From dusk to dawn, the morning of the fourth day had finally arrived.
From the start of the competition till now, an entire 3 days had passed, which was also a total of 36 hours. The 4 of them were completely immersed in the purification process, even Lu An was the same.
Lu An had already purified for 10 hours, but the amount purified was not much. Every purified material he would immediately store it in his ring, to reduce the energy dissipation.
At this moment, the entire arena suddenly erupted into cheers. Lu An who was lowering his head to purify was startled, finally lifting his head to look ahead. Not only him, Li Han and Liu Heng were the same, very quickly they knew why the cheers were coming.
The reason was simple – Sun Zhong had finished purifying.
After a total of 48 hours of purification, which was close to 2 days, Sun Zhong finally finished purifying the majority of the materials, leaving only a few materials that needed to be purified in the process. His speed and technique were indeed very fast, leaving a trail of dust in front of the other 3, even Liu Heng was left far behind by Sun Zhong.
Sun Zhong surveyed his surroundings, discovering that these people's purification progress was extremely slow, especially Lu An and Li Han who had just started, he couldn't help but reveal a smile.
At this moment, the 6 people on the judging platform glanced at each other, revealing a smile. Although purification was troublesome, but the easiest part to make mistakes was always refining and condensing the pill. This 3 lines enchanting pill was not something that could be refined successfully just by being careful. To successfully refine this pill, one needed to have a certain level of perception.
Lu An was continuously purifying, 160 materials, 130 of them needed to be purified first. After 10 hours, he had only purified 13 materials, his speed was indeed too slow.
Although this competition did not require speed, but if he was too slow, it would raise suspicions. As the slowest person, he tried to increase his speed. After another four hours, he had finished purifying three more materials.
Next, he had to purify this huge ore that was the size of a small mountain. Lu An looked at the ore that was 3 times taller than him, he couldn't help but laugh bitterly, this was really the purest form of purification.
Although Lu An had prepared many pill furnaces of different sizes in his ring, it was impossible to put such a large ore into a pill furnace. There were two ways to refine it. One was to break the ore into small pieces and refine it piece by piece. However, this was a waste of time. Just refining a huge ore would take several hours. The second method was to directly refine it from the outside. Because this was an ore, refining it would not cause the material to volatilize, so refining it from outside the pill furnace was not a problem. However, this would expose his flames.
Boom!!
Just as Lu An was hesitating, there was a sudden explosion! Lu An didn't have time to react at all. In an instant, he was hit in the back by a powerful force and slammed into the ore!
It wasn't just Lu An. Li Han and Liu Heng were the same. Their bodies were instantly pushed back! Although the power wasn't great and wouldn't cause too much damage to the three of them, it would still affect their purification process!
Lu An immediately turned to look at the source of the force. The source was none other than Sun Zhong!
Sun Zhong stood on the pill refining platform with a stunned expression. The huge pill furnace in front of him was about 10 feet wide and 20 feet tall, but at this moment, thick smoke was rising into the air. It didn't dissipate even after floating hundreds of feet in the air!
"Hua …"
The hundreds of thousands of people present were in an uproar. This scene was simply too unexpected. The people of the Medicine God Nation were instantly on edge and were sweating profusely for Sun Zhong! The people from the four empires also frowned. They didn't gloat because this meant that the pill recipe was difficult to refine.
Failed?!
The other three people frowned. They were very clear about Sun Zhong's pill refining ability. How could he have failed after only two hours?
That's right, Sun Zhong had indeed failed. His face gradually darkened. It was even darker than the black smoke rising from the pill furnace in front of him. The explosion this time was a wake-up call for the four alchemists. Fortunately, the refining process had just begun and only a few ingredients had been added. Most of the ingredients had not been used yet. Sun Zhong only needed to purify a few more ingredients.
However, no matter what, there were only four sets of ingredients. This meant that Sun Zhong had already used one of the three chances of failure.
