After Master Shengyuan left, the remaining crowd looked at each other in confusion.

"What's going on? The third competition is actually scheduled for half a month?"

"Otherwise? The doctor just said that it will take ten days for these people to recover from their injuries. Naturally, we have to wait until their injuries are healed before we can start the competition!"

"You're right!"

Just when many people showed expressions of great agreement, a somewhat unsociable voice suddenly emerged from the crowd.

"If you really think so, then you are too naive!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone around him was obviously stunned, and then quickly looked at the person who spoke in surprise.

The person who suddenly spoke was an old man with white hair and beard. Facing the surprised looks that everyone cast at him, he smiled mysteriously, stretched out his hand to twist his beard, then turned around and walked directly downstairs - arousing everyone's attention.

After being out of curiosity, he actually sold it here.

"Senior, do you know some inside information?"

"Senior looks like an immortal. He is obviously not an ordinary person. He must know a lot of information that ordinary people don't know!"

"I don't know if you like what's in the cup. Why don't you ask me to find a place to buy my senior a few drinks?"

"Yes, yes, yes, let the juniors and others invite you to [Yaweiju] to sit for a while and listen to the teachings of the seniors?!"

Seeing the old man turn around and leave, many curious onlookers quickly followed him and began to flatter him with their beards.

On the rooftop, Jiang Chen looked at the back of the old man surrounded by the crowd, feeling slightly absent-minded. The old man's words just now made his heart skip a beat.

"That's right, there is indeed something fishy about this competition!"

In his daze, a soft voice woke Jiang Chen up from his deep thoughts.

"Jiang Chen? Jiang Chen!"

"Ah?" Jiang Chen raised his head and glanced at Li Yue beside him in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"What are you thinking about?" Li Yue looked at Jiang Chen with a little doubt, "The crowd has left, why don't we go back?"

"Oh! I just thought about something, let's go back too!"

After the words fell, Jiang Chen glanced at Li Yang next to him and hesitated to speak. Seeing this scene, Li Yang seemed to have guessed what Jiang Chen was thinking and spoke directly.

"Let's go, I'll go back with you!"

"good!"

...

After leaving the government office building, Li Yang got directly into the car of Jiang Chen and others, while the others from Lijia followed behind in other cars.

On the way back, Jiang Chen and others did not speak first, and the car fell into a strange silence for a while.

Li Yue glanced at Jiang Chen, who was bowing his head in thought, and then at his brother. Suddenly he rolled his eyes and spoke.

"Brother, your injuries are okay, right?"

"No problem!"

Li Yang shook his head and said.

"I have a high-level talisman prepared by my family, so the injuries I suffered before were not serious. At least... they are much better than those guys!"

Li Yue nodded, and just when he was about to continue looking for topics, Jiang Chen, who had been silent, suddenly raised his head and looked directly at Li Yang to one side.

"Senior Brother Liyang, I have a question I want to ask you!"

"Coming!"

Hearing Jiang Chen's words, everyone else in the car immediately cheered up. Although they did not turn their heads to look here, they all pricked up their ears.

To everyone's surprise, before Jiang Chen could ask any more questions, Li Yang said bluntly.

"Jiang Chen, if I guess correctly, you want to ask why we are so desperate to complete the competition?"

Jiang Chen nodded slightly. After seeing other people take action before, he did have such doubts in his heart.

His intuition told him that those guys were working so hard not only because they wanted to get good results in the competition, but they also had other reasons why they had to give their best.

Li Yang gave Jiang Chen a meaningful look, nodded and said.

"I can tell you directly that you are right. There are indeed other reasons why we are so desperate."

"Perhaps you should have noticed a long time ago that this competition looks a little unusual."

"I just heard the elders of the clan mention that what we are doing is not so much a competition as it is a selection ceremony!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone else in the car suddenly turned their heads to look here. However, their eyes did not fall on Li Yang, and then they all focused on Jiang Chen.

On the side, Li Yang didn't seem to notice anything wrong with the other people's eyes, and continued to speak.

"Before I came here today, I was told by the elders of the clan that no matter what, I must give my best in this competition!"

"I think everyone else should have received the same reminder!"

"That's true!"

Jiang Chen murmured softly, feeling slightly absent-minded. Li Wen glanced at him and then asked.

"Senior Brother Liyang, what is the screening ceremony you are talking about?"

"I don't know the details anymore. The elders in the clan only told me this much, and they wouldn't say a word no matter how much they said!"

"That's it!"

...

【Thunder Fire Cult】Inside.

Master Ting Ni closed his eyes slightly and sat firmly on the seat above; Elder Ouyang and others who had just returned from the government office building were standing below with some uneasiness; the other elders in the church had expressions on their faces.

Sitting on both sides with expressions.

After a moment, Master Tingni above suddenly opened his eyes, and his gaze fell directly on Zhang Fei in the crowd below.

An old man sitting next to him saw this and asked.

"Master, have you found the reason?"

Master Tingni's eyes still stayed on Zhang Fei and said slowly.

"No, I didn't find anything abnormal in him!"

After the words fell, he said to Zhang Fei again.

"Describe in detail what you experienced and how you felt at that time."

"good!"

Zhang Fei licked his lips and then began to describe the situation at that time.

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Plans can never keep up with changes.

I originally planned to use the last few days of the holiday to save a few more chapters for manuscripts, but unfortunately I had to leave home urgently on the fifth day of the lunar month and traveled from Northeast China to the south of the Yangtze River thousands of kilometers away overnight.

The chapters in the past few days were all squeezed out. Some were written at the airport, some were written in a speeding car, and some were coded frantically in the room in the middle of the night!

The outline has been finalized a long time ago, and the updated content will not be affected; I just didn't check it carefully enough in a hurry. If there are typos in the article, please point it out in the comment area so that I can correct it.

After this period of time is over, I will speed up appropriately and update more every day!
Chapter completed!