Five alchemy furnaces are placed in a circle, Zhang Xiaopou sits cross-legged in the middle, his left palm flies, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, like a butterfly dancing and an eagle soaring, while controlling the flames of the five alchemy furnaces, and making secrets with his right hand
, shooting different curse seals at different alchemy furnaces, which makes people dazzled.
The onlookers were shocked and nervous. They all looked at Zhang Xiaozu and couldn't help but hold their breath, for fear of accidentally making a sound and disturbing Zhang Xiaozu's rhythm.
The most nervous ones are the five alchemy seekers. If they knew that Zhang Xiaozu was playing this way, even if they were beaten to death, they would not be the first to step forward.
A furnace of broken star pills is not worth a drop in the bucket to Zhang Xiaozu, but to them, even if it is not all their wealth, it is a piece of property that they dare not lose, otherwise they will not waste such a good opportunity. Please give it to them.
Refining.
They were so nervous that they were sweating. They prayed to the gods and Buddhas in the sky one by one, begging them to protect Zhang Xiaopeng from exploding the furnace.
The five of them were the most nervous, and the most shocked were Yang Ziqin and other alchemists, or people who knew something about alchemy.
Zhang Xiaozu refines five furnaces of Shattered Star Pills at the same time. To those who don't know how to do it, it seems that all he needs to do is to keep the five furnaces in sync. But for those who know even a little bit about pill refining, it is not that simple at all.
Because the five alchemy furnaces have different shapes, sizes, furnace wall thicknesses, etc., this requires different control over the size of the furnace fire. Once the furnace fires are different, the time to put in the elixir and spiritual materials, and the blessing of the power of the seal
Wait, they are all completely different.
This requires that the alchemist must be dedicated to five tasks, know the situation of each alchemy furnace thoroughly, have full control, and cannot make any mistakes, otherwise it is very likely that one furnace will go wrong.
As a result, all five furnaces are wrong.
The onlookers were all very nervous, but Zhang Xiaozu was always calm and calm.
"This boy's skills are becoming more and more sophisticated."
In the high-end accommodation area of the inn, the old beggar stood in the yard, stroking his beard and smiling softly.
His consciousness was observing Zhang Xiaozu refining the pill.
"If Mr. Duobao knew that I had taken in such a precious disciple, he would definitely be so greedy that he would have pink eyes. Haha..."
"The white power of Taichu, the power of all things, is born to refine elixirs and weapons."
"I think back then, when Qingqu shocked the world with his sword, and Fufeng Zifu suppressed the Nine Heavens, I originally wanted this kid to fight the world with his physical skills. Now it seems that he probably wants to become famous in the world with his alchemy."
"The Taoist sect is about to produce another famous figure."
"Thanks to my hard work in cultivation."
"Ha ha…"
When the old beggar said the last words, he couldn't help but beam with joy. He just felt that time was a little tight and he couldn't cultivate Zhang Xiaopou more carefully, and he felt a little regretful.
If Zhang Xiaozhu knew about it, he would definitely thank the gods and Buddhas in the sky for their blessing, because he really couldn't bear the old beggar's hard work.
"It's done!"
In less than a cup of tea, the fragrance of alchemy wafted out of the alchemy furnace.
It was accompanied by a subtle sound of pill formation.
Everyone around them was in high spirits. Watching Zhang Xiaopeng refining the elixir, the high level of tension made them unknowingly immersed in the scene. It felt like they themselves were refining the elixir.
Bang!
Zhang Xiaozu suddenly suppressed the fire in the furnace, then slapped five palms, shaking open the lids of the five pill furnaces, and the Broken Star Pills flew out from the mouth of the furnace.
The crowd of onlookers immediately burst into roaring exclamations.
Because each furnace contains thirty pills, the worst quality ones are all top-grade ones, and there are two or three top-quality pills in each furnace.
"Thank you, alchemist!"
The five elixir seekers took out their utensils, each caught his own elixir, and then saluted Zhang Xiaopeng with a smile on his face.
Perhaps because they felt that the reward they gave him was insufficient, they added a few more Broken Star Pills to Zhang Xiaopou's bucket.
Zhang Xiaozu nodded and smiled, looked at the ten strong men waiting beside him, raised his hands and said in salute: "Can you please help me clean the alchemy furnace? Thank you very much."
"It is an honor for me to serve Master Alchemist."
The ten strong men were flattered and quickly bowed in return, then quickly stepped forward to clean the alchemy furnace.
Zhang Xiaozu looked at the team asking for elixirs and shouted: "There are five more furnaces of star elixirs. Let me continue to familiarize myself with these four elixir furnaces, and then I will make elixirs according to the order of the team. Please bear with me."
