After seeing the ‘Twelve Dan King Steps’ come out, Shen Yanqing once again stood out and said, “The third round of competition is the ‘Twelve Dan King Steps’, the ‘Twelve Dan King Steps There are a total of twelve dan steps, and all participating dan masters only need to choose to make a seventh-grade elixir in the first step, an eighth-grade elixir in the second step, and so on. Of course the type of spirit elixir can be chosen by the contestants themselves, and by choosing different spirit elixirs, even if they are also of the seventh grade, the results will still be different, and the harder the spirit elixir is to refine, the higher the score.”
Many of the contestants obviously already knew this rule, but Ye Mo listened very carefully, he was not aware of any of it.
“However, it’s not that the harder the elixir you choose, the higher ranking you will get. Because the harder the pills take longer to refine, if you’re still refining seventh grade spirit pills at the first stage when all the other entrants have gone up, then you’ll be eliminated without having to compete. Even if you make the easiest eighth-grade elixir at the second stage, you will still score higher than if you choose the most difficult seventh-grade elixir. I would also like to remind those dan masters who have not participated that the ‘Twelve Dan King Steps’ are not just twelve steps, it is the same as the Trial Name Tablet, for each step up, you will be subjected to a strict test of divine sense and will.”
As Shen Yanqing said this, his voice steeply rose and said, “So the ‘Twelve Dan King Steps’ is a competition of true alchemy skills, as well as a combination of strength, mindfulness and cultivation. Whether it’s because you can’t hold on to the Dan Steps or you can’t refine a pill, you will be swept out by the Dan Steps in the end. The competition has already started, so I wish you all can reach the top.”
Ye Mo had already understood that according to Shen Yanqing, this ‘Twelve Dan King Steps’ first dan step refines seven grade spirit pills, and if he wanted to go up to the twelfth dan step he would have to refine a premature grade nine grade pill. At the same time, this ‘Twelve Dan King Steps’ was also somewhat like the stone staircase of the Meteoric Truth Hall, not only did it represent an upgrade in pills, but it seemed that even if one did not refine pills, it was not easy to go up each step.
It seemed that it was absolutely impossible for him to go up to the twelfth step, which meant that he would not be able to reach the top at all.
When Ye Mo thought about this, he suddenly laughed to himself, still talking about reaching the top, he only had to reach the eighth stage was already very good. According to the rules of the ‘Twelve Dan King Steps’, to reach the eighth step, one had to successfully refine a fifth-grade elixir.
At the same time, Ye Mo also knew that although Shen Yanqing said that he hoped everyone would reach the top, in fact there was no Dan King here who could reach the top. Not even himself, not even that Shen Yanqing. The reason was that theoretically, at least the 9th grade Dan King was needed to reach the top, and even if he was a 9th grade Dan King, he might not be able to reach the top because there were other factors in the ’12 Dan King Steps’.
Besides, even if there was an entry to the top, how rich would Dan City be to take out a bunch of ninth grade spirit herbs for an entry to refine a ninth grade Dan pill? This was obviously not possible either.
With Shen Yanqing’s call for the competition to begin, all fifty participating dan masters stepped onto the first Dan King step.
Ye Mo also followed the other dan masters and stepped onto the first pale yellow step. As soon as Ye Mo came up, he felt a strong push to push him down.
After feeling this thrust, Ye Mo’s heart sank, it wasn’t that he was afraid of the thrust. It occurred to him that since this thrust was present at the first stage, didn’t it mean that the further he went, the greater the thrust would be?
He only had a YuanYing cultivation, so if he had to refine pills while blocking this thrust, he was obviously too inferior to those Dan Kings with Void God or even Condensed Body cultivation. This was not a competition of pills, it was a competition of whose true essence was thick and who would have the last laugh.
In this way, it seemed that it was simply impossible for one’s own mere fifth level of YuanYing cultivation to finish in the top ten among these fifty entrants.
When you are standing on a high place, there will be many people to support you. But once you fall from your high place, those who don’t step on you are already considered friends, more will step on you. Whether it’s stepping on you to get to the top or venting your inner jealousy, it makes no difference.
Ye Mo certainly understood this, and he even thought that once he failed in the third round, what awaited him was not the halo of his results in the first two rounds, but the suspicion and accountability of countless entrants.
This was because the entrants who had learned of the ‘Early Hua Dan’ dan recipe could obviously complete the first two rounds perfectly. The third round of the ‘Twelve Dan King Steps’ was a competition of true ability, and he had failed in the true ability category instead, which Ye Mo himself wouldn’t have believed if he hadn’t entered suspicion and dropped stones.
Without waiting for Ye Mo to continue thinking, Shen Yanqing said aloud once again, “All contestants, you can see a row of elixir names on any of the alchemy positions. As soon as you choose one of the pills, a corresponding spirit herb will be teleported to you. The first rank is all seventh-grade spirit pills, and each subsequent rank will provide a correspondingly higher level of pills.”
Many dan masters had even known about this rule a long time ago, and did not even wait for Shen Yanqing to finish before they started choosing their spirit pills. This was because the sooner they finished refining it, the higher the score they would get.
Ye Mo didn’t choose a Spirit Dan, he sat dumbly in his seat and looked at the dozens of seventh grade Spirit Pills in front of him.
