Chapter 385 In the Central Region Dan Dao Conference
On the top of Yuxia Mountain, a cloud is steaming, filled with purple haze mist. It is the smoke that evaporates when refining elixirs. It is like a red cloud, adding infinite mysterious brilliance to the top of the mountain.
Under the purple mist, there is a huge courtyard with as many as a hundred buildings of various sizes.
Zhan Chen and others came to the palace gate. When he looked up, there were three golden characters written on the lintel, Yuxia Palace. This is also the largest alchemist organization in Zhongyu City. It has gathered a large number of alchemy talents and accumulated unlimited wealth.
resource wealth.
At this moment, a young man in purple robe walked out of the gate and said to everyone: Everyone, anyone who wants to participate in the Alchemy Conference, please come in with me. After saying that, he turned around and walked into the gate.
As a result, the crowd surged, following the young man in purple robe, and arrived at a large square. Several tables had been set up there, and some young men and women also wearing purple robes were sitting behind the tables.
Registration preparation.
Then I heard the young man who led them in said: Today they will register first, and tomorrow the competition will officially start. The registration fee is three hundred high-grade Yuanshi per person. The number of people participating in the competition every day is one thousand, which means that tomorrow it will be one to one thousand.
Number 1001 will come here to compete, and the day after tomorrow, numbers 1001 to 2000 will come here to compete, and so on. Ten days later, we will post the list of qualified candidates in front of Yuxia Palace. Okay, registration starts now.
Zhan Chen listened to his instructions, followed the flow of people, and found a table to queue up and register. After waiting for a while, he finally got his jade medal, which said Xu Shan, No. 2004.
Is it the competition the day after tomorrow? Zhan Chen then left Yuxia Palace and went back to his hotel to rest. On the morning of the third day, he came to Yuxia Palace again and saw that a thousand people participating in the competition had already lined up at the door.
As soon as the exam time came, a young man in purple robe walked out and shouted to the crowd: Please those from No. 2001 to No. 2200 come in with me.
Zhan Chen's heart moved and he walked into the palace gate. He saw two hundred tables with a height of only fifty centimeters neatly placed on the square in front of him. There was a futon behind the tables for competition.
Take a seat.
The distance between each table is widely separated, nearly 20 meters from front to back, left and right, in order to avoid mutual interference and influence during the alchemy process.
At this time, the young man in purple robe said: Let's start checking the jade plaque now.
So, everyone walked up to him and handed him their jade medals to see. Then they sat on the seats in front of them one by one.
After everyone was seated, a girl walked out from the side. She had a tray in her hand. On the tray were two hundred low-grade Qiankun bags. She passed by each table and handed each Qiankun bag
Distribute the bags.
The young man standing in front said again: Everyone, please note that the Qiankun Bag contains the test questions for this exam and the medicinal materials needed for refining. Everyone can start refining immediately after getting the Qiankun Bag. The exam lasts for one hour.
, please take advantage of your time.
Zhan Chen took the Qiankun bag and took a look. It contained a jade slip and more than twenty boxes of elixirs. So he took out the jade slip and checked it. Sure enough, it was a recipe for a fifth-level middle-grade elixir.
It is easy for you to make it yourself.
But at this time, Zhan Chen encountered a small trouble, that is, he was bothering himself whether he should use the Nine-turn Flame Phoenix Furnace to refine this elixir.
Seeing that many people with lower cultivation levels than him were starting to refine it, Zhan Chen gritted his teeth and made a decision: There is no need to use the Nine-turn Flame Phoenix Furnace in the first pass. I have to rely on my own strength to pass.
This is also the best way to test the level I have reached now.
Thinking of this, Zhan Chen just took out an ordinary alchemy furnace and began to operate it skillfully according to the furnace control technique that Chu Danqing taught him at that time. He had been refining alchemy all the time, and now that he had entered the state, the operation was even more fluid.
Normally, the whole process was completed in one go, and he successfully refined the elixir in less than half an hour.
Opening the elixir furnace, a spiritual elixir exuding five colors of elixirs flew out. Zhan Chen held it in his hand and put it in a jade bottle. Finally, he was done.
At this time, Zhan Chen had the intention to carefully observe the alchemy skills of those around him, and found that their techniques were all average, and he suddenly felt confident: It seems that my alchemy skills are as good as usual under the guidance of Teacher Chu.
In the practice of alchemy, I have improved a lot without realizing it. Now even if I don't rely on the Nine-turn Flame Phoenix Furnace, my level is estimated to be higher than 90% of the people here.
His estimate was correct. Among the two hundred people who participated in the assessment with him, except for Zhan Chen, only one person refined the fourth-level elixir, and three of them refined the third-level elixir; the other alchemists only had one.
Level two.
Seeing this, Zhan Chen handed over the elixir he had refined with peace of mind and went back to wait for the results quietly.
The ten-day preliminary competition passed quickly, and when it was time to publish the results, Zhan Chen and other alchemists went to the red list of Yuxia Palace to take a look, and sure enough, he saw his name in the first line.
Those who did not advance felt sad and left Yuxia Mountain, while the thousand lucky ones who advanced entered the next round of rematch. This time Zhan Chen drew No. 512 and was arranged to take the exam on the second day of the rematch. This time
You also need to pay the material fee for refining the elixir, which is a full three thousand high-grade yuan stones.