"It doesn't matter. You can get familiar with it gradually. We won't be in a hurry." Someone in the team replied.
Everyone else spoke in agreement.
The alchemy furnace is the alchemist's responsibility. If Zhang Xiaopeng is not familiar with it enough, the furnace will blow up later, and they will be the ones who suffer the loss, so no one wants Zhang Xiaopeng to make elixirs for them in a hurry.
After the alchemy furnace was cleaned, Zhang Xiaozu immediately used the elixir fire to continue the second furnace.
It should be said to be the second wave.
The Zixia Danhuo circled several times in his war gate space, and the consumption of the alchemy just now was immediately replenished.
The five furnaces of Star Pill were refined together, which took a little longer than the time he spent in the examination room.
A bland five-pot complete.
One furnace yielded twenty-three pieces, and two furnaces yielded an exquisite one.
The worst batch produced 20 elixirs, eight of which were high-grade, and twelve of which were high-grade.
It shocked everyone present.
"In my opinion, there is no need to continue this alchemy competition. If Master Zhang cannot win the first place, who can win the first place?"
"Feel the same."
"It is estimated that only Master Alchemy can compete with Master Zhang."
As the second batch of Star Pills was released, heated discussions broke out in the crowd.
"Hey! What do you people know?"
"This alchemy competition is not about who can practice faster or more, but about the knowledge and understanding of alchemy, as well as innovation."
Someone spoke out to refute everyone's comments.
This person is from Liujiabao. He has heard some inside information about this competition and knows that the first place has been decided, and it is Liu Zhihuan from their Liu family.
, so when I heard everyone saying that Zhang Xiaopou was number one, I felt unconvinced and couldn't help but want to refute a few words.
"Don't be ridiculous!" Someone immediately cast a mocking look at him and asked: "It only takes a quarter of an hour to make a furnace of star pills. The lowest pills in a furnace are top-grade pills. There are more than twenty pills in a furnace. Isn't this enough?"
Doesn’t it count as an innovation if the knowledge and understanding of alchemy has reached its peak?”
"That's right, if this doesn't count, then tell everyone, what does it have to do to count?"
"This little brother, you probably don't know much about alchemy and don't understand the significance of shortening the elixir-forming time of a furnace of elixirs so much and increasing the elixir-generating capacity of a furnace of elixirs, that's why you say this."
"ignorance!"
People around him spoke out in response to the Liujiabao people.
The people from Liujiapu were so angry that everyone wanted to argue but had no words to reply. In the end, they could only hold their necks and said: "Huh, just wait and see, he will never be the first in the Dan competition!"
Someone heard other meanings from his words, and couldn't help but wonder: "Hey, from your tone, it seems that you already know who is the first. Isn't there some ulterior secret in this competition?"
The people in Liujiabao looked stiff, knowing that they had said the wrong thing, and immediately turned around and left.
"Hey, why are you leaving? Please speak clearly."
"It looks like there's really something shady about it."
"Actually, it makes sense that there is a shady story. This competition is jointly organized by Liujiabao and Linlang Pavilion. Naturally, Liujiabao will not use its efforts in vain."
"If Alchemist Zhang cannot take first place, it would be an unforgivable act of God!"
"You can't say that. I heard that Liu Zhihuan from Liujiabao is also a rare wizard of alchemy who has not been seen in a thousand years. You can only know it after a comparison."
"It's a pity that the main race is held in Liujiabao, so we can't watch it live."
Amid the buzz among the surrounding crowd, Zhang Xiaozu started the third batch.
This time, they came in the order of the team. The five people asked for different elixirs, which made the refining difficulty increase by countless times.
Some people speculated that Zhang Xiaozu might reduce the number of pill furnaces to reduce the difficulty, but Zhang Xiaozu still sacrificed five Zixia Danhuo.
The crowd consciously quieted down, fearing to disturb Zhang Xiaopou.
"become!"
In a little more than a quarter of an hour, a furnace of Xingyao Pill was the first to become a pill.
There are three pills, one is of medium quality, one is of high quality, and one is of high quality.
"Brush the furnace."
"Next person."
Zhang Xiaozu took out the elixirs from the alchemy furnace and did not wait for the remaining four furnaces to be completed before starting the next batch together. Instead, he immediately ordered someone to clean the furnace, and looked at the team asking for elixirs and shouted, obviously to ask for help.
Seam to join the next furnace.
The onlookers no longer knew how to marvel.
Those alchemists who wanted to secretly learn the skills were all shocked and had no choice but to smile, thinking that no one could learn this. However, those who are careful and have some talent in alchemy still learned something from Zhang Xiaopou's method.
