signingbooks Chapter 353 The First Competition
Chapter 353 The First Competition
After Li Qingqing sent the pill formula over, Lu Yu and Mingxin spent the whole night studying it and finally understood many details.
The next day, on their way to the competition, Mingxin sighed.
"Fortunately, Manager Li showed us the pill formula in advance. Otherwise, we would have made fools of ourselves today."
"Indeed, if certain key points are not handled well, it could either explode or become a useless pill. It's not easy," Lu Yu nodded.
The more explosive the effect of a pill, the higher the difficulty of refining it. This is almost a consensus among all alchemists.
Being prepared in advance is obviously beneficial for their competition today.
When they arrived at the competition venue and entered the martial arts arena with their tokens, they found that everyone seemed to have arrived early today.
Counting casually, there were sixteen people, neither more nor less.
Today's competition venue was divided into two parts, with the larger part naturally being the place for the competition. The other part served as the rest area for the participants.
There were several chairs in the rest area, and those who arrived early had already taken their seats.
"All the participants have arrived, let's start the competition," Mingxin said.
Today's competition would definitely take a long time, so as soon as the referee saw that everyone was present, he immediately announced the start of the competition.
This round was a one-on-one battle, but in reality, the questions were the same, the pill formula that Li Qingqing gave to Lu Yu and the others yesterday - the Exploding Spirit Pill.
Almost everyone showed no surprise when they heard the question.
Seeing everyone's expressions, Lu Yu understood.
If he guessed correctly, the topic of this competition should have been leaked by the Greedy Wolf Hall a long time ago. Anyway, the point of the one-on-one battle was to see who could refine more and better pills, so the topic wasn't very important.
Almost every participant who made it to the finals had a strong background. Even Li Qingqing had obtained the topic, so it wasn't surprising that they received the competition question.
After the competition started, the two participants were called to the front to begin refining.
The refining of the Exploding Spirit Pill was different from other pills; it only took two hours. Compared to the usual one-day refining time for other pills, it was considered very fast.
So this pill was indeed quite suitable for today's competition.
One of the first two participants was from the Medicine King Valley.
With the same proud expression as the Medicine King Valley, Gu Yi walked up to the martial arts stage.
The other participant was a member of a prominent family, dressed in white and looking talented.
"Gu Yi, Ling Tianqing, do you both understand the competition question?" Mingxin asked.
"Yes," the two nodded in response.
"Good, then the competition officially begins! The refining time is two and a half hours."
The referee didn't waste any time and immediately announced the start of the competition.
After the competition started, the two almost simultaneously took out their pill furnaces.
Gu Yi took out an ordinary Profound Grade pill furnace. The black pill furnace looked ancient and heavy, probably a good treasure-level pill furnace.
On the other hand, Ling Tianqing was slightly slower, taking out a pill furnace that shimmered with silver light.
"Swish..."
When the pill furnace appeared on the martial arts stage, everyone was shocked.
"Silver Flash? The Ling family of Wanxing City is truly extraordinary. They have brought out a top-tier Earth Grade pill furnace as soon as they made a move."
"Silver Flash can increase the success rate of pill refining by at least thirty percent. It seems that the Ling family is determined to win this competition."
"No wonder it's the Ling family, they are rich and powerful."
Everyone was extremely surprised when they saw this silver-glowing pill furnace.
Because this pill furnace was very famous, it was once a beloved possession of a master alchemist.
A few years ago, the master rode a crane and went west, and the whereabouts of this alchemy furnace are unknown. Unexpectedly, it was obtained by the Ling family.
With the appearance of the alchemy furnace, Ling Tianqing surpassed Gu Yiyi in one move.
Although it was just an external object, the expression on Gu Yi's face was even worse than when he was compared to the alchemy furnace.
"Hmph, the alchemy furnace is just an external object. If it explodes later, it will be a big joke."
A disciple of the Medicine King Valley under the martial arts stage said sourly.
After everyone was amazed by Ling Tianqing's alchemy furnace, he began to gather materials for alchemy.
Because they had already entered the finals, and the materials for the exploding spirit pill were not very precious, all the materials for this competition were provided by the Greedy Wolf Hall.
This made the competition more fair and avoided any material issues.
Casually holding some materials in his hand, Ling Tianqing began to handle the medicinal herbs with one hand.
Seeing him demonstrate this skill, several disciples of the Medicine King Valley all showed serious expressions.
Being able to handle these medicinal herbs with one hand, Ling Tianqing's strength was not weak.
They also claimed to be geniuses in alchemy in the Medicine King Valley, but it seemed difficult for them to handle the medicinal herbs with one hand.
At least it was impossible for them to do it as effortlessly as Ling Tianqing.
"Ling Tianqing was the first to complete the refining in the preliminary round. His strength is not bad."
Lu Yu could see clearly from below.
Ling Tianqing's movements were smooth and graceful, giving people a strong sense of beauty. It seemed that everything should be done this way.
On the other hand, Gu Yi, although proficient in handling materials, was slightly inferior compared to Ling Tianqing.
Both of them skillfully handled the materials and then started alchemy almost at the same time.
There wasn't much fanfare in the alchemy process, everyone could only wait quietly.
Two hours quietly passed.
Just as the two-hour mark was reached, everyone looked up.
The two people on the martial arts stage almost simultaneously made a move.
They seemed to have rehearsed in advance, both raising their hands and opening the alchemy furnace.
"Begin!"
The two shouted loudly, then quickly reached out to extract the pills from the alchemy furnace and put them into bottles.
After the pills were prepared, the two of them glanced at each other, all showing expressions of dissatisfaction.
It seemed that they were confident in the pills they had refined.
At this time, three judges walked over from the side and took the pills from their hands.
The three of them inspected the two bottles of pills, discussed for a while, and then reached a conclusion.
"Both players have successfully completed the refining. Gu Yi has refined seven exploding spirit pills, all of high quality."
"Hoo..."
Lu Yu could clearly feel the relief from the disciples of the Medicine King Valley below the stage.
Obviously, this result was quite good.
The success rate of the exploding spirit pill was about fifty percent, which meant that being able to refine five pills was considered normal. Gu Yi's strength was clearly above average.
"Ling Tianqing has refined seven exploding spirit pills, six of high quality, and one of top quality. Ling Tianqing wins this competition!"
"What? This is impossible!"
"Just a little bit short? Ling Tianqing is just lucky. He only managed to refine a top quality pill because of the Silver Flash's bonus. In terms of absolute strength, he is no match for Senior Brother Gu Yi!"
As the results were announced, several participants below were all shocked.