“This is the Clear Wind Immortal Claw.” Lu Dong Ce said calmly. He knew that Ning Cheng was talking nonsense, in fact everyone here knew that Ning Cheng was talking nonsense. But what people said had a point, it was just a name, if you called it Zhang San, couldn’t he prefer to call it Zhang Si? After all, it wasn’t like this was an enquiry into the medicinal properties and effects of the divine Spirit Grass, if it was a test of medicinal properties and effects, then Ning Cheng’s trick obviously wouldn’t work.
Lu Dong Ce was not worried, he knew all five of these divine spirit herbs, and even if he did not know them, he could just name them as Ning Cheng did. This first round was a definite tie, and the second round was where the real test of skill would take place. If he had not guessed wrongly, the second round should be a test of medicinal properties, let’s see how you can fake this thing?
Not only did Lu Dongze understand this, but so did everyone else. All of them laughed coldly after hearing Ning Cheng’s name of the Divine Spirit Grass, as if they were watching a clown perform. Even if you put on a good show, you would still end up revealing your original form.
If Kong Lianbo did not even have the ability to expose Ning Cheng, there would be no way for people to stand in this place. People who treated others as fools were the real fools.
The final five divine Spirit Grasses that Lu Dongze recognized were Heavenly Fox Double Leaf Scale, Clear Wind Immortal Claw, Silver Ring Fruit, Release Flower, and Danxia Wing; while the ones that Ning Cheng recognized were Dog’s Tail Grass, Chicken Claw Vine, Silver Arc Green Fruit, Two Coloured Flower, and Remnant Sun Leaf.
None of the divine Spirit Grasses recognized by the two men were the same. This made it clear to all the people in the hall that Ning Cheng did not recognise any of these five divine Spirit Grasses. It was fortunate that the names given to the three divine Spirit Grasses behind Ning Cheng were quite audible, not shameless when they were heard like the previous two.
The purple-robed man obviously also knew that this first round would not be able to tell the winner according to this rogue method of Ning Cheng. He said after both of them had named their names. Very dryly, he said. “The first round is a tie between Club Master Lu and Dan Master Ning. Now for the second round.”
Ning Cheng was slightly relieved, if the second round was to be the refining of a Mixed Dao Pill, he would simply admit defeat. He believed that since this purple-robed man had asked the question, he would take into account the difference between him and Lu Dong Ce’s Dao of Dan and would not ask such a question that he would definitely lose. Even if he wanted him to lose, he would let him lose willingly, at least everyone seemed to be fair.
“The second round of the competition is alchemy, please ask Master Lu and Master Ning to refine a potion. This potion will use these five divine spirit grasses as the main spirit grasses. Each main divine spirit herb can be assisted by the remaining divine spirit herbs of less than ten species. What auxiliary divine spirit herbs are used and how many are used is entirely up to each individual’s wish. If there are difficulties, the main divine spirit herbs may not all be used in.
The final judging criteria are as follows: firstly, who uses the five main divine spirit herbs in front of them the most, secondly, who uses more auxiliary divine spirit herbs, and thirdly, who has a higher level of potion. The competition will last for six days and will now begin.”
As the purple-robed man’s words fell, the people in the hall were all secretly shocked. It wasn’t that the topics of the competition were too easy, but that they were too difficult.
This was not alchemy. Rather, it was a deduction of a dan recipe. To deduce an elixir recipe, one had to be very clear about the effects of all the divine spirit herbs. One must have a clear understanding of the properties of all divine spirit herbs and their original attributes. Not only that, but one must also have a certain level of understanding of the Dao of Dan. No one can cheat in this kind of deduction.
Those who played smart like Ning Cheng did before would be dead in this place. Deducing a Dan recipe was a real skill, and could never be done indiscriminately.
