Chapter 107 The Fifth Alchemist Conference
Just as Yao Yan was preparing to refine the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire, the Fifth Alchemist Conference held in the Holy City of the Gama Empire entered the final day of the competition.

In the Royal Square.

Alchemists who were rarely seen in the past are now gathered here like an army, waiting for the birth of a champion. In addition, there are many powerful people from various forces watching, trying to select suitable talents for recruitment or investment.

For all parties, the Alchemist Conference is a grand talent recruitment conference, where they can judge the talent and strength of others through their performance.

Anyone who performs well will inevitably be sought after by all parties.

The alchemists who can enter the square today are all elites who have been strictly selected by the conference. At this moment, this group of people are sitting cross-legged and adjusting their condition. Most of the alchemists who can persist to the last round are strong and have strong willpower. No one wants to leave sadly in this last round of assessment because of a small mistake.

"Boom~"

A clear bell sounded throughout the square.

The location of the high-stage VIP seats.

Fa Ma, the president of the Gama Empire Alchemist Guild, walked forward slowly, looking down at the people below with a calm gaze. As the noise around him gradually stopped, his old and gentle voice rang in everyone's ears: "Everyone, today's assessment will be the last round of the conference, and the final winner will be the champion of this conference. So, for your efforts, go all out today!"

As his words fell, the atmosphere in the entire square instantly reached a climax, and a deafening roar reached the sky.

In the center of the square, a man in a linen robe looked at the medicine cauldron in front of him with a firm and solemn gaze. He firmly believed that today would be the day for him, Gu He, to become famous, and he would not let his more than ten years of hard training go to waste!

As Fa Ma announced the rules of the final round of competition, the alchemists below lit their medicine cauldrons one after another and began to make pills.

Fa Ma slowly turned around and sat back in his seat. Sitting next to him were Jia Xingtian, the emperor of the Jia Ma Empire, and Yun Shan, the patriarch of Yun Lan Mountain. Both of them were powerful men at the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Huang realm, and their identities and status were not much different. They were also old acquaintances of Fa Ma, and the three of them could be regarded as old guys of the same generation.

Jia Xingtian stroked his goatee, his slightly shrewd eyes flickering. He glanced at Fa Ma and chuckled, "In the blink of an eye, the Alchemist Conference you founded has already been held for the fifth time. Now, even the surrounding countries have heard of this title. I'm sure the next one will be even more popular!"

"Haha, this is all thanks to the help of the Jia Ma Empire. Otherwise, the Alchemist Guild alone would not have been able to make it this far."

Fa Ma said with a smile, he looked so old that it made people worry that he would collapse.

Jia Xingtian sighed softly, as if lamenting the passing of time: "I only provided convenience. The success of the event is also due to your own ability. However, time flies so fast. Another eight years have passed."

The Alchemist Conference is held every eight years, and its scale is getting bigger and bigger each time. I vaguely remember that at the first Alchemist Conference, there were only a few dozen people coming, but now the number has reached nearly a thousand people. Almost all the alchemists in the Gama Empire have participated, and even alchemists from neighboring countries have heard of it.

"Time has indeed passed quickly. Eight years have passed in the blink of an eye... Unfortunately, our strength has not improved at all. The barrier between Dou Huang and Dou Zong is really despairing."

Yunshan, who had remained silent, slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were clear and bright. With his white hair and youthful face, he did not look much old, but there was a hint of helplessness in his tone. He had been stuck at the peak of the Nine-Star Douhuang for too long. It was not a few years, but decades, or even nearly a hundred years.

Compared to Yunshan, Jia Xingtian is not much inferior. Both of them were famous geniuses when they were young. Even Jia Xingtian was able to establish the Gama Empire thanks to the help of the Yunlan Sect.

But as time goes by, the talented young boys have now become two old guys who are about to return to the grave.

"Dou Zong..."

There was a hint of yearning in Jia Xingtian's eyes, but it was just yearning after all. Dou Huang and Dou Zong were two completely different realms. The barrier between the two was enough to make countless geniuses despair. It was rumored that in the prosperous Zhongzhou, only Dou Zong could be regarded as a true strong man.

Fa Ma remained silent. He had no idea about breaking through to the Dou Zong level because his talent for practicing Dou Qi was not that strong. The only reason he could possess the strength of the Dou Huang level was thanks to his identity as a fifth-rank alchemist. As for breaking through further, given his age and talent, his hope in this lifetime was slim.

