Chapter 123 The First Golden Core Competition

Ning Mingmei's trip for two turned into a trip for three. What’s even more coincidental is that all three people present thought so.

Qi Miancheng's immortal chariot whizzed past the sky above Qingji Sect. The disciple who was driving was very careful.

"Look, there should have been only two people in this car, but now there are three." He narrated to himself, "and two of them are sitting together."

As he spoke, he glanced quietly into the car and saw a veiled woman sitting alone, silently, and cautiously... on the other side.

Ning Mingmei: "Brother, that's why I want to sit with you."

Qi Miancheng: "Junior brother, this car originally only has two seats."

Ning Mingmei: "I know, I just want to know why I have to sit with you. Logically, I should sit with Miss Xue. Because I brought Miss Xue here."

It felt really terrible to squeeze into a single seat with Qi Miancheng.

Especially when Qi Miancheng was wearing a fashionable red and green outfit.

"Haha, Junior Brother." Qi Miancheng's laugh was reasonable, but it was soulless. "Junior Brother, I heard from my father that if you love someone, you should give her the best. In this case, you should leave the comfortable seat for your lover."

Ning Mingmei: "I don't love him."

Qi Miancheng: "If you don't love her, why did you bring her back to the back mountain? Haha, Junior Brother is really stubborn. Junior Brother, tell me more about how you met Miss Xue."

Ning Mingmei: "She's pestering me."

Gui Ruoxue, who was sitting opposite: ...

When the two people opposite you are saying weird things, can you please consider the feelings of a normal person like yourself?

Qi Miancheng invited Ning Mingmei to put his hand on him, so that the space needed for the two of them to sit side by side could be reduced. Ning Mingmei cruelly rejected him and got off the fairy car first after reaching Mingwu Peak.

Qi Miancheng was in no hurry to leave. He sat in the car and lifted the curtain with his hand: "Junior brother, since you got off the car first, you should reach out and take your lover. In this way, Miss Xue can feel happy and at home."

Ning Mingmei: "I don't love him."

Gui Ruoxue jumped out of the car alone: ​​…

Is this the legendary leader of the Qingji Sect, Qi Miancheng, who has noble character and is as gentlemanly as the wind?

Noble character - refers to using kind words on the fairy car to guide Ning Mingmei on how to express his true love for himself.

A gentleman is like the wind - refers to a person who wears clothes of strange colors and two long red sleeves.

But Qi Miancheng's accidental glance at him made him never let down his guard. When Ning Mingmei looked out the window, Qi Miancheng glanced at Gui Ruoxue.

There was interest, indifference, and a clear understanding in his eyes.

——Qi Miancheng is by no means a simple person. Gui Ruoxue thought so.

While the few of them were talking, all the disciples of Mingwu Peak had already looked over here. If eyes could be transformed into heat rays, the place where the three of them were would have reached the temperature of the Big Bang.

"Master Qi and the Sword-wielding Elder came together?!"

This was the first shock to the disciples watching.

"The Sword-wielding Elder brought a woman dressed in white with a veil on her face?"

This was the second shock for the disciples watching.

"Wait, Master Qi... What is Master Qi wearing?"

The third shock diverted everyone's attention. Ning Mingmei took the opportunity to take Gui Ruoxue and disappear into the dust. When Gui Ruoxue and he disappeared into the audience, she realized that someone was watching them from behind.

A disciple of Minghua Valley's Anhua Elder was looking at him, which made him feel depressed.

The two found a secluded spot and sat down. Although there were few people there, it was on a high place so they could overlook the entire competition venue.

"Why are there so many people today..."

Ning Mingmei asked: "Why, you didn't expect it?"

Gui Ruoxue looked at a corner of the competition venue where the contestants had not yet entered: "I heard that Gui Taoran is not very good at cultivation. It seems that he is quite popular in Qingji Sect."

This is already a very euphemistic way of putting it.

To be precise, it is very weak. He worked as a sword cultivator in the Qingji Sect, but his life was uneven. Except for Gui Taoran's mother who still had some expectations for him to be a good student, the other elders felt that Gui Taoran's playboyishness was in line with their expectations of him, but on the other hand, they felt that he was embarrassing.

Ning Mingmei said: "Because of the brand effect."

