Evil Emperor Zun

Chapter 189

The audition for the Alchemist Contest is finally over.

The faces of Ye Shuo and Qi Lan showed the expression that happiness came so suddenly.

However, recalling the scene at that time, especially when the judge with white hair and eyebrows said: "Can I taste it?", Ye Shuo felt as if he was struck by lightning.

I still remember that at that time, when he was about to stop it, the old judge had already swallowed his grilled fish pellet without paying any attention.Ye Shuo petrified under the rostrum on the spot.

"There shouldn't be any problems, right?" Ye Shuo was still comforting himself.

Unexpectedly, the elderly judge would shed two lines of tears after eating the grilled fish pellets!

"Elder Hongshen! What's wrong with you!" The people around quickly surrounded the elderly judge, and the judges' rostrum was chaotic for a while.

"No, I just added some preservatives at most, how could there be such serious consequences..." Ye Shuo also wanted to squeeze in to see what happened, but was grabbed by the guards who appeared out of nowhere to maintain order. stop.

"Don't try to run!" the guards shouted.

"I didn't want to run..." Ye Shuo stood there looking around, muttering in his heart, "If I really want to run, no amount of you can stop me."

On the judges' rostrum, the chaotic crowd gradually subsided.

Elder Hongshen was supported on the chair, and everyone around looked concerned, "Elder Hongshen, how are you feeling!? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Elder Hongshen who was being questioned was sitting on a chair, as if he was immersed in an atmosphere that made him unwilling to leave, he slowly opened his tearful eyes, scanned everyone's concerned faces one by one, and said, "Ah! It's so delicious!"

For a moment, the entire judges' rostrum was silent.

Or maybe, the sound of crows flying by...

Chi Yunshi, who originally had a schadenfreude smile on his face, suppressed the smile in an instant, so that his facial expression appeared a little distorted.

He said stiffly, "Elder Hongshen, what is going on?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Elder Hongshen waved his hand, as if he was still immersed in the roasted fish pill just now, thinking about it endlessly.

At this time, under the presidium of the judges, someone began to whisper.

"Oh my god, Elder Hongshen, I ate something!"

"And I didn't vomit this time? It's amazing!"

"What's the situation?" Ye Shuo looked back at Qi Lan.

"Well..." Qi Lan also opened her mouth wide, looking at everything that happened on the judges' rostrum, "That... about Elder Hongshen, let's start from 20 years ago."

In Qi Lan's rambling narration, Ye Shuo finally understood what happened to Elder Hongshen.

20 years ago, Elder Hongshen practiced the technique of bigu and tortoise breathing. He did not eat five grains, sucked wind and drank dew, and retreated for ten years without a drop of water or rice.

But after leaving the customs, Elder Hongshen not only failed to ride the clouds and fly the dragon, on the contrary, he began to miss the taste of food very much.However, at this moment, Elder Hongshen is suffering from an incurable disease called "anorexia" because he has not eaten for a long time.

The so-called anorexia is that whenever you eat, you will feel uncomfortable all over your body unconsciously. You obviously want to eat in your heart, but your body's reaction is to vomit.

The medicine for this symptom is difficult to cure, Elder Hongshen searched various famous doctors, but all failed.Fortunately, Elder Hongshen has a deep foundation, and he can still nourish his body by absorbing the aura of heaven and earth through recuperation.

But Elder Hongshen once looked up to the sky and sighed: "If you are alive, if you can't taste delicious food, what's the point?"

So this time, Elder Hongshen tasted the grilled fish pill refined by Ye Shuo. He was so excited, "I really can't see through this red dust. Really, fish tastes best when grilled!"

And just like that, Ye Shuo advanced to the audition and entered the semi-finals.

Of course, there are also people who are not convinced, such as Chi Yunshi.

"This is just nonsense!" He was furious. "This is a competition for alchemists, not a competition for cooks! If this goes on, what will happen to the roast duck and chicken fillets in the future! Is that still plausible!?"

Elder Hongshen didn't take it seriously, "Don't think that this elixir can be made casually. In order to cure my anorexia, I didn't try any methods! It's not like I didn't invite the cook, and everything was useless! This time, this roasted fish pill cured my anorexia so easily, isn't this effect enough to enter the semi-finals!"

