said, "Then I want to ask, why did you confiscate her alchemist badge.
"You said your wife's alchemist badge," the sword-wielding guard asked.
Lu Zhe touched his nose and smiled shyly, then nodded.
The sword-wielding guard immediately became serious and said, "Your wife is suspected of forging the alchemist badge, and we are going to arrest him for interrogation."
"Forgery? impossible, he is not a skilled craftsman, how could he forge the alchemist badge?" Lu Zhe asked.
Seeing that Lu Zhe didn't believe it, the sword-wielding guard took out Ya Yan's badge from his arms and handed it to him, saying, "Sir, you can compare it with your alchemist badge to see what the difference is."
Lu Zhe took Ya Xia's badge and then tore off his own badge and compared it together, he looked at it and found that Ya Xia's badge was indeed a little different from his own badge, not because of the difference in the number of dings, but because the shape of the badge and the surrounding patterns were different.
Lu Zhe came to Ya Yan with his badge and Ya Xuan's badge, put the two badges in front of her, and said: Look, the badges of the two of us are different, of course people will not let you in.
Ya Yan looked down at the two different badges, and then said as a matter of course: That's for sure, my badge is in .......
"Wait a minute" Before Ya Yan could finish her words, Lu Zhe interrupted her.
"What's wrong?" asked Ya Yan as she looked at Lu Zhe. At this moment, Lu Zhe was staring at a carriage on the south side of the road that was slowly approaching here, Ya Yan looked at the carriage and asked puzzledly: What happened to that carriage?
"You'll find out later," Lu Zhe said in a vague manner.
The carriage was not very fast. After a short while, the carriage came to the front of the Alchemist Guild. The carriage stopped. An old man with a white beard came down from inside, and this old man Lu Zhe also happened to know. This old man is the vice president of the Alchemist Guild of the Oga Empire - Odyssi.
Lu Zhe looked at Odyss, who got out of the car, and said with a smile: Vice President Odyssi, don't you come here for a year?
As soon as Odysse heard someone calling him, he looked up and saw a black-robed young man standing in front of him, he was stunned, and a surprised expression suddenly appeared on his face, and said, "It turned out to be you kid."
Odyssey smiled as he came to Lu Zhe's side, Lu Zhe shook hands with him, and Odysse said happily: Haha. Bai Wenbo, that old guy is not wrong, you are really here.
Lu Zhe also smiled and said: Of course I'm coming, I'm going to win the championship this time!
"Okay, let's go, go in and say," Odysse smiled and walked towards the guild as he walked towards Lu Zhe.
"That Vice President Odyss, I have something to trouble you," Lu Zhe stood still and said with a smile.
"What's the matter?" asked Odysse.
"Your guards won't let us in," Lu Zhe said truthfully.
At this time, Odyssey noticed Ya Di standing next to Lu Zhe. He looked at Ya Xuan and then at Lu Zhe, and asked, "Who is this?"
Lu Zhe explained: This is my ......
"Ma'am," said Ya Xuan, as usual.
Lu Zhe had long known that she would come to this set. I also got used to it, nodded my head, and said: This is my insider.
Odysse looked at Ya Xuan, and suddenly smiled: You kid is not shallow.
Lu Zhe touched his head embarrassedly. Dao: Vice President, I don't want to trouble you for this little thing, but I have to ask your old man for help at this point.
Odyssey also had a hard time. Dao: But the Alchemist Guild prohibits idlers from entering except for non-alchemists and staff, so I can't break this rule for you.
"No, no, no. My inner man is also an alchemist," Lu Zhe said hurriedly.
"Then why don't you let me in?" Odysse was confused by Lu Zhe and asked puzzled.
"They say there's something wrong with my inner man's alchemist badge. So don't let us in," Lu Zhe said truthfully.
"Oh, there's a problem with the badge, I'll take a look," Odys said, holding out his hand.
Lu Zhe gave him Ya Yan's badge, Odysse squinted his eyes for a while, and was suddenly shocked, and said in shock: This is the badge of Danfu. He turned his head to look at Ya Xia, who was angry, looked at Ya Xuan in dismay, and hurriedly handed the alchemist badge in his hand to Ya Xuan, and said: The old man doesn't know that he is from the Dan Mansion, and he asks the girl to forgive him.
