In Heaven's Hollow, there was a path paved with white clouds that led straight into the depths of the hollow. The person leading the way had long sleeves fluttering in the wind. He wore a high hat and a wide belt, looking like a great sage. For a moment, Lu Ping felt as if he could see Spiritual Master Jiang Xuanlin's elegant demeanor from this person.
Behind this person was a long-necked youth with a single horn on his head. The youth looked like a child who had left his home for the first time. He maintained a strong sense of curiosity towards everything around him. As he walked along the white cloud path, he looked all around him, taking in the scenery of Heaven's Hollow. When he saw the hundreds of human cultivators on the white cloud in the center of the hollow, his face was filled with surprise.
The two of them arrived on the white cloud in the center. The person leading the way bowed slightly to Spiritual Master Hongye and said, "Yan Wujiu has come uninvited, please don't blame me, Laozu!"
Hongye Laozu actually stood up slightly and said, "Your presence brings light to the Northern Alliance!"
He gestured for Yan Wujiu to sit, then pointed to the young cultivator behind him and said, "This is a disciple that the Old Man took in a few years ago. He has some talent in alchemy. This time, I brought him here to broaden his horizons, but I didn't expect it to be too late. I hope that Laozu can make an exception and give this child a chance to gain experience."
Hongye Laozu heard the pleading tone in Yan Wujiu's words and looked at the single-horned, long-necked youth in surprise. He said, "Since Fellow Yan has asked, and he is also your disciple, the Old Man has no reason to refuse. However, what do the Spiritual Masters of Kunshan and the other sects think?"
Spiritual Master Kunshan and the others looked at each other. How could they dare to say no? They all said, "We will follow Laozu's instructions."
Among the alchemists below the stage, there were some who were unhappy that this half-transformed Demon Clan young man had interfered and directly entered the second stage of the Elixir Gathering. However, who would be stupid enough to question the fairness of the Elixir Gathering competition to the alchemy grandmasters present?
Although Lu Ping wondered why a Yao alchemist would suddenly participate, this was clearly not something that Lu Ping could participate in right now. Strength determined a cultivator's status. Right now, Lu Ping could only appear in the Eastern Sea as a Loose Cultivator. In the competition between the various forces of the Eastern Sea, he didn't even have the qualifications to be a chess piece.
As Lu Ping's will moved slightly, the white cloud under his feet suddenly enveloped Lu Ping, forming a pill room. Lu Ping's figure in the pill room was faintly discernible, as if it was extremely clear, but also as if there was a layer in between, so that Lu Ping could use some secret techniques that he didn't want to use in front of the cultivators.
When Lu Ping's divine will touched the other alchemists' cloud rooms, he found that his divine will was blocked by an invisible restriction in the white cloud. He couldn't clearly sense the actions of the cultivators in the cloud rooms, so he could only observe the surrounding cultivators with his eyes. However, his eyes clearly couldn't clearly see the process of each alchemist. Lu Ping knew that this was a method set up by the Northern Alliance to protect the privacy of the alchemists. Although Lu Ping still had doubts about this restriction, he couldn't help but praise the Northern Alliance's actions. After the gathering, at least the Northern Alliance would have some understanding of these alchemists.
Lu Ping's divine will swept through the jade slips on the cloud table. This time, there were two pill recipes recorded in the jade slips. One of them was the Form Transformation Pill that Lu Ping was quite familiar with.
The Form Transformation Pill was a half-step core forging pill that was specially prepared for late Blood Condensation demons. It allowed late Blood Condensation demons to transform into human form before advancing to the core forging realm. However, some of the more obvious characteristics of the demon race would be retained until they advanced to the core forging realm.
Lu Ping had this pill recipe in his hand. Originally, he asked for it to be prepared for the Blue Phoenix. Unexpectedly, the Blue Phoenix seemed to know what he would look like after consuming the Form Transformation Pill and refused to consume it.
The three Green Sea Snakes, on the other hand, couldn't forget about the Form Transformation Pill. However, when Samling advanced to the late Blood Condensation Realm, he also refused to consume it, saying that he would only consume it after he advanced to the late Blood Condensation Realm. Helpless, Lu Ping could only store the completed Form Transformation Pill.
After preparing the cauldron, Lu Ping thought for a while and took out the Scarlet Nightmare Flame from his storage ring. Then, he started refining the pill.
