Chapter 172: Princess Xuefei's Purpose?
After Princess Xuefei appeared, she just nodded slightly, and without speaking, she walked to her seat. Bai Jun didn't feel strange when he saw this, he just smiled faintly: "Princess Xuefei is here by order this time, and the top three in this alchemy conference will be rewarded by the royal family." ”
Bai Jun's words immediately caused the following alchemists to exclaim, since the alchemy conference was held, the royal family had never been heard of participating in it, and this time the empire actually sent Princess Xuefei over, which was really incomprehensible.
Everyone is speculating, what is the royal family's reward, is it related to Princess Xuefei in front of him?
Xiao Ling glanced at Princess Xuefei slightly, only to see the latter sitting quietly in the seat, full of grace and luxury, and always maintained a light smile on her intoxicating face, and the pair of bright dark eyes swept over Xiao Ling inadvertently, just stayed for a moment, and then moved to other places.
didn't find anything special, and Xiao Lingsuo retracted his gaze.
Princess Xuefei represents the royal family of the Lingyun Empire, and her identity is naturally extraordinary, since she has come out, it means that this session of the Alchemy Conference is about to begin.
"You say, why did this Princess Xuefei appear here, didn't the royal family generally not interfere in the affairs of the Dan Domain, and the Dan Domain was not under the jurisdiction of the royal family, why did the royal family send someone over this time, and seeing that Elder Lieyan looked indifferent, he didn't seem to object to this at all. ”
"You say that, I think about it, Elder Lieyan hasn't always had a good impression of the royal family, but at this moment, he is willing to sit with Princess Xuefei, is this Princess Xuefei so charming?"
"Shhh ”
Xiao Ling listened to the whispers of the two alchemists behind her, and then turned her gaze to Princess Xuefei's side, and sitting on her left hand hand was Elder Zixuan, the only woman among the three elders of the Dan Domain who was present today.
In this way, it was obvious that sitting on the right hand side of Princess Xuefei, the old man in red robe and with a radiant face was Elder Lieyan.
That is the Flame Elder of the Dan Domain?
From the discussions of the people around him, Xiao Ling also got a lot of deeds about this person, it is said that this Lie Yan Ping rarely appears in the Dan Domain, but loves to travel around.
However, even so, in the Dan Domain, Lieyan's prestige, even compared to Bai Jun, is more than equal, even if Bai Jun sees Lieyan, he must politely perform the gift of a disciple, the reason is very simple, before Bai Jun made his career, Lieyan took care of him a lot, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the grace of knowing him.
Not only Bai Jun, but in the Dan Domain, there were many extremely high-achieving disciples, and more than half of them had received the guidance of the scorching flame. Therefore, although Lieyan rarely appears in the Dan Domain, everyone in the Dan Domain respects him.
Eyebrows raised slightly, Xiao Ling looked at the glowing face and ruddy complexion, and there was some surprise in his eyes, in this way, this old man should actually be the real big man in this alchemy conference.
As if sensing the gaze of his gaze, Lie Yan, who had a peaceful face, suddenly turned his head and cast his seemingly blank gaze on Xiao Ling's side, revealing a kind smile on his ruddy face.
Seeing that the old man turned his head to look over, Xiao Ling also had a slight admiration for this old man who had cultivated so many outstanding disciples, and couldn't help but bow slightly.
Seeing this, Lie Yan paused slightly, then smiled and nodded, and then withdrew his gaze.
Immediately, Lie Yan said softly: "I didn't expect to meet an interesting little guy just here, it seems that this conference is another one with many talents!"
"Who is Elder Lieyan talking about?" Princess Xuefei on the side asked with a light smile when she heard this.
"An interesting young man, I felt a very familiar aura from him, and he just glanced at me, and he was able to stand out from the crowd of sights, and made me feel, it can be seen that this little guy is not simple. Lie Yan smiled faintly.
Xue Fei followed Lieyan's gaze, but there were too many alchemists below, and Xuefei couldn't see Xiao Ling, so she had to withdraw her gaze, and then changed the topic and said: "This time, I still have to feel the help of Elder Lieyan, if it happens, Xue Fei will definitely repay it at that time." ”
Waving his hand, Lie Yan said lightly: "Fei girl, you know that I don't like such politeness, if it weren't for your face, with my surname in exchange for other royal families, I would definitely not agree, as for what to repay, there is no need to mention it." ”
Xue Fei smiled and said, "Fei'er knows." ”
Nodding slightly, Lie Yan stopped talking, but looked at Xiao Ling with interest, and as time gradually moved around, the time for the start of the conference finally came slowly under the attention of everyone.
When a crisp bell rang in the square, the noise that rose to the sky was silent.
