Shen Yuan Ring

With Dan Daozi's booming voice, the alchemy competition officially began.

After exchanging a glance, Ye Fan and Ji Daoyi sped off towards their respective alchemy furnaces like lightning.

The alchemy furnace and elixirs were arranged and prepared by the people of the Pill Hall. A total of three sets of elixirs were prepared for refining the Qi Cultivation Pill, which means they were allowed two mistakes.

Ye Fan is a genuine high-level alchemist, and he has refined the Qi-Nourishing Pill countless times.

Moreover, he usually refines Qi-Nourishing Pills, producing six pills per batch, and at least half of them are high-quality pills. No wonder Du Xiaolong and the others are willing to follow him.

They respectfully called him Brother Fan.

Although Ye Fan loved to provoke trouble and stir up trouble all day long.

Even so, no one can deny that Ye Fan does have some skill in alchemy.

Before long, Ye Fan had already properly handled all the preparations needed before refining the pills.

He glanced at Ji Daoyi, seemingly intentionally, and was surprised to find that Ji Daoyi had not only not started refining pills, but had instead sat down to meditate and cultivate.

Seeing this, Ye Fan's lips curled into a cold smile, and he thought to himself, "Hmph, what's the point of all this fancy stuff? You'll be crying when you lose!"

After that, Ye Fan stopped paying attention to Ji Daoyi's movements and instead focused all his mind and attention on alchemy.

It should be noted that although Ye Fan has successfully refined the Qi-Nourishing Pill countless times and the probability of failure is now almost zero, he still dares not be careless in the slightest if he wants to refine a high-quality pill. He must concentrate fully.

Just then, a cry of surprise suddenly came from the crowd: "Look! Ye Fan has already started preheating the alchemy furnace! But look at Ji Daoyi, what is he doing? He's meditating and cultivating!"

Another person immediately chimed in with a laugh, "Haha, in my opinion, he probably knows in his heart that he can't beat Ye Fan at all, which is why he's so self-destructive."

However, someone immediately raised a dissent: "That's not necessarily true. I always felt that Ji Daoyi wasn't that simple. Otherwise, why would he dare to accept this alchemy duel with Ye Fan?"

The crowd chattered excitedly, while Ye Fan and Ji Daoyi were completely absorbed in their own worlds, oblivious to the commotion around them.

Ji Daoyi was not meditating to cultivate. The reason he was meditating was to deduce and consolidate the alchemy process that Lin Hai Saint Venerable had demonstrated to him before.

As the saying goes, sharpening the axe won't delay the work of chopping wood; Ji Daoyi never intended to rush into refining pills.

For him, refining the Qi-Nourishing Pill was incredibly easy; he could easily refine six to seven high-quality pills.

However, his goal was far more than simply winning the competition. As Cheng Ke'er said, regardless of the outcome, this competition would be anything but a good thing for him, and would inevitably offend a large number of people, including some elders and deacons of the Pill Hall.

This was undoubtedly a dead end, and a well-intentioned scheme set up by Ye Fan and others for Ji Daoyi.

Moreover, before their competition, Ye Fan and others had meticulously planned and arranged for people to spread rumors and maliciously smear Ji Daoyi.

Three men can make a tiger, and many voices can melt metal; moreover, in the eyes of the other people in the Pill Hall, Ji Daoyi was a complete outsider.

In contrast, the number of people who support Ye Fan is countless, while the number of people who support Ji Daoyi is very small.

Ji Daoyi now has only one way to break this deadlock, which can not only silence public opinion but also make those in power look at him with new respect.

That is, to become famous in this competition—by refining nine high-quality Qi-Nourishing Pills.

A fully-formed pill, and of high quality at that, is the dream of all alchemists, and it is also clear evidence that Ji Daoyi is more valuable than Ye Fan and others.

After all, not every alchemy master can refine a high-quality Qi-Nourishing Pill with a full set of pills; even a Pill King cannot do it.

If it weren't for Ye Fan and the others' constant provocations, Ji Daoyi would never have displayed his alchemy skills and talent in public. Such a high-profile act was simply not his style.

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Ye Fan was completely focused, his hands constantly changing hand seals to control the flames beneath the alchemy furnace.

As Ye Fan finished preheating the alchemy furnace, he first placed the Great Spirit Flower into the furnace and wrapped the medicinal material with his Yuan Power to ensure that it was heated evenly. This was also to better remove impurities from the medicinal material and preserve its medicinal power.

Everyone around held their breath and watched intently, and Dan Daozi nodded slightly at Ye Fan's every move in purifying the spiritual herbs.

A moment later, he quickly added several spiritual herbs, including Crimson Blood Fruit, Gold and Silver, and Treasure Cup Spirit Source Flower, and then increased the heat in an attempt to purify several kinds at once.

"It must be said that Ye Fan is quite capable in alchemy, able to purify multiple spiritual herbs at once. Ordinary alchemy masters wouldn't dare to do this, as a slight mistake would destroy the herbs."

"Who says otherwise? Ye Fan dares to purify spiritual herbs in this kind of setting, which means he was already very skilled before. It seems that he will break through to the Pill King level soon."

"Who can disagree? His cultivation level has probably reached the half-step into the Divine Realm. I'm really envious."

Ye Fan's purification of the spiritual herbs was proceeding in an orderly manner, and everyone was amazed by Ye Fan's alchemy skills.

Time passed by, and Ji Daoyi was still meditating, seemingly in no hurry to refine the pills.

However, Cheng Ke'er, who was far away in the audience, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

"Dao Yi, what are you up to? Even if you've grasped the Dao of Alchemy of the Saintly Alchemist, you shouldn't be so arrogant. If... never mind, I hope you won't disappoint me, or I'll lose face with you."

Soon, Ye Fan had completely purified the twelve spiritual herbs needed to refine the Qi-Nourishing Pill, and the next step was to fuse them into the pill.

Only after completing the purification of the spiritual herb did Ye Fan relax his tense expression, clearly showing that he dared not be careless in the purification process.

Taking advantage of the moment of relaxation, he glanced at Ji Daoyi and found that he had just preheated the alchemy furnace. Yes, preheating.

Ye Fan thought to himself, "Hmph, they're only starting to heat up the alchemy furnace now. They're probably trying to use that as an excuse to lose the competition."

"I estimate that my purified medicinal liquid will yield eight pills this time, and at least 80% of them will be of high quality! What can you do against me? I'm taking this 500,000 yuan stone!"

While Ye Fan was immersed in his own fantasies, Ji Daoyi had already begun purifying the spiritual herbs, and the method he used to purify them was quite crude.