At this time, Shu Qingran saw that Zhou Bo didn't speak, so he continued: "That Xin Yuan is my senior sister, a fifth-level pill pharmacist. It is also the favorite to win the championship this year. After a pause, he said, "But this Liu Dui is relatively unfamiliar to me, and he may be a master from other continents." ”

After listening to Shu Qingran's introduction, Zhou Bo really felt that the trip was worthwhile, he originally thought that he was already very powerful, but at this moment, he knew that there were actually these three rank pill pharmacists among the contestants, and he had already put away his contempt. The so-called knowing oneself and knowing the other side will win all battles, and now knowing the details of all the contestants is also very beneficial to tomorrow's competition.

While Zhou Bo was secretly thinking about it, Shu Qingran suddenly smiled and said, "Little brother, let's go, let's go bet too." As soon as he finished speaking, Shu Qingran walked to a gambling table next to him without waiting for Zhou Bo's consent.

"Little brother, who are you betting on as the champion?" Shu Qingran let go of Zhou Bo, and took out a handful of money tickets from the payment ring, looking like he was planning to press a few bets as well. Hearing this, Zhou Bo asked rhetorically: "Qingran, then who do you think is the champion?"

"Hehe...... Shu Qingran smiled embarrassedly before he said again: "Little brother, although I really want you to win the championship, but you are only a sub-level pill pharmacist, so ......"

Hearing this, Zhou Bo just smiled, he didn't blame Shu Qingran for not believing in himself, after all, the level of his sub-level pill pharmacist was too ordinary, so Shu Qingran felt that it was understandable that he couldn't win the championship.

Zhou Bo was thinking about it, Shu Qingran was holding the money ticket and shouting loudly: "I buy No. 18, No. 18 Xinyuan wins!"

Seeing this scene, Zhou Bo shook his head helplessly, he quietly left the casino without saying goodbye to Shu Qingran, he knew that the real battle would start tomorrow, and let the world know his strength tomorrow.

Got up early in the morning, Zhou Bo found that Guo Lao still hadn't come back, he was the only one in the room, and just sat up, Zhou Bo saw a note next to his pillow, which read: "Eight o'clock game, don't be late." ”

Zhou Bo thought that this should be Guo Lao's handwriting, and it seemed that he should have been here when he was asleep, but because he was from the same Qingmen, he couldn't accompany him to the game, and took a deep breath, Zhou Bo knew that he could only rely on himself today.

And at this time, he had just stood up, and Qinglong, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly smiled: "How is it? Are you confident of winning?" Zhou Bo heard Qinglong's familiar voice, and his heart warmed suddenly, isn't there still Qinglong with him! Thinking that he had been cultivating with Guo Lao recently, but he had ignored the Qinglong in his body, Zhou Bo suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

"Senior, there are a lot of masters in this competition, and I can't guarantee that I will win. Zhou Bo still told the truth, since he looked at the list of contestants with Shu Qingran yesterday, he has become a little unconfident, after all, there are still three Shijie Dan pharmacists participating in the competition, this is not a joke, if you meet a master like Dai Jin and Xin Yuan in the first round, wouldn't it be unlucky.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Qinglong heard Zhou Bo answer himself like this, he said quite angrily: "Zhou Bo, your strength is already very powerful, as long as you play well in this competition, it should not be a problem to enter the top ten." ”

Zhou Bo smiled bitterly, but still replied with a smile: "I hope." After speaking, he stopped talking, carefully checked the things he needed to bring, and found that there was nothing missing, and then walked out of the room and headed towards the Mortal Medicine Sect.

At this time, it was six o'clock in the morning, and there were still two hours before the competition, so Zhou Bo was not too anxious, walking on the streets of Yaowang Town, Zhou Bo saw that many of the participating pill pharmacists were walking towards Fan Yao Mountain like him, and the expressions on their faces were some heavy, some relaxed, which could be described as different.

Zhou Bo learned from Guo Lao's mouth that this alchemy competition was held for a total of five days, and in these five days, there were two kinds of preliminary examination and re-examination, and this preliminary examination was divided into three rounds, and only after all these three rounds were passed, they were eligible to enter the re-examination, so the steps were very cumbersome.

In the first round of the first test, the herbs are refined. This is also an assessment item for the level of the pill pharmacist, however, each year the alchemy competition is different because of the strength of the contestants, so this first round will be different, for example, if the strength of this session is weak, the competition will only allow you to refine one type of first-class herb, and if the strength is strong, then refine the second-level herb. But because this kind of assessment of refining herbs is too easy, there are not many people who can't be brushed off at all.

In the second round of the preliminary examination, the pill was successfully refined within the specified time. This round is a bit more difficult, usually within one hour, during this time, everyone has to refine the required grade and quantity of elixir for the competition, if they don't reach it, all of them will be brushed off. And this second round is the same as the first round, and the number and grade of the pills are also formulated according to the strength of the contestants, so the change range is also relatively large.

