To exchange for [Bodhi Seed], an 8th-grade magic weapon is needed. Hua Kai returned to the inn, closed the door and entered the [Family Secret Realm Space].
After several years of trading with the Sihai Chamber of Commerce, Hua Kai finally accumulated enough materials for three pieces of spiritual energy refining. However, because the family luck value used was too much, he was afraid that King Qi would find something wrong, so he did not dare to refine it. Now the Qi family has handed over all the affairs of the Qi Kingdom to the major families for discussion and decision. King Qi will definitely not have time to care whether the Hua family's luck value increases or decreases. Now he can finally use the family's luck value with confidence.
The family's mental method and martial arts have not been improved for three years. Hua Kai opened the family attribute panel to check the family's luck value of 8294 points.
In order not to waste the family's luck value, Hua Kai has been controlling the family's luck value below half in recent years, so that the family's luck value recovers quickly and it is not easy for King Qi to find abnormalities.
The spiritual weapon that Hua Kai can refine requires at least 10,000 luck points, and he is still unable to refine it now.
In the following days, Hua Kai rested in the inn while waiting for the start of the Xianyang Academy debate. During this period, he went to the Lingbao Palace again and spent 2,000 gold to buy the Xianyun Teng. Now he just waited for the luck value to recover to more than 13,000 points to refine the spiritual weapon.
On May 30, the students of Jixia Academy followed their teachers to Xianyang Academy. They saw students from other countries coming one after another, and the number was not as many as Hua Kai imagined.
In addition to Jixia Academy, the number of students from many countries was less than ten, and some countries even had several teachers with one student.
The standard of this debate conference was beyond imagination. Hua Kai saw that a debate platform more than ten meters high had been set up in the center of Xianyang Academy, and there were thousands of seats under the stage.
When we arrived at the residential area of Jixia Academy arranged by Qi State, we found that it was actually a palace complex with more than ten palaces. Beautiful maids were walking around in beautiful gauze. The number of palaces in Xianyang City should be the largest among all cities in the Central Plains. Students even sent maids to serve.
Hua Kai was assigned to a palace alone, with more than ten maids taking care of his daily life. In the afternoon, the teacher organized all the students of the academy to go to the registration point for the debate conference to register. When he arrived, Hua Kai found that there were about 40 students who signed up for the competition. The best young students in the Central Plains should all be here.
The four elderly teachers of Xianyang Academy were responsible for filling in the registration form. They carefully asked each person in the Jixia Academy one by one about the country they belonged to, the name of the academy, and the level of each school they were good at.
"Name?" A teacher asked with his head down.
"Hua Kai."
"Age?"
"18 years old!"
When Hua Kai said he was 18 years old, the teacher looked up at him.
"Country and academy?"
"Qi State, Jixia Academy."
"Which academic school do you specialize in? As long as you have reached the level of a student, you can say that other secondary schools are good enough, which will give you extra points in the ranking." The teacher reminded.
"The major should be a master.
Confucianism, master.
Taoism, master.
Legalism, master.
Mohism, master.
Yin Yang School, master.
...
Shanghai, student.
Gongsun School, student.
Five Elements School, student.
..."
When Hua Kai said this, several teachers were stunned. All the ten schools and nine streams of the Hundred Schools of Thought were masters, and most of the other more than 30 schools were already students. How could one person comprehend so many schools of thought?
"Hello, Master Hua!" Several teachers stood up and saluted him.
"Teachers, you are too polite. Learning is endless. Learning a lot does not necessarily mean high knowledge!" Hua Kai said modestly.
The students who had registered around couldn't help but look over. Some students had admiration in their eyes, while others were eager to try. This time, they all had the possibility of going on stage to fight. As long as they could defeat Hua Kai, they would surely become famous.
In the afternoon, the teacher asked everyone to rest early. Tomorrow morning was the day when the debate conference would start. At that time, all the noble families of Qin would come to watch the competition, and Qin Zheng would also come. All the students were looking forward to seeing the strongest man in the world.
In the morning of June 1st, Hua Kai ate the breakfast brought by the maid. He got dressed and went out. He saw that the teacher had already waited outside the door with other students.
"Son, how did you rest? Someone may choose to debate with you today. You are the hope of our academy." A teacher said.
Hua Kai also knew the rules of the debate. The entire debate conference was divided into three rounds. In the first round, each person won three consecutive rounds of debates and advanced directly. After everyone had three chances to debate, the top ten would enter the next round according to their scores.
The second round was to draw lots to determine the opponents. The five winners were decided by the commentary teacher to advance directly, and the other four would compete in pairs and the winner would enter the finals.
In the third round, three people debated with each other, and the judges and the King of Qin jointly decided who would be the final winner. The winner would win the final prize, the Lingbao-level inkstone.
"Thank you for your concern, teacher. I had a good rest last night!" Hua Kai said to the teacher who cared about him.
As the world's number one academy, the Jixia Academy has attracted much attention in this debate, especially the host Xianyang Academy, which regards the Jixia Academy as its first opponent.
