Ning Cheng subconsciously glanced at Ye Mo, he knew in his heart that Ye Mo must have added the rest of the ingredients in when he was refining the pills, just like him, otherwise he wouldn’t still have ten left by now. Similarly, this woman, Xing Xi, had also added other ingredients into her pills.
Ning Cheng secretly sighed helplessly, those who possessed the treasures of creation were indeed none the wiser.
Now all three of them had ten left each, but he and Ye Mo’s killing pills were joining forces, which was caused by his will when he was refining pills. It was evident that Ye Mo should have added the same will to finish off Xing Xi’s dan as he did when he was refining it.
The tournament stage was isolated by a ban at this point, and no one’s divine sense could interfere.
With a “click”, one of the thirty pills shattered. Ning Cheng’s heart sank, this shattered Dan Pill was his.
Before he could regain his senses, there were two more clicks, and Ye Mo’s pills and Xing Xi’s pills each shattered one.
Ning Cheng was very clear at this point that in this Dan Competition, the strongest was surprisingly Xing Xi, followed by Ye Mo, the Sage Dao Sect’s Patriarch, who was in third place. As expected, it was similar to what he had predicted, the killing dan was not only a competition for pill-making strength, but also for his own cultivation level. Judging from this situation, even in terms of Dan strength alone, I am afraid that Xing Xi, the woman, is the strongest.
At this point in time, Ning Cheng was anxious. Seeing that time was about to run out, the three of them were now each at nine dan pills. If he could not finish off Xing Xi’s one dan, then he would most likely be ranked third, or possibly tied with Ye Mo for second.
He must not let Xing Xi get first place, but unfortunately, Ning Cheng could only be anxious, but could not control his killing dan to rise up and attack Xing Xi’s Dao dan.
It was as if the killing dan in the tournament stage knew Ning Cheng’s intentions, and the killing aura suddenly burst into a fury, swirling up a swirling aura and rushing towards Xing Xi’s dan. At the same time, Ye Mo’s nine Slaying Dao Dan’s stirred up just as violently.
“Ka-ching,” came another sound of the pills shattering.
Pills were pills after all, even if the killing breath was powerful, it still lacked strength when it really clashed.
However, Ning Cheng was delighted in his heart, the pills that shattered this time were Xing Xi’s. Xing Xi only had eight killing pills left, as long as his and Ye Mo’s two killing pills attacked again, Xing Xi would definitely be driven out of first place.
Xing Xi’s killing dan seemed to know that it was no good and suddenly scattered, rushing out of the encirclement. The scattered pills immediately stirred up the killing pills made by the rest of the cultivators. Those killing pills were originally hiding on one side of the tournament stage, and after this stirring, the killing aura in the tournament stage’s ban spread once more.
Although there were fewer killing pills at this time, the ones that remained were the very few with the most powerful killing aura.
The sound of pills breaking up was once again frequent, and after another incense stick, Feiyin suddenly dropped the formation flag. The killing aura on the stage slowed down, and the pills that were strung together slowly separated and landed on the jade tray that had been prepared long ago.
There were seven jade trays suspended in the void, the first and second of which had seven pills on them respectively, while the third had six pills on it. The fourth jade tray had only two pills, and the rest of the jade trays all had only one pill.
Ning Cheng was slightly relieved in his heart as he knew that he still had seven pills left. Xing Xi had six pills left under the combined siege of his and Ye Mo’s killing pills, this woman was really too strong.
Sure enough, Fei Yin stood on the stage and began to announce, “The second round of the dan duel is over, there are still seven dan saints left to refine pills. As we will only take the top three, the Dan Saints from the first four jade trays are invited to the tournament stage.”
After Ning Cheng took a step onto the ring, he saw that apart from Ye Mo and Xing Xi, there was also an old man with white hair that he had never seen before. This white-haired old man’s strength looked to be at the Realm of Creation, and his long white bearded hair looked to have a bit of the immortal dao aura of a longevity star.
The white-haired old man was standing by the jade tray with only two pills left, obviously the two pills were made by him.
“I now announce that the first place in the first round of the dan fighting is two people, Ye Mo and Ning Cheng, the second place is Xing Xi, and the third place is the real person of Hegeng ……”
As Fei Yin’s announcement fell, the first dan competition ended. There were two people in first place, Ning Cheng and Ye Mo, and in second place was the woman who had suddenly been added. The third place winner was an old man that many people didn’t know, the old man was called the True Geng.
Ning Cheng knew very well in his heart that in fact, his Dan Dao level could only be ranked third at most here, and this woman called Xing Xi was the first. Not only was Ning Cheng clear in his heart, the few judges of the competition were clear in their hearts. However, no one would stand up and say anything, this woman was considered an uninvited guest.
The first dan competition was over in less than a day. It was evident that the purpose of this competition was also to delineate the realm of the Xuanhuang Outer Heaven as soon as possible.
Xing Xi surprisingly didn’t say half a word, just grabbed a few pills she had refined and asked Fei Yin, “What is the second competition?”
