Shi Jun was slightly nervous as he said, “Wuji, ever since that time when you watched me from the side and succeeded in refining the Condensation Dan once, you haven’t succeeded again. This time, your luck must envelop me more often, in case I can’t refine the Condensation Dan, then it will all be over.”
To Mo Wuji Shi Jun was very trusting, in the cultivation world the term luck was not something nebulous. Some people’s luck was just better than others, and when it rose to the perspective of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, it would be a shroud of luck.
Mo Wuji didn’t know about any shroud of luck, he was really a little nervous and whispered beside Shi Jun, “Dan Master Shi, I have another trick, and that’s Lucky Full Contact. Just use a barrel of fresh water and every single herb is cleaned by my hands. This way those who are tainted with my luck will be even luckier, and the success rate will be more than doubled.”
“That’s no problem, I’ll ask someone to get a barrel of water in a moment.” After Shi Jun finished speaking, he muttered a few words to those disciples carrying the Dan furnace. Sure enough, in less than a minute, a disciple carried a bucket of water.
“Dan Master Shi, what are you doing?” Immediately, someone asked.
Shi Jun said unhurriedly, “I intend to clean each herb to increase my success rate. Wuji, I’ll be refining pills later, so I’ll leave the job of cleaning the herbs to you.”
Upon hearing that Shi Jun had called Mo Wuji over just to clean the medicinal herbs, everyone in the grand hall instead understood why Shi Jun had called a separate medicinal boy. Before alchemy, this kind of work of cleaning the medicinal herbs would naturally be done by a medicinal boy. As for why it was necessary to clean the medicinal materials, every alchemist’s heritage was different, so naturally, there would be no mistake is all.
Shi Jun’s pill furnace was the second from the right, and that Qudan Master’s pill furnace was the third from the right, right next to each other, which caused Mo Wuji to cry out in bad luck.
To be honest, Shi Jun calling him here certainly had the intention of asking for his help. Similarly, Mo Wuji also wanted to see how other Dan Masters made pills.
Mo Wuji’s greatest hope was that the person beside him who was refining pills was Yin Shanyin, I heard that this woman was a Fourth Grade Earth Dan Master. Since she was an Earth Dan Master, her alchemy techniques must be superior, but it was a pity that Yin Shanyin was not by his side. Only after the remaining four alchemists all stood up did Mo Wuji realise that Yin Shanyin wasn’t even down.
Mo Wuji quickly guessed what the reason was, Yin Shanyin was the clan’s Fourth Grade Earth Alchemist, so naturally, she didn’t need to come down personally.
“My Traceless Sword Mountain has not been opened for a thousand years, and this time, in order to enhance the strength of our sect’s dan masters, it was specially opened. Because the resources of the Traceless Sword Mountain are limited, only seven people can be allowed in. My Traceless Sword Sect’s original four Third Grade Human Dan Masters and one Fourth Grade Earthly Dan Master do not have to participate in this clan’s internal alchemy competition. The participants in this competition are five Human Dan Masters who have just been promoted to the third grade, two out of the five will be taken to enter the Traceless Sword Mountain, and each of them will have two chances to refine the third grade pills, and the competition will now begin.” Seeing the five people standing ready, Patriarch Lone Ran gave an order.
Mo Wuji had heard that only seven people would be able to enter the Traceless Sword Mountain, and even if he added the seven pill boys, there were only fourteen people. He had gone to the affairs hall early this morning and there were so many people talking about the Traceless Sword Mountain, he had thought that how many people would be able to enter.
Now that Shi Jun had promised him that if he succeeded in alchemy, he could enter the Traceless Sword Mountain, that was quite a favour.
Mo Wuji noticed that all the dan masters were activating a fiery red stone underneath the dan furnace, creating a large area of flames to spread across the bottom of the furnace. This fiery red stone also seemed to be able to regulate the strength of the flame.
Shi Jun also activated the flame and started to clean the Dan furnace.
Mo Wuji dipped the herbs into the wooden barrel, each herb was fished in the water for a bit. As for the Green Inferno Fruit, it was not put into the water, instead, it was coated with the Water Velvet Vine medicinal liquid in the sleeve.
After both herbs were fished in the water, Mo Wuji placed the herbs aside to drain.
At this moment, Shi Jun had also cleaned the furnace and started to refine the Condensation Luo Dan.
Shi Jun had seen Mo Wuji refining pills once, there was really nothing to see. Mo Wuji’s gaze landed on Dan Master Qu who had been upset with him earlier, he realised that amongst the five people here, only this one surnamed Qu was the strongest.
