Without the examiner’s reminder, all the contestants had already found their own seats and were all prepared.
The only voice in the whole area was that of the chief examiner, “The second question is based on the first question, and all the Dan masters here are those who recognise at least six herbs. The second question is based on the herbs you recognise, then refine the dan recipe you combined in the first question ……”
Before this examiner’s voice had completely fallen, the contestants below were already noisy. Ye Mo’s heart also sank, could it be that what he originally thought was wrong? It was said that the Dan recipe that each cultivator improvised was only a theoretical possibility, just like his ‘God Weaving Pill’. It was a little too difficult to refine this theoretical possibility into a pill, or the root possibility was very low.
If Ye Mo could think of this, other cultivators could certainly think of it too, so the following was a cacophony of noise. Ye Mo frowned and did not make a sound, the score of this second question was not only directly related to the first question, but also directly linked to the result of the first question. He did not believe that the examiner and the judges could not think of this.
Sure enough, when the noise below had lowered a little, the examiner said loudly again, “Please listen to the questions quietly, and take responsibility for any mistakes or omissions.”
The voices from below came to an abrupt halt, and it was clear that although these participating dan masters were not satisfied with the question, they did not dare to let themselves miss it.
The chief examiner nodded in satisfaction and continued, “The main score for the second question is not on the alchemy, but of course if you do refine your dan recipe. Then you can definitely advance to the third round without a doubt.”
Seeing that all the people were listening to himself at ease, the chief examiner then continued, “The main score for the second question is on the purification of the herbs and the alchemy steps, everyone will be given the herbs they recognised in the first round and then start to alchemise. However, the furnaces you use are special furnaces provided by the Dan Club, which can record the purity of the herbs you purify and the steps you take to make the pills. In the end, you will be judged on whether or not you have advanced based on the purity of the herbs you have purified and the steps you have taken to refine your pills.”
No matter who was refining the pills, before refining the pills, they would purify the medicinal materials through the Dan Fire. Ye Mo had already understood. In fact, the most important thing about the second round was to judge a dan master’s purification of the medicinal materials before refining a dan. This meant that the stronger the purification ability, the more likely it was to advance. As for the final pills refining, it was probably for the top ten. It was unlikely that everyone would be able to refine his impromptu combination of dan recipes.
Of course, if someone’s combination was a mortal pellet or a low-grade spirit pellet, it was possible to refine it. If the combination like Ye Mo’s was a fourth-grade spirit pellet, the possibility of refining it was slim to none. However, since the examiner was strong to the refining step, it meant that the refining step should have a score.
As soon as the chief examiner’s words left his mouth, someone asked, “Wouldn’t this mean that the more herbs you recognise, the better off you are? Wouldn’t that be unfair?”
The examiner said indifferently, “You know whether it is fair or not. If you can only purify one herb, and if you have purified 100% of them, others will not score as high as you even if they have purified 12 herbs. If you only recognise six of the herbs, your purification will not work either. But in the end you refine your combined elixir, others are just as bad as you score, so the opportunity is there for everyone.”
“If you can’t refine your own dan recipe, then will it count as zero points at the end?” Another cultivator asked.
The chief examiner, however, gave him a look and said, “As soon as I heard that, I knew you hadn’t listened to me carefully just now, and the steps of the dan refinement were also scored. These steps are recorded and the jury scores according to your alchemy steps. So if your steps are perfect, the score won’t be too low even if you don’t finish the pills in the end.”
Ye Mo had calmed down, he recognised the nine herbs, even if he couldn’t refine the ‘God Weaving Pill’. But his purification should not lose out to others. Even if he didn’t use the ‘Misty Lotus Heart Flame’, his purification should be able to reach over ninety percent. The scoring criteria for the step ingredients was good news for Ye Mo, and he believed that even if he couldn’t refine the ‘God Weaving Pill’, his final score shouldn’t be low.
At this moment, Ye Mo also understood why the herbs chosen by the Dan a*sociation were all relatively common, where the uncommon ones were extremely hard to see. This way, the herbs that everyone recognized were common herbs, reducing the cost. Not many people are expected to recognise the extremely rare herbs, so there is no need to prepare too many, which is indeed the case. When the exam questions came out, there was a lot of talk not only among the participants, but also in the viewing area outside. Although the examiner was right in saying that there was a chance for everyone, it was clear that the more herbs they identified, the better their chances.
For those contestants who recognized six or seven herbs, it would be unrealistic to ask them to purify them too much better than others, and it would be even more of a dream to ask them to refine their own combination of dan recipes.
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Ye Mo and the many dan masters didn’t have to wait long before they received their respective dan furnaces and herbs. He was ranked tenth in the first round, so the entry position he was in was also number ten. He carefully checked the dan furnace with his divine sense and sure enough, there was a recording formation on it. That examiner was right, this formation could record the purity of the medicinal ingredients and the steps taken by the alchemist to purify the pills.
However, the recorded purity could not be seen by the contestants, but the data was directly reflected to the judges’ table through the spatial formation.
