Chapter 49: The Five Elders
The twenty-ninth of the winter month arrived as scheduled.
The day of the birth of the medical saint Zhang Jing was also the time when the alchemist conference was grandly held.
Yaowang Town was boiling early in the morning, and there were a sea of people, all rushing towards Feixian Valley.
Feixian Valley is also the residence of the Alchemist Association and the place where the Alchemist Conference fights the Dan.
The alchemists who come and go from the south to the north and the tourists who join in the excitement all want to witness this grand occasion.
Before sunrise, Doudan Square was already crowded with people, as if they were afraid of missing it.
Every square is guarded by two spiritual masters at intervals to maintain order.
The five elders of the Alchemist Association, as well as more than a dozen branch elders of the association, poured out of the nest.
Every year, the alchemist conference has to carry out this link: worship heaven and earth and the medical saint immortals.
The ceremony is very cumbersome, with shrines placed under the stone statues of the medical saints and tributes prepared.
The Great Elder personally danced the sword, like a divine stick, to comfort God and the medical saint.
Then it was the recitation aloud of the teachings of the former medical saints.
It is kneeling again, and it is incense again.
When prostrating, all the alchemists are to do the same.
Yun Qian was not interested in these red tapes, and his eyes searched the crowd and found several familiar faces.
Xuanyuan Chun and Nie Lingling obviously passed by her, and they glanced at each other, but they all looked like they didn't know each other, and even had a prelude expression on their faces that they were cheap and obedient.
"Sister Liang......"
Yun Qian's eyes lit up, and when she saw that Liang Shushen was also in front of her, she shouted at her.
Liang Shushen glanced at her cautiously and ignored her, obviously angry yet.
What a lovely, lovely-hated person!
Yun Qian couldn't cry or laugh, but he appreciated Liang Shushen more.
"Hey, old woman, you've stepped on my foot!" Yun Qian's ears came with a milky voice, only then did he find that he was stepping on something, the people were too crowded, he accidentally stepped on the child in front of him, and moved his shoes away apologetically: "Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!" ”
But when she saw clearly the big black and white eyes, and the small face carved in pink and jade, Yun Qian recognized that the child who was trampled on was Su Ci.
She hurriedly grabbed Su Ci's little hand, walked out of the crowd, and told him in the tone of an elder: "There are many fish and dragons here, how dangerous it is for you to follow me all the time, what if you are abducted?" ”
Su Ci gave Yun Qian a big roll of his eyes, opened her hand holding her shoulder, the corners of his mouth were crooked, and he looked at her with disgust: "Old woman, don't be sentimental, master, I'm here to see the excitement, who wants to follow you!" ”
As he spoke, he slipped into the crowd.
This bear child, I really don't know what to do!
Yun Qian almost had a crooked nose, and his kindness was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs, which was really uncomfortable.
She followed behind Su Ci, although she was bickering with each other, but a little kid was helpless, and Yun Qian didn't want to see him suffer an accident under his nose.
Su Ci saw Yun Qian coming over, but he just pouted and didn't resist.
"Do you know all the five elders of the Alchemist Association?"
"Hmm~ I've never seen it!"
"In the middle is the Great Elder Bai Guyi, who is also the founder of the association, he is already a hundred years old, with a childish face and a spirit like a young man, and the other four elders are his apprentices."
Someone in the crowd was pointing at the elders of the association and talking.
Yun Qian eavesdropped while looking at the field.
"The second elder, that is, the senior brother Huang Tingshu, is in his late teens, always has a bitter gourd face, and he looks like he has suffered from the world's diseases, his eyes are above the top, he never accepts apprentices, and he is also the only one among the four senior brothers who has no inheritance."
"Third Elder Fan Shengtian, tall and strong, hot-tempered......"
"The fourth elder is that Humpty Dumpty, named Zhu Yan, with a fat head and big ears, and a harmonious ......."
"The five elders are tall and big, thin bamboo poles, rosacea, and a wine barrel......"
Yun Qian listened and compared the appearance of those old men, and he really said it very vividly.
The five leaders of the Alchemist Association, the old naughty boy Bai Guyi, the senior brother Huang Tingshu has a stubborn personality and is an old stubborn, the second senior brother Fan Shengtian is a fierce Zhang Fei, the third senior brother Zhu Yan is a good old man with a fat head and big ears, and the fourth senior brother is unreliable when he drinks and makes mistakes.
Yun Qian found it interesting, the five elders of the Alchemist Association were really thousands of people, and they were all different.
After about half an hour, the ceremony was completed.
"Ignition!" Great Elder Bai Guyi shouted, and the sound was like a bell, and the entire valley reverberated endlessly.
Everyone was also shocked by this shout, and this sound fell from the sky like thunder, which showed that Bai Guyi's spiritual power cultivation had far exceeded the Bigu period.
The five elders lifted the hem of their robes at the same time and walked up the stairs towards the Dou Dan Terrace.
Doudantai, located in the center of the square, is about five zhang high, and stone steps are built on all sides for climbing.
This Doudantai is said to be the place where the medical saint Zhang Jing and the master of the same level fought Dan, and it has been repaired many times in the past hundred years, and it still remains the same.
Today, Doudantai serves as the place where the Alchemist Conference opens and ignites the spiritual fire, as well as the place where the last round of the Alchemist Conference competes.
"Whoa", a purple-red firework ignited at Bai Guyi's fingertips.
"Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" Crash! ”
The other four elders also casually lit the spiritual fire, and the four flames of red, blue, yellow, and green also burst out from their fingertips.
The five elders ascended the Doudan platform and lit the five torches around the stone platform.
"The Alchemist Conference has officially begun," Bai Guyi stood on the five-zhang high Dou Dan Platform and announced downward: "Please go to the examiner at the entrance of the square to register for the first round of screening!" ”
At the entrance, just below the stone statue of the Doctor Saint.
There were already sixteen elites of the associations sitting on their chairs to register, and on the left and right stood spiritual masters with long swords, ready to deal with sudden changes.
There are tens of thousands of people coming and going from the south to the north, and there are two or three thousand alchemists who come to sign up.
The examiner in charge of screening is also very busy.
Bai Guyi's voice resounded throughout the valley again: "Everyone don't be impatient, the old man will talk about the first round of screening rules first, there are too many people to check one by one, and please check yourself first, and those who meet the conditions will come forward to register, so as not to add unnecessary trouble." ”
His voice raised again: "Please alchemists with spiritual fire, register in turn!" ”
Now the chaotic crowd has become orderly.
The crowd that turned out to be impassable was divided into two groups at once.
Two or three thousand alchemists were reduced to two or three hundred in an instant.
The examiner's task has also been sharply reduced by ninety.
The first round of screening is also very simple, you only need to be able to light a spiritual fire at your fingertips to pass.
It took half an hour to write the name and origin.
In the second round, the recipe is submitted.
It is said to test the dispensing ability of young alchemists, but in fact, the alchemist association openly collects the secret recipes of alchemists.
Of course, these alchemists are also very shrewd and will not contribute the secret methods passed down from their families.
In the second round, half of the bastards that did not understand pharmacology were brushed off......