Oak Empire, the imperial city of Yanyang.

In the council hall of the Zhou family of the instrument clan, Zhou Shixiong sat on the main seat, looked up at the six elders of the family and the outstanding juniors of the family below, and said in a deep voice: "Elders, the Holy Lord issued an edict ten days ago, the Imperial City Instrument Master Selection Contest will be held in three days, I hope that a few elders can nominate the most outstanding juniors of the family to participate in the selection competition, and our Instrument Clan must shine in this year's Instrument Master Conference!"

Several elders of the Zhou family nodded their heads again and again when they heard this, expressing their agreement.

Great Elder Zhou Cang glanced at the juniors of the Zhou family sitting under the high platform, and said with a smile: "Family Master, my Zhou family has been based on alchemy since ancient times, and there are many talents in the family, I heard that Fei Fei has made a great breakthrough in alchemy compared to before after Shijie's guidance during this time, I think the first place in this selection competition will probably be Fei Fei's!"

This Fei Fei is naturally referring to Zhou Feifei, a genius girl of the instrument clan, twenty-three years old, a genuine fourth-level instrument master, and the first person in the entire imperial city to refine weapons!

Several elders of the Zhou family also agreed with the inference of the Great Elder Zhou Cang, Zhou Feifei was the first person of the younger generation in the imperial city, there was no doubt about this, even Zhou Feifei's two genius brothers, Zhou Lingran and Zhou Yi, were only third-level instrument masters in their first years!

Zhou Shixiong glanced at Zhou Feifei, who was sitting below, his eyes were full of relief, he was indeed convinced of the words of the Great Elder Zhou Cang!

"Last time, Fei Fei relied on the strength of the third-level instrument master to achieve the ninety-seventh place in the Guyin Dynasty Young Instrumentainist Conference, and now the alchemy has broken through the third-level one year ago and became a fourth-level instrument, I believe that this time I will go to the Guyin Dynasty again and enter the top fifty, I am afraid it will definitely not be a problem!" said the second elder of the Zhou family with a thumbs up.

Zhou Shixiong laughed when he heard this, and his face was full of pride: "Yes, yes, there have been many years in our Orke Empire that no artist has been able to enter the top fifty of the Young Instrument Master Conference! It's a pity that Awe-in-Ran and Yi'er are now past the age of participation, otherwise the top ten places in the Imperial City Selection Competition in three days will definitely be taken up by our instrument clan!"

Hearing this, the third elder said loudly: "I see, in today's selection competition, the first place is naturally Fei Fei's, and the second place is naturally Zhou Feng's, Feng'er is now the peak of the second-level instrument master, and there is still one step to break through to the third-level instrument master, and there are a few people in this imperial city who can catch up!"

Hearing this, the Sixth Elder nodded and continued: "I heard that Lin Qing, that old fellow, has registered all three of his apprentices this year, and it seems that he is still full of hope, and he is ready to let his three apprentices enter the top ten, so that he can go to the Guyin Dynasty to participate in the Young Instrument Master Conference!"

When the family leaders heard this, they all burst into laughter, as if they had heard a joke.

Zhou Shixiong sneered and said: "Lin Qing's big apprentice is as stupid as a buffalo, and he doesn't know what kind of shit luck he has taken, and he has become a second-level instrument master, and now he also wants to go to the Guyin Dynasty to try it, it's really beyond his strength! Although his second apprentice is a little smart, but his talent is limited, and he can't become a climate! As for this third apprentice, no, when did Lin Qing's old guy have a third apprentice!"

Zhou Shijie, who had never spoken on the side, finally spoke at this time: "Big brother, do you know that the most popular descendant of the Dan family in the imperial city is Lin Qing's third apprentice!"

"Is it him?" Zhou Shixiong's face suddenly became a little unnatural, for some reason, Zhou Shixiong always seemed to be a little jealous of the thin young man.

"The descendants of the pharmacist family, why did they run away to learn refining weapons, doesn't that old guy in Danqing care?" Zhou Shixiong frowned and felt a little strange.

However, the Great Elder Zhou Cang laughed out loud when he heard this, and said nonchalantly: "The head of the family is too worried, I have already investigated, that Dan Xuan is now just a first-level artifact, and he can occasionally successfully refine one or two second-order mysterious weapons, that is still on the premise of hitting the great luck, this time the artifact selection competition, even if he participates, at best, he is a clown who jumps off the beam, and he is not enough to worry about!"

Zhou Shixiong finally let go of the worry in his heart when he heard this, and said with a smile: "The Great Elder is really meticulous, since this is the case, in this empire, there is no one who can stop my weapon clan from shining brightly, hahaha......"

Zhou Shixiong laughed heartily, and the other high-ranking Zhou family members also laughed heartily.

Under the high platform, Zhou Feifei glanced at her smiling father and several elders on the high platform, but there was a feeling of insecurity in her heart, this feeling was the first time Zhou Feifei had encountered it when she was so old, and she herself had counted the young artists in the entire empire from beginning to end, and indeed no one could threaten her first place position in this selection competition, but where did this feeling of insecurity come from?

Zhou Shijie saw that Zhou Feifei had something on his mind, slowly sat down next to Zhou Feifei, and asked in a deep voice, "Fei'er, what's the matter?"

Zhou Feifei came back to her senses, smiled, and said: "Uncle Jiu, I'm fine! What kind of fire control techniques you taught me some time ago helped me a lot, I believe that this time in the selection competition, there should be no problem in winning the first place! Three months later, the Guyin Dynasty Instrument Master Competition, strive to enter the top fifty and win glory for the family!"

"Okay! Good ambition! Don't worry, you are the most talented young man Uncle Nine has ever seen, better than Uncle Nine when he was young, no one in this imperial city can surpass you!" Zhou Shijie stroked Zhou Feifei's head lovingly, his eyes full of appreciation.

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On the official road ten miles outside the imperial city of Yanyang, Dan Xuan, Yuan Yupeng and a pair of young men and women and a fierce uncle rode hand in hand.

Dan Xuan looked ahead, looked at the fierce uncle beside him, and said, "Master Cui, we should arrive at the Imperial City in half a day's journey!"

The fierce uncle who was called Cui Artifact Master by Dan Xuan was Cui Jian, the first Instrument Master in Yongcheng, and a pair of young men and women beside him were his two best apprentices.

Cui Jianjian raised his eyebrows, glanced at the road ahead, nodded and said: "Along the way, I haven't asked you yet, I see that you are dressed like a scholar, I don't know which profession you do?"

Dan Xuan was stunned, but he thought in his heart that he had so many professions, including mysteries, pharmacists, physicians, pianists, chess players, instrumentalists, etc., Dan Xuan really didn't know which profession he belonged to.

After thinking about it for a while, Dan Xuan felt that he didn't say anything about his profession, so he replied: "It's just a gentleman in the imperial city!"

Hearing the word, Cui Jian's two apprentices glanced at Dan Xuan, the young man was okay and smiled at Dan Xuan, but the girl, as if she had a grudge against Dan Xuan, had a cold iceberg beauty face, and glanced at Dan Xuan disdainfully, as if she was very disgusted. Dan Xuan hadn't seen this girl smile along the way, and thought that it might be that he was about to participate in the Instrument Selection Competition.

Dan Xuan didn't care either, and asked with some curiosity: "Master Cui, you seem to be very confident that your two apprentices will participate in the Instrument Master Selection Competition in the Imperial City this time, I don't know what level of Instrument Master the two of them are now?"