Carrying the identifier from the interstellar to the world of immortal cultivation

"Brother Zhang failed to advance?" Fan Tuo was a little surprised.

Sui An couldn't believe the result. "Brother Zhang's advancement this time wasn't a time to prepare in advance. Instead, he had to temporarily push forward to establish his foundation when the time came. How could he fail?"

Perhaps because Song Chunchi had a very smooth experience in establishing his foundation in Wanmanglin at that time, Sui An always had the impression that although establishing a foundation was difficult, if one's own spiritual energy was overflowing and the time was right, then establishing a foundation would be successful. Zhang Shulin's situation was similar to Song Chunchi's, so she naturally thought that Zhang Shulin would also be successful in his advancement.

Shi Xu glanced at the two of them and said, "I've seen many strange things before. Building a foundation is not that easy. He is already considered lucky. Although he didn't succeed in advancing this time, his cultivation has improved. He didn't regress because of the failure of building a foundation."

Sui An is now at the ninth level of Qi Refining. Although she has been very busy over the past year, she has also carefully studied the foundation-building process. She knows that from the moment she starts to strive for the foundation-building process, there will be many possibilities. Failure in the foundation-building process and a regression in cultivation are not the worst possibilities. Even worse, one may go astray, suffer from incompetence, plummet to the bottom of the cultivation level, have the meridians in the dantian shattered, and end the path of cultivation. These are all things that have happened before.

Zhang Shulin is back, and the happiest people are Fan Yuan and other members of the weapon refining team. The least happy person is Wang Hao, who was secretly trying to take this opportunity to join the weapon refining team to participate in the competition.

On the second day, some people from the Jinling Sect went to Xuanrong Peak, some went to Cangya Peak, and some went to Yunxiu Peak. Today's competitions included the Alchemist Competition, the Weapon Master Competition, the Formation Master Competition, and the Talisman Master Competition. As for the individual arena competition, it was scheduled to be held at Tianque Peak four days later. Tianque Peak is one of the twenty-eight peaks in the outer mountains of Lingque Sect. It is the largest spiritual peak of Lingque Sect and is also the location of the deacon's headquarters. The peak master is the sect leader, Xingshuang Zhenjun.

Sui An and the other two followed the instructions on the jade slip and rode on the Dabai directly to the alchemy room on Xuanrong Peak. The preliminary round for the Qi Refining Stage alchemists was held in Alchemy Room No. 20.

Two foundation-building monks stood in front of the alchemy room. After checking the competition tokens of the three people, they motioned them to go in.

"Jinling Sect Alchemist Shi Xu, Alchemy Assistants Sui An and Fan Tuo, you will be in the second round, number 13, Earth Fire. You can use your own alchemy furnace or the one in the alchemy room. The elixir for the competition is the Xiaoyu Pill, and you need to refine three furnaces of the elixir in total."

As soon as the three of them entered, a Qi-refining cultivator came to lead the way.

It was not until he entered the alchemy room that Sui An understood why the venue for the Immortal Sect Competition was either the Chuyun Sect or the Lingque Sect. Most sects probably did not have an alchemy room of this scale.

The size of this alchemy room is something Sui An has never seen or even imagined. In the center are one hundred bushes of earth fire, which means that there are a total of one hundred groups in a competition. Other participating monks are waiting in a corner of the alchemy room. There are also special viewing seats for monks who just want to watch the competition, but the number of people is limited. However, monks outside the alchemy room can also watch the competition through the teleportation mirror.

There were six alchemists judging the competition. They were positioned so as to overlook the entire alchemy room. Sui An only took a casual glance and discovered that there were no less than four formations used in this one room alone. She was certain that there were even more advanced formations that she had not discovered.

Although he was shocked, Sui An quickly found a waiting place. They were in the second round, so they had to wait until the first hundred alchemist groups finished their competition before they could enter the competition.

"It's Senior Kuang, he's here!" Not long after the three of them sat down, the six alchemists who were to judge the alchemy competition arrived one after another.

Among them are four Jindan cultivators and two foundation-building cultivators.

Kuang Wei was the second one to enter. As soon as he appeared, he attracted the attention of the monks below. As his senior fan, the young boy Fan Tuo naturally noticed him at a glance.

