Chapter 185
Ye Lan felt that he was really talkative. Why did he say that extra word?
You're really asking for trouble.
Leng Qingqiu spoke at this time, "Don't worry, if you want, I will get you first place."
Han Dun, who was silently serving as a background board in the back, grinned and whispered Leng Qingqiu's words.
"I'll get you first place..."
Just after he finished learning, Leng Qingqiu glared at him.
Han Dun turned around and left awkwardly.
Ye Lan didn't look at the two of them. He went to visit the place where the alchemy competition was taking place.
It was a very open space with two alchemy furnaces placed there in advance.
Two old men sat in front of the alchemy furnace. One of them, who looked slightly younger, looked out at the crowd, stroked his snow-white beard, and said, "Those whose numbers are called, please come to the front. This alchemy competition is based on the quality of the pills. The quality of the pills, that is, the quantity, the quality, and the difficulty, will determine your results."
"Here we have prepared six-grade spiritual herbs for you. As for the grade of elixir you want to refine, it's up to you."
"Of course, to prevent any of you from cheating, we've prepared the alchemy furnaces for this competition. This way, we can ensure absolute fairness. Do you have any objections?"
As soon as the words fell, people around Ye Lan began to whisper.
"Does anyone know if there's any problem with the alchemy furnace they prepared?"
"That's right, those alchemy furnaces are not as convenient as my own!"
They thought their voices were so quiet that the old man in front of them wouldn't hear them.
But just after the two of them finished speaking, the older-looking old man swung out a spiritual power, instantly fixing them both and quickly pulling them in front of him.
The old man stared at the two of them with a sharp gaze.
"What? Are you two questioning our fairness and justice?" He was not as gentle as the old man next to him, and his eyes were full of impatience.
The two trapped people looked at the old man in astonishment, with horror on their faces.
"No, no, we dare not..." They knew this old man. He was an alchemy maniac. For the sake of alchemy, he almost never participated in this kind of sect competition.
The old man snorted coldly and waved his hand, and the two people who were tied in the air were thrown out together.
The two men looked at the old man in front of them with lingering fear, and suddenly shrank their heads, not daring to look at the old man.
"Number one."
The old man shouted.
With the authority established previously, all the alchemists present no longer dared to question the alchemy furnace.
When the number was called, the person whose number was called quickly stood out from the crowd.
The golden thread on the number plate in his hand pulled his opponent onto the competition field.
Number One is a man wearing dark blue clothing. Just by looking at his attire, it is not difficult to guess that he must be from a large sect.
Compared to his opponent, his clothes were ordinary, without even a trace of silver thread, and looked not much different from Ye Lan's sect clothes.
Ye Lan saw that number, his eyes almost grew to the top of his head.
"Just admit defeat. I'm the man who wants to take first place, so don't accuse me of bullying someone like you who came from a small sect."
Ye Lan, who was inexplicably shot, felt very unhappy: ...
The man who was fighting against No. 1 was thin and looked malnourished.
He shrank back and clenched his hands tightly.
He wanted to object, but...
He didn't say anything, but walked straight to another alchemy furnace and gave his answer.
Ye Lan looked at the man with a bit of approval in his eyes. He ignored the judgments of the people around him and watched his movements carefully.
In alchemy competitions, everything actually depends largely on luck.
Compare the elixir level, elixir quality, and difficulty coefficient.
This is because every contestant must use their highest-level alchemy skills. Even if the quality of the elixir is not very good, the difficulty is there and they will definitely get a good ranking.
Ye Lan watched and saw that the man was really preparing to gamble.
The man was preparing to refine a fifth-level elixir. He sneered at the man number one, opened his hands and began to refine the elixir.
Ye Lan looked at his technique and it seemed that he was preparing to refine a pill of the same level as the man's.
Sure enough, the man number one shot a spiritual fire into the alchemy furnace. After the furnace preheated for a while, he waved his hand and put all the spiritual herbs for the fifth-level elixir into the furnace in order.
Everyone present held their breath, fearing that a loud noise would cause the two men to make mistakes while refining the elixir.
The thin man was very serious throughout the whole process. He knew that he might not be as powerful as that person, but he couldn't let himself lose face for the sect, so he had to give it his all.
He quickly formed a seal with his hands, and a faint fragrance of elixir wafted from above the alchemy furnace.
The man was overjoyed. The fifth-level elixir was finally successful!
The lid of the alchemy furnace rumbled, indicating that a batch of pills was about to be produced.
The man number one on the opposite side saw this, but was not in a hurry to form the seal and make the pill.
Instead, he took a long time to think before forming a seal with his hands.
Soon, a strange phenomenon was heard above the alchemy furnace. Butterflies flew towards his alchemy furnace. The lid was pushed open by the elixir inside, and a stronger aroma of the elixir came out.
Just by seeing this miraculous sign of pill formation, the thin man knew that he had been defeated.
He opened the lid of the alchemy furnace in a daze, stretched out his hand, and the three finished pills flew out and fell directly into his palm.
After a while, Man No. 1 also clapped his hands, and the lid of the alchemy furnace flew up, and a pill with dark patterns printed on it flew out and into his hands.
The two of them walked towards the old man and respectfully presented the pills in their hands.
The two old men were very satisfied with their actions. With a wave of their hands, the pills in their hands flew into their hands and they examined them carefully.
They decided the winner with just one glance.
"Number one, one second-grade level five pill, number thirty-seven, three fourth-grade level five pills. Number one wins this competition." The kind old man announced the result.
Number One's strength crushed that of the man number 37.
Ye Lan saw that man number one proudly raised his chin towards man number 37, and everyone gathered around man number one.
"Senior brother is really amazing. He actually refined a second-grade elixir! And it's level five!"
"Yes, a second-grade elixir. I've heard that few of our older generation can refine it, but I never thought I'd be able to see it today!"
Although he was only of the second rank, he had already made everyone present excited.
Ye Lan walked towards the man number 37 and patted him on the shoulder. "You're doing pretty good. Don't lose heart."
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