“Third place is awarded two top-grade divine spirit veins and ten Dao Yuan Dao Fruits in addition to the above rewards. Second place plus rewards five top-grade Divine Spirit Veins, ten Dao Yuan Dao Fruits, and one Mixed Yuan Dao Fruit. First place is awarded another ten top-grade Divine Spirit Veins, ten Dao Yuan Dao Fruits, and two Mixed Yuan Dao Fruits. In addition to this, one Wood Attribute Extreme Divine Spirit Vein is also rewarded.”
Kong Lianbo’s words caused Ning Cheng to secretly marvel at the sheer riches of this Dan Society. The first place really did have a wood attribute divine spirit vein, but this was only one of the many rewards.
In fact, there was another one that Kong Lianbo had not said, the first place winner, apart from receiving the above rewards and distinctions, might also get the chance to discuss pills with Mu Zuo Yi.
After saying the rewards, when the crowd’s voices had quieted down a little, Kong Lianbo then continued, “Next, the first round of the Dan Competition, the identification of seeds, will be held for one day.”
After Kong Lianbo finished speaking, a transparent ban rose up around all the dan masters. This forbidden system rose, which meant that divine sense could not be released outside or penetrate in.
After the ban rose, an ebony seed the size of a dragon’s eye appeared on the teleportation platform in front of Ning Cheng. When Ning Cheng picked up the seed, there was a faint Dao rhythm flowing on the exterior of this seed, which seemed to contain a Dao rhythm aura that could dissipate at any moment.
When Ning Cheng saw this seed, he secretly said in his heart that it was a close call, because he knew this seed. To be precise, this seed was one that he knew after having seen the grass and trees in the universe. If ⊕≯ wasn’t Lu Dong Ce’s Yu Intergrass Wood, Ning Cheng was sure that he would have been eliminated in this first round.
For a normal Divine Spirit Grass, in a day’s time, Ning Cheng might be able to deduce its effects. This one seed. Even if Ning Cheng’s Xuanhuang Wufang was powerful. He would not be able to deduce the effects of the divine Spirit Grass it grew into in a day’s time. Not to mention one day, even if it was many years, Ning Cheng estimated that he would not be able to do it.
This was a Dao fruit seed, and the name of the Dao fruit was somewhat odd, it was called Blossoming Half.
The Dao fruit generated from this seed not only contained the five elemental rule dao rhythms of heaven and earth, but it would also derive the rest of the rule attributes, such as the rule dao rhythms of wind, thunder, ice and other attributes, the moment it ripened. However, these rule attributes are like a fleeting flower that disappears within a short period of time. To say that they are fleeting would be an exaggeration. In fact, the rule dao rhyme only disappears in an instant from its appearance to its disappearance.
The Blip Half-appearing Dao Fruits are Dao Yuan Dao Fruits, and their only use is to refine the Heaven and Earth Blip Pill. The Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill was not considered the most precious Dao Yuan Dao Pill, yet it was certainly one of the most difficult Dao Yuan Dao Pills to refine. The main function of this Dao Pill was based on the perception of the person taking it at the time, which was somewhat similar to Ning Cheng’s Xuan Huang Wu Xiang.
For example, if you were in the process of striking Dao Yuan Saint Emperor when you took it, then this Dao Pill would be able to help you sense the rules of Dao Yuan Heaven and Earth. If you were in the process of striking the Mixed Origin realm when you took it, this Dao Pill could likewise help you enhance your perception of the rules of the Mixed Origin Heaven and Earth.
If you are perceiving a certain Heaven and Earth rule divine ability when you take the Dao Pill, this Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill can likewise enhance your perception of this rule divine ability.
The seeds of the Blip are not difficult to obtain. However, the Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill is extremely difficult to refine a way to preserve the Blossom Half-Existence Dao fruit, and it is impossible to use this preserved Dao fruit to refine the Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill.
The main dao fruit for the Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill is the blossom half-appearing dao fruit. In order to refine the Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill, this Dao fruit must be cultivated on the spot and then sent into the pottery the moment the Dao rhythm of the Blossom Half-appearing Dao fruit disappears to refine the Heaven and Earth Blossom Dao Pill.
This not only requires the cultivation of heavenly materials and treasures, but also requires the cultivator to have a very good grasp of the dao rhythms of the rules of heaven and earth. A single mistake can cause the Dao fruit to wither.
Secondly, when it comes to refining the Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill, it is also very difficult. The blossom half-appearing dao fruit contains dao rhythms of the five elemental attributes, and can also give rise to dao rhythms of other attributes such as wind, thunder and ice when it is ripe.
This requires the dan master to control the dao rhythms of the dao fruit rules, and because of this, almost no one can refine a Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill with all the dao rhythms of the dao fruit rules. If it can contain more than two Dao Fruits Rule Dao Rhymes, this kind of Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill is already a success.
Most dan masters would not be able to refine a Heaven and Earth Blossom Dao Pill even if they could cultivate a Blossom half-appearance Dao fruit. They are unable to grasp the moment when the rule dao rhyme in the blip dao fruit dissipates, or rather, they are unable to seize the dao rhyme of the dao fruit rule that is about to disappear in that moment.
Ning Cheng took out a jade slip and engraved everything he knew into it, he guessed that this second round of competition would definitely be the refining of the Heaven and Earth Blossom Dao Pill.
A day quickly passed and Kong Lianbo appeared on the giant altar once again, “Fellow dan masters, the first round of competition is over, please place the jade slip into the teleportation platform in front of each of you and teleport to the judges’ table.”
Ning Cheng put his own jade slip into the teleportation platform at his location, he was sure that he could pass this first round.
