"What kind of elixir are you going to make tomorrow?" Pang Xuan asked Qin Ran in the private room on the third floor of Yuanlai Teahouse.
After three consecutive days of getting top grades, he saw a real hope for his Devil Island branch to take first place, and his respect for Kieran also changed from superficial to genuine.
Qin Ran drank his tea, looked at the people coming and going on the street outside the window, and replied to Pang Xuan: "Do you have any fifth- and sixth-grade pill recipes prepared? Bring me a few and let me see them."
"Sixth-grade pill formula? Are you going to make a sixth-grade pill tomorrow?" Pang Xuan asked eagerly, "I do have a sixth-grade pill formula, but is it too late now?"
In such competitions, alchemists usually compete to refine their best elixirs. If they refine a completely unfamiliar elixir, they cannot even guarantee the success rate, which can easily make them a laughing stock.
"Isn't your recipe for the competition? Show it to me. Give me the fifth-grade recipe as well, so I can study it."
Qin Ran said, "Bai Tu and Dong Guanhai are both sixth-grade alchemists. If nothing unexpected happens, they will definitely refine fifth-grade pills to ensure the quality of the pills. So I will also refine fifth-grade pills."
Pang Xuan thought about it and took out five pill recipes and handed them to Qin Ran. They were two sixth-grade pill recipes and three fifth-grade pill recipes.
Qin Ran withdrew his gaze from the window, put down his teacup, took the prescription and looked at it carefully.
"Which one do you want to refine?" Pang Xuan asked with concern.
Qin Ran did not answer immediately. After reading the recipe, he replied, "I will make the Qingchen Pill."
"Clear Dust Pill?"
Pang Xuan frowned. The recipe he gave did not include Qingchen Pill.
"Yes..." Qin Ran said, "Qingchen Pill is the elixir of Shenhua Old Demon. When I was receiving the inheritance from Shenhua Old Demon, I refined it many times and can easily refine the top-grade Qingchen Pill."
Pang Xuan came to his senses and realized that Qin Ran had been preparing to refine the Qingchen Pill from the beginning.
"Then why did you ask me for the recipe?" he asked Qin Ran.
"Ha!" Qin Ran returned the recipe to Pang Xuan and said, "An alchemist cannot refuse a brand new recipe. I'll take it for research and academic discussion. Do you think there's anything wrong with it?"
"No... no problem." Pang Xuan took the recipe and carefully put it into the storage belt around his waist.
Only then did he realize that he had unknowingly received five high-level pill recipes for free.
The high-level pill recipes were the same as the peerless skills. They were equally precious, and equally likely to cause disputes and killings. If he threw out the five high-level pill recipes in his hand, it would immediately set off a bloody storm.
But, Qin Ran took his pill formula for free in just a few words... The key point is that he can't say anything yet.
He opened his mouth, but stopped talking.
"So what's the point of winning the alchemy competition?" Qin Ran asked, "Is it worth it for you to sacrifice so much for it?"
"It's related to the organization's layout and planning, and it's related to my future..." Pang Xuan said briefly, but he didn't want to say too much to Qin Ran, so he quickly changed the subject, "No one paid attention to you before. But now, you have three A grades and are in the top three, so you have to be careful."
Qin Ran asked, “Why, in such an alchemy competition, people from other forces want to kill me?”
"Not only that." Pang Xuan replied, "Other forces want to kill you, and Dong Guanhai wants to kill you too."
“Isn’t Dong Guanhai a member of the ‘Yuan’ organization?” Qin Ran realized what was happening and was shocked. “And he is from the Hailang Island branch! We are now in the Yuanlai Teahouse, which is their lair?!!!”
"Yes!" Pang Xuan nodded, "From the moment you received three A-levels, the Hailang Island branch has been full of hostility towards you.
"Perhaps, the tea you are drinking is poisonous..."
“Bang!”
The teacup in Kieran’s hand fell onto the table.
He suddenly stood up and flew out of the window.
Pang Xuan stopped him in time and asked, "What are you doing?"
“Run away!” Qin Ran looked at him and cursed, “You idiot, you brought me to the enemy’s lair, do you think I won’t die fast enough?!”
Pang Xuan asked Qin Ran calmly, "Where is this place?"
"Yuanlai Teahouse!"
"Who are we?"
“Someone from the Yuan organization?” Qin Ran was unsure.
