Tang Yue was wondering why Yue Lu would develop such a simple elixir for the competition. This made her feel a little confused.
There are five alchemists in Yuelu and two in Xinglu. Master Gu Le is old and there are new alchemists, so he did not participate in the competition.
There are three alchemists in Canglu and four alchemists in Hailu. These are the alchemists in all the lands. It can be seen how rare alchemists are.
Except for the alchemists from Yuelu, the alchemists from other lands looked at the pills they had to make in the competition, and shook their heads with sad faces, as if they all felt that it was too difficult.
In addition to Tang Yue, the alchemist in Xinglu, there was another alchemist who followed Tang Yue onto the competition stage. He looked at the elixirs to be refined with a simple face and sighed secretly.
The Concentrating Mind Pill and the Nourishing Bone Pill were not a problem, but... he might be eliminated from the Deer Fragrance Pill and not even qualified to compete in the final round of pill qualifications.
Lu Xiang Dan...has always been held in Yue Lu's hand. No one can get their hands on Lu Xiang Dan because Yue Lu holds it too tightly.
Tang Yue saw that when they saw the elixir they were going to refine, not only were they not happy, but they were actually frowning. Why? Could it be that they all learned to refine elixirs differently?
Tang Yue was puzzled. Yue Lu's alchemist looked down on everyone, as if the mages present were not worthy of sitting with him.
Yue Qiuzhi stared at Tang Yue with contempt, and it was obvious that he disliked Tang Yue very much. She had just learned how to make pills, yet she dared to participate in the alchemy competition of various continents. She had no self-awareness at all.
Tang Yue didn't notice Yue Qiuzhi's expression. She looked at the Xinglu Alchemist beside her and saw that he seemed to be under a lot of pressure.
Wu Yongan also noticed Tang Yue standing beside him. She seemed to be looking at him with great concern. He felt that at least he should not let Tang Yue, a newcomer, be anxious with him.
"Don't worry. Although it's very difficult to refine this medicine, we just need to do our best." Wu Yongan forced a smile innocently. When his eyes met Tang Yue's beautiful little face, his ears and cheeks turned red unconsciously.
Tang Yue was even more confused after hearing this. How could this be difficult? Was it really that difficult? She was just about to ask Wu Yongan what exactly was so difficult about it. Could there be other rules of the competition that she didn't know about?
"But..." Tang Yue had just begun to speak when Yue Qiuzhi interrupted, "Alchemists are forbidden from talking before the competition."
Yue Qiuzhi knew Tang Yue's peculiarity. Although she was capable of defeating people without relying on magic, she would never be able to refine the Deer Fragrance Pill in the field of alchemy.
Even though he felt relieved, he still remembered what his uncle had told him not to let Tang Yue know that the alchemy cauldron had been tampered with.
Seeing that Yue Lu's people interrupted her, Tang Yue stopped talking. After all, it was the rule of the competition. However, she still glanced at the list of pills to be refined with a little confusion.
Seeing Tang Yue still looking at the alchemy list in disbelief, Yue Qiuzhi felt incredibly superior. He was just waiting for Tang Yue to explode the cauldron. How exciting that would be...
The referee elder was still the same referee elder. He looked around at all the alchemists and then started the competition.
The people in the audience kept discussing that the winner would definitely be Yue Qiuzhi from Yue Lu, and Lu Xiang Dan...you can't get too many of them.
Only Zhang Xuehua and Le Siyu were relieved when they saw this. Tang Yue could refine the first two kinds of elixirs into at least mid-grade ones.
Although they knew they couldn't refine the Deer Fragrance Pill, at least their ranking wouldn't be too far behind. The most important thing in the alchemy competition was their mentality, and they didn't want Tang Yue's mentality to collapse when refining pills in the future.
Bone Nourishing Pill? Gao Binghua knew that Tang Yue had refined a top-grade Bone Nourishing Pill before. "This... Bone Nourishing Pill, has Junior Sister Yue refined a top-grade Bone Nourishing Pill before?"
Zhang Xuehua hadn't even nodded in response when the students from Hailu sitting nearby laughed at her. "It's not enough that Xinglu claimed Tangyue had refined the Snow Lotus Pill, they also claimed she had refined the Bone Nourishing Pill. These useless Xinglu guys are not only useless, but they're also obsessed with appearances."
