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Chapter 41 Genius Girl
Kunlun Cave.

Lingxu Peak.

In the Kunlun Cave, there are many famous peaks, such as Yuxu Peak, which is the place where the real person is taught to practice, and Yuzhu Peak, where Xuanzhen Patriarch in the late Yuanying period practiced here. The name of Lingxu Peak, although It is not mentioned too much by the disciples on weekdays, but every year on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the eyes of almost the entire Kunlun will gather here.

The annual Alchemy Apprentice Competition was held at Lingxu Peak on this day.

Although it's just a competition for alchemy apprentices, the sect attaches great importance to it. The entire peak of Lingxu Peak is usually covered by a large formation, and it will only be opened on the day of the competition.

Every alchemist starts as an alchemy apprentice. The eight alchemy masters of the Zongmen all won the leader of the apprentice competition when they were alchemy apprentices. For alchemists, this is their journey of alchemy great honor.

This also led to extremely fierce competition in the annual Dan Dao Apprentice Competition.

There are some alchemists who obviously already have the strength of a first-rank alchemist, but they still hesitate to take the first-rank alchemist assessment, just to get the leader of the competition and add a lot of color to their alchemy career.

For some reason, this year's Dan Dao Apprentice Competition was more intense than previous years.

The reason is that the Zongmen recently promulgated the restriction on the purchase of Tongmai Pills. Even some elder disciples are in short supply of Tongmai Pills, so more people put their minds on the alchemy competition. .

If they can get a good ranking in the Grand Competition, they will be able to get a lot of Tongmai Pill rewards. In the past, they looked down on these rewards, so they have to find a way to fight this time.

At this moment, the large array of Lingxu Peak has been opened.

On a broad platform at the top of the peak, thousands of stone platforms are densely displayed. The periphery of the stone platform is covered by a large formation. The large formation will not affect the sight, but it can isolate the sound and block the wind. to the contestants inside.

The open space outside the platform was already crowded with disciples watching the excitement.

On the trees farther away, there are also shadows.

In the sky, there are several huge spirit boats floating. Some elders and deacons inside the door are sitting on the spirit boats, drinking tea while watching this annual grand event of the sect, chatting with people around them occasionally .

"This time, who do you think will win the championship?"

"It should be the turn of Master Danyangzi's beloved apprentice. Zhao Wuliang has been able to refine first-level pills for a long time, and he has not participated in the alchemist assessment for a long time. The reason is to win a big competition. It's a pity that every year the big competition There are dark horses, if I remember correctly, he has been second for four consecutive years..."

"I'm more optimistic about Changchun Daoist's disciple. That little girl is only 15 years old and has cultivated four spiritual veins. The sect obviously trains her as the next alchemy master..."

"After all, the little girl is only 15 years old. There will be opportunities in the future. I am still optimistic about Zhao Wuliang."

"I heard that she opened the furnace a month ago and refined five top-grade pills in one furnace. Not to mention these apprentices, most of the second-grade alchemists don't have such a high top-grade rate. This is talent ah……"

"There are also He Jin from Senior Brother Wang's sect, Deng Qingsong from Senior Brother Liu's sect, and Liu Ren from Senior Brother Feng's sect. They all also participated in this competition. This competition should be the most interesting one in recent years. Let's wait and see..."

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Lingxu Peak.

Peak platform.

Li Yu stood beside a rectangular stone platform. On the stone platform were placed some medicinal herbs, jade pots, jade bowls, and an alchemy furnace. In order to prevent cheating, all the materials for alchemy were prepared by the sect in advance.

Zhou Zixuan stood beside him, staring directly at the herbs on the stone platform, clenched her fists tightly, the knuckles of her fingers turned white due to the tense relationship.

Li Yu couldn't help laughing and said, "I'm the one taking part in the competition, why are you more nervous than me?"

Zhou Zixuan pursed her lips and asked, "You, aren't you nervous at all?"

Li Yu shrugged and said, "It's a small scene, relax, relax..."

His expression was indifferent. If he was so easily nervous, he would have died many times. In his previous life, in Southeast Asia, in front of nearly a thousand people, he was able to talk to the other party with a smile. This time it was just refining a pill in public, so there was nothing to be nervous about.