Ya Yan took the badge and said, "The old gentleman still knows a lot, but your subordinates are too blind!" After speaking, she glared fiercely at the sword-wielding guard.
"Yes, yes, it's the old man who is not strict with the discipline, and the old man has made amends to the girl," Odeus said as he bowed.
"Forget it, forgive you for the sake of my father-in-law's sake. What are you waiting for? won't let us in?" she said.
"Yes, yes, please come in" Odyssey waved his hand, and the guards immediately stood on both sides of the gate, respectfully welcoming Lu Zheya and Odys in.
Lu Zhe was directly invited by Odyssey to the VIP room on the top floor of the guild to rest, and Odyssey said: I'll go and report to the president first, you wait here for a while. And left.
Lu Zhe sat on the sofa, and Ya Yan walked around the VIP room, and said: I didn't expect the guild VIP room in such a remote place to be decorated quite well.
Lu Zhe smiled and said, "Senior sister, you told me a few days ago that as long as I win the championship of the regional alchemist conference, I can participate in the World Alchemist Conference, so when will this World Alchemist Conference be held?"
Ya Yan was fiddling with a pot of flowers, and after hearing Lu Zhe's question, Ya Yan said while fiddling with the leaves of the flowers: The World Alchemist Conference is held by the Dan Mansion every thirty years, the purpose is to discover those elite talents through the Guò Conference, the last conference was held just fifteen years ago, and the next one will be held fifteen years later.
Lu Zhe nodded thoughtfully, and then asked, "What prizes can the champion of the conference get?"
"Miracle medicine!" Ya Yan said something that made Lu Zhe feel stunned.
"What?," Lu Zhe's eyes widened in surprise.
"Of course, you don't want to think about what kind of force the World Alchemist Conference is held," Ya Yan said angrily, he really felt helpless about this lonely little junior brother.
"Isn't it held in Dan Mansion? By the way, what's going on in Danfu?" Lu Zhe thought for a moment. Asked.
Ya Yan straightened up and turned around and walked towards Lu Zhe. Then he sat next to Lu Zhe and snuggled in Lu Zhe's arms, and said: Danfu is the holy land of all alchemists on this continent, and you will naturally understand when you go there in the future.
Lu Zhe nodded, and at this moment, the door of the VIP room suddenly opened, and Bai Wenbo hurriedly walked in and saluted Ya Xuan, and said: The old man is Bai Wenbo, the president of this Alchemist Guild, and he didn't know that the envoy of the Dan Mansion was coming, and he was disappointed. Please also forgive your sins.
Looking at Bai Wenbo who was so polite, Lu Zhe was stunned for a long time, he is the president of the Alchemist Guild, even if the emperor comes today, he will not be so polite, what's wrong today?
Ya Yan stood up and waved at Bai Wenbo, and said, "I am not the envoy of Danfu, I am here to cheer for my father-in-law this time."
Bai Wenbo looked at Lu Zhe and then at Ya Xuan, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said: I see. In that case, please sit in the old man's study.
Ya Yan nodded, pulled up Lu Zhe, who looked surprised, and walked towards Bai Wenbo's study.
When he came to Bai Wenbo's study, Bai Wenbo instructed his subordinates to hurriedly make tea for Lu Zhe and Ya Xuan. Lu Zhe sat down, looked at Bai Wenbo, and said with a smile: President Bai. I haven't seen you for a year, and you're still old.
Bai Wenbo smiled and waved his hand, and said: How can there be any majesty. I'm going to have a stroke, I'm getting old. It's not as good as you young people. By the way, you came back this time to attend the Alchemist Conference?
Lu Zhe nodded and said, "That's right, I did come this time to participate in the Alchemist Conference. The purpose of my visit to you this time is to learn about the competition system of this alchemist conference in advance, so that I can prepare.
Bai Wenbo nodded and said: It's okay or not, in fact, the system of this conference is very simple, and the time of the competition is one month.
