Chapter 829: The Five Decays of Heaven and Man, Unsolved Problem!
After the first round, I rested for about two hours. In the afternoon, the second round started.
"The top two hundred achievers in the first round will be shortlisted for the second round. Starting from the second round, the points system will be adopted. The final points will determine the ranking. Now, please enter the finalists!"
As the sound came from the Little Alchemy Pagoda, the two hundred shortlisted people had already adjusted their state and flew towards the Little Alchemy Pagoda.
Xiao Chen is naturally no exception.
"Yao Yao, do you think Mr. Xiao can still get the first place this time?" Yin Chong asked Shen Danyao.
Shen Danyao was eliminated in the first round and now she can only stay outside.
"I don't know, but there is no doubt that the second round will be much more difficult than the first round!" Shen Danyao said seriously, "There will be points starting from the second round, and everyone will go all out!"
"Well, if you can always be in the top ten, that will be enough to become famous all over the world!" Yin Chong nodded.
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Entering the Little Alchemy Pagoda again, it was the same as last time, an independent space with only him.
"Wouldn't this be too deserted?" Xiao Chen knew that Little Alchemy Pagoda had its own will, so he made a suggestion, "It would be better for the Alchemy Conference to be more lively. At least five to ten people should be allocated to one examination room!"
"Don't worry, the second round has just begun. The third and fourth rounds will fulfill your wishes!" The indifferent will replied.
"So you already have a plan?" Xiao Chen touched his nose and said with a smile, "If I'm too busy, what's the question for the second round?"
"This round is an assessment of alchemy knowledge!"
"Assessment?"
"That's right!" said the will, "Ten questions involve all aspects of alchemy knowledge. You must answer them within the specified time. Each question is worth ten points for correct answers, zero points for abstaining, and ten points for wrong answers!"
"What if you only answer part of it correctly?" Xiao Chen asked.
Many questions do not have a single answer. For example, if there are multiple choices, there will be many answers, so only some of them will be answered correctly.
"Then the score will depend on the situation. Any score from 0 to 10 is possible!" the will replied.
"Okay, I understand!" Xiao Chen said lightly, "We can start!"
When the will heard the words, he didn't talk nonsense and went straight to the topic.
"The first question, medicinal herbs!"
"There is a kind of fairy grass that grows in a cool and humid area with sufficient fairy spirit. It has a seedling stage of twenty years and a growth period of forty years. It will grow twice after reaching the mature stage for a hundred years. It can be used as medicine only when the second growth is mature. It has extremely high It has medicinal value. What is the name of this grass jelly? What is its main use?"
Xiao Chen heard this and replied without thinking: "This fairy grass has six leaves and is purple heart-shaped, so it is named 'Six-Leaf Purple Heart Grass'. It is the main medicine for refining the ninth-grade elixir Purple Sunflower Pill!"
"Correct answer, 10 points!"
"The second question is about skills!"
"If when refining the elixir, it is found that the elixir is very scattered and cannot be condensed into an elixir shape, what is the reason and how should it be solved?"
When Xiao Chen heard this, he opened his mouth and replied: "There are two reasons for not being able to form an elixir. One is that the degree of cohesion is not enough, and the medicinal materials cannot be gathered together harmoniously, so trace amounts of minerals need to be added. The other is that the medicinal power is too strong, resulting in the elixir being Cracks need to be controlled by controlling the heat!"
After a pause, Xiao Chen added, "Both of the above two problems can be solved by using Dan Jue!"
"Perfect answer, 10 points!" The will said in approval, "I read it correctly in the last round. You used the elixir technique, otherwise you would never be able to refine a fourth-grade elixir in more than ten seconds!"
"The Dan Jue may be a rarity to ordinary people, but the Dan Pagoda has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years and has countless treasures. There is no need to make such a fuss!" Xiao Chen said calmly, "Let's ask the next question!"
"Question 3, identify categories!"
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In another dimension of the Little Alchemy Pagoda, Yang Ning, the young master of Tiandan Pavilion, was also nervously answering questions.
The difficulty of the second round was indeed much more difficult than the first round.
The ten questions are obviously carefully prepared and are multi-directional and misleading. If you are not careful, you may get wrong answers and get points deducted.
Even Yang Ning, who has always been conceited, was careless in the fourth question and made a mistake. He only got half of the answers correct and received five points.
Fortunately, he began to take the next few questions more seriously, thinking carefully before answering each question, and finally made no more mistakes.
In a blink of an eye, he had reached the tenth question.
"There is also the last question. Although there was some surprise in the fourth question and 5 points were lost, as long as the tenth question is answered correctly, the total score will be 95 points, which is not bad!"
Thinking of this, Yang Ning felt confident again and waited for the tenth question.
"Yang Ning, do you know what will happen if a quasi-immortal emperor tries to break through the realm of immortal emperor and ultimately fails?"
Yang Ning heard the words and blurted out: "If you want to break through the Immortal Emperor, you must go through the ninety-nine tribulations. If you fail to overcome the tribulation, not only will your foundation be destroyed, but you will also suffer from serious sequelae. Spiritual power will fail, clothing will fail, wisdom will fail, and understanding will fail.
, the failure of the Lotus is called the ‘five declines of heaven and man’!”
"Well, the answer is correct!"
"Ah? Is this the tenth question?" Yang Ning was stunned.
He thought the questions would become more and more difficult, but it turned out that the tenth question was too childish. It was just a common sense question?
Although he is far from reaching the realm of the Immortal Emperor, has he never eaten pork and seen a pig run away?
"Of course not!" the will denied, "The tenth question is, how to use the knowledge of alchemy to cure the five degenerations of heaven and man!"
"Cure the five declines of heaven and man?" Yang Ning's eyes widened when he heard this, "Senior, are you kidding me? There is no solution to the five declines of heaven and man!"
The reason why the Immortal Emperor is unattainable, and if you don't become an Immortal Emperor, you will end up like an ant, it is because it is too difficult to reach the realm of the Immortal Emperor, and the price you need to pay is also too high.
Once the breakthrough to the Immortal Emperor fails, the five declines of heaven and man will become a terrible nightmare.
Because there is no cure for the five diseases of heaven and man, a quasi-immortal emperor is suffering from the disease of five diseases of heaven and man and will slowly degenerate.
Deterioration of cultivation!
Appearance deteriorates!
Intellectual deterioration!
Longevity deteriorates!
Eventually, he dies of old age like a twilight old man.
If a cultivator dies directly, it will be over and there will be no pain.
But the pain of deteriorating step by step like this is indescribable.
From ancient times to the present, countless ancestors have been trying to solve the five degenerations of heaven and man.
However, there is no solution!
There is no way to cure the five diseases of heaven and man!
"Don't question the question itself, you just need to give your answer!" The will said indifferently, "If you don't know the answer, you can abstain!"
"Abstain? This..." Yang Ning hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted his teeth and said, "Senior, my answer is that this question has no solution!"
"Clever!" The will said in approval, "No solution is actually an answer. But as mentioned before, this question is an open question with more than one answer, so I will give you five points!"
Yang Ning heard this and said happily: "Thank you, senior!"
If you abstain, this question will be scored zero.
But he firmly believed that this question had no solution and was equivalent to one answer, so he got five points.
He also understood that there was no expectation that the contestants would be able to answer this question, and no one would be able to get full marks in the end.
There is no perfect score, which implies that the road to alchemy is endless, and everyone is just chasing perfect scores and perfection. This is profound and thought-provoking.