Mo Wuji wasn’t sure what the pills Mo Wuji was refining were, but the way he put in the herbs was more reasonable and natural than Shi Jun, and his movements were much more ethereal.
Immediately after, Mo Wuji realised that this Dan Master surnamed Qu didn’t use any spatulas or anything like that in his alchemy, and that it was entirely through controlling the dan furnace that he was able to achieve the purpose of controlling the spirit herbs in the dan furnace.
Towards the back, the Dan Master surnamed Qu even sent his hand into the hot Dan furnace to drive the herbs in the furnace, while his hand seemed to be half-affected. Just with this, Mo Wuji was clear that Dan Master Qu’s strength was above the remaining four, completely surpassing the Dog Crawling Style.
Before an hour had passed, Mo Wuji heard a “bang”, and then he saw the first alchemist on the left hand side with a grey face. Obviously, he had just failed in his alchemy, and a furnace of pills had exploded.
Mo Wuji was just thinking that this guy would have another chance, when he heard the “bang” sound again. A powerful stream of hot air rushed towards him, and he subconsciously retreated a few steps back. When he stopped, he realised that this time, it was Shi Jun who he had helped to explode his dan.
It looked like this Shi Dan Master was not in a good state of mind, and the bursting of pills by others just now had affected him.
Seeing Shi Jun looking a little dishevelled, Mo Wuji hurriedly went over and said, “Shi Dan Shi, there is still one more furnace of pills, you still have a chance. Think about it, if it wasn’t for others affecting you just now, you would have definitely succeeded in this furnace of pills, no one can be 100% successful in alchemy.”
Hearing Mo Wuji’s words, Shi Jun’s spirit lifted, yes, who refines pills with 100% success?
He hurriedly cleaned the furnace and prepared to refine the second furnace of Condensing Luminescence Dan.
Only when he saw Shi Jun pull himself together to continue refining the dan did Mo Wuji breathe a sigh of relief. Shi Jun’s success or failure was related to whether he could enter the Traceless Sword Mountain. If he could enter the Traceless Sword Mountain and obtain a large amount of spirit herbs to practice purifying medicinal materials in the Traceless Sword Mountain, it would definitely have a milestone significance for his future alchemy.
For a casual cultivator like him, or even an odd-job disciple who was not even as good as a casual cultivator, to obtain a large amount of spirit grasses to practice with was almost impossible. This opportunity he placed on this Shi Dan Master in front of him, only if Shi Dan Master succeeded would he have a chance to succeed.
It was only when Shi Jun started to refine the second furnace of Condensation Luo Dan that Mo Wuji noticed that Master Qu Dan was already done purifying and fusing the herbs and started tapping out the dregs.
Just now, two bursts of dan in a row, even Shi Jun’s burst was right next to the one surnamed Qu, and it still didn’t affect this guy’s alchemy in any way. It was Mo Wuji who couldn’t wait for this Qu’s alchemy to fail, but he also had to admire this guy’s power.
After another half an hour had passed, and Shi Jun had finished purifying the herbs in the Dan furnace, there was already a vague Dan fragrance wafting out from the Dan furnace of the Dan Master surnamed Qu. Mo Wuji sighed in his heart, being strong just couldn’t be helped. Unless he now poured the bucket of water around him into Dan Master Qu’s Dan Furnace, it was a certainty that this guy would be the first to succeed in alchemy. As for the remaining four, they could only compete for the last spot to enter the Traceless Sword Mountain.
It was a good thing that apart from this Dan Master surnamed Qu, the remaining four had all failed once. As for Shi Jun, who was refining the Condensation Luo Dan for the second time, he resisted the pressure and was not disturbed by the other two’s alchemy failures. At this moment, Shi Jun was already eliminating the spirit pill dregs, finished fusing the medicinal liquid, and started to condense the elixir.
Mo Wuji was in the process of withdrawing his attention from Dan Master Qu when he felt a gaze land on him. He subconsciously looked up and realised that the Fourth Grade Earthly Dan Master called Yin Shanyin, who was first on the right side, was paying attention to him. Seeing that he was looking towards her, she even nodded to Mo Wuji.
Mo Wuji wasn’t worried about anything, he had just applied the medicinal juice of the Water Velvet Vine on the Green Inferno with the help of a wooden barrel, surely no one had seen it.
Right at this moment, the fragrance of the dan grew stronger. Mo Wuji looked at Dan Master Qu and saw that he had tapped out several pills from the Dan Furnace, which he directly sent into a prepared jade bottle.
Sure enough, this guy was the first one to finish refining, and although Mo Wuji was upset in his heart, there was nothing he could do about it. He could only focus on Shi Jun, praying that Shi Jun could never fail with this furnace of pills.
