C246 Secondary Competition
C246 Secondary Competition
It was close to the evening and everyone had finished their match. The Minister of Rites, Lin Yun, said loudly.
Everyone had different expressions on their faces. The joy of advancing to the next level was not that depressing. The imperial government had even offered them an olive branch. Some people were already interested.
Don't just look at these alchemists being eliminated, they were completely disregarded. On the contrary, they were the geniuses of various forces, and there was no doubt about their talents. Even if they lost just a moment of time and were discouraged, it would still make it easier for them to recruit these alchemists.
On the other hand, those that advanced along the way were the hardest to recruit. They were arrogant, looking down on small powers, and some even wanted to establish their own sects and become their own ancestors.
Minister of Rites, Vice Minister Lin Yun. Wasn't he representing the imperial government by inviting the eliminated alchemists?
If he responded, he would still be an official who ate royal food. As the alchemist's level slowly rose, their position would also correspondingly rise.
Apart from this, the other powers had also begun recruiting people from all over the place.
"Alright, the preliminaries are over. I will still welcome everyone for tomorrow's semifinals."
First Prince Ying Zheng left with a smile on his face. However, before he left, he swept a glance at Wang Yu, and a trace of ice-cold killing intent was revealed in his eyes.
This killing intent came and went as quickly as it came.
However, Wang Yu's spirit was very sharp. He caught the change in Ying Zheng's eyes and was a little surprised. He could not remember that he had enmity with the First Prince, so why did the First Prince have the intention to kill him?
He was a little curious. If one were to say what kind of relationship he had with Ying Zheng, it could only be considered as a grudge between him and Ying Kuo, the Third Brother of Ying Zheng.
He had heard that these two brothers had become mortal enemies in order to fight for the throne. Since he had enmity with Ying Kuo, Ying Zheng should be happy.
Unable to figure it out, Wang Yu shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Who cares about them? As long as they dare to provoke him, he would dare to kill his way over.
After the preliminary competition ended, the crowd gradually dispersed. Everyone went back to their own homes, including Wang Yu and Xu Ruiann, and left the square.
Xu Ruiann was very happy with everyone's performance today.
Other than Soong Laosan, who was eliminated due to being ambushed, everyone else was promoted to the second round, which made him very happy.
In the past few years, the majority of the alchemist teams with Tiancheng College had been eliminated in the preliminaries.
Even if someone else managed to make it through, they would still be eliminated in the semifinals. It was rare for them to see a step further.
This year, although no semifinals had taken place yet, four of them had advanced to the semifinals.
When Xu Ruiann saw the hope, he decided to entertain Wang Yu and the others in the restaurant with the largest Xianyang City. Naturally, no one would refuse.
Jiang Wang Tower, third floor, Plum Pavilion.
Xu Ruiann ordered a big table full of dishes. There was meat and wine, and what made them the happiest was that all the dishes were filled with spirit energy this time.
Zhou Dinghai drank a glass of wine and his eyes immediately lit up: "Good wine!"
"Hm, what a good wine." Soong Laosan also drank a cup and was pleasantly surprised.
This wine could actually nourish the soul and greatly replenish the power of his soul that he had consumed during the day. This was just a cup of wine, if he were to drink it all, would he make a breakthrough in the soul?
"Don't think about it."
Xu Ruiann smiled as if he had seen through Soong Laosan's strange behavior. "This wine is made from a large number of rat spirit fruits. To you, the weakest is able to drink three times more wine. Any more and your body won't be able to handle it."
Rat spirit fruits could help replenish the soul, and they could also make the soul drunk.
If one's own strength was not sufficient, then taking too much of the medicine would make one's soul drunk and wake up. This would be much more troublesome.
At the very least, they would miss the second selection.
Soong Laosan, who originally wanted to drink a bottle of wine, stopped thinking. Zhou Dinghai and the others were pretty much the same, but everyone still poured a glass for themselves, a little more and it would be a bit more.
Wang Yu smiled as he ate and drank.
"Wang Yu, you guys have to be more careful tomorrow."
"After today's lesson, they won't dare to kill you tomorrow, but I'm guessing that they'll try their best to stop your advance. Be careful."
Xu Ruiann was a little worried. Although he had the status of an alchemist in the Pill Pavilion, he couldn't affect the General Meeting of Alchemists that was being held by the Qin Country.
In contrast, as the prince of the royal family, Ying Kuo could use some tricks.
Regarding this, Wang Yu had a relaxed expression. No matter what tactics you use, I will make it so that you won't be able to use them in front of me.
Wang Yu had absolute confidence in refining medicine.
He was not afraid of the other party using any underhanded methods. As long as he did not make any mistakes and performed the best, he did not believe that the judges in the assembly could speak lies publicly.
Zhou Dinghai, Qiu Ling, and the others were a little bit off.
Their abilities were limited, and it was difficult to ensure that there would not be any loopholes. If these loopholes were in the past, they might not have been much of a problem, but with a wolf watching them, any of their negligence might have been caught.
That was what Xu Ruiann was worried about.
Sensing that the atmosphere wasn't right, Xu Ruiann quickly changed the subject: "Alright, alright, we'll talk about tomorrow. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but we need to think about how we're going to develop in the future."
"I don't know."
"Take your time!"
"I will work hard to learn alchemy."
Several people answered absent-mindedly.
"Wait till I've refined the thousand-year red fruit." Wang Yu said.
Everyone was speechless.
They were worried about how Ying Kuo would obstruct them during the semifinals. However, Wang Yu had directly locked onto the champion's reward.
Xu Ruiann tried his best to change the topic. The result was not good. With Wang Yu's words, everyone's worries were dispelled and they could be considered to be on the wrong side of things.
After dinner, they paid the money and returned to the Jing Tian Courtyard of the Divine Medicine Pavilion.
A busy day passed just like that.
The next day!
It was also early in the morning, and everyone had already woken up. Afterwards, they all gathered at the plaza of the Divine Medicine Pavilion. Where did the crowd come from? It was even more crowded than yesterday.
As for the Qin Country Court, it was still led by First Prince Ying Zheng, with the Minister of Rites, Vice Minister Lin Yun, as the referee, and the alchemists offered by the Qin Country Court as the evaluators.
It was as if he had copied it from yesterday.
Under the attentive gazes of the crowd, Ying Zheng walked up, cupped his hands at the crowd and laughed: "Today, for the General Meeting of Alchemists competition, I once again welcome the arrival of all the guests. The heaven's pride of being able to witness my Qin Country, if there are any unnecessary words, I will not speak anymore, and get down to business."
Finishing his words, Ying Zheng turned his gaze to Minister of Rites Lin Yun. The latter nodded and walked to the center of the square with a bamboo tube in his hand.
"The hundred alchemists who were promoted yesterday, come and draw your lot!"