"This competition has no time limit and will continue until this disciple dies or recovers. Now, please show us your skills."

"No matter what kind of medicinal herbs are needed, our Shenmu Sect will provide them."

"Then, the third round of the competition shall now begin!"

As soon as Aoki Masato finished speaking, the atmosphere in the room immediately became tense and oppressive.

The ten alchemists looked at each other, none of them making the first move.

"Elder Lin, why don't you go first? After all, you were the first place winner in both the first and second rounds," Ling Tianxing said.

"No, let's all make the first move," Night Wind said.

"Why? Elder Lin, are you afraid?" an alchemist asked with a smile.

Night Breeze said calmly, "I'm just afraid that if I heal this person as soon as I make a move, you won't have a chance to act."

Upon hearing Ye Feng's words, the alchemist's face immediately showed a defiant expression.

"Since Elder Lin puts it that way, then I'll give it a try first!"

After saying this, the alchemist looked at Master Qingmu and shouted, "I need the Crimson Wood Spiritual Root now..."

The alchemist listed more than twenty kinds of medicinal herbs in one go, including many rare and precious ones, but Master Qingmu, sitting on the high platform, didn't even frown.

"Arrange everything for him."

"It's Master Aoki," he said calmly.

The Shenmu Sect disciple who was serving immediately nodded and accepted the order. Before long, the Shenmu Sect disciple brought over all the medicinal materials that the alchemist had just reported.

The alchemist immediately started refining pills on the spot, preparing to try to neutralize the Heart-Devouring Soul-Extinguishing Pill in the body of this outer disciple of the Divine Wood Sect.

"I never expected that this round of the competition would involve using that Shenmu Sect disciple to detoxify. If no one can neutralize the toxins in his body, he's doomed," Sun Muqing couldn't help but say.

"yes."

Jiang Lingxuan nodded in agreement.

Although Sun Muqing and Jiang Lingxuan did not know that outer disciple of the Shenmu Sect, they both felt sympathy for him.

After all, that outer disciple of the Divine Wood Sect was indeed in a very miserable state at the moment, like a fish on a chopping board, ready to be slaughtered, or like a paralyzed white mouse, at the mercy of others.

His fate, even his life and death, were no longer in his own hands!

However, Sun Muqing and Jiang Lingxuan only felt sympathy and did not intend to say or do anything on behalf of the poisoned outer disciple of the Shenmu Sect.

After all, Master Qingmu had just said that the outer disciple of the Divine Wood Sect might have accidentally ingested the Heart-Devouring Soul-Extinguishing Pill, or he might have deliberately stolen an elder's pills but was unlucky enough to eat the Heart-Devouring Soul-Extinguishing Pill.

If it's the former, then it's understandable.

But if it's the latter, then they deserve it!

People from various sects at the scene began to discuss the matter and express their opinions.

More than an hour passed before the alchemist finally opened the furnace and collected a completed elixir.

"Heavenly Spirit Reversal Elixir?"

When Elder Sun Shaoling of Danxia Cave saw the pills refined by the alchemist, a look of understanding appeared on her face.

Actually, when Sun Shaoling heard the alchemist announce the medicinal materials, she had already vaguely guessed that he was going to refine the Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill. However, guesses are just guesses, and she could not draw any conclusions until she saw the result.

Now that she saw that the alchemist had indeed refined a Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill, Sun Shaoling knew that her judgment was correct.

Moreover, the Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill is a seventh-grade elixir with detoxification and healing effects, and its effects are very strong.

Taking the Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill is like reversing the poisoned person's condition back to before the poisoning.

That is why this elixir was named the Heavenly Spirit Reversal Elixir.

The Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill is very difficult to refine, and this alchemist succeeded in refining it on the first try, which shows that his alchemy skills are not bad, but rather very proficient.

"That's right, it's the Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill! My Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill might be able to neutralize the Heart-Devouring Soul-Extinguishing Pill inside this person!" the alchemist said excitedly.

"I remember you're from Tianjian Mountain, and your name is Cao Changqing. Everyone in Tianjian Mountain is a sword cultivator, but you're skilled in alchemy, which really surprises me," Sun Shaoling said with a sigh.

"Our Heavenly Sword Mountain simply has the most sword cultivators, not all of them are sword cultivators."

Cao Changqing shook his head and stopped explaining. He strode over and stood in front of the outer disciple of the Shenmu Sect.

Because he was poisoned by the Heart-Eating Soul-Destroying Pill, this outer disciple of the Divine Wood Sect was unconscious and motionless, like a living dead.

In this situation, he certainly couldn't take the elixir himself.

Cao Changqing then raised his right hand, and the Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill immediately appeared in his palm, spinning rapidly.

Strands of pure true energy gushed from Cao Changqing's palm, gradually splitting the Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill. Then, the true energy mixed with the medicinal power of the pill and landed on the outer disciple of the Divine Wood Sect.

Cao Changqing used a forced infusion method, a method that Jiang Lingxuan had also used on the villagers of Qianlin Village.

Once the medicinal power of the Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill had fully entered the body of this outer disciple of the Divine Wood Sect, his complexion immediately improved significantly, and some of the color returned to his pale and bluish cheeks.

Seeing this, Cao Changqing smiled with satisfaction.

"It seems my Heavenly Spirit Reversal Elixir..."

Cao Changqing was about to show off a bit, but before he could finish speaking, the outer disciple of the Shenmu Sect suddenly let out a muffled groan while unconscious, and his face, which had regained its color, turned pale again.

"What...what's going on?"

Cao Changqing stared incredulously at the outer disciple of the Shenmu Sect lying on the ground, his face full of question marks.

Night Breeze said calmly, "The Soul-Devouring Pill not only affects the physical body, but also erodes the soul. Although the Heavenly Spirit Reversal Pill has a very powerful detoxification effect, it can only target the physical body and cannot resolve the damage to the soul caused by the Soul-Devouring Pill."

"That's why you couldn't cure him and wake him from his coma. This outcome is not unexpected."

Cao Changqing's face turned extremely ugly. He gritted his teeth and said angrily, "You knew from the beginning? Then why didn't you warn me?"

"Why should I remind you? We are both alchemists participating in the alchemy competition, and we are competitors. Why should I help you? Besides, seeing how confident you were, I thought you were hiding some clever and ingenious method. But it turns out you didn't prepare any follow-up measures at all, which is beyond my expectations. Naturally, I didn't have time to react," Ye Feng said calmly.

Upon hearing Ye Feng's words, Cao Changqing's face turned ashen with anger, and he glared and puffed out his beard.