Chapter 378
2nd Round Rules
Feng Tiancheng was stunned, innocent? Not innocent at all, that national teacher was simply insidious, he could come up with any sinister ideas.
At this moment, he was really shocked by the big game played by the National Master. No wonder the National Master had the courage to gamble half of the clan's fortune against the Long family.
If this plan succeeds, it will be enough to severely damage the Long family. After losing half of the family's fortune, the Long family alliance can be easily destroyed by the Feng family in one fell swoop.
Although this plan has certain risks, he has to admit that he was tempted by the huge benefits.
Feng Tiancheng took a deep breath, but just when he was about to say something else, a deafening bang suddenly came from behind him.
He was startled and looked back quickly.
At the same time, deafening explosions were heard from all over the city from time to time. The ground shook, and soon there was a fire outside. Shouts and screams came from all directions, and there was chaos outside.
There was movement on the other side of the mirror at this time, and the explosion could be clearly heard even in the palace. The explosions on both sides were transmitted to each other through the mirror.
There was a knock on the door at this moment, and soon someone shouted in panic: "Your Majesty, something terrible has happened."
"Countless fireballs suddenly fell from the sky, destroying all the teleportation arrays in Tianfeng City."
"The fireballs also flew to the surrounding cities. I don't know who launched such a long-range attack. It's simply terrifying."
The old man in the phoenix robe stared at him, tapping his fingers on the table, muttering, "Could it be him? I'm afraid only he can launch a fireball attack from a very long distance."
"He wants to destroy all the teleportation arrays in the nearby cities. Is he trying to stop the strong men from Guhuang City from coming to support him?"
"But this world-famous alchemy competition has attracted countless powerful Gu Kings. Tianfeng City already has more than enough Gu Kings now!"
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At this time, Long Xuan in the inn naturally also heard the deafening explosion outside, and his pupils soon shrank.
"This is the power of Heavenly Fire! There are contestants carrying Heavenly Fire in this alchemy competition."
Long Xuan looked solemn and looked outside the door, feeling a surge of pressure.
It goes without saying that a person who has the ability to devour the heavenly fire cannot be a simple person.
He was originally still considering whether he should expose the Skyfire in the finals, but now it seems that he has no choice but to expose the Skyfire.
Once the Heavenly Fire appears, all other fires will submit. If you don't expose the Heavenly Fire, you won't even be able to refine the elixir in the finals.
Long Xuan took a deep breath, no longer paying attention to the chaos outside, and began to concentrate on preparing the Tianjin.
The materials needed to refine the Tianjingold have been collected by his clone. Now he has to hurry up to refine the Tianjingold. He will use the Tianjingold alchemy furnace in the next competition.
Half a month passed quickly. During this period, many major events happened outside and a lot of news came out.
Long Xuan is not isolated from the news and always keeps an eye on the situation outside.
The various clones would come back from outside from time to time and tell him some useful information after screening.
What he paid the most attention to was the information about the contestants who posed a threat to him.
Over the past half month, the elimination rounds have continued, and many alchemy geniuses with extremely high scores have emerged, shocking the entire city.
Each of the ten empires had a genius who scored ninety-seven points, but there were no decimal points in this world, so the scores were not accurate.
After calculating with decimal points, Long Xuan finally came to the conclusion that Long Yuyao, Feng Shuang, and the ninth prince Wang Wu who appeared at the trade fair that day had higher scores. These three people were worthy of his attention.
If these three people were the only ones he needed to pay attention to, the other two would be enough to make him feel like he was facing a formidable enemy.
One of these two people is called Fengjiu and the other is called Qin Dan. They both got full marks, the same as him.
This meant that the alchemy skills of these two people were definitely not weaker than his own, and they might even be stronger. Moreover, the possibility that these two people had heavenly fire could not be ruled out at all. Long Xuan had to be nervous. One of these two people was surnamed Feng, and the appearance of such an alchemy master in the Feng family made him feel pressured.
