"Your Majesty, this seems unfair. My concubine chose a fourth-grade elixir, but Princess Ye chose a fifth-grade elixir. The difficulty of alchemy is completely different." The queen mother frowned.
Facing the Queen Mother's doubts, Emperor Xia already had a countermeasure.
"Mother, the imperial alchemist not only has a great responsibility, it also represents the face of my alchemist in Daxia. Just now, there are more than a dozen kinds of pills written by Zhenzhen, and half of the fourth-rank and fifth-rank pills. My concubine and Ye Jun The probability of being selected by the master is half and half, and I am not partial to anyone. Or, Princess Ye can't even refine the fifth-grade elixir. If you are the imperial alchemist of Daxia, you can't even refine the fifth-grade elixir Wouldn't it be ridiculed by alchemists from other countries?" Emperor Xia explained calmly.
In fact, there was only one fourth-grade elixir that he wrote down, which was the one selected by the concubine.
But at this time, who would question Emperor Xia.
"Queen Mother, what the emperor said is correct, Ling Yue is willing to give it a try." Ye Lingyue sneered in her heart, but her face was full of humility.
It's impossible to think that she is blind, even a fool can see that Emperor Xia and Concubine Yao are singing together.
Look down on her, she just makes these arrogant guys stunned.
The two of them each took the elixir and began to refine the elixir.
"Longyu, did Lingyue refine a fifth-grade elixir earlier?" The queen mother was worried and asked Master Longyu.
"This... as far as I know, Lingyue has only refined the fourth-grade elixir at most, and it should be the first time she has refined this Qixin elixir." Master Longyu was also a little flustered at the moment.
If he had known that Emperor Xia would be so partial, he would rather go to battle himself.
But this time it was too late to regret, Ye Lingyue and Yaobi had already entered their respective alchemy chambers.
After an hour, my concubine walked out of the alchemy room first, and she already had ten fourth-grade elixir, Yuehua Pill, in her hand.
Even the picky Longyu master was a little surprised when he saw those Yuehua pills. Among the ten pills, eight were blue-patterned, two were yellow-patterned, and none of them were ordinary pills.
Such a ratio of alchemy is comparable to some alchemists with six or seven tripods.
This young concubine is good at alchemy, no wonder the queen mother invited Master Longyu to do it herself.
After a while, Ye Lingyue also came out.
"My dear apprentice, how is it? You have refined the Qixin Pill?" Master Longyu rushed forward to meet him.
"Refinement is refined, but the fineness..." Ye Lingyue had a melancholy look on her face, and she was hesitant to talk.
After listening to Master Longyu and the Queen Mother, their hearts sank.
Concubine Yao and Emperor Xia were secretly happy, the fifth-grade elixir, the other party was just a four-cauldron alchemist, it would be great if he could refine one and a half pills.
As she said that, when Ye Lingyue slowly poured out her elixir, five elixirs rolled out of the medicine bottle first, they were indeed Qixin pills, but the quality was very ordinary, just ordinary Qixin pills.
"After all, this is the first time you have refined a fifth-grade elixir, and the success rate is already very good." Master Longyu comforted Ye Lingyue.
But before Master Longyu finished speaking, several pills rolled out of the medicine bottle. Unlike the ordinary pills earlier, the five remaining seven-star pills in the bottle all had a flashing streak on the pills that looked like moonlight. like yellow lines.
"Five Yellow Pattern Qixin Pills?" Master Longyu was at a loss for words.
"I also refined ten pills. It was the first time I refined them. It didn't feel very good. I could only refine five pills with yellow patterns. I wasted a lot of medicinal materials and lost the face of your old master, Ling Yue. He really deserves death." Ye Lingyue looked heartbroken.
"Eh..." the corner of Master Longyu's mouth twitched fiercely.
This good apprentice of his is really good at getting cheap.
Five yellow-patterned pills, and they are still fifth-rank pills. Such a success rate of pills may only be achieved by high-level alchemists like Master Longyu.
If even such an alchemy rate is considered a waste, then my concubine's alchemy is simply a waste of money.
Comparing my concubine and Ye Lingyue, I can see who is superior.
After being told by Ye Lingyue, Yaobi's expression is not very good.
"Your Majesty, the outcome has been decided, this competition..." The Queen Mother smiled until her eyes narrowed into a line.
She really liked the second young lady of the Lan family more and more. Seeing the expression on the young concubine's face, the queen mother's heart was filled with joy.
"Mother, although Princess Ye has refined the yellow-patterned elixir, my concubine has also refined the blue-patterned elixir. In this competition, if we really want to judge the result, I think it should be considered a draw." Emperor Xia's eccentricity , which made the Queen Mother and Master Longyu very dissatisfied.
But Emperor Xia is the empress dowager's own flesh and blood, so it is not easy for the empress dowager to slap him in the face in public.
Anyway, Ye Lingyue has already won one and one tie, and in the last round of the competition, he only needs to draw to win. Master Longyu and the queen mother are full of confidence in Ye Lingyue's victory.
Identifying the pills and refining the pills is over, what should be the third round of the competition, for a while, the queen mother and the emperor also lost their minds.
"Your Majesty, when it comes to alchemy, Master Longyu is undoubtedly the most influential person in Xiadu today. How about having Master Longyu come up with the questions for the third round?"
Emperor Xia was noncommittal, and secretly murmured in his heart that Master Longyu was the master of Princess Ye, so he would obviously favor Ye Lingyue.
Seeing this, Master Longyu smiled.
"This old man is Ling Yue's master. He presides over the final round of competition. I'm afraid some people will not be convinced. The old man has an idea. When I was young, in order to improve my alchemy skills, I often competed with my junior brother. The specifics The way is to each choose a kind of elixir that they are good at, and let the other party refine it, and whoever fails to refine it will be considered a loser."
Ye Lingyue and Yaobi are no strangers to the method of sparring mentioned by Master Longyu.
In the Alchemist Association, this alchemy mode is called Bidan.
It's just that for ordinary bidans, all the pills are refined below the sixth grade, because the refining steps of the pills above the sixth grade are complicated and the materials consumed are also expensive.
Both Ye Lingyue and Yaobi had no objection to this, and after discussing for a while, they decided to take Bidan as the third round of competition.
For Bidan, my concubine is full of confidence.
She is a few years older than Ye Lingyue, and has followed a famous teacher since she was a child. She has refined and seen many more types of elixirs than Ye Lingyue.
As the concubine spoke, she took out a sachet that she carried with her, and took out a pill from it.
The elixir was golden in color and exuded a charming fragrance. The most special thing was that the elixir was round and transparent, like a precious pearl, shining brightly.
When seeing this elixir, Master Longyu couldn't help but gasped.
It was a third-grade Baixiang elixir. The elixir itself was not of high quality, but it was definitely not something that could be refined casually, because there was a crescent-like red pattern flashing on the elixir.
Red-pattern Passion Pill, the top-grade elixir among the three ranks.