Chapter 373: Begin Refining Pills!

  The authentic prescription required using soul power to read it. Only by doing so could the reader quickly grasp any issues that might arise during the pill refining process. However, the tents recorded on this thin paper merely provided a rough outline of the refinihod. All the other details had to be figured out by the individual, whidoubtedly increased the failure rate of refining the pill to an arming degree.

  At this moment, many alchemists present had expressions of on their faces.

  Everonger individuals like Xiao Yan and Princess Yao Yue frowned slightly as they carefully read through the few key refining points noted ohin paper.

  The materials pced on each person’s stoform were only enough to refiwo portions of the pill. In other words, each person had only two ces to fail. If they exhausted the materials without successfully refining a pill, the result would be obvious: failure, and the sequence of failure was elimination.

  However, while most were struggling with the prescription, Liu Ling quickly sed the list of ingredients ohin paper, tossed it aside, and closed his eyes to rest.

  The pill required for this test was a sed-tier pill called the "Bone-Growth Pill." As the name suggested, this pill was used to treat those with serious injuries. Generally, healing pills like this weren’t particurly valuable. On the market, a Bone-Growth Pill would probably only sell for a few hundred or at most a thousand gold s, which paled in parison to those pills that could enhatle energy or serve other more useful purposes.

  The refining process for the Bone-Growth Pill required six different medial ingredients. Among all sed-tier pills, it wasn’t sidered overly plicated. Furthermore, this specifie-Growth Pill was clearly a ype of healing medie specially designed by the guild.

  For someone like Liu Ling, with his experiend ability, uanding this was not difficult at all. After all, regardless of how varied and strange healing pills could be, they all followed simir principles. The refining paths for these types of pills weren’t too different from one another—only the plexity varied.

  Moreover, the Bone-Growth Pill wasn’t particurly intricate. As long as one had some practical experien pill refining, they could follow the clues to deduce the method for refining the pill.

  Therefore, even though the prescription only gave a general overview of the points to watch out for, it would still be retively easy to successfully refihe pill by following one’s intuition.

  After Liu Lihe prescription aside, Xiao Yan gnced over with some surprise.

  "Strange, why did he put down the prescription after just a gnce? Could it be that he’s e across this prescription before?" A trace of doubt arose in Xiao Yan’s heart, as most people were still engrossed in reading the thin paper, their faces showing various expressions of tratio Liu Ling’s behavior seemed unusual.

  "Never mind. Whether or not he’s seen this prescription before has nothing to do with me. This is just the first round of the test!" Xiao Yan thought to himself and focused his attention ba the thin paper like everyone else.

  The quiet atmosphere sted for nearly five minutes before a crisp bell rang across the square.

  At the sound of the bell, all the testants put dowems in their hands and, with a wave, summohousands of cauldrons of varying shapes and colors onto the stoforms.

  As the bell resounded, Fa Ma, who had beeing his eyes, slowly opehem. His gaze swept across the partits, and his calm voice echoed in everyone’s ears: "By now, I believe you’ve uood the situation. The task of this first round is to refine a pill based on this inplete prescription. You each have two attempts. If you fail to refihe pill after both attempts, the jade mirror ooform will automatically light up with a red glow, and you will be eliminated."

  "On the opposite wall, there’s a rge hss. If you fail to refihe pill before the sand runs out, you will also be sidered as having failed."

  "Is that clear?" Fa Ma asked with a smile.

  "Yes!"

  The thousand voices on the square echoed like thunder.

  "In that case, the first round of the test begins now!" Fa Ma raised his hand slowly before swiftly sshing it down.

  At that moment, a thousand fmes suddenly burst forth on the enormous square, resembling a magnifit dispy of fireworks. The spectacur se stirred everyone’s excitement.

  Xiao Yan gnced around and saw that Liu Ling, the princess, and many others had already begun to light their fires and start refining the pills. Despite this, he remained calm, with no trace of nervousness in his heart.

  Xiao Yan quietly held the thi of paper, his brows slightly furrowed as he carefully studied the sparse information recorded on it.

  He believed in the saying, "Sharpening the axe doesn't dey the cutting of wood." With only two ces, any small mistake could lead to failure.

  After about four or five more minutes of reading, Xiao Yan finally set down the prescriptiohen trolled the Dou Qi within his body to ignite a fme and began refining the first medial ingredient.

  With his eyes closed and his brows furrowed, Xiao Yan used his soul perception to slowly extract the essence from the ingredient. When refining pills, the extra of medial materials had to be precise. A slight variation, whether too pure or too impure, could result in failure. This was why authentic prescriptions were so crucial.

  Traditional prescriptions clearly outlihe exact degree of purity required for each material.

  Unfortunately, Xiao Yan did not have such a precise prescription, so he had to rely on his own perception to carefully experiment.

  It took Xiao Yan a full ten mio extract the essence of a low-level ingredient.

  Immediately after, he spent aen minutes refining the sed ingredient.

  "Phew!"

  Seeing that the two medial materials had been refined successfully, Xiao Ya out a sigh of relief and prepared to move on to the third ingredient. However, at that moment, he uionally g Liu Ling's stoform.

  With that one gnce, Xiao Yan noticed that half of Liu Ling’s ingredients were already gone.

  "What’s going on!" Xiao Yan excimed inwardly.

  Each testant had enough materials to refihe Bone-Growth Pill twice, but Liu Ling only had one portio, which meant he had already finished refining all his ingredients.

  "Xiao Yan, focus on your own work and don’t yourself with others!"

  Just as Xiao Yan was feeling surprised, Yao Lao's a voice echoed in his mind.

  As it turned out, Liu Ling’s terrifying speed in refining the ingredients had already been noticed by Yao Lao and a fe-eyed individuals in the VIP se, but they chose not to arm the other testants.

  (End of Chapter)

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