Lanyuan Competition

The Lanyuan Competition is held once every one hundred years.

Each sect sends their top students to participate. The ten participants that score highest win the right to enter the Land of Heavenly Prayers.

Contestants are not required, but very strongly encouraged, to kill one other, and the contest is biased against non-combatants. Due to the grudge of an influential man, it is especially biased against alchemists. Angry that the woman he loved married an alchemist instead, he had the competition held in a land that an alchemist's constitution finds uncomfortably hot, and no alchemist has ever been able to triumph in the competition.