"This is the Breeze Immortal Claw." Lu Dongce said calmly. He knew that Ning Cheng was just talking nonsense. In fact, everyone here knew that Ning Cheng was just talking nonsense. But what he said also made sense. It was just a name. If you called yourself Zhang San, why would he call yourself Zhang Si? After all, this wasn't a test of the medicinal properties of the divine herbs. If it was a test of medicinal properties and effects, then Ning Cheng's trick obviously wouldn't work.
Lu Dongce didn't worry about it. He knew all five divine herbs. Even if he didn't know them, he could just casually name them like Ning Cheng. The first round was already a draw, but the second round was the real test of skills. If he didn't guess wrong, the second round should be a test of medicinal properties. How could you fake it?
Not only did Lu Dongce understand this truth, but the others also understood it. When everyone heard Ning Cheng say the names of the divine herbs, they all sneered. It was as if they were watching a clown perform. No matter how good one's performance was, one's true colors would eventually be exposed.
If Kong Lianbo didn't even have the ability to expose Ning Cheng, he wouldn't be able to stand in this place. People who treated others as fools were the real fools.
In the end, Lu Dongce recognised the five divine herbs as Heavenly Fox Double Leaf Scale, Breeze Immortal Claw, Silver Ring Fruit, Sakya Flower, and Rosy Red Wings. Ning Cheng, on the other hand, recognised Foxtail Grass, Chicken Claw Vine, Silver Arc Green Fruit, Two-coloured Flower, and Sunset Leaf.
None of the divine herbs recognised by the two were the same. This made everyone in the hall aware that Ning Cheng didn't recognise any of these five divine herbs. Fortunately, the names of the last three divine grasses were still pleasant to hear. It wasn't as shameless as the first two names.
The purple-robed man also realised that Ning Cheng's rogue method couldn't determine a winner or loser in the first round. After both of them said their names, he simply said, "The first round ended in a draw between Association Master Lu and Pill Master Ning. Now, let's move on to the second round."
Ning Cheng felt slightly relieved. If the second round was about refining Primordial Dao Pills, he would have just admitted defeat. He believed that since this purple-robed man came up with a question, he would have considered the difference between him and Lu Dongce's Dao of Alchemy. Even if they wanted him to lose, they would make him lose willingly. At least everyone would think that it was fair.
"The second round of the competition is alchemy. I invite Guild Master Lu and Pill Master Ning to refine a furnace of pills. This batch of pills would use these five kinds of god grasses as the main spirit herbs. Each main spirit herb could be supplemented with less than ten other kinds of god grasses. What kind of supplementary divine herbs to use, and how many of them to use, were completely up to one's own will. If there were difficulties, Sovereigns wouldn't necessarily use up all of the herbs.
The final evaluation criteria were as follows: Firstly, who used the most of the five main god herbs in front of them. Secondly, who used the most supplementary god herbs. Thirdly, whose pill was of a higher grade. The duration of the competition is six days. It starts now. "
When the purple-robed man finished speaking, everyone in the hall was secretly shocked. It wasn't that the competition's questions were too easy, but that they were too difficult.
This wasn't concocting pills, but deducing pill recipes. In order to deduce a pill recipe, one had to be very clear about the effects, characteristics, and origin properties of all the divine herbs. Not only that, but one's understanding of alchemy must also reach a certain level. No one could cheat when deducing pill recipes like this.
If one tried to play tricks like Ning Cheng before, it would be a dead end in this place. Deducing pill recipes was a real skill, and one couldn't just make up the numbers.
According to the rules, one could use up to 50 supplementary divine herbs for the five main spirit herbs. Fifty-five kinds of divine herbs, if used to refine medicinal pills, it would be best to refine Dao Transformation Spirit Pills. Of course, both of them were deducing pill recipes, not ready-made pill recipes. Using 55 types of divine spirit herbs to deduce the elixir formula of a Dao Transformation Divine Pill within three days was not difficult, but it was almost impossible to accomplish.
What's more, there was only one chance. If one failed, they would lose.
Ning Cheng and Lu Dongce both surpassed the level of ordinary Dao Transformation Pill Deities. Therefore, this question was considered fair and just. Of course, absolute fairness didn't exist. Lu Dongce's Alchemy Dao level was far better than Ning Cheng's. The higher one's Alchemy Dao level, the easier it would be to deduce pill recipes.
When this question came out, everyone knew that Lu Dongce won. Even if Lu Dongce couldn't deduce the pill recipe, with his understanding of these five kinds of divine herbs, as long as one of them could be added into the pill, he would be much better than Ning Cheng.
Lu Dongce didn't care about Ning Cheng. After hearing this question, he directly brought out a dark brown pill furnace and began to concentrate on deducing the pill recipe.
Ning Cheng took in a deep breath. This question wasn't too far from what he had guessed. If he wanted to obtain the Universe Grass and Wood, this was his only chance, and he had to rely on his Mysterious Yellow Formless.
Ning Cheng raised his hand and also brought out a pill furnace.
In the hall, only a few people looked at Lu Dongce. On the contrary, most people's eyes fell on Ning Cheng. They all wanted to know how Ning Cheng would continue to make a fool of himself. After seeing Ning Cheng really bring out a pill furnace, some people felt a little puzzled. Of course, no one would think that Ning Cheng really knew these five kinds of divine herbs and just had different names.
When everyone saw the name of the pill furnace that Ning Cheng brought out, some people couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Primal Chaos First Furnace, could this pill furnace also be called the Primal Chaos First Furnace? Among the alchemists sitting in the hall, this pill furnace was much better than Ning Cheng's. If Ning Cheng's was called the first furnace of primordial chaos, then wouldn't theirs be called the first furnace before primordial chaos?
