After Dong Jianwu announced the start of the competition, the three of them immediately started mixing the ingredients.
At the start, everything seemed to be going smoothly. However, as time passed, Gu Qi and Li Cheng started to show signs of being stuck.
Li Cheng was still fine as he was able to continue mixing the ingredients after being stuck for a few times. However, Gu Qi seemed to have encountered a difficult problem. He completely stopped and stared blankly at the ingredients in front of him as he racked his brains. It seemed like he did not know how to start.
"Looks like this Third Revolution Blood Congealing Spirit Pill is indeed unorthodox. It actually caused Gu Qi to be stuck for such a long time."
"You can't blame Gu Qi for this. After all, Gu Qi has just advanced to a fourth-grade alchemist. It's only natural for him to feel troubled when such an elixir suddenly appeared," someone from the Alchemist Alliance who was familiar with the situation said.
"So Gu Qi just advanced to a fourth-grade alchemist not long ago. Doesn't that mean that Linlong and Li Cheng have a better chance?" Someone from the side immediately asked.
"It's hard to say before, but looking at Gu Qi now, I guess that's the conclusion you came to."
Seeing this situation, the people below the stage started to discuss.
Gu Qi had encountered such a difficult problem, but Linlong was still fine. He was still mixing the ingredients smoothly. This naturally made everyone more certain of this conclusion.
Very quickly, Gu Qi made a mistake in mixing the ingredients and directly lost a portion of the ingredients.
Looking around and seeing that neither Li Cheng nor Linlong made any mistakes, Gu Qi had no choice but to continue mixing the second portion of ingredients with an ugly expression.
It seemed like the previous failure had given him some insight. He actually did not make any mistakes during the mixing process.
However, he encountered another problem during the refining process. Before he reached the middle stage, the small cauldron actually emitted a puff of black smoke. This directly announced his second attempt to refine the elixir.
Gu Qi, who was unwilling to give up, lowered his head and pondered for a moment before starting to mix the ingredients again.
At this time, his movements were extremely cautious and not as carefree as before. After all, this was the third portion. If he made a mistake, he would be directly eliminated.
When Gu Qi was mixing the third portion of ingredients, Linlong, who was in the lead, had already reached the end of the refining process.
At this time, there was no longer a need to discuss who was stronger and who was weaker.
"As expected, Linlong is still the best."
"There's no one in the Central Region who can refine a grade four medicinal pill with ordinary flames."
"It's fine if he only uses ordinary flames, but he only consumes one set of materials each time. This time, from the looks of it, I'm afraid he only needs one set of materials to refine the Triple Revolution Blood Congealing Spirit Pill."
"I can't help but admire him. I'm afraid that the teachers on the stage are even more surprised than us."
"I suspect that this fourth-grade medicinal pill is not even his limit. He can even refine fifth-grade and sixth-grade medicinal pills."
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Everyone below the stage sighed.
Hearing such praises, Gu Qi's face turned even uglier. On the other hand, Li Cheng remained calm.
However, Li Cheng also made a mistake very quickly. He did not have a good grasp of the fire when refining the pill, so the fusion of the medicinal liquid inside was not complete. Looking at the appearance of the medicinal liquid inside, he knew that it was impossible to refine the Third Revolution Blood Condensing Spirit Pill. He did not wait for the small cauldron to emit smoke before he directly poured the medicinal liquid inside.
"This Li Cheng is quite decisive."
"This is his third set of materials. It seems that Lin Long will definitely win first place in this competition."
While the audience below the stage was discussing, a muffled sound came from Lin Long's small cauldron on the stage. Lin Long was the first to refine the Third Revolution Blood Condensing Spirit Pill.
After Dong Jianwu and the others appraised it, they confirmed that Lin Long had successfully refined the Third Revolution Blood Condensing Spirit Pill.
Using only one set of materials and an ordinary spiritual fire, Lin Long could directly defeat Gu Qi and the others. At this time, the audience who had been sighing did not know what words to use to praise Lin Long on the stage.
This situation made Kong Zhi, Luo Hong, and the others extremely happy.
Yu Chenghe, on the other hand, was still deep in thought. It seemed that he could not understand some of Lin Long's configuration methods or steps.
At the same time that Lin Long successfully refined the Third Revolution Blood Condensing Spirit Pill, on the other side, Gu Qi's small cauldron emitted a gust of black smoke. Gu Qi had actually failed again.
Three sets of materials had been completely consumed by Gu Qi. In other words, Gu Qi had already lost the qualification to advance to the next round. His current result could only be said to be third place in this competition.
Even if Li Cheng's refinement failed, he could only get third place because he had failed before Li Cheng.
This ranking method was the rule of this competition.
Gu Qi was really unwilling. As the number one alchemist in the Alchemist Alliance, he had failed just like that. He really regretted not trying to refine the Third Revolution Blood Condensing Spirit Pill before the competition. Otherwise, how could he have failed so easily?