In the semi-finals, he refined a sixth-grade elixir, and Zhan Chen refined a fifth-grade golden elixir and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.
What was to be refined in the semi-finals was a seventh-grade elixir. The price of the medicinal materials was naturally free, and it immediately rose to 100,000 high-grade yuan stones. However, there was no alchemist who did not pay for it, because they knew that getting a seventh-grade elixir would cost them nothing.
The value of Fang far exceeds 100,000 high-grade Yuan stones.
On the day of the semi-finals, Zhan Chen took the test on the Yuxia Palace Square just like the last two times. But this time, he paid more attention to the competitors around him than the last two times, because they had all been selected after two rounds of screening.
The elite is likely to encounter him in tomorrow's decisive battle.
However, the test questions were soon sent out. Zhan Chen quickly concentrated on refining the elixir. The content of the test question was not difficult. It was about refining a top-level seventh-grade water-based medicine called Jiuchong Hualou Pill.
elixir.
After studying the elixir refining techniques in detail, he decided to take action. However, at this time, he hesitated again, whether to use an ordinary elixir furnace to refine it like the previous two times.
Zhan Chen looked around, and some people had already started to take action. They were all skillful in their operations, and their fingers were as fast as flying. So he thought: It seems that it is time for me to get serious. If I release the water at this time, if I accidentally get caught,
When people are eliminated, the joke becomes bigger.
Having made up his mind, he patted the Qiankun bag and took out the Nine-turn Flame Phoenix Furnace. The Nine-turn Flame Phoenix Furnace was orange-red in color and exquisitely carved. It didn't look like an ordinary product at first glance. This was Zhan Chen's first time today.
Exposing it to everyone, I still have some scruples in my heart.
However, now he has gained a certain level of strength and is able to protect his treasures, so he is much bolder than before.
Relying on the power of the Nine-turn Flame Phoenix Furnace, I'm afraid I can refine the Nine-turn Golden Pill in the first try. This is a bit too shocking. It seems that I will have to add some water later, as long as I can ensure promotion.
Tomorrow's final is enough, otherwise he will become the target of public criticism, which may be detrimental to tomorrow's game. Zhan Chen knows the importance of hiding the front, and must not expose his trump card easily until the most critical moment.
So, he began to refine the elixir step by step, but he omitted some steps in some details, and secretly asked Huang'er not to extract the essence of the elixir too thoroughly, leaving some impurities behind.
With Huang'er's help, Zhan Chen was even more powerful. He refined the elixir in one step. When the lid of the furnace was opened, a six-color elixir flew out from it. Zhan Chen caught it in his hand.
, and then spread out his palms and observed carefully, feeling happy in his heart. It seemed that his strategy was successful. At least the six-turn elixir would not be as eye-catching as the nine-turn elixir.
Putting the elixir into the jade bottle, Zhan Chen began to care about others again. At this time, one after another someone refined the elixir, and most of the quality was between the third and fourth levels, which made him feel a little bit
Peace of mind.
However, the neutral area was indeed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Someone was immediately refining the fifth-level elixir, and five or six of them appeared one after another.
In the end, two people refined the sixth-turn elixir, which meant that their alchemy skills actually surpassed Zhan Chen's.
Seeing this, Zhan Chen was startled and broke out into a cold sweat. He was thankful in his heart. Fortunately, he chose to use the Nine-turn Flame Phoenix Furnace to refine elixirs. Otherwise, it would have been very difficult to enter the finals.
At this time, everyone had finished the exam and placed the elixirs on the table, waiting for the examiner to collect them. Only one person was still controlling the fire unhurriedly.
Zhan Chen's eyes naturally focused on him. He was about the same age as himself, with a handsome and upright appearance. Especially the purple robe he wore was the same as that of the examiner, which made him particularly conspicuous. It seemed that he was very handsome.
Maybe they are people from Yuxia Palace.
At this time, his expression was cold and focused, and his hands were dazzling as he pinched out a series of seals. Although the speed was very fast, each seal was performed very accurately, as if it contained some kind of magical rhythm.
Everyone watched him refining elixirs, but they felt as if they were watching a beautiful girl dancing gracefully, and they were completely intoxicated.
Zhan Chen was the first to wake up from the state of obsession, but he admired the young man's superb alchemy skills. He sighed that it was so far away, and immediately focused his eyes on the opponent's alchemy furnace. The alchemy furnace was covered with purple gold and had carvings on it.
It is full of several simple and magical patterns, shining brightly, and it is obviously a masterpiece.
This young man's level of alchemy is really high, and the alchemy furnace looks different, so the quality of the elixir he refines will be higher. Just when Zhan Chen guessed, the purple-robed young man had already completed the final step of making the elixir.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the lid of his purple-gold elixir furnace. When the young man opened the furnace lid, a golden elixir flew out quickly, flashing with a charming halo.
Everyone took a closer look and screamed in disbelief: How is this possible? It turned out to be Jiucai's.
Zhan Chen's heart suddenly sank. His powerful enemy finally appeared. Tomorrow's decisive battle will be full of variables.