Chapter 94: Alchemy Competition

  "This is the voice of Dan Changlao, Shen Xiang will never forget even if he dies, and this sentence also made the people in the eighth courtyard tremble with fear. The Ta Dan Institute has eight small courtyards, and above these eight small courtyards is the Ta Dan Wang Institute, which is a place that only the Dan King is qualified to enter!"

  "If you can't win, then from now on, all your benefits in Taiwu Gate will be given to Yao Haisheng, how about that?" Dan Changlao said with a cold smile.

  Yao Hai was overjoyed, he could see that Dan Lao was intentionally helping him.

  Shen Xiang smiled slightly: "That's good, if I can get first place, not only can I go to a pretty good place, but also take on an apprentice."

  "You'll never win, I've been first for five consecutive years! You're still far behind!" Yao Haisheng sneered coldly, as if he could see Shen Xiang's miserable defeat.

  The whole Taiwu Gate knew about the matter of Shen Xiang, but now Shen Xiang has entered the inner gate and obtained rich resources. Dan Changlao did this to cut off Shen Xiang's way of getting resources, but everyone didn't expect that Shen Xiang would also agree to such a thing.

  "Young people are like that, never give up, one day you will suffer." Wu Kaoming learned of this news and couldn't help but sigh: "I say, Dan Changlao, this kid intentionally tried to please you, and even gave you two Qingxuan fruits with a big smile, why do you still want to target him?"

  Old Master Dan snorted, "This kid hasn't suffered a loss. I still need other materials to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, and his Green Mystique Fruit is the rarest of all. I've been searching for so long but couldn't find it, now I can only admit defeat! If he really wanted to curry favor with me, he wouldn't have asked me to help those two little lovers refine the Foundation Establishment Pill!"

  Wu Kaoming listened and thought it was indeed the case. In this regard, Dan Changlao had indeed suffered a bit of loss.

  "I must make him bow to me. If he comes to beg for my forgiveness, I can even accept him as a disciple!" said Dan Changlao, and then floated away.

  "This competitive woman is probably going to be single forever." Wu Kaiming sighed with a wry smile.

  The alchemy competition will begin in three days, at the Eighth Martial Hall. For these three days, Shen Xiang has been in seclusion, with others thinking he was preparing, but actually he was studying the spiritual patterns on the Alchemy Treasure Manual.

  "Mei Yao sister, Youyou sister, you two should be more familiar with these spiritual patterns! These are all very mysterious things that can produce strange powers. Tell me, if I carve these spiritual patterns on the surface of the elixir pill or carve small spiritual patterns inside during the alchemy process, what will happen to the elixir?" Shen Xiang asked.

  Su Mei Yao and Bai Yu Yu in the ring were shocked to speechlessness, they had never thought about this problem before, in their view, alchemy was just a matter of combining multiple medicinal materials into a pill.

  Su Mei Yao took a deep breath and said, "I don't know, but we can try! However, this requires an extremely strong divine sense to quickly carve the spiritual pattern during the condensation of the dan. If it's carving inside the dan pill, the required divine sense is even stronger."

  "That's right, and it also requires the right spiritual symbols! My master said that in ancient times, some spiritual symbols had the same effect as elixirs. For example, if you stick a spiritual symbol on your dantian, you can quickly obtain a large amount of true energy. If you stick a spiritual symbol on your arm, you can make your arm strong."

  Shen Xiang secretly became excited, if it really worked, later on he might be able to increase the effect of the Dan medicine by several times, and even achieve the same effect without using some extremely precious spiritual medicines. Only, currently he grasped too few spiritual patterns.

  Three days passed, Shen Xiang didn't gain anything because those spiritual patterns were too complicated and required a lot of mental effort to analyze, memorize and master, which couldn't be done in a short time.

  This alchemy competition is just a small annual event, the big one happens once every ten years, and at that time it won't be just Ta Wu Men's alchemists but all of Ta Wu Zhou's alchemists will come to participate.

  Many people are not interested in watching the alchemy competition process because it's relatively dull, unless it's a large-scale event that happens once every ten years, which is both grand and lively, and you can also see some hilarious scenes of people exposing themselves.

  "Come on, Brother Shen! We'll be back in ten days to wait for you!" Yun Xiaodao was worried about Shen Xiang at this time, because it was he who said that Shen Xiang would definitely get first place. If Shen Xiang lost, it would all be his fault for putting pressure on Shen Xiang.

  Tan Changlao walked over and said in a cold voice, "Shen Xiang, I will be supervising your alchemy process. I heard that you just won 1,000 True Qi Pills, if you cheat, then it's only natural that you would win!"

  Shen Xiang sighed helplessly: "Dan Changlao, I still have 700 True Qi Pills left. I gave 100 to Yun Xiaodao, and another 200 pills were sold to Zhu Rong and Zhang De. These 700 True Qi Pills, I'll hand them over to you for safekeeping, so that in the end, you won't accuse me of cheating."

  Shen Xiang quickly took out seven boxes, which surprised Dan Chang Lao. The others learned that Shen Xiang had 700 True Qi Pills on him and couldn't help but feel envious. However, they didn't dare to make a move against Shen Xiang, even though their strength was greater than his. If Tai Wu Men found out, their days would be numbered.

  Elder Dan opened the jade box one by one, confirmed that there were 700 grains, and then put them into his own storage ring. Only at the level of the elder would the storage treasure become more exquisite and beautiful.

  Tan Changlao also wanted to see how Shen Xiang refined the True Qi Pill, she really didn't believe that Shen Xiang could refine it at this age.

  The competition begins, with each person in a separate room, guarded by a disciple. The scenes of their alchemy processes are also transmitted to the Elder's Hall, where they are closely watched by some old guys to prevent cheating and winning.

  Shen Xiang found out that even the fastest person to refine the True Qi Pill here would take at least a hour and a half for one furnace, but with the Flame Dragon Furnace, he could do two furnaces in just half an hour. To avoid shocking others, he decided to limit himself to one furnace per hour and a quarter, which would also make things easier for him.

  Elder Dan opened Shen Xiang's Flame Dragon Furnace, she only saw that the furnace was very beautiful and well-made, but did not find anything unusual about it. Only someone who had acknowledged ownership of the furnace could discover its secrets; otherwise, Meng Bo would not have casually taken the furnace out to gamble with it back then.

  "Dan Changlao, how long does it usually take to refine a True Qi Pill? How many pills can be refined in one furnace?" Shen Xiang asked.

  "The fastest is one and a half hours for two furnaces, the most is six pellets in one furnace, but it will take some more time." Dan Chang Lao said truthfully, this was also her relatively proud achievement. Alchemists of their level weren't always refining high-grade pills every day, sometimes when the sect lacked low-grade pills, they would have to step in.

  If they were to refine a high-grade elixir, they would all go into seclusion. Dan Lao had not gone into seclusion for many years, and that was because she was collecting medicinal materials.

  The medicinal materials for the competition were provided by Taiwu Gate, but if they failed, they would have to give up their crystal stones. Therefore, everyone was being cautious and wouldn't rush, but Shen Xiang had an extraordinary Flame Dragon Furnace that allowed him to refine as fast as he wanted. If he refined at top speed, he could produce three True Qi Pills in just half a time unit!

  Elder Dan saw Shen Xiang handling the medicinal materials with extreme proficiency, not even needing to look at them as he processed multiple portions simultaneously, each one with uniform quantity and without any discrepancies. His speed was so fast that it left people speechless; only someone who had refined many times would have such experience. Even within the Taiwu Gate, there were only a few old guys who could do this.