Chapter 194: The Beginning
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It was nearly midnight and the cold moon was hanging high. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The autumn weather is not as cold as winter, but it can make people feel lonely.
Chong Shuyao watched the boundless fallen trees fall down, the cold wind rolled up the fallen leaves, floating around her, and her gaze wandered among the fallen leaves.
She rarely wore a shirt that was not showy, and the shirt was still red, but it looked very old, as if it had been washed and faded, and she was wrapped in an old shirt alone in the cold wind, and stood alone under a plane tree, and she looked full of thoughts.
"The autumn wind rises, the leaves drift away, where to return at the end of the world. Chong Shuyao read lightly in his mouth, his hands were clenched tightly, and there seemed to be an unstoppable killing intent in his eyes, "Immediately, everything will be over." ”
She gently picked up a dead leaf that happened to fall on her, "I want to become a fallen leaf, and leave here forever with the wind." ”
The next day was the final of the Alchemist Competition.
The finals started at noon and took place on Qixia Mountain.
Qixia Mountain is dangerous and the peak stands upright, straight into the clouds, every day when the sunset sets in the West Mountain, the sunset in the sky seems to be hazy and light veil covering the mountain, so it is called "Qixia".
At the same time, it is also a mountain full of spiritual energy, and it cannot be said that there are many treasures everywhere, but there are also many rare and exotic beasts. Every year, the finals of the Alchemist Contest are held there, and the momentum is huge, and the scale of the competition is completely different from the previous ones, and it is estimated that half of the people in Dingtian City will come to see the excitement.
At the same time, the elders of the Alchemist Guild will also put down everything at hand and come to the finals, which is the annual event of the Alchemist Guild, and no one will be absent without special reasons.
Ye Shuo and Qi Lan had already set off very early, and on the way to Qixia Mountain, they could see that the mountainside was full of people, and many of them were not alchemists. They were all people in Dingtian City or the surrounding towns, crowded on this mountain, just to come to watch this huge competition.
There are also many dignitaries who know at a glance that they are high-ranking officials and nobles with thousands of dollars.
Most of them sat in palatial palanquins, with attendant maids. The sedan chair drivers carried the sedan chair and walked on the mountain road with difficulty, which made the mountain path more crowded in this so-called grand pomp.
There are no artificially carved mountain roads on Qixia Mountain, they are some trails that come out because people have walked more, and there are many cliffs in Qixia Mountain itself, and it is really not easy to go up the mountain.
But even on this day, anyone who has the ability will inevitably go up the mountain to see this grand occasion.
Fortunately, Ye Shuo and Qi Lan are here to participate in the competition, so they can take another special channel.
The special passage is on the north side of Qixia Mountain. The north side of Qixia Mountain is a cliff with a vertical angle and almost 90 degrees.
The cliff was almost as if it had been split by a knife, and the rock wall was so smooth that there was not a single plant or tree, and it stood bare.
The Alchemist's Guild made a special trip to build a ropeway there for the purpose of going up the mountain.
Ye Shuo looked up at the cableway in front of him, and the cableway went straight up and down, with no slope at all.
He looked at Qi Lan worriedly, "Qi Lan, this ropeway is so high, aren't you afraid?"
After Ye Shuo asked this, he found that Qi Lan's face was already pale at this time.
"Every year, I have to endure this kind of fear! In the past, I finally had some courage in my heart for the road to my championship, but now that I have won the championship, the desire in my heart is not as strong as before, I ...... I, I can't find any reason to convince myself to climb this 'road of death!!"
"'The Road to Death'? It's okay, you can't die if you fall. Yes!...... No, it won't fall!" Ye Shuo watched Qi Lan's frightened expression continue to expand, and suddenly changed his words.
"It's not a question of whether the ropeway will fall off this time. Qi Lan looked resentful, "I don't even know what I climbed so high this time, obviously there are more terrible things waiting for me above." ”
"Qi Lan, don't worry, didn't the master say it, although he can't completely destroy the spirit descent technique on you, but he can cut off the connection between the two of you when Chong Shuyao casts a spell on you, so that you will be safe!" Ye Shuo hurriedly comforted his junior brother who had been frightened for a whole night.
