Cultivating With The Nine Dragons System

"It's good that you have met him. Let me see how powerful the last disciple of the Alchemist Association is."    

The meeting between the two made the surrounding warriors especially excited. The bet between Wang Hao and Chiang Mao had been passed down through word of mouth within a short period of time. Everyone knew about it.    

Although everyone knew that Wang Hao and Chiang Mao would definitely enter the second round of the Pill Gathering, they were looking forward to finding out their skill level from the first round.    

"The hundredth person, Li Li!"    

The one hundred young Pill Masters had already stepped onto the arena.    

The atmosphere in the arena froze, and the gazes of everyone converged onto Elder Lu in unison, waiting for him to come up with a question.    

Elder Lu put away the wooden box in his hand. He had a smile on his face, and a strange expression flashed across his eyes.    

He turned around and faced the Pill Master on the stage, "Since everyone is talented, the difficulty of the test naturally can't be done according to the requirements of the Pill Gathering in the past.    

This time, the one you want to challenge is an Earth Rank Fourth Grade Medicine Pill! "    

Fourth Grade Earth Rank!    

When they heard this grade, the surrounding martial artists all revealed shocked expressions. Even the young people on the stage, most of their faces changed.    

According to the calculation of starting learning alchemy at the age of twenty, according to the rate of growth of an ordinary Pill Master, when one was 300 years old, they would at most be able to refine a Profound Rank Grade Nine Medicine Pill when they had just graduated from their apprenticeship.    

If one could refine an Earth Rank Grade One Medicine Pill, then one could be considered a genius in alchemy.    

Elder Lu's love for alchemy was not any weaker than Ying Zheng's. His understanding of alchemy had yet to be surpassed by anyone else in the world except Ying Zheng.    

He was very accurate. A Earth Rank Fourth Grade was enough to get rid of 50% of the young Pill Master in the arena.    

The remaining ones were the geniuses amongst geniuses.    

As soon as he finished speaking, Elder Lu took out a Medicine Pill from his interspatial Essence Ring and showed it to the young Pill Master.    

This Medicine Pill was dark brown in color. Its surface was smooth and round, and it carried a bitter taste.    

"This Medicine Pill is called the Heavenly Eye Channel Opening Pill."    

Hearing the words "Heavenly Eye Channel Opening Pill," not only did the martial artists below the stage look confused, even the Pill Master on the stage thought that they had misheard it.    

They had never heard of the Heavenly Eye Channel Opening Pill.    

Elder Lu explained, "I know that everyone has doubts in their hearts. This Heavenly Eye Meridian Reforming Pill is my original pill formula. Before this Grand Meeting, other than me, no one else knew about it."    

Original pill formula!    

The young Pill Master's breathing became serious. To be able to create an original pill formula, and it was a pill formula with a grade as high as an Earth Rank Fourth Grade, this meant that Elder Lu's skill in alchemy was not to be underestimated. Estimated!    

After the shock, there was an intense excitement.    

Without the pill formula, it was naturally impossible to refine pills. Elder Lu wanted them to refine this Medicine Pill, so he naturally had to hand the pill formula over to them first!    

A martial artist below the arena said enviously, "I never thought that this Pill Gathering would have a participation prize. A Earth Rank Fourth Grade pill formula is worth a thousand gold coins!"    

Elder Lu waved his hand after that. A hundred wooden boxes flew out from his Essence Ring. The wooden boxes descended from the sky and landed in the hands of every martial artist on the arena.    

"The pill formula of the Heavenly Eye Meridian Reforming Pill and the spiritual herbs required to concoct the pill are in the wooden boxes. What you need to pay attention to is that in this round of competition, I have only arranged three sets of Medicine Pills for you.    

If you fail three times, you will be directly judged as a loss! "    

Elder Lu paused for a moment, then continued, "In this round of competition, the test will be whether your foundation in alchemy is solid or not. In order to be fair, the Pill Cauldron that you use is provided by the association. You are not allowed to use your own Pill Cauldron. "    

After he finished explaining the rules, Elder Lu swept his gaze over the Pill Master on the arena.    

"The competition time is six hours. Let's begin!"    

Following Elder Lu's command, the young Pill Master opened the wooden boxes in their hands one after another.    

As soon as the lid of the wooden box was opened, Wang Hao smelled an extremely bitter taste.    

"This smell, is it Wood Fern Grass?"    

He took the leather paper with the pill formula away and indeed discovered the existence of Wood Fern Grass.    

Wang Hao did not immediately check the pill formula but fell into deep thought.    

"Just now, when Elder Lu took out the Heaven Eye Channel Opening Pill, I smelled a very strong bitter smell. It seems to be the smell of the Wood Fern Grass. It's just that the Wood Fern Grass is innately poisonous. What exactly is the effect of the Heaven Eye Channel Opening Pill?"    

Wang Hao took out all of the spiritual plants from the wooden box and examined them one by one.    

"There are a total of twelve types of spiritual plants." Wang Hao quickly analyzed the effects of each spiritual herb in his mind, but the final conclusion made him frown.    

"If these spiritual herbs are mixed together, it is only possible to refine a useless pill that has no effect!"    

With this question in mind, Wang Hao opened the leather parchment and studied the pill formula on the paper.    

The pill formula was very detailed. Whether it was the sequence in which the spiritual herbs were placed, the temperature, or even the things to pay attention to, they were all marked out one by one.    

This pill formula seemed to have no flaws at all.    

"Could it be that I was wrong?"    

Just as Wang Hao was at a loss for what to do, the Pill Master beside him had already started moving.    

Wang Hao turned his head and saw the Pill Master take out a bamboo tube from the Essence Ring.    

He opened the lid of the bamboo tube and poured some grayish-brown wood shavings into the Pill Furnace.    

