The whole world is cultivating qi, only I am cultivating the body

As Dan Ping'er finished speaking, the disciples of Danding Sect immediately shouted excitedly. This kind of competition was not common, not to mention that it was a competition between the sect's honorary elder and the one who was about to become an honorary elder. No matter what the final result was, it would allow them to gain a lot of knowledge about alchemy.

Looking at the cheering disciples around her, Dan Ping'er nodded and waved to the second elder sitting behind her.

Today's competition was arranged by the second elder of Danding Sect. After all, it was a competition between Hu Kang and Li Shengnan. Dan Ruoruo was not in a good position to take action, and she, as the sect leader, did not have such a high level of alchemy skills, so it was the best choice to let the second elder handle it.

"I am Xing Shen, the second elder of the sect," Second Elder Xing Shen walked to the square and introduced himself to Li Shengnan, "Today's competition was arranged by me."

Li Shengnan and Hu Kangchao greeted the Second Elder: "Please let the Second Elder announce the rules."

"Today's competition is divided into three rounds. The first round is to identify medicinal herbs, the second round is to promote spiritual plants, and the third round is to refine pills." Xing Shen took out two medicinal herbs from his storage ring. "Now it's the first round of identifying medicinal herbs. These two medicinal herbs are made by me these days with the same number of different medicinal herbs. Each part is made up of one or several medicinal herbs. Whoever identifies the most medicinal herbs within an hour will win."

After handing the two herbs to Hu Kang and Li Shengnan respectively, Xing Shen sat on a chair and waited for them to distinguish them.

The two medicinal herbs have different shapes. Both Hu Kang and Li Shengnan observed them carefully when they took the herbs in their hands.

Li Shengnan brought the medicinal herb in her hand closer and looked at it carefully. She had to say that the Second Elder's method of combining the medicinal herbs was very powerful. The medicinal power of this medicinal herb was integrated into one, and even the appearance was very similar. At first glance, it really looked like the same medicinal herb.

Before Li Shengnan could speak, Hu Kang over there had already started to call out the names of the medicinal herbs. The second elder waved his hand and asked his disciples to start recording the names of the medicinal herbs that Hu Kang called out.

"As expected of Honorary Elder Hu, he is much more capable than those random cultivators who came from nowhere. He has figured out what the herbs in his hand are made of in just a short while. Look at Li Shengnan over there, she is still looking at the herbs in her hand. She can't be unable to recognize them, right?"

"It's hard to say, but there have been rumors in the sect these days that Li Shengnan replaced Honorary Elder Hu because of her relationship with the deputy sect leader."

"What? The deputy sect leader actually did this?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could the deputy sect leader do this? The deputy sect leader is the strongest alchemist in our Danding Sect. Why would she do this?"

"Who knows? Maybe there is some conflict between Honorary Elder Hu and the deputy sect leader?"

The disciples around were whispering quietly, but how could they hide these words from the elders on the stage? Especially Dan Ruoruo. Although she usually didn't care about these false names, she couldn't stand people slandering truly capable people without reason. When she heard this, she was ready to stand up and scold those disciples, but just as she was about to stand up, she was held down by Dan Ping'er who was sitting next to her.

Dan Ping'er also had a bad look on her face, but she still shook her head at Dan Ruoruo. When Dan Ruoruo saw her sister like this, she knew that Dan Ping'er knew about this matter and would definitely take action to deal with it. So she was not so anxious anymore. She was just afraid that Li Shengnan on the stage would be affected by these people.

Unfortunately, Dan Ruoruo had only spent a few days with Li Shengnan, and she didn't know Li Shengnan at all. On the other hand, Zeng Wenyu, who knew Li Shengnan's personality, sat calmly in his seat, chatting with Zhang Qing and Nannan.

Hu Kang on the stage had stopped. He had named a total of seventy-three kinds of medicinal herbs. Seeing Li Shengnan who was still identifying them, his eyes revealed arrogance, and he even looked down on Li Shengnan who was still identifying them.

Half an hour had passed, and the disciples around who had not joined in the commotion had already begun to discuss in a low voice. However, it was at this time that Li Shengnan finally shifted her gaze away from the medicinal herb in her hand.

Li Shengnan let out a long sigh of relief and looked at the Second Elder Xing Shen in front of her with some admiration: "The Second Elder's combination skills are profound. With just this small herb, he used 360 herbs with similar medicinal properties!"

"What? Three hundred and sixty kinds? You must be talking nonsense!" A disciple in the audience exclaimed.

"That must be nonsense! Honorary Elder Hu only recognized 73 species, how could she recognize 360 ​​species? How big is the herb in her hand? That must be nonsense!"

"Isn't that right? You guys are not here to cause trouble, are you? Elder Xing didn't say anything, why are you so anxious here? Didn't Hu Kang ask you to say that?"

"You! How dare you slander someone out of thin air?! That Li Shengnan is just a wild cultivator who came from nowhere. Do you really think that she can recognize all the basic medicinal materials after just three days of reading in the library?"

The noisy debate around the square did not affect Li Shengnan on the stage, nor did it affect the second elder Xing Shen on the stage. After hearing Li Shengnan's words, he suddenly opened his eyes, sat up straight, and looked at Li Shengnan with a serious look.

"You said 360 kinds? Can you tell me which 360 kinds of herbs are used to make this one?"

Li Shengnan used her spiritual energy to hold up the herbs and let them float in front of her. She pointed at the herbs with her right hand and said, "First, this is the leaf of this herb. There is a small silver spot on the tip of the leaf, and it has a sense of etherealness. This is the tip of the leaf of the Kongling Grass. Next is the leaf blade. In order to prevent the silver on the tip of the Kongling Grass from looking so abrupt, the silver veins of the Star Grass are embedded into the leaves of the Huanling Flower. The star spots on the Star Grass grow next to the veins, so few people know that the veins of the Star Grass are actually silver. There are tiny gaps in the middle of the leaves of the Huanling Flower. If done properly, the veins of other spiritual herbs can be embedded into them."

"Then there are the tiny hairs on the leaves. On this leaf alone there are hairs from Huanxin Grass, Nether Grass, Qixing Grass, Lingyun Grass, and Tianhua Grass. These hairs are combined together without any abruptness, and even make the leaves show the same medicinal power, making them look like the same herb, and the medicinal power is more like Menghun Grass."

"Next is this leaf. This leaf is also made up of different spiritual herbs, but it uses a different combination of medicinal herbs. Among them is..."