Alchemy competition in Tianlan Sea.
Qin Ran secretly analyzed that if Mr. Zhai’s alchemy level was considered high-level in the Tianlan Sea, then it would not be a big problem for him to win first place in the competition.
After all, Mr. Zhai, as the personal alchemist of the owner of Longjing Island, was only a fourth-grade alchemist. It was no problem for him to refine sixth-grade elixirs.
But alchemy competitions don’t necessarily involve alchemy…
"The alchemy competition for the entire Tianlan Sea?" He looked at Pang Xuan's narrowed eyes and asked indirectly, "Is the prize very generous? It's worth organizing the risk to participate."
"That's not what you should be thinking about..." Pang Xuan noticed his intention and warned him, "What you should be thinking about is how to win the game."
"Yes!" Qin Ran nodded quickly and replied, "I will win the game. But you still need to tell me what the game is about, so I can make some preparations in advance."
"The competition is held by Hailang Sect. It is a traditional event in the Tianlan Sea area and is held every sixty years." Pang Xuan and Qin Ran explained in detail.
"The event will last from half a month to a month, but the official competition will last only four days. In four days, there will be four games, or in other words, four tests:
"On the first day, the alchemists are tested on identifying medicinal herbs. Being familiar with spiritual herbs and medicinal herbs is the basic skill of the alchemists. On the second day, the alchemists are tested on their control over their own elixir water and elixir fire, which is also a basic skill assessment. On the third day, Hailang Sect often gives the alchemists a fixed elixir to refine in order to test their alchemy ability. On the fourth day, the alchemists need to refine a furnace of elixirs by themselves.
"The assessment will last for four days. Every day, there will be high-level alchemists as judges and score the contestants. The total score of the four days will be the final score of the contestants, and then they will be ranked according to the score."
"It sounds like a normal competition..." Qin Ran breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If it's about these things, then I have no problem. I just need Manager Pang to give me some books on medicinal materials so I can review them."
“Hahaha…” Pang Xuan was very happy to hear Qin Ran say that. He laughed a few times and said, “I was right. I knew you could do it. Don’t worry, I’ll have someone send the herbal medicine books over right away.”
Pang Xuan recruited Qin Ran into the "Yuan" organization just to let him participate in this alchemy competition. He came to Qin Ran today to talk to Qin Ran about this matter.
So after he finished talking, he got up and left without staying for long.
Not long after Pang Xuan left, someone brought a bunch of medicinal books to Qin Ran. The efficiency was quite high.
The basic knowledge of alchemy and medicinal materials is extremely profound and vast. Even the most powerful alchemists all started by memorizing herbs.
Zhang Junyi has been learning for more than a year and is still memorizing herbs; when Li Shiyin was learning alchemy, she failed at this first step.
As for Qin Ran, he naturally had a solid foundation, and he remembered all the spiritual herbs and medicines. However, he only remembered enough about the medicinal materials in Lingnan Region. Although he had learned a lot of medicinal materials knowledge in the sealed space of Shenhua Old Demon in Tianhai Region, he still lacked basic knowledge of the entire basic medicinal materials in Tianhai Region, and still needed to learn systematically from the beginning.
Anyway, he has already safely entered the "Yuan" organization, and he is not planning to cause any trouble, so he is not in a hurry.
It is the original body that is causing trouble, and it is the original body that is anxious, so what does his clone have to do with it
He lived obediently in this underwater room, reading books, looking at the sea, counting fish every day, and occasionally practicing meditation. He had already secluded himself to prepare for the exam five years later.
He spent more than ten days in a row in this leisurely manner... For him, who was essentially a otaku, there was no difference between reading in this underwater room and reading in Danfeng.
But, as they say, the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop. He wanted to read books and prepare for the exam, but some people did not want him to be so comfortable.
who
The old man who is the chief alchemist.
Why? Why did the old man bother him
Let me ask, what does the chief alchemist do
The chief alchemist of Devil's Island is responsible for all the alchemists in the Devil's Island base. He is responsible for the life and death of the alchemists, whether the alchemists make pills or not, and how they make pills... He is responsible for everything related to the alchemists.
So, what does a specially hired alchemist do
He is responsible for providing technical guidance to alchemists in making elixirs.
When there is no specially hired alchemist, who is responsible for technical guidance
Chief Alchemist.
In other words, Kieran took away someone else’s power.
Another point is that there was no specially hired alchemist originally, but now a specially hired alchemist suddenly appeared. What does this mean? Doesn't this mean that the chief alchemist is not good enough
The existence of the specially hired alchemist is a slap in the face of the chief alchemist!
That day, Qin Ran was making tea in his room when suddenly...
“Bang, bang, bang!”
Someone knocked rudely on his door.
He activated the identity token with his spiritual sense, activating the formation on the stone door, making it transparent. He looked out and saw that the person knocking on the door was the chief old man. Behind the old man was a petite and lovely girl. Although the old man looked like he was coming with bad intentions, he remembered that the old man had helped him on the day of the altar, so he opened the door with a thought.
