The jade venue was divided into two levels.
The lower level was the broadest and most expansive, where the cultivators competed against one another.
The upper level was relatively much smaller, with four or five thousand stone chairs. It was where the spectators observed and discussed the Dao.
Naturally, the spectators who could come to Medicine God Mountain to attend the Dao Discussion Convention were no ordinary people.
According to the traditions of the Medicine God Mountain Dao Discussion Convention, only powerful figures such as the rulers of various nations, sect masters, and holy land masters were generally permitted to enter the spectator seats of the jade venue and watch cultivators from across the world compete in both alchemy and medicine.
Of course, these people had not come merely to pass the time. Basically, they all had certain objectives.
For example, they might select cultivators of considerable strength at the convention as partners to jointly refine pills with extraordinary medicinal effects.
Or they might hire them to hold certain positions in their nations, sects, or holy lands, offering generous rewards and entrusting them with matters concerning alchemy and medicine within their own factions.
Since this Dao Discussion Convention was the largest in history, there were also quite a few spectators in attendance.
Many of them possessed extremely illustrious identities. They were renowned throughout their regions, and some were even famous across the world.
Looking around, more than four thousand people were already seated in the spectator stands, all of them imposing in bearing and extraordinary in temperament.
When an elderly man in a milky-white robe, carrying rainbow radiance upon his back and holding a whisk in his hand, with crane-white hair and silver beard, stepped onto the spectator stands, the four thousand people seated there let out their first cries