"In this round, we will be competing to refine the Nine Orifice Yuan Yang Pill."
Dong Jianwu's voice echoed throughout the plaza.
Upon hearing that it was the Nine Orifice Yuan Yang Pill, everyone nodded their heads. This was because the Nine Orifice Yuan Yang Pill's difficulty was moderate among the fourth grade medicinal pills, and it was suitable for Linlong and Li Cheng's current strength.
"However, you can only use one set of ingredients in this round. In other words, if you waste a set of ingredients, you will fail," Dong Jianwu added.
"These conditions seem to be tailor-made for Linlong. Previously, he didn't even use two sets of ingredients."
"This is also a form of strength. With a 100% success rate, he should be the champion."
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In an instant, the audience below the stage began to discuss spiritedly. Some people approved of this method, while others did not. However, since the alchemists on the stage were the ones who set the questions, no matter how much they objected, they could not stop the competition from proceeding in this manner.
Regardless of whether they agreed or disagreed, everyone felt that this competition would very likely end with this round.
As Dong Jianwu announced the start of the competition, Linlong and Li Cheng on the stage began to mix the ingredients.
To everyone's surprise, this time around, the two of them had a smooth sailing in mixing the ingredients. Not a single one of them made a single mistake. Not only that, but even their movements were similarly proficient and precise.
If it was only Linlong, the crowd would not be surprised. This was because Linlong had been like this in the previous rounds, as if there was no limit.
However, if even Li Cheng was like this, then it was somewhat surprising. In the previous rounds, Li Cheng had frequently gotten stuck.
Could it be that Li Cheng had hidden his strength before and was now preparing to play the pig to eat the tiger? Such a thought emerged in everyone's minds.
Under the crowd's astonishment, the two of them basically entered the refining stage at the same time. After that, the two of them became somewhat different.
The difference was Li Cheng. Because he seemed to be a little unfamiliar with the refining, he would sometimes pause a little. Although this pause could be seen by most people, Li Cheng actually did not make any mistakes. Instead, he used his own operation to make up for this pause in the following moments.
Even so, everyone could see that Linlong's strength was clearly a level higher.
However, if the situation continued to develop like this, it was hard to say if there would be a winner in this round.
Unknowingly, the two of them had entered the final stage of refining the elixir. Before this, although Li Cheng was stumbling, he did not make any major mistakes. When he did make a mistake, he was able to make up for it in time, so he did not fail the refinement.
After a period of time, the medicinal fragrance in Lin Long's cauldron became stronger and stronger. On the contrary, there was no change in Li Cheng's cauldron.
This confused many people, because both of them were doing it at the same time, and there were no mistakes in the entire process. There should have been a strong medicinal fragrance at the same time.
Someone who knew about the Nine Orifices Essence Yang Pill immediately explained with a smile, "There are currently two refining methods for the Nine Orifices Essence Yang Pill. One is more gentle, while the other is more radical. The gentle method takes a longer time, while the radical method takes a shorter time, but it's easy to make mistakes. Looking at the current situation, Linlong is clearly using a radical refining method."
"So that's how it is. To think that Linlong would dare to be so daring despite only using one set of materials. He's truly a daring man with great skills."
In an instant, those who understood this immediately gasped in admiration.
Only Yu Chenghe, Kong Zhi, and the rest on the stage noticed something different. That was, although Linlong's method was similar to the radical method, there was a huge difference. This difference caused the radical method's failure rate to be greatly reduced.
In fact, the failure rate was even lower than the gentle method.
Seeing this, how could these people not praise Linlong's strength? After all, how could they possibly make such an improvement to the Nine Orifices Essence Yang Pill?
The master behind Linlong is definitely an otherworldly expert. His strength is definitely many times greater than ours! Kong Zhi, Luo Hong, and the rest were certain of this in their hearts.
The medicinal fragrance in Linlong's cauldron grew stronger and stronger. At this moment, those who were carefully observing Linlong noticed that his brows had unknowingly furrowed slightly.
Could it be that something went wrong during the refinement process? All of them were shocked as such a thought emerged in their minds.
