345: C345 The First Round of Competition over Half Eliminated

C345 The First Round of Competition over Half Eliminated

When everyone recovered from the shock, Sovereign Tai Yi continued to smile, "Since everyone has seen the champion prize, this Sovereign will put the halberd back in the Storage Ring."

With a "sou" sound, Sovereign Tai Yi retrieved the Storage Ring from the Qianyuan Halberd. However, everyone's mood now was completely different from before.

After seeing the charm of the Spirit Tool of the Heavenly Holy Stage, no one would remain calm like before.

Sovereign Tai Yi continued to announce: "Next, let me announce the competition rules for this round of Pill Tao Competition. Although I have already explained it at the banquet earlier, in terms of insurance, this old man still needs to repeat it on the spot: There are a total of three rounds of Pill Tao Competition, the first round is to identify the pill formulas, at that time, all of my Jiugong Sect's disciples will take out the ten pill formulas one by one, and only report the content of the pill formulas, and they will need to send their knowledge to all the participants within the Jade Token. As long as they can give six pill formulas, it will be calculated as the victor and enter the second round. Does anyone have any other questions? "

"No!" Especially those who were preparing to participate in Pill Tao Competition, at this moment, they were already somewhat impatient.

Sovereign Tai Yi nodded his head, then announced: "Now, I announce the start of the Pill Tao Competition. All sect members that are prepared to participate in the Pill Tao Competition, please gather at the center of the stage!"

As soon as Sovereign Tai Yi announced this, the sound of breaking wind could be heard from the stands. One figure after another landed on the central ring.

Yan Ruoxue, who was beside Nie Zhen, smiled and said, "Young Master Nie, you can do it."

Nie Zhen nodded at Yan Ruoxue. His body also turned into a ray of light and landed on the stage.

The originally empty arena was suddenly filled with people.

All the people who were prepared to participate in Pill Tao Competition were immediately divided into six camps on the stage.

Nie Zhen scanned with his Spiritual Sense and knew how many men the sects had sent out.

A total of fifteen people were sent to participate in Pill Tao Competition. But other than Liu Tie, Elder Tianhuo, and Elder Baicao, the rest of the people were all sent by Zhuo Bufan to allow them to experience the world. This included the most talented people in the younger generation of the Duobao Sect, Gu Faang and Yun Ling.

The smallest group was the Five Appearances Sect. This time, the Five Appearances Sect had only sent one person to participate. This person was the Five Appearances Sect's most powerful alchemist elder, Elder Liuhuo.

Wu Junxiang, from the Five Appearances Sect to Zhuo Bufan, smirked and said: "Hehe, Sect Master Zhuo, it seems like our two sects only have one disciple at most, and they both go to extremes."

The Five Appearances Sect and the Duobao Sect belonged to one of the big sects in the Three Great Empires. The two families with the weaker alchemy dao could be seen from the number of participants that the Five Appearances Sect had sent, that the Duobao Sect was planning to spread its influence as far as possible, to increase the number of people involved as much as possible.

Amongst these ten people, there were members from the younger generation and some from the older generation. Within the Jiugong Sect, there was Sovereign Mu Yan, who had helped the injured before, and naturally, the Heaven Pill Elder of the Tianyi Pavilion was among them.

As for Origin Sect, they had only sent five people out this time. Although the number of people was a little small, everyone could see that these five people were all the elites of the Alchemy Dao.

In fact, Origin Sect could be considered one of the strongest sects amongst the six great sects. Sometimes, the strength of some sects' alchemy skills could even cause one's Jiugong Sect to be inferior to one's own.

And among the five people from Origin Sect, one of them had attracted Nie Zhen's attention. It was Hsiao Yan, who had caused trouble at Duobao Sect's Alchemy Dao Grand Ceremony and was defeated by Nie Zhen with his Earth Building Pill at the last moment.

When everyone had arrived, the attendants of the Jiugong Sect began to arrange seats one by one, ensuring that there was a certain distance between each of them. Then, several Jiugong Sect disciples distributed green spirit tablets to everyone.

According to the competition rules, when the Jiugong Sect people announce the pill formulas, everyone had to inject their own guesses of the pill names into the spirit tablets. This way, they could completely avoid any opportunities to cheat.

When everyone had obtained the Jade Token, the first round of the competition would officially begin. The of Mt.

Sovereign Tai Yi had purposely asked Sovereign Mt. Tai to announce his pill formulas, because most cultivators, even if they weren't good at pill concocting, would at least dabble in the Dao of alchemy. Only Sovereign Mt. Tai knew nothing about the Dao of alchemy, let alone dabble in it, he hadn't even touched it.