Ye Shuo still remembered yesterday, when Master Yunxing said, "I naturally don't have a way." At that time, Qi Lan almost rolled her eyes and fainted.
At that time, Qi Lan was thinking about a mantra of great compassion to surpass himself, and he was already wondering if he would encounter such a thing after doing too many things that he usually lacked virtue, but Qi Lan thought about it, and the only thing he did was not very moral, that is, raising the price of the elixir refined by his master at the auction venue, and drugged his senior brother in the drink.
But in the end, the unlucky ones were all himself!!
"It's not too early, let's go up!" Ye Shuo didn't care about Qi Lan's heartache, "Master also said that the Spiritual Descent Technique does not kill people, and now that we have all taken defensive measures, don't worry too much." ”
After Qi Lan heard this, he wanted to say a few more words to express that he was actually not so vulnerable, indicating that he would still go up to the cableway, but Ye Shuo couldn't help but drag him onto the cableway.
As a result, Qi Lan's heart-rending shout immediately came from the cableway, "Let me go down!" Qi Lan held the safety rope in his hand tightly, and didn't even dare to open his eyes.
Not long after, the two finally came to the top of the mountain, Ye Shuo only felt that his field of vision was suddenly wide, and the top of Qixia Mountain was artificially transformed into an open platform, which was so large that it could accommodate at least tens of thousands of people at the same time.
"The finals, it's really different!" Ye Shuo looked around like a tourist.
On top of that huge platform, it was also a little crowded at this time.
In addition to the staff sent by the Alchemist Guild on the platform, there are also some alchemists, but most of them have been eliminated.
Because of the last rematch, a lot of alchemists were brushed down, and this time there were less than thirty alchemists who entered the finals.
Qi Lan mentioned to Ye Shuo that in the last competition, there were at least 100 people who entered the finals.
In this way, the chance of becoming the champion is one in thirty, which seems to be a greater probability, but both of them know in their hearts that this time the competition is far more intense than the previous competition.
If the previous competition was a competition between alchemists, then this competition is more like a battle between alchemists.
Qi Lan motioned to Ye Shuo to stop wandering around, there was still some time before noon.
On the platform, there is a special building, which is used to rest the alchemists participating in the competition.
There is a separate room in the building, and Ye Shuo and Qi Lan found a room where no one was there to enter.
The lounge was spacious and exceptionally comfortably furnished. Speaking of which, since the start of the Alchemist Competition, Qi Lan hadn't slept well for three days in a row.
As soon as she came to such a comfortable lounge, Qi Lan lay down on the soft couch, and not long after she closed her eyes, she was about to snore.
Although Ye Shuo was not as sleepy as Qi Lan, he was affected by him, and he unconsciously began to doze off, anyway, someone will notify him when the game starts, isn't it good to rest for a while now?
At noon, the shadow cast by the sundial hands on the platform has become an origin.
In the very center of the platform, there is a slightly descending square. This square is the venue for the alchemists to compete.
However, apart from the fact that there was no one in the square, the rest of the place was already crowded, especially the area closer to the square. People are eager to fold themselves and stand, after all, the closer they get, the more clearly they can see.
Although the distance between the judges' stand and the square is a little far, due to its high position, on the judges' stand, you can not only see everything on the square, but also see everything on the entire platform.
Chi Yunshi stood on the judges' stand on a high place, staring at everything in the audience.
In front of me, the platform was full of people, and in my ears, there was a deafening noise, "It's so lively." A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "I like this atmosphere the most." ”
"Master Yunxing, what do you think, do you like this kind of atmosphere?" he asked as he turned to Master Yunxing.
At this time, Master Yunxing sat peacefully in his chair, "From an alchemist's point of view, I prefer a quiet environment. ”
"Oh, yes, but it's a pity that no one knows about it, even though he has refined the miraculous medicine of the world by himself. But it's like a brocade night walk, what's the use?" Chi Yunshi watched the crowd of people under the judges' stage, and a sense of pride hit him in his heart.