Sun Zhong stood in the air and looked through the thick smoke into the pill furnace. It was as if he was trying to figure out what had gone wrong. The other three alchemists also quickly turned around and continued to refine their own pills.
Lu An looked at the huge ore in front of him. With a wave of his hand, the Nine Heavens Holy Flame surged out and covered the entire ore!
Everyone was stunned when they saw this flame. One had to know that flames usually had a tinge of yellow. However, this flame was pure red. It was indeed a bit strange. However, no one present was an ordinary person. Not to mention red flames, they had seen yellow flames, black flames, and even green flames. They were not surprised to see this red flame.
The reason why Lu An dared to use the Nine Heavens Holy Flame so boldly was because he had the Hidden Immortal Ring. The second reason was that the person in the black fog had said that the number of people in this world who could recognize the Nine Heavens Holy Flame could be counted on one hand. There might only be one or two people. Lu An did not think that such a person would come here.
The Nine Heavens Holy Flame burned fiercely. The ore surrounded by the flames was immediately burned to ashes. The pill manual had detailed instructions on what to refine from the ore. The first thing Lu An had to do was to test whether this thing could withstand the burning of the Nine Heavens Holy Flame.
As it turned out, it could not.
Lu An had already felt a trace of this material. However, this material still could not withstand the temperature of the Nine Heavens Holy Flame. However, the temperature of the entire ore was the highest. Lu An immediately changed the Nine Heavens Holy Flame. He controlled the temperature to fall below the critical point of the material's volatilization. This way, he could refine the ore at the fastest speed. Lu An only needed to wait.
A lot of white appeared in the red flame. This scene attracted many people's attention. However, that was it. At this moment, the focus of the competition was on Sun Zhong, who was a hot favorite to win the championship, Li Han, and even Liu Heng. Only Lu An was the least important one.
Time passed by slowly. Finally, on the afternoon of the fifth day, Liu Heng finished refining. He had spent an entire day more refining than Sun Zhong. The difference between them was obvious.
However, no matter what, he had finally reached the refining step. At this moment, he was very uneasy. Even Sun Zhong had failed once. How could he not be nervous?
After Sun Zhong failed once, he stood in place and pondered for eight hours. Only then did he continue to refine the material and start refining again. And this time, they finally passed the second test successfully. There were no more explosions.
Liu Heng gritted his teeth. He stood in place and pondered for two hours. However, he still could not figure out what went wrong. He had no choice but to start refining. He placed the purified material into the furnace and carefully refined.
Time passed by slowly. After about three hours, which was noon, a series of explosions suddenly rang out again!
Boom!!
The violent explosion instantly spread out a shockwave. Lu An and Li Han who were refining were pushed back by a step. Both of them frowned and immediately stabilized the flame in the furnace. They did not allow themselves to be affected.
The hundreds of thousands of people in the audience gasped. Another failure?
Sure enough, Sun Zhong's failure was not accidental. There was a problem at the beginning of the refining process. Sun Zhong, who was refining, raised his head and glanced at the bewildered Liu Heng. It took him eight hours to figure out the problem. If Liu Heng could figure it out, he could be considered a real expert.
At this moment, Sun Zhong turned to look at the other two pharmacists. However, he was stunned!
How could they be so fast?!
He looked at the materials piled up on their alchemy table. They had already refined more than half of their pills. Their refining speed was not much different from his! The time these two level 7 heavenly masters spent on reading and meditation was almost twice as long as his. He even felt that refining would take even longer. How could they be so fast?
He frowned and looked at their flames. One of their flames was red with a tinge of black. The other was dark red. But their flames were much stronger than an ordinary level 7 heavenly master. What kind of flames were these?
Lu An and Li Han who were refining both felt his gaze. They raised their heads and looked at Sun Zhong. After Sun Zhong and the two exchanged glances, he did not continue to look. Instead, he concentrated on refining his own pill.
However, a moment later.
Boom!!!
Another explosion sounded. This time, the explosion was even louder than before!
This explosion came from none other than Sun Zhong's pill furnace!
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