Tyrant Sky Martial Soul

Chapter 1264: Chapter 1264: Not Enough Medicinal Materials

On the VIP seats, Moon Lady chuckled softly and shook her head, ”This guy, how does he always manage to stand out so much, whether it’s attracting hate or love, he’s simply a devil and god in one.”

”My master is always the most outstanding. Ignorant Medicine King Sun Ran has done a foolish and ignorant thing.”

Leng Mei thought to herself silently.

”Tell me, you weren’t doing it on purpose, you’re just so cool!”

Ji Luoyu’s eyes shone with a crazed admiration and reverence.

It seems Ling Xiao’s recent action has completely captured this girl’s heart.

Hua Lueying and Hua Fuguang exchanged glances and smiled, faces full of joy.

Choosing to follow Ling Xiao was the most difficult and yet the most correct decision the sisters had made.

Especially today, they felt even more so.

Yun Ya shook her head with a bitter smile, ”Oh my goodness, can’t you keep a low profile, little guy? If you keep going like this, all the good girls in the world will become your fans, and then even more people will resent you.”

Only Sun Ran’s expression was uncertain.

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Entering the venue was just the beginning.

After all, there are over ten thousand people, so it will take about a quarter of an hour, and then the real competition begins.

Ling Xiao wasn’t concerned with the uproar in the arena; he quickly focused his attention on his Alchemy Platform.

The Alchemy Platform was simple:

A platform made of blue stone slabs with some herbs and a pill prescription on it.

Beside it was an Alchemy Furnace, not too good but not too bad either; it was standard.

This Alchemy Competition did not allow bringing your own Alchemy Furnace, for the sake of fairness.

The most eye-catching was a Mechanical Bird on the blue stone slab.

It perched there, eyes fixed on Ling Xiao. No idea what it was, but every blue stone slab had one.

Ling Xiao glanced at the Mechanical Bird, suspecting it might be used to monitor the alchemists, or perhaps to record results.

Then, he focused on the pill prescription.

Since the alchemists’ entry was not over yet, he could analyze the examination topic for this Alchemy Competition in advance.

This didn’t violate the rules.

In fact, there were quite a few people with the same idea as him.

Hmm?

Upon seeing the prescription, Ling Xiao’s brow furrowed deeply.

The prescription was quite official, but bizarrely, some herbs listed on it were not present at the site!

In other words, the herbs were incomplete!

And the rules specify that you can’t use herbs you brought yourself.

What to do about this?

Can alchemy still be performed?

If you forcefully use the incomplete herbs to refine pills, the resulting pills will undoubtedly be imperfect and poor.

Although the missing herbs are just auxiliary and wouldn’t prevent pill formation, they would surely affect the pill’s efficacy.

Ling Xiao slightly furrowed his brow, considering what exactly the objective of this examination was this time.

The most troublesome part wasn’t just this.

The major issue was that there was only one set of herbs on the blue stone slab.

Meaning you had to succeed in refining the pill in one go, which wasn’t a problem for Ling Xiao, but extremely difficult for many alchemists.

Of course, the difficulty of this first examination wasn’t high. Any certified alchemist could succeed in one attempt unless they were just drifting along.

Those who failed were definitely the ones who didn’t practice alchemy diligently.

This topic is quite interesting.

Ling Xiao released his Soul Power, knowing without looking that many alchemists’ faces looked rather grim.

There is a type of alchemist in the world who has become a Yellow Grade Alchemist but has never refined pills.

This seemingly illogical situation does exist.

After all, the Mysterious World isn’t a completely fair world; many unreasonable things happen, and that’s very normal.

However, there are plenty of genuinely skilled people. At least the ten people taking part in the examination on the main seat all appeared quite calm.

Dan Qing and Ji Luoyu even showed disdainful expressions.

Clearly, they had nothing but contempt for this kind of topic.

Perhaps at Medicine King Sun Ran’s place, they had undertaken this kind of examination more than once.

Ling Xiao smiled slightly.

The more challenging the test, the more exciting it is.

Refining pills isn’t difficult, but to refine pills with better effects, he must think of a way.

”Brother Ling, don’t panic. As long as you can successfully refine them, you’ll pass. You don’t have to be like us, refining exceptional pills.”

Dan Qing suddenly looked at Ling Xiao and said with a smile.

At first glance, it sounded like concern, but on closer reflection, it was filled with arrogance and mockery.

”Brother Dan Qing seems to have forgotten the results of the internal test.”

Ling Xiao said calmly, ”Does being humiliated feel good? Do you really want me to repeat it?”

”Nonsense! What’s that internal test? I was just a bit careless. In this official examination, I’ll definitely show you what a real alchemist is, something a crooked guy like you couldn’t understand!

In any case, I will make you lose face. Don’t look at how popular and charming you are now with ladies. If you fail later, you’ll fall harder!”

Regarding this first test, Dan Qing indeed had his reasons for confidence.

He had spent some time with Medicine King Sun Ran, undergoing this kind of examination dozens of times.

Because of this, he was confident he was stronger than Ling Xiao!

He wanted to take the championship of the Alchemy Competition, to seize all the glory Ling Xiao had.

He even fantasized that Moon Lady would cast an appreciative gaze upon him, then harshly abandon Ling Xiao.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but reveal a disgusting smile.

Ling Xiao shook his head gently.

He didn’t know what Dan Qing was thinking, but he was equally confident.

After all the alchemists entered, about five more minutes passed.

This was to give the alchemists who entered later some time to observe the Alchemy Platform and prepare.

It was roughly a quarter of an hour altogether when the giant Treasure Clock again rang with a crisp sound.

Alchemists turned their gaze to the judges’ seat.

This time, it was not Jackson Le Grandmaster who spoke, but Medicine King Sun Ran.

He didn’t stand but sat in his seat, speaking in a calm voice, ”The first test is very simple. Using the items before you, refine a Transcendent Pill!

Transcendent Pill is not a graded pill. If you really have skills, you will naturally succeed.

However, I must remind you, some herbs listed on the prescription cannot be found on-site, yet you must find a way to refine a Transcendent Pill with at least sixty percent efficacy without violating the rules.

Fail to do that, and you’ll be eliminated!”

His voice carried an unmistakable tone of authority.

As Medicine King Sun Ran of the White Tiger Continent, every word of his held immense prestige.

Apart from madmen like Ling Xiao, very few would dare to confront him.