blogombal 178. Shocking everyone
178. Shocking everyone
Seeing the Black Demon appear in the world, Gu He felt a pang of envy. The quality of the medicine cauldron also affected the probability of successfully forming pills. Gu He's own medicine cauldron was not bad, but compared to Xiao Yan's, there was still a considerable difference.
"Alchemy isn't just about looking at the cauldron!" Guhe reassured himself.
Then he took out his medicine cauldron. After all, Guhe was the number one alchemist in the Jia Ma Empire, so his medicine cauldron was quite good.
Then, a drifting, ethereal blue flame ignited in Guhe's hand, causing the temperature in the entire hall to rise sharply the moment it appeared. As the flame rose and tumbled, it also took on a graceful lotus-like shape.
The flame in Gu He's hand also attracted Xiao Yan's attention. Upon seeing the cyan flame, Xiao Yan thought to himself: As expected!
"Azure Lotus Core Flame," ranked nineteenth on the list of extraordinary flames, is born deep within the earth. It undergoes countless tempering, fusion, compression, and sculpting processes by the earth's fire... It takes ten years to form a spirit, a hundred years to take shape, and a thousand years to become a lotus. At its peak, its color is bluish, with a cluster of blue flames rising from its heart. This is called the Azure Lotus Flame, also known as the Azure Lotus Core Flame. This flame possesses unfathomable power; in areas near volcanoes, it can even trigger volcanic eruptions, creating a destructive force in nature!
Before heading to the Great Desert, Xiao Yan had naturally learned about the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame in detail, but he didn't continue searching for it because he had encountered the Red Lotus Karmic Flame by chance.
Feeling the attention from those around him, Gu He was somewhat satisfied. With the appearance of the strange fire, all other fires submitted. He had traveled to the Great Desert twice to obtain the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire. To get it from Queen Medusa, he had practically emptied his coffers, sparing no expense to finally obtain this strange fire from her.
The next moment, the crimson flames in Xiao Yan's hand slowly rose, and the already high indoor temperature rose even higher after the crimson flames appeared.
The ethereal Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame held by Gu He suddenly weakened, as if the flames themselves possessed a spirit and felt fear. Meanwhile, the crimson flames in Xiao Yan's hand seemed to sense the presence of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame, and spontaneously erupted, their intensity growing ever stronger.
suppress!
Before they even started to clash, Gu He's Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame was directly suppressed by Xiao Yan's Red Lotus Karmic Flame!
On the Ranking of Different Flames, Xiao Yan's Red Lotus Karmic Flame ranks eighth, while the Green Lotus Earth Core Flame only ranks nineteenth. The huge difference in rankings also reflects the obvious difference in the flames.
Guhe also unleashed his full fighting spirit and forcefully suppressed his fear of his primordial fire with his soul power.
Seeing this, Xiao Yan smiled slightly, poured the Red Lotus Karmic Fire into the medicine cauldron, and took out a medicinal herb from his storage ring to begin refining it.
Xiao Yan did not deliberately make things difficult for Gu He, who finally managed to control his primordial fire and began refining.
Since Xiao Yan wanted Gu He to go all out, Gu He, after careful consideration, chose to refine the Turtle Essence Pill, a sixth-grade elixir. The Turtle Essence Pill was already considered high-grade among sixth-grade pills, representing Gu He's maximum success rate. It not only directly increased the lifespan of the consumer by seven years but also granted them a trace of the bloodline power of the turtle-shaped magical beast contained within the pill, enhancing their physical defense.
"Do you have even the slightest chance of winning in the alchemy contest?" Gu He thought to himself.
Guhe also had his own pride, namely that his talent in alchemy was indeed far beyond that of ordinary people.
Not only Gu He, but everyone present assumed that Xiao Yan was definitely inferior to Gu He in alchemy, even though Xiao Yan's strange fire was obviously far stronger than the Green Lotus Earth Core Flame that Gu He possessed, and even though Xiao Yan's medicine cauldron looked much stronger than Gu He's medicine cauldron.
Although there weren't many true alchemists present, they all knew a little about alchemy. Using specific flames and cauldrons certainly improved alchemy, but these were only supplementary.
The most important thing for a true alchemy master is to practice hundreds or thousands of times. Only through repeated practice, whether successful or unsuccessful, can one's alchemy skills, like one's soul power, gradually become stronger.
How could Xiao Yan have these?
No matter what, he was just a twenty-year-old boy, and a twenty-year-old Dou Huang powerhouse at that! To reach the Dou Huang level at the age of twenty was already astonishing; he had no time to do anything else.
Jia Xingtian then asked the pharaoh beside him, "Pharaoh, what rank of alchemist do you think Elder Xiao has reached?"
After all, Xiao Yan was still refining medicinal herbs in a proper manner, which shows that he was not really clueless about medicine refining, and his movements were even quite skillful.
Of course, almost no one thought it was a big deal. They wouldn't be too surprised if Xiao Yan were a pharmacist, since pharmacists have a very high status on the Dou Qi Continent. Who didn't dream of becoming a pharmacist when they were young?
He's just putting on a brave face.
"I...can't tell!" Fama stared intently at Xiao Yan and said, enunciating each word clearly.
"What!?"
The hall fell silent instantly after Fama's words; not a sound could be heard.
Guhe is indeed the number one alchemist in the Jia Ma Empire, but Fama is the president of the Alchemist Guild of the Jia Ma Empire and a true master among alchemists in the Jia Ma Empire. Even Guhe still has to show respect to Fama as a junior.
Although Fama is still a fifth-grade alchemist, his insight is no less than that of some true sixth-grade alchemists.
If even the magic formula is unfathomable, can Xiao Yan really concoct medicine?
Furthermore, the fact that Fa Ma couldn't see through it suggests that Xiao Yan's true level is even higher than Fa Ma's.
Above the level of the alchemist is a sixth-grade alchemist. A twenty-year-old Dou Huang powerhouse who is also a sixth-grade alchemist?
Thinking of this, Jia Xingtian couldn't help but gasp. Just what kind of freak was Xiao Yan?
Jia Xingtian simply couldn't understand it. Even if Xiao Yan had started cultivating from the womb, he shouldn't be so powerful and all-powerful. Compared to Xiao Yan, the so-called geniuses of the Jia Ma Empire were a complete joke.
Jia Xingtian's biggest question right now is: In the Central Plains, where there are countless powerful figures, is there any genius who can rival Xiao Yan?
The people who heard the news were already somewhat numb to it.
Xiao Yan is definitely not human! That was the only way everyone could comfort themselves.
At the same time, a question involuntarily arose in everyone's mind: Could Xiao Yan possibly win this match that originally seemed to have no suspense?