Chapter 654: Refining the Rules
A few voices rang out from the round platform, causing Peng Zhou's mouth to widen slightly as a grave expression appeared on his face.
To be able to refine the Energy Transformation Pill in twenty minutes … Putting aside the grade of the pill, just the amount of time required was already amazing enough.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Peng Zhou's expression changed. He realized that there were sounds of pills being formed on all nine platforms, except for the tenth platform.
The reason why Peng Zhou was puzzled was because the Alchemists on the tenth round table were a little special. There was Ning Yue, Li Tongtian, and Xie Yan from West Mountain City!
Logically speaking, with these three alchemy geniuses around, it was impossible for no one to refine the Energy Transformation Pill in twenty minutes.
"Only an idiot would refine the Energy Transformation Pill in such a short time," Li Tongtian murmured as he glanced around.
After listening to Ning Yue's explanation, Li Tongtian had learned his lesson. He could have also refined the Energy Transformation Pill in twenty minutes, but he did not do so.
If he purely focused on speed, he would definitely expend a lot of his soul energy. This would be very disadvantageous to him when he was refining the grade six pill later.
Since he was going to pass the test anyway, there was no difference between a little earlier and a little later.
Of course, the prerequisite was that he did not refine a supreme grade Energy Transformation Pill. Otherwise, he would have an additional ten minutes to refine the pill.
When the remaining alchemists saw that someone had successfully refined the Energy Transformation Pill, they increased their speed.
In the following period of time, there would be one or a few alchemists refining the pill every few minutes.
Ning Yue observed these Alchemist s who had completed their pills for a while and discovered that the Yuan Transformation Pills they had refined were all of the lower grade. Only a few of them had refined a middle grade Yuan Transformation Pill.
"Zhao Kuo is quite smart. He knows not to expend too much energy in the early stages." When Ning Yue's gaze landed on Zhao Kuo, he was slightly surprised.
"Ning Yue, wait for me in the fourth round!"
Zhao Kuo seemed to see Ning Yue looking at him. He turned to look at Ning Yue and raised four fingers.
"Let's compete to see who can refine the pill first."
Ning Yue raised his eyebrows and smirked. At the same time, he slammed his right hand on the cauldron.
Whoosh!
In a split second, a pill burst out from the cauldron and landed firmly in Ning Yue's hand.
"Hmph!"
Zhao Kuo snorted coldly when he saw Ning Yue's action. He also slapped the cauldron with his right hand and produced a round pill.
Zhao Kuo had a very complacent expression on his face as he waved the Upper-Grade Energy Transformation Pill in his hand, as if he was saying, 'I concocted an Upper-Grade Energy Transformation Pill. What grade are you concocting?'
Ning Yue did not take Zhao Kuo's provocation to heart. Instead, he placed the Origin Melting Pill on the table and slowly walked down from the round platform.
Bang!
Ning Yue had just walked down from the round platform when Li Tongtian had just finished concocting the Elemental Transformation Pill. The quality was not too high, it was just a low-grade pill.
"Ning Yue, do you think that martial artist can refine the Yuan Converting Pill?" After Li Tongtian walked down the stage, he immediately started chatting with Ning Yue. The crux of their conversation was Xie Yan.
"According to my observations, he should have no problem refining the Yuan Converting Pill." Ning Yue said. "Although he appears to be a Peak Fourth Grade Alchemist, I have a feeling that he is pretending to be weak. In reality, he is at least an Early-stage Sixth Grade Alchemist."
"An Early-stage Sixth Grade Alchemist?"
Li Tongtian frowned slightly, a little shocked.
Since when did a Sixth Grade Alchemist become so cheap? Any random person could be a Sixth Grade Alchemist! This made him, the fake Holy Son of Danwu College, feel very hurt.
"More or less, he might even be a Middle-stage Sixth Grade Alchemist!" Ning Yue nodded.
"He is a formidable opponent," Li Tongtian said in a low voice. "I just wonder what grade of Energy Transformation Pill he can refine."