"Just like walking in the night of brocade clothes? refining the pill is not for the sake of being worshipped, sometimes a perfect and rare pill needs to take several years, or even more than ten years to refine, can have such persistence, without an indifferent and quiet heart, how can it be done?
By the way, Chiyun Shi, it seems that you haven't successfully refined more than six grades of pills. When Master Yunxing replied to Chi Yunshi, his tone was unhurried, but it instantly angered him.
Because Chi Yunshi had indeed not successfully refined more than six grades of pills, when he heard this, he suddenly felt a strong and extreme hatred stirring up in his heart, and this hatred was also mixed with extreme dissatisfaction and deep jealousy.
But Chi Yun Shi is not an impulsive person, not to mention, soon, he will be able to completely trample Master Yunxing under his feet. After clenching his fist, he slowly let go, and he was trying to suppress this hatred.
"Yunxing, what are you proud of?" Chi Yunshi said secretly in his heart, a smug smile appeared on his face again, "Soon, it won't be long before your apprentices will be defeated, and my apprentice will become the champion of this Alchemist Competition."
And...... I'm going to be the leader of this Alchemist's Guild!!"
The host's voice rang out again.
Only this time his tone was no longer as oily and smooth as before, and he looked much more serious, after all, this was the final final.
"Everyone, be quiet. The host's voice became unexpectedly powerful and powerful, and on this platform, it lasted for a long time, and the noise of the crowd under the stage gradually subsided.
And with the movement in his hand, on the square in the center, several secret doors suddenly appeared, and after a few roars, dozens of medicine tripods rose on the square.
The medicine tripods were unified in a dark red, although they were dark red, the color was not dim, on the contrary, they were still shining under the sun.
"Red Streamer!?" Among the people looking around, someone already recognized it.
"In the last competition, I didn't use the red streamer, but this time, the guild is really generous!" someone sighed.
"That's right, it's still so much! It's really hard to imagine what kind of powerful method the pill refined with the red streamer tripod will be, it's not in vain today, it can be an eye-opener!"
"Red Streamer Ding?" Ye Shuo had no interest in the medicine tripod, and searched for the knowledge that was forced to be poured in, the red streamer tripod was also considered a more advanced one among the many medicine tripods.
Ye Shuo is now more concerned about the alchemists around him. The alchemists who had entered the finals for less than thirty years were walking into the square.
Ye Shuo didn't like to remember people's faces, and basically there were no people he knew, but he saw Ye Lin, who was robbing him of the Danyang King Bone Stone, and Xiao Yunfeng, who was by Ye Lin's side at that time.
Ye Lin saw Ye Shuo and glared at him, Ye Shuo smiled helplessly.
But the only thing that caught Ye Shuo's attention was Zhou Linglang. The genius girl has completely lost her former self-confidence at this time. Although she also made it to the finals, she looked haggard and seemed to be under a lot of pressure. It seems that the previous game was really a big blow to her.
"The content of this competition is ......" Although the host's voice became serious, he still did not forget to hang people's appetites, and when the audience was waiting for him with bated breath, he just didn't say anything, and said for a long time: "In this competition, all the alchemists are refining the same elixir - 'Supreme Zengyuan Pill'." ”
When the host pronounced out the name, some of the audience members who knew how to refine medicine had already begun to sigh, "Oh my God!
The "Supreme Zengyuan Pill" is a six-grade pill, the grade is not the highest, but the refining process is extremely harsh, and even some elders in the Alchemist Guild cannot guarantee that it can be completely refined.
When the alchemists in the square heard this, their faces also changed suddenly. Since Ye Shuo's knowledge was forcibly instilled the day after tomorrow, he had to search in his mind every time to come to a conclusion, so that among the alchemists of this competition, he seemed to be very calm.
Chi Yunshi saw it in his eyes, and suddenly became murderous towards him. Even though this is just Ye Shuo's reaction being a beat slower than others.
"Due to the high difficulty of the competition, it is not required that you must succeed in refining, and the final evaluation will be evaluated according to the degree of completion. The host said, "So guys, please get started!"
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