He knew that if he didn’t
solve the problem of these twelve dan rank thrusts, even if he finished refining the seventh grade spirit pills at a faster speed, it would still be useless. At the back, he was definitely going to lose to those Dan Kings with strong true essence. Rather than going to settle it at the later steps, it would be better to settle it at the first step where the push was now minimal. He was different from other entrants, other dan masters could go up to the first few. And he had to get to the top ten, or even the top three, otherwise there was no point.
A strange image appeared, of the fifty participants in the first dan rank of the ‘Twelve Dan King Steps’, forty-nine entrants were all refining pills, and only Ye Mo was sitting alone in a daze, and with his brows locked.
“What is he doing with a thousand?” Ji endowment really couldn’t help but ask, after he asked, he found that the rest of the few judges had the same expression as him, obviously the other entrants didn’t know exactly what Ye Mo was doing.
After Ji endowed learned that Ye Mo was the formation master that he was optimistic about, he had even more good feelings and expectations for him. Now when he saw that Ye Mo was not making pills, he sat up a little.
Not only a few judges, but also many cultivators in the audience, as well as some sects that were concerned about Ye Mo, began to whisper about it.
This was the first rank, if he was so hesitant to refine a seventh grade spirit pill, what was the point of the competition? Come down early and forget it.
The discussion was from small to large, and at a later stage, some cultivators even openly doubted Ye Mo.
“I told you that the reason he got full marks in the first and second rounds was because he already knew the recipe for the ‘Yeohwa Pill’, right? Look, this third round is more than true skill, he didn’t even manage to refine a seventh grade spirit pill”
“If I were to know the recipe for the ‘Yai Hua Dan’ in advance, I could have gotten full marks in the first two rounds as well.”
“It’s indeed possible, after all, no Dan master participating in the Dan King Competition has ever heard of a failure in the first rank.”
“Hehehe, this year’s Dan King Competition is getting more and more exciting.”
…… By now, some Dan masters had already refined their spirit herbs and even formed their pills, while Ye Mo still hadn’t even chosen his pills.
Ning Qingxue, who was originally joyful in her heart, suddenly stood up, her mood was more tense than any entry at this time, why was Ye Mo still not moving by now? At least choose the elixir and start refining the spirit herbs oa, if he didn’t move like this, he wouldn’t be able to refine a seventh grade spirit elixir even by tomorrow.
“Sit down, you don’t need to look at the Dan King Competition, the entry up there won’t care about you being a mere Gold Dan cultivator.” Zheng Keyin, who was already extremely dissatisfied with Ning Qingxue, was even more dissatisfied with Ning Qingxue’s actions at this time.
Ning Qingxue’s eyes were red, but she did not say anything, while Huang Qian carefully pulled her to sit down, “Don’t worry, Senior Sister Qingxue, it’s still just beginning.”
Half an hour had pa*sed and several Dan Kings had already started to step into the second stage, while Ye Mo still hadn’t moved. Even Jin Zhi Zhi, who was sitting in the front row, was fidgeting nervously, why were all the other entrants moving, and his own master was not moving even now, that is, senior brother Hu Min Dan King was about to finish refining the first stage of the pills.
Several elders from the Thundercloud Sect had been watching Ye Mo, and now when they found out that Ye Mo was competing to not even be able to pa*s the first stage, they were all surprised as well.
Tian Ao Feng’s master, Tian Ji, however, smiled hideously, “You can’t live with your own sins, this entrant must have been unlucky enough to get the ‘Yao Hua Dan’ pill recipe before this, and that’s why he got a perfect score in the first two rounds. This ‘Twelve Dan King Steps’ test is about real skills, so I’ll see how he pa*ses. When the time comes, I’m afraid that his scores from the previous two rounds will also be cleared, so I really have to help me take revenge even at a young age.”
After saying that Tian Ji stood up and said to the middle-aged cultivator, “Sect Master Jiang, I will go to the Wuji Sect to take a look.”
The middle-aged cultivator gave his head and of course understood what Tian Ji meant. He was trying to go and spread the news of Ye Mo killing Yuan Guan Nan to the Wuji Sect, pulling in a nine star sect’s helper was obviously a very good choice. Whether or not Yuan Guannan was killed by Ye Mo, but for the Nine Star Sect, it was enough to have a suspicion, it didn’t really need to be certain. Once Ye Mo failed in the third round of the ‘Twelve Dan King Rank’, his previous two rounds would be considered as cheating even if he hadn’t cheated.
At that time, if their Thundercloud Sect and Wuji Sect united to kill Ye Mo, even the city lord of Dan City would have nothing to say. Could it be that you, the city lord of Dan City, could still protect a cheating participating cultivator?
When Ye Mo was unable to refine his pills, some entrants were happy and some were sad. In contrast, there were more suspicious entrants. The difference between Ye Mo’s results in the first two rounds and his performance in the third round was too great and had to make the entrants suspicious.
The most anxious person on the stage was also Jing Yingli. Unlike the other entrants, Jing Yingli knew Ye Mo’s skills and had a vague guess as to why he had not made a move. Unfortunately, she had no way to go up on stage to remind Ye Mo. If she could have warned, she would have directly told Ye Mo about the stone staircase of the Meteoric Truth Hall.
Ye Mo frowned while resisting the pushing force coming from that dan step, and thought about what was going on. If the higher the cultivation level, the higher the Dan step could be, then there would be no need to compete at all, just let the Dan master or Dan king with higher cultivation level come up.
How could the Dan King Competition make such a low-level mistake?
