Mo Wuji looked at the fist that had disappeared and the puddle of blood residue on the ground in shock, there was no half-hearted elation in his heart that Qu Fei Yang had been killed, there was only a strong sense of crisis.
Qu Fei Yang should have barely advanced to a Fourth Grade Earthly Pill Master, a Fourth Grade Earthly Pill Master was a towering existence in the Xinghan Empire no matter how you put it. In the Traceless Sword Sect, it was also firmly in the forefront. And here, it was like a mole cricket being easily blasted to death.
If he went to beg Granny Linglong, in case a single word displeased Granny Linglong, would he be casually slapped to death? Mo Wuji wasn’t afraid of someone killing him, he was afraid that he wouldn’t have any power to fight back when facing the person who wanted to kill him.
Strength, he needed strong strength.
The patriarch of the Traceless Sword Sect in the distant crowd, Lone Ran, saw Qu Fei Yang being killed with a single punch, the corners of his mouth straightened and twitched several times, and he could only acquiesce to the result.
To say that there was no regret in his heart was absolutely impossible. If he had listened to Yin Shanyin and allowed Mo Wuji to participate in the Five Elements Dan Competition, perhaps the Traceless Sword Sect would have gained even more. And now, not only did he lose Qu Fei Yang, who he had spent a lot of effort to cultivate, he had also offended Mo Wuji, a promising dan master. Luckily, Yin Shanyin had also passed the second round, giving him a little more comfort in his heart.
The square quietened down, and no one felt that there was any doubt that Qu Fei Yang had been killed. Daring to question the Five Elements Dan Competition in this situation, Qu Fei Yang was considered to be to blame. There weren’t many people who had any deep crisis like Mo Wuji, all of them felt that it was normal. Offending the dignity of a strong person was naturally blown away. Not to mention the fact that Qu Feiyang had offended the Five Elements Dan Bi and the Questioning Heaven School Palace, even if he was killed a hundred times, it wouldn’t be surprising.
The only thing that made people envious was that Dan Master 632, a Pulse Expansion Realm third grade human dan master, actually broke into the third round finals with a top ten score. Many people were already inquiring about which side No. 632 was representing in the competition, preparing to exchange places when the time came.
Qu Fei Yang’s murder was merely an extremely small matter here, as Dan Master Ming Ning had already continued, “The third round of the competition is alchemy, please stand in front of the dan furnace that belongs to you and choose the elixir that you want to concoct.”
The competition venue had long been cleared, and at this point, one hundred and fifty dan furnaces were placed. Mo Wuji walked to stand in front of Dan Furnace number 632, he looked around and saw Yin Shanyin not far to his left.
Seeing Mo Wuji’s gaze over, Yin Shanyin smiled faintly, “Senior Brother Mo, your results in the previous two rounds were good, for the third round of alchemy, you only need to choose a normal third grade Human Spirit Dan. This is because the top 100, is the stacking of the total results of the three rounds.”
“Many thanks, Senior Sister Yin.” Mo Wuji hurriedly thanked.
Now that Mo Wuji’s cultivation had advanced, and his divine idea had also advanced, it was the refining of the Fourth Grade Earth Spirit Pill that Mo Wuji felt he could put up a fight.
However, after knowing that he had scored in the top ten in both rounds and that the scores could be stacked, he had already given up on refining the Fourth Grade Earth Spirit Pill.
He didn’t need to pursue a good ranking, as long as he could enter the top 100 and be above ninety-eight, it would be enough.
Waiting for the many dan masters to stand still, Master Ming Ning’s voice rang out, “There are a dozen or so dan names in the dan furnaces in front of all dan masters, now please open the furnaces then choose one of the dans and report back to receive the dan formula and spirit herbs.”
Mo Wuji opened the Dan Furnace as did the many Dan Masters. There was indeed a piece of paper with the names of more than a dozen types of pills written in the Dan furnace.
Picking the paper up, one could only see that it read, Fourth Grade Human Spirit Pill, Earth Yuan Pill, Poly Diffusion Pill, Soul Protecting Earth Haze Pill, Thoughtless Fire Pill, and Demon Cleansing Pill.