Ye Mo did not start purifying directly, he only had nine herbs in his hands and only one chance. He wanted to see what the rest of the participants were capable of.
When Ye Mo swept through the participants his heart was suddenly amazed, out of the five hundred participants, he saw twelve types of dan fire and six types of strange fires.
Although Dan Fire was also an external flame, it could not grow, and like Weapon Fire, it was collected by many cultivators to refine and use as their own flames for refining pills or weapons. Although this flame is far inferior to the Heaven and Earth Exotic Flame, it is much stronger than one’s own flame.
In addition to that, that Cai Sheng of the Heavenly Dan School was using the ‘Stone Skin Flame’, which ranked 30th in the Cultivation World’s Strange Flames. There was another cultivator that Ye Mo did not know, but was apparently also in the top ten, and he was using the surprisingly ranked nineteenth ‘Black Qian Bone Flame’, while Qin Muxin was using the twenty-first ranked ‘Blue Phoenix Flame’ among the strange fires.
Ye Mo turned his gaze to Zhuang Man, only to find that he was also using a strange fire, or the twenty-seventh ranked ‘Beast Heart Flame’, and the old man with the surname Cheng, who was number one in the Alchemy Hall of Fame, was using what Ye Mo had seen at the ‘Divine Medicine Sect’. ‘Kan Qing Fire’.
These alchemists who were able to advance to the top ten were indeed all not easy people. Ye Mo withdrew his mind and offered up his own Foundation Establishment True Flame. Although he had the ‘Misty Lotus Heart Flame’, at this time, he simply did not dare to take it out and use it.
As soon as Ye Mo sacrificed his flame, it immediately caused most people to be disappointed. Ye Mo’s details had long been investigated and was only representing the ‘Gra*s Dan Sect’ in the tournament, meaning that he himself was not from the ‘Gra*s Dan Sect’, or even a casual cultivator.
If this casual cultivator was really powerful, many sects would want to recruit a powerful dan master like Ye Mo to their sect.
However, what Ye Mo brought out was just an ordinary true fire, not even an external dan fire, which immediately disappointed these people. A large part of an alchemist’s achievement was executed by his dan fire, if there was no strange fire, then there was no way to become a powerful dan master, let alone a dan king.
And the preciousness of nature’s strange fires was simply not something that ordinary people could obtain, and many of the great sects did not necessarily have a single strange fire. Don’t look at the six or seven types of strange fires that the cultivators here have, but they are all handed down from their respective masters or not from their sects, and there are almost none of them who got a strange fire on their own.
Since Ye Mo did not have a singular fire type, no one would be naive enough to think that he would get one in the future. So everyone’s attention to him immediately dropped a lot.
Not only the onlookers, but also some of the cultivators among the contestants who were in the top ranking would also pay attention to Ye Mo’s flame, and after they saw that Ye Mo had only taken out an ordinary Foundation Establishment True Flame, they all put their hearts down.
Using true fire to refine pills, Ye Mo did not hold back. He was not using the Divine Nong Cauldron now, and he was not using the ‘Misty Lotus Heart Flame’, and he even only had nine types of medicinal herbs, so if he had to hold back like that, he doubted he would even be able to enter the top ten ranks.
Unlike others, Ye Mo refined the medicinal herbs three at a time, and the nine medicinal herbs were thrown into the dan furnace in three parts by Ye Mo, and then under the control of the true fire, they were gradually refined one by one.
The speed of the true fire was not as fast as those strange fires, and Ye Mo’s speed of refining the herbs was only average among the many participating dan masters. However, Ye Mo also had his strong point, and that was the speed of forming pills. If the medicinal materials were refined and formed into pills at a speed, Ye Mo was certain that no one was faster than him.
After the nine clusters of medicinal liquid were purified, Ye Mo didn’t bother to observe the other cultivators, and he didn’t bother with the purity of his purification. Instead, he directly separated the drug residue from the dan furnace, and then began to control the nine medicinal liquids in the dan furnace with his divine sense.
Although Ye Mo was confident that his refining medicinal liquid purity and step score should not be low, he was cautious after seeing the many dan masters who used strange fires. Only if he succeeded in refining the ‘God Weaving Pill’ would it be a foolproof affair.
The difficulty of refining the ‘God Weaving Dan’ was certainly clear to Ye Mo. This dan recipe was designed by him, and it was also his idea to form a whirlpool of aura in the dan, and then face control the ‘Divine Drawing Herb’ medicinal properties into the whirlpool of aura, which was also based on the ‘Illusory Cloud Blade Technique’ in the ‘Illusory Cloud Flying Swirl Blade’.
Therefore, forming the ‘God Weaving Pill’ required a very high level of divine sense, and Ye Mo took out almost 70% of his divine sense to control the aura vortex to surround the decomposition of the medicinal properties of the ‘God Drawing Herb’, while the remaining 30% of his divine sense went to control the remaining eight medicinal herbs. The hard work involved was even more difficult than Ye Mo’s refining of the ‘Gra*s Returning Pill’.
