Arjun then went to the alchemy classes. Today at the end of the classes Elder Surya asked a question "Now, I will ask you all a question, whoever says the right answer will be rewarded with a spirit grass. The question is, what herb is used in the core herb in making spirit sensing pill what are its properties and how old should it be to be used as the herb for Qi refining pill"
Hearing Elder Surya, many raised their hands, Elder Surya then chose a random girl from the crowd, the girl then stood up and bowed and answered with a confident smile "Sir, it is the Spirit-sensing herb and it has a white tint at the tip, it requires high temperature at around 180-degree celsius to melt and extract the essence from it and needs to be at least 120 years old to be used as the core herb for the Qi refining pills"
After listening to her elder Surya said "You are not fully correct, does anyone want to try".
Listening to what the elder said, they all lowered their hands while only Arjun raised his hand. elder Surya then asked "Boy, you can tell".
Arjun then stood up, greeted the elder, and said "Sir, the herb we use to make Qi refining pills is called the Spirit sensing herb, its properties are it looks just like grass with a white tinted tip, but the white tint is the Qi flowing through it and it requires exactly 186-degree celsius to melt this herb, and it should be at least 120 years old to be used for Qi refining pills".
Qi refining pill is a 1st tier pill, used by Qi refining cultivators to refine the Qi fastly. The pills, formation, talismans and many other auxiliary materials did not have divisions in their grades like the Cultivation techniques, but they did have differences like rarity, quality and many more. The grades in these auxiliary cultivation things represented their purity, but not rarity.
Elder Surya smiled at Arjun and then said "Here take this token, you can collect the Spirit grass after entering the 1st layer of Qi refining", a token came flying towards Arjun and he caught it.
The rest of the day went as same as yesterday except that the elder in the formation classes also asked a question and Arjun was able to say the answer and was rewarded with first tier low grade iron. Arjun was not able to sense any Qi in the evening and the next day.
Finally, today was Sunday, the day of the competition. Arjun was not able to sense any Qi, in the morning and then went to find a herb along with Gopal while the three girls were cultivating, all other children could cultivate for any amount of time but Arjun could only cultivate for two hours a day, and h wasn't sure whether the theory could work or not.
Arjun was not able to find any herb but Gopal was able to find a Spirit grass, this was the only herb they found after searching for a week. Arjun then went back to the house to store the spirit grass.
After safely storing it inside a jar, Arjun and the other four went to the dojo to participate in the competition.
When they went to the Dojo they could find all the 16000 children waiting there outside.
"Can the dojo accommodate all of us?" Gopal asked with a question mark face.
Arjun then jokingly replied "Maybe they have some tricks to increase the size of the dojo" and then the dojo started to expand a bit.
After expanding for a minute, all the students were allowed to enter inside and when Arjun and the others went in they were shocked to find that the space inside the dojo was enough to accommodate at least 25000 people.
Before the expansion of this dojo, it could almost accommodate 2000 people but now after the expansion it can accommodate 25000, which means there is a formation supporting this dojo.
There were three elders present there and they hovered in the air on their swords. then one elder with white hair and a white beard said "Hello everyone, I am Jethin, you can all call me Elder Jethin. I hope all of you know why you represent here. There are a total of 16384 of you participating in this tournament, those who can get into the top 100 will have a free supply of groceries, those who get into the top 10 will get 10 spirit stones and the top 3 can get a 1st tier low-grade weapon of their choice".
"Ok now I will draw lots, there are 516 arenas prepared for the first round, and only half of the 16384 can get into the second round, you can all go to the reception and draw lots"
Arjun calculated and found out that each of these arenas would have to hold 32 battles only in the first round, the most mysterious thing is the total no. of disciples here is 16384 which is 2 to the power 14, which makes the competition not have any free passes.
After waiting half an hour in the queue Arjun was finally able to draw the lots and he got the 54th arena and his would be the sixth match.
Arjun then went to choose a weapon from the set of wooden weapons available at the arena. Arjun chose a sword, which he was familiar with.
Arjun had to wait half an hour, he spent this time watching Gopal's and Ahalya's matches and then finally his match started and then he entered the arena.
"The battle lasts for 10 minutes, I anyone steps out of the ring if they use underhanded methods they will be disqualified. After the ten-minute deadline or within the time limit the referee, that is, I can declare the winner" The referee, a senior disciple, announced.
"We agree with senior brother" Both Arjun and the boy on the opposite said at almost the same time.
"OK, start the battle" the referee announced.