This was also because he had underestimated the strength of his opponents. He thought that with his strength as a fourth-grade alchemist, he could crush everyone. Who would have thought that people like Lin Long and Li Cheng would appear?
No matter how unwilling he was, the result could not be changed. In the end, the originally arrogant Gu Qi had no choice but to lower his head and silently walk off the stage.
At this time, except for a few people who would occasionally look at him, the majority of the audience's gazes were focused on Li Cheng, who was on the stage.
Li Cheng was also not safe because this was also his third set of materials.
At this time, Li Cheng was extremely cautious. He seemed to be 100% sure of every step before he carried out.
Seeing him like this, the audience was even more pessimistic. This was because Li Cheng was currently in the concoction stage. Concocting materials could be like this, but when it came to the refinement stage, the process was ever-changing. How could one have enough time to think?
Perhaps by the time one finished thinking, the materials in one's cauldron would have already turned into a pot of porridge.
However, what the audience did not expect was that during the refinement process, Li Cheng seemed to have learned from this lesson. The refinement process actually went smoothly, and there were no accidents until the final stage.
Of course, the most unexpected thing was that at the last crucial moment, Li Cheng actually used the Fire Dragon Playing with Pearls technique.
"Could it be that this Li Cheng has been hiding his true strength?"
"What a surprise. So this Li Cheng was actually hiding a trump card."
"Even without this kind of technique, he still completely defeated Gu Qi. This Li Cheng is really amazing."
The audience below the stage were all discussing in astonishment.
Originally, they thought that Linlong would obtain first place. Who would have thought that Li Cheng would suddenly appear? This aroused the audience's interest even more.
"This is going to be interesting. Li Cheng is not as weak as he looks on the surface. As for Linlong, he has always maintained a sense of mystery. I really don't know who will obtain first place in the end."
The audience below the stage all sighed with emotion.
The audience thought that Dong Jianwu would quickly announce the next round's elixirs. Who would have thought that Dong Jianwu would suddenly stand at the front of the stage and say, "As we did not expect the competition to proceed to this round, we did not reserve the elixirs and ingredients for this round. Our alchemists on the stage will need to discuss for a while before we can give an answer. Therefore, everyone will have to wait a little longer this time."
"This is too unexpected. The organizer of the competition, the Alchemist Alliance, actually did not reserve the elixirs and ingredients for this round."
"Haha, we can only blame the Central Region's alchemist world for being too talented. Otherwise, this would not have happened."
"If the Alchemist Alliance is unable to produce suitable elixirs and ingredients later, it would be a huge embarrassment."
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After hearing Dong Jianwu's words, not only did the audience not become unhappy, they even started to joke about this matter.
At this moment, Dong Jianwu shouted again, "Everyone, quiet down."
The audience immediately stopped their discussions and looked at Dong Jianwu, not knowing what he wanted to say.
"Since the competition has entered this round, it has been so long. The small cauldrons used to refine elixirs on the stage may very well be damaged. Therefore, in order to ensure that no accidents happen later, we must first check the small cauldrons used by Linlong and Li Cheng on the stage," Dong Jianwu said.
"Since they are afraid of damage, why don't they just replace them with new ones? After all, these small cauldrons are not worth much," someone could not help but say.
Dong Jianwu only smiled slightly and did not answer such a low-level question.
Someone beside that person teased, "You are new to alchemy. How would you know that casually changing the small cauldrons will affect the feel of the image? After all, after such a long time, the two people on the stage are already extremely familiar with their small cauldrons. They are familiar with which side to use and how strong of a flame to achieve the effect. Now that you suddenly change the small cauldrons, due to the difference in the craftsmanship of the small cauldrons, the wall surface is different, such a change will definitely affect the feel of the flame."
Such an explanation immediately made the person who raised the question laugh.
Fortunately, everyone's attention was on the stage, which saved him a lot of embarrassment.
On the stage, Dong Jianwu and a few other alchemists were carefully inspecting Linlong and Li Cheng's small cauldrons.
Through the inspection, they found that Linlong's small cauldron was more worn out. Although the probability of accidents happening if he continued to use it was not very high, in order to prevent accidents from happening, they still decided to change it.
As for Li Cheng's small cauldron, it was less worn out, so they did not change it.
Soon, a new small cauldron was taken out and placed on Linlong's table.
Such a change would naturally have a greater impact on the participants, but because it was an accident among accidents, most people could only suffer in silence.
As a former expert of Emperor Wu, Linlong's perception of flames was incomparable to everyone present. Such a change did not affect him at all.
After changing the medicinal cauldrons, the alchemists gathered on the stage seemed to have come to a conclusion.
After these people dispersed, Dong Jianwu, who had participated in the discussion, walked to the stage again.
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