What Elder Hongshen said directly, Chi Yunshi was speechless.

As for Qi Lan, his promotion path was smoother than Ye Shuo's.

All the judges looked left and right around the "Efficacy of Danyang King Bone Stone multiplied by [-] times Dan".

"This name is too random!" Some judges have already begun to complain about this name.

"Although this elixir has indeed increased the efficacy of the Danyang King's Bone Stone by more than fifty times, what is the use of it? The Danyang King's Bone Stone is useless to alchemists, even if the effect is increased by fifty times, it is still useless Useful, maybe used to refine medicine, the failure rate will also be doubled by fifty times."

"How to say, but it is not easy to find the Danyang king bone stone in this suburb, not to mention, without adding other raw materials, only one raw material is refined to such a high purity , the level of refinement required by the pharmacist is extremely high. He is fully qualified to advance to this point alone." Some judges also said so.

Since there were different opinions, the judges asked the audience, "Who made this 'Danyang King Bone Stone Multiplied by Fifty Times Dan'?"

When everyone in the audience heard the name, they felt a burst of laughter.At this time, Qi Lan stood up and said, "It's me."

"Qi Lan?" The laughing pharmacists in the audience realized that the elixir was made by the champion of the last alchemist competition, and immediately changed their words, "So it was made by Qi Lan. Brilliant, concise and clear."

Qi Lan listened to the black lines all over her face.

And the judges on the judges' rostrum found out that it was Qi Lan, and immediately no longer had any objections, did not ask questions, and unanimously said "pass!"

"It's too much to see what people order!" This was the real thought in Qi Lan's heart at this time.

Thus, Qi Lan was promoted smoothly.

Later, Qi Lan said to Ye Shuo: "These old fellows don't have the self-consciousness to be a judge. If I refine a dandelion and hawthorn pill, they will definitely let me advance!"

Here, although Ye Shuo and Qi Lan concocted two strange pills, they successfully passed the preliminary round. The two happily returned to the Alchemist Guild to prepare for the next day's rematch.

On the other side, there are dark clouds.

Chi Yunshi's office was in the building southwest of the Alchemists Guild. At this time, there were not many people left in the building, and the whole building was eerily quiet.

Chi Yunshi sat alone in his office, he didn't turn on the lights, the office was very dark.The curtains were drawn open, and outside the window, there was a pitch-black sky, with faint moonlight spilling in through the window.

There is a person standing in front of him, it is Chong Shuyao.

"Shuyao, I heard from Linglang that you gave them the medicine cauldron?" Chi Yunshi said, with his back to the light, he could only see a dark figure, but his expression could not be seen.

Chong Shuyao nodded: "Exactly."

Chi Yunshi didn't speak, as if he was waiting for Chong Shuyao's next answer.

Sure enough, Chong Shuyao said again slowly: "Master, even if I don't give them the medicine cauldron, wouldn't it be very convenient to get one or two medicine cauldrons at their level?"

"So you gave them the medicine cauldron so generously? I can't see that my Shuyao is so good at adult beauty."

Chong Shuyao shook his head and smiled: "Originally, one of them was the champion of the last alchemist competition, and the other was the newly recruited apprentice of the respected Master Yunxing. If the two of them were eliminated in the audition, it would That's not normal. Therefore, even if you want to bully them, you can't do it during the audition, otherwise, it would be too suspicious."

"So you sold your favor by the way? But Shuyao, they won't thank you."

"How can you say it's a show of favor? It should be me who wants to thank them." Chong Shuyao said and came to Chi Yunshi's side and sat on him, "Master, don't you think that such a game, a family Is it too boring to be the only one? So, wouldn't it be better for those two boys to be eliminated in the final?"

Chong Shuyao blinked again, "What's more, I still have a trump card. And this trump card..." She pressed her mouth to Chi Yunshi's ear, and said softly, "I have already laid it down. Master, you just Please wait and see." When she said this, the corner of her mouth drew an arc of unknown meaning, as if she was looking forward to it.

"Then, I'll just wait and see." Chi Yunshi closed his eyes with a smile, and embraced Chong Shuyao in his arms.

