At the top of the stone pillar is the Zhan Xiang Tai, and the distance between the two adjacent Zhan Xiang Tai is ten zhang, but not all of the Zhan Xiang Tai have tea masters stationed, and some monks who do not participate in the tea competition can spend a huge amount of spirit stones to rent a Zhan Xiang Tai to observe the tea competition. (・)

Nearly a million monks under the incense platform, but also the referee of this competition, each incense platform has a sufficient number of teacups, after the tea master finishes the tea, the teacup is randomly thrown into the group of monks below, the teacup falls on the top of the head, who is responsible for tasting the number of incense and the duration of the tea, the cheater will naturally be severely punished.

In fact, after a tea is completed, its spiritual breath has been fixed, and the monks of the Yudan period can basically rely on their divine sense to detect all aspects of the attributes of this tea from the distant incense platform, so once someone cheats,

Other shili will naturally stand up and question, and there is also a rule in the tea competition, no matter what, a tea must eventually leave 30% in the teapot for review, until the tea is over the incense time, no one questions it, it is finalized.

As soon as the auspicious time of the tea contest arrived, the whole audience stopped making noise, and the person who presided over the contest was Ji Gu, the master of the Xiaoyao Gate, the great leisure cultivator of the ninth layer of the Dan period, and also the lord of the Xiaoyao City.

Ji Gu has a long white beard, a purple robe, and holds a green silk golden dragon duster, standing on the widest incense platform in front of the crowd, and beside him stand in a row sixteen tea masters carefully selected by Xiaoyaomen.

After a stirring and generous speech, Kiya loudly announced the official start of the Tea Discussion Competition. First of all, he read out the rules of the contest set by Xiaoyaozi at that time, and after the end of the competition, Shili, who won the championship, will have the sole right to enter Xiaoyao City.

The Tea Contest is held once every three hundred years, and the person who wins the laurel gets Xiaoyao City, which is an eternal rule, and it is also the characteristic of Xiaoyao City that distinguishes it from more than a dozen other Xiuzhen cities, so that everyone has formed a consensus that no matter whether Xiaoyaozi is there or not, the only way to seize Xiaoyao City is through the Tea Discussion Competition!

After the rules are read, the competition goes directly to the first round, and all parties participating in the competition will send a tea master to condense the poppy king tea, and the tea is not allowed to be adulterated with any spices, and only the main tea is independently fragrant. [~]

This process seems simple, but in fact it is very difficult, because it is very easy to collapse after the finished poppy tea, and it is not easy to condense it into incense without the help of spices, and it is even more difficult to maintain the incense time above ten breaths!

However, the first round of the Tea Contest is a requirement that the tea master sent by Shili must condense the Poppy King tea into incense, and the maintenance time must reach more than ten breaths to be considered qualified.

The first round is completely a test of the basic strength of the tea masters of all parties, and this ten breaths of time is an extremely strange limit point, many tea masters can often break through this limit in private, but when they really compete, the huge psychological pressure will make them frequently miss, so in addition to the basic skills, will and heart are also very important.

All the tea products in the Tea Contest, including the spiritual tea and spring water, as well as all the tea utensils, were brought by themselves, only the teacups were provided by the Tea Contest, and each Zhan Xiang Tai had a number, and the bottom of those tea cups in the Zhan Xiang Tai had a number that matched the number of the Zhan Xiang Tai.

There is a restriction in the first round, that is, the tea master who can compete can only be below the Dan period, so this heavy responsibility falls on Zhu Zhiyao and the other two tea masters, but the two tea masters are not sure of winning this competition, only Zhu Zhiyao's face is not sad or joyful, and it seems that he has long been downbeat about everything, this kind of heart is the most in line with the tea art competition, so the three elders did not hesitate to choose Zhu Zhiyao to appear.

Zhu Zhiyao then got up and stood up, walked to the inner room of the Zhan Xiang Tai and waited for the order, and after a short while, Ji Gu gave an order, and thousands of tea masters walked out of the Zhan Xiang Tai one after another, standing on their respective tea altars and taking their places. (・)

Zhu Zhiyao had already taken off her blindfold, she was standing alone on the tea altar, and a dozen zhang behind her was a monk from the Nanyue Business Alliance, Lin Feng quietly watched her back, and there were some complicated expressions in her eyes.

At a certain moment, Ji Gu shouted, "Let's go!"

Thousands of people quickly moved to open their respective tea attendants to prepare haode jade plates for them, which included tea boxes, spice bags, spring bottles, jade pots, etc., everything was precise and meticulous, and even if the tea masters closed their eyes, they knew where everything was placed.

