Chapter 398
: Thoughts on the Pill Recipe
Time flies and another two days have passed.
Today is the day of the fourth round of the Alchemy Competition, which is also the semi-finals. There is only this one game left until the final.
Tens of thousands of alchemists participated in the competition, but only thirty of them made it to the semi-finals. This shows how cruel the first few rounds of the competition were.
Creating your own recipe requires a quiet place that is sheltered from wind and rain, and where your train of thought cannot be interrupted by external factors.
Therefore, the venue for this round of competition will be in a huge palace with limited space, and only the most prestigious and influential people from all over the country can come to watch the game.
Obviously, a large number of ordinary Gu cultivators cannot come here to watch the game and can only wait for the final.
On this day, Long Xuan got up early, washed up, walked out of the inn, and walked into the depths of the palace under the awe-inspiring gazes of the crowd. Finally, under the guidance of Long Xiaoyao, he walked into a hall.
Although Long Xuan got up early, which was rare, he was still the last one to arrive.
The other twenty-nine contestants had already arrived and were sitting in the center of the hall.
There are thirty tables and thirty seats in the center of the hall. The thirty seats are divided into six rows and five columns. The names of the contestants are marked on the tabletops. All contestants are seated according to their total score ranking.
Long Xuan currently has 292 points, ranking first in the total score. He sits in the upper left corner. On his right are Duan Tianwu and Patriarch Fentian.
After Long Xuan glanced sideways at his neighbor on the right, he sat quietly in his seat with his eyes closed, waiting for the fourth round to begin.
In the judges' seats in front, a group of judges were whispering. Long Xiaoyao, who was sitting in the front row, glanced at Feng Tiancheng beside him and said with a smile: "Brother Tiancheng, how about we bet on another round? We have already bet on the previous rounds. It would be bad if we don't bet on this round."
Feng Tiancheng looked at him with a dark face, turned his head away and remained silent. This time he said he would not gamble no matter what, and he would be a fool if he gambled again.
That Long Xuan was very weird. At this moment, he had no confidence at all that a fourth-grade alchemist could defeat him.
He ignored Long Xiaoyao's provocation, stood up and said in a deep voice: "Since all the contestants are here, the fourth round of the competition will officially begin. Give me some tea!"
As soon as he finished speaking, five beautiful women in palace robes came over with tea. They walked to the front row of the five columns and filled the tea for each contestant one by one.
Smelling the fresh aroma of the tea, all the contestants felt refreshed, some even shivered all over, looking intoxicated.
The Wudao Tea Tree is a tea tree that surpasses the twelve grades of tea. It is the only one in the world. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the tea that immortals drink.
The aroma of the tea alone is enough to make one's mouth water, and the taste must be so wonderful. Everyone's throat moved, showing an impatient look.
Long Xuan also looked at the cup of fragrant tea in front of him with curiosity, revealing a look of great interest.
"Is this the enlightenment tea that can make people enlightened? It's really extraordinary. I wonder what it tastes like?"
Thinking that there was already a branch of the Enlightenment Tea Tree on his wooden island, and that it had been successfully brought to life by the medicine poison, he could drink as much Enlightenment Tea as he wanted in the future. He smiled slightly and was no longer in a hurry to drink this cup of tea.
After the three beautiful palace maids poured a cup of tea on each contestant's table, Feng Tiancheng looked around, and finally focused his gaze on Long Xuan's face for a moment, and finally said:
"I won't say any more polite words. All contestants should start drinking tea and gaining enlightenment now."
Feng Tiancheng seemed to be in a bad mood. He just said this and sat back in his seat without saying anything else.
As soon as Feng Tiancheng finished speaking, all the contestants raised their teacups and drank them all in unison.
No one tasted the tea carefully, they just drank it directly like a cow. Some of them didn't even taste what the enlightenment tea tasted like.
The contestants put down their tea cups at the same time, closed their eyes and began to feel the power of the enlightenment tea. The judges watched quietly without making any noise to interrupt them. Every judge was looking forward to what each contestant would realize next.
