A moment later, Duanmu Cheng walked out of the cave.
"The first round will test your familiarity with the spiritual medicine."
Duanmu Cheng's gaze swept across Qin Yi and Guo Zhong as he said slowly, "I will prepare ten stalks of the same spiritual medicine for both of you. Not only do you have to answer the name of the spiritual medicine, but you also have to write down its usage and what kind of pill it can be used to refine. "
Without a doubt, the first round was a test of one's foundation.
The level of familiarity with spiritual medicine largely determined the level of a pill refiner.
The most important thing in pill refinement was the usage of various spiritual medicine.
If one's familiarity with spiritual medicine was insufficient, even if one had outstanding pill refinement skills, they would be greatly limited.
Obviously, the familiarity with spiritual herbs could be accumulated over time, thus improving one's foundation.
In comparison, Guo Zhong's Senior Brother who had studied pill refinement for over ten years would definitely surpass Qin Yi in terms of foundation.
Without a doubt, on the surface, Guo Zhong had the absolute advantage in the first round.
However, Qin Yi was not worried at all.
Although he had not studied pill refinement for a long time, he had a good grasp of the usage of various spiritual medicine after studying and reading for the past few days.
Although he did not have the time advantage, he was still confident.
"Both of you, stand to one side. I will separate the two of you with a formation."
To prevent them from disturbing each other, Duanmu Cheng separated the two of them.
As they stood to one side of the formation, Duanmu Cheng flicked his sleeve and twenty stalks of spiritual medicine flew out from his storage ring and placed them in front of Qin Yi and Guo Zhong.
When the round officially began, Guo Zhong immediately hid the mischievous look on his face and his eyes flickered. It was obvious that he would become extremely serious when it came to something he was good at.
In this aspect, he was very similar to Duanmu Cheng.
Guo Zhong's sharp gaze swept across the ten spiritual medicines. He then picked up his brush and wrote down his answer on a piece of white paper.
It was obvious that the pills placed in front of him were not difficult for him.
After a while, Guo Zhong finished filling up his answer. After checking it carefully, he handed it over.
After carefully reading it, Duanmu Cheng involuntarily nodded his head and said, "At least you did not waste your time following me all these years."
Without a doubt, Guo Zhong's answer was perfect. Even Duanmu Cheng could not find any flaws in it.
But when he turned to look at Qin Yi, he couldn't help but frown.
A long time had passed, and Guo Zhong had already filled in the answers. However, Qin Yi's answer sheet was blank, without a single word.
Duanmu Cheng also knew that Qin Yi had just started learning the Pill Dao, so his familiarity with spiritual herbs was still lacking compared to Guo Zhong.
Therefore, Qin Yi's speed was slightly slower than Guo Zhong, which he could still understand.
However, Qin Yi did not say a single word. This made Duanmu Cheng a little confused.
He didn't think that Qin Yi wouldn't recognize any of these spirit herbs.
It was just that he hadn't started writing yet. Obviously, Qin Yi had other thoughts in mind.
As for what was on Qin Yi's mind, Duanmu Cheng couldn't guess.
Duanmu Cheng didn't rush him. He patiently sat to the side and waited for Qin Yi's next move.
As for Guo Zhong, he was more than happy for Qin Yi to slow down. After all, this would give him more time to slack off.
Now that there was nothing to do, he actually leaned against the wall and fell asleep snoring loudly. Duanmu Cheng saw this and didn't find it strange. He could only let him sleep.
Qin Yi carefully examined the ten spiritual herbs in front of him. Sometimes, he picked them up and studied them. Sometimes, he put them down and fell into deep thought.
In reality, after these few days of studying, his understanding of spiritual herbs was considered to be quite deep.
Moreover, Duanmu Cheng didn't purposely make things difficult for him. There were no rare species among the spiritual herbs in front of him.
Therefore, he was very clear about the names and uses of these ten stalks of spiritual medicine.
However, he didn't start writing. Of course, it wasn't because he was afraid that his answers were wrong.
He had a feeling that some things in the jade slip that Duanmu Cheng gave him weren't very perfect.
Therefore, he wanted to see if these spiritual herbs could have other uses.
Actually, he could ask Jade Rabbit about this kind of thing. After all, the other party was an expert in alchemy. Even Duanmu Cheng was far inferior to him.
As long as Qin Yi slightly moved his mouth, he would be able to know the uses of these spiritual herbs in front of him.
However, they were sparring at this moment. How was this method different from cheating?
Furthermore, he also wanted to take this opportunity to observe how much progress he had made in alchemy. If he asked Jade Rabbit, although he could easily obtain victory in the competition, it wouldn't be of much help to him.
Therefore, from the beginning to the end, he never had the thought of asking Jade Rabbit.
Jade Rabbit also didn't show any signs of hinting to Qin Yi. Clearly, he also knew that Qin Yi didn't need his help right now.
Just these ten stalks of spirit medicine, Qin Yi observed them for a full four hours. Even Duanmu Cheng was a little bored from waiting, so he simply went to fiddle with the medicinal pills himself.
Finally, when he put down the last spiritual herb, his eyes became incomparably clear.
Immediately after, he swiftly picked up the brush and wrote down the answer in his heart fluttering on the answer sheet.
Very soon, he finished filling in the answer sheet and handed it to Duanmu Cheng.
Duanmu Cheng stopped what he was doing and looked at Qin Yi's answer with anticipation.
One had to admit that in these four hours of waiting, Duanmu Cheng also became very expectant. He really wanted to know what kind of surprise Qin Yi could bring him after thinking for so long.
"The first spiritual herb is Withered Life Grass. It has the effect of converting Yin and Yang. It can be infused with poison, sealing the throat upon contact, killing without leaving a trace! It can also be used as a life-saving divine medicine, able to treat all kinds of illnesses and heal serious injuries. "
Getting this answer, Duanmu Cheng also nodded. Clearly, Qin Yi's understanding of the first spiritual herb was not wrong. The effect of the Withered Life Grass was no different from what Qin Yi wrote on the paper.
But when he continued to read, he couldn't help but frown.
"Withered Life Grass isn't completely used to kill and save people. It can also be used as a medicinal pill to temper the physical body and strengthen a martial artist's physique! "
Duanmu Cheng twirled his beard and carefully savored this unexpected answer from Qin Yi.
Due to the extreme attributes of the Withered Life Grass, normally, only one attribute could be chosen as the direction of refining pills.
Once it was infused with poison, it would be the most violent poison. Once it was infused with medicine, it would be an extremely effective life-saving divine medicine.
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