Ye Xiangyang felt warm in his heart when he heard what Duan Gansheng and others were saying outside the door.
At the very least, their concern for themselves comes from the bottom of their hearts.
The door of the training room slowly opened. Cheng Jianming saw the door open and was delighted: "Senior brother has come out of retreat, senior brother has come out of retreat."
Ye Xiangyang came out with a smile: "Sorry to have kept you all waiting for a long time."
Cang Liangcai was very happy: "It wasn't a long wait, it wasn't a long wait."
"Has the pill competition started?" Ye Xiangyang asked.
"It will start in a quarter of an hour." Yue Haoran said with some relief in his anxiety.
Ye Xiangyang nodded: "In that case, let's go quickly and fight for a hilltop for the people of our Xuanwu Continent. It is crucial."
As they said this, Ye Xiangyang and his companions rode on auspicious clouds and headed towards the competition venue.
The competition venue was located above the martial arts training ground for the true disciples, which was extremely vast. The martial arts training ground was paved entirely with stones that sparkled with starlight. It was solid, gorgeous, bright, and beneficial to the body and mind. It was a magical martial arts training ground that the Danding Immortal Sect had spent a lot of effort to pick the stars in the sky and condense.
Nearly 200,000 people gathered in the middle of the martial arts training ground, and they all sat cross-legged in the assigned areas.
Danding Xianzong is the number one alchemy sect in Beiji Tian, and has the richest foundation in elixirs. Of course, to say the richest is also relative. In recent years, the other eleven sects have been catching up fiercely, and are already showing signs of catching up.
During every alchemy competition, the Danding Xianzong does not dare to be careless and goes all out to select the most outstanding disciples from among the inner disciples and true disciples to participate in the once-in-a-century Twelve Sects Alchemy Competition.
The Twelve Sects Competition requires that each sect send six people to participate in the sect competition.
Every sect will hold a selection competition to select twelve people, six regular players and six preliminary players, who will then participate in the competition together.
Today is the day when Danding Xianzong selects the participants. Six people are chosen from 200,000 people, which is a massive elimination.
The martial arts training ground was filled with people from the Danding Immortal Sect watching. Everyone wanted to witness who was the chosen one who could stand out from the competition and become the dark horse of the contest.
“Regardless of whether there is a competition or not, the three disciples under the Pill Elder, the two geniuses, the pill geniuses of the four major families, and the most outstanding figures are all the finalists who will enter the finals.”
"Yes, the medicine competition is the same as the magical power competition. What's in the competition is the foundation. How can disciples like us compare to their foundation?"
"That's not certain. Maybe some dark horses will emerge."
"Oh my god, a dark horse? You must be kidding. It's not that easy to be a dark horse."
"That's not necessarily true. If you hadn't seen Ye Xiangyang during the competition, he would have been a dark horse."
Speak of the devil, and here comes Ye Xiangyang. The appearance of Ye Xiangyang caused a commotion in the venue.
Ye Xiangyang is a famous person among the inner and outer disciples of Danding Xianzong. He was promoted to a true disciple by Danding Xianzong as an earthly immortal. He killed two elders of the Ximen family, cut off Ximen Yingzong's arm, almost killed Ximen Ruiyi, killed Yuchi Zi, and killed more than 200,000 people in Yuchi Zi's family...
Ye Xiangyang had been in the sect for just half a year, and every single thing that happened was earth-shattering, every single thing that made everyone nervous.
Especially the battle with Yuchi Zi, which made Ye Xiangyang famous in the Danding Immortal Sect. It was so heroic that a true immortal killed a celestial immortal.
"What is Ye Xiangyang doing in the circle of pill competitions?"
"Oh my god, Ye Xiangyang is not going to participate in the competition, right? If that's the case, it would be too depressing."
"Yes, it's really a blow. He has such outstanding performance in supernatural power cultivation, and he can also appear in the pill competition. Is this kid an all-rounder?"
"All-rounder? What all-rounder? I think it's just grandstanding. A person who has been promoted from the lower realms is already so outstanding in magical powers, but he also wants to show off in elixirs? Isn't this a huge joke?"
"If that's the case, it's really devastating."
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Ye Xiangyang ignored the discussions of outsiders. Other people had mouths on their heads, so they could say whatever they wanted. What's more, he didn't care about these discussions, so he blocked out these voices from his ears.
A rainbow bridge appeared in the sky, and from the bridge came the sound of a zither piece called "Peach Blossom Fantasy". The music flowed like clouds and running water, striking everyone's heartstrings.
Then, we saw six old men in white fluttering robes and with sage-like demeanor appearing on the rainbow bridge. The one in front was the chief elder of alchemy. The six of them walked across the rainbow bridge and headed towards the front of the competition center.
When they landed, a faint fragrance spread throughout the place. It was the fairy incense.
The chief alchemy elder Dan Rongzi smiled slightly, and everyone in the audience felt that the smile was for themselves, an affirmation of themselves by the chief alchemy elder, and a warmth flowed through their bodies.
"Two hundred thousand disciples present here, today is the day when our Danding Xianzong selects participants to participate in the twelve sects' medicine competition. It is also the day for all contestants to show their skills."
"I hope that everyone can perform at their best level and in their style in these three competitions, and refine their best elixirs. The rewards are generous. The top three will each receive a mountain of core disciples; the top twelve will receive two great magical powers and three elixir recipes; the top fifty..."