Listening to the sound of the bell lingering in his ears, Lie Yan stood up from his seat, and then slowly walked to the front of the VIP seat, his gaze swept over the thousands of alchemists sitting behind the bluestone platform below, at this time, as many as two thousand alchemists also raised their heads and cast their eyes in awe on this old man who had a high reputation in the Dan Domain, and even in the alchemy world.
Standing at the front desk of the VIP seats, Lie Yan looked at the crowded square, and after a while, he chuckled: "Now, please all the contestants, get ready." ”
With the sound of the voice, more than two thousand alchemists were also ready.
Standing quietly in front of the smooth bluestone platform, Xiao Ling's eyes swept over the platform and found that on the stone platform, a medicinal herb was neatly stacked, in front of the medicinal material, a tissue paper was lying quietly, in addition, in front of the bluestone platform, there was also a jade pendant, and the faint blue light flickered.
Taking the tissue paper in his hand, Xiao Ling's eyes swept over, and he was a little stunned to find that this was actually the formula of a three-pin pill, you must know that the person who can be selected to participate in this conference is at least a senior alchemist.
A mere three-grade pill is not difficult for these people present at all.
Then after taking a closer look, Xiao Ling was suddenly a little speechless, this prescription was obviously just such a casual copy of the amount of medicinal materials and other things, and the description was even more vague.
In other words, the things recorded on this thin paper only tell you the general refining method, other details, etc., and you need to grasp it yourself, which undoubtedly raises the failure rate of refining pills to a terrifying point.
What made Xiao Ling completely speechless the most was the medicinal materials placed on the stone platform, which was clearly only the amount of refining two pills, that is to say, everyone only had two failure rates, if after the medicinal materials were completely consumed, there was still no finished pill, then it was obvious that you had failed, and the end of failure was to exit.
"Sure enough, it's worthy of the alchemy conference held by the Dan Domain, this kind of difficulty is really not ordinary. Holding the tissue paper, Xiao Ling shook his head with a smile, turned his head to look around, and found that many alchemists had some bitterness on their faces, and turned their heads to look at the young man on his right hand who had mocked him before, and found that he was much calmer, and now he was frowning slightly and carefully reading some of the few refining problems recorded on the thin paper.
"It seems that this guy has some skills, and he is not incompetent. Xiao Ling thought to herself.
Seeing that everyone's attention was focused on the formula, Xiao Ling had to also focus on the thin paper, this kind of alchemy conference assessment was something he had never participated in, so he really had some apprehension in his heart.
After all, he can be regarded as a halfway monk, and he has only been in contact with alchemy for a month, and his understanding of pills is naturally not as good as that of other people around him, but the conference actually has such a strange exam question, which may increase the difficulty for others, but this is undoubtedly a great benefit to Xiao Ling.
Compared to the foundation of alchemy, Xiao Ling naturally couldn't compare with them, but his almost demonic sensitivity to pills, even if the formula didn't clearly state the amount of various spirit grasses, he could figure it out on his own.
On the huge square, all the contestants were holding tissue paper and reading carefully with various expressions on their faces, and for a while, the whole square was silent.
The quiet atmosphere lasted for nearly half a while, and a crisp bell rang quietly in the square.
Hearing the sound of the bell, all the contestants invariably put down the items in their hands, and with a move of their palms, in an instant, thousands of tripod furnaces of different colors and shapes suddenly appeared on the bluestone platform.
These alchemy furnaces have different shapes and colors, and some of them are extremely valuable, which undoubtedly does not attract the attention of everyone on the high platform.
Compared to these, the alchemy furnace in Xiao Ling's hand was a little shabby, although it also emitted a faint cyan light, but compared to the others around him, it was very dull.
In fact, Xiao Ling can't be blamed for this, after all, he has only been in contact with alchemy for a month, and originally bought this alchemy furnace just for practice, but at that time, he didn't know that a good alchemy furnace had greatly improved the success rate of alchemy.
On the side, the young man who had mocked Xiao Ling before, saw Xiao Ling actually take out such an ordinary alchemy furnace, and the sarcasm in his eyes was even stronger.
Pouting disdainfully, the young man withdrew his gaze and stopped paying attention to Xiao Ling.
As the bell rang, the flame with slightly closed eyes also opened his eyes, his gaze swept below, and the gentle voice resounded in everyone's ears: "Presumably you have also understood something, this first round of assessment requires you to refine the finished pill according to this incomplete prescription, each of you has two chances, after two times, the pill has not been successfully refined, then the jade pendant on the bluestone platform will automatically dim, the light will be dim, and the person will leave." ”
"You guys, clear?" said Blaze with a smile.
"Yes!" In the square below, the voice of the front road roared up like a muffled thunder.
"In that case, then the first round of assessment, now, begins!"
(To be continued)