Chapter 836: The convention begins
Sect’s Three Great Conventions that everybody had awaited for was finally here.
The meeting process had been posted, all the students knew, today was the competition of alchemists, thus they already went to the outdoor square behind sect’s mountain early.
A high tower was temporarily built in the middle of the outdoor square, with a furnace on top. The viewing platform surrounded the outdoor square, with a platform at the front for the chairman, the height of the platform was higher than the temporary tower.
When Sima You Yue dragged both Han Miao Shuang and Su Xiao Xiao, Fatty Qu and companion were already seated at the viewing platform. Seeing 3 of them walking in, Fatty waved to them.
Sima You Yue brought them up, with the seats reserved for them.
“You guys are late, if no one was reserving the seat, you guys would have to stand downstairs to watch.”
Sima You Yue smiled, “I knew you would reserve the seat for us. If we came earlier, there’d be nothing for us to do.”
Han Miao Shuang saw over ten thousand people in the outdoor square, with the viewing platform almost full, and there were still half of the people standing downstairs.
“So many people!”
“This is my first time seeing such a magnificent sight in the sect.” Su Xiao Xiao sighed.
“Senior, have you never attended before?”
“There were Three Great Conventions when I joined. But I didn’t attend it at that time, and I wasn’t in the sect. So I have never seen it before.” said Su Xiao Xiao.
“Three Great Conventions only happen once in ten years, Xiao Xiao only joined eighteen years ago, so he never really attended before. ” Han Miao Shuang continued, ” Usually people who are closed, close themselves off, those that are outside, will be outside. They only get together when there are Three Great Conventions.”
“As a result, this is the sect’s rare occasion.” Sima You Yue looked at the hundreds of furnaces, estimating the number of internal sect’s alchemists, and asked: “Are all the alchemists joining the competitions?”
“Yes!”
“Are all the topics the same for high and low levels?”
“Of course not!” Fatty Qu said, “Ouyang and the rest said, the front row is free play, the few rows at the back are used by grade seven alchemists, further back rows are used by grade six alchemists.”
“What’s the difference between the first and last row?” Sima You Yue puzzled.
“Those are for grade eight and nine alchemists.”
“There’s grade eight and grade nine alchemists?” Sima You Yue’s eyes widened, ” At that grade, they can be teachers?”
“You can say that, but reportedly, almost no one has used that row before.” Wei Zi Qi said, “After all, for those who are still students, it is nearly impossible for them to become grade 8 alchemists. But it is said that someone achieved it before, that’s why that row remains there.”
There’s a rule in the inner sect, that regardless of occupations or identity, one can only stay here for up to four hundred years. After four hundred years, once will automatically be considered as a graduate.
At this point, all the alchemists in competition drew a slip of paper from two boxes, revealed the paper to teachers at the side, and walked to the front of the corresponding furnace.