Gui Ruoxue: "What?"

Ning Mingmei: "This is all the kingdom that Gui Taoran's fellow apprentices built for him!"

He pointed down the slope.

Qi Miancheng had been following her all the way just now, and Gui Ruoxue was extremely nervous and didn't observe the situation properly at all. Now Qi Miancheng was talking to other elders. He lowered his head through the veil and took a look...

Then it became numb.

"What is this??"

A dozen young and lively disciples from Piaomiao Peak were holding banners and light signs.

"Please support our Piaomiao Peak No.3 Gui Taoran!"

“Highly recommended by popular celebrity Wang Lao Shiqi!”

"Piao Miao Peak Old Five: Third Senior Brother is the most promising talent I have ever seen."

…

Ning Mingmei: "Recommendations, influencers promoting products, team spirit, this is how we raised the third child."

Gui Ruoxue: "...Okay, but I have another question. Is this also part of your promotion?"

Ning Mingmei: "What?"

Gui Ruoxue pointed to a few small stalls nearby.

——Why is there someone handing out Coke and Sprite for free there! !

And it is divided into several stalls.

The stalls seemed to dislike each other. Every time a new monk passed by, several stall owners rushed over as fast as they could, trying to hand the drink in their hands to the other person first, and stared at the person who finally succeeded with murderous eyes.

Next to them was a bucket filled with empty bottles.

Gui Ruoxue really couldn't figure out what kind of underlying logic led to the birth of such a product. Even though he was the one who developed Coke and Sprite, he couldn't figure it out.

As the saying goes, no one responsible for design can imagine the effect of his or her product.

Gui Ruoxue finally thought she had found the answer: "Are you willing to spend so much money on free promotion?"

Ning Mingmei, a selfish and stingy cat, would also promote drinks for free?

Ning Mingmei was very calm about this: "Oh, that. Today is the last day for the popularity vote for the special packaging of Coke and Sprite. Look at them, they are anxious."

The word "anxious" has ups and downs. Gui Ruoxue was shocked and said, "What voting? What packaging? What last day?"

He is a core technology developer, how could he know nothing?

Ning Mingmei: "This is the norm when making products. As a technician, you should get used to it quickly. This will be beneficial to your future development."

…

After a few conversations, Gui Ruoxue finally understood what was going on.

“You use Coke and Sprite to make this??”

Ning Mingmei: "I cast a spell. The voting effect of this bottle will only take effect after the Coke and Sprite in the bottle are drunk. How about it? It's very conscientious, right?"

Gui Ruoxue glanced at the stall owners.

...For some reason, he felt that the stall owners were much fatter than the cultivators who were always as thin as paper.

It’s okay, these stall owners are all in the foundation-building stage. Gui Ruoxue lifted her veil and drank a sip of Sprite to calm herself down: "So who is the most popular?"

Ning Mingmei: "You mean that one? She gave birth a few days ago. Old Seventeen."

…

Gui Ruoxue discovered that something was wrong.

Wait.

“Doesn’t voting close today!!!”

Ning Mingmei: "Yes. But Old Seventeen's popularity is indeed very high."

Gui Ruoxue: "What if Old Seventeen is not the most popular one?"

Ning Mingmei pushed up his glasses and said, "It doesn't matter. I will vote in the background. How can a mere cultivator know something as professional as the vote growth curve?"

Therefore, even if a few thousand more monks had to vote for Old Seventeen at three or four in the middle of the night, it was quite reasonable.

Gui Ruoxue felt unwell all over. Ning Mingmei said: "Come to think of it, you've been drinking a lot of Sprite these days."

"Um……"

Ning Mingmei: "Who do you plan to give your votes to? I'll count them for you. But the winner is always Pei Shiqi."

Gui Ruoxue's face twitched. After a while, he looked at Qi Miancheng who was communicating with the elder of Yanyun Tower and lowered his voice and asked, "Compared to this, what is your relationship with Qi Miancheng?"

"What's the relationship?"

"Don't play dumb." Gui Ruoxue stared at him, "You are doing this with me... and you are so close to him..."

In order to prevent being heard by others, Gui Ruoxue used false voice even when transmitting the message.

Ning Mingmei just looked at him without saying a word. Gui Ruoxue was about to ask again, but Qi Miancheng's voice came from behind him.

