How could such a thing be said in such a nonchalant tone? He must be pretending!
The elders and inner disciples of Po Yuan Sect on the stage stared at Ye Su in disbelief, and she actually closed her eyes in public!
Arrogant, so arrogant!
However, no one stipulated that breakthroughs were not allowed during the initial test, so all the elders could only agree reluctantly. Their eyes would occasionally fall on Ye Su who was meditating, especially Elder Zhang, whose eyes almost popped out.
Ming Liusha and a few others stopped writing, turned their heads to look at the senior sister, and then continued to write their own works. Anyway, she knew what the senior sister was doing.
There is a spirit gathering array in the place where the selected independent cultivators live, but the spiritual energy can only be said to be average. After all, it is not the core area of Po Yuan Sect. But the trial field is different. The scope is too wide, and the spirit gathering array underneath is large enough.
From the moment Ye Su sat down, his spiritual palace began to absorb spiritual energy and transform itself involuntarily.
Her realm had already been loosened, and it was even more unstable after this period of time. She had just ignored the abnormality in her spiritual palace and continued to write the material proportions and refining answers, but she could not maintain it anymore. She had to stop writing and break through the realm on the spot.
The spiritual energy in the spirit gathering array under the trial field continued to gather towards Ye Su and was absorbed by her. Her spiritual palace seemed to swallow up the sky and the sea, and the surging spiritual energy poured in instantly, but she did not feel uncomfortable.
“Such a commotion…” Rong Chuqiu’s expression was complicated. This was not a scene that an ordinary weapon refiner could create. He sighed in his heart and flipped his hand. A powerful spiritual power covered Ye Su, isolating her from the others off the field.
The other selected equipment refiners could not feel any fluctuations, so they could naturally continue to focus on answering the questions.
Foundation building is the stage in which cultivators establish their spiritual palaces. During this period, the spiritual palace can be expanded every time a realm is broken through. The peak of foundation building is the last chance for expansion, and the next level of advancement is the formation of golden elixir in the spiritual palace.
Ye Su was not unfamiliar with this. She was able to draw the Qi into her body and refine her spiritual palace very easily.
It was just this breakthrough. She did not open her eyes from sunrise to sunset. When the lights in the trial field were turned on and off, almost everyone in the field had stopped writing.
In fact, after the sixth hour, most of the refiners on the field could no longer continue writing. There were many materials they did not recognize, not to mention how to mix and refine them. They spent the rest of the time just making up stories.
Xia Er flipped through the material images back and forth. He couldn't remember what these materials were called. They looked familiar, but he stared at them for a long time and still couldn't remember them. He had to give up. There was already a lot of writing on the scroll, so it should be no problem for him to pass the preliminary test.
He put down his pen and turned to look at Ye Su at the edge. The senior sister had not yet completed the breakthrough, but there was less than an hour left, so he couldn't help feeling a little anxious.
Not only Xia Er, Ming Liusha and Xiyu also put down their pens and turned to look at Ye Su.
They couldn't disturb her breakthrough, so they could only sit by and wait, watching time pass by little by little.
With only half an hour left, Ye Su finally succeeded in breaking through and reached the middle stage of foundation building. As soon as she opened her eyes, the three people around her breathed a sigh of relief.
"Senior Sister, write quickly, there is only half an hour left!" Xiyu shouted in a low voice.
Rong Chuqiu retracted his spiritual power: "Don't whisper to each other."
The field fell into silence again.
Ye Su didn't have time to feel his spiritual palace after the breakthrough. He looked up at the time, then lowered his head and began to write quickly.
These hundreds of materials are not unfamiliar to Ye Su.
But she was in a hurry, so she didn't write any long names, didn't write any complicated recipes, and wrote less words.
As Ye Su wrote further, her handwriting seemed to float.
"The time has come." After Rong Chuqiu finished speaking, all the candidates' scrolls flew up and were collected by her.
At this point, the weapon refiners in the trial field breathed a sigh of relief and began to discuss with the people around them.
"The questions are too difficult, and I haven't seen most of the materials before."
"Neither have I."
"Alas, it seems that I can only go home this time."
Ming Liusha moved to Ye Su's side and said, "Big Sister, what realm are you in?"
"The middle stage of foundation building." Ye Su finally had some free time and probed into his spiritual palace.
Seeing Xiyu and Xiaer coming over, she asked, "How many materials do you not recognize?"
Xiyu lowered his head and whispered, "I don't recognize the last few materials."
"I also have the last few materials." Xia Er followed up, "I can't remember."
Ye Su thought for a moment and asked, "Should we start with the Golden Sun Bone or the Burning Silkworm Stone?"
"Golden Sun Bone."
"Burning Silkworm Stone."
Xiyu and Xia Er said in unison.
Ye Su started from the Golden Sun Bone and said, "I think some of the materials in the middle are confusing. Are you sure you can tell the difference between the Colorful Pupa and the Illusion Pupa?"
Xiyu and Xia Er looked at each other.
Ye Su shook her head and looked at Ming Liusha: "What about you?"
Ming Liusha said, "Oh, I don't know how to divide it."
It won’t be wrong if you don’t write it down. Xia Er couldn’t help but give a thumbs up to his second senior brother.
"Senior Sister, is that a colorful pupa or a phantom pupa?" Xiyu asked.
"Illusion pupa." Ye Su casually took out a piece of talisman paper from her Qiankun bag and drew the difference between the two pupae on it with a pen. "The colorful pupa has no valve in its abdomen. Pay attention to it next time."
After the initial test, they can go back and rest, and the next round of lists will be released in three days.
…
"Elder Rong, I want to see her scroll." Quan Jiaying came in and said to Rong Chuqiu.
