The tournament stage was spacious enough to accommodate a thousand people at the same time without being crowded. Although there were more than 700 people registered, only about 600 were able to stand on the stage.
Because the materials were self-contained, not every dan master participating in the duel could produce the materials for the killing pills, and once they couldn’t, they were automatically eliminated. In this kind of competition, there is no such thing as fairness or unfairness.
The main divine spirit herbs needed for the Killing Pill are the Brilliant Bone Grass, the Broken Vine and the Unconventional Heavenly Tendon. These ingredients were still considered precious though, and there really weren’t many dan masters who couldn’t get them out in this place. Those who could stand on the Xuanhuang Tianwai Tian stage to fight for their pills were all powerful. Not to mention the Elixir Garden, even in the Elixir World, it is estimated that they have one or even several in their hands.
Although Ning Cheng had several large Spiritual Pill Gardens in the Xuanhuang Pearl, in this place, he was really not considered rich.
“Kid, you should know where the remaining piece of my Creation Green Lotus petal is going, right?” When all the people were participating in the competition, Xing Xi surprisingly walked up to Ning Cheng not far away and asked in a chilling tone.
Ning Cheng instantly frowned, precisely because he had guessed that Qu Wujian’s magic treasure was evolved from the Creation Green Lotus petal, he knew that the Creation Green Lotus had not been perfected. Just how did Xing Xi know about this?
“Over a year ago, I sensed the aura of the Green Lotus Petal of Creation, and even though it was only for a moment, I would never sense it wrong. Moreover, next to that Green Lotus of Creation aura, I also sensed your aura. That one lotus petal of the Green Lotus of Creation should have been in your possession, right? Hand over the lotus petal of the Green Lotus of Creation, or else, don’t blame me, Xing Xi, for being ungracious.” Xing Xi’s tone was tinged with a hint of killing intent.
Ning Cheng secretly cried out for bad luck and said with the same indifference, “The Green Lotus Petal of Creation is not on me, whether you believe it or not. If you want to fight, I will accompany you.” As he spoke, Ning Cheng raised his hand and the Creation Divine Spear straddled the middle of him and Xing Xi. The Creation Green Lotus Petal was on Qu Wu Jian, something he simply had no way to explain, and at the same time he was unwilling to let Xing Xi perfect the Creation Green Lotus.
As soon as Ning Cheng offered up the Creation Divine Spear, it immediately attracted numerous gazes.
Xing Xi glanced at Ning Cheng and surprisingly did not take the stance, instead turning to the other side and casually striking out a flame, ready to refine a pill.
Ning Cheng knew that Xing Xi was not letting him go, but did not dare to make a move here, even if she was strong, she would not be able to win here.
Since Xing Xi did not make a move, he had no reason to do so either. Putting away the divine spear of creation, he likewise raised his hand to offer up a ball of flame. At the same time, he also understood what Xing Xi’s search meant, it looked like she had come specifically for him. It was just that he came here and saw the bout here, so he simply joined in.
As soon as Ning Cheng’s flame was sacrificed, numerous gazes fell on his white flame.
Surprisingly, it was the Holy Flame Nameless, there was no one who did not want this kind of flame. Even Xing Xi in the distance had a hint of eagerness in her eyes, she had a better flame than Ning Cheng, but naturally she did not mind having more flames. At this moment, she had decided that the Green Lotus Petal of Creation was on Ning Cheng, and she was in no hurry. When Ning Cheng fell alone, she would definitely take all of Ning Cheng’s things for herself.
The mistake of chasing Ye Mo in the beginning, she would not make it again on Ning Cheng.
The crowd’s attention was only short-lived, and when all of them began to refine the killing pills, the entire stage was soon surrounded by killing intent, and a powerful killing aura almost formed substance on the stage.
A killing pellet needed to contain killing intent within it, and with six or seven hundred people refining killing pellets at the same time, the killing intent contained there was naturally majestic.
Ning Cheng had long tried refining pills without using a dan furnace. It was like refining a weapon without using a weapon furnace, the pills that were refined contained a wild and violent wildness. This kind of dan was not suitable for cultivation, but it could not be more suitable for a killing dan.
Although the Dao Yuan Dao Pill was precious, it was not complicated for Ning Cheng.
However, when Ning Cheng refined the Slaying Dao Pill, he did not use only a few of the Main God Spirit Grasses from the original Dan formula. He had turned the main divine spirit herbs into four, and in addition to the three, the Brilliant Bone Grass, the Broken Yue Vine, and the Unsurpassed Heavenly Tendon, he had privately added a material, the Burying Sea Gang Sand.
The Burying Sea Gang Sand was not an alchemy material to be exact, but a weapon refining material. When refining magic treasures, adding Burying Sea Gang Sand could enhance the killing aura and killing momentum, and although it could not raise the level of the magic treasure, it could enhance its combat ability.
The reason why the Burying Sea Gang Sand was added was because Ning Cheng guessed that the second round would definitely be a Dan Dou. Otherwise, the first round would not have allowed someone to refine a simple dan pill like the Killing Pill. This was because refining such a pill, even if it was a void pill, would not be able to eliminate a true pill refining powerhouse. Ning Cheng also knew that he was not the only one here who could guess the second round of the Dan Dou, most of the people here could guess that there was going to be a Dan Dou in the second round.