Rumble!
As soon as Li Tongtian finished his sentence, Xie Yan slapped the cauldron hard on the round platform. In an instant, the lid of the cauldron flew up and a round pill shot out from the cauldron.
Smack!
Xie Yan's hands moved quickly and he caught the pill firmly in his hand.
"Middle-stage Energy Transformation Pill?!"
In the instant that the Energy Transformation Pill flew out of the cauldron, Ning Yue discovered its true grade. Middle-stage!
Using such a crazy method of refining pills, Xie Yan was actually able to refine a Middle-stage Energy Transformation Pill. He really had some skills.
Swoosh!
When the crowd in the square saw that Xie Yan had not only successfully refined the Energy Transformation Pill, but that it had also reached the Middle-stage, they were all shocked.
The talent that Xie Yan had displayed was probably enough to rank him in the top five among all the people present!
Whoosh!
Xie Yan had successfully refined the Energy Transformation Pill at the fiftieth minute. In the remaining ten minutes, a few more alchemists had successfully refined their pills.
"Time's up!"
At the sixtieth minute, Dan Chenzi announced in a clear voice, "All alchemists, leave the round platform immediately. I will begin to inspect the pills that you have refined."
Swoosh! Swoosh!
Hearing Dan Chenzi's words, the martial artists who did not manage to refine the Energy Transformation Pill within the allotted time revealed looks of disappointment.
Actually, it was no wonder that they were disappointed. This was because once they entered the fourth round, they would receive a generous reward from Danwu College.
Danwu College was a colossus. The reward that they would give would definitely not be bad.
Dan Chenzi did not care about the disappointed expressions of these alchemists. He split his soul perception and began to inspect the authenticity of the Energy Transformation Pill that everyone had refined.
After a while, Dan Chenzi said in a deep voice, "There are a total of sixteen martial artists who have successfully refined the Energy Transformation Pill. Unfortunately …"
Speaking up to this point, Dan Chenzi paused for a moment before continuing, "Among these Energy Transformation Pills, the best quality is high-grade. There are no transcendent-grade Energy Transformation Pills. Therefore, in the fourth round of elimination, no one will be able to obtain an additional ten minutes."
"Without further ado, I will now introduce the rules of the fourth round."
Dan Chenzi's voice contained some Yuan Energy, causing everyone in the square to hear it clearly. "The fourth round is the elimination round. It will be a one-on-one refining of pills. The rules are very simple. The loser will be directly eliminated!"
Whoosh!
Dan Chenzi's words had just landed when the crowd burst into an uproar.
The loser would be directly eliminated. This rule was simply too cruel.
One could imagine that if two exceptional alchemy geniuses were to meet each other, wouldn't they be at a disadvantage?
"President Peng, I suggest we change this rule."
On the high platform, Old Ancestor Demonic Jiu lightly said, "The rules are heartless. In my opinion, the fourth round will continue to refine Grade 5 Energy Transformation Pills. The loser will be directly eliminated, but if the loser can refine a transcendent-grade Energy Transformation Pill within the allotted time, he can still smoothly advance to the next round."
Saying so, Old Ancestor Demonic Jiu did not wait for Peng Zhou's approval and immediately sent a soul message to Dan Chenzi, expressing his thoughts.
Dan Chenzi's face was filled with black lines as he turned to look at Peng Zhou.
Peng Zhou's expression was gloomy, and his heart was filled with anger.
Originally, he wanted to use the rules to eliminate the several fake Holy Princes of Danwu College one by one, but now it seemed that his plan had failed.
Although he was furious, Peng Zhou still nodded to Dan Chenzi, indicating that he would follow Old Ancestor Demonic Jiu's suggestion.
"In line with the principle of humanization, the fourth round will still be refining Energy Transformation Pills. The allotted time is one hour." Dan Chenzi took a deep breath and said, "In this one hour, whoever refines an Energy Transformation Pill first will directly advance to the next round."
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