Lu Ping looked at the hundreds of alchemists in the square. Two-thirds of them were using low-grade cauldrons, and less than one-third were using mid-grade cauldrons. As for high-grade cauldrons, none of them were using high-grade ones.
In the North Sea, there was an unspoken rule that only Grandmaster Alchemists could use high-grade pill furnaces. Moreover, most of the North Sea's Grandmaster Alchemists only had a mid-grade pill furnace. If they wanted to refine high-grade pills, they would sometimes have to ask for help from forces that had high-grade pill furnaces!
Fortunately, these Grandmaster Alchemists had high statuses. Generally, as long as they asked for help, the major forces and families would rarely refuse. Even in the Pill Pavilion, Tianlu Laozu would sometimes agree to use Zhenling's high-grade pill furnaces for those Grandmaster Alchemists who were on good terms with him.
Looking at this scene, Lu Ping could not help but lament the poverty of the North Sea's cultivation world. He thought back to the time when he participated in the Northern Alliance's Alchemy Conference in the East Sea. There were many Blood Condensation cultivators who had not even succeeded in refining Core Forging pills. Many of them used high-grade pill furnaces, and some even used top-grade pill furnaces.
Although these people represented the major powers and clans behind them, at the very least, the subsidiary powers and clans of Zhen Ling Sect would not be able to provide high-grade pill furnaces for these cultivators to use in the Pill Pavilion's examination.
Just as Lu Ping's imagination was running wild, the host of the Alchemy Conference, Spiritual Master Xuan Dian, announced the start of the conference.
Tianlu Laozu had four disciples: Xuan Yan, Xuan Jing, Tian Qin, and Xuan Dian. Among these four, except for Tian Qin Laozu, who had surpassed his predecessors, the other three were all Grandmaster Alchemists.
Spiritual Master Xuandian was fine. He had only been a disciple of the Forsaken Sky Cauldron Ancestor for a short period of time. His knowledge of the enmity between the Sky Zither Ancestor and the Heavenly Spirit Ancestor was very vague.
On the other hand, Spiritual Master Xuan Yan and Spiritual Master Xuan Jing were hostile towards Lu Ping because of the matter between Tian Ling Laozu and Laozu. Especially in this Pill Pavilion's examination, Lu Ping was sitting at the head of the table. Moreover, he was one of the only two third generation disciples among the nine Grandmaster Alchemists. This made Spiritual Master Xuan Yan, who sat next to Lu Ping, and Spiritual Master Xuan Jing, who sat to the east, felt very uncomfortable.
But the two had no choice but to endure. Lu Ping's position as the Pavilion Head Proctor was personally appointed by the Forsaken Forsaken Heavenly Cauldron Cauldron's cultivation base and alchemy skills. Even if the two were dissatisfied, they had to admit that they couldn't compare to Lu Ping in either.
The only thing that the two of them criticized was Lu Ping's status as a third generation disciple. But when they thought about Tian Shu Laozu, they had no choice but to swallow their dissatisfaction!
Before the Pill Pavilion's examination, the nine examiners would come forward to practice their Alchemy skills, also known as the Pill Exhibition. Although it was before the examination, it was indeed one of the highlights of the entire examination!
At this time, a large number of cultivators from Zhenling and its affiliated forces had gathered outside the Pill Pavilion's square. Among them, there were also many Alchemists who had not participated in the examination. Most of them were Zhenling's second generation disciples. Most of them had come for the Pill Exhibition before the examination.
The first to go on stage was Zhenling's Alchemy Grandmaster. Among the third generation disciples, he was second only to Grandmaster Lu Xuanping, Daoist Master Xuan Fang!
Daoist Master Xuan Fang took out a small bag from his waist. This was a storage bag specially used by Daoist Master Xuan Fang to store his Alchemy Furnace.
Daoist Master Xuan Fang shook the storage bag, and a square square Alchemy Furnace floated out of the bag. "Dang!" The three feet tall Alchemy Furnace fell on the square and made a crisp sound when it hit the bluestone on the ground.
