Chen Tianwen's actions not only worried Cui Shengshi, but also made Xu Tian secretly anxious.
However, Xu Tian understood a little bit, after all, he had personally witnessed Chen Tianwen refining a fifth-grade immortal pill. At that time, Chen Tianwen did not have any assistance and succeeded in refining it by himself in just a few hours!
However, Xu Tian was still worried, since the Nine Revolutions Creation Pill was several times more difficult to refine than the immortal pill he had asked Chen Tianwen to refine.
The onlookers, seeing that Chen Tianwen hadn't started refining pills but was instead intently watching Qi Danwang, began to speculate.
"What's wrong with Mr. Chen? Could it be that Mr. Chen hasn't fully grasped the pill formula yet, and is now looking for inspiration from people like Qi Danwang?"
"How is that possible! Mr. Chen has refined a fifth-grade top-quality immortal pill. Even if the Nine Revolutions Creation Cauldron is difficult to refine, Mr. Chen couldn't possibly be clueless about how to do it."
"So what do you think Mr. Chen means now?"
"I don't know either. Perhaps Mr. Chen felt he couldn't defeat Qi Danwang, so he gave up the competition and focused on learning Qi Danwang's techniques?"
"Impossible. Someone capable of refining a top-grade fifth-rank immortal pill already has their own alchemy system. Why would they bother learning someone else's techniques?"
The crowd argued endlessly, but none of them could guess what Chen Tianwen was planning to do.
While refining the immortal herb, King Qi Dan secretly glanced at Chen Tianwen. Seeing Chen Tianwen standing there motionless, King Qi Dan was slightly taken aback.
However, the elixir had already begun to be refined, and King Qi Dan had no energy to be distracted. After a brief moment of surprise, he began to concentrate on refining the immortal herbs again!
Chen Tianwen watched as eight hundred alchemy masters refined different immortal herbs, each displaying their unique abilities.
The refining techniques that dazzled Chen Tianwen left him completely mesmerized!
Although Chen Tianwen was able to refine various elixirs, he relied on simplifying the laws and reducing the formulas to their limit before he began to refine them.
Therefore, Chen Tianwen had no idea that there were so many techniques involved in refining elixirs.
Chen Tianwen witnessed a master alchemist exposing a magical herb outside his alchemy cauldron and refining it using the fire element within the space.
This method not only greatly increases the efficiency of refining, but also makes the final medicinal liquid much purer than the original.
Chen Tianwen also saw that a celestial alchemist possessed the power of both the Law of Fire and the Law of Poison. When this celestial alchemist was refining celestial herbs, he could not only use the Law of Fire to remove impurities from the herbs, but also use the Law of Poison to absorb the toxins in the herbs!
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Chen Tianwen watched these people refine elixirs with a sense of utter fascination.
At the same time, Chen Tianwen's understanding of alchemy was also rapidly improving.
And so, Chen Tianwen watched quietly for a day and a night.
The crowd, who had been discussing the matter, were no longer surprised by Chen Tianwen's actions. They had already decided that Chen Tianwen had given up the competition, so they stopped talking and focused on watching Qi Danwang's side, where everyone was showing off their skills.
Cui Shengshi also kept sighing and complaining, and in his heart he had begun to slander Chen Tianwen.
"If you lose to King Qi Dan, you'll make me lose face in front of so many people. I won't let you off the hook then!"
Cui Shengshi thought viciously to himself.
Xu Tian was also secretly anxious, but he still held a sliver of hope for Chen Tianwen. However, seeing Cui Shengshi's ashen face, Xu Tian dared not say anything.
When everyone lost faith in Chen Tianwen, as long as that young man still looked intently at Chen Tianwen and believed in him, he was sure that Chen Tianwen could create a miracle.
A day and a night had passed, and Chen Tianwen's understanding of alchemy had undergone tremendous changes. This prompted Chen Tianwen to take out his simplified alchemy formula again and re-examine it.
Chen Tianwen stopped paying attention to the techniques of the eight hundred alchemy masters and instead sat cross-legged on the arena, silently comprehending the pill formula.
When Cui Shengshi saw Chen Tianwen turn his head away from Qi Danwang, he was initially pleased, thinking that Chen Tianwen was finally going to start refining the immortal pill.
However, when Cui Shengshi saw Chen Tianwen sitting cross-legged again, closing his eyes to rest, Cui Shengshi was so angry that he almost stomped his feet. He only managed to restrain himself after being comforted by his disciple Cui Xiangbei.
The onlookers naturally noticed Chen Tianwen's change, but they all shook their heads and stopped paying attention to him. Instead, they all turned their attention to Qi Danwang, hoping to learn some basics from Qi Danwang's method of refining elixirs to improve their own alchemy skills.
Chen Tianwen looked at his simplified pill formula again and again. This formula, which originally required 30,000 to 40,000 kinds of immortal herbs, had been simplified by Chen Tianwen to only 35 kinds of immortal herbs. Moreover, it only takes three hours to refine it successfully!
But now, when Chen Tianwen looks at the elixir again, he feels that something is subtly wrong.
Chen Tianwen kept deducing in his mind, sometimes adding a few immortal herbs and sometimes deleting some. However, as he continued to deduce, Chen Tianwen's brows furrowed tightly.
The alchemy techniques of eight hundred alchemy masters kept appearing in Chen Tianwen's mind, and Chen Tianwen also entered a profound and mysterious state of mind.
This state of mind is like a sudden enlightenment, or like attaining enlightenment.
Chen Tianwen didn't know what he was now, but he felt as if he had glimpsed the origin of alchemy. Those immortal herbs that Chen Tianwen thought were useless were now valuable to him at a glance!
What Chen Tianwen originally considered to be rare and precious herbs, even capable of serving as the main ingredient in elixirs, now appears to him as nothing more than garbage full of elixir poison.
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Time flies, and soon it was the last day of the competition.
On Qi Danwang's side, the eight hundred alchemists also stopped what they were doing, because the immortal herbs had already been refined. Now all the immortal herbs were gathered here with Qi Danwang, waiting for him to finally combine them into one furnace to form an elixir.
This was the crucial moment for the elixir's completion, and King Qi Dan was extremely focused, paying close attention to the changes within the alchemy cauldron.
Seeing that Chen Tianwen had not yet begun refining the elixir, Cui Shengshi had long lost faith in him. He had already devised over ten thousand ways to make Chen Tianwen wish he were dead, and was just waiting for the competition to end so that he could unleash his power!
But at that moment, Chen Tianwen slowly opened his eyes!
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