The host seemed to realize he had rambled on a bit, and after a few more words, announced the start of the competition.
The three judges sitting on the judging panel were all members of the Alchemy Guild, and at a relatively high level, not some nobody.
The alchemist sitting in the middle is a sixth-grade alchemist, and the two next to him are also peak fifth-grade alchemists. The three of them are serving as judges this time, and their biggest responsibility is to select good talents for the Alchemy Guild.
Alchemy doesn't require cultivation. There are relatively more promising talents for cultivation, but there aren't that many promising talents for alchemy.
Therefore, encountering a promising talent with alchemy ability requires immense luck.
They, as alchemists, were well aware of this, because their talent wasn't particularly outstanding; they had only reached this level through their own efforts.
That's why they know what having a good talent means to an alchemist.
At this moment, the alchemy competition has begun, and the participating alchemists have all taken their positions and are preparing for alchemy.
When Liu Xiaoyuan saw Jiang Qingming take out a cauldron shaped like a wok for alchemy, he went to select the medicinal herbs needed to refine the Rejuvenation Pill.
Liu Xiaoyuan immediately turned his gaze away from Jiang Qingming and onto Lu Yifeng. This guy was after Yang Zihan, so he absolutely couldn't let him win the championship. Even if he did win, he would have to bring him down.
Lu Yifeng's alchemy furnace is a small cauldron, a magical artifact used by his grandfather for alchemy. He learned this by overhearing their conversation last night.
After Lu Yifeng took out the small cauldron, he began to select medicinal herbs for alchemy.
This time, the face is different from the past. In the past, the alchemy guild would prepare the medicinal materials for you, and you could start refining it yourself. That was to test your alchemy skills.
However, this time you have to choose the medicinal materials yourself, which adds another layer of difficulty. If you choose the wrong medicinal materials, you will not be able to refine the required pills.
Furthermore, even if you choose the right medicinal herbs, if the proportions between them are incorrect, you will not be able to refine the elixir.
Therefore, in the path of alchemy, even the slightest error can lead to a huge mistake!
Lu Yifeng seemed particularly confident in his abilities, with a smug smile always on his face.
When Liu Xiaoyuan saw the expression on this guy's face, he wanted to take off his shoes and throw them in his face.
Some alchemists wore long faces. Although this kind of pill was not very complicated, many alchemists were not familiar with its formula. As a result, if the amount of each herb was wrong, the result would not be a pill, but garbage.
The judges observed the expressions and actions of each alchemist, as the process of selecting medicinal herbs revealed who possessed the talent for alchemy.
Of course, this one step alone cannot determine the winner, but those who don't know how to do it can be completely identified as mediocre and can be dismissed!
After everyone had selected the medicinal materials they needed, they began to prepare to refine the pills. The best material for refining pills was the strange fire of heaven and earth, but strange fire was not so easy to obtain.
Even among the three judges on stage, only the one in the middle received the Strange Flame, and even that was one of the lower-ranked ones.
There are seventy-two kinds of strange fire in this world. The number one is said to be the essence fire of heaven and earth, which is extremely powerful. Anyone who is touched by it will definitely die. It can burn everything in the world.
These students definitely don't possess any extraordinary flames, because they don't have the ability to do so yet. If any of the participating students were to possess an extraordinary flame, they would be incredibly powerful wherever they went, even if they weren't alchemists.
Because the strange fire in the world is an absolute weapon of mass destruction, and ordinary magic treasures cannot be compared with it at all.
Since none of these students possess a different kind of fire, the kind of fire used to refine pills must naturally be high-quality wood.
This type of wood is called rootless wood. This tree lives on other trees, relying on the nutrients from the host tree to sustain itself. The greatest use of this tree is for refining elixirs.
Because the roots of this type of tree do not touch the ground, it does not absorb the earth's energy according to the Five Elements theory. Therefore, it has less earth energy than other trees.
The earth's energy has no effect on some pills, but it greatly affects others. Due to the principle of mutual restraint among the five elements, once certain pills absorb the earth's energy, their effectiveness is significantly reduced.
After selecting the medicinal herbs, the next step is to refine the pills. Everyone uses the same wood for refining pills, so the next step depends on how well you control the flame.
Of course, the quality of a pill's refining also depends on the furnace used by the person refining it.
Liu Xiaoyuan stood below watching these people refine pills, and after memorizing them one by one, he felt that refining pills was not such a difficult thing.
Soon, the air was filled with the fragrance of medicinal herbs.
The onlookers gasped in surprise as the medicinal herbs reacted in the alchemy furnace, releasing a fragrant aroma.
The aroma of this medicine is indeed very pleasant; it makes one feel relaxed and happy.
Liu Xiaoyuan watched Lu Yifeng's alchemy technique quietly. He had to admit that although Lu Yifeng was annoying, his alchemy skills were indeed quite good, a point that even the three judges nodded in approval of.
Lu Yifeng's grandfather nodded in satisfaction. Of course, he was happy that his grandson had performed so well.
Liu Xiaoyuan wanted to cause trouble, but he couldn't use any tricks. He couldn't do anything under everyone's watchful eyes, because if he did, others would definitely find out.
Therefore, Liu Xiaoyuan was very anxious. If Lu Yifeng won the championship, it would definitely be a troublesome matter.
Time passed second by second, and the pill was about to take shape. At this moment, the aroma of medicine in the square grew stronger and stronger, which made everyone take a deep breath and look intoxicated.
The three judges on the panel nodded in satisfaction; it seemed there were quite a few promising contenders for this alchemy competition.
"I've finished refining it!" Lu Yifeng said first, handing his alchemy cauldron to the three judges.
The three judges nodded in satisfaction. They looked at the small cauldron that Lu Yifeng had brought over, opened the lid, and saw the pills inside. Instantly, a fragrant aroma of pills filled the entire square.
"Good, good, good!" Upon seeing the pills that Lu Yifeng had successfully refined, the three judges all stood up and clapped their hands, saying "Good!" three times in a row!
(End of this chapter)
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