However, when he looked around, many people around him showed more or less nervous expressions on their faces.

This is also very normal. Alchemists are used to alchemy in a closed and quiet environment. Normal people will feel a little uncomfortable when such a big scene suddenly occurs. This is also a test of their minds by the sect.

But there are also those who are as steady as an old dog like Li Yu.

Beside him was a young girl who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, she was pretty and charming, she didn't look nervous at all, she was leaning on the stone platform, humming an unknown tune.

Even the girl assistant beside her didn't show any signs of stage fright, and was talking to her with a smile.

Li Yu and Zhou Zixuan chatted casually to relieve her tension. After a while, several dull bells rang in her ears, and a deep voice echoed above them.

"This Alchemy Apprentice Competition has officially begun!"

As soon as the voice fell, the crowd was in a commotion, and immediately began to get busy around the thousand stone platforms in the square.

In the first round of competition, there was only one hour. The assistants purified the pills as quickly as possible, while the alchemists stood by the pill furnace, trying their best to adjust their state to the best, and ensure that they could make alchemy in the best state.

The competition is divided into three rounds, and the rules of each round are different.

In the first round, 1000 people participated. After one round, 100% of them were eliminated, leaving only [-] people.

The requirements for this round are relatively loose. There are three materials on the stone platform. All alchemists need to refine ten hemostatic pills, ensuring that each one has more than three pill patterns.

Three materials, if ten high-grade hemostatic pills cannot be refined, they will be directly eliminated.

If more than 100 people are qualified, then the top 100 people will be promoted according to the amount of materials consumed and the quality of the pill.

The requirement of this round is to use the least amount of materials to refine the most and best quality pills.

The other alchemists were all adjusting their status. Li Yu was watching Zhou Zixuan extract the psychic liquid. She learned this in Biyun Peak. A set of operations is smooth and orderly. Even the girl next to her looked at her a few more times.

Soon, a pill liquid will be ready.

Li Yu poured the elixir prepared by Zhou Zixuan into the main cavity of the elixir furnace and started refining. At almost the same time, the girl next to him also started elixir.

When refining alchemy for the first time, it took Li Yu less than half an hour to refine a batch of elixirs.

With the improvement of his cultivation, the time he needed for alchemy became shorter and shorter. Up to now, it only takes about fifteen minutes at the fastest, but this is the first round, so he just needs to ensure that he advances, and he doesn't need to try his best.

In the process of alchemy, accidents occurred frequently on the entire competition platform.

Snapped!
An alchemist was too anxious, and his hand holding the jade bowl was unstable. The bowl containing the elixir fell to the ground and broke, and the sound it made scared another alchemist next to him.

The alchemist had already sealed the furnace and started refining, so he was frightened by this, his hands trembled, and the flame also trembled.

puff……

A stream of black smoke came out of the pill furnace, and his batch of pills was useless.

He glared at the other party viciously, but he didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly urged his assistant to prepare the second material.

With the passage of time, on the huge alchemy platform, such mistakes appeared one after another. Some people were even affected twice in a row, their mentality exploded, and they fought with the alchemist who influenced him. The final result, of course, was to maintain order The disciples of the deacons are taken away, and within three years, they are not allowed to participate in the competition again.

Almost a quarter of an hour passed, and within three feet of Li Yu, only the girl was left as an alchemist.

Just now, the alchemist next to him fought with the alchemist next to him, which caused a series of chain reactions, and the surrounding alchemists were all affected. Several of them had no choice but to quit because all the materials were wasted...

Li Yu turned his head and glanced. The girl next to him was not very old, but her mentality was as stable as an old dog. Such a big movement around her didn't affect her at all.

Under Li Yu's alchemy furnace, the flame was still stable.

Soon, he smelled a strong fragrance of Dan.

The girl next to him seemed to have turned on the furnace.

Ten elixirs, two top grades, and eight super grades.

Just by smelling the elixir, Li Yu could judge the quality of that furnace of elixir, because he was too familiar with the smell.

This surprised Li Yu. He really shouldn't underestimate the heroes of the world. The Kunlun faction is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This young girl already has [-] to [-]% of his level in alchemy...

(End of this chapter)