Duan Wen angrily said, "You're such a lingering ghost! You're not an alchemist, so what's the point of taking a picture of this furnace? It's just a pile of scrap metal."

Now if you obediently hand over the Black Gold Panfeng Furnace to me, all previous matters will be forgiven, and I promise that the Alchemy Association will not cause you any trouble. However, if you don't know what's good for you, I will make you disappear from Jinghai City tomorrow!"

Long Yi glanced at Duan Wensheng with disdain and sneered, "Why should I give it to you? Is it because of your basically negative IQ, or because of your thicker-skinned face than a city wall?

Besides, who says I'm not an alchemist? Aside from the people in your Alchemy Association, isn't there an alchemist in this world? "

Duan Wensheng said contemptuously, "I can really guarantee that apart from the people in my Alchemy Association, there are no independent alchemists."

The reason why he was so confident was that becoming an alchemist required years of study and practice, during which time countless amounts of money and rare treasures would be spent. A rough estimate was that it would cost at least 700 to 800 million, not to mention that the Alchemy Association had long since achieved a monopoly on alchemy.

Ordinary casual practitioners simply have no access to books related to alchemy.

Long Yi said calmly: "What if I say I am an alchemist?"

Duan Wensheng and his three men laughed so hard that they fell over, holding their stomachs, as if they had heard a terrible joke.

"Master Duan, did you hear that clearly? This kid actually said he was an alchemist. How ridiculous!"

"These days, anyone can call themselves an alchemist?"

Ling Lei whispered a reminder, "Brother Long, although Duan Wensheng's character may not be good, he is indeed a true Xuan-level alchemist. If you say that and he wants to compete in alchemy later, you might be embarrassed."

Ye Qingxue's eyes were also filled with worry. She whispered, "Husband, you never told me you could make pills before. This will easily give people a chance to use you against us."

Long Yi smiled slightly, "I just learned this alchemy technique a few days ago. It seems quite simple. If he wants to compete, then he can come."

The VIPs around were in an uproar.

"This young man is too arrogant. How can alchemy be learned overnight? This is simply nonsense."

"I admit he has a unique eye for treasure appraisal, but it's ridiculous that he can't even begin to master alchemy without at least 10 to 20 years of experience."

Duan Wensheng's eyes rolled around and a plan came to his mind. He admitted that Long Yi's martial arts were better than his, but when it came to alchemy, there were very few of his peers who were better than him, not to mention that Long Yi was just a young boy.

"Mr. Long, since you are so confident, do you dare to compete with me?"

Long Yi said without thinking: "How to compete? Since it's a bet, what is the stakes?"

Duan Wensheng said, "We will refine a batch of pills within half an hour and see who can refine a pill of higher grade and better quality. The pill appraisers from Lingxiao Pavilion will serve as judges.

As for the bet, whoever loses will pay the winner one hundred thousand taels of gold for the Black Gold Panfeng Furnace and voluntarily withdraw from the bidding."

Ling Lei stood up and said angrily: "Aren't you clearly bullying me? You are 20 years older than Brother Long and have already been a Xuan-level alchemist, while Brother Long..."

He was interrupted by Long Yi halfway through his words, "Brother Ling, thank you for speaking up for me, but this is nothing to me. My alchemy skills are not inferior to his."

"This..." Ling Lei sat down after a moment of silence. After all, the person in charge said that everything was fine, so he couldn't say much.

Long Yi turned to Duan Wensheng and said, "Let's do as you say. The guests present here will be witnesses."

The guests present had no complaints about the auction being interrupted. After all, it was not easy to watch others making pills, and they also wanted to witness whether Long Yi was really as good as he said.

After Long Yi walked onto the auction stage, he said, "Duan Wensheng, I need an alchemy furnace to make the elixir. Lend me yours or I can use this black gold panfeng furnace."

The alchemy furnace was Duan Wensheng's livelihood tool, so he naturally didn't want to lend it out. Moreover, for an alchemist, using an unfamiliar alchemy furnace would make it very likely that he couldn't control the temperature well, which would result in the furnace exploding.

He said, "I can't lend it to you. Just use the Black Gold Panfeng Furnace and see how much weight you have."

Duan Wensheng's men shouted from the audience, "A person who doesn't even have an alchemy furnace has the nerve to call himself an alchemist. Aren't they afraid of getting their tongue flicked?"

The truth is that the threshold to becoming an alchemist is extremely high. How could Long Yi learn alchemy without even an alchemy furnace? Ling Lei and Ye Qingxue couldn't help but worry for Long Yi.

Long Yi walked up to the goblin and asked, "Can I borrow this alchemy furnace? I'll return it to you after the gambling is over."

The goblin had a good impression of Long Yi and said readily, "No problem. I hope you will be the winner in the end."

On the field, two treasure appraisers from Lingxiao Pavilion stepped forward and said, "The alchemy competition has officially begun. Alchemists, please prepare. The timer has begun!"

Duan Wensheng set up his alchemy furnace with full confidence, and mobilized the true energy in his body frantically, ready to transform it into a flame specifically for alchemy at any time.

Transforming one's own essence into flames is the threshold for alchemists. You must know that it is impossible to refine pills with ordinary flames.

The degree of firepower required for different elixirs changes subtly all the time, not to mention that elixirs also need the nourishment of the flame transformed from true qi.

The pill that Duan Wensheng chose to refine this time was the Pulse Protection Pill of the initial stage of the Profound Realm, which was also the pill with the highest success rate among all the pills he could refine.

At this time, Duan Wensheng had already made all the preparations. He put all the necessary medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace according to the proportions. After the true energy in his palms turned into flames, he began to refine the elixir in an orderly manner.

On the other hand, there was still no movement on Long Yi's side, and he looked like he was in meditation.

"Five minutes have passed, why is this young man sitting there without making any noise?"

"I guess he just boasted a lot, but in reality he doesn't know how to make pills at all. Now he can only watch helplessly."

"Hey, why is he trying to act cool when he's fine? He's going to lose two hundred million."

In fact, Long Yi was not meditating, but was looking around the storage space for the pills he needed to refine.

"The space inside this Sumeru mustard seed is getting bigger and bigger. Why were those herbs I put there before so hard to find... I finally found them all!"

After Long Yi's consciousness came out of the storage space, he had a few more medicinal herbs in his hand, including thousand-year-old Polygonum multiflorum, Tianshan Snow Lotus, Su Mu and other expensive medicinal herbs.

Fortunately, he had reserved some of the best herbs when he helped Sensoutang to purchase them, otherwise today he would be in a difficult situation.

Long Yi looked at the time and saw that ten minutes had passed. He threw all the herbs in his hand into the furnace.