Sui An also looked up and found that the six elders were all wearing different Taoist robes. Five of them had specific logos on their robes. It was obvious that they were either from a sect or a family of immortal cultivators. Sui An could recognize that in addition to Kuang Wei, there was also a Jindan cultivator. He was wearing a white wide-sleeved Taoist robe with two staggered and stacked leaf-shaped patterns on the right cuff. This was the logo of the Danfu Sect. The remaining person was wearing an ordinary gray Taoist robe. Sui An guessed that he should be a casual cultivator.

Sui An looked at each judge one by one. When she saw Kuang Weishi, he seemed to notice it and looked at her. She didn't know if it was because of the position he was in today and the fact that the pen in his hand was very important to her efforts over the past year, so she felt that the feeling he gave her today was very different from before. The feeling of warmth and friendliness was completely gone, replaced by an air of contempt and scrutiny.

She quickly turned her gaze away from him and looked at the alchemists participating in the competition on the field.

"More than 90% of the teams choose to have the alchemists refine all three furnaces themselves." Shi Xu said.

"Senior Brother Shi, do you have confidence?" Sui An asked.

When Fan Tuo heard the two discussing this, he stopped looking at Kuang Wei and immediately turned to look at Shi Xu. Shi Xu immediately said, "I am confident. Don't worry, you don't have to worry about the preliminaries. I will definitely lead you to the semi-finals."

The three of them agreed that all three furnaces of pills in the preliminary round would be refined by the alchemist Fan Tuo. The judging criteria for alchemy by alchemists and alchemy assistants were different. According to common sense, since the alchemist was the alchemist of the participating team, his alchemy level would naturally be higher than that of the two alchemy assistants, so the standards were relatively strict. If the alchemy assistant could refine pills of the same level as the alchemists of other teams, the team refined by the alchemy assistant would undoubtedly achieve better results.

The registration of alchemists and alchemy assistants is not arbitrary, because alchemists have certificates. All alchemists participating in the competition must obtain an alchemy certificate from the Wanxian Sect before they can register as alchemists, and alchemists cannot participate in the competition as alchemy assistants.

In this way, it will avoid some people who are actually alchemists but take advantage of loopholes to participate in the competition as alchemy assistants. In fact, this situation basically will not happen, because before the competition, every participating cultivator will sign a contract. The contract requires all contestants to respect the rules of the competition and not to cheat. If there is any violation or cheating, the Wanxian Sect will be informed immediately through the contract. For the participating cultivators, the handling method and results are far from worth taking risks for a competition.

Of course, there are alchemy assistants whose alchemy level exceeds that of the alchemist in every competition, not only in the alchemist competition, but also in the weapon master competition, formation master competition, etc. However, this will not affect the judging criteria, but it will affect the results of the competition.

"This year's Alchemist Competition requires alchemists to refine at least six furnaces of pills. There are a total of 422 participating teams, and the top 100 will advance to the semi-finals. These alchemists who only refined three furnaces of pills in the first round clearly don't have the confidence to even make it to the semi-finals. With Senior Brother He here, we don't have to worry about the preliminary and semi-finals at all. We are sure to make it to the finals."

The competition has begun. Each team has half an hour to make a furnace of pills. Sui An was carefully watching the process of each alchemist team refining the pills, comparing the gap with his own team. When he was busy staring, he heard voices coming from the front. Sui An looked over and saw the backs of three monks wearing green Taoist robes with spiritual plant marks on their robes. They were monks from the Danfu Sect.

Among the three people, there were two male cultivators and one female cultivator, and the one who was speaking was the male cultivator sitting on the far left.

When Sui An looked over, Senior Brother He, who was sitting in the middle, also spoke up, "For the first round of the preliminary competition, I planned to let you, Junior Brother Liu, and Junior Sister Cheng refine one furnace each."

"Me? I can't do it. I... Senior Brother He, you know that although our Danfu Sect has more places than other small sects, there are only five groups in total. I have no choice but to come to you for help. I just want to follow you and gain some experience. I don't dare to be so arrogant as to refine the pills on my own."

Junior Brother Liu declined sincerely, then as if remembering something, he said, "But I know that although Junior Sister Cheng hasn't been studying alchemy for a long time, her skills are already very good. If Junior Sister Cheng is willing to give it a try, I agree."