Sure enough, before they could recover from their shock, an explosion suddenly rang out on the stage. It was Linlong's small cauldron that had suddenly exploded.
Seeing such a scene, everyone was dumbfounded.
They didn't expect the small cauldron that they had just exchanged to be so useless. Such a problem had already occurred before they even finished using it.
Most importantly, he could only use one set of ingredients. In other words, no matter what, Linlong had already lost.
Linlong had lost!
At this moment, such a thought appeared in everyone's mind.
Kong Zhi, Luo Hong, and the rest couldn't help but shake their heads. They originally thought that Linlong would definitely take first place. Who would have thought that such a situation would occur at the last moment?
They couldn't help but regret the condition of only using one set of ingredients. If it wasn't for that, even if the small cauldron exploded, Linlong could still use a second set of ingredients.
But now, there was no use in regretting it. They could only accept the truth.
At this moment, someone suddenly pointed at the sky above Linlong and shouted. "Look, what's that?"
Everyone hurriedly looked in that direction and saw a pill falling from the sky above Linlong's head.
What was going on? Could it be that Linlong had successfully refined the pill in the instant of the explosion? Then, in order to prevent the pill from being affected by the explosion, he directly used hidden force to shoot the pill into the sky?
Such a thought immediately appeared in many people's minds.
Kong Zhi, Luo Hong, and the rest were instantly overjoyed. However, their expressions quickly turned ugly. That was because they realized that the pill that was falling from the sky wasn't completely formed.
In other words, Linlong had still failed.
It wasn't just Kong Zhi, Luo Hong, and the rest. Many people below the stage quickly realized this as well.
Hence, just like Kong Zhi and Luo Hong, their initial joy turned into disappointment.
At this moment, the happiest person was Liu Kangning. He was so excited that he almost jumped up.
Just when everyone thought that Linlong would fail and that the pill was about to fall on Linlong's table, Linlong's left hand suddenly moved. After this movement, a ball of golden flames suddenly appeared in his palm.
Then, in the blink of an eye, the ball of golden flames suddenly transformed into three foot-long Azure Dragons. These three Azure Dragons lifted the flames and directly caught the pills that were falling down.
The scene suddenly quietened down. After two or three breaths of silence, many people started to shout excitedly.
"Oh my god, it's Three Dragons Playing with a Pearl!"
"Three Dragons Playing with a Pearl, Three Dragons Playing with a Pearl, I didn't expect Linlong to know Three Dragons Playing with a Pearl!"
Even Kong Zhi, Luo Hong, and the rest had their mouths agape. They couldn't believe their eyes.
It was no wonder that they were so excited. Although Three Dragons Playing with a Pearl was also a fourth-grade alchemist's skill, it was many times more difficult than Double Dragons Playing with a Pearl.
It could be said that Linlong's display of skill showed that his strength was many times stronger than the others in the competition.
What also shocked them was that Linlong actually possessed a Spiritual Fire. Furthermore, it was obviously not an ordinary Spiritual Fire!
Seeing that Linlong not only possessed such a Spiritual Fire, but was also able to use Three Dragons Playing with a Pearl, Liu Jingtong's face turned ashen. He originally thought that he had a Spiritual Fire while Linlong didn't. Who would have thought that Linlong didn't even bother to compare himself with him?
Gu Qi, who had already walked off the stage, also had an extremely ugly expression. He originally thought that Linlong didn't have a Spiritual Fire, but he didn't expect that Linlong didn't even intend to use it.
From the scene, he could tell that if it wasn't for this accident, Linlong probably wouldn't even have used his Spiritual Fire.
To everyone's surprise, the pill did not continue to fall. Instead, it was still held up by the flames. Not only that, the fragrance of the pill emitted from the center of the flames became even stronger. It was obvious that Linlong had used the flames as a cauldron to envelop the pill.
However, using flames as a cauldron required an extremely strong control over the Spiritual Fire, a powerful Spiritual Fire within one's body, and a powerful will. All three were indispensable. If one was missing, it would be impossible to successfully refine the pill.
Such a high difficulty naturally caused everyone to worry for Linlong.
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