I have to say that Ye Gang's series of actions are quite effective. All of a sudden, all kinds of open and secret battles in the martial arts hall have converged a lot. Everyone's main energy was focused on facing the Xianmen Dabi. The atmosphere in the hall showed unprecedented tension and unity.

This is a good thing for Shen Yun. Although there were many more errands than before, he also had a lot fewer small actions to deal with. He would rather do more than waste his mind and energy on boring and useless fights.

It's really a rare good time since entering the Yanwu Hall.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, time flies, and in a flash, the fairy gate is close at hand.

Historically, the Xianmen Grand Contest has been held by the ten major sects in turn. This year's Xianmen Dabi is just the turn of Yujinmen to host. As in previous editions, the Immortal Sect Elders Association officially sent out invitations to all sects under its sect a month in advance.

Strictly speaking, Yuntian Yanwutang is also under the Immortal Gate. In addition, Taiyang Zhenjun operated well beforehand, so they also received an invitation letter.

Since then, this Xianmen competition has actually started in full swing.

In principle, the Xianmen Dabi is invited by the Council of Elders, and all sects voluntarily sign up to participate. Therefore, receiving the invitation letter does not mean that you will be able to participate in this Xianmen competition. The first thing each sect needs to do is to reply to the letter, clearly expressing their intention to participate and which categories they want to participate in.

The category of Xianmen Dabi has been fixed since the first session, and it has never been increased or decreased after more than 20 sessions.

First of all, it is divided into four competition areas according to the realm of cultivation, namely, the Qi Refining Area, the Foundation Building Area, the Jindan Area and the Yuanying Area.

Among them, the gas refining area, the foundation building area and the Jindan area are held in the form of a ring battle, which is divided into two stages: the preliminary round and the final round.

Among them, the preliminary round is divided into preliminaries and semi-finals.

In the preliminaries, all participants will be divided into groups by lottery, with 10 people in each group. Cultivating to the highest realm, for the master, if the remaining nine people are not satisfied, they will come to the stage one-on-one to snatch it. Each person has a maximum of one chance to grab, and they can also give up the grab. But if you give up, it means withdrawing from the preliminary round, that is, ending the schedule of this Xianmen Competition ahead of schedule.

In the preliminaries, only the champion will receive the reward and the place to participate in the semi-finals. The contestants who were eliminated in the preliminaries were equivalent to bringing their own dry food to compete, and they could not get anything except the taste of failure and the experience gained by random fate. Generally speaking, the small sects below the third rate who do not enter the stream, every time they participate in the Xianmen Competition, they basically stop at the preliminaries.

But because in the Xianmen Dabi, whether there are disciples in the sect who make it out of the preliminaries and enter the semi-finals is the only hard indicator to keep or be selected as a third-rate sect in the next ten years, so the enthusiasm of these small sects to participate is very high, and they bring their own dry food, and they are also happy to do it.

When it comes to the semi-finals, it is also a draw group, with ten people in each group. Lots will then be drawn, with two people per group, divided into five groups, for the first round of competition. The winner of each group advances to the second round of the competition.

This time, the five who failed were not eliminated directly. They have the opportunity to draw a "red and white lot".

There are a total of five "red and white sticks", one red and four white. Those who win the red lottery can also enter the second round of the competition. On the contrary, if you win the white lot, it means that you lose the last chance and end the schedule of this big competition.

Therefore, the second round of the competition was played with six participants. The format of the tournament is the same as in the first round, with the only difference being that the groups of the tournament are reduced to three. After the three group matches, the three losers also have a chance to draw a "red and white lot".

The three group winners, as well as the winner of the red draw, advance to the third round of the tournament. This means that only two contestants will be eliminated in the second round.

In the third round, there is still a draw, but it is no longer a group, but the order of the game is decided. It is a system of elimination. That is, the one who loses is directly out. The last person standing in the ring wins, and enters the final.

This time, there are no more "red and white signs". However, the participants in the first round, regardless of success or failure, will be rewarded accordingly. The number of rewards is naturally far greater than the number of defeats, and the higher the round, the more the rewards have doubled.

And whether the disciples can reach the finals is the difference between the third-rate sect and the second-rate sect. Because generally speaking, third-rate sects will be stopped outside the threshold of the finals.

The finals have always been a feast between the top ten schools and the first-class schools. And those second-rate sects, at most, one or two proud disciples in the sect were lucky enough to squeeze into this feast and go through the process in the first round, so they were at best the foil of this banquet.

The final is also divided into preliminaries and semi-finals. The format of the competition is the same as that of the preliminary round. The difference is that, on the one hand, the number of matches is much smaller, so the number of matches is also much less, and on the other hand, the rewards of the games are more generous.

This is undoubtedly a big opportunity for those low-level contestants who have reached the final stage. Therefore, in the past, the two competition areas of the Qi Refining Realm and the Foundation Building Realm have been crowded to the point of bursting. The Xianmen Elders Association had to allocate places according to the registration situation of each sect's reply letter, and strictly control the number of participants.

As for the game in the Yuanying area, it was much colder. First, because the number of participants is small, and secondly, if the ring competition is a martial arts competition, there is no ring in the Yuanying District, but a pulpit, which can be regarded as a literary competition.

That's right, the way of martial arts competition in the Yuanying District is to sit and talk. Therefore, it seems that it is far less lively than the other three divisions. But it is the most attractive area for onlookers in the past, and there is no one.

After Shen Yun learned about the competition system of the Xianmen Competition, he was also full of interest in the competition in the Yuanying District. However, this time, the Aoki faction did not receive an invitation from the Senmen Elders.

How can this be? Doesn't it mean that all the sects in the Xianmen will receive invitations? We are obviously also the sects in the Xianmen. It's just not in the stream. Shen Yun waited until the day before the deadline for replying to the letter, and wrote a letter to the Immortal Sect Elders.

The reply was quite fast, and Shen Yun received it the next morning.

It was a special teleportation talisman of the Immortal Sect Elders, turning into a golden light and flying in front of Shen Yun.

At that time, Shen Yun was with Ye Gang. It was time for the regular meeting of the deacons again, and the two of them met halfway through, so they went to the Eagle Garden together.

Ye Gang recognized it at a glance, this was the special messenger for the reply of the Immortal Gate Elders, and he smiled first: "Hmm, it is the reply of the Immortal Gate Elder Council." Then I'll go first. ”

This talisman has a characteristic, that is, when it arrives in front of the target person, as long as someone points out the five words "Xianmen Elders", as soon as the target person receives it, it will activate itself.

Moreover, this feature of it is still not disclosed to the public, and most people do not know about it.

He bet that Tu Baozi would definitely not be a different person in this matter. Otherwise, it's not really a bun.

Sure enough, Shen Yun didn't notice anything wrong, and while raising his hand to take the transmission talisman and holding it in his palm, he smiled and asked, "You ask ...... first."

Before he finished speaking, a slightly immature young man's voice came out of his palm: "The Immortal Sect Elders will reply to the Shen Sect Master, and the conditions for participating in the Xianmen Great Competition are, first, the Immortal Sect sects, and second, in the past ten years, at least six of the sects have paid the sect tax to the Immortal Sect. After investigation, the Aoki faction has not paid the sect tax in the past ten years, and does not meet the second condition. Therefore, it is not within the scope of the invitation of this Xianmen Competition. ”

Sect tax? Shen Yun was a little confused. No one ever told him about a sectarian tax.