Rather than cultivating his fighting spirit, he hoped to train a few more talented alchemists in his lifetime.

At this moment, Yunshan suddenly said, "After this conference, I will be in seclusion and will not come out until I break through to Douzong. After that, I will hand over all the affairs of Yunlan Sect to Yunyun, and she will succeed me as the new leader of Yunlan Sect."

This one sentence made Jia Xingtian and Fa Ma stunned. They immediately looked at the cold woman beside Yunshan. The other person had a calm and elegant look, like a person in a painting.

Yunshan continued, "Yun Yun has good talent and a calm temperament. If she is in charge of Yunlan Mountain, there will be no conflict with the Jiama Empire. In this way, I can retreat with peace of mind, and you, the old man, can also rest assured."

After saying this, he looked at Jia Xingtian with a teasing look. It was obvious that he knew exactly what was going on in the mind of this "old friend" of his, but he had never bothered to argue with him in the past.

Because Yunshan has always been very clear that in the Douqi Continent, strength is respected, and all conspiracies and tricks are nothing in the face of absolute strength. Once he really breaks through to the Douzong level, can the Jia Ma Empire still stop the rise of the Yunlan Sect?
"I know what you mean. Don't worry, the Jia Ma Empire and the Yun Lan Sect will remain in their current state."

Jia Xingtian was silent for a while, and said slowly that he would not stop Yunshan from his death retreat. As for whether the other party would break through to the Dou Zong level... If it was before, he might be a little worried, but now that he has got in touch with Yao Yan, the genius alchemist, the threat posed by Yunlanshan to him no longer exists.

Yunshan hesitated for a moment, then changed the subject: "Where did Hai Bodong go?"

He planned to meet Hai Bodong again and say hello to him before he went into seclusion. As Yun Yun's teacher, how could he leave a mess for him? Yun Yun was only at the level of a seven-star Dou Wang now, so there were some things he had to plan ahead of time.

Jia Xingtian's eyes moved slightly, and he was about to change the subject, but suddenly he felt a cold breath from a distance, like ice, and the other party was approaching rapidly at an extremely fast speed.

Yunshan and Fama also felt this familiar breath.

Fa Ma said with a smile: "Isn't it here~"

Those squinting eyes opened a little and stared at the figure rushing from the distance. As a Douhuang powerhouse, his eyesight was naturally not bad.

"That's a bit of a commotion~" Jia Xingtian said helplessly, with a little more confusion in his eyes. He felt that Hai Bodong's arrival would leak the news about Yao Yan. If the old man Yunshan knew about Yao Yan's existence, given the other party's personality, he would definitely not continue to stay in seclusion.

Soon, Hai Bodong turned into a stream of light and landed on the platform. This sudden change naturally attracted a lot of people's attention, but after they discovered Hai Bodong's identity, they withdrew their gazes one after another.

The circle of Douhuang is obviously different from that of those below Douhuang.

This can be seen from the seats in the VIP seats.

Yunshan looked at Hai Bodong, who was full of vigor and vitality, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. When he felt the other party's aura, he couldn't help but ask, "You broke through?!"

"kindness."

Hai Bodong spoke briefly and glanced at the old guys present, with a smile on his face. He thought he would have to visit each house one by one, but he never thought it was such a coincidence that several of them came to participate in the Alchemist Conference. However, this was also good as it could save a lot of trouble.

Fa Ma also looked at Hai Bodong, sniffed, opened his eyes slightly, and said in surprise: "You still have a slight medicinal scent on you, what kind of elixir do you have?"

As a senior fifth-grade alchemist, his soul power is pretty good and his sense of smell is sharp. He can clearly smell the smell on Hai Bodong. The mixed medicinal fragrance on the other person's body is quite strong, but Hai Bodong is not an alchemist, so where does this medicinal fragrance come from?
Hai Bodong did not play dumb, he leaned on the high platform and chatted with several people in a lazy manner, including Yao Yan's age, talent, background, strength, etc. After finishing all this, he continued: "Now this young man wants to form a force, starting with the Snake People and the Gama Empire. The Snake People have already joined, and the only one left is the Gama Empire."

Wait until he finishes speaking.

Fa Ma was the first to hold back and questioned, "A sixth-rank alchemist under the age of seventeen? Hai Bodong, are you sure?!"