Listening to Elder Dan Rongzi's introduction, many people clenched their fists tightly. The rewards were too attractive. Who could have thought that the sect would spend so much money on this preliminary competition? It was to stimulate the alchemists to work harder.
Some people know that it is not that the sect is generous, but that the sect feels the crisis. From the perspective of the alchemy competitions over the years, the other eleven sects have caught up.
If Danding Xianzong does not speed up its development, one day it may not be able to maintain its own sect's number one elixir foundation in Beijitian. It is precisely for this reason that Danding Xianzong must vigorously support alchemy to prevent its opponents from catching up.
Dan Rongzi is truly an ancestor immortal. His words stimulated the blood of everyone present and everyone vowed to refine the best elixir and strive to win the competition.
Finally, the Pill Elder said, "The first match is the easiest. Each person only has one chance to refine a pill. Only those who refine a mid-grade immortal-level pill will pass. Let the competition begin."
Following the order from the Elder of Alchemy, there were continuous rumbling sounds, and large tripods fell down one after another.
The martial arts training ground was shaking. Two hundred thousand alchemy cauldrons fell down at the same time, shaking the mountains and rivers, and the earth was shaking.
Ye Xiangyang also put down his nine-cornered black tortoise cauldron, but he did not start refining the elixir immediately like the others. Instead, he closed his eyes and began to refine his mind. When he said "refining the mind", it actually meant clearing out all distracting thoughts in his mind, leaving only the thought of refining the elixir in his mind. This is called clearing the mind.
This is what the state of unity of mind and spirit is all about. Only when the mind and spirit are united can the elixir be refined to the best level.
After two quarters of an hour, Ye Xiangyang slowly opened his eyes. At this time, Ye Xiangyang's face was calm, so calm that he was not disturbed. The only thing in his mind was alchemy and respect for the elixir. Then, Ye Xiangyang took out the body purification talisman and his whole body was clean. Finally, Ye Xiangyang lit the meditation incense, and the smoke curled and slowly rose.
Everyone started making elixirs, but Ye Xiangyang was the only one still doing this work.
Some people outside the venue were watching Ye Xiangyang's movements, which were smooth, orderly, and rhythmic. He respected heaven, earth, and the elixir, and had already regarded the elixir as the most sacred thing at this moment: "Hiss—Ye Xiangyang is not simple. This set of advance cleansing and purification skills is very well done."
"Yes, obviously seeing that Ye Xiangyang has received the most rigorous training in alchemy, how is this possible?"
“Could it be that if a person’s magical power cultivation is so outstanding and his elixir making is also genius, wouldn’t it make others jealous to death?”
Some people were dismissive of Ye Xiangyang's actions. They curled their lips and said, "Humph, what's the point of this? Just have that ceremony. Look at Ye Xiangyang, he's overdoing it. Overdoing it means he's just grandstanding."
"That's right. If he has such high attainments in alchemy, he doesn't need these fancy things. He is just deceiving himself."
"Hehe, wait and see what he can refine."
"Don't worry about what you refine. Anyway, you can't refine a mid-grade immortal-level pill."
Two hundred thousand people were refining pills. Except for Ye Xiangyang, the others were all using the authentic Danding Xianzong's method of refining pills. One by one, the medicines were put into the Danding in sequence, and then they were crushed and purified by the formation. After the purification by the formation, they were purified by flames to increase the purity of the medicines. The higher the purity of the medicines, the better the quality of the pills refined. This was a conventional experience.
Ye Xiangyang grabbed a handful of medicine, all the medicines needed to make the elixir, and put them all into the Nine-Angled Black Tortoise Cauldron.
As soon as he made the move, the whole audience was stunned, followed by a burst of laughter.
Who has ever seen drugs being administered in this way? Even some of the elders who make pills were laughing, genuinely laughing: "What kind of technique is this? Only someone who has never made pills before would do it so recklessly."
"That's right. How can we deliver all the medicines at once, along with the soup and water? How can we separate the medicines and extract the essence?"
"He is just a mediocre person. Ye Xiangyang must be a mediocre person."
The onlookers, especially those from the Ximen and Donggong families, laughed loudly: "Strange things happen every year, but there are more this year. Ye Xiang can't make pills at all, otherwise he wouldn't do this?"
"That's right. He can't even make pills but he's still embarrassing himself. He should learn to be humble and hide his shortcomings. This kid has brought shame upon his family."
On the field, flames rose as people were extracting the essence of medicines one by one.
While Ye Xiangyang was delivering the medicine to the Nine-Angled Black Tortoise Cauldron, the Black Tortoise Weapon Spirit had already helped him distribute the medicine to different areas. The medicine-crushing formation was activated, and with a crackling sound, the formation began to rotate. In a very short time, all the medicine was turned into powder.
The medicine was sent into the refining array intact.
The Nine-Horned Black Tortoise Cauldron is a treasure of the Four Divine Beasts Continent. After being refined by the great array of the great cauldron, its purity is even purer than that of the Dan Ding Immortal Sect’s treasure after it is refined by the great array and then refined by fire.
The refining was completed, and there was a pitch-black flame in Ye Xiangyang's palm. The flame rose and enveloped the entire cauldron. He was going to start refining the elixir.