Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 225 - Top Alchemist
"Number 134, Spirit Pearl True Inheritance, Superior Grade Tongming Pill!"

The proctor started singing half an hour after the competition began.

Boom!
Someone caused an explosion in the furnace. The person thought that the earliest person to succeed would be at least half a day later, but unexpectedly, someone succeeded so soon.

In a moment of distraction, the alchemy furnace exploded.

Cursing his bad luck, the man had no choice but to start refining pills again, since it had only been half an hour.

Half an hour later, the proctor sang again:
"Number 134, the true inheritance of the Spirit Pearl, a rare and precious Tongming Pill!"

Boom boom boom!
Three alchemy furnaces exploded this time.

The three alchemists looked grim. They suddenly realized that the biggest challenge of the competition was not refining a sixth-grade pill within a limited time, but staying focused under the proctor's penetrating voice.

The three alchemists chose to restart their alchemy process, but one of them, like Lin Le, started refining seventh-grade pills.

He had only recently entered the realm of a sixth-grade alchemist and was not entirely confident that he could successfully refine a sixth-grade pill on his first attempt.

So he decided to do what Lin Le did and try to secure a minimum return first.

Moreover, a dozen bottles of grade seven pills are no worse than a bottle of grade six pills.

Half an hour later, the two proctors each sang a song, and then the sound of the furnace exploding was heard.

The alchemists whose furnaces had exploded looked grim. They realized that the biggest challenge of the competition was not refining a sixth-grade pill within a limited time, but rather dealing with the proctor's extremely penetrating voice.

After calculating the time, more alchemists began refining seventh-grade pills.

One of them even smashed the pot and tiles, and immediately began refining ninth-grade pills, his motto being: if he can't have a good time, no one else can either.

As the proctors announced the results one after another, the alchemy furnaces exploded one after another, with only a few people remaining unaffected.

The sound of the oven exploding was often heard in the first half of the day, but it decreased significantly in the second half.

"Number 186, Dan Yun's True Infant Spirit Pill, Excellent Grade!"

As the first batch of Grade 6 pills was produced, the sounds of explosions in the furnace became even more frequent.

Dan Yunzi put away the pills with a tired expression. Refining sixth-grade pills was already quite mentally taxing, and in order to resist the examiner's extremely penetrating voice, he also had to spare some attention to deal with it.

This further exacerbates the depletion of mental energy.

Therefore, after refining this batch of sixth-grade pills, he no longer had the energy to refine any more pills.

Lingzhuzi! Aimingzi!
Dan Yunzi gritted her teeth and silently repeated the two names.

These two, one started first, and the other is called the most.

Stepping out of the alchemy room, Dan Yunzi looked towards the two alchemists, eager to see how many they had produced.

He was stunned for a moment, because the table in front of the two people's alchemy room was almost full of pill bottles.

There are so many Ai Mingzi, but Dan Yunzi is understandable, because this guy only refines ninth-grade pills and his main purpose is harassment.

But why are there so many spirit pearls?
Dan Yunzi counted them and there were already sixty bottles. He remembered that Lingzhuzi should only refine seventh-grade Tongming Pills.

Is it possible...

Dan Yunzi considered a terrifying possibility.

Just then, the medicine transmission port in the alchemy room opened, and three bottles of pills were thrown out.

The inspector mechanically checked the items, then loudly announced, "Number 134, True Inheritance of the Spirit Pearl, Precious Brightening Pill!"

Dan Yunzi's body stiffened instantly. How could he dare to take three doses of seventh-grade pills at once!

Most importantly, he actually succeeded, twenty-one times!
Looking at the pile of pill bottles, Dan Yunzi knew who would win first place this time.

Faced with such a terrifying quantity, it's hard to say even if someone were to refine a sixth-grade rare pill.

Indeed, after the last two hours, many alchemists fell silent as they looked at the pile of pill bottles.

If Lin Le hadn't been from Tianqing Peak, they would have all thought the sect was pulling strings behind the scenes. Seventy-two bottles of grade-seven pills in twelve hours a day—is that even possible for a human?
After clarifying the value of the pills, Lin Le undoubtedly won first place, and his value surpassed that of the second-place pill by almost half.

No one was dissatisfied with this result.

But many people are curious about just how solid a foundation Lin Le laid during his Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core stages.

It should be understood that continuously refining twenty-four batches of seventh-grade pills would be too much for even a Nascent Soul cultivator at the sixth stage of transformation, let alone Lin Le, who was refining three batches at a time, resulting in even more intense consumption.

Next up is the competition of making talismans.

The competition process is similar to alchemy, both involving rounds of selection and promotion.

Lin Le was eliminated in the third round.

After all, he hadn't put much effort into this aspect.

This relieved many people; thankfully, his only problem was alchemy, which explained why he had gained the trust of the Nine Treasures Sect Master.

Some people have attributed the reason why the Nine Treasures Sect Master trusted Lin Le to Lin Le's abnormal talent in alchemy.

Next comes the formation.

This competition will only have one round and will be held over three days.

The elders would set up various formations on a mountain peak. Whoever broke through to the top first would be the champion, and the ranking would be based on the order of breaking through and the position.

Lin Le had become a prominent figure by this time, and seeing him on stage again, many people began to bet on how high he could go.

The mountain has a hundred steps, and most people bet that he can reach the last ten steps.

After all, there was no rule against using brute force this time. As a Nascent Soul cultivator and a sword cultivator, Lin Le should be able to break through a seventh-grade formation.

But the truth was far more terrifying than they imagined.

Lin Le stood at the foot of the mountain, and as the referee announced the start of the game, he exhaled a breath of fresh air.

The Yin and Yang swords merged into one, empowered by my martial intent, and further controlled by my supreme divine sense.

The Yin-Yang Sword pierced straight from the foot of the mountain to the summit.

Rumble!
The sounds of the formation collapsing formed waves, crashing against the minds of the many participants and onlookers.

No, it just broke like that?

Everyone fell silent as they watched Lin Le ascend to the ninety steps in one go.

I know that sword cultivators are good at breaking formations, but this is no longer a question of whether they are good at it or not, but a question of whether they are abnormal or not.

With a single strike, he pierced through ninety layers of formations. Even though most of the members were at the Foundation Establishment or Golden Core stages, the sheer number of them reduced demonstrates the immense power of Lin Le's attack.

The fact that Lin Le was able to strike all the way here means that the power of his attack was no less than that of a full-force attack from a Nascent Soul Ninth Transformation cultivator.

He has indeed undergone more than just the Nascent Soul stage.

Many people have this thought.

Laymen watch the excitement, while insiders watch the door.

The elders in charge of setting up the formations knew all too well what their formations looked like—a series of interconnected steps. Trying to break them by brute force would only provoke a counterattack from all the formations.

That's why they didn't stipulate that brute force couldn't be used; they just wanted to see Tian Qingfeng and the other martial arts practitioners make fools of themselves.

But unexpectedly, they became the laughingstock.

They hadn't expected Lin Le's attack to be so terrifyingly penetrating, piercing through ninety layers of the array before the array could react.

They knew all too well what this meant.

This means that Lin Le is the nemesis of array cultivators!
(End of this chapter)