"Go ahead, how do you want to compete? This time, I'll let you choose first—pick what you're best at." Long Chen waved his hand and tossed the animal skin paper in his hand:
"Of course, you can also choose the same as I just did. That is your only chance to fight me to a draw."
Long Chen's bold words stunned everyone. Long Chen was so bold—was he really that confident, or had he already given up?
"I'm the master, you're the guest. The choice is yours. Except for the Life-and-Death Reincarnation Star-Fixing Pill, you can choose any of which. I'll defeat you at your strongest point and show you how high the sky and earth are in this world." Ye Qian sneered, waved his hand, and the animal skin paper flew back into Long Chen's hand.
Ye Qian also had his pride and was full of confidence. On the pill manual, aside from the Life-and-Death Reincarnation Star-Fixing Pill, he had lifelong confidence in everything.
"Alright, I don't want to choose. I'm afraid people will say I'm bullying you. Since you don't want to choose, fine, let the people here help us choose." After Long Chen finished speaking, he tossed the animal skin paper to the examiner elder standing on the stage.
The proctor elder took the alchemy manual, looking confused, not knowing what Long Chen meant.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
Suddenly, Long Chen waved his large hand, sending out three beams of light. Immediately, three people in the distant crowd cried out in alarm.
Three small fruits struck their foreheads, shattering and soaking their faces in blood-red fluid.
The three were startled and hurried to wipe it off, but the sap was gone, but their faces were already stained red. They were both shocked and angry: "
Blue Flower Blood Face Fruit, Long Chen, you ...!"
This is a rare medicine. The flowers that bloom are pure blue, but the fruit is as red as blood. Once the juice touches the skin, it seeps in immediately and won't dissipate for several months.
This thing isn't poisonous, but it's embarrassing, making them tremble with anger.
"Just now, among the disciples of the Divine Pill Hall, you were the loudest screamers. Now I'm giving you a chance to name a number between one and ten." Long Chen said. The three had just cursed the hardest. Long Chen was no devotee; he'd already remembered his grudge, and now he was about to take revenge.
"Why should we say this? Long Chen, you're provoking the Divine Pill Hall. What are you ...?" the disciple shouted.
"Shut up. If you want me to choose, I'll choose." Ye Qian said coldly.
"Five,"
"Nine,"
"Three"
—the three had no choice but to reluctantly state the numbers. They already hated Long Chen to death. Their only wish now was for Ye Qian to defeat Long Chen. Admiring Long Chen's disheveled state.
"593, you picked this at will. There's no way I'd collude with you.
As you can see, I hit them with fruit to prove my position.
Everyone looked at their eyes, almost as if they wanted to bite me to death. In this situation, I absolutely had no chance of cheating, so no one knew this number beforehand.
Examiner, please name the pill number 593. Positive count is counted from the back, up to the left. Long Chen said.
Only then did people understand what Long Chen meant by asking each of them to name a number. This pill was indeed chosen casually, and no one would know in advance. Neither of them would take advantage of the other.
Rumor has it that the pills listed in this manual are not ranked by difficulty, but by the order in which they were created, and the difficulty levels are all chaotic.
"The pill number five hundred ninety-third is..."
When he saw the name of that pill, even the examiner's expression changed slightly: "Hundred Paths Harmonize Spirit Fusion Pill." When
the proctor announced the name of the Hundred Harmonious Resonance Spirit Pills, the other Divine Clan disciples looked confused, but the disciples of the Divine Pill Hall gasped in shock.
This Hundred Paths Harmonious Spirit Fusion Pill is an extremely difficult pill to refine. Its refining requires not only extremely powerful flames but also overwhelming soul power. Besides alchemy techniques, mastery of the power of the Heavenly Dao is also required; otherwise, the power of the Heavenly Dao cannot be infused into the pill, and if the pill has a body but no soul, it is a useless pill.
In fact, the Hundred Paths Harmonious Melody Fusion Pill is not an ordinary pill, but a kind of spiritual pill. A so-called spirit pill is one that inherently possesses spiritual properties.
During alchemy, capturing the power of the Heavenly Dao to nourish the pill and let it give birth to its own spirituality—this is different from the Elixir Thunder awakening spirit—the two are vastly different.
"Long Chen, you are bound to lose. This Hundred Paths Harmonious Spirit Fusion Pill happens to be one of the pills I excel at refining. Just wait to embarrass yourself, hahaha." Ye Qian laughed heartily, feeling triumphant, as if he had already won.
"Senior Brother Ye Qian is truly amazing. Not only can he refine the Hundred Paths of Harmonious Resonance Spirit Fusion Pills, but he's also skilled at it. Long Chen, that country bumpkin, what does he have to compare to Senior Brother Ye Qian?"
"How can someone like that be compared to Senior Brother Ye Qian? This is a form of desecration of Senior Brother Ye Qian."
"Hehe, let's wait for Long Chen to kneel on the ground and bark like a dog. Thinking about Long Chen's arrogance before, then the scene after his defeat, hahaha, I'm starting to get impatient."
