Two days later, the Dansheng Competition kicked off on time at the Dancheng test venue, and when Mu Yi and others arrived at the venue, the stands around were already crowded.

Mu Yi arranged for Zhao Hong and the others to arrive at their respective competition positions, and then turned around and went to the stands, where there were seats specially prepared for the leaders of each city, which was not very crowded.

At this time, the participants in the field have arrived, and it is roughly estimated that there are tens of thousands of people, and many people have begun to light a fire to test the furnace, and the curling smoke is slowly wafting over the field.

The test field in Dancheng is very large, with a width of hundreds of zhang, and the surrounding stands are twenty zhang high, and the seats of different heights are arranged in a staggered manner, and Mu Yi's position is behind the judges' seat, and the sight is excellent.

Mu Yi paid attention, the people sitting on the judging table were all monks with white beards, there were seven of them, the old man in the middle was cultivated to the middle stage of the god transformation into a god, and he should have come to the town, and the remaining six cultivators were not very high, only up and down in the Yuan Infant Stage, but judging from their hands that were obviously blackened by fire, they were all alchemists with a very high level of alchemy.

Sure enough, the monks from all over the world who were waiting to participate in the competition had arrived, and the monk of the Transformation Stage who was sitting in the middle cleared his throat, used his spiritual power, and spread his voice to every corner of the venue: "Fellow monks, the once-in-a-century Dansheng Conference held in Dancheng today as scheduled is to uphold the will of Lord Dansheng and aim to cultivate a better alchemist for me than a Boxing cultivator. Today's judgment is presided over by me, Zhao Dan, the city lord of Dancheng, everyone should be convinced. ”

There was immediately a wave of applause in the field, Zhao Dan waved his hand, and an invisible coercion spread across the audience, and the venue immediately fell silent.

"In addition to me, there are also the six Dan Sect elders from my Dan City as judges. Without further ado, everyone must know the rules of this competition, so let's start the preliminary round. ”

As soon as Zhao Dan finished speaking, a stream of people immediately poured into the passage in the field, each holding a small box in his hand and placing it in front of the contestants one by one.

"This is the raw material of the Yellow Rank Superior Solid Qi Pill, presumably all the alchemists present know how to refine it, if they don't know, they don't have to stay in the field. The raw materials in the box can be used to refine a furnace of elixir, and the top 1,000 with the largest number of refining items will enter the semi-finals; if the quantity is the same, the one with the highest quality of the elixir wins; if the quality is the same, the one with the shortest time wins. Now the game begins. Zhao Dan's words were very casual, no wonder, with the power of Dancheng, there was no need to give others a good look.

The Solid Qi Pill Mu Yi knows that it is a very common pill taken by peak monks in the late stage of Qi refining, and the effect is that it is a solid Qi Peiyuan, which can assist the monks in the Qi refining stage to impact the liquid stage. Zhao Hong and Xia Qinghan don't know how many times they have been refining, and they are already familiar with it.

However, the exam questions in Dancheng are very special, requiring alchemists to refine pills as much and as quickly as possible, which depends on the alchemist's grasp of the heat and the control of the technique, which is also a big test for the alchemist. One furnace of elixir can refine twelve pills at most, and only one or two pills at least, and alchemists of different levels vary greatly in this regard.

Mu Yi set his sights on Zhao Hong, after so many years, it was the first time he saw his master alchemy.

Zhao Hong unhurriedly put the Jiuyang Dan Furnace on the table in front of him, and with a slight rub of his right hand, a pale golden flame ignited, which was the true fire of the two ahmadhi that he had been using.

As soon as the real fire touched the furnace, it began to burn, Zhao Hong pinched the fingers in his right hand, controlling the intensity of the flames, and with a move with his left hand on the table, the six spirit grasses that refined Gu Yuan Dan arrived in his hand.

Alchemy generally has two refining methods, one is to throw all the materials into the Dan furnace in one go, and at the same time smelt the six kinds of herbs into a ball of medicinal liquid, and then slowly control the heat and divide it into pills. The other is to put the herbs into the furnace one by one, fire them into liquids separately, remove impurities, and then slowly mix the six kinds of spiritual liquids together to refine the elixirs one by one.

These two methods do not distinguish between who is superior and who is inferior, it just depends on the alchemist's personal hobbies and habits. However, the advantage of the first refining method is that the success rate is high, as long as the refining is successful, at least you can separate a pill. The requirements for the mind are low, but the grasp of the heat is very demanding, otherwise a ball of pills will not wait for you to finish dividing, and some of them will turn into black charcoal.

The advantage of the second method is that the grasp of the heat is low, you only need to melt the herbs one by one, but you can take care of six different groups of medicinal liquids, and the requirements for the mind are extremely high. But if you can be distracted and control it well, it is normal to refine twelve pills.

Zhao Hong used the second method, he has been immersed in pills for many years, and his control over his mind is naturally very high, and it is also very suitable for the competition system of this preliminary competition, as long as he can carefully control the six groups of medicinal liquid, he can refine the most pills.

I saw that he first put the main medicine Guyuan grass into the furnace, and under the licking of the flames, it quickly melted into a ball of medicinal liquid, and the black and gray impurities fell to the bottom of the furnace, which was cleared out of the furnace by him with internal force, and then put the remaining five medicinal herbs into the furnace one by one, refining a ball of medicinal liquid, which was crystal clear under the illumination of the flame.