"Who?" Rong Chuqiu was correcting the scroll. Hearing this, he looked up and met Quan Jiaying's gaze. He immediately understood, "Ye Su's scroll was taken away by Elder Zhang."
When they were about to modify the scroll today, Elder Zhang said that he wanted to modify the scroll for refining the Mist Killing Flower to see how powerful she was. Rong Chuqiu then picked out Ye Su's scroll and gave it to him.
There were seven or eight tables in the hall, and in front of each table sat an elder, who was marking scrolls very quickly, and could basically tell right from wrong at a glance.
Some refiners can even write the names of materials incorrectly, not to mention the subsequent proportions and refining.
Quan Jiaying walked around several elders and finally came to Elder Zhang.
Unlike the elders around him who finished modifying a scroll in a short time, Elder Zhang held a scroll in his hand, brows furrowed, staring at it intently, as if he had encountered some problem.
"Elder Zhang." Quan Jiaying's eyes fell on the scroll. The words on the upper part were vigorous and smooth, but the words on the lower part were almost floating off the scroll. "Is this Ye Su's scroll?"
"Jiaying?" Elder Zhang came back to his senses and pointed at a line of words on the scroll. "You came at the right time. Let's see if this ratio is correct."
"One piece of silkworm burning stone, two pig snake bones, three ounces of phantom pupa..." Quan Jiaying frowned. He had never seen such a ratio for refining. In fact, he had never even heard of pig snake bones and phantom pupa being mixed together. "Is there such a ratio for refining?"
"I've seen this before." Elder Zhang kept tapping the scroll with his fingers. "A powerful weapon refiner can make a good weapon."
Quan Jiaying felt complicated. He didn't know the method of refining the mixture, but the other party knew it.
"There are several refining methods. I'm not sure which ones are right or wrong, but..." Elder Zhang sighed and looked up at the most talented disciple in the sect. "Jiaying, she is very familiar with the materials. She knows the ones you don't know."
There are only more than 1,200 answers written on this scroll. In terms of quantity, it is indeed not as good as Quan Jiaying. But if you look closely, you will find that she used only rare materials, and the proportioning and refining method is not a common method.
If she had not had a temporary breakthrough at that time, she would have definitely surpassed Quan Jiaying in the annual exam results in the long run.
Quan Jiaying stared at the scroll in silence for a long time, then said, "Elder Zhang, I understand."
Walking out of the hall, Quan Jiaying did not feel as frustrated as he had imagined. He lowered his head and laughed at himself, perhaps because this feeling of powerlessness had been engraved in his heart for a long time.
As a highly-regarded genius of the Po Yuan Sect, he always lost every time he faced the two men from the Zhan Jin Sect. Now, losing to others seems to be nothing special.
Maybe he just can't do it.
…
"Big sister, you have broken through two realms in one year! You must be a genius." Xia Er started again, "Next year I will reach the Golden Core, the year after that I will reach the Nascent Soul, and the year after that..."
Ye Su interrupted him: "According to your calculation, within ten years, I, your senior sister, will be able to ascend directly."
"I think it's possible." Xia Er boasted without thinking.
Ming Liusha said beside him: "Almost."
"Big sister, when are we going back?" Xiyu asked while looking in the mirror, "We have been out for a long time."
"After the next match, we'll go back after getting the materials." Ye Su said, "By the time we get back, Xin Xin should fulfill his promise."
Several people were talking when there was a knock on the door.
There were only four people in the room, and others would not knock if they wanted to come in.
Ye Su turned her head and looked outside: "Come in."
The person outside pushed the door open and came in, but the light was against him so his face couldn't be seen clearly.
Ye Su squinted his eyes and watched for a long time. After the other party came in, he felt that he looked familiar. He was an inner sect disciple, wearing a dark blue Taoist robe with a hand in fire embroidered on his chest.
Four people stood up, and Ye Su spoke first: "This fellow Taoist..."
"My name is Quan Jiaying, and I'm an inner disciple of Poyuan Sect." Quan Jiaying walked here unknowingly.
Ming Liusha leaned closer to Ye Su and said, "The most powerful one."
"If nothing unexpected happens in this competition, you should be able to enter Poyuan Sect and become an inner sect disciple." Quan Jiaying paused and said seriously, "I'm not afraid that you are stronger than me."
Ye Su and his fellow junior brothers and sisters looked at each other for a moment and immediately realized that something was wrong. They had their own sect!
"Fellow Daoist Quan, there are so many misunderstandings." Ye Su took two steps forward, moved a chair over for Quan Jiaying to sit down, and sat opposite her and said sincerely and friendly, "We came to Po Yuan Men purely to... have a sincere exchange."
"Yes, we are not here to join you." Xiyu added from behind.
Quan Jiaying was stunned for a moment, his eyes moved back and forth between the few people, and finally realized: "You don't want to join Poyuan Sect."
It can be said that the ultimate goal of almost all weapon refiners who participated in the competition was to join the Po Yuan Sect, but they said they were here to communicate.
Xia Er puffed out his chest proudly: "We are people from a sect."
Quan Jiaying looked at them all wearing the same black robes, and finally remembered that these people had said on the street that they were from a small sect.
Ye Su coughed and said, "Fellow Daoist Quan, did your notice say that disciples from other sects were not allowed to participate?" She still wanted to take some prizes back.
Jeon Jiaying: “…No.”
Perhaps because of the shock, all the messy thoughts that Quan Jiaying had when he came disappeared, and now he only wanted to know one thing.
"So which sect do you belong to?" Quan Jiaying was wondering which small sect not only taught how to draw talismans, but also how to refine weapons.
Ye Su straightened her clothes and said seriously, "Qianji Sect."