For the five main spirit herbs, according to the rules, a maximum of fifty auxiliary divine spirit herbs could be used. With fifty-five divine spirit herbs, it would be best to refine a Dao Transformation Divine Pill if one were to refine a pill. Of course, both of them were deducing the dan recipe, not a ready-made one. Trying to use fifty-five divine Spirit Grasses to deduce a Dao Transformation Divine Pill’s dan recipe in three days was not that difficult, it was almost impossible to accomplish.
Not to mention that there was only one chance in this, and failure was considered a loss.
Ning Cheng and Lu Dong Ce were both beyond the level of ordinary Dao Transformation Gods, so when compared like this, the topic was considered fair and equitable. Of course, absolute fairness did not exist, as Lu Dong Ce’s Dan Dao level was far stronger than Ning Cheng’s. The stronger his Dan Dao level was, the easier it would be to deduce the Dan recipe.
When this question came out, everyone knew that Lu Dongze had won. Even if Lu Dongze could not deduce the recipe, with his understanding of the five divine Spirit Grasses, as long as one of them could be used in the Dan Dao, he was still much better than Ning Cheng.
Lu Dong Ce did not care about Ning Cheng, and after hearing this topic, he directly sacrificed a dark brown pottery furnace and began to concentrate on deducing the dan recipe.
Ning Cheng took a breath, this topic was not too far away from what he had guessed. If he wanted to obtain the Yu Zhi grass and trees, this was his only chance, just by virtue of his Xuan Huang Wu Xing.
With a lift of his hand, Ning Cheng also waved out a dan furnace.
Those in the hall who were looking at Lu Dong Ce were instead in the minority, instead more people landed their eyes on Ning Cheng, all wanting to know how Ning Cheng would continue to pit his disgrace. After seeing Ning Cheng really sacrifice his Dan Furnace, some people were instead a little puzzled. Of course, no matter how puzzled they were, no one would think that Ning Cheng really knew these five divine Spirit Grasses, only that they had different names.
When everyone saw clearly the name of the Dan Furnace Ning Cheng had sacrificed, some people really could not help but laugh out loud.
Chaos First Furnace, this Dan Furnace could also be called Chaos First Furnace? Among the Dan Masters present, there were far too many Dan furnaces that were better than Ning Cheng’s. If Ning Cheng called this one the Chaos First Furnace, then wouldn’t theirs still be called the First Furnace before Chaos?
Ning Cheng directly hit the ban, blocking all the sounds around him, this match was very important to him.
Losing face was a small matter, not only did it matter if he could obtain the Yu Intergrass, it also mattered to Si Chen Qiu Tian’s Dao Dao heart. Once he failed, he was bound to be treated like a clown. Si Chen Qiu Tian could only explore the Dan Dao with a clown, and his Dan Dao Dao heart would only become more and more unbalanced.
Ning Cheng picked up the first Divine Spirit Grass, the Heavenly Fox Double Leaf Scale, he did not throw this Divine Spirit Grass into the Dan Dao furnace, but held it in his hand, his entire divine will penetrating into the Divine Spirit Grass.
A channel of information about the origin of the divine Spirit Grass was deduced by Ning Cheng, and the Sky Fox Double Leaf Scale lay in Ning Cheng’s sea of consciousness as if stripped naked, allowing Ning Cheng to pounce on the essence of heaven and earth in it.
The Heavenly Fox Twin-leaf Scales were not within the Five Elements, but were wind-attributed divine spirit herbs, containing the rule aura of the wind attribute. It was hot and yang in nature, so it was extremely difficult to enter the pills with the five element attribute divine spirit grasses.
After knowing this information, Ning Cheng’s heart was astonished. Generally, divine Spirit Grasses that contained the rules of heaven and earth were all Dao Fruits level divine Spirit Grasses. The Heavenly Fox Double Leaf Scale appeared to have no rule aura on the surface, but it was unexpected that such an inconspicuous divine Spirit Grass was a rule divine Spirit Grass.
It looked like there was a big trap in this topic. If one were to go above and beyond, it would not be impossible to refine a Dao-shaping Dao Pill from fifty-five divine spirit grasses.