His eyes were already open, staring at Hai Bodong very seriously, feeling an indescribable stimulation, as if all the alchemy skills he had practiced for nearly a hundred years had been used on a dog. Even though he knew that there were geniuses in this world, this genius could not be exaggerated to this extent.

"Don't believe it? Then you can ask Jia Xingtian."

Hai Bodong was very satisfied with Fa Ma's attitude. He smiled playfully and looked at the old guy Jia Xingtian.

Jia Xingtian was stared at by several people and fell silent. After a moment, he slowly said, "It should be true. Although I have never seen him refine pills, Hai Bodong's sudden improvement in strength and what happened to the snake people have already explained something."

Yunshan twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking of Jia Xingtian who had remained silent before. He suspected that if he went into seclusion this time, the old man Jia Xingtian would keep the matter secret.

"A genius alchemist from Zhongzhou?"

Fa Ma said bitterly, and with his eyes open he looked down at the Alchemist Conference in full swing, and suddenly he felt an indescribable sense of powerlessness. Compared to Yao Yan, these 'young alchemists' below, who were almost thirty years old, became extremely ridiculous, and the strongest among them was only at the fourth rank.

If they knew about Yao Yan's deeds, perhaps many of them would give up the art of alchemy.

Hai Bodong shook his head, his eyes showing some melancholy and complexity, and whispered: "More than a genius, he is simply a monster. To be precise, he should be seventeen years old now. I saw him become a Dou Ling from a Great Dou Master. Before leaving, he had already cultivated to a Seven-Star Dou Ling. It is estimated that in another month or two, after he refines the strange fire, he will be able to break through to the Dou King. And this is only his Dou Qi level. The most exaggerated is his physical strength. With his physical body alone, he can withstand the attack of Queen Medusa head-on and remain undefeated!"

People like Yao Yan are a blow to other people, a blow in all aspects!

Yun Yun's thin lips were tightly pursed at this moment, and her fists were clenched. Her previous calm state of mind, which allowed her to face everything with ease, now became turbulent after hearing Hai Bodong's words.

She was also described as a genius by her teacher.

But now, compared with Yao Yan, she felt so ridiculous.

Her previous confidence and arrogance suddenly became insignificant. Now at the age of 24, she has just cultivated to the level of Seven-Star Dou Wang, while Yao Yan mentioned by Hai Bodong is about to enter the Dou Wang level at the age of 17, and the other party is also a sixth-grade alchemist. The gap is really despairing.

Yunshan was silent. He knew what this meant. If everything was really as Hai Bodong said, and the young man named Yao Yan had such a terrifying talent, then joining him would undoubtedly be a great opportunity. But the premise of all this was that Yao Yan really possessed such talent and background. This matter was related to the future of the entire Yunlan Sect. He would not just listen to Hai Bodong's words.

At least he has to wait until he meets Master Yaoyan before he can make a decision.

Jia Xingtian was also silent and did not agree directly. As the emperor of the Jia Ma Empire, how could he be willing to be someone's "minor", especially since Yao Yan did not have the strength to crush everything at present. Everything he had was just talent. How could he be willing to accept the other party's plan to subjugate the entire Jia Ma Empire with just a few words?

Rather than joining the other party directly, maintaining friendship may be a good choice.

"If he really has the talent you said, I can let him take over the position of president of the Alchemist Guild."

Fa Ma was the purest of the three. He stared at Hai Bodong with burning eyes and said in a deep voice that as long as Yao Yan could prove his alchemy skills, it would matter if the entire Alchemist Guild was given to Yao Yan. The Alchemist Guild did not belong to anyone, and alchemists would only obey people with better alchemy skills than themselves!
"It's okay. Think about it slowly. When he comes out of seclusion, he will probably meet you. Then, he will offer you a price you can't refuse, such as the Po Zong Dan."

Hai Bodong took in the gazes of the three people and spoke softly.

Po Zong Dan!
Just three short words made Jia Xingtian and Yunshan hold their breath. For the strong men at the peak of the Nine-Star Douhuang level, the Breaking Sect Pill had a fatal attraction. Especially for these old guys, it represented breakthrough and longevity.

At this moment, the few of them no longer had any interest in the Alchemist Conference below. Even Gu He, who performed extremely well, could not attract their attention at all.

Several people were attracted by a name!

Medicine words!

(End of this chapter)