Green Emperor Xiahou also changed to a new pill furnace this ti, still resembling the Shennong Cauldron in appearance, but with so differences. Moreover, the material and such were a lot better than the previous one, and it looked very ancient.
Dugu Qianye couldn’t recognize what kind of pill furnace it was, but it should also be a treasure.
Afterward, Green Emperor Xiahou released a strange fire, the fifth-ranking Chaos Fire. As the flas stread underneath the pill furnace, they imdiately flared up.
Seeing them all bring out good pill furnaces, Dugu Qianye quietly took out two slightly better but unknown furnaces. From a distance, they looked like two black lumps of iron. The audience laughed when they saw her furnaces, basically ruling out her chance of winning first place. This first step was far behind!
For Dugu Qianye, the ridicule from the audience was of no concern. These were the best pill furnaces she had in the Refining Demon Pot, specially made for her by Youwu. She certainly couldn’t bring out the Shennong Cauldron - that would be simply seeking death!
Then she produced another fla in front of her, which was considered a strange fire, making the viewers more convinced that her victory was hopeless, with many shaking their heads at her.
While the pill furnaces ward up, all three competitors prepared their ingredients. Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng, ten-thousand-year Snow Lotus, and other various precious ingredients dazzled everyone watching.
Watching Dugu Qianye take out her ingredients, Dugu Yilan almost fell from his seat with excitent. Those were the exact ingredients needed to refine the Fire Dragon Pill! He had always been responsible for collecting ingredients, so he recognized them at a glance. No wonder she had co to ask him for a few items last night; those must have been what she was missing.
Considering Dugu Qianye’s unremarkable pill furnace and flas, everyone initially thought she wouldn’t have any impressive ingredients. But to their surprise, her ingredients were all very precious, many nearing extinction! Seeing her ingredients, the alchemists knew that the elixirs she intended to refine must be of high grade, and they began to worry whether her pill furnace could withstand the dicinal impact during the alchemy process.
After arranging over a thousand ingredients, Dugu Qianye’s pill furnaces were heated up. Following the elixir recipe etched deeply in her mind, she extracted the essence of the materials step by step and then fused them together, one pill furnace mainly responsible for extraction, and the other for combining the extracted essences.
A dual pill refinent process like this was unprecedented, with so believing she was just showing off, while others thought her thod was uniquely innovative. The chief judge, having seen Dugu Qianye’s ingredients, felt his heart beat faster with excitent. As a ninth-grade alchemist, he too had attempted to refine the Fire Dragon Pill. Each attempt ended in failure, but he was very familiar with the ingredients. Seeing Dugu Qianye’s collection, he knew she aid to refine the Fire Dragon Pill!
Shayan viewed Dugu Qianye’s simultaneous pill refinent in both furnaces with disdain, but Green Emperor Xiahou’s eyes bulged in astonishnt upon seeing her dual pill furnaces. He had read about such a refinent thod in an ancient book and never imagined he would witness it with his own eyes. He was so thrilled that he nearly ruined his own batch of ingredients.
Dugu Qianye paid no heed to the opinions of others, focusing all her attention on the two furnaces. This dual pill refinent thod was sothing she had only recently learned, and she needed to concentrate completely to maintain balance in both furnaces.
Her knowledge of the Dual Pill Refinent technique ca from poring over many ancient texts in the Refining Demon Pot, discovered in a thin booklet. The Fire Dragon Pill had virtually disappeared from the modern world, not due to a lack of recipes, but because alchemists could no longer produce it. After several failures, she pinpointed the problem: the ti required for extraction and fusion couldn’t coincide. Rembering the Dual Pill Refinent thod she had seen by chance, she had sought it out.
Watching Dugu Qianye effortlessly alternating her operations between the two sets of equipnt without missing a beat, her movents graceful yet not showy, the audience couldn’t help but praise her technique. Even if she couldn’t win in the end, her performance was a pleasure to watch, making the lengthy alchemy process seem far from dull.
Ti slowly passed, and the spectators didn’t feel the hours drag on as they watched Dugu Qianye’s refinent process. So alchemists even started imitating her techniques.
Hours flashed by, and Shayan was once again the first to complete his task. He channeled his spiritual power into the pill furnace, then slapped it, causing the lid and the elixir to fly up. The elixir landed steadily into the jade bottle.
The elixir was delivered to the judge’s hands, and the results ca out quickly, but since the other two participants hadn’t finished, the outcos were not yet announced publicly.
Shayan gathered up his pill furnace and glanced smugly at the other two before returning to the rest area. The judge did not reveal his result, but Shayan knew it—ninth grade advanced level! By the looks of the other two, they definitely couldn’t produce a ninth-grade advanced level elixir!
The surrounding audience, seeing Shayan complete his refinent first, nodded in approval and whispered among themselves that he would surely take first place in today’s competition.
After a while, Green Emperor Xiahou also finished his refinent. So alchemists noticed that when he infused spiritual energy at the end, it wasn’t done in a straightforward manner as usual but with varying intensities using hand gestures. He also didn’t imdiately open the lid after the elixir ford, waiting for half a minute before doing so.
The person in charge took Green Emperor Xiahou’s refined elixir to the judges, who all looked surprised, but they said nothing and quietly continued to watch the competition.
Green Emperor Xiahou glanced at Dugu Qianye, then packed up his pill furnace and stepped down. When Shayan saw Green Emperor Xiahou return, he looked at him contemptuously and said, "You didn’t take this long to refine an interdiate-level ninth-grade elixir, did you? Sigh, I always thought of you as a competitor, but it seems I overestimated you!"
Green Emperor Xiahou glanced at Shayan without saying a word, attentively watching Dugu Qianye’s alchemy. Although he had seen his family mbers practice alchemy before, none had been as informative as watching Dugu Qianye. He had a premonition that she would produce an elixir today that would astonish everyone.
By now, Dugu Qianye had completed the alchemy in one pill furnace and only had one left. Although she was the only one still refining, she didn’t panic. Instead, she transferred the liquid from the extinguished pill furnace into the other, then covered it and controlled the flas below to continue the process.
With only Dugu Qianye left on the field, the remaining ti turned into her solo performance. The trembling pill furnace made pounding sounds to accompany her.
The other spectators, hearing the continued noises from Dugu Qianye’s pill furnace, speculated if it was about to explode.
Green Emperor Xiahou also looked on with worry at Dugu Qianye, as the reactions from her pill furnace were precursors to an explosion. If the furnace exploded, all her dicinal ingredients would be wasted, and her score for today would co to naught.
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