"So long?" Lu Zhe said in surprise.
Bai Wenbo said with a smile: Don't worry, listen to what I have to say. In fact, this is the case, the Alchemist Conference is jointly held by many countries in the southwest of the mainland, there are four places to hold this conference, our country is not among the venues, the conference is divided into five times, the first four are knockouts, and the fifth is the championship and runner-up competition.
"Are there any restrictions or entry requirements for this conference?" Lu Zhe asked.
Bai Wenbo continued: Yes, the entry requirements for this competition are that the participants cannot be higher than five tripods and not less than two tripods.
"Then how many contestants are there?" Lu Zhe asked.
"So far, there have been more than 2,000 people who have signed up in our country alone, and it is said that some of the other countries have already broken through the 10,000 mark, so it seems that this alchemist conference is very interesting," Bai Wenbo said with a smile.
"So many, no wonder it takes a month to hold it," Lu Zheyi said in surprise when he heard that there were so many people.
"There are four places where the tournament will be held, and you can only play the final if you win one of those four places," Bai explained.
"What about the questions for the competition?" Lu Zhe asked.
Bai Wenbo shook his hand with a smile and said, "Boy, I can't sue you for this." But what I can tell you is that there are four questions, and each question is then selected into a competition venue, so it's useless for me to sue you.
Lu Zhe nodded and said embarrassedly: I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked. By the way, what about the timing of the game?
"There will be a game in the morning, a game in the afternoon, the morning is the hour, the afternoon is the early hour, and it will be assigned immediately after you sign up," Bai Wenbo said.
"The process of the competition is that it is a collective knockout competition at the beginning, then an individual competition, and finally a championship and runner-up competition," Bai Wenbo explained to Lu Zhe little by little.
"Still have questions?" Bai Wenbo asked.
"No," Lu Zhe said.
"Okay, if there is no problem, then you can sign up with me," Bai Wenbo said. After speaking, he took out a piece of paper from his side and handed it to Lu Zhe.
Lu Zhe took the paper and looked at it, and found that it was a form, which was the kind of form that must be filled in before the competition, Lu Zhe took the brush from the side and filled it out and handed it to Bai Wenbo, Bai Wenbo found that there was no problem after checking, and said: Very good, remember not to be late then, if you are late, you will be disqualified directly.
Lu Zhe nodded and said, "I understand, if it's okay, we'll leave first."
Bai Wenbo nodded with a smile and said, "Please."
After Lu Zhe and Ya Di left, Odesi walked up to Bai Wenbo and said, "Lao Bai, what do you think about this?"
"What do you think about it?" Bai Wenbo asked rhetorically.
"That's the girl," Odysse asked.
"You said that girl named Ya Xuan," Bai Wenbo asked.
Odyssey nodded and said, "What do you think she's here for?"
"Didn't she say it, she came to cheer for his father-in-law," Bai Wenbo said with a smile.
Odeus also smiled and said: Do you think Lu Zhe Xiaoyou will really be his father-in-law?
"What's impossible, you see how talented they are," Bai Wenbo said with a smile. But Odyssey shook his head and said seriously: I don't think the purpose of this girl's coming here is so simple. After speaking, he and Bai Wenbo glanced at each other, and the study was quiet again.
Lu Zhe came downstairs after leaving Bai Wenbo's study, and as soon as the two of them got downstairs, Lu Zhe heard a burst of exclamations around him. The male alchemists were all impressed by Ya Xuan's fairy-like beauty. After hearing the exclamations around her, Ya Yan suddenly hugged Lu Zhe tightly, and said with a smile: Xianggong, where are we staying tonight?
Lu Zhe thought for a while and said, "Let's stay in the guest house."
"Well, listen to you," she said, and then the little bird was next to Lu Zhe's shoulder.
"Can you not hug me so tightly, I'm about to be shot to death by other people's eyes" Lu Zhe felt the envious and jealous eyes around him, and said helplessly.
"I don't," Ya Xuan said word by word. She is firm and will not change her mind once she has made up her mind.
"Hey" Lu Zhe sighed, and then walked out. (To be continued......)