At noon the next day, the arena square of the Dan Conference opened as scheduled.

In an instant, the crowd surged, and the stands around the empty arena square were quickly filled with visitors from all sides.

In the center of the square, sixty-four arena barriers were shining brightly, waiting for the challenger to come on stage.

"Wow! These arenas have actually expanded their internal space using the Sumeru Mustard Seed method. Huacheng is quite generous!"

"This is your first time here, isn't it? Huacheng is always like this."

"Huacheng started out as a pharmaceutical company, so they're quite wealthy. They don't need this little bit of money..."

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Amidst the discussions, Xiang Sheng sat down in the open-invitation stand, gazing at the viewing area in the middle.

The Lord of Huacheng City has not yet appeared, the middle seat is empty, and the side seats are already mostly full.

The first platform on the left.

Xiang Sheng looked at the emblems on the seats and could vaguely recognize the Ji and Shangguan families, but the others were all unfamiliar.

The right side was divided into two seats: the ancient monster and the ancient clan, and the atmosphere was quite peaceful.

The secondary platforms of both sides are where various small and medium-sized forces gather together, with many seats.

Xiang Sheng didn't recognize any of the seats except the Red and Green Army.

The three-level platform below is filled with various strange-looking subsidiary races, including humanoids and demons.

The fourth-level platforms are just uninvited spectators.

Invite the three major forces together at once, let them coexist peacefully and attend the banquet together.

From this point alone, Xiang Sheng could see how much effort Hua Cheng had put in to demonstrate his neutral attitude.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

At this moment, a long laugh suddenly came from the sky, accompanied by flower petals all over the sky. The Lord of Huacheng, dressed in a red robe, fell from the sky onto the throne.

He had a fair complexion and no beard, with a kind smile on his face, just like Maitreya Buddha, without any trace of the gloom of the incident in the inner city.

"Thank you for the honor of having the distinguished guests from all over the Star Realm attend this banquet. It truly brings honor to our humble city!

The immortal path in our star realm is flourishing, and many brilliant new faces appear every thousand years. Today is the time for all of you new geniuses to become famous!

I believe you have all seen and understood the rules of the arena competition today, so I won't waste any more time on this.

The Dan Pin Conference begins immediately! "

After these words were spoken, the arena fell into silence for a moment, but soon, someone from the fourth-level stands jumped into the ring and shouted loudly:

"I've long heard of the young master of the Bixia Sect as a genius. Please show up and fight!"

Before he finished speaking, a young man at the last seat on the second-level platform immediately stood up and flew down from the platform.

When the arena barrier was opened, both sides started fighting immediately without any nonsense!

However, after only three moves, the person who challenged him vomited blood and admitted defeat. He retreated from the ring with a dejected look on his face, no longer having the arrogance he had before.

The young man looked at his embarrassed back and snorted, "You don't know your own limitations!"

He immediately flicked his sleeves and jumped back onto the platform.

While the two were fighting, the remaining sixty-three arenas were filled in a moment.

The cheers from the audience on the fourth-level platform were getting louder and louder, and the atmosphere of the Dan Tasting Conference was directly heated up.

At the same time, there were still quite a few spectators who did not know the rules of the competition. After some secret communication, someone suddenly stuffed a booklet into Xiang Sheng's arms.

Xiang Sheng turned her head and saw a blue-clothed fairy girl dressed like a casual cultivator, winking at her.

"This is the book of lucky finds that I bought from the post house at a high price. I have already made a note of it.

Seeing your reserved look, I know you are not good at socializing. As a fellow female cultivator, I will give it to you for your viewing pleasure. Please do not ask for the Immortal Stone."

After saying this, the blue-clothed fairy grinned, revealing her white teeth.

Xiang Sheng was dazzled by her white teeth and inexplicably thought of Wang Tuo. His stern features softened a little and he said softly, "Thank you."

The fairy in blue waved her hand cheerfully, indicating that you're welcome.

Xiang Sheng withdrew his gaze and opened the booklet.

As expected, the first page of the booklet contains the rules of the ring competition, which is also the fundamental reason why it attracts so many spectators.

She had already guessed the rules after hearing Shangguan Ning talk about it before, and now seeing the specific content, it was just as she expected.

The so-called Dan Tasting Conference is actually a battle for invitations.

The invitations sent by Huacheng are not bound to any person, so for some reason, the quality of the invitations often does not match the strength of the host.

Hua Cheng naturally didn't want to give the elixir to someone with no potential, so he set up a competition before the elixir tasting banquet.

Those who do not have an invitation can obtain the invitation from the other party by winning the challenge.

Those who think that the invitation in their hand is of low quality can also exchange invitations with those who have higher quality invitations by defeating them.

By screening in this way, the water content of invitations can be reduced to a great extent, ensuring that the Dan Banquet is relatively fair.

The rules were pretty much what Xiang Sheng had imagined. After taking a quick glance, she turned to the second page.

However, it contains information about all the people who hold invitations of green stone grade or above found in the city so far, and comes with portraits.

Xiang Sheng discovered that she was surprisingly in the first place! And she was called the weakest Red Flower Card holder by the person who wrote the list.

I originally thought that the blue-robed fairy delivering the booklet was a coincidence, but now it seems...

She closed the book and looked sideways again.

The blue-clothed fairy met Xiang Sheng's gaze, raised her chin slightly, and did not hide the provocation in her eyes at all.

"I'm determined to get the Red Flower Invitation! If you feel you can't keep it, you'd better admit defeat as soon as possible to avoid getting seriously injured and delaying your training!"

These words sounded menacing, but Xiang Sheng, seeing that she was only a celestial being, actually found her somewhat adorable.

She smiled, didn't respond, and looked away.

"You're ignoring me?"

The blue-clothed fairy immediately became annoyed, staring at the arena below angrily, and secretly made up her mind.

As long as she can grab an empty arena, she will immediately challenge this rude and taciturn person!

Among those who hold invitations, most are genuine, and only a few are just filling in the numbers.

Therefore, the competition in the ring progressed very quickly. In just half an hour, hundreds of matches had been fought.

The blue-clothed fairy held her breath and waited until a vacant arena finally opened. Her eyes lit up and she was about to jump down, but was beaten to the punch by a man.

She looked up at the platform the man had jumped from, and immediately a puzzled expression appeared on her face:

"The Red and Green Army in the second-level stands? Everyone should have an invitation, so why are they coming here to join in the fun?"

Just as she was beginning to doubt, she heard the man raise his head with a malicious smile and said loudly:

"I heard that Centurion Ling accidentally lost his invitation last night. I would like to present it to you. I wonder if you would be so kind as to honor me."

As soon as these words were spoken, the stands on all sides fell silent, and countless pairs of eyes were cast towards the woman in red sitting on the edge of the Red and Green Army's viewing seats.

Ling Ying's whole body suddenly tensed up and her face looked embarrassed.

Yesterday, the invitation was taken away by the people from the forbidden court. She was upset and had no intention of attending the banquet anymore.

Anyway, the invitation was... sent by Chen Xiang, and she didn't have the ability to keep it.

So she reported the matter to Commander Wang.

It also saves them from having to deliberately arrange people to challenge her and snatch the invitation.

But unexpectedly, they still had no intention of letting her go.