Since there is no need to add spices, the refining of the main tea is very short, the key point is the grasp of the timing and heat, after the spiritual spring is boiled with spiritual power, the poppy king tea must be absorbed to just the right amount of yin yuan to reach the highest level, otherwise the hot spring water can not achieve the best fusion with the poppy king tea, and the incense time will not last long.

About thirty breaths of time, someone has already completed the refining, the tea in the hand is thrown off the incense table, by the monk below is responsible for the taste, each person is generally sprinkled six cups, once the caliber of the six people is inconsistent, the tea master will pour out the rest of the tea, under the eyes of everyone, the divine consciousness of the monk in the Dan period can clearly see the speed of the spiritual breath of the tea melting.

Zhu Zhiyao didn't spill the tea until about the fortieth breath, and at this time, the monks below were already shouting one after another, but there were only two kinds of voices, that is, the time judgment of "pass" and "but".

The monk who shouted "passing" means that the tea he has tasted has exceeded ten breaths, and the corresponding tea master is qualified and advanced. The monk who shouts "but" needs to turn the teacup upside down and hold it in front of his chest, and the number corresponding to the incense platform is displayed on the bottom of the cup, and the tea master who has entered the competition has been eliminated, and the shili where he is located will also withdraw from the competition.

The first round is related to the whole game, so almost every shili has sent their strongest tea master, and only with such a strong formation as Xiaoyaomen can they not worry about the first round at all, because of the sixteen tea masters they selected, any one of them can easily pass this level.

After the end of the first round, more than 30% of the shili were eliminated, and about 2,000 incense tables were extinguished, and at the same time, the tea contest entered a short period of rest, because in the following time, there will be a large number of unfortunate people who fail to be auctioned off by the shili where they are located!

These failed tea masters, basically there is tension in the mind, there are mistakes in some links and missed, they did not take the Yin Pill, the Yin Yuan in the body is still abundant, so it is the object of many male cultivators who are eager to play, once the tea master is auctioned out, she will be forcibly fed the Yin Pill on the spot, and within a few days, she will be bought The male cultivator has exhausted the Yin Yuan, and the avenue of cultivation has ended.

There are also some shili, although they have passed the first round, but the tea masters who participated in the competition have also taken the Jiangyin Pill, these shili are generally prepared with several tea masters to participate, the first tea master was used as cannon fodder, taking the Jiangyin Pill is an irresistible choice, their fate may not be in their own hands for a long time, even if they win the first round, it is still inevitable to be auctioned!

The following facts confirmed this tragic situation, at least ninety percent of the failed tea masters were auctioned on the spot, and the winning tea masters were in a slightly better situation, after all, they contributed to their shili, so even if they took the Jiangyin Pill, life and death were still in their own hands.

But some of them may have been forced, or they were trapped in the shortage of cultivation materials, and were sold to Shili who participated in the competition by their family, and although they won after taking the Jiangyin Pill, they could no longer participate in the rest of the competition, so they still had to be auctioned off.

Zhu Zhiyao easily advanced to the rank and retreated to Zhan Xiangtai to rest for a while, the monks of the Nanyue Business Alliance applauded her, but she just had a flat face, and she no longer had any emotions for external things, and her indifference made people stay away.

Half an hour later, the first round of the tea master's auction also ended, and in the cry of many tea masters, the eliminated shili also withdrew from the arena, but there are still people who keep moving around in private, because although these shili are defeated, there are still some masters of the tea masters under them, and those who win shili can be included in the alternate list.

A considerable number of the shili who came to participate in the tea contest were not to compete for the crown, but to set their goals on the second and third, and the possibility of winning the laurel was very small, but it was also a very important thing to hit the second and third.

Because once the impact is successful, not only can they get the Nine Dragons Title Bead Pot and the Eight Toad Moon Cup, but according to the rules set by Xiaoyaozi back then, they will also get the free lease right of the "Chaxin Shop" in Xiaoyao Chengfang City, and the rental time is 300 years and 150 years respectively!

There are two tea shops in Xiaoyao City, which are located at the main gate of Xiaoyao City and opposite the Xiangxiang Pavilion in the center of the city, so as to highlight the leisure and cultivation purpose of Xiaoyao City to treat guests with tea and serve tea.

These two shops occupy a wide area, and the lease fee for 300 years is a huge wealth, and they can create more lucrative profits after taking over, so they have become the target of many shili very eye-catching.

After a break of half an hour, the Tea Contest entered the second round of competition, which was even more cruel, because more than seventy percent of the participating shili were eliminated, and this competition was played by each participating shili in pairs, and the opponent was randomly generated.

The loser withdraws from the tea competition, and the winner continues to meet the challenge of other tea masters, and those who win three games in a row advance to the next round, and if there is no tea master in the Shili who wins three games in a row, they will be eliminated.

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