Also in the alchemist guild, in Qi Lan's room, Ye Shuo had completely lost the joy of entering the semi-finals, and seemed worried.

"It's so perverted..." Ye Shuo smacked his lips.

"Yeah!" Qi Lan nodded, "I also think that this is too much. Such rules of the game, that fellow Chi Yunshi couldn't have come up with it again!"

It turned out that the rules of the semi-finals have been announced.

According to what Qi Lan said, in the previous rematch, everyone refined their own elixirs without disturbing each other.

Usually, the competition will specifically give the prescribed refining formula and the required raw materials.As long as it is refined according to the regulations.

However, the failure rate of the pills to be refined in the competition is extremely high.Therefore, only those who successfully refine the elixir can advance to the final round.

However, there are new rules for this rematch.

In the rematch, every two people will be divided into a group, and a group needs to refine two types of elixir.

There are many raw materials given, and the two members of the group can choose by themselves.But there is only one part of all the raw materials in each group, which means that when two medicines need a certain raw material, only one person can get it.

So in this case, unless the two people in the same group have a high level of refining medicine, they can still refine the medicine with the default raw materials.If not, then in a group, only one person can successfully refine the elixir, and even in the same group, a situation where both losers will appear.

"This is not refining medicine, this is simply hurting each other!" Qi Lan seemed very dissatisfied with such rules, and then he seemed to suddenly think of something, grabbed Ye Shuo's hand and said: "Senior brother, you What if the two of us are grouped together!?"

"There's nothing to do, I'll give you all the raw materials." Ye Shuo didn't have any interest in this alchemist competition, he was simply pulled by Master Yunxing to make up the numbers.

"Brother, you are so kind!!" Qi Lan stared at her eyes.

"However..." His tone became sluggish again, "The names of this group must be arranged artificially, I don't believe there will be any random assignment. If I was assigned to those apprentices of Chi Yunshi, Especially Chong Shuyao!" At the mention of Chong Shuyao, Qi Lan's entire face darkened, "I really don't want to see her."

"Since you hate Chong Shuyao so much, why did you suddenly agree when she offered to give us the medicine cauldron earlier?" Seeing Qi Lan's reaction, Ye Shuo asked suspiciously.

"Chongshuyao? Yaoding? When did this happen?" Qi Lan looked very confused, "Is there such a thing?"

"Yes. Qi Lan, what's wrong with your memory?" Ye Shuo recalled to him, "It was when we were going to the pharmacy to refine medicine during the audition. At that time, there were a lot of people. Since there was no medicine cauldron, we were queuing up. Then Chong Shuyao came over and said that there happened to be two medicine cauldrons for us. Didn’t you agree? I’m still wondering why you and Chong Shuyao have always had a bad relationship, so why did you suddenly agree.”

Listening to Ye Shuo's narration, Qi Lan's expression was still so bewildered, as if she was still in deep thought, "Well, let me think... let me think..."

Seeing Qi Lan's reaction, Ye Shuo vaguely felt a little strange, "Qi Lan, you won't be hypnotized, are you?" He said, wanting to check on Qi Lan's situation.

Seeing Ye Shuo approaching her, Qi Lan suddenly jumped up, took a step back, and put a certain distance between herself and Ye Shuo, "Let me think about it... ah! It seems that this happened. There is not enough time, so I don't care about so much, anyway, we have all advanced now, haven't we?"

Although Qi Lan answered like this in his mouth, it seemed that he couldn't see any problem, but at this moment, his mind was a mess, "Chong Shuyao...Yao Ding..." He seemed to be still stuck in that problem , and his answer to Ye Shuo didn't seem like he said it himself, it was more like someone was answering for him.

But apart from this point, Qi Lan appeared to be quite normal.This is also what Ye Shuo couldn't understand.

"What's wrong? Am I weird?" Qi Lan found that Ye Shuo had been looking at him.

"A little bit."

"Brother, don't scare me! I won't be descended again!" Qi Lan said suddenly, holding her head.

"Again??" Hearing Qi Lan's words, Ye Shuo suddenly felt that things had really turned to a bad place.

(End of this chapter)