Ning Cheng directly activated a restriction and blocked all the sounds around him. This match was very important to him.
Losing face was a small matter, but it was not only related to whether he could obtain the Universe Grass and Wood, but also related to Si Chen Qiu Tian's Alchemy Dao Heart. Once he failed, he would become a clown. If Si Chen Qiu Tian could only explore the Alchemy Dao with a clown, his Alchemy Dao Heart would only become more and more unbalanced.
Ning Cheng picked up the first divine herb, Heavenly Fox Double Leaf Scale. But he didn't throw this divine herb into the pill furnace. Instead, he held it in his hand and poured his entire spiritual consciousness into the divine herb.
Ning Cheng deduced the origin information of the divine grasses one by one. At the same time, the Heavenly Fox Double Leaf Scales lay in Ning Cheng's Sea of Consciousness as if they were stripped of their clothes, allowing Ning Cheng to capture the essence of heaven and earth within them.
Heavenly Fox Double Leaf Scale did not belong to the five elements. It was a wind-attributed divine herb and contained the aura of wind-attributed laws. However, it had a fiery Yang nature, making it extremely difficult to fuse with the five-elemental divine herbs into a pill.
After learning this information, Ning Cheng felt extremely surprised. Generally, divine herbs that contained the laws of heaven and earth were all Dao Fruit-level divine herbs. Heavenly Fox Double Leaf Scale looked like it had no law aura on the surface. Ning Cheng didn't expect that such an unremarkable divine herb would turn out to be a law-related divine herb.
From the looks of it, this question had a big trap. If he performed beyond his level, it wouldn't be impossible to refine a Dao Sculpting Dao Pill out of 55 divine herbs.
Clear Wind Immortal Claw also didn't belong to the five elements. It was also a wind-attributed divine herb, but its nature was the opposite of the Heavenly Fox Double Leaf Scale. It had an extreme yin attribute and was a law-related divine herb.
Old man Kong taking out these two kinds of divine herbs was very interesting. Did this fellow already know that he would talk nonsense in the first round?
Silver Ring Fruit, a metal-attributed divine herb. It didn't contain laws, but it had a murderous nature and a tearing effect.
Sakya Flower, a non-attributed divine herb. It had a greatly progressive effect on laws. When Ning Cheng deduced that the Sakya Flower was non-attributed, he thought that he had made a mistake. As a Primordial Dao Pill Saint, he had seen tens of thousands of divine herbs, but he had never seen a non-attributed divine herb. Although he knew about non-attributed divine herbs, this was the first time he had seen one.
Holding the Sakya Flower, Ning Cheng almost didn't want to put it down. Non-attributed, as if it had no laws. He immediately thought of the Bestowing Lawless Fruit, a dao fruit that absorbed the laws of heaven and earth but had no laws. Unfortunately, the Sakya Flower didn't contain any laws. Otherwise, its value would have definitely reached the top of the top.
The Grand Change Realm truly lived up to its reputation. Ning Cheng had witnessed it from the bottom of his heart. Even the few divine herbs used in the competition had shocked him so much.
The last divine herb, Rosy Red Wings, sounded like a wind-attributed divine herb, but it was actually a wood-attributed divine herb. Moreover, it was a genuine auxiliary divine herb.
When he finished deducing the five divine herbs, Ning Cheng found that three days had passed. The purple-robed man had only given him six days to refine pills. But now, it had taken him three days to deduce the divine herbs. In fact, he only had three days left to create pill recipes.
Ning Cheng casually glanced around. Sure enough, apart from Si Chen, Qiu Tian, and a few others, most people's eyes were focused on Lu Dongce. Lu Dongce's furnace continued to emit hot steam. Apparently, he had already started refining the medicinal pills. This pill recipe creation process was different from ordinary pill refining. It was normal for a divine herb to take a few hours to melt.
Ning Cheng sighed in his heart. This was the difference. It wasn't that Lu Dongce had a deeper understanding of the Dao of Alchemy than him, but that Lu Dongce had the book 'Interspatial Plants'. According to the book, Lu Dongce didn't have to deduce the role of divine herbs like him.
However, Ning Cheng didn't worry about losing. He could deduce the attributes and functions of divine herbs by himself, which was more intuitive and clear than reading the book.
Heavenly Fox Double Leaf Scale and Clear Wind Immortal Claw were both law-related divine herbs. One had a yang attribute, while the other had a yin attribute. Ning Cheng decided to refine a furnace of Dao Sculpting Dao Pills. This Dao Sculpting Dao Pill was a Dao Pill for comprehending wind-attributed spirit techniques. Fifty-five divine herbs. Refining a Dao Sculpting Dao Pill obviously lacked many auxiliary and neutral spirit grasses. But Ning Cheng believed that with the help of the Mysterious Yellow Formless, he should be able to do it within three days.
If not for the Mysterious Yellow Formless, he wouldn't have dared to challenge Lu Dongce. The Mysterious Yellow Formless allowed him to deduce far better than other cultivators. Moreover, because the Mysterious Yellow Bead's origin was complete, he could easily grasp the origin essence of various divine herbs, which would greatly shorten his deduction time.
On the surface, the Dao of Alchemy was about condensing the essence of heaven and earth origin.
On the way to the Void City of the Five Realms, Ning Cheng had repeatedly deduced various pill recipes. But because he didn't have any Dao Fruits, he didn't refine them. But now, he was refining a Dao Sculpting Dao Pill, which was much simpler than the Primordial Dao Pill he deduced before.
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