"Okay, the time has come." Master Li said with a faint smile: "If you haven't finished refining yet, please finish refining this one first."
Although it would be better to increase the time scale to make alchemy more efficient than this, but after all, it is only a competition organized within the alchemy hall, so it is not that cumbersome, and the rules can be kept simple.
Just like now, only two alchemists have time to refine the third Qi Restoration Pill, so the top three are obvious. Like the others who haven't had time to complete the refinement, give them a little more time to sort out the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh place.
That’s it.
It only took five or six minutes for the remaining alchemists to finish refining the Qi Restoration Pills on hand.
Master Li smiled and nodded: "Okay, the second round is over, and the candidates for advancement are all obvious."
Indeed, the alchemists who had just finished refining the third Qi Recovery Pill nodded. Only two of them successfully refined three Qi Recovery Pills within the specified time, and one... directly refined the other...
The two of them together were even a little faster than the two of them.
"Nie Yun refined six Qi-Returning Pills, Song Qing refined three Qi-Returning Pills, and Qin Chen refined three Qi-Returning Pills. These three people advanced." Master Li announced calmly.
Song Qing and Qin Chen had previously abandoned all distracting thoughts and devoted themselves to refining the elixirs. Therefore, they had not noticed Nie Yun's "feat" of refining three pills at a time. Song Qing even slightly questioned:
"Senior Brother Nie Yun refined six of them? How could it be so fast?"
He admits that he may not have reached the ultimate level in terms of technique, but even if you refine the Qi Restoration Pill and compress all the steps to the theoretical extreme, you still can't be twice as far ahead of him! This is his confidence.
If he hadn't known that this was a competition in full view of the public and that he couldn't fake it, his tone might not have been as polite as just slightly questioning.
Qin Chen on the side also quietly pricked up his ears, obviously he also had some objections to this, but due to Master Li's usual fair behavior, he did not say it out loud.
"Junior Nie Yun refined three pills at one time, and after two furnaces, there were six pills." The eliminated alchemist on the side responded.
Song Qing and Qin Chen both showed a hint of surprise, and Song Qing even exclaimed: "How is that possible?" Then he seemed to realize that he had lost his composure, and quickly calmed down his emotions and said, "That junior Nie Yun is really awesome."
You can't do anything fake in public, so it's more important to focus on the next game.
Master Li suddenly raised an unpredictable smile and said: "Since there are no objections, let's prepare for the last round. Let me give you a thorough explanation first. This last round is very challenging."
"Master, please stop being pretentious and tell me quickly." The eliminated alchemists don't care how difficult the last level is, oh no, the harder it is, the better. Anyway, I just want to watch the fun...
"Then let me announce the rules for the third round, which is the final round first." Master Li chuckled and said: "The rules are very simple. Use the herbs provided by the alchemy hall to innovate an elixir, and rank it as the elixir.
It depends on the function and effect of the medicine.”
"The time limit is four hours." As Master Li said, he produced a list of more than a hundred kinds of herbs and said, "The herbs are all here, you have to work hard."
"Fuck, are you playing so hard this year?" The eliminated alchemist said with a hint of joy in surprise: "Fortunately, I don't have to participate in the third round, otherwise I estimate that I won't even be able to come up with anything in three hours.
..”
These words quickly gained approval from others, who all nodded in agreement.
And Nie Yun, who passed the first few levels
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The three of them showed a wry smile, looked at each other, and reluctantly picked up the list of herbal medicines and began to study it.
Things like creating a self-made elixir are usually something that a master alchemist who has a deep understanding of the medicinal properties of plants and trees would attempt. You must know that to truly create an elixir, you need to understand the subtle conflicts between the medicinal materials in the elixir.
Harmonize them, amplify the complementary areas, and finally consider whether the entire elixir will have any side effects and how to restrain them...
But this last step is not difficult at all. At worst, you can just find some tonics and refine it into a pill that can satisfy your hunger. You can also call it a pill that can satisfy your hunger. It’s just that the time of fasting is a little...short.
A little bit.
Nie Yun looked at the various medicinal materials in his hand and sighed deeply. He had only been refining elixirs for a short time, only more than a month, which meant that he could only refining Qi Pill, Jingxin Pill, Pulse Breaking Pill, etc.
Yes, there are also the four kinds of bone-producing pills that I just learned.
In other words, regardless of the wide variety of medicinal materials on the list, the ones that really have a chance to be used by Nie Yun must be the medicinal materials used in these four kinds of elixirs, which are only about twenty kinds. After all, you can’t even use these medicinal materials.
You have never used any medicinal material, but you only have a rough understanding of its properties from the "Herbal Classic" and you dare to use it to create new elixirs?
Compared to Nie Yun, Song Qing and Qin Chen refined many more types of elixirs, and the range of medicinal materials they chose was correspondingly much larger.
"Blood-activating fruit, Qi-reviving grass, refreshing flower, clover, ice-crystal grass, water blue fruit... seven-petal lotus, fire cloud fruit, blood-producing grass, spirit-changing grass." Nie Yun quickly rolled through his mind.
All the medicinal materials that can be used are carefully considered and the arrangement and combination of these medicinal materials are carefully considered.
