After Feng Zhenqiu left, a middle-aged woman walked to the middle of the round altar and saluted the surroundings before saying, ”I am Ming Ning of the Dan Tower of the Inquiring Heavens Academy, and I will preside over the Five Elements Dan Competition this time. Just now, Dean Feng was right, there are indeed very few people from our five empires who can cross over to the Heavenly Realm Triple Heavens. As the saying goes, the heavens have no limits, and this time the Five Elements Wilderness Region has given all of us from the five empires a chance, and that chance will be determined by the Dan Competition.
In this Five Elements Dan Competition, five Sixth Grade Earthly Dan Masters, including myself, will take part in the final judgement, and I believe that as long as you are accomplished, you will be able to determine a good ranking. The first item of the Dan Competition is the elimination round, please all the Dan Masters participating in the Dan Competition walk to the front of the various Dan Furnaces with the Participation Jade Cards in their hands.”
“Wuji, no matter if you can make it or not, you let go of the competition and don’t have any worries, the big deal is that we’ll come back for the next Dan Competition. Our last Dan Competition result was only ninety-seven, it doesn’t matter much if we don’t get a place this time.” Zhen Shaoke said comfortingly beside Mo Wuji.
Mo Wuji nodded, “Don’t worry, Shaoke Zhen, I will do my utmost no matter what.”
It was that if Zhen Shaoke could do it again, he wouldn’t have the chance to do it again. To Zhen Shaoke’s comment that the Nine Moons Dan Pavilion’s first last Dan Competition result was at ninety-seven, Mo Wuji did not feel strange. How many big clans and forces were there within the five empires? The Nine Moons Dan Pavilion was really nothing when all was said and done. To be able to get a ranking of less than a hundred, Nine Moons Dan Pavilion’s performance was already considered good.
Mo Wuji quickly walked to one of the leaning Dan furnaces with the Jade Tag belonging to the Nine Moons Dan Pavilion, although these Dan furnaces were spaced out, the Dan furnaces that were leaning to the side were ultimately less affected.
Waiting for the many dan masters in front of the round altar to stand still, Ming Ning then said aloud, “Because there are more participants, in order to make the competition more convincing. The first competition item is the purification of medicinal herbs, and this one has a full score of one hundred, taking the top three hundred ……”
Hearing about purifying medicinal herbs, Mo Wuji’s heart rejoiced, he was not afraid of anyone for this item of purifying medicinal herbs. Even if it was purifying a fourth grade spirit medicine, he was confident that he wouldn’t be weaker than the average fourth grade earth pills master.
“This time, the medicinal herb we are going to purify is the Fourth Grade Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit, and each person only has one. The dan fire for purification is provided by the Red Flame Stone, open the dan furnace with the Red Flame Stone and the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit. Please insert the jade tags in your hands next to the dan furnace and open the dan furnace, the competition will now begin ……”
Hearing Dan Master Ming Ning say that the competition had begun, almost all of the Dan Masters standing in front of the Dan Furnace inserted the jade tags in their hands next to the Dan Furnace at the first opportunity and opened the Dan Furnace to take out the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit and the Red Flame Stone.
Mo Wuji, however, stayed still and did not take out the things at the first opportunity, the initial joy of hearing that the topic was purification of the medicinal liquid had long disappeared.
The Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit was one of the most difficult to purify spiritual herbs amongst the fourth grade spiritual herbs, this kind of spiritual fruit was extremely hard, even with the ground fire, it would be extremely difficult to purify its spiritual herbs, not to mention using the lowest grade Red Flame Stone amongst the Flame Stones.
It could be said that of the Dan Masters competing here, he was at the greatest disadvantage because he had the lowest cultivation level.
To purify this kind of hard spirit fruit, the higher the cultivation level, naturally the easier it was, the poorer the flame could be purified with true essence in conjunction with hand techniques. The lower the cultivation level the stronger the flame was needed to match, and right now using the Red Flame Stone was clearly the worst flame. How else could he compare this?
Zhen Shaoke’s gaze had been falling on Mo Wuji, and after seeing that everyone else had made their moves, Mo Wuji had yet to do so, he sighed in his heart.
As a Nine Moons Dan Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master, could he not know the difficulties Mo Wuji was facing? He had calculated everything, but he hadn’t thought that there was also a relationship between this first round and cultivation.
With Mo Wuji’s cultivation at the Pulse Expansion Realm, wanting to refine the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit with the Red Flame Stone was not a simple matter in itself, not to mention purifying the medicinal liquid from it, and having to make it into the top 300 amongst the more than 1,000 dan masters.
The reason why he chose Mo Wuji was because Mo Wuji’s refined dan medicines were of extremely high quality, and based on the past experience of the Dan Competition, the last item of the Dan Competition would definitely be a refining competition. It was not impossible for a third grade Human Spirit Pill of excellent quality to achieve within the top 100.
Last time the Five Elements Wasteland Dan Competition, there was a third grade human dan master with a very high grade third grade human spirit dan, defeated the fourth grade earth spirit dan of very poor quality.
But the current situation was that Mo Wuji would most likely be eliminated from the competition in the first round.
After freezing for almost a minute, Mo Wuji then inserted the jade token in his hand into the edge of the dan furnace and opened it. No matter how difficult it was, he couldn’t be eliminated in the first round.
After the Dan Furnace was opened, there was a fiery red flame stone inside, as well as a fist-sized black fruit. On top of that, there was also a jade bottle, which had been labelled with a number, and the number was exactly the same as the number on his entry jade card. It looked like the number was generated after the entry jade card was inserted into the edge of the dan furnace.
