Because it was an event of the entire Land of Exile, there were many parties participating!
Basically, every big city would send its own team with its own flag. Powerful small and medium-sized cities would also join in the fun. After all, it was not difficult to find 20 outstanding Qi Cultivators on this continent!
It was basically impossible for them to find twenty Golden Core Cultivators in a city. If they found twenty Foundation Establishment Cultivators, their strength would also be uneven. However, if they were to find twenty Qi Refinement Warriors, it would be very fair because almost all of them were at the peak of Qi Refinement Realm and were preparing to build their Dao foundation!
It was also because of this that they steered the boats, implying that they were like carps leaping over the dragon gate. It was a good omen!
It was not only divided by region, but also by force. Large and small sects, including the Heaven-defying Sect in the Land of Exile, would send their own teams, because it was said that if they could get a good ranking in the top ten in the dragon boat competition, they would be favored by the Dragon God!
Of course, only God knew whether it was true or not!
In this way, the number of dragon boats participating in the Dragon Boat Conference was not small. It was not a scale that a dozen broken boats in the countryside could compare to. Generally, the number could be maintained at three to four hundred, and there was an increase or decrease in each realm. It was not fixed, and there was no threshold. As long as you could gather together a majestic dragon boat and gather twenty Qi Refining cultivators, you could participate. No one was rejected!
It was also because of this scale that the starting point of the competition was deliberately chosen to be a short, wide, and gentle river. On the river, hundreds of dragon boats were lined up in a row. It was very fair!
Moreover, on the river for the next hundred miles, it was all flat and wide, which was conducive to the competition of the dragon boats. There would not be too many scrapes and collisions. In the next two thousand miles, they would encounter all kinds of complicated water conditions!
In the combination of forces, there was a loose force, which was the Xuanyuan Swordsman from the main world!
Because of the rules of the sect, they could not establish a sect here. Since they came here to retire, of course, they would not live in a group. They all lived separately, scattered on the vast continent of the Land of Exile.
As the saying goes, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Since they were here, of course, it was impossible for them to cut themselves off from the local customs. They could turn a blind eye to some small activities, but for a grand event like the Dragon Boat Conference, they must attend.
Not only did they have to participate, but they also had to get into the top ten in order to show the prestige of the Upper Realm!
Huang Xiao Ya was born into a Swordsman family. Her grandfather was a Foundation Establishment Swordsman from Qing Kong, and he was lucky enough to achieve a fake Dan Stage here. He also stole a few hundred years of lifespan, so he started to blossom and grow leaves here, establishing a family. There were many people like their Huang Family in the exile area, and they could be considered as the true second or third generation of cultivators.
Every time the ten-year period of the Dragon Boat Conference arrived, the Swordsman families of the Xiao Mountain would contact each other and arrange some of their children to participate in the competition.
However, trees have shade and leaves, and people have a cycle of prosperity and decline. Although twenty Qi Cultivation spots were not many, sometimes it was hard to get together. For example, some families did not inherit well, or for some other reasons, it was difficult to find a cultivator at the peak of Qi Cultivation in his prime!
The people of Xuanyuan Kingdom cared a lot about their reputation, especially in the Land of Exile. The Upper Realm was very arrogant, so they had to send young people to maintain their reputation. If they were to send twenty white-bearded old men who had not been able to build their foundation for decades, they would not look good either!
Before the competition, their momentum was weak!
Just like this time, finding twenty young people at the peak of Qi Cultivation was a little difficult. The Xuanyuan people could not find outsiders to replace them, so they expanded the scope and allowed women to participate this time.
In the past, few women participated. It was not that they discriminated against women, but in an occasion like the Dragon Boat Competition, the Qi Cultivators did not have magical power. After fighting in the water for several days, they were soaked and their hair would be exposed. It did not matter to the men, as long as they were naked, but what about the women?
When the river water was wet, the curves were exposed, and they had to paddle hard. The rising and falling, shaking and swaying style was what the mortals on the shore liked to see the most. There were all kinds of comments, countless nitpicking, and those with tender faces could not stand it!
This was the main reason why Huang Xiaoya was not willing to go!
But this was not something she could decide!
A majestic voice came down, "There are still five days before the Dragon Boat Conference begins. You set off tomorrow with your aunt. Don't do anything on the way. You must arrive before the conference begins. If you ruin the reputation of the Huang family, be careful of your skin!"
Huang Xiaoya was a delicate princess in the Huang family's mansion. No one dared to go against her wishes. Only her grandfather was serious. When he disciplined her, he really did not care about the difference between men and women. If he said he would beat her, he would really beat her. He was also the only person she was afraid of!
She could only pout and agree. Her resistance failed!
Calling her aunt was not to accompany her to play, but to monitor her! This aunt was a figure who had built the Taoist foundation. Although she built the Taoist foundation in the exile, the Taoist foundation was still the Taoist foundation. It was not a problem to control her.
The aunt, Water Fairy, floated in and took out a black leather suit with a smile. It was a survival item for fishermen who relied on water to make a living.
"Xiaoya, look at what I brought you? I guarantee that it is sturdy and durable, and it will not show any style … "
The two got up early the next day and rode fast. In fact, with their residence, it was still very close to the starting point of the Dragon Boat Conference. Three days was enough. If it was not possible, her aunt could take her to fly for a while. Grandfather asked her to come early because he was afraid that she would drag on the road and deliberately cause trouble!
Although the rule was that there were twenty people on a dragon boat, it did not matter if there were more or less. Therefore, if she did not go alone, it might not affect the sailing of the boat. However, it was hard to say whether she could win the top ten in the end. After all, they were all Qi cultivators. The means of cultivators were very limited. One less person would slowly show the gap between three thousand miles and a few days.
Huang Xiaoya did not like that water suit! It might protect her from being exposed, but in a sense, it would make the curves of her body more conspicuous!
In front of the Taoist foundation, she could not escape. Moreover, if the failure of the Dragon Boat Conference was caused by her, her grandfather would personally catch her and take her back to teach her a lesson! She was very sure that her grandfather would not be soft-hearted just because she was a girl!
In many remote areas of the exile, because of the local customs and habits, the local women did not care too much about this. Even some minority groups took appropriate exposure as a style, such as her widowed aunt!
But she was different. She had received the most standard education since she was a child, but she was not willing to accept paddling under the comments of millions of people in the next few days!
The problem was, how to get rid of it? How to find a foolproof plan?
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