"Hello everyone, I am the head examiner, Qin De. Welcome everyone to the examination," the middle-aged man standing at the front said.
"I believe everyone can see that there is only one set of ingredients on the table. However, there is no need to worry. This time, we will be refining a relatively simple second-grade elixir, the Purple Yuan Pill. Even if there is only one set of ingredients, those who have the ability to enter the Sky Evolution Academy will naturally be able to easily refine it. As for those who do not have the ability, I can only apologize. I hope you will work harder and strive to enter the Sky Evolution Academy next year."
"Alright, enough with the nonsense. The examination will begin now."
Following his command, the examination began. Other than Qin De, who was the head examiner, there were also a few disciples of the Sky Evolution Academy. They were responsible for maintaining order at the side.
After looking around and seeing that Mo Tian was already immersed in refining, Linlong began to mix the ingredients on his table.
The Purple Yuan Pill was indeed an elixir with a very low difficulty level. With Linlong's current strength, he could even refine it with his eyes closed.
Being familiar with the process, he quickly started refining. However, in order to keep a low profile, he did not use his own Spiritual Fire.
As for the others who had Spiritual Fires, they all displayed their own Spiritual Fires. After all, displaying their Spiritual Fires might be able to add points.
However, among these seventy to eighty people, there were very few who had Spiritual Fire. Only two of them had displayed their own Spiritual Fire.
Of course, Linlong did not know if there were people who were as low-profile as him.
Linlong slowly controlled the flames below the small cauldron. According to his estimation, he would be able to refine the Purple Yuan Pill in half a cup of tea's time.
After a while, Linlong's brows suddenly furrowed. He discovered that the medicinal liquid in his small cauldron was a little dry. Not only that, there were also some tiny bubbles that were constantly emerging.
He had been tricked. Just now, the ingredients had been sprinkled with clear water. Linlong's brows immediately furrowed.
There was no mistake in Linlong's previous steps. Even if there was a mistake, such a situation would not occur when refining the Purple Yuan Pill. Now that such a situation occurred, it meant that the ingredients had been mixed with clear water. Only clear water would cause such a situation.
Clear Water was a very rare material, and it was rarely used to refine pills. Now that it suddenly appeared in this material, it could only mean that someone had secretly sprinkled clear Water on the material.
Linlong looked around and realized that no one was in the same situation as him. He was even more certain that he had fallen into someone's trap.
He couldn't help but admire the shrewdness of the person who schemed against him. There was only one set of materials, and he was currently in the midst of refining. There was no way to leave any evidence to prove that he had been schemed against.
Even if he kept the medicinal liquid in the small cauldron, the clear water would completely disappear after a while. There would be no trace left to prove the existence of clear water.
Of course, with Linlong's experience, he would have discovered the problem if he had carefully checked the materials before refining. However, he did not expect that someone would do this. Moreover, clear water was not an easy material to obtain, so he did not think about it at all.
It was also because of this that he fell into the trap.
However, the other party had clearly underestimated Lin Long. With Lin Long's strength, even if an accident like this were to occur, he would be able to deal with it. For him, it would only be slightly troublesome.
The main method of destroying clear water was to cause the medicinal liquid to be unevenly heated. To most people, once this happened, it meant that the refining process would fail.
This was because if one continued refining, there would be a situation where half of the medicinal liquid would be overheated and scorched, while the other half would be overheated and not take shape.
However, such a problem was nothing to Lin Long.
After taking a deep breath, Lin Long immediately circulated the profound energy in his body to control the flames below the small cauldron. He saw that the originally evenly burning flames had actually split into a dozen or so flames of similar sizes.
Under such control, the bubbles that were constantly appearing in the small cauldron immediately decreased. Then, after a few breaths' time, all the bubbles disappeared without a trace.
Seeing this, Linlong could not help but heave a sigh of relief. This was because the clear water in the medicinal liquid had all been evaporated by his unique technique.
Although the entire process seemed very simple, it was a test of the refiner's experience and ability to control flames. It was very difficult for ordinary people to achieve this.
Of course, the most important thing was the ability to split the flames. This was actually a special technique known as the Flame Splitting Technique.
In his previous life, Linlong had learned this technique from a Master Alchemist by chance. At that time, he had only learned this Flame Splitting Technique for fun. After all, this Flame Splitting Technique was not very useful in the actual process of refining pills.
However, it was precisely because of his curiosity that he was able to avoid his current failure. Otherwise, without the Flame Splitting Technique, he would not have been able to deal with the difficulties before him.
He had only used the Flame Splitting Technique for a few breaths' time. Everyone around him was focused on refining pills, so no one noticed him at all. Even Qin De, who was standing in front of Linlong, did not notice the strange change in the flames below Linlong's small cauldron because he was blocked by someone else.
However, there was still one person who noticed this. That person was Murong Xue, who was standing next to Linlong.
Murong Xue was already controlling the flames to refine the Purple Essence Pill. However, because the Purple Essence Pill was far too easy to refine, it posed no challenge to her at all. Thus, when she was refining just now, she noticed a strange sound coming from Linlong's small cauldron. She casually turned her head and was immediately dumbfounded. This was because she saw that the flames below Linlong's small cauldron had actually split into ten-odd strands.
Ever since she was young, Murong Xue had seen flames burn in an orderly fashion. She had never seen a flame that could actually split into ten-odd strands.
Had she just seen a ghost? She widened her eyes in disbelief and stared hard at the bottom of Linlong's small cauldron.
Afterwards, she confirmed one thing: the flames below Linlong's small cauldron had indeed split into ten-odd strands.
This time, Murong Xue was truly shocked.
Given her abilities, she could quickly tell why her opponent had used this technique. There were many bubbles rising from his small cauldron.
Generally speaking, if there were too many bubbles rising from the cauldron, the refining process would definitely fail. However, her opponent had used this technique to forcefully salvage the situation.
Who on earth was this person? How could he have such a technique? How could he pull a pill that was on the brink of failure back onto the right track? Murong Xue stared at Linlong in disbelief.
She was so shocked that she almost smashed the pill she was refining. Fortunately, she reacted in time and prevented herself from failing.
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