The Clear Wind Immortal Claw, also outside the five elements, is also a wind-attribute divine spirit herb, the opposite of the Heavenly Fox Twin Leaf Scales, extremely yin in nature, and still a Rule divine spirit herb.
It was interesting that old man Kong took out these two divine spirit grasses, could this guy have known that he would be bullsh*tting in the first round?
Silver Ring Fruit, a metallic divine spirit herb, does not contain rules but carries a killing nature and has a tearing effect.
Release Flower, a propertyless divine Spirit Grass, had a substantial incremental rule effect. When Ning Cheng had just deduced that the Sakyamuni Flower was attributeless, he thought that he had deduced it wrong. As a Dao Yuan Dan Saint, he had seen more than thousands of divine spirit grasses, and had never seen an attributeless divine spirit grass before. Although he knew that there were attributeless divine spirit grasses, it was the first time he had actually seen one.
Holding the Sakya Flower, Ning Cheng almost did not want to put it down. Without attributes, it was as if there were no rules. He thought of the Arachne’s No Rules Fruit, a Dao fruit that absorbed the rules of heaven and earth but had no rules. It was a pity that the Sakyamuni Flower did not contain rules, otherwise this would definitely be worth the top of the top.
The Taiyi Realm was worthy of its name, Ning Cheng had seen it from the bottom of his heart. A few divine spirit grasses for competition would also shock him so much.
The last divine Spirit Grass, Danxia Wing, the name sounded wind attribute, but it was a wood attribute divine Spirit Grass, and it was also a solid auxiliary divine Spirit Grass.
When he had finished deducing the five divine Spirit Grasses, Ning Cheng then realised that three days had already passed. The purple-robed man had only set out six days to refine the pills, and now he had spent three days deducing the divine spirit herbs. In fact, the time given to him to create the dan recipe was only the last three days left.
Ning Cheng casually looked around and sure enough, apart from a few people such as Si Chen Qiu Tian, most of the people’s gazes were focused on Lu Dong Ce’s body. Heat was constantly rolling out of Lu Dong Ce’s furnace, apparently he had already started condensing the pills long ago. This kind of creation of a dan recipe was different from ordinary alchemy, and it was normal for a divine spirit herb to melt for a few hours.
Ning Cheng secretly sighed in his heart, this was the difference. It was not that Lu Dongze had a deeper study of the Dao of Dan than he did, but rather that Lu Dongze had the book Yu Intergrass. According to the book, Lu Dong Ce simply did not need to deduce the effects of the Divine Spirit Grass in the same way as he did.
However, Ning Cheng was not worried that he would lose, as he had deduced the properties and effects of the divine Spirit Grass himself, which was more intuitive and clearer than what he would get from reading the book.
Both Heavenly Fox Twin Leaf Scales and Clear Wind Immortal Claw were Rule Divine Spirit Grasses, one of which was Yang and the other Yin, and Ning Cheng decided to refine a Dao Shaping Dao Pill. This kind of Dao-shaping Dao Pill was a Dao Pill for sensing the wind attribute divine ability. With fifty-five kinds of divine spirit herbs, it was obvious that many auxiliary neutralizing spirit herbs were missing from the Dao-shaping Dao Pill. However, Ning Cheng believed that with the help of Xuanhuang Wufang, he should be able to do it within three days.
If it wasn’t for Xuan Huang Wu Xiang, he wouldn’t have dared to challenge Lu Dong Ce. Xuan Huang Wu Xiang allowed him to deduce far better than other cultivators, and because the Xuan Huang Pearl was perfected by the Origin, he could easily grasp the Origin Essence of various divine Spirit Grasses, which would drastically shorten his deduction time.
The Dan Dao is, on the surface, just the condensation of the essence of the origin of heaven and earth.
On his way to the Five Realms Void Market, Ning Cheng had repeatedly deduced various dan recipes. It was only because he did not have the Dao Fruits that he did not refine them. Now he was refining the Dao Shaping Dao Pill, which was much simpler than the Dao Origin Dao Pill he had deduced before.