For a moment, the disciples of the Divine Pill Hall seemed to have seen the outcome, each one extremely excited and starting to gloat.
Wanqing shook her head and sighed, "Are all disciples of the Divine Clan foolish?" If Brother Long Chen wins, how will they end it? Is it really that fun to be proven wrong? "
Ahem, that Fairy Wanqing, I need to correct your wording—not a disciple of the Divine Clan, but a disciple of the Divine Pill Hall." Shen Chengfeng said awkwardly.
"Oh, sorry, slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue." Wanqing hurriedly apologized. She had indeed misspoken, and in an instant, she had brought Shen Chengfeng and the warriors of the Eighth Heavenly Dragon Legion inside.
Shen Chengfeng smiled and said, "It's fine. Actually, the current Divine Pill Hall is just like this. Although the hall is full of talented people now, it's still too arrogant."
We can't stand them either, but there's nothing we can do. After all, they're all esteemed alchemists, the top talents in the cultivation world. The divine clan relies heavily on them, so they've all developed problems from being spoiled.
Sometimes, when you walk past them, they even call you rude, as if not saluteing a great alchemist is a grave sin.
The way they looked, it was as if without an alchemist, we cultivators couldn't survive. Honestly, I wanted to hit them several times, but unfortunately, I don't have the guts of Long Chen. The
disciples of the Divine Pill Hall were too arrogant. Most people would keep their distance, not because they were afraid of them, but because they feared they might not be able to hold back and beat them to death, lest they lose their lives.
So when Long Chen slapped that disciple of the Divine Pill Hall, he couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction. Now, he was eager for Long Chen to win, to slap them hard and see what arrogance they could keep arrogantly trying to do.
While the disciples of the Divine Pill Hall were praising Ye Qian and constantly belittling and humiliating Long Chen, a disciple had already appeared, bringing rare medicines to the high platform where the two were standing.
There are over seven hundred types of rare medicines alone, each divided into three parts. This is the standard assessment system: each person has three chances and is allowed one or two mistakes. If they fail all three, they fail completely.
"Since you two are refining the Hundred Paths Harmonious Spirit Fusion Pill, this pill is extremely difficult and time-consumingIt's extremely long, and with so many people around, it has a certain impact on the venue.
Originally, the assessment for pills of this specification was supposed to last three days, but considering that there were too many Yantian practitioners nearby, the power of the Heavenly Dao would become chaotic, so the assessment was extended to five days.
Are you both ready? If you're ready, you can start anytime. "The chief examiner had a huge hourglass beside him. As soon as the two nodded, he would immediately start timing.
"Let's begin, the sooner we begin, the sooner we finish. I've got my things, I still have things to do when I get back." Long Chen replied nonchalantly.
Ye Qian sneered without saying anything, just nodded, and the chief examiner immediately waved his hand.
"The match begins."
Runes trembled above the huge hourglass, and within the transparent hourglass, dark red sand slowly fell.
As the match began, Ye Qian took a deep breath. In that instant, he seemed to become a different person. The previous arrogance, domineering, and violent aura vanished, replaced by calm, as if everything before had been an act.
"Heh heh, once Senior Brother Ye Qian starts refining pills, he enters a state of forgetting both himself and things. Aside from pills, there is nothing else. I doubt I'll ever reach that level in my lifetime." A disciple of the Divine Pill Hall said with admiration. Although he was also a genius in alchemy, compared to Ye Qian, he was worlds apart.
Seeing Ye Qian's current state, his master—the hall master of the Divine Pill Hall—looked at the pill master and said, "Once Qian'er starts refining pills, he calms all his emotions. For young disciples, this is extremely rare—even the older generation of pill cultivators can't do it."
Ye Qian was his pride, which was why he treated Ye Qian better than his own son. He spared no effort in nurturing Ye Qian, wishing he could even dig out his own heart and liver for him. Because with such a disciple, all his regrets could be realized through Ye Qian.
Now, seeing Ye Qian get into the right state, the head of the Divine Pill Hall immediately became proud. To have trained such a disciple, he would have no regrets in this lifetime.
"A calm heart on the surface doesn't necessarily mean the heart is calm. Even if the inside and outside are consistent, what if external forces invade?" The Pill Master spoke slowly, without any intention of praising Ye Qian.
The Hall Master of the Divine Pill Hall immediately felt uneasy. The Lord of the Pill Hall's disapproval of Ye Qian was even harder to accept than not having faith in him.
But the Pill Master's status in the Divine Pill Hall was supreme. He dared not defy him and could only suppress the anger in his heart.
"Feeling a bit dissatisfied, aren't you? Take your time and see. The Lord of the Pill Master smiled faintly, ignored him, and looked toward the center of the Divine Pill Plaza, saying no more.
The Hall Master of the Divine Pill Hall looked grim as he looked toward the arena, a cold smile suddenly appearing on his face.