He put on a smile and asked the old man, "Chief, do you need me for something?"
The old man looked at Qin Ran who was sitting opposite him, then turned back to look at the stone door that had been opened out of thin air, and said, "You are quite perceptive. You figured out the identity token so quickly."
The identity token of the "Yuan" organization is much more powerful than that of the Daojianmen. Not only can it connect to the base's teleportation formation and switch between the alchemy area and the living area at will, but it can also use the token to control everything in your room.
"Haha." Qin Ran laughed and replied, "I have nothing to do these days, so I study the token day by day."
He motioned for the two to sit down and said, "I was just about to make some tea. It seems like a coincidence. How about sitting down and having a cup?"
The old man obviously didn’t come to chat with Qin Ran and drink tea. He didn’t come over. He stood at the door and gestured to the little girl behind him. Qin Ran said, “This is the third-rank alchemist Tan Yan. She encountered some minor problems when she was refining the elixir just now, so she came to ask the specially hired alchemist for help.”
"Third-rank alchemist... Tan Yan..." Qin Ran looked at the petite and lovely girl and said with a smile, "Alchemy is a delicate job, you can't be impatient, come and sit down, we can chat while drinking tea."
"You are not in a hurry." The old man sneered, "But if I can't make the elixir, I will be punished."
"Oh?" Qin Ran glanced at the old man and thought to himself, "It's none of my business." But he smiled and asked Tan Yan, "What kind of elixir are you refining?"
"Cloud Spirit Pattern Pill." The little girl replied softly.
“Oh… Cloud Spirit Pattern Pill.” Qin Ran nodded. He didn’t know what it was. He asked again, “Do you have a recipe?”
"have… "
Before Tan Yan finished speaking, he was interrupted by the old man: "This is the elixir ordered by the Saint, but there is no recipe!"
Saint? Qin Ran thought of those eyes again.
"No recipe?" He looked at the old man, "How do you make the pill without a recipe?"
"It's refined based on the medicinal materials and elixir effects dictated by the saint." said the old man.
Qin Ran took out a pen and paper and gestured to Tan Yan: "What did the Saint say, what are the herbs, and what are the requirements?"
The old man interrupted again: "How can the words of the Saint be passed on to outsiders? You are trying to find out about the Saint, what are you thinking?!"
"Hmm..." Qin Ran held the pen between his fingers, tapped the pen tip on the paper, and asked Tan Yan, "Miss Tan, did you make a record of the alchemy?"
"What?" This time it was Tan Yan who was confused. What alchemy record? What was that
"You are having trouble refining the elixir." Qin Ran continued, "Have you ever refined this elixir before?"
Tan Yan looked at the old man, who hesitated to speak, but did not say that he had not refined it. Because if it had not been refined, then Qin Ran would have asked them to refine it first. And how could they say there was a problem if they had not refined it yet
"Yeah." Tan Yan nodded.
"Show me the waste pill." Qin Ran gestured with his hand.
"What do you want to do with the wasted pill? This is the pill the Saint needs! It's an organization secret!" The old man still didn't want to give it.
Qin Ran looked past the old man and looked at Tan Yan, smiling and said, "The pill formula, the Saint's instructions, and the waste pill. If you want me to help you, you have to give me at least one of them. If you don't have any of them, you can go back. I can't help you."
"Aren't you a specially hired alchemist? Can't you do this?" The old man sneered, "What use are you for?"
"You are the chief alchemist!" Qin Ran asked, "Can you solve it?"
If the old man could solve it, why would he use it to embarrass him
"If you want my help, just bring out the recipe and the waste pills." He replied, "If you don't want my help, please leave. I'm busy."
He said, motioning with the identity token in his hand to force them out.
"You!" The old man didn't expect Qin Ran to be so single. He pointed at Qin Ran, not knowing what to say.
It was still Tan Yan. She was punished for not being able to refine the elixir, so she looked at the old man, took out an elixir recipe, and took out a porcelain bottle. She walked past the old man and in front of Qin Ran, saying:
"The recipe is fine, and the medicine is fine too. The problem is that the Saint suddenly asked for the Golden Cloud Spiritual Pattern Pill, and I can only refine the white cloud spiritual pattern, not the golden cloud spiritual pattern."
Qin Ran took the recipe and the pills and placed them on the table beside him. He first poured a cup of tea for Tan Yan, and then picked up the recipe to study it carefully.
He read it very carefully, thinking and calculating as he read. It was a prescription that took Tan Yan so long to finish reading even after he had finished drinking his tea.
He poured another cup of tea for Tan Yan before finishing reading the prescription.
After reading the recipe, he poured out another pill and looked at it. The pill had a sky blue base and white cloud patterns all over it, which was very beautiful.
He sniffed the pill, and the smell alone made him so excited that he felt dizzy. He finally spoke up and asked, "Is this used by the Saint to practice martial arts?"
