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"Brother Chang spoke diplomatically, but let me be frank," a voice said, "the decision was made because the alchemy strengths of these five individuals are not vastly different, and the elixirs they produced are of similar levels. Take the Soul Consolidating Elixir and the Water Spirit Elixir, for instance, the latter is naturally more valuable to a Golden Core Cultivator with a Water Attribute, but for non-Water Attribute cultivators, the Water Spirit Elixir is worth less than half of the Soul Consolidating Elixir."
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"If we chose the same common elixir, I'm afraid that in the end, several of the elixirs would be of the same quality, and we still wouldn't be able to differentiate between them. Therefore, we ultimately decided to make defending a single elixir the goal of the assessment."
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