For example, fire control skills, curse seal casting techniques, etc.
…
"Master, Zhang Xiaozu is making elixirs for people at the Jinshiyuan Inn again."
In the Paradise Alchemy Pavilion, Liu Zhihuan received the news from Jinshiyuan Inn and immediately came to the alchemy room where Shang Susu was refining alchemy to report.
There was a hint of shock in his eyes that could not be eliminated, because the news about Zhang Xiaozu's alchemy was really shocking.
At the same time, five furnaces of broken star pills and star pills were refined. Not only did the pills take a very short time, but the quality was also very good. There were even multiple pills and top-grade pills. Liu Zhihuan could hardly believe his ears and asked questions.
After several times, it was confirmed that Zhang Xiaozu was not refining five alchemy furnaces next to each other, but five at the same time.
Entering the alchemy room, I saw that my mentor, the great master of alchemy, was still worried about greatly shortening the time for refining the star elixir. Over there, Zhang Xiaopou was already playing a game, refining five alchemy furnaces together.
When he got up, Liu Zhihuan couldn't help but feel a trance in his heart, thinking that Zhang Xiaozu could be Shang Susu's master.
Then a deep feeling of powerlessness arose in his heart. He felt that he was too far behind Zhang Xiaopeng, that he was not at the same level at all, and that there was no way he could beat him in the Dan Tournament.
"What? Refining five alchemy furnaces together?!"
After listening to Liu Zhihuan's report, Shang Susu was so shocked that she couldn't believe her ears.
After confirming that Liu Zhihuan was not joking, she immediately went to the next door to inform Yan Mingchao of the news, and then the group hurried to Jinshiyuan Inn to see with her own eyes how Zhang Xiaozu refined the Five Furnace Pills together.
The mental state of Yan Mingchao and Shang Susu is not very good. Although they both have the cultivation of the Holy Realm, from the furnace explosion yesterday to now, although they can't feel anything physically, the mental consumption is too great.
Zhao Dongqing, who was only in the Star Realm, looked a little pale and looked tired.
…
"This...this...is this too much?"
"I feel ashamed."
When Yan Mingchao stood on the balcony not far away and saw Zhang Xiaozu's "arrogant" method of refining alchemy, there was nothing but a bitter smile on his face.
He shook his head and sighed heavily, feeling that he was completely defeated by Zhang Xiaopou.
Shang Susu also had a wry smile on her face.
She thought so hard that she almost wanted to explode her head. She did not understand the principle of Zhang Xiaozu's alchemy. Then she found that Zhang Xiaozu could make alchemy just as easily as he played with it. The psychological impact was huge, and she even felt that she was not worthy of the name of a master of alchemy.
Yan Mingchao observed quietly for half an hour, then suddenly said: "Don't think about it, this kid is definitely not using alchemy methods. According to my inference, he most likely has mastered some kind of special power that can accelerate the fusion of medicinal power.
"
Shang Susu nodded and said: "It should be, otherwise...otherwise it really doesn't make sense."
She could doubt her level of alchemy, but Yan Mingchao did not understand Zhang Xiaozu's alchemy method. It would be an exaggeration to say that Zhang Xiaozu's level of alchemy has far exceeded that of Yan Mingchao and was beyond the reach of Yan Mingchao.
"Hey, he still had time to salute us, what a boy."
Yan Mingchao suddenly raised his eyebrows and said, because Zhang Xiaopou, who was refining alchemy, suddenly turned around and bowed to them, obviously he noticed them.
Shang Susu felt an insurmountable depression in her heart. She felt that what she had learned so hard all her life became as easy as a game in Zhang Xiaozu's hands. This made her doubt her lifelong pursuit.
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In fact, not only her, but also Zhao Dongqing and Liu Zhihuan, and even Yan Mingchao also had the same idea.
So for a moment, all of them looked ugly and fell into a dead silence.
It was not until three o'clock in the afternoon that Zhang Xiaozu said "I don't know how to practice", which shocked them and made them feel that Zhang Xiaozu was not omnipotent.
The elixir seeker was a middle-aged man who asked Zhang Xiaopou for a furnace of Shengyuan elixir.
Zhang Xiaozu replied directly to him with three words: I don’t know how to practice.
He did not lie, but he had never practiced the Holy Yuan Dan before.
"Boy, please come down and I will teach you how to refine the Holy Yuan Dan."
A voice sounded in Zhang Xiaozu's ears.
Zhang Xiaozu followed the induction and looked towards the balcony not far away, and his eyes fell on Yan Mingchao in surprise.