Especially Long Xuan, Old Ancestor Fentian, and Qin Dan, most of the judges' attention was focused on them.
Long Xiaoyao looked at Long Xuan with a nervous look in his eyes, and his fists under his sleeves unconsciously tightened by three points at this moment.
At this time, after Long Xuan drank the Enlightenment Tea in one gulp, he closed his eyes and refined the power of the Enlightenment Tea without even having time to savor its flavor.
He had the same mentality as most people. He was afraid that sipping the tea slowly would cause the medicinal effects to be intermittent, so he simply drank it in large quantities. It would not be too late to slowly savor the flavor of the tea after the Wudao tea trees on the wooden island grew again.
After closing his eyes, he went straight into the Soul Bookstore to cheat. He had the Soul Bookstore, the Golden Finger, and the Enlightenment Tea. With the combination of these three, enlightenment would be much faster than drinking the Enlightenment Tea alone.
Compared with the other contestants, he enjoyed a unique advantage. Just as Long Xiaoyao said, the rules of this level were in his favor. He really didn't believe that with such an advantage, the pill formula he created could be worse than those of Fentian Patriarch and Duan Tianwu.
He didn't have to wait long. Soon after he closed his eyes, he felt that he had become much smarter and his thinking was much faster. All kinds of insights suddenly emerged uncontrollably in his mind, and all kinds of wonderful ideas instantly filled his mind, making his head swell up. For a moment, he didn't know how to choose.
In the end, Long Xuan decided to put his own interests first. No matter how creative his ideas were, if the pill recipe he created was of no help to him, it would be a sheer waste of time.
After narrowing the scope like this, the thoughts in his mind suddenly became much fewer, which made his brain feel much more relaxed.
Which elixir is both amazing and very helpful to him? Long Xuan finally chose the Bone-Growing and Blood-Melting Pill that appeared in the novel of his previous life.
This is a miraculous elixir that can allow the soul to reshape into a physical body.
He added a bit of his own imagination. The appearance, attributes, qualifications... of this body can all be freely chosen, and once finalized, they cannot be changed.
As long as you want, you can possess the most extraordinary qualifications in the world, and there will be no rejection of any soul.
Of course, this elixir is too powerful. A fourth-grade elixir certainly cannot have such medicinal power. Such an imaginative elixir must be a twelfth-grade elixir.
He could only use the old method and use a lot of garbage materials to dilute the twelfth-grade elixir into a fourth-grade elixir. The fourth-grade Bone-Growing and Blood-Melting Pill was definitely not that amazing.
The reason why he wanted to come up with this kind of elixir was naturally for the heavenly water in the thunder swamp.
He had been thinking about how to obtain the Tianshui from Shui Laoshou. Should he take the risk of killing Shui Wuqing for him, or find a perfect body for him?
He had been undecided for a long time, but now he finally had an idea. If he could use the Enlightenment Tea to develop the Bone-Growing and Blood-Melting Pill, then he wouldn't have to worry about it at all.
Using a bone-growing and blood-melting pill, Shui Lao could completely reshape his body, and could also exchange the Tianshui in Shui Lao's hands.
A smile appeared on Long Xuan's lips. The Bone-Growing and Blood-Melting Pill was not only useful to him, but also extremely powerful. It might even bring about a thunder tribulation. He decided to study the Bone-Growing and Blood-Melting Pill. He didn't believe that such a powerful pill could not win the first place in this round of competition.
At this moment, beside him, Duan Tianwu sat with his eyes closed and his brows deeply frowned.
Like Long Xuan, he had a very big imagination and too many fantastic ideas. After drinking the enlightenment tea, he had too many insights and for a moment he didn't know how to choose.
In the end, he tacitly agreed with Long Xuan and chose to put self-interest first. Since he created the pill recipe himself, he had to create one that was useful to himself.
Otherwise, no matter how amazing the pill recipe is, if it is useless to you, it is just a piece of waste paper. What's the point of creating it?
After Duan Tian eliminated all the options, he instantly reduced the number of thoughts in his mind. With fewer options, he felt much more relaxed. (End of this chapter)