Mo Wuji placed the jade bottle aside and directly stimulated the Red Flame Stone. Since it had started, there could not be any hesitation.
Flames sprang up under the Dan Furnace, and Mo Wuji slapped several times on the walls of the Dan Furnace one after the other, as he cleared the Dan Furnace with the simplest means possible.
The Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit was then placed into the Dan Furnace by Mo Wuji, the flames at the bottom of the furnace were continuously stimulated by Mo Wuji, only the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit in the Dan Furnace was still melting extremely slowly.
After another ten minutes or so, the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit was still only melting a small half, and at this time, Mo Wuji was already able to smell the odour of the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit medicinal liquid.
Mo Wuji was very clear in his heart, this odour was not from his furnace, but the odour emanating from someone else who had melted the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit. In other words, his side of the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit had not melted yet, and others had already started to purify the medicinal liquid.
It can’t go on like this, Mo Wuji took a deep breath, others can lose this round, he definitely can’t lose.
Mo Wuji carefully put his hand deep into the Dan furnace and started waving his hand technique. In fact, he was hiding the Dan Technique amongst his hand techniques and used it to help purify it.
Originally, in Mo Wuji’s plan, he did not intend to use the Dan Secret at the very beginning. He was going to use the Dan Secret only at the end of the alchemy, when he was fusing the medicinal liquid and forming the dan, and as for purifying the medicinal liquid, he did not need to use the Dan Secret at all.
And now, as soon as the competition started, he had to take out his killer technique. This made him helpless, who made his cultivation too poor to be able to utilise Yuan Power to match? Among the thousands of Dan masters here who participated in the Dan Competition, perhaps he was the only one who was still at the Pulse Expansion Realm.
Dan knack fell on the iron heart Bodhisattva fruit, the original slow melting iron heart Bodhisattva fruit accelerated speed. But that speed was still not fast, after all, the flame was only provided by the Red Flame Stone.
No, this might be able to refine the medicinal liquid of the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit, but it definitely wouldn’t get the ranking. When Mo Wuji thought of this, he gritted his teeth even more and directly shovelled the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit with his hand.
On the surface, he was shovelling, but in reality, he was letting the Dan Skill produce its effect on the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit more directly. There was nothing he could do about it, who made his cultivation poor and his divine idea power unable to activate the Dan Skill for a long period of time.
Fortunately, this was purifying one type of herb, if he were purifying several mixed herbs, he would only be able to stare at others to outperform him. When purifying several herbs, he used his hands to touch the herbs to perform the Dan technique, which only allowed the herbs to merge in advance, and finally the aura was dispersed.
The scorching heat that was like a flame fell on Mo Wuji’s skin, instantly causing Mo Wuji’s skin to be scorched. If it was a lightning strike Mo Wuji could still care less, but this fire’s scorching directly burned Mo Wuji straight into a grin. Even so, Mo Wuji still didn’t dare to let go, he was afraid that if he let go, he would never be able to come like this a second time.
Looking at the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit that had already melted and accelerated to be purified out, he thought of his previous ridicule towards Shi Jun. At first, he had mocked Shi Jun’s alchemy as a cauldron stir-fry, but now he himself was stir-frying, wasn’t he? People Shi Jun at least used a spatula, he was directly using his hands to fry.
Mo Wuji suddenly had an epiphany in his heart, at all times and in all places, don’t belittle anyone. Not because this person might be stronger than you in the future, but because in the future, you might be just like him.
A full half an hour passed, and only when Mo Wuji couldn’t stand it anymore did he pull his hand back. The Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit in the Dan Furnace had already been completely melted down, and the medicinal liquid was also purified out by Mo Wuji by frying it with his hands for the most part.
Because of the excessive application of divine idea power, Mo Wuji felt a little dizzy, yet he didn’t dare to pause for a second. Nor did he dare to swallow any of the pills, he was afraid that if the rules didn’t allow it, everything he did earlier would be lost.
This Dan Competition wasn’t for his own honour, it was for the sake of saving Smokey, he couldn’t afford to make a half-hearted mistake.
The hand that was frying the medicine was burning hot and aching at the moment, all of this was completely ignored by Mo Wuji. All of his attention was now above the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit in the Dan furnace.
After his efforts, the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit finally gave off a faint medicinal fragrance, Mo Wuji didn’t even dare to be careless, and focused on it with his full attention. It was already at the final moment, about to separate the residue.
Drumming his entire body’s Yuan Power surged into the Dan Furnace, and in conjunction with the Dan Technique, he began to separate the residue.
“Snap!” A drug residue was sent out from the Dan furnace by Mo Wuji, and then the purified medicinal liquid from the Dan furnace was also brought up by Mo Wuji and sent into the jade bottle on the side.
If it was usual, Mo Wuji would definitely purify it once more. Right now, he really couldn’t add up, he was even able to think that if he forced himself to continue with the purification, perhaps what he had done earlier would all be null and void, and this medicinal liquid purification would come to nothing.
“Phew!” After putting the lid of the jade bottle up, Mo Wuji let out a long breath. When he raised his head to look around, he realised that apart from a handful of dozens of people, he was almost the last to finish.
It was good that he had finally finished, the fiery sensation came once again, Mo Wuji looked at his right hand, it was already scorched black, as if it wasn’t his own.
Now that the drug purification was complete, before the jade bottle was taken away, Mo Wuji still didn’t dare to take out the healing pills and swallow them. For this competition, he didn’t want to make a half-hearted mistake.