"There are some similarities between the blood-activating fruit and the blood-producing grass." Nie Yun frowned in thought. "If we use the blood-promoting fruit and the blood-producing grass as the core, supplemented by the refreshing flower, we may achieve a stimulating effect, which should be able to a certain extent.
To improve combat effectiveness... Well, let’s give it a try.”
Nie Yun took out the three herbs, sat back on the futon, put his hands on the cauldron wall, and the milky white Qi slowly poured out, causing the ground fire to rise violently.
"Nie Yun is ready to try to draw fire from the earth." Following Nie Yun's actions, everyone also cast their gaze over.
"It's quite conservative and I only used three herbs, one less than the Qi-Rejuvenating Pill."
"Do you have a specific idea so quickly?" Song Qing also turned slightly and was a little surprised. His mind was still a mess and he had no clue.
Qin Chen slowly opened his eyes and was slightly stunned when he saw that Nie Yun had already begun to try. Then he took out a few medicinal herbs and sat on the futon to trigger the ground fire.
"Look, Qin Chen has also started."
Song Qing scratched his head and began to feel a little impatient. Then he took a Jingxin Pill and used his Qi machine to form a small milky white cover with his eardrums, temporarily blocking out all external sounds and thinking attentively.
Nie Yun was very familiar with the three medicinal herbs: blood-activating fruit, blood-producing grass, and refreshing flower. He was able to refine the three medicinal herbs into Santan's various medicinal liquids with ease.
"It should be based on blood-activating fruit and blood-producing grass, supplemented by refreshing flowers." Nie Yun murmured to himself, then controlled the liquid of blood-activating fruits and the medicinal liquid of blood-producing grass to gently fuse, and added the refreshing flowers little by little.
Liquid medicine...
Poof, with a soft sound, the medicinal liquid that was already merging in Santan instantly turned into a pool of black powder.
"Failed!" Wang Hao couldn't help shouting when he saw this scene. Although he also knew that the process of creating new prescriptions was a process of trial and error, but
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I still couldn't help but feel a sense of relief.
Nie Yun looked at the dark puddle in the medicine cauldron without showing the slightest expression of frustration. Instead, he lowered his head and pondered: "Just now, there was a direct conflict between the blood-promoting fruit and the blood-producing grass?"
"This conflict gives me a very similar feeling to the conflict between the Fire Cloud Fruit and the Blood Grass. Well... try adding some Spiritual Transformation Grass."
As the crimson ground fire rose again, four pools of liquid medicine of various colors soon appeared in the cauldron again.
"Nie Yun really wanted to know the cause of the problem before, so he added another medicinal ingredient."
"Hard to say..."
Nie Yun looked at the gazes of several people with different emotions as if they were not heard. His face was calm, but his eyes were firmly staring at the medicine cauldron. After a moment, he took a deep breath, and the four medicines of various colors came out.
The liquid began to carefully fuse under Nie Yun's control.
As expected, there is no conflict between the blood-activating fruit and the blood-producing grass after adding the spirit-changing grass. The four-color liquid gradually solidifies and slowly turns into an oval...
"The young pill has appeared. It seems to be successful?" The alchemist on the side said slightly surprised.
"seem..."
At this moment, Chu Dan, who had gradually stabilized, trembled inexplicably, and then quickly turned into a touch of charcoal.
Following Nie Yun's failure, the alchemists watching showed a hint of regret, but soon turned their attention elsewhere.
"Qin Chen's attempt also failed..."
"Song Qing Dynasty has just begun."
Failed again, Nie Yun frowned slightly, lowered his head and closed his eyes, carefully recalling Chu Dan's inexplicable trembling.
"Why on earth did it suddenly become unstable despite not noticing the conflict between the properties of the medicine... Try again!"
Nie Yun quickly finished refining the medicinal solution, and then stared at the entire process of condensing the elixir. As the medicinal solution slowly merged again, and gradually formed the young elixir, suddenly the young elixir turned into charcoal again with a "pop" sound.
Nie Yun's eyes lit up, and he felt Chu Dan's trembling for a moment, and he thought deeply: "It seems that the medicine is too strong, a little too much, and not enough. What can I add to neutralize it..."
"The combination of blood-producing and blood-activating medicine is too strong. Maybe adding some water blue fruit or ice congeal grass would be better?"
So Nie Yun simply brought the ice congeal grass and water blue fruit over, ready to try them all.
"The medicinal properties of Bing Ning grass are relatively stronger, let's try it with water blue fruit first." Nie Yun murmured to himself.
With the addition of water blue fruits, during the process of condensing the elixir, the young elixir finally no longer trembled, but slowly changed towards a light red round elixir...
"Um?"
Nie Yun frowned as he looked at the rough light red elixir in the medicine cauldron. This was just a residual elixir, a semi-finished product, which could also be said to be a defective product.
"At least it proves that this path is correct." Nie Yun looked at the residual pill in his hand and nodded gently: "The blood-producing grass and the blood-activating fruit complement each other, and the water blue fruit may be a little overwhelming...
.Then try switching to Ningbingcao."
Time passed minute by minute, and suddenly, the alchemists who were watching Qin Chen suddenly let out an exclamation.