If they could guess that the second round was a Dan Dou, the most everyone could do was just to incorporate a stronger killing intent and killing dao rhyme when refining their killing pills. There would not be many dan masters like Ning Cheng who could add the Burying Sea Gang Sand to their killing pills. Even if someone could add it, it was estimated that they would not be able to finish refining the Slaying Dao Dan in an hour.
It was extremely difficult to add the Burying Sea Gang Sand to the dan refining materials. Ning Cheng’s Dan Dao level had already touched the realm of a Dao Harmonious Dan Saint, and he was also a top-notch weapon refining powerhouse. At this moment, adding the Burying Sea Gang Sand to the refining of a Dao Origin Dao Pill was difficult, but not impossible.
Originally, it only took one incense stick to finish refining the Dao Slaying Pill, but because of the addition of the Burying Sea Deity Sand, it took Ning Cheng two pillars of incense to finish. Two pillars of incense to refine a Killing Pill, this speed was actually not slow.
When Ning Cheng put away the flames and the Dan Skill and looked up at Xing Xi, he found that Xing Xi had long finished refining and was staring at Ye Mo. Ning Cheng immediately understood that the first person to finish refining the Slaying Pill was not him nor Xing Xi, but Ye Mo.
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An hour passed quickly, and when Fei Yin stood on the competition stage again and announced that the time for refining pills was up, all the people had finished refining pills.
Apart from the very few Dan masters who had failed to refine, over 90% of them had made their killing pills intact.
Fei Yin stood on the stage and said with a clasped fist, “The first round of alchemy is over, now the second round will take place. Please ask all Dan Saints to open the jade bottles they have made and place them on the competition stage, then exit the stage.”
The second round was indeed a Dan Dou, and like Ning Cheng in general, the many contestants had no objections, obviously everyone had guessed what the second round was going to be about.
As the many contestants exited the tournament stage, the ban on the stage was once again struck up.
Several formation flags were thrown into the stage by Feiyin, and a wildly agitated killing aura began to permeate the stage. In just a few breaths, the many jade bottles placed on the stage began to shake, and a killing pellet rushed out of the jade bottle, emitting a murderous aura.
These killing auras soon spread across the entire stage, and those killing pills that had not yet had the chance to break out of the jade bottles were blown apart, along with the jade bottles, by the killing auras of the pills that had broken out of the jade bottles first.
It was indeed a Dan Dou, which was much more exciting than alchemy.
Thousands of pills came and went across the entire stage, each one representing the killing aura of a dan master.
From time to time, these pills emitted a burst of killing dao rhythm, trying to blast the surrounding pills to pieces. Some of the pills even simply rushed towards the other pills when they were about to shatter, trying to smash each other even before they broke.
Even though it was only a dan duel, the sound of killing rhythms caused the stage ban to shake for a while.
What all the spectators saw was not thousands of pills battling on the stage, but thousands of horses and armies killing each other. But everyone knew in their hearts that the Dan Dou was not enough to rely solely on the powerful killing pills they had made.
The pills themselves had little spiritual intelligence, and this chaotic fight meant that the opponents of any one pill were not fixed. As a dan, one might have just finished off one dan around him, only to be blasted by the killing breath of another. So a dan in the middle of such a dan fight has to have a certain amount of luck in addition to the dan itself being strong.
Luck is never a form of strength, and only those powerful killing dan of extremely high rank will instinctively dodge the killing breaths that they can avoid.
Ning Cheng was slightly relieved when he felt his twelve pills being invincible, blasting all the surrounding pills that wanted to attack. The effect of the Burying Sea Gang Sand had manifested itself, and this killing aura was definitely not purely possessed by the killing dan.
The killing aura of the killing pills on the tournament stage seeped out, and some of the Saint Emperors watching the battle were a little hairy in their hearts. Facing these thousands of such powerful killing auras, even if a person with a weaker cultivation level went up there, I was afraid that they would be torn apart by these pills.
The sound of dao rhythms exploding and the sound of gold and iron clashing surrounded endlessly. However, the number of killing pills on the stage was getting smaller and smaller, and the original thousands of killing pills were less than a hundred by this time.
The roaring sounds of dao rhythms exploding diminished, and those watching the battle soon realised that the killing aura of the remaining killing pills was even stronger. And there was another extremely odd image; of these hundred or so surviving Killing Fate Dan, over eighty of them were suspended in various corners and did not continue to participate in the battle.
And in the middle of the stage, there were nearly twenty Slaying Danes, surrounding another ten Slaying Danes, still fighting.
Some people thought they had seen it wrong, but when they looked closer, it was indeed the case. It was as if the thirty Slaying Dan on this stage had a spiritual nature, forming two factions.
Twenty of them on the periphery were in one faction, and the ten surrounded in the middle were in the other.
A stream of killing aura escaped from the twenty killing pills on the periphery and blasted at the ten pills that were surrounded. The same ten killing pills also emitted a powerful killing aura and clashed with the incoming Dao rhythm killing aura.
This killing attack collided to form a vortex shaped space, blasting away all the killing pills on the periphery. The final pattern that formed was that these thirty killing dan were fighting here, while the rest of the killing dan were watching the battle from the side.