"Now, I announce the first pill formula of the first round." Sovereign Mt. Tai stood up and said to the stage clearly. Then, without wasting any more words, he picked up a completely sealed scroll.

Sovereign Mount Tai used one hand to break the seal, then opened the scroll and began to announce as per the book, "Main ingredients: Pine Crane Yun Lingzhi, Octagon Aniseed Mica Luo, supplementary ingredients: Emerald Smoke Coral, Raging Flames Bird tail …"

Sovereign Mt. Tai announced the names of all the ingredients one by one. As Sovereign Mt. Tai did not understand medicinal herbs at all, it was extremely strenuous for them to recite the names one by one. Sometimes, even the names of the medicinal herbs had to be recited in their minds again and again before they could react.

When Sovereign Mount Tai finished reciting all the medicinal ingredients, there would be ten seconds for everyone to enter the name of the pill. After ten seconds, Sovereign Mount Tai would begin to recite the next pill formula.

When Sovereign Tai Shan finished reciting the formula, Nie Zhen immediately found the formula for the pill in his mind. The name of the pill also appeared at the same time in Nie Zhen's mind.

"Pure Soul Building Pill."

This was a pill that could help temper a person's soul. What was amazing was that while tempering one's soul was usually very painful, with the assistance of this pill, it could reduce a lot of pain.2

Many people on the stage had already seen through the pill and hurriedly used their spiritual sense to insert the pill's name into the spirit tablet.

However, this was clearly just an appetizer. The following pill recipes were more difficult than the previous ones, and each one was more unpopular. Not to mention the junior generation, not even the senior alchemists could guess the pill's name.

Some of the young men could not even tell what was going on.

When they finished reading the six pill formulas, some people's Jade Token would immediately shatter. Jade Token could automatically guess right and wrong, while some people would guess wrong five or six times in a row. Even if they managed to guess the next four pill formulas, they would still not be able to, and would naturally be eliminated in advance.

Amongst these eliminated people, there were a lot of Duobao Sect disciples. After all, Duobao Sect had sent the most people this time.

Zhuo Bufan originally wanted to let those young disciples see the world, but he didn't expect that this competition would be so intense. Those young disciples hadn't even heard of the names of the medicinal ingredients, let alone guess the name of the pill.

By the time Sovereign Mt. Tai finished reading the eighth pill recipe, forget about Duobao Sect, even the Jiugong Sect, Tianyi Pavilion and other sects, the number of participating disciples had already decreased by a lot.

The eliminated contestants were all very upset. The easiest people were those that weren't able to answer all the correct questions. To them, this arena was even more torturous. It was better to leave early.

Nie Zhen's expression did not change, nor was he calm. However, he was not serious. To him, reporting each and every pill name was too simple.

The Medicine King Scripture encompassed everything, all the pill formulas in the universe were contained within the Medicine King Scripture. Back then, Nie Zhen had inherited the Medicine King Scripture, and it was even the Alchemist Divine King who used his soul to help Nie Zhen memorize the pill formulas, how terrifying was the base number of the elixirs from the three empires, in the Medicine King Scripture s world, it was not even considered an entry level elixir, how could it be difficult for Nie Zhen to inherit it?

When Nie Zhen read out the last pill recipe, he heard the sound of Jade Token shattering not too far away from him.

Nie Zhen looked back and saw Gu Faang looking at the broken Jade Token at his feet, his face ashen.

It turned out that Gu Faang had been persistently insisting. He had answered correctly or wrongly, but in the end, he still lost at the hands of the last pill formula.

In this sort of competition, everyone could see who answered more than six questions correctly, and who didn't, but in the end, no one could tell, and only the contestant knew the answer.

Nie Zhen was sure that he answered all ten questions correctly.

The records of the Medicine King Scripture were simply too rich. Although there were some people who created their own pill formulas, and might not be able to record them into the Medicine King Scripture, it was a pity that the ten pill formulas this time did not surpass the records of the Medicine King Scripture.

If this competition was to be ranked first in the exam, the champion might not be able to escape Nie Zhen's grasp.

Looking around again, many people heaved a sigh of relief at this moment. Even the alchemist master with the Origin Sect who had been treating people with his nose seemed to have heaved a sigh of relief.

Although in terms of alchemy strength, Origin Sect may be stronger than Jiugong Sect, in terms of alchemy formulas, there was probably no one that was a match for Jiugong Sect.

Nie Zhen looked at the current stage, the number of people had clearly decreased compared to when they first started, and conservative estimates, there were at least half of them eliminated, and fifteen of them were sent by Duobao Sect. After the first round, including himself, there were only four left, which showed just how tragic Pill Tao Competition was.

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