Lu Ping was very familiar with this Alchemy Furnace. It was the high-grade Alchemy Furnace that Lu Ping had used when he became an Alchemy Grandmaster. Later, because Lu Ping had a better Na Chuan Cauldron, he gave this Alchemy Furnace to the new Alchemy Grandmaster, Daoist Master Xuan Fang.
Colored Glass Grass, Ancient Vine Leaves, Thousand Clear Branches …
Lu Ping just looked at the Thousand Year Spirit Grass that Daoist Master Xuan Fang took out. He knew that he was going to refine the Ancient Glass Pill, which was a commonly used pill in the middle stage of the Core Forging Stage.
After all these years, Daoist Master Xuan Fang's alchemy skills had also improved greatly. Although the Ancient Glass Pill was not the best pill in the middle stage of the Core Forging Stage, it was still the best pill to show the alchemy skills of an Alchemy Grandmaster.
This kind of pill only took a short time to refine, at most half a day. In fact, this was to not affect the normal progress of the alchemy exam.
It seemed that this Alchemy Exhibition was not peaceful. Although it was to demonstrate alchemy skills to the younger generation, and the alchemy skills between the Grandmasters were also secretly competing with each other. On the stage, Lu Ping could not help but show a trace of a sarcastic smile.
If it was just putting the Spirit Grass into the Alchemy Furnace to refine the pill, the proportion of time in the whole alchemy process was not high. The real time consuming part was the large amount of preparation work before the alchemy.
For this Alchemy Exhibition, the preparation work was obviously completed by the Alchemy Grandmasters. What was shown in front of everyone was only the last refining process of the Spirit Grass into the furnace.
As Daoist Master Xuan Fang snapped his fingers, an orange flame began to burn at the bottom of the high-grade Alchemy Furnace. The Alchemy Exhibition had officially begun.
However, when Lu Ping looked at the orange flame of Daoist Master Xuan Fang, he showed a trace of surprise.
A middle-grade Earth Level Small Orange Flame!
Previously, Daoist Master Xuan Fang had only used a high-grade Profound Level Spirit Fire. This was because after he became an Alchemy Grandmaster, Tianlu Laozu had specially rewarded him with a Heaven and Earth Level Spirit Fire.
It seemed like Enlightened Master Xuan Fang had gained a lot from his time in the Middle Earth. In terms of alchemy, the little orange fire was much stronger than the earth-class mid-grade Xuan Tian Spirit Burning Fire Lu Ping had.
However, after using a high-grade Spirit Stone, the Profound Sky Spirit Fire's grade would temporarily rise to a high-grade Earth Level Spirit Fire. This was something that the Small Orange Flame could not compare to.
Following behind Daoist Master Xuan Fang was a Alchemy Grandmaster called Li Yan Shan. He was a new Alchemy Grandmaster who had emerged from the forces under Zhenling.
In recent years, this Grandmaster Li Yan Shan had been in the limelight in the areas under Zhenling's control. Of course, this was also because Daoist Master Xuan Fang and Lu Ping were in the Middle Earth.
Grandmaster Li Yan Shan also took out a high-grade Alchemy Furnace. However, this Alchemy Furnace was rusty and damaged. Even so, no matter if it was a Alchemy Grandmaster or an ordinary cultivator, none of them laughed at him.
For a Rogue Cultivator like Grandmaster Li Yan Shan to be able to take out a high-grade Alchemy Furnace was already very impressive. Especially those Alchemy Grandmasters, many of them even had looks of envy on their faces.
A light red flame was burning in his palm. Lu Ping recognized that this was a high-grade Earth Level Spirit Fire. It was called the Lightning Strike Flame. Legend has it that this flame was formed when a Spirit Wood was struck by lightning and burned for many years.
After Li Yan Shan was Daoist Master Xuan Dian. As the last disciple of Fornax Laozu, Daoist Master Xuan Dian was a modest person. The Heaven and Earth Level Spirit Fire he used was also a mid-grade Earth Level Spirit Fire.
Next were two Alchemy Grandmasters from other forces. Their Alchemy Furnaces were both high-grade, but their Spirit Fires were only low-grade Earth Level Spirit Fires.