Lu Ping's decision to take the lead in concocting the Form Transformation Pellet was clearly out of Yue Jiangrui and the others' expectations. Yue Jiangrui glanced at Lu Ping disdainfully. He stretched out his hand and cast out the first stage of the pellet concoction with a white flame. Then, he made a hand seal and the four big-headed monsters carved on the cauldron's walls suddenly seemed to come alive. They opened their mouths and spat out red, green, purple, and yellow flames, which merged with the white flame to form a strange five-colored flame that burned fiercely at the bottom of the cauldron.
Senior Brother Ye and Senior Brother Qi also secretly increased their speed. Senior Brother Ye spat out the Firebird from his mouth again. This time, the Firebird's light orange-red color had become a lot darker. The Firebird stretched its neck and flapped its wings. As it flew towards the cauldron, it opened its beak and spat out a thin thread of flame, burning the white clouds around the cauldron.
Senior Brother Qi didn't want to be left behind. The red Fire Fox turned white for some reason. Its snow-white fox tail kept wagging at the cauldron, causing white sparks to explode at the bottom of the cauldron. After a while, Senior Brother Qi also started throwing spirit herbs into the cauldron.
Lu Ping's refining of the Form Transformation Pill had been relatively smooth. This also gave Lu Ping time to observe the refining situation of the surrounding alchemists. When he saw that the surrounding alchemists were more or less using different fire seeds, Lu Ping found a shortcoming in his own alchemy. That was, the fire seeds in Lu Ping's hands were too few. So far, Lu Ping only had two fire seeds, the Scarlet Nightmare Flame and the Blue Spiritual Fire.
There were all kinds of pills, and the nature of the fire seeds were different. When different pills were refined with different fire seeds, the effects of the finished pills might be very different.
It wasn't that Lu Ping couldn't collect more fire seeds. It was just that although Lu Ping was good at alchemy, he was still an orthodox cultivator. Although being an alchemist gave him a huge boost in status, Lu Ping coveted longevity. Most of his time was spent on cultivation, unlike an orthodox alchemist who prioritized improving their alchemy skills. Moreover, he had a Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire, a Blue Spiritual Fire, which had a much wider range of uses in alchemy. Naturally, he didn't bother to find more fire seeds.
There weren't many thousand-year-old spirit herbs needed to refine the Form Transformation Pill. Its difficulty was only comparable to that of the Face Retaining Pill. Although Lu Ping didn't use the Blue Spiritual Fire, with the support of his self-created purification technique and his huge Divine Sense, the Form Transformation Pill easily reached a success rate of 60%. Moreover, after the pill furnace was opened, six pills jumped out of the pill furnace and drew a semicircle above the pill furnace, as if they were avoiding Lu Ping from collecting the pills.
"Even a low-level half-step Forging Pill like the Form Transformation Pill can reach the half-step Psychic level. This alchemist from the Li family of the Three Families Island seems to have some skills."
Immortal Qin, who was on the white cloud in the center, casually chatted with Immortal Kun Shan and the others. At the same time, his Divine Sense was patrolling the white cloud pill room in the void, constantly paying attention to the hundreds of alchemists. At the same time, he casually commented on the alchemy process of these alchemists with a few Immortal Masters.
"Compared to the alchemists nurtured by other forces and sects, he's not bad. However, compared to Zhou Chuang, Ning Shize, and the other disciples of the five great sects of the Eastern Sea, there's still a gap. Even that Yue Jiangrui is above him, unless he still has some trump card that he hasn't used. However, the Li family's assessment of a medium-sized force can rest easy."
Immortal Kun Shan casually glanced in the direction of Lu Ping and said.
"Immortal Kun Shan, don't forget that there's still Yan Wujiu's disciple."
Immortal Kun Shan glanced in the direction of Yan Wujiu's disciple, the one-horned, long-necked youth, as if he had discovered some secret. His entire person seemed to be a little shocked, but then he very well concealed his expression. Then, which one of the people sitting here wasn't an old and shrewd person? How could Immortal Kun Shan's expression escape their eyes?
However, at this time, the expressions of the other Immortal Masters were not much better than Immortal Kun Shan's. They secretly glanced at Yan Wujiu, who was secretly discussing something with Hongye Laozu. Their eyes flashed with a trace of fear, envy, and jealousy. However, looking at the serious expressions on the faces of the two, everyone's hearts flashed with a trace of solemnity.
At this time, Lu Ping had already begun to refine the second type of alchemy, the Detachment Pill.
This was a type of healing pill. After a cultivator suffered from a broken limb, this pill could be used in an extremely short period of time to quickly reconnect the severed limb. However, the reconnected limb would be extremely fragile and would require a large amount of time and magic power to recuperate.