Wang Hao thought to himself, "These wood shavings have a little sandalwood smell. It seems to be thousand-year-old sandalwood used for making fire."    

The thousand-year-old sandalwood had a stable combustion. Because it was a wood element flame, it was the most stable when concocting pills.    

However, a thousand-year-old sandalwood was expensive. Only the Pill Master of a major power had the ability to use it.    

After this Pill Master poured the sandalwood powder into the Pill Furnace, it immediately lit up the furnace.    

This action caused Wang Hao to shake his head secretly.    

There was no other reason. The Pill Cauldron that the Alchemist Association had prepared for them had an undetectable gap at the bottom.    

This gap could allow the air below the Pill Cauldron to enter the Pill Cauldron, causing the temperature of the flame to rise slightly.    

Don't underestimate this tiny increase in temperature. Even if the temperature of the furnace differed by one degree, refining a fourth-grade Earth Rank Medicine Pill would still result in failure.    

"Just like what Elder Lu said, this round of competition will test the basic skills of the Pill Master Pill Technique, and checking the Pill Cauldron, spiritual herbs, and pill formula before refining the Pill Master is the most basic common knowledge."    

Thinking of this, a lightning bolt suddenly flashed across Wang Hao's heart.    

"Check the Pill Cauldron, spirit grass, and... pill formula!"    

The corner of Wang Hao's mouth curled into a smile, "Elder Lu will tamper with the Pill Cauldron. Then tampering with the pill formula is absolutely possible!"    

After careful consideration, Wang Hao felt that the possibility of this guess was very high.    

If he only refined an Earth Rank Fourth Grade Medicine Pill according to the pill formula and gave it three chances, he could at most eliminate half of the participating Pill Master.    

And the rules of the competition, the winner would only be sixteen people.    

In other words, the remaining thirty plus Pill Master that were eliminated were all defeated in the other tests.    

For example, the pill formula.    

Wang Hao turned his head and looked at Chiang Mao who was not far away. At this moment, Chiang Mao did not pay any attention to the Pill Cauldron and the spiritual grass. All of his attention was on the pill formula.    

This further proved Wang Hao's guess.    

With Wang Hao's skill in alchemy, it was naturally not a problem for him to find the loophole in the pill formula.    

However, Wang Hao did not want to do so. Since he had already made a bet with Chiang Mao, he did not plan to leave the other party with any illusions.    

Although pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger was interesting, it was definitely not as satisfying as killing ___ in an instant.    

Therefore, Wang Hao raised his hand.    

"Elder Lu, can you come over for a moment?"    

Elder Lu was very surprised. He walked in front of Wang Hao.    

"Wang Hao, do you have any questions?"    

Wang Hao nodded, "Elder Lu, can you let me have a look at the Heavenly Eye Channel Opening Pill that you just showed me?"    

Hearing Wang Hao's words, the surrounding Pill Master looked over.    

As for the old Pill Master that was watching this competition, they were all discussing amongst themselves.    

"This brat doesn't look at the single square. Why does he want the Heavenly Eye Channel Opening Pill?"    

"I don't know. Let's continue watching."    

Elder Lu looked at Wang Hao's sincere face. His heart was full of doubts, but he did not reject Wang Hao's request.    

"This Heavenly Eye Channel Opening Pill is an exam question. You can naturally observe it."    

"Thank you Elder Lu."    

Wang Hao took the Medicine Pill from Elder Lu, placed it under his nose, and gently sniffed.    

The strong bitter taste was sucked into Wang Hao's lungs.    

"This kid is smelling the pill fragrance?"    

"That's right. Could it be that the current young Pill Master can rely on the smell of the Medicine Pill to distinguish which spiritual herbs were used?"    

As soon as these words were spoken, the old Pill Master all shook their heads.    

"If it's a Profound Rank Medicine Pill, then I can rely on my smell to distinguish which spiritual herbs are used. But an Earth Rank Medicine Pill is refined using ten or more spiritual herbs. I don't have that ability."    

"That's right. During the refinement process, the smell of the spirit herbs will change, and it will also mix with the smell of other spirit herbs. Wanting to rely on smelling the fragrance to identify how many spirit herbs were used to refine the Medicine Pill is no different from a fool's dream."    

Not only did the surrounding Pill Master think so, even Elder Lu also thought the same.    

To be able to rely on the fragrance of the Medicine Pill to identify the spirit herbs used to refine the Medicine Pill, what he knew, including Ying Zheng and himself, was that there were a total of ten people who could do it.    

Moreover, among these ten people, nine of them were grandmasters who had studied alchemy for over six hundred years. As for the last one, he also recognized the deeply locked temple.    

Even Chiang Mao, who was publicly acknowledged as the number one talent in the association, could not do it.    

"Could it be that, he..."    

Elder Lu's heart suddenly jolted. He suddenly remembered that he had once recommended the tenth person to Wang Hao.    

Elder Lu was right. Wang Hao had learned the skill of Aromatic Perception Pill from Chiang Simeng, who was locked in the temple.    

Under Chiang Simeng's guidance, not to mention the Medicine Pill refined by mixing more than ten types of spirit herbs, even if it was a Medicine Pill refined by mixing more than thirty types of spirit herbs, Wang Hao could still use the pill fragrance to distinguish them one by one.    

As expected, after Wang Hao took a whiff of the third incense, a strange smile appeared on his face.    

He looked at Elder Lu with a smile on his face.    

"Elder Lu, the truth is false, the truth is false. Junior admires you!"    

The words' true and false, true and false 'and' true admiration 'from the bottom of his heart shocked Elder Lu.    

In order to increase the difficulty of the Pill Gathering, he had tampered with the pill formula.    

Without a doubt, the secret hidden within the pill formula had been found by Wang Hao!