"You will have no problem entering the finals if you perform normally. I heard that there are a total of four saints participating this time, Xiang Chen from Chu, Zhao Chao from Zhao, and Qin Jiao, the prince of Qin. They are all young saints who have achieved great success early, especially Qin Jiao, the saint of Qin, who is unparalleled in destiny. At the age of 19 this year, he is already a master of Confucianism and Yin-Yang School. You should pay attention!" said the leader.
Hua Kai nodded. There are so many talented people in the world. Qin Jiao can master the Confucianism and Yin-Yang School at the age of 19. He has a great chance of achieving the Golden Elixir in the future. The King of Qin gave the Lingbao-level inkstone as the final reward this time, which is probably specially prepared for Qin Jiao.
When they came to the debate stage, all the teachers were blocked outside. Hua Kai and the other nine contestants from Jixia Academy followed a teacher to the debate stage.
The area of this debate stage is not small. At the front is the contestant debate area, on the left are the debater seats, and on the right are the teachers of each academy. They will make a judgment when the strength of the two contestants is similar.
Finally, a high position was specially set up with a chair made of pure gold. Three giants sat below and were the main referees of this debate conference.
Everyone sat down and waited at ease. They looked at the thousands of students and Qin nobles sitting below the debate stage, discussing the strength of each contestant on the stage.
Hua Kai sat in the debater seat No. 1, next to him was Qin Jiao, and the four saints occupied the first four seats in the debate seat. Qin Jiao saw Hua Kai and smiled at him.
At this time, a tall carriage slowly drove over from a distance. Hua Kai saw that the roof of the carriage was nearly ten feet high. Eight pure white horses pulled the carriage like a palace. Hundreds of blood dragon guards followed closely behind the carriage. When the carriage stopped, a general in golden armor pulled the curtain.
Many people in the audience were excited to see this. They looked at the carriage with admiration. A young man in silk clothes slowly got off the carriage.
But seeing that he was only in his twenties, it was hard to imagine that he could have a son as old as Qin Jiao. Hua Kai took a look at the other party and dared not look at him again. If he couldn't help but use the [Eye of Truth] to check, he was afraid that he really couldn't leave Xianyang City.
The last time he investigated the teacher Zeng Shen Saint, he was finally sent to Qin State to participate in the competition by the teacher. Although this was a kind of training for himself, Hua Kai felt that it was more of a punishment.
Qin Zheng was surrounded by several golden-armored blood dragon guards and came to the stage. Everyone stood up and saluted him.
The people of Qin performed the etiquette of subjects, Qin Jiao performed the etiquette of sons and nephews, and Hua Kai and others performed the etiquette of monarchs.
When Qin Zheng went up to the platform alone, he waved and everyone sat down. Hua Kai saw him looking at him, and he didn't know whether he was curious about the fact that he took the No. 1 position that should have belonged to Qin Jiao, or because he was the youngest of all the contestants.
"Sorry to have kept you waiting! Today, the Xianyang Academy held a debate conference for students from hundreds of countries. This is a rare grand ceremony for all schools, and we are fortunate to be able to watch it.
The grassland wolf disaster caused great suffering to the people, and then there was a severe drought for three consecutive years. Every time I think of this, my heart is extremely heavy. I hope there is a way to relieve the suffering of the people in the world. The main content of the discussion this time is how to make the people live a good life, so that we can be free from the persecution of wild beasts, and make the human race stronger in the future.
All students who are excellent in debate will receive rewards from me. There is no limit to the debate. Everyone can say anything. I am here to appreciate the excellent performance of all students."
After Qin Zheng finished speaking, he sat alone on the high platform, as if he was the king of everyone. The people of Qin were very excited and proud when they saw this, but the students and teachers of other countries were extremely resistant. Qin Zheng had already regarded himself as the common master of the world.
After Qin Zheng finished speaking, a giant of the Xianyang Academy came out and began to preside over the debate conference. He first read out the rules of this debate.
"All students will choose their opponents in order starting from No. 46 according to their numbers. Those who have participated in the debate cannot be chosen again. After three rounds of debate, all judges will rank the top ten students according to their scores and enter the second round. Now No. 46 will choose your debate opponent." The giant said on the stage.
The No. 46 student was a student from Zheng State who was over 30 years old. He stood up and saluted Qin Zheng on the high stage, then bowed to the three giants, all the teachers and the debate seats before walking to the debate stage. All the students looked at him to know who he would choose.
"Zheng Bolun, a student from Lishan College of Zheng State, asks for advice from debater No. 27!"
The student from Zheng State was full of confidence on the debate stage. No. 27 was a student from Chen State who looked only in his 20s. Zheng State and Chen State had always been at odds, so it was natural for him to choose a student from Chen State.
The student from Chen State also saluted everyone present and walked to another debate stage to salute his challenger. Student etiquette is one of the most important courses. If the etiquette is not right, it will leave a bad impression on the judges and teachers.