The difficulty of refining this pill was comparable to the Golden Firmament Pill that Lu Ping had refined in the past. Both required twelve types of thousand-year-old spirit herbs. In order to refine this pill, the Scarlet Nightmare Flame in Lu Ping's hand was already somewhat lacking. Lu Ping was unwilling to expose the Azure Spirit Flame in his hand. He could only use his spiritual sense with all his might and exert all his strength to display a purification technique in order to remove as many impurities as possible from the pill. Then, in the process of condensing the pill, he drew out an azure flame from his waist.
With the help of the green flame, the Crimson Nightmare Fire burned brightly, and the faint medicinal aroma grew thicker. Two muffled sounds came from the cauldron, and two of the eight medicinal pellets that were slowly condensing exploded. Lu Ping's divine sense finally relaxed a little.
Fortunately, the azure flame came in time. Otherwise, the Scarlet Nightmare Flame was not strong enough, and it would not just be two pills that exploded.
It was still six pills, a 60% success rate!
Yue Jiangrui and the others were guessing the azure flame that Lu Ping used for the second time. This time, Lu Ping finished refining the two pills early and returned to Li Maolin's side to quietly wait for the result.
Since the Li Family was basically no longer a small force, his expression seemed to be relaxed. However, with Yue Jiangrui and Lu Ping's "cauldron-smashing agreement", he was embarrassed to appear too excited. As for the engagement between Li Xiuzhu and Shangguan Hao, he did not care at all. The Li Family's true heritage was not something that the Shangguan Family could provoke.
By the time the second stage was completed, three days had passed. Immortal Qin directly announced that more than a dozen alchemists who had not finished were eliminated, causing most of the alchemists' pill furnaces to explode. Only a few people were still persisting, which earned Immortal Qin's appreciative gaze.
The elimination standard of the second stage was set at a 50% success rate. Those with a success rate below 40% were all eliminated. Even many elixirs with a success rate of 50% were eliminated by several alchemy masters who thought that the quality of the elixirs was too poor.
Yue Jiangrui was as experienced as ever. His success rate for both Half-Step Core Forging Realm medicinal pellets had reached 80%. Lu Ping noticed that Yue Jiangrui had used more than seven types of fire seeds during the first two cauldrons of medicinal pellets. When he was concocting the second batch of medicinal pellets, the two rings on his hands also spewed out two types of fire seeds, turning the originally colorless fire into a seven-colored one.
Perhaps it was because Senior Brother Ye was from the Northern Alliance that he had the geographical and social advantage. When it came time to refine the second type of Dan, his success rate was seventy percent. Senior Brother Qi, on the other hand, only managed to refine six.
After two rounds, nearly half of the nearly one hundred alchemists were eliminated, leaving only forty-seven. Lu Ping woke up from his meditative state and asked Li Maolin who had the highest success rate in the second stage.
Li Maolin pointed at the single-horned, long-necked youth beside Yan Wujiu and said, "He refined seventeen elixirs. The highest success rate among the others was eighteen. That's the same for all the major sects."
Li Maolin paused, then added, "Yue Jiangrui as well!"
Lu Ping nodded with a solemn expression. If Lu Ping's guess was right, the five sects' disciples had held back and didn't use their full strength. However, the monster young man didn't have the human's Nine Twists Mind, so it was more likely that he had used his full strength.
Li Maolin wanted to say something, but he was afraid of affecting the battle between Lu Ping and Yue Jiangrui, so he stuffed a storage bag into Lu Ping's hand and did not say anything.
Lu Ping looked at the storage bag in his hand strangely, not knowing what Li Maolin was planning. After scanning it with his divine sense, he looked at Li Maolin strangely.
Li Maolin pondered for a moment, then said, "She said that she was reckless that day, but the agreement in the Listening Small Villa still stands."
Lu Ping knew that he was talking about Chu Ting, so he nodded and did not say anything.
Another day passed. Although this Heaven's Grotto was vast, it was obviously under the control of Daoist Master Red Leaf. Everyone could not wander around at will, so they could only cultivate on this huge white cloud. Fortunately, the Spiritual Qi in the Heaven's Grotto was abundant, and it was no less than that of a medium-sized spiritual vein. This made many cultivators quite happy. Moreover, taking advantage of this rare opportunity, hundreds of Core Forging Masters spontaneously held several small trade fairs on this white cloud to exchange what they needed. Li Maolin and Li Xiuzhu also participated several times. Seeing the excited expressions on their faces, it was obvious that they had gained a lot.
"Today is the third stage. Everyone only needs to refine one type of elixir, but I don't know if there are any alchemists who are proficient in the Combat Elixir Faction among you, because today's competition will only refine one type of elixir, called the Intentional Combat Elixir!"
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