Tian Lin Laozu turned around and was about to leave when he thought of something. "You seem to be looking for a Spirit Nurturing artifact recently?"
Lu Ping was overjoyed. "That's right. I have a few artifacts that I want to upgrade to Spirit Nurturing artifact, but they are stuck on the artifact restrictions!"
Tian Lin Laozu took out a few jade slips and said, "Take a look. These are some of the special artifacts that the Old Man has accumulated over the years. They are all Spirit Nurturing artifacts. See if there are any that you can use!"
Lu Ping took out the jade slips and looked through them one by one. He really did find a Spirit Nurturing artifact that he could use now.
After sending Tian Lin Laozu off, Lu Ping began to carefully look through the dense runes recorded on the artifact restriction.
This was a treasure restriction suitable for water-attribute magic treasures. This type of treasure restriction was not very precious, but very few people would refine this type of magic treasure for water-attribute magic treasures.
Coincidentally, after Lu Ping's Landslide condensed six Spirit Nurturing artifacts, it was withdrawn from Lu Ping's list of artifacts because it didn't have a suitable Spirit Nurturing artifact restriction.
But this time, with this artifact restriction, it could be upgraded to a Spirit Nurturing artifact. However, the artifact's quality was a little low. It had a water attribute and a metal attribute. But Chen Lian would have to worry about this himself. The Refining Hall should have quite a few rare spiritual materials.
As long as he could upgrade Landslide to a Spirit Nurturing artifact, Zhenling would have another Grandmaster Refiner!
The next day, the Pill Pavilion's examination continued. Hundreds of disciples started a fire in the Pill Pavilion's plaza. Hundreds of fire seeds were ignited at the same time. Although each flame couldn't compare to the Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire that the masters displayed yesterday, the combined power was enough to rival the examiners.
At first, Lu Ping was curious. But as time passed, he began to feel annoyed. These were just Mid Blood Condensation medicinal pellets. In the eyes of an Alchemist Grandmaster like Lu Ping, even if the cultivators here had all kinds of tricks up their sleeves, could they really make a flower out of these medicinal pellets?
Lu Ping looked at the grandmaster alchemists sitting upright on the platforms on his left and right. He stood up and, under the surprised gazes of the onlookers, slowly walked towards the alchemy plaza.
This made Lu Ping feel like an invigilator again. He was just like those invigilators in his past life who had to walk back and forth in the examination hall in order not to fall asleep. Not only did he abide by his professional ethics, but he also intimidated the students.
However, Lu Ping's unexpected action this time not only shocked the alchemist's professionalism, but it also shocked the alchemist in the midst of refining the pellets. Moreover, it was obvious that he had gone overboard!
Even Lu Ping himself didn't know that his identity as a Grandmaster Refiner would be so shocking. Just as Lu Ping casually walked past these alchemists, the flames in their hands began to flicker. The spectating cultivators felt their hearts rising and falling along with it.
Just as Lu Ping walked up to two alchemists who had already started to control the flames, the flames in one of their hands flickered and extinguished. Perhaps it was because they were too excited, afraid, or for some other reason, the flames in one of their hands flickered and extinguished, while the flames in the other's hands surged and engulfed the entire pill furnace.
Immediately after that, there were two "pu pu" sounds. The smell of half-cooked medicinal dregs came from the first pill furnace, while the smell of burnt flesh came from the second.
Of the two, one raised his head and looked at Lu Ping pitifully, while the other was curled up and trembling. It was as if she was a female alchemist who had suffered a great injustice.
Lu Ping raised his head and looked at the few grandmasters, only to see that they were also shocked and at a loss. Obviously, no one had expected such a thing to happen. In the past Pill Pavilion examinations, there had never been an examiner patrolling the plaza. That was because the examiner's divine sense was enough to know the situation of every alchemist participating in the examination. There was no need for them to go down to the plaza to check.
As the main examiner, Lu Ping was enjoying his role. He squinted at the two and said, "Although an alchemist cannot be disturbed during the process of concocting pellets, it doesn't mean that the process will fail. If an alchemist doesn't even have the slightest bit of resistance, then the alchemist is too weak!"
Lu Ping paused and looked at the two alchemists who seemed to have resigned themselves to their bad luck. He continued, "This time, it's my fault for suddenly patrolling the plaza. Since it's your first time, I'll give you one more chance. If these alchemists extinguish their flames because of my patrolling again, they will be kicked out of the venue!"
Lu Ping's voice wasn't loud, but it was clearly heard by every alchemist who was refining pills. The flames controlled by the alchemists flickered again.
Outside the plaza, there were already cultivators from the Pill Pavilion who came up to the two alchemists and handed them two Mid Blood Condensation pills for them to refine.
After the first day of the exam, basically every pill refiner who participated in the exam had successfully refined a pill. There was no failure of an empty furnace. This was extremely rare in the history of Zhen Ling Sect's Pill Pavilion exams.