At this time, Zhao Hong shook his hand, and a cloud of smoke enveloped the surroundings of the furnace ding, and Mu Yi could not see the situation inside through the square holes around the danding. Zhao Hong's hand is to prevent others from peeping at him. In fact, he had demonstrated it many times in Kunlun Gate before, but Mu Yi was never interested.

Seeing Zhao Hong's situation, Mu Yi set his eyes on Xia Qinghan. Qingqing didn't have the careful thinking of Zhao Hong, an old fox, just concentrated on controlling the heat in the furnace ding, and the nine yin pure fire in the fire cloud ding gently burned the herbs, bringing up streams of green smoke.

Xia Qinghan obviously used the first refining method, the six herbs were crushed and mixed evenly before being put into the furnace, carefully rolling in the furnace slowly, evenly contacting the flames. Because the melting point of the herb is different, it is not easy to grasp the heat.

At this time, Xia Qinghan had already melted the medicine ball to the point where it was almost done, and the dregs drifted out of the furnace with the green smoke, and with a slight movement of her right hand, a small ball of medicinal liquid was peeled off, and gradually condensed into a solid under the caress of the flames, turning into a golden yellow elixir.

Xia Qinghan quickly used his aura to take out the first pill, and then began to peel off the second ball of medicinal liquid, refining twelve pills one by one according to the previous method.

After the refining was completed, Xia Qinghan took a long breath, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face. When he looked up, he happened to meet Mu Yi's eyes and smiled sweetly at him.

Mu Yi also smiled at her, turned his head to look at Zhao Hong, he also removed the blinding fog at this time, and the twelve pills were placed on the table.

Although the two of them had refined twelve pills, there were still some differences. Xia Qinghan's twelve pills were all golden. And ten of the pills on Zhao Hong's table were golden yellow, one was dark yellow, and one was pale yellow.

This is because the same kind of pill is generally divided into upper, middle and lower grades, the golden yellow is the upper grade pill, the dark yellow is the middle grade pill, and the light yellow one is the lower grade pill. In addition, there is a superb elixir that is pure white, which is extremely difficult to refine, and it is difficult to produce one out of tens of thousands of pills, and there is a large part of the luck component.

Zhao Hong's furnace was not all high-grade pills, obviously there were some mistakes, and he couldn't stop shaking his head and sighing. However, this is only the preliminary round, and being able to refine a full furnace of twelve pills can already ensure that you will enter the semi-finals.

After about a stick of incense, everyone in the field basically stopped, except for a few alchemists who failed to refine because of mistakes, the vast majority of people had a few Guyuan Pills in front of them more or less.

Each alchemist was flanked by a Dancheng guard who recorded the refining situation, and after all the results were reported, Zhao Dan discussed with several old men around him, and announced loudly: "The top 1,000 alchemists in this preliminary competition have been decided, and the list will be released outside the competition venue in the afternoon." At night, the Dan Pavilion will be open, and the 1,000 people who enter the re-examination can all go down to the two floors to watch, and those who do not pass can only go to the bottom floor. Tomorrow will be the same time here to retest, everyone can disperse. ”

As soon as Zhao Dan's words were finished, the enthusiasm in the audience was ignited. Everyone flocked to the sidelines, crowding around in front of the fence where the list was released.

Mu Yi judged that Zhao Hong and Qingqing were the fastest people, and it was not a problem to be shortlisted for the retest, and as for the three people of the Qinglong Chamber of Commerce, he didn't care about it.

When the onlookers dispersed, Mu Yicai took a few people to see the preliminary examination list, and sure enough, Xia Qinghan ranked third, Zhao Hong was tenth, and the other three were also on the list.

Everyone began to cheer, only Xia Qinghan couldn't be happy, she pouted and said, "How can I be ranked third, brother, are these two people named Zhou Bo and Wu Yu really faster than me." ”

Mu Yi said with a smile: "Qingqing, ranking third is already very powerful, this is tens of thousands of people." I didn't pay much attention to those two, and when the rematch comes, I'll help you observe. ”

Zhao Hong shook his head and said: "I know this Zhou Bo, I paid attention to it when I was in the inn, and he happened to be by my side during the game." His alchemy technique is indeed fast, and it is very strange, I was only temporarily distracted to refine the last two pills into a happy and low-grade product. ”

"Oh?" Xia Qinghan was surprised, "What kind of alchemy method did he use, it was so fast." ”

"It's the first time I've seen his methods, and it's incredible. He threw the spirit grass into the Dan furnace and quickly spun it, using centrifugal force to break up all the herbs and melt them into a medicinal liquid. And it's not a lump, it's a ring-shaped liquid medicine, and then you only need to cut the ring into six parts, and at the same time condense it into an elixir. ”

Xia Qinghan's eyes widened and said, "It can be like this." This is extremely exhausting, and it is extremely difficult to grasp the mixture of the liquid medicine. If one is not good, it may cause the ingredients in the pill to be mixed unevenly, and it may even splash out. ”

"The world is full of wonders. Mu Yi smiled, "We don't want to compete for the first place, don't worry too much about these." The top ten can go up to the fifth layer, I think you and the master will definitely be fine. ”