Refining Yaogedan was a piece of cake for Shen Xiang. He felt that he could definitely enter the top 50 and there was no pressure.
"It must be completed within one hour!" the old man said, "The first round, the competition to refine the Yaogedan, starts now!"
After an hour, many participating alchemists frowned. This was too harsh for them. After all, the current rule was to only test the quality, which would take a lot of time to compress.
At the beginning, many people kept complaining that the furnace was terrible.
"What a broken alchemy furnace, it's no different from being made of mud. I'm not going to refine it anymore!" a big man shouted angrily and smashed the alchemy furnace with a palm.
The alchemy furnace was seen turned into pieces, which showed how bad the furnace was.
Many people left before they even started.
"A truly skilled alchemist can succeed even without an alchemy furnace. Don't you know that Shen Xiang didn't even need an alchemy furnace and yet he was able to refine ten pills? You young people are too impetuous." The old man said. It seemed that the Fire Lord Sect did this on purpose.
Shen Xiang did not expose the alchemy furnace used by Fang Heng and Huang Xiaotian. If he wanted to expose it, he would have to wait until he got the recipe for Daohen Pill.
It was quite surprising at the beginning, just a short moment, and there were only three people on the field!
Shen Xiang, Fang Heng, Huang Xiaotian and everyone else couldn't stand that broken alchemy furnace. Some of them melted directly at the beginning and couldn't proceed at all, so many people had to give up.
"This Yun Fei is quite talented. He actually persisted for so long!"
"I thought this guy only knew how to brag, but I didn't expect him to be so powerful. No wonder he dared to say that he could cure that strange poison!"
"Fang Heng and Huang Xiaotian are indeed the disciples and sons of the Fire Lord. They can even use this broken furnace to refine pills for so long!"
Everyone was talking about it, and the alchemists who had left had to admit that at least they couldn't do it, and could only secretly hate themselves for their low level.
However, many people found it strange, because many of the people who came to participate in the alchemy competition were children of famous families, and their levels should not be very weak, but all of them left.
Long Shuangru also saw many things. She knew that Fang Heng and Huang Xiaotian's alchemy furnaces were very good ones. The Fire Lord Sect deliberately gave them the good ones in order to eliminate the others. This would also save medicinal materials, because many people left without starting to refine the alchemy furnaces.
Seeing that Shen Xiang could persist for so long with a broken alchemy furnace, Long Shuangru felt that her hope was even greater. She had already guessed that this Yun Fei was the Shen Xiang. She had also heard about Shen Xiang's deeds in this Divine Land of Fire before. Now she also felt that he was a strange man.
From what happened just now, Shen Xiang saw how insidious the Fire Lord Sect was, so he planned not to act so shockingly at the beginning, so he was just refining casually now.
Soon, Fang Heng and Huang Xiaotian had finished their refining, but Shen Xiang was a little later than them.
"There is no need to test the quality now, because the rule of the first round is that the top 50 in quality can enter the next round. Now there are only three of you. As long as you can refine Yaogedan, you will definitely enter the next round."
That's it, no need to test the quality, the second round starts immediately!
"In the second round, the two people who have to refine the middle-grade Heavenly Grade Yaogedan with the best quality will be able to enter the third round, and the time is still one hour." The old man said again.
Shen Xiang took a deep breath. This time he had to hide his strength. Otherwise, if his quality was not good enough, he would be eliminated.
"I know Fang Heng's level. As long as I perform normally, the quality will definitely be better than his. What's more, I am only refining one pill. It will definitely be stronger than his!" Shen Xiang considered it carefully, and then decided how to refine it.
An hour passed quickly, and near the end, all the refining was declared completed, and this time quality testing was required.
The first person to take the test was Fang Heng. After he placed his Yaogedan on the pit, he saw the scale bar on the stone tablet light up. It was at the one hundred and thirty position!
This is relatively high, Fang Heng is very satisfied!
The next one was Huang Xiaotian, who was at the 145th position, which made him very proud because he was much higher than Fang Heng.
Finally it was Shen Xiang's turn!
It also attracted much attention from everyone, because this arena was regarded as belonging to Huang Xiaotian and Fang Heng. Whether or not this view could be broken depended on Shen Xiang!
"Yunfei, it's your turn!" the old man shouted.
Fang Heng and Huang Xiaotian were also quite concerned about Yun Fei, because they knew that their alchemy furnaces were all good ones, but Yun Fei's furnace was very broken. However, he could still hold up until now, so he must have a good foundation.
"One hundred and thirty-five!" the old man said in surprise. Everyone saw it clearly. In this way, Fang Heng was going to be eliminated.
Fang Heng was eliminated, which made Fang Heng very angry. He was the genius of Fang family and the disciple of Master Huo Zun, but he was defeated by an unknown person.
Of course, Shen Xiang suppressed himself just now, otherwise his quality would not be so low.
Huang Xiaotian didn't think it was a big deal, because when he was testing just now, he saw that Shen Xiang was lower than him. He felt that Shen Xiang was at this level, and he would definitely win the next game.
Fang Heng walked out of the arena very unwillingly. This was originally arranged for him to fight with Huang Xiaotian to the end. Even if he lost, it wouldn't be so embarrassing, unlike now. For him, it was a great shame, and others would laugh at him for it in the future.
"The third match is still with Yaogedan, but it's a top-grade Yaogedan of the heavenly rank, and it will take six hours." said the old man.
Shen Xiang looked at Fang Heng's alchemy furnace, which was still there. He hoped in his heart that the old man would not put it away, otherwise he would have no chance to expose it.
As expected, the old man did not put it away, and then announced the start of the competition.
Shen Xiang didn't take Huang Xiaotian seriously at all. Not to mention Huang Xiaotian, even if the head teacher Huang Tian came, he could guarantee victory under these rules.
Because the Yaogedan he refined using the collision method was of incredibly high quality, he didn't know how good the quality was, but it would definitely not be worse than Huang Xiaotian's.
In his previous two competitions, he never used the Broken Alchemy Furnace from beginning to end. He also released a phantom magic furnace inside the Broken Alchemy Furnace. In this way, the Broken Alchemy Furnace would not be damaged.
To refine the top-grade Heavenly Grade Yaogedel, one must complete it within six hours, which is extremely demanding. Many alchemists require more than ten times that time, and some even require a month or so.
Therefore, no matter what, as long as one can refine the top-grade Heavenly Grade Yaogedel within this time, he will be a very promising alchemist.
Huang Xiaotian was sweating profusely at this time, and it was obvious that he was not at ease either. The same was true for Shen Xiang, because he had to use the Magic Furnace to perform the collision method, which was very challenging.