"I thought Tang Yue was showing off because she won first place in the magic competition, but how could she do the same in the alchemy competition? How long has she only been learning to make alchemy? And she's making the long-lost Snow Lotus Pill and the Bone Nourishing Pill."
"Pretending to be cute."
After hearing this, the people in Hailu were secretly mocking Zhang Xuehua and Gao Binghua. Zhang Xuehua and Gao Binghua were so angry that Le Siyu pulled their sleeves.
"The innocent will be cleared." The truth will be revealed soon, so why bother arguing with them?
Zhang Xuehua and Gao Binghua were very angry. These people always talked so much about Tangyue and Xinglu. They were worthy of being in an alliance with Yuelu. None of them had good intentions!
Le Siyu stopped Zhang Xuehua and Gao Binghua from getting angry, but student Liu Yue, who was sitting next to them, felt unhappy.
Although they usually don't get along with Zhenxing and quarrel with each other every day, Hailu and his men are unwilling to admit defeat even after losing. What's more, Tangyue originally refined the Snow Lotus Pill and the Bone Nourishing Pill. What right do they have to say this about Tangyue and Xinglu, saying that they are spreading rumors?
"Some people are still unwilling to accept their defeat, while others still have a chance to face Tang Yue. But someone from a certain sea is not even worthy of facing her, and they are still jealous."
"Exactly. I can smell the sour air over there. Someone is so shameless that he doesn't admit defeat and criticizes others even though he's not as strong as them!"
"Isn't it shameless? Just like Yue Lu."
The students of Liuyue were almost mad with anger. They glared at the students of Liuyue fiercely, wishing they could beat them up.
The students of Liuyue are not afraid of them. No one can beat them in terms of sarcasm. Hai Lu is still too young to argue with them.
Zhang Xuehua and Gao Binghua didn't expect that Liu Yue's people would fight back, and the people from Zhenxing were all very surprised.
On the competition stage
"In the first round of the alchemy competition, the alchemists have to refine the Mind-Concentrating Pill, which is a kind of..." The elder referee also gave an explanation of the Mind-Concentrating Pill.
"Alchemists, please take your seats."
All the alchemists walked to the seats with their names written on them one by one. Tang Yue originally walked towards her seat calmly, but when she saw the alchemy cauldron, she was stunned.
"Qinglong Ding"? ? Why... why is it here? Tang Yue was almost bewildered looking at the alchemy cauldron. How did it fly here?
Since there were people around, Tang Yue couldn't ask anything. She quickly bent down to check the body of the "Qinglong Ding". She breathed a sigh of relief after finding that there were no scratches on it.
He gently patted the "Qinglong Ding" with his hand, and the "Qinglong Ding" made a soft chime, which scared Tang Yue. But she couldn't let others know the special nature of the "Qinglong Ding".
When Tang Yue was checking the "Green Dragon Cauldron", everyone in Yuelu held their breath, fearing that she would find something wrong. When they saw her breathe a sigh of relief, they also breathed a sigh of relief.
Yue Qiuzhi looked at Tang Yue's tripod. It looked like something was wrong with the tripod, but Tang Yue still acted as if she loved it very much. It was really ridiculous. He could even imagine the despair Tang Yue felt when the tripod exploded.
"The medicinal materials for alchemy are placed next to the alchemy cauldron. The alchemists will check them and start refining the elixir if they are all right."
Tang Yue casually flipped through the herbs. There was nothing wrong with them. The Concentrating Mind Pill contained all of them and was sufficient in quantity.
The other alchemists were checking the pills. Since they were on Moon Land, they were checking more carefully.
Er Ren sneered when he saw this. Who would be so foolish as to mess with the medicinal materials, not to mention that Yue Qiuzhi was able to refine the top-grade Concentration Pill and he even had two of them in his collection.
After the referee elder said to start, Tang Yue started to make a fire, opened the lid of the cauldron and put the medicinal ingredients for the concentration pill on it. The "Qinglong Ding" made a very comfortable sound again. Fortunately, everyone around was refining pills and no one noticed.
After Tang Yue exhaled, she immersed herself in alchemy, controlling the temperature extremely delicately.