Finally, the third round, which is also the most difficult round, is to refine the unfamiliar elixir, all the prescriptions are provided by the organizer of the competition, within the specified time, to refine a third-level or fourth-level unfamiliar elixir, everyone has two chances, if they fail twice, they will be eliminated.

And to be able to pass these three rounds of the preliminary test, it is only after the first test, and there will be a more difficult retest later, and in Guo Lao's words, the rules of the retest are different every year, and you can only know after the start of the competition.

Thinking of this tedious and difficult competition, Zhou Bo sighed helplessly, it seems that it is really not easy for him to win the championship! At the same time, he also admires those who have won the championship from the bottom of his heart, because without extraordinary talent and cultivation, it is simply difficult to win the championship of this alchemy competition.

Before he knew it, Zhou Bo had already arrived at the cableway, and without waiting long, he stepped on the ropeway and strolled on the Fenglong River. And when he really set foot on the Fan Medicine Mountain, he took back the thoughts that had been cranky, and looked up towards the mountain road ahead, Zhou Bo knew that it was time to use the shadow movement method, so he did not hesitate to urge out a spiritual power, and quickly pulled it to his legs, and when the savings were almost over, Zhou Bo stomped his feet suddenly, and his body rushed forward like an arrow from the string.

Zhou Bo controlled his spiritual power very well, although the speed was very fast, but the phantom behind him did not appear, but even so, his speed was still much faster than the others, and he had already left them far away, just like that, Zhou Bo galloped in the dense forest of Fan Medicine Mountain under the surprised gaze of the people around him.

This time, Zhou Bo only took ten minutes to come to the top of Fan Yao Mountain, looking at the huge wooden door outside the Dan Medicine Master wearing a gorgeous medicine robe, at this time they were all excited, in and out, Zhou Bo suddenly felt that his green robe was very funny, just dressed like himself, no matter how he looked like a Pill Medicine Master!

Smiling self-deprecating in his heart, Zhou Bo joined the huge crowd and walked into the Mortal Medicine Sect, which was already full of people.

After entering the door, Zhou Bo found that everyone was walking in one direction, Zhou Bo knew that he must be going to the competition venue, at this time, Zhou Bo looked around again, wanting to see what was so special about this legendary Mortal Medicine Sect.

Zhou Bo found that the costume of the Fan Medicine Sect was not very gorgeous, and even a little dilapidated, showing the vigor of history, and each building looked dilapidated, as if no one lived at all.

And at this time, the green dragon in his body suddenly spoke: "The last time I came to the Fan Medicine Sect, it was the one when I won the championship of the Medicine Refining Competition in Qin Lu, it seems that after all these years, nothing has changed in the Fan Medicine Sect!"

Hearing Qin Lu, Zhou Bo knew that he was the Emperor of the Seven Ming Dynasties, a fourth-level master, but what Zhou Bo didn't know was that Qin Lu had actually won the championship of the Medicine Refining Competition, which was really unexpected by Zhou Bo.

"Senior, how come Qin Lu has won the championship of the Medicine Refining Competition?" Zhou Bo asked Qinglong suspiciously, only to hear Qinglong slowly explain: "Qin Lu was also a disciple of the Mortal Medicine Sect before, but later when he cultivated to a high level, he separated from the sect and cultivated on his own. Now that the time is counted, he should have won the 16th championship. ”

"Sixteenth ......"

Hearing this, Zhou Bo was shocked, and calculated in his heart, this session is already the twenty-second, so the sixteenth session is three hundred years ago! He was really surprised, he didn't expect that the old man with a rosacea nose would be the champion of the alchemy competition more than three hundred years ago, and now he is the famous Emperor of the Seven Ming Emperors of Gunan, which is really very powerful!

Seeing that Zhou Bo didn't speak, Qinglong knew that he must have been frightened by what he had just said, and at this time, he smiled again: "Actually, except for that Qin Lu Lao'er, there are several people in the Seven Ming Emperors who have won the championship of this alchemy competition. ”

"What?" Zhou Bo was startled again, and hurriedly asked, "Senior, who else is the Seven Ming Emperors?" He still knows Qin Lu, Jin Xiao and Ju Zongming, and he doesn't know anything about the identities of the other four Ming Emperors, but now when he saw Qinglong mention it, he suddenly became curious.

But Zhou Bo asked, it didn't mean that Qinglong would definitely tell the truth, he only heard Qinglong smile in a loud voice: "Haha...... Don't be curious, it is estimated that the Seven Ming Emperors will be here today, and you will know when you enter the arena. ”

Seeing that Qinglong said this, Zhou Bo didn't want to ask more, anyway, he would see real people in a while, would he be afraid that he wouldn't know their identity!