Five fourth grade earth spirit pills, if Mo Wuji was certain of refining a fourth grade earth spirit pill, he would definitely choose the Soul Protecting Earth Haze Pill. Even though there was no introduction on the purpose of the elixir, from the name of this elixir, Mo Wuji roughly guessed that this kind of elixir should be for restoring the power of divine thoughts.
He had the Spirit Strengthening Pill, but the Spirit Strengthening Pill could only grow Divine Mind, and was not very effective in restoring Divine Mind. If he had the Soul Protecting Earthly Haze Pill, then he could continue to take the Soul Protecting Earthly Haze Pill when his divine thoughts were depleted. This would be of great benefit to him in both combat and alchemy.
However, Mo Wuji didn’t dare to take this risk, what he wanted was the quota to be able to enter the Five Elements Desolate Domain, which involved Smokey’s little life.
If he didn’t choose this elixir, then he wouldn’t be able to see the formula. Mo Wuji was a little lost as he shifted his gaze to the third grade Dan formula, Dematerialisation Dan, Empty Silence Dan, Embodied Spirit Dan, Phaseless Dan, Bone Quenching Dan, and Face Restoration Dan ….
Wait, Face Restoration Pill, is this an elixir for restoring one’s appearance? If he had this kind of elixir, he could repair the marks on Smokey’s face.
He would choose the Face Restoration Dan, even if this elixir was not useful to Mo Wuji’s cultivation at all, Mo Wuji still chose the Face Restoration Dan without hesitation.
Mo Wuji pressed the button next to the dan furnace, and a handyman disciple had quickly come to his side, “Master Dan, have you chosen the elixir you want to refine?”
Mo Wuji nodded his head and pointed at the Rejuvenation Dan and said, “It’s the Third Grade Human Spirit Dan Rejuvenation Dan.”
“Good, please wait a moment, Master Dan.” After this handyman disciple answered, he quickly brought over a bunch of herbs and a Dan formula to hand over to Mo Wuji.
Mo Wuji saw that the other Dan Masters were still choosing their pills, and he was not in a hurry to refine the pills. It had already come to this point, he didn’t want to be caught with any irregularities.
Half a pillar of incense later, a loud bell chimed from the round altar. Dan Master Ming Ning also stood up, “All the dan masters have now chosen their pills and received their formulae and herbs, the third round of the Dan Competition will now begin, the competition time is one hour, and also one hundred points.”
With Master Ming Ning’s announcement, the many dan masters began to play with the red flame stones.
All of them knew that the difficulty of refining pills here had risen a lot from refining pills in this place to refining pills in their own dan rooms, even if they were refining the same pills.
Firstly there was no ground fire here, the flame was still provided by the Red Flame Stone. Secondly the Dan furnace here was not one that one commonly used, using it was inherently unaccustomed. Thirdly there were numerous interferences here, not to mention the surrounding environment interfering, even if the Dan Master next to him failed to refine the Dan, it would still be a great disturbance.
Mo Wuji opened the Dan formula, and then he froze a little. The first spirit medicine in the Dan formula was the Golden Rock Vine, and in terms of the grade of the medicine, it was indeed a third grade spirit medicine. Even if it was the first time he saw the physical object, Mo Wuji was not unfamiliar with the Golden Rock Vine, it was an extremely hard medicinal herb, and it would not be half as bad as the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit.
The only difference was that one was a third grade spirit medicine and one was a fourth grade spirit medicine.
Mo Wuji helplessly looked at his hands, his injured hand from purifying the Iron Heart Bodhisattva Fruit had yet to be completely restored before he once again met such a tricky medicinal herb.
If it wasn’t for the fact that he had advanced in his cultivation and divine concept, he would have already failed with just this one medicinal herb.
Fortunately, his cultivation had advanced and his divine idea had also advanced. Although it was a bit difficult, he thought that he would be able to complete the refining of the Face Restoring Pill within an hour.