When Daoist Master Xuan Jing stood up, he intentionally or unintentionally glanced in the direction of Lu Ping. However, Lu Ping did not even look at him.
In the past, Daoist Master Xuan Jing used the Spirit Stealing Technique to steal one-third of the medicinal properties of the Forging Spirit Pill that Tianling Laozu sent to the Pill Pavilion. This almost caused Liang Tianfeng Laozu to fail in refining the Tianfeng Leaf.
At that time, it was thanks to Lu Ping that he had mastered the refining method of the Minor Forging Spirit Pill, which helped Liang Tianfeng Laozu condense a good seventh-grade Golden Pill. Otherwise, Zhenling might have lost a Fa Xiang Laozu.
After this incident, Tianlu Laozu was furious, and Daoist Master Xuan Jing's cultivation was almost abolished. From then on, all the affairs of the Pill Pavilion were no longer handed over to him.
However, although Daoist Master Xuan Jing's character and cultivation were not good, his Alchemy skills were really brilliant. Not to mention the ingenuity of the Spirit Stealing Technique, just by looking at the disciple he taught, Daoist Master Xuan Fang, and his status among the third generation disciples of the Pill Pavilion, it could be seen that this person had real skills. If it were not for a monstrous genius like Lu Ping in Zhenling, Daoist Master Xuan Fang would have become an existence that could call the wind and summon the rain among the third generation disciples of Zhenling.
Daoist Master Xuan Jing used one-third of the stolen Forging Spirit Pill to successfully refine a middle-grade Earth Level Spirit Object. After advancing to the late stage of Core Forging, his Alchemy skills had really improved.
A Pill Furnace appeared on the square of the Pill Pavilion in front of Lu Ping, who looked as if he had seen a ghost!
Not only Lu Ping, but the other Alchemy Grandmasters present were also shocked. The cultivators watching the scene even exclaimed.
Daoist Master Xuan Jing actually took out a top-grade Pill Furnace!
The cultivators outside the square naturally marveled at the appearance of a top-grade Pill Furnace, but Lu Ping and the others were greatly surprised, because they all recognized this top-grade Pill Furnace. It was the Pill Furnace used by Tianqin Laozu on a daily basis. They didn't expect that he would actually ask for it from Tianqin Laozu.
The only person in the square who was not surprised was Daoist Master Xuan Yan. Among the four disciples of Tianlu Laozu, Daoist Master Xuan Jing had the best relationship with Tianqin Laozu.
Although Daoist Master Xuan Jing's character was somewhat flawed and narrow-minded, but it was undeniable that his protection of Tianqin Laozu came from the bottom of his heart.
When Tianqin Laozu entered Tianlu Laozu's tutelage, she was still a little girl, and Daoist Master Xuan Jing protected her like an elder brother. When it came to the friendship between Tianlu Laozu's disciples, the relationship between Tianqin Laozu and Daoist Master Xuan Jing was the deepest. Daoist Master Xuan Yan was not surprised that Daoist Master Xuan Jing was able to ask Tianqin Laozu for a top-grade Pill Furnace.
A mid-grade Earth-level Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire. This was the mid-grade Earth-level Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire that Daoist Master Xuan Jing had refined when he had advanced to the late Core Forging stage. In addition to the high-grade Earth-level Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire that he had refined when he had advanced to the mid Core Forging stage, the quality of this Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire was almost at the same level.
Lu Ping looked at the spirit herbs that Daoist Master Xuan Jing took out and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. The Illusionary Pill was an elixir of the highest quality among the late Core Forging stage elixirs. The difficulty of refining it was also quite high. Usually, if an alchemist could successfully refine this kind of elixir, it usually meant that he or she had the qualifications to refine elixirs that were half a step into the Dharma Realm.
He didn't expect that Daoist Master Xuan Jing's alchemy skills would improve so quickly!
Lu Ping couldn't help but look at Daoist Master Xuan Yan and Daoist Master Xuan Yue on his side. Since Daoist Master Xuan Jing had taken out the Illusionary Pill, these two seemed to have elixirs that were at least half a step into the Dharma Realm.
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