Tan Yan was stunned and quickly shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Judging from her expression, she obviously knew that elixirs were used for the saint to practice some kind of enchanting technique by stimulating life potential.
Qin Ran knows about elixirs and has some knowledge of martial arts, so he can roughly deduce it.
Thinking of that pair of eyes, he sighed secretly, and just said to Tan Yan: "The method of refining the pill is correct, but the purity of the extracted medicinal power is not enough. The golden pattern is actually the top-grade Yunling Pattern Pill. Yours is only a medium-grade one."
"You know it just by looking at the recipe?" the old man sneered.
"Yes or no, why don't you go and refine a furnace of top-grade Cloud Spirit Pattern Pill?" Qin Ran replied.
"Top-grade..." The old man laughed up to the sky, "You are indeed a small islander who got the opportunity out of nowhere. You can just refine a furnace of top-grade elixirs. How can you say such a thing?"
"What grade is the Yunlingwen Pill?" Qin Ran asked Tan Yan.
"Fourth rank."
"With a fourth-grade elixir, is there anything that can't be refined into a top-grade one?" Qin Ran was puzzled.
Tan Yan opened his mouth and said weakly, "I really can't refine it."
"We can't make it, but judging from what the specially hired alchemist said, it's a very simple matter..." The old man smiled and said, "How about you make one for us to see?"
Qin Ran looked at Tan Yan, then at the old man, and suddenly realized that it was not that they did not know how to refine the Golden Cloud Spiritual Pattern Pill. They just could not refine it, and wanted him to refine it... in order to put the blame on him.
Waiting for him here!
But he smiled and shook his head. He was worried about not being able to establish his authority, so he said, "What if I refine one furnace?"
The old man was laughing when he suddenly froze. He thought he had heard it wrong. He stared at Qin Ran and asked, "What did you say?"
He didn't expect Kieran to accept it so easily.
Qin Ran drank his tea calmly and said, "This pill may be difficult for you..."
He put down the teacup and stood up leisurely. "But to me, it's nothing."
"Let's go!" He gestured to Tan Yan, "Take me to where you make the elixir."
Things went so smoothly that Tan Yan couldn't believe it. She asked, "Really?"
Kieran smiled and nodded.
Tan Yan quickly took out his identity token and took Qin Ran and the old man into the alchemy area below.
The three of them walked into Tan Yan's alchemy room. Qin Ran took the spiritual herbs she handed over, checked the various alchemy instruments, and said to the old man standing by the door: "Chief, please close the door."
"Should I go out?" Tan Yan asked.
"Whatever you want." Qin Ran replied, "It's not an important pill."
Tan Yan opened his mouth but ultimately did not go out.
The door of the alchemy room was closed, and Qin Ran began to make the elixir.
He seemed extremely relaxed as he was refining the elixir and explaining it to Tan Yan.
The old man watched from the side and sneered secretly. He still didn't believe that Qin Ran could refine the top-grade Golden Cloud Spiritual Pattern Pill.
Best...
No matter what, it is difficult to achieve the ultimate and become the strongest.
Even if it's just eating, it would be incredible if you eat to the extreme.
Even if it is a first-grade elixir, it requires a certain level of skill to refine it to the best quality.
What’s more, it’s a fourth-grade elixir
The old man felt that he only needed to wait quietly for Kieran to fail.
But slowly, he felt something was wrong.
He watched Qin Ran refining the elixir with ease and listened to his in-depth and easy-to-understand explanation to Tan Yan, and felt that something was not right.
This guy seems to have something in his hands.
As time went on, Qin Ran's Shenhua Xianning took action, wrapped all the medicinal materials, and began to extract the essence of the medicinal power.
The old man suddenly realized: "That's the Shenhua Xian Ning?!" This kid has inherited the legacy of the old demon Shenhua!
Qin Ran finished purifying and began to mix the liquid. The old man looked at the extremely pure liquid medicine, which gradually turned golden as it was mixed, and his expression gradually became more exciting.
After the liquid was mixed, Qin Ran easily extracted the Shenhua Xian Ning, and seven golden Yunlingwen pills appeared in his palm.
"Top-grade Cloud Spirit Pattern Pill!" Tan Yan exclaimed.
The old man looked over and saw the pill in Qin Ran's hand. He looked at Qin Ran again and immediately realized that they were not on the same level.
It is impossible for such a person to stay in this small Devil's Island and the small Tianlan Sea forever.
"What level of alchemist are you?" he asked Qin Ran.
Qin Ran clenched his hand and grabbed the pill in his hand. With his other hand, he took a porcelain bottle and dropped the pills into the bottle one by one.
He and the old man laughed and said, "Immortal product."
The old man was shocked and opened his mouth wide. He wanted to say he didn't believe it, but the golden pills one after another confused his mind.
Qin Ran casually threw the porcelain bottle to Tan Yan and turned to leave the alchemy room. He was about to leave when something happened.
Tan Yan held the pill in his hand and looked at Qin Ran's back, his mind puzzled: "Is the best pill so simple?"