At this point in time, Mo Wuji didn’t have any mood to pay attention to other people’s alchemy, as he quickly cleaned the furnace and then purified the Golden Rock Vine.
With his cultivation level advanced, and his divine idea advanced as well, Mo Wuji still planned that once he was unable to purify the Golden Rock Vine in the shortest possible time, he would resort to hand-frying means. No matter what, he had to refine the Face Restoration Pill. If he couldn’t even refine the pills in the third round, he would still be out even if his results in the previous two rounds were good.
The temperature of the Red Flame Stone quickly spread over the dan furnace under the urging of Mo Wuji’s Yuan Power. Mo Wuji’s hand reached into the Dan Furnace, he didn’t fry the medicine, instead, he refined and purified the Golden Rock Vine with the Dan Technique hidden in his hand technique. The reason why he sent his hand into the Dan furnace was because he was afraid that someone would spy out his Dan secret.
What Mo Wuji didn’t expect was that he easily controlled the Golden Rock Vine with his Dan Skill, and then the Golden Rock Vine quickly melted and decomposed under his thoughts.
Intense joy surged through his heart, this didn’t even need to use his hands to directly fry the medicine. Mo Wuji himself didn’t even think that there was such a big difference in his cultivation level after just advancing one level.
No, Mo Wuji quickly realised that it wasn’t his cultivation that had such a big difference after advancing, it was because his divine idea had advanced. With a strong divine idea, even if it was only the fire of the Red Flame Stone, it made it extremely easy for him to control the Golden Rock Vine.
Divine idea, it really was a good thing.
In less than half a pillar of incense, Mo Wuji quickly refined and purified the Golden Rock Vine. The rest of the spirit herbs were sent into the Dan Furnace one by one by Mo Wuji, and under the powerful power of the divine idea, the purification of the spirit herbs in the Dan Furnace became more and more rapid and clean.
After the burning of an incense stick, Mo Wuji slapped the Dan Furnace and a pile of residue was sent out of the Dan Furnace by him.
With the purification of the herbs complete, the later fusion of the medicinal liquid and the splitting and condensing of the dan was even easier for Mo Wuji.
An hour passed and Mo Wuji had already started collecting the dan. This time, he didn’t continue to use the Dan Collection Technique, instead, he used his hand technique to start collecting the dan.
The twelve light green coloured pills were collected by Mo Wuji and landed in a jade bottle to the side.
Mo Wuji extinguished the flame of the dan furnace before he started to pay attention to the rest of the people around him. This time, he had finally finished first and was no longer left at the end. There were at most no more than ten dan masters who had finished alchemising like him, most of them were still in the Spirit Dan.
There were constant explosions of scorched medicinal liquid and failed congealed dan, but all of these had nothing to do with Mo Wuji, he believed that the scores from these three rounds would at least get him a ranking. As for the rankings, he didn’t care in the first place.
Mo Wuji’s first concern was Yin Shanyin, after all, Yin Shanyin was the only dan master here that he was most familiar with. At the moment, Yin Shanyin was clearly not in a very good state, her expression was a little grave.
“Boom!” An explosive sound was heard, and Mo Wuji, who was already not far from Yin Shanyin, could feel it even more clearly.
Mo Wuji sighed as Yin Shanyin failed, and he saw Yin Shanyin’s lost expression. Mo Wuji still had some doubts in his heart, according to his understanding of Yin Shanyin’s Dan Dao level, even if she used the Red Flame Stone to refine the Fourth Grade Earth Spirit Pill, Yin Shanyin would not have failed. Unless she chose an extremely difficult elixir to refine.
Seemingly sensing Mo Wuji’s gaze, Yin Shanyin also looked over. Mo Wuji made a sign to her, meaning to tell her not to worry. As long as he managed to obtain the extra rank, he would give her one.
Yin Shanyin nodded and began to clean up the dan furnace that had already failed to refine.
Mo Wuji saw that Zhang Ding again, at this moment, Zhang Ding had already finished refining the dan, his expression was calm as he stood in front of the dan furnace, it looked like he had made a good dan.