There was nothing subjective about the first round of judging, one could tell by looking at the jade slip if they knew or didn’t know. In just under an hour, the results were out. According to the participating dan masters’ rating of how well they understood the Blossoming Half-appearing Dao Fruit, out of a hundred points, Ning Cheng scored sixty-seven points, ranking forty-sixth.
Ning Cheng was not surprised by this ranking, as he had not written about the cultivation method of the Blossoming Half-appearance and how he should control it when refining pills. There were many different ways to cultivate the Blossoms and Blossoms, and the reason why Ning Cheng did not write about it was because his method was a little different. As for how to control it when refining pills, Ning Cheng would not write it even more, his dan dao was not quite the same as others.
It was true that he could score more points if he wrote it, but if the judges were picky, they would say that his cultivation method was different from the one written on the jade slip. Although he had a point to make, he was not in the mood to explain these things. What’s more, Ning Cheng was clear that the deciding round of this Dan Competition was definitely not the first round, but the second and third rounds.
There were fifty-two dan masters who had successfully passed the first round, with the highest score of ninety-eight, and they were not alone, there were three people with the same score of ninety-eight. Ning Cheng ranked forty-sixth and was considered to be at the back of the list.
The rankings appeared on the huge big screen on the square, only fifty-two people had entered the second round, the elimination rate was just a little too high.
Apart from Ning Cheng, who had entered the second round, there was another person from the Tai Su Realm, which was Le Xi Zhen. Not only had Le Xi Zhen entered the second round, his score was a little higher than Ning Cheng’s, ranking forty-first.
When Lu Dong Ce saw Ning Cheng’s ranking, he frowned slightly. According to the question Ning Cheng had asked him, Ning Cheng should have already read about the effects of the Blossoming Half-appearing Dao Fruit. As long as Ning Cheng had seen it, Ning Cheng would definitely be able to enter the top ten, so why did he only score sixty-seven points?
The eliminated dan masters came down from the giant altar, and there were only fifty-two dan masters left on the giant altar.
Kong Lianbo once again said aloud, “The first round of the Dan Competition is over, now the second round of the Dan Competition. There are fifty-two Dan masters participating in the second round of the competition. In addition to the blossom seeds that have already been transported to you, if you need any divine herbs, you can inscribe your needs on the jade slips beside the transport platform. The second round of the competition will last for one month and will now begin.”
It was indeed the refining of the Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill, and in order to refine this Dao Pill, one had to cultivate the Blossom Half-appearing Dao Fruits. One month to cultivate the Blossoming Dao Fruits had to be considered a challenge. Ning Cheng had read about the cultivation of the Blossoming Dao Fruits in the book Yu Intergrass, and the minimum time was one month. The fact that only one month was given here meant that not only was this Dan Competition very demanding on the Dao of Dan, it was also demanding on the Dan master’s understanding of the rules of heaven and earth.
The stronger one’s understanding of the rules of heaven and earth, the stronger one’s own Dao dao rhythm. And the clearer the five elemental dao rhythms of the Blossom Half-appearing Dao Fruit, the faster it will ripen.
Ning Cheng casually used clay to refine a simple clay pot, and got some soil from the Xuanhuang Pearl to put into the pot. This kind of competition only gave a seed and nothing else, which indirectly showed that any dan master could cultivate the Blossoms Half Emergence in their own way.
The Blossom Half-Existence seed was implanted into the basin by Ning Cheng, who then took out some water from the Xuanhuang Pearl and poured it into the basin.
This time, cultivating the Blossoming Flower Half-Existence Dao Fruits was originally a matter of each according to their own divine abilities. Even if you used the resting soil to cultivate it, it was still your ability.
This point had been made clear by Mu Zuo Yi long ago, his own chance and qi luck was originally a form of ability.
After just three days, Ning Cheng’s Blossom Half Emergence seed had produced some shoots.
This time, the Dan Competition was in front of all of them, and even though the place where Ning Cheng and the others were located had a ban restricting divine sense, the cultivators watching from underneath the altar could clearly see every single move of each and every person cultivating the Dao Fruits.
Ning Cheng’s Blossoming Half-Existence seed sprouted in three days, and this was not the first. The first dan master to cultivate a blip and a half had the seeds germinate in just two and a half days. Ning Cheng’s speed was not slow either, and among all the participating dan masters, his seed was the third to germinate.
Although because of the ban, the cultivators watching the battle from outside could not see clearly whose Blossoming Half-Existence seeds had stronger dao rhymes. However, considering Ning Cheng’s first round ranking of only forty-six, and the fact that Mu Zuo Yi had mentioned Ning Cheng before the Dan Competition, many people still landed their eyes on Ning Cheng.
After germinating, the Blossom Half-appearing Seed was somewhat similar to the Ah Han Lawless Fruit, requiring various Heaven and Earth rule dao rhythms to cultivate. Unlike the Ahan No Rule Fruit, the Blossoming Half-Existence did not devour Heaven and Earth Dao Rhymes, but grew under various rule Dao Rhymes.
Ning Cheng had a rule-breaking divine ability, plus his own understanding of the rules of heaven and earth was not weak, so at this moment, he was constantly infiltrating his own sense of the rules of the Great Dao into the Blossoms.
Ten days later, Ning Cheng could feel the difference between him and the top dan masters. In ten days’ time, his Blip Half-Existence had only grown by one foot. And the blip’s half-flower result was after one metre, which meant that a month would have passed by the time his blip’s half-flower resulted.
Those Dan masters with strong cultivation were almost approaching one metre for their blip and a half dao fruit at this point.