"We are from the Yuan organization! There is no place on this island that is safer than here!" Pang Xuan said, "The people from the Hailang Island branch will take action, but they dare not do it openly.
"But if you go out, not only will the people from the Hailang Island branch take direct action, but people from other forces will also. Then, you will really have no way to survive."
Qin Ran thought about it for a while and figured it out. After all, he was a member of the organization. Even if there was internal strife in the "Yuan" organization, they would not dare to kill people directly like this. But Hailang Sect and other forces dared to kill people directly.
He calmed down and sat back down.
"You first mentioned an alchemy competition, but you didn't say we would encounter this kind of situation." He said to Pang Xuan, "It's just a competition, but you have to risk your life."
"Did you really not think of it?" Pang Xuan asked.
Given Qin Ran's vulgarity, would he not have anticipated this situation
"I want you to win first place in the alchemy competition. To win first place in the competition in the cultivation world, it is obviously not just a matter of strength." Pang Xuan poured himself a cup of tea.
"I don't believe you haven't thought of this. You went to the teahouse to make a deal with me that year, what you did on Dragon Whale Island, and your schemes to obtain Shenhua Xianning. You are not a simple person."
"Haha! So that's how it is?" Qin Ran laughed.
There were people inside and outside the teahouse who wanted to kill him, so Qin Ran didn't even leave the teahouse and sat in the private room on the third floor all night.
It was a restless night.
There were many people flying around in and out of the building, and the sounds of fighting never stopped. Other forces wanted to break in, but the forces of the "Yuan" organization fought them out; the Hailang Island branch wanted to enter the private room, and the Devil Island branch guarded the door with their lives.
It was not until dawn that the various noises inside and outside the Yuanlai Teahouse gradually subsided.
"Another bloody night." Qin Ran sighed.
He stood up and opened the door of the private room, and saw countless corpses and blood in the teahouse, which he had not yet dealt with. He walked out, leaving bloody footprints with every step, opened the door, walked to the street, and walked to the competition venue in the middle of the island.
With three A-levels, Qin Ran was now quite famous, and many people remembered him. When he walked over, many eyes looked at him.
He didn't care, walked through the crowd, went to the square, and stood in the position that belonged to him.
On the fourth day of the competition, you have to refine a pill at random.
If the third day is for assigned composition, then the fourth day is for self-assigned composition.
Contestants can do whatever they want, as long as they can refine a pill, whether it is first-grade or immortal grade, it’s up to the contestants.
You can prepare your own medicinal materials for alchemy, or you can use the medicinal materials provided by Hailang Sect.
Before the alchemy begins, there is a stage of preparing medicinal materials. At this time, you can go to the medicine pavilion of Hailang Sect to select the medicinal materials you need.
However, what medicinal materials can be found in the medicine cabinet depends on the ability of the contestants.
It is worth noting that the pills refined in the square today belong to the contestants themselves.
Therefore, whatever medicinal materials the contestant can get in the medicine cabinet and whatever pills he can make are all his own.
Qin Ran did not try to grab the herbs. He started making pills right from the start of the competition.
In fact, there were quite a few alchemists who did not go to grab the medicinal materials. All alchemists who were interested in ranking would not go to grab the medicinal materials provided by Hailang Sect, because no one could be sure that the medicinal materials provided by Hailang Sect were not problematic.
Qingchen Pill, Qin Ran had refined the top-grade Qingchen Pill many times in the sealed space. Moreover, he did not have Shenhua Xianning at that time. Now he has mastered Shenhua Xianning, so refining Qingchen Pill is too easy.
On the third day, he was the last one to finish refining a completely unfamiliar elixir. On the fourth day, he was the first one to finish refining a familiar elixir.
Many alchemists were still refining the essence of the medicine, and some alchemists had even finished refining before they returned from grabbing the herbs.
When this furnace of top-grade Qingchen Dan appeared on the competition field, the game had already lost its suspense.
Qin Ran picked one out at random and sent it to the referee's seat. Then, he put away the remaining top-grade Qingchen Pills and was the first to leave the competition venue.
While the other alchemists were still working hard on their elixirs, he slowly walked out of the competition venue in full view of all the spectators and all the observers.
"You came out so soon?" Pang Xuan frowned, "Can you take first place?"
Qin Ran threw a top-grade Qingchen Pill to Pang Xuan and said, "If this doesn't take first place, it won't be my problem."