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Early the next morning, the square in the center of Xiangyang City was crowded with people, and the competition for the three major families in Xiangyang finally began.

In fact, there have always been competitions for the three major families. In the past, they were usually held every five years, divided into three levels: Qi Refining Stage, Foundation Building Stage and Golden Child Stage. Each level will determine the Three A.

As long as they are direct, side-line disciples, and weirdos from the three major families, you can participate.

The purpose of the heads of the three major families held this competition was, on the one hand, to discover talents from the competition and enhance the strength of their family. On the other hand, it was to enable the disciples of the three major families to be prepared for danger in times of peace, maintain hard work, enhance the overall strength of the family, and to resist the attacks that potential enemies may launch. After all, only strong strength is the best guarantee for the safety of the family.

Family competitions will give you rewards for wealth, such as elixirs, magic tools, martial arts, etc., especially those in the third grade, who will receive the best reward items.

Cultivators who do not belong to the three major families, especially those who are alone, have a strong desire for the excellent cultivation conditions and resources that the three major families can provide, and can also sign up for another weird ranking battle set up in the competition.

Therefore, at every competition, many casual cultivators from Xiangyang will register. This competition is the opportunity to open the Yiling Cave Palace once a century, and more monks come. Although many monks already have sects and will not sign up for the weird ranking battle, they are also very strange, making this competition very lively.

All the three major families attach great importance to this kind of competition, because the outcome of the competition is related to the face of the family and the choices of those casual cultivators. After all, everyone wants to enter a powerful family as a weird thing.

Moreover, there are always some conflicts between the three major families, and if these conflicts are not resolved, they will lead to a full-scale war. It will end up with both sides of the two major families. Therefore, many disputes in the three major families, including some minerals, shops, and Lingcao Gardens, will eventually resolve their belongings through competitions in order to avoid the magnification of the situation.

Once, the Wang Family and Shui Family decided to win three battles in order to obtain the ownership of a talisman-making shop and a herb shop, and the winner obtained the ownership of these two stores.

Fortunately, in the battle between the younger generations of both sides, although Shui Xiangyong was defeated, Shui Youning and Shui Yuening both won and eventually won these two shops with considerable profits. Therefore, this is also the reason why the Wang family tried every means to let Shui Youning and Shui Yuening leave Shui Family.

In addition to the ownership of the industry, conflicts and conflicts between other families are also determined in a competition. For example, this time, the three families also started a fierce competition around the three places entering the inner level of Yiling Cave.

In this competition, according to the convention, each of the three major families sent three personnel to participate in the competition, and nine people were divided into three groups. Each group had three people, and all three were exactly one person in each family. The first place in each group was qualified to participate in the inner cave.

Then, the first place in each group will play a single-travel race and decide the final ranking of the top three, which is also related to the quality of the rewards received.

At this moment, three arenas have been set up in the square in the center of Xiangyang City. Each is one hundred feet long and wide, and is made of black iron. It can withstand the attacks of Jindan cultivators, which is much stronger than the arena where Jiang Chen originally took the small exam.

Sitting in the north of the arena were the monks of the Lin family, and in the east and west were the monks of the Shui family and the Wang family. Although there were few seats on these three sides, they were a little higher than the arena, so that the monks of the three major families could see the competition clearly.

As for the south side of the arena, there is an audience seat, which is much lower than the arena, and is for those casual cultivators and monks from various sects in Jingzhou to sit on the ground.

Jiang Chen sat upright in the Shui family seat, looking down at the situation in the square. Now he was already familiar with the venue when he was participating in the competition.

Two beautiful figures quickly sat next to him, and a faint fragrance came to his nose. Without looking at him, he could only smell it with his nose. He knew that it was Shui Youning and Shui Yuening, who were here. These two women were with him every day. He was very familiar with the body fragrance of these two sisters.

"Brother Jiang, you have completely recovered!" Shui Youning asked softly.

"Well! It's definitely alive!" Jiang Chen made an exaggerated look to show off his muscles, which made the two women smile.

At this time, he glanced at the left casually, but found that in the seat of the Lin family, there was a beautiful girl sitting upright. She was wearing a white long skirt, with long hair draped over her shoulders, white clothes were like snow, and her hair was fluttering. She looked particularly prominent among the men in the Lin family. She looked so ethereal and elegant, like a fairy on earth.

When Jiang Chen saw this woman, his eyes flashed and his heart was slightly shocked. Because he actually knew this woman, it was Lin Yushang who participated in the alchemist qualification assessment with him in the Dan League.

Lin Yushang is obviously dressed up carefully now, so she is more beautiful and noble than when she was in the Dan League. He couldn't help but take a few more glances.

Shui Youning and Shui Yuening saw Jiang Chen staring at Lin Yushang, both of them were slightly angry. Their nominal husband actually stared at the women of the Lin family, which was too disrespectful to them.