All the alchemists were refining pills on the stage. Yuan Shuitao gritted her teeth and said, Tang Yue must not refine a pill of medium quality or above! Otherwise, she would still have a chance to enter the top three.
Wu Yongan once accidentally made a top-grade Concentrating Mind Pill, but he was never able to refine a top-grade Concentrating Mind Pill again after that. Only Master Gu Le could refine it.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tang Yue completely immersed in refining the elixir, and suddenly his heart calmed down, and his anxiety and insecurity disappeared like the wind.
Tang Yue was refining the mind-concentrating pill. She felt that the pills in this batch should be quite good.
Er Ren was waiting to see Tang Yue explode the cauldron. Everyone in Yue Lu who knew about it was also waiting for Tang Yue to explode the cauldron, and they had all thought of how to laugh at Tang Yue.
Yue Qiuzhi glanced at Tang Yue and pretended that no matter how serious she was, her medicine could only be of medium quality at best, unlike him, which must be of top quality.
Time passed little by little, and everyone was waiting. Tang Yue was already finishing up and quickly extinguished the fire.
One cauldron was completed, and Tang Yue was the first to refine the Mind-Concentrating Pill, while the other alchemists were still refining.
She quietly opened the lid of the cauldron and took a look. It was a top-grade mind-concentrating elixir. As long as there was nothing wrong, it was good.
No one expected that Tang Yue would be the first alchemist to turn off the flame. Seeing her leaning forward to look at the cauldron, everyone leaned over to observe Tang Yue's expression. Tang Yue closed the lid of the cauldron without any expression.
Seeing that Tang Yue seemed unhappy and not expectant, everyone thought that she had failed, and public opinion started to rise again.
The people of Yuelu were waiting for the cauldron to explode, but by the time Tang Yue had refined the elixir, the fire had gone out. What was the point of exploding the cauldron?
Er Ren was so anxious that he quickly called the person who was responsible for tampering with the tripod and asked him in a low voice, "What happened? You didn't do what I said?"
"Master Er, this is only the first cauldron. There are two more to come. If the first one explodes, won't people notice something." The person who tampered with the cauldron was speechless. It was impossible. He had obviously tampered more violently before. Tang Yue would definitely be seriously injured by this explosion.
But for now, the second cauldron should explode... I guess. The light was too dim last night and he could hardly see clearly, so he just attacked more fiercely, for fear that the cauldron would not explode.
Er Ren would not distrust him. Chen Haishang has always been ruthless in doing things, so he is quite relieved to leave the matter to him.
Moreover, even if Tang Yue refined this cauldron, its quality would not be good.
The alchemists on the competition stage had all refined the Mind-Concentrating Pill one after another. Yue Qiuzhi opened the lid of the cauldron and took a look, his mouth curled up in extreme pride. The top-grade Mind-Concentrating Pill was enough to blind their eyes.
Wu Yongan took a deep breath and nervously opened the lid of the tripod. A top-grade mind-concentrating pill appeared before his eyes. His eyes widened, "Top-grade...top-grade mind-concentrating pill!!!"
His incredible exclamation caused the surrounding alchemists who had already finished refining their pills to look at him. A top-grade Spirit-Concentrating Pill? Wu Yongan had made such great progress? He had even refined a top-grade Spirit-Concentrating Pill?!
The alchemists who could only refine mid-grade mind-concentrating pills all looked at Wu Yongan with envy. It was not that they could not refine them, but it was amazing that they had two top-grade mind-concentrating pills among the ten.
"Congratulations." Tang Yue was happy for him when she saw that he had made a breakthrough.
Wu Yongan was very excited. Being able to refine a top-grade Concentrating Spirit Pill in this situation was truly a major breakthrough for him! So excited! "Thank you!" he turned around and thanked Tang Yue who was congratulating him.
Tang Yue: “?” She was confused when he thanked her. She...didn’t help him at all.
Wu Yongan didn't care what Tang Yue thought. He looked at Master Gu Le with joy in his eyes. Master Gu Le nodded at him with satisfaction.
Yue Qiuzhi's face looked very ugly, but fortunately, the quality of top-grade mind-concentrating pills also varies, and his is definitely better than Wu Yongan's.
The elder referee opened their pills one by one, but he had not yet opened the lid of Tang Yue's tripod because Tang Yue was the last one.
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