Chapter 379: The Strange Second Level!

"This time the prescription is an orthodox one. It took our guild all its manpower and several months to produce it. This time the assessment requires you to successfully refine the pill according to the prescription. The materials in front of you are enough for you to refine twice, which means that you still only have two chances. Once the materials are used up, it means you have failed!"

"Huh?"

After Fa Ma's voice fell, everyone on the field was stunned.

"Refine the pill according to the prescription? Isn't this assessment a bit too simple?"

"This step-by-step refining is much simpler than the previous first round."

"With such a serious conference, how could such a simple assessment rule be issued?"

Shaking their heads in confusion, Liu Ling, Xiao Yan, and the little princess almost picked up the prescription scroll at the same time.

Slowly spreading the scroll, Liu Ling slightly closed her eyes, and her soul power extended, gradually scanning the information recorded on the prescription.

With the scanning of soul power, detailed data was quickly stored in Liu Ling's mind, and various matters that needed to be paid attention to during refining were also quickly and clearly remembered in his mind. This is the benefit of the orthodox prescription.

When these data were memorized in Liu Ling's mind, he could feel that the data stored on the scroll using soul power was disappearing rapidly.

"Wind Dan, a third-grade pill, effect: it can make the person who takes it sensitive to the wind attribute energy between heaven and earth in a short period of time, and by doing so, it can achieve the effect of increasing the speed of movement."

Although this prescription is very expensive, it is not worth mentioning for Liu Ling, who has seen even the sixth-grade pill recipe. Moreover, Liu Ling has also refined the same type of pill as this Fengxing Dan.

"According to what is written here, refining the Wind-Running Pill requires the fusion of nine kinds of medicinal materials. Although it is not a lot, it is not a small amount either!"

Liu Ling slowly scanned the nine kinds of medicinal materials in front of him, and murmured in his heart: "As long as this kind of elixir reaches the third grade and has the prescription, it is not very difficult to refine. This time's assessment is too easy, is it because it was too hard before, and now it wants people to pass it smoothly?"

At this moment, Liu Ling carefully reviewed the contents of the scroll, and couldn't help but frowned slightly, falling into deep thought.

At this moment, Xiao Yan had already thrown a purple pill into his mouth, and then began to inject flames into the medicine cauldron.

At the front desk of the VIP seats, Fa Ma looked down from above, looking at Xiao Yan and the little princess Yaoyue who had already started the fire in the center, frowned slightly, and whispered: "This test is not as simple as you think, don't be careless."

At this moment, on the huge square, after reading the prescription, most of the alchemists were a little happy about the ease of this test, quickly made a fire, and then began to prepare measures for refining medicine.

Of course, among so many alchemists, there are naturally many careful and cautious people. This sudden simple test also surprised them a little, but after hesitating for a long time looking at the prescription and still not finding anything wrong, they had to shake their heads helplessly, and then carefully made a fire.

Xiao Yan stared at the hot flames rising in the furnace, and after the flame temperature rose, he slowly threw a herb into it, and then closed his eyes slightly and gradually refined it.

Shortly after Xiao Yan started to refine, the little princess beside him also frowned slightly and started to make fire and refine. With the detailed orthodox prescription, with their strength, as long as they were careful, it would not be too difficult to refine the "Wind Dan".

Of course, this also excludes the premise of particularly bad luck. After all, no matter what is refined, it is impossible to achieve a 100% success rate.

As everyone started to refine the medicine again, the noise on both sides of the seats gradually weakened. One after another, eyes swept over the alchemists in the field, looking at their gestures, releasing bursts of substantial flames, and all of them were full of envy.

Just after Xiao Yan had extracted the fifth medicinal material, Liu Ling still had no reaction.

At this time, some contestants with good strength on the square had begun to extract the required medicinal ingredients. After a slight hesitation, they gritted their teeth, poured the essence into the medicine cauldron, and began the final refining.

Xiao Yan's eyes were fixed on the herb that was churning in the medicine cauldron. Because he was a little worried about some problems that might suddenly arise, his refining speed was quite slow this time, so that many contestants had already extracted the ingredients of the herb, while he was still carefully refining it without rushing.

"It seems that there is no problem."

After a while, Xiao Yan looked at the material that had turned into a pile of light purple powder in the smoke of the pill fire, murmured, opened the lid of the cauldron, absorbed the light purple powder, and then put it into the jade bottle.

His eyes slowly swept over the nine jade bottles in front of him. The materials needed to refine the "Wind Dan" had been completely refined by him. Next, it was the last step of fusion.

Slowly caressing the cool jade bottle with his palm, Xiao Yan pondered for a moment, and finally stopped hesitating. With a wave of his hand, he was about to throw the materials in the jade bottle into the medicine cauldron. However, at this moment, a slight muffled sound suddenly came from a bluestone platform not far behind him. Xiao Yan looked sideways and saw a pharmacist looking stupidly at a pile of black ashes discharged from the bottom of the medicine cauldron. Obviously, this was the product of a failed refining.

"How is it possible? Didn't I follow the prescription completely? How could it fail?" The pharmacist murmured in a low voice. After a moment, he had no answer and could only attribute this failure to his failure in controlling the fire. So, he quickly cleared the ashes, and then put the last batch of medicinal materials into the medicine cauldron for refining.

Squinting his eyes and looking at the pharmacist's actions, Xiao Yan's palm holding the jade bottle slowly fell down.

His eyes were fixed on the latter's every move. Xiao Yan had seen this alchemist before during the internal test. He had the strength of a third-grade alchemist. According to common sense, he should not make low-level mistakes such as improper temperature control when refining third-grade pills. However, although he said so, the fact in front of him did prove that he failed in refining.

"Something is wrong!" Xiao Yan was very confused.

As time passed again, on the huge square, slight muffled sounds suddenly sounded one after another from the medicine cauldron. Those failed alchemists looked at the black ashes spilling from the bottom of the medicine cauldron with astonishment on their faces. Their blank eyes made everyone know that they didn't seem to know where they went wrong.