After walking with the crowd for nearly ten minutes, Zhou Bo suddenly saw a huge circular open-air building appear out of thin air in front of him, and Zhou Bo knew that these eight achievements were the competition field.

Seeing that the arena was about thirty meters high, and the diameter was difficult to calculate at all, Zhou Bo only stretched out his head to look at it, and felt that he should go directly to five hundred meters, which was very grandiose.

And the whole body of this arena is painted with gray plaster, which looks very simple, and under the round building, there are several passages that can be entered, and there are many people at the passage to check their identities, at this time it is already seven o'clock in the morning, only one hour before the start of the game, so many people have begun to line up in a long line, but although there are many people, everyone seems to be orderly and orderly.

Zhou Bo also began to line up, and when it was his turn to enter the arena, a disciple of the Fan Medicine Sect in his twenties asked politely, "Friend, are you a contestant?"

Zhou Bo hurriedly nodded: "Yes." With that, he handed him the Dan card and the registration form he had prepared.

"Huh...... You can keep the Dan brand by yourself. After looking at Zhou Bo's registration form, he said with a smile: "Friend, you are 681, and you will have to wait for some time to participate in the first round of the preliminary examination, so you can go to the waiting area and wait for a while." After speaking, he smiled and handed the registration form to Zhou Bo.

Zhou Bo had a good impression of this person, and he was also busy taking the registration form and thanking him repeatedly. After the registration form was collected, Zhou Bo entered the competition venue of the 22nd Alchemy Competition with the crowd.

After Zhou Bo entered the arena, he saw that there was a huge square arena in the arena, with a length and width of 100 meters, made of large gray bricks and stones, and outside the square arena was a circle of grand spectator seats, in the shape of a ladder, from Zhou Bo's point of view, it seemed to go straight to the sky, very magnificent.

At this time, the competition had not yet started, so the whole arena still looked a little chaotic, and from time to time there would be disciples of the Mortal Medicine Sect walking on the arena, nervously arranging something.

After taking two more steps, Zhou Bo saw that there were stairs on the left and right, and the disciples of the Fan Medicine Sect were still standing on both sides, and they saw Zhou Bo holding the Dan card in his hand, so they asked with a smile: "Friend, what is your number?"

"I'm six hundred and eighty-one. ”

Hearing this, the man smiled and said, "Six hundred and eighty-one will wait for a while before the competition starts, so you can follow me to the competition area and wait first." With that, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation.

Zhou Bo hurriedly followed him to the steps, and then he looked behind him again, and found that there was a new disciple of the Mortal Medicine Sect standing at the top of the stairs, smiling and waiting for the next contestant.

Following the disciples of the Fan Medicine Sect in front of him up the stairs, Zhou Bo came to the audience seat, and saw that there were already a lot of spectators sitting here, almost sixty percent, looking all over the field, Zhou Bo found that this audience seat was really not ordinarily big! After a cursory check, he found that there were more than 30 floors from top to bottom, and each floor of seats was surrounded by a large circle of the arena, so that this audience seat could accommodate about 50,000 people.

Just as he was sighing, Zhou Bo suddenly heard the man in front of him ask with a smile: "Friend, your name is Zhou Ju, right?" Hearing this, Zhou Bo nodded hurriedly and replied, "Yes." ”

The man smiled again and said, "Hehe...... My name is Zhang He, and I am a disciple of the Fengxian Sect of this Mortal Medicine Sect. After a pause, the Zhang He said with some pride: "This competition venue was built during the first medicine refining competition thousands of years ago, called the Natian Medicine Refining Field, which can accommodate a total of 58,000 people. When Zhang He spoke, there was a hint of smugness on his face, and it seemed that he was very proud that the Fan Medicine Sect had such a medicine refining field.

Zhou Bo nodded thoughtfully, and then asked, "Brother Zhang He, didn't the game start at eight o'clock, why did I have to wait in the waiting area?"

"Oh, Zhou Ju, you don't know anything! There were too many people participating in this competition, so the sect master decided to divide everyone into seven groups of 200 people in each group according to the order of registration. Speaking of this, he pointed to the registration form in Zhou Bo's hand and said, "You are ranked 681, that is the fourth group." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Bo realized that he dared to wait for others to finish the competition so early! Looking at the chattering audience around him, Zhou Bo suddenly felt a little nervous in his heart, and after a while, tens of thousands of people would watch him alchemy, this was the first time. Fortunately, Zhou Bo had a disguise mask to cover his face, which made him feel a little more at ease.

After chatting with Zhang He again, Zhou Bo came to the waiting area of the contestants, which is the same as the audience seat next to it, but it is separated from the audience by a partition.