On this day, on the main island, Long Xuan put away the Sunset Divine Flame, and a silver alchemy furnace floated quietly in the air. The alchemy furnace was silver in color, and the body of the furnace was carved with wild dragons with bared fangs and claws, and there seemed to be streams of light flowing on the dragons' bodies.
This was the alchemy furnace he had just refined using heavenly gold as the main material. It had taken him more than ten days to refine this heavenly gold alchemy furnace.
This Tianjin Alchemy Furnace is not simple. He improved it by referring to the Demon-Swallowing Cauldron.
The characteristic of the Demon-Swallowing Cauldron is that its size can be controlled at will, but the controllable volume has a limit. When it grows to a certain size, it will stop growing, and when it shrinks to a certain size, it will stop shrinking.
He improved the pattern on the Demon-Swallowing Cauldron and shrunk it a hundred times, making the body of the vessel large enough to accommodate a hundred times the pattern. In addition, he used a more advanced material called Tianjin, so the Tianjin Alchemy Furnace could become larger than the Demon-Swallowing Cauldron a hundred times.
It is no exaggeration to say that if he enlarged the Tianjin Alchemy Furnace to its limit, the competition venue in Tianfeng City might not be able to accommodate his alchemy furnace.
Similarly, since he can develop an alchemy furnace whose size can be controlled at any time, he can also develop a magic needle that can be large or small.
However, he did not plan to continue his research on the Dinghai Shenzhen during the alchemy competition.
Looking at the beautiful silver alchemy furnace in the air, Long Xuan showed a satisfied smile. After shrinking and putting away the alchemy furnace, he slowly walked outside.
Today happened to be the day of the second round of eliminations. Coincidentally, he had finally managed to refine the Tianjin Alchemy Furnace before the second round.
With this Tianjin Alchemy Furnace, his chances of winning this competition will be much higher.
The first round of eliminations eliminated 90% of the contestants, and the few remaining contestants will go to the central square of Tianfeng City for the second round.
The central square is wide and unobstructed, and will be watched by a large number of Gu cultivators.
The rules of this second round of competition are very interesting. There are only two words to describe the rules: showmanship.
All contestants have to make elixirs together in the central square, and they only have one chance to make elixirs. They can choose the type of elixir they want to make, but in this round of competition every alchemist needs to show off their skills, which means that whoever makes the most difficult elixir will get the highest score.
Any other criteria, such as whether the refined pills are practical or not, or how fast the pills are refined, are not included in the assessment criteria. The only criterion for equalization is difficulty.
This will test the courage of each contestant.
The more difficult the elixir is to refine, the higher the score will be, but the failure rate will also be higher.
Many people may be torn between whether to play it safe and choose a pill of medium difficulty, or to take a risk and choose a pill that is the most difficult to refine.
It is worth mentioning that the organizers of this alchemy competition have collected almost all kinds of elixirs in the world.
So no matter what kind of elixir you want to make, you can find the materials here, as long as it is not an elixir that has become extinct in this world.
But there is no free lunch in the world. No matter what kind of elixir you refine, since you used the materials from the competition organizer, you must hand over two-thirds of the elixir to the competition organizer. If there are only two elixirs, then split them equally.
This is fair and all the contestants have no complaints.
Considering that there are two competitors who are likely to carry the Heavenly Fire and whose alchemy level may not be inferior to his own, Long Xuan is not going to hide his shortcomings and decides to directly use one of his trump cards.
If you want to show off your skills, then using the big pot to make alchemy is undoubtedly a good choice.
Stacking thousands of portions of materials from a pill recipe together, throwing them into the alchemy furnace together, and finally producing tens of thousands of pills from the final furnace, this is extremely difficult, and no other alchemist in the world can do it except him.
Long Xuan also needs to rely on cheating to be able to perfectly use this difficult alchemy technique, otherwise even if he dares to do so, there is a high possibility that the furnace will explode.
If it came to showing off their skills, who could outshine him? He wanted to see what those two Skyfire owners could do to fight him.
He must widen the score gap with the two Skyfire owners in this second round!
Long Xuan clenched his fists... (End of this chapter)