Fei Yin had long known that Xing Xi was not a simple woman, and now that Xing Xi asked, he hurriedly replied, “The second round is a weapon fight, and the person presiding over the competition is Daoist Fellow He Lan Feng of the Shouyi Realm.”
He Lan Feng had landed beside Fei Yin and nodded to Xing Xi before he clasped his fist and said, “Fellow Daoists, as you all know, having a good magic treasure is what makes one’s life more secure for a Starry Sky monk. We will now proceed to the second contest, which is the weapon duel. I am He Lan Feng from the Shouyi Realm. The total number of people who have signed up for this weapon fighting competition is nine hundred and twenty-one ……”
“I will also participate in the Douqi.” Xing Xi interrupted He Lan Feng’s words and said, before turning around and soaring up to land on the stage.
This woman was so arrogant, this was the only impression He Lanfeng had. He was also clear that this woman was powerful, and if she wasn’t, Daoist Monarch Wang Shan wouldn’t have accommodated her.
“Fellow Daoists, the second weapon fighting competition has no round limit as well, the ultimate aim is to decide the top three to ……”
When He Lanfeng announced on the tournament stage, the many people who were participating in the competition or watching the battles had long understood. The number of rounds for the weapon duel would definitely not be too many, just like how there were only two rounds for the dan duel to determine the winner. At this point in the Xuanhuang Heavenly Exodus, the sooner the top ten were decided, the better.
This was purely a competition for the sake of points, not a competition to truly validate the strength of dan or weapon making.
“As we said before the Xuanhuang Outer Heaven competition, this competition is not going to provide any materials. This time, however, for the first round of alchemy, we are offering materials ……”
When He Lanfeng said this, it was Ning Cheng who had some doubts in his heart. Even though he did not know the content of the competition, he knew that this competition was not really a test of strength, but to determine the ranking. Since the materials were provided, it was really a competition for strength.
If everyone used the same material, naturally those who had the ability would be ranked first and those who did not would be ranked second.
Seeing all the chatter under the stage, He Lanfeng simply waved his hand and threw out nearly a thousand fist-sized objects. These items were suspended in the void of the tournament stage.
These were magic treasure remnants? Ning Cheng recognised these things at a glance. Back then, he had seen too many such fragments of magic treasures at the Heaven and Earth Divine Tomb Post at Mount Calvary.
Even though these fragments of magic treasures that He Lanfeng had thrown out were broken into pieces, the dao rhythms in them were so crisscrossed that they could be seen to be of a high grade. It was a fragment of a top-grade magic treasure. It was not known whether these fragments were provided by He Lanfeng or by the seven people who hosted the competition together.
Just as Ning Cheng was still puzzled, He Lanfeng continued, “These Dharma Treasure Fragments were provided by the Heavenly Gate Realm’s Daoist Monarch Wang Shan, who had participated in the First Creation War. These magic treasure fragments were also picked up by him from the battlefield of the First Creation War, and the most important point is ……”
Speaking here He Lanfeng deliberately paused for a moment before continuing, “The most important point is that these Dharma treasure fragments are from a Dharma treasure, the quality of this Dharma treasure can even surpass any divine weapon, although it is not as good as the innate Dharma treasure, it is still second only to the innate Dharma treasure …… ”
Those who heard this were secretly shocked that an existence second only to the innate magic treasure was blasted into such pieces that there were even a thousand pieces of debris. Then how powerful should the magic treasure that bombarded this magic treasure be?
“The first round of the weapon competition is for each person to obtain a fragment of a magic treasure, and then, based on the aura inside the fragment, find out what state the broken magic treasure was in before it was broken, and what its main function is. The second is to refine the treasure fragment you have obtained and extract the materials used before the treasure was refined. The purer the material, the higher the score.”
Hearing He Lanfeng’s words, all the people drew in a cold breath, not only those who participated in the weapon fighting, but also those who were watching.
Even those who did not know how to refine weapons knew that once the material was melted and the refining of a magic treasure began, the material began to change completely. Moreover, the changes in the magic treasures that are melted by different flames and different divine senses also vary. Sometimes the slightest difference can cause a great change in the material.
It is because of this that the same materials are used to refine different things, even magic treasures that do the exact opposite.
Identifying the original form of a fragment of a magic treasure is difficult, but still a little possible. To extract the original material from the fragment is simply too difficult.
Ning Cheng was speechless, this was the most difficult question he had ever encountered since he had participated in various competitions. It was a good thing that this question was asked during the time of weapon refining, if during the time of alchemy, that Feiyin took out an elixir and asked him to restore the divine spirit grass, he would have simply admitted defeat ……
The first thing you can do is to admit defeat. Ning Cheng suddenly thought of the words of Daoist Monarch Wang Shan back then. What was the purpose of cultivating the Dao? To step onto the peak of the vastness of the universe and control his own destiny.
His Dao was Chaos to One, if his Dao was cultivated to the extreme, and the entire vast universe was under his control, would he be able to restore a magic treasure fragment to its most primitive form just by raising his hand? Not to mention magic treasures, even pills, as long as they had that kind of great divine power, they could probably be restored to the state of spirit grass.
After a material has gone through more changes, its initial prototype will definitely not be changed into another.