Painting of the Nine Immortals

After sorting things out and making up his mind, Ling Xian stopped bothering himself with these stuff.

He slowly closed his eyes and calmed down like an old buddha. He entered into his training state where he didn’t take notice in anything around him.

With his current cultivation, training would have minimal benefits, but it still was better than doing nothing. Because of this, he calmed his emotions down and began to silently cultivate and wait for the gathering of the alchemists to start.

Just like that, time slipped by little by little.

As time went on, more and more people began to discuss and talk about the gathering of the alchemists. Many different cultivators from all over Yuezhou converged to this ancient city. Among them were alchemists who were ready to show off all their skills in the gathering of the alchemists. There were also many other alchemists who were merely here to witness how grand this gathering would be.

After all, this was a gathering hosted by the five clans, which meant the bar for quality was set at the highest possible.

Because of this, naturally this gathering attracted much attention.

Even though most people could not even participate, every time the gathering and competition went on, a mysterious treasure projected what was happening inside the Hidden Territory to the people outside. Therefore, many people liked to gather inside the City of Dan and watch the show.

Just like that, more and more people arrived to the City of Dan, and more news about the gathering began to circulate.

The most heated topic was, without a doubt, the predictions about the winner of the gathering.

As everyone was aware, there were five big clans in the City of Dan. All the descendants of these clans had amazing alchemy abilities and they represented the highest level of achievement in the entire Yuezhou.

Therefore, the named inheritors of these clans were, without a doubt, appointed the most likely victors.

Cao Yu from the Cao Clan, Zhao Ling Er from the Zhao Clan, Jun Qing Yang from the Jun Clan, Shang Guan Wu Yao from the Shang Guan Clan, and Hong Zhuang Luo from the Hong Clan.

These five had have displayed amazing talents in alchemy since a young age and were well known since they were just children. As time went on, they achieved more and more breakthroughs with alchemy. With their talents plus the five clan’s resources, they were trained to become the standards for the younger generation!

What did it mean by that they were the standards?

It meant every single one of them had unparalleled abilities with alchemy and were now the leaders of the younger generation. The underground news was that they were all alchemists of the sixth realm.

Being in the sixth realm was not impressive by itself, however, once this was considered together with their 20 year old age, then things got terrifying.

You should know that in the entire Yuezhou, there were very few alchemists who were over 20 and were of the sixth realm. They could be described as phoenix feathers!

Therefore, of course everyone from the City of Dan chose these five people to set the bar. They also silently guessed who would win the competition from this year’s gathering.

Of course, other than these five Heaven’s Favorites, there were also many other genius alchemists in Yuezhou. Their fame, however, could not be compared to the geniuses from the five clans despite their amazing abilities that were similar in level to the Clans’ geniuses.

After all, Yuezhou was a large place where many different types of people lived in. Other than the five controlling Clans, there were many other ones.

Those forces perhaps did not have as much power as the five clans, but they did not lack in wealth or resources. The inheritors they’d raised did not pale next to the other five.

Plus, above all, there existed a different kind of people in the Taoism community.

These people were the nomadic cultivators. They had no backgrounds, no resources, and might not even have cultivation achievements. However, they possessed a type of courage and determination most people didn’t have.

Perhaps it’s because they’d been through too much in life so they were better at treasuring what they had. Or perhaps because they had no resources, so they understood the importance of hard work.

As long as they grasped onto a opportunity, they would explode with an astonishing amount of energy. It wasn’t hard to imagine how terrifying a Heaven’s Favorite who used all their time training was.

Therefore, nobody dared to underestimate nomadic cultivators. Everyone thought that a black horse might appear out of this year’s gathering of the alchemists.

Other than the above described candidates for winners, there is another shining person that nobody could overlook.

Especially the citizens of the City of Dan. This person’s name had imprinted in their minds and nothing could eat it away.

They would never forget how 10 years ago, a young man arrived to the City of Dan. Fighting solo, he defeated 127 alchemists of the eighth realm!

That day, the young man stood in the middle of the field and with his eagle eyes, he glanced around and challenged if anyone dared to step ahead and duel him!

In other words, he had defeated all the alchemists inside the City of Dan. Or at the very least, he defeated all the eighth realm alchemists in the City of Dan.

Everyone knew that the alchemists in the City of Dan were of great caliber. The 127 alchemists who were of the same realm as him, were top talents of their generation and there were even experienced alchemists from the older generation!

Despite all their qualifications, they still lost under the palm of this same young man. How unbelievable was this?

How overpowering was this?!

If it wasn’t for the fact that the strongest descendant from the five Clans were already of the seventh realm and did not step out due to his higher ranking, then what happened would be a shameful thing to the five clans. They would’ve been the stepping stone for the young man’s success!

However, what happened was enough to make the young man famous. With his dazzling methods, he announced his name to the alchemy community!

It was said that he was merely 16 that year!

How insane was this?!

Now, 10 years had passed. Just how much further along had the young man grown? Nobody truly knew. However, everyone in the City of Dan realized that he would be arriving in an even more attention snatching manner!

Because of this, the outcome of the situation was now unclear. It seemed like there were many talents with the possibility of becoming the winner. Sadly, there could only be one.

In other words, the strongest of all would for sure acquire fame and honor like never before!

Just as the entire city discussed this event, the signing up of this gathering was starting. All at once, the air in the City of Dan became very heavy. It seemed like a war could break up at any time.

All sorts of bets and bids started regarding who would end up being the champion. The name that was being mentioned the most was without a doubt, the heaven-defying monster who came out of nowhere 10 years ago. Trailing behind were the top talents of the five clans.

After them, were the other descendants of the various different Clans in Yuezhou.

Though the ranking in these bets and bids varied somewhat, without a doubt, all the names being shouted out by these bettors were prominent geniuses.

From this, one could sense just how intense this competition was going to be. This truly would be a war where the tiger would fight the dragon to see who would end up leading the team of heroes!

Just as the different alchemists were gathering to sign up for the competition, Ling Xian from the Nothing for Sale store opened his eyes as well. A white light flashed across his eyes.

It wasn’t that he was calculating and counting down the days for the sign up. It was that Hong Yan Xin had sent him a message.

“The sign up has started? Might as well go out and take a walk.” The corner of Ling Xian’s lips curled up and his eyes flickered expectantly.

Even though he was not an alchemist who focused on alchemy all the time, because of Liang Cang Qiong, alchemy was ranked very high in his heart.

Therefore, he truly desired to battle against the true alchemy talents!

The gathering of the alchemists that happens once a decade is, without a doubt, the best place to do this!

“Let’s go. Let me sign up first, then wait patiently for a few days.” Ling Xian faintly grinned before he quickened his pace and exited the stone room.