"I seem to hear Miss Xue whispering to her junior brother. I think I came at the wrong time."

Gui Ruoxue: ...

…

There was a commotion among the crowd. The preparatory bell rang, and the disciples of Yanyun Tower opposite were already in place.

On the other side, the disciples from Piaomiao Peak never arrived. You know, it is a unique tradition for disciples of Piaomiao Peak to show up only at the last moment.

"The Foundation Establishment Stage competition is over, and the fifth from Piao Miao Peak was unexpectedly defeated. What do you think will be the result of the Golden Core Stage competition?"

"It's hard to say." Someone said, "Compared to the gap between foundation building and foundation building, the gap between golden elixir and golden elixir is often greater."

If we say that the gap in cultivation between the foundation-building stages can be shortened through hard work. Then the Jindan stage is a competition of resources and talents.

To be an excellent Jindan stage cultivator, both resources and talent are indispensable. A late Jindan who was raised by natural treasures and a late Jindan who relied on miscellaneous wild resources, even if they were at the same level, had vastly different abilities.

First, their meridians are pure and they receive the purest education. First, the meridians are complicated, and they rely on the precarious and unconventional ways that are discovered by bumping around everywhere.

"Let me give you an inappropriate example. A wild-path Jindan has mixed blood, and spends his time every day fighting against his own inner demons and evil spirits. A regular-path Jindan doesn't need to spend time fighting, and can focus all his energy on cultivation. Who do you think is more capable?"

The world of cultivating immortals is a world where good things will get better, and not so good things will only get worse.

It's like a snowball. The snowball keeps getting bigger and bigger. And good things only tend to focus on better things.

"The foundation-building stage of Piaomiao Peak is indeed good, but those are just some small tricks. They may not be practical in the Golden Core stage!"

“Even if it’s practical, can Piao Miao Peak cross this chasm in just a few months?”

“I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

"Me too."

However, despite the public opinion, they still came to the competition venue.

After all, this is Piaomiao Peak’s first Jindan stage competition.

But what are Foundation Establishment disciples? For Foundation Establishment courses, they just show a PPT from ten years ago in class and the whole thing passes by in a whim.

Only in the Jindan stage can the cultivation strength of the peak sect be truly demonstrated!

I wonder how Piaomiao Peak is performing now?

Xu Changze, the Anhua elder of Minghua Valley who was sitting in the crowd, was thinking the same thing at this moment.

And for him, there is another special thing about this game.

That is Gui Taoran.

However, Xu Changze did not come here out of friendship among fellow students.

On the contrary, he perhaps looked forward to Gui Taoran's embarrassment more than anyone else.

"I didn't expect so many people to come to watch this competition." His deputy said, "Elder, this is a bit beyond our expectations."

"I just hope he doesn't lose too badly. We know exactly what Gui Taoran is capable of." Xu Changze said, "Besides, this is what we want."

Xu Changze's mind was not completely focused on the game at hand. The only thing on his mind was the secret letter that was to be delivered today.

The owner of the secret letter said that he had found Gui Ruoxue's whereabouts, but he could only tell him after the end of today.

In recent years, the factional struggles between Minghua Gu Minghua and Anhua have gradually been brought to the surface from under the surface, and were consciously detonated by him because of Gui Ruoxue's defection. In order to make these things happen, Xu Changze did not hesitate to secretly change Gui Ruoxue's prescription, making the three-point toxicity of the medicine become seven-point toxicity, and secretly distributed it to the disciples, laying the last straw for Gui Ruoxue to be hated and expelled from the sect.

Unlike other elders, Gui Taoran's mother Tao Xinzhi's point of view: she sincerely believes that medicine practitioners should not make poisonous medicines. Therefore, like most people in Minghua Valley, she feels disgusted with Gui Ruoxue. But Xu Changze actually doesn’t care whether the medicine is poisonous or not.

He even approved of some of Gui Ruoxue's practices, believing that this poisonous medicine was indeed effective - but what was the point? To him, it doesn’t matter whether new good drugs are born or not. It doesn’t matter to him whether someone has delved into newer academic fields or produced something more useful to the world.

The gates of heaven are closed. Who are they doing this for?

There was only one thing he cared about.