"Brother Jiang, are you also fascinated by the vixen of the Lin family?" Shui Youning asked with a sour smell in his clear and pleasant voice.

Jiang Chen laughed silently, and he smiled slightly and said, "Youning, you misunderstood. When I participated in the alchemist qualification assessment in the Dan League, I happened to meet Lin Yushang. She wanted to win me over to join the Lin family at that time. So I had a deep impression."

"The shameless vixen actually wants to seduce someone else's husband." After hearing this, Shui Yuening's pretty face suddenly became cold, and there was a little more hostility in her eyes when she looked at Lin Yushang.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen could only shake his head helplessly, thinking to himself that wherever he seemed, the jealousy of women was burning, especially Lin Yushang and the Shui sisters were both one of the four beauties in Xiangyang, so they inevitably had the desire to compete and jealousy.

At this time, a majestic and tall figure flew out from the Lin family seat. This man was about forty years old, with a mighty appearance, with two beards and extremely sharp eyes.

He hovered over the three rings and shouted loudly: "Now, the competition has officially begun. Please invite the participating monks from the three families to come up and draw lots!"

After saying that, he took out a bamboo tube with nine bamboo sticks inside.

"This person is Lin Zhennan, the head of the Lin family. Since the Lin family is the strongest among our three families, the competition is usually hosted by the Lin family!" Shui Youning explained to Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen nodded slightly, and he also felt that Lin Zhennan's cultivation level could only be described as unfathomable. It is estimated that he was a cultivator in the late stage of the Golden Pill.

After a while, Jiang Chen and two other members of the Shui family selected to participate in the competition, they arrived in front of Lin Zhennan and took out a bamboo stick from the bamboo tube in his hand.

Jiang Chen drew blue bamboo sticks, while the other two drew red and yellow bamboo sticks.

"Okay! Now please draw the blue bamboo sticks to the first arena, the red bamboo sticks to the second arena, and the yellow bamboo sticks to the third arena!" Lin Zhennan looked around and shouted sternly.

After hearing this, Jiang Chen jumped to the No. 1 ring, and not long after, the monks from the Lin family and the Wang family also came onto the ring.

Jiang Chen looked at it and found that both of them were mid-stage monks in the foundation building stage. One was short and fat, and the other was thin.

"Oh no! Brother Jiang met his opponents Gou Yu and Gong Jin. These two have been promoted to the middle stage of foundation building for a long time. When the Lin family and the Wang family have been in trouble for many years, they are all very difficult people!" Shui Yuening suddenly felt anxious.

"Yue Ning, don't worry, Brother Jiang can even defeat Wang Feng in the late stage of foundation building. I believe that it is no problem to defeat Gou Yu and Gong Jin. Although your brother Jiang's cultivation is lower than them, his real potential strength is far stronger than these two. You are waiting to cheer for Jiang Chen's victory in a while!" Shui Youning was not worried at all. Because she had seen Jiang Chen's power, especially knowing that Jiang Chen had a corpse servant in the late stage of foundation building.

At that time, as soon as the corpse servant came out, these two mid-stage monks in the foundation-building stage were still undefeated.

"Haha, Jiang Chen actually met Gou Yu and Gong Jin. Although these two people are just cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building, they have been promoted to the middle stage of foundation building for many years. Their strength is far from comparable to Jiang Chen who has just entered the early stage of foundation building! Jiang Chen can defeat Wang Quan, but he cannot defeat the two of them!" Lin Yusheng, the second young master of the Lin family, didn't know the truth, and thought he was sure to win, and laughed.

Seeing that his second young master had spoken, the monks of the Lin family knew that Jiang Chen had broken Lin Yusheng's dream of marrying Shui Yuening. The two of them were now in the same state as the same water and fire, so they naturally responded: "What the second young master is saying is! When Jiang Chen is defeated by Gou Yu and Gong Jin later, see what face he has to marry the second young lady of the Shui family!"

"A little foreign monk actually wanted to get involved in the treasures in Yiling Cave. It's really a shame for himself!"

"After returning after a long defeat, let's go back to Han...

The Lin family's disciples looked at the three people on the No. 1 ring and suddenly saw a look of joy in their eyes. They looked like they had already seen Jiang Chen admit defeat.

Only a trace of light flashed in Lin Yushang's pretty eyes, and she said to herself: "I don't believe that Jiang Chen will be defeated so easily. Seeing his leisurely expression on his face, he doesn't seem to have no confidence."

She had experienced all kinds of amazing actions by Jiang Chen. At that time, Jiang Chen said he would participate in the second-level alchemist assessment. She also thought that Jiang Chen was too arrogant, but now it seems that Jiang Chen has really done it. This left a reflection of Jiang Chen not doing things that he would not be sure of.

Of course, we have to admit that Gou Yu and Gong Jin are indeed very strong compared to other mid-stage cultivators in the foundation-building stage.
Chapter completed!