However, because of Lu Ping's sudden patrolling in the plaza, the success rate of the alchemists who participated in the exam was much lower. Many alchemists complained that if Grandmaster Lu Xuanping didn't suddenly go down to patrol the plaza, their success rate could have increased by ten to twenty percent. However, no one dared to complain to the Pill Pavilion. It wasn't just because of Enlightened Master Lu Xuanping's identity as a Grandmaster Alchemist. It was also because of what Grandmaster Lu said at the exam. If the alchemists could really be affected just because someone was walking beside them, then it would be too shameful!
Even though everyone had successfully refined the pill, according to the rules of the Pill Pavilion's examination, those who had a success rate of thirty percent or less would be eliminated. In just this one round, two-fifths of the hundred or so alchemists had been eliminated, leaving less than seventy people. Among them, about forty were disciples of the Pill Pavilion.
However, these eliminated cultivators could still redeem a Late Blood Condensation Realm pill and continue to participate in the exam the next day. The only difference was that they wouldn't be included in the exam.
The exam continued on the second day. This time, they were going to refine Late Blood Condensation Realm pills.
Lu Ping continued to patrol the plaza. Not only Lu Ping, but the other alchemy masters also went down to patrol the plaza. They discovered that they could observe the situation of the alchemists around them more directly.
In fact, Enlightened Master Xuan Jing had tried to question Lu Ping about the drop in success rate because of Lu Ping's patrol the day before. However, Lu Ping refuted him with a few words. The other alchemy masters didn't have any objections either.
However, Lu Ping knew that Enlightened Master Xuan Jing wasn't willing to let the matter rest. After that, he sneaked into Fornax Laozu's cave dwelling. However, he came out with his tail between his legs and didn't say anything after that. Lu Ping guessed that Enlightened Master Xuan Jing must have been scolded badly by Fornax Laozu!
This time, the alchemists were prepared. Even though there were still some alchemists who couldn't control their flames properly when the examiners patrolled the plaza, the situation was much better than the day before.
However, this time, the scene of the examiners inspecting the scene was beyond the expectations of these alchemists. In the end, there was still one alchemist who lost control of his flames due to the pressure of having three examiners observing him. The elixir in the cauldron turned into a pile of useless dregs.
Lu Ping disqualified this alchemist on the spot. The spectators from the Zhenling Pill Pavilion and the foreign cultivators couldn't help but sigh.
Today's results were out. In the end, there were less than 50 people who managed to form pills. Those who had a success rate of 20% or less were eliminated, leaving 33 people. Among them, there were 22 disciples from the Zhenling Pill Pavilion.
This time, the level of alchemy skills was gradually revealed. Most of the cultivators who passed could only maintain a success rate of 30% to 40%. Only nine people could achieve a success rate of 50%. Among these nine people, there were three who achieved a success rate of 60%, and none of the three who could maintain a success rate of 70%. That was because among the three people, two of them only had a success rate of 60%, and only one of them had a success rate of 80%!
He outshone others and was far ahead!
Just as everyone was talking about Tian Yue, the few alchemy grandmasters on the plaza were also carefully selecting a few seedlings with good alchemy skills. Those who had not yet entered the sect would naturally be the first to be selected. Even if they were not disciples of the Pill Pavilion, they would still fight for them to see if they could be recruited into the Zhenling Pill Pavilion and become an inner disciple.
However, among the nine people who had emerged so far, only three were from the Zhenling Pill Pavilion's subsidiary forces. The other six, with the exception of Tian Yue, already had their own masters.
As for Tian Yue, none of the alchemy grandmasters present were talking about him. When Grandmaster Li Yan Shan heard that Tian Yue had not become an apprentice yet, he even asked Grandmaster Xuan Fang curiously why such a talented alchemy genius had not been accepted as a disciple by any of the Grandmasters in Zhenling. Daoist Xuan Fang pointed to Lu Ping who was sitting at the head of the plaza. Grandmaster Li Yan Shan suddenly understood. So Tian Yue had already been reserved for him. No wonder no one dared to compete with him!
On the third day of the examination, there were only these 33 people on the plaza. This time, they were required to refine a half-step Core Forging pill!
Although a half-step Core Forging pill could not be considered as a Core Forging pill, it was still an important threshold for alchemists. Seventy to eighty percent of alchemists would be stopped by this threshold from becoming a Grandmaster Alchemist!
Although there was still one last chance to freely choose a pill, the third round had already become the last day for the 33 alchemists to decide the outcome of the examination.
When Lu Ping announced the start of the examination, all 33 cultivators took out their mid-grade pill furnaces. This caused Lu Ping to be somewhat surprised. Lu Ping clearly remembered that many of them had been holding low-grade pill furnaces. Could it be that they had been pretending to be pigs to eat tigers?
After asking Daoist Xuan Yue beside him, he found out that these 33 cultivators could be said to be the people that the Pill Pavilion would focus on cultivating for the next few decades. In addition to the Pill Pavilion renting them mid-grade pill furnaces, their friends and cultivators who had previously been eliminated would also lend their mid-grade pill furnaces to them.
Many of the Zhenling Pill Pavilion's subsidiary forces would even specially rush over at this time to lend their mid-grade pill furnaces to the participating cultivators for free. This was for the sake of building a good relationship with the Zhenling Pill Pavilion in the event that one of them had extraordinary achievements in the future.
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