AWB Chapter 416 Two-Person Competition 1.5
Chapter 416 Two-Person Competition 1.5
The other party showed no remorse whatsoever, and Qin Che was not one to tolerate being wronged.
Once provoked by Kong Muqing, he fell into her trap.
Ignoring Huo Yan's objections, he bought a bunch of useless things.
The Fish Woman's Tears were not obtained, after all, the other party had paid and received the item. At most, the Spirit Pavilion that sold it was not particular at all and did not follow the principle of first come, first served.
After making inquiries from various sources, Qin Che learned that the Ling Pavilion was originally the property of Kong Muqing's parents.
Qin Che could see the Fish Woman's Tears, so even if Lingge was blind, they would have many doubts. After receiving this item, they specially notified the young master in Jin Guan City to take a look. The reason for placing it below was to prepare for both possibilities.
If this isn't it, at least we can see if someone is destined to sell it to us.
After receiving the news, Kong Muqing finally managed to find some time, but unexpectedly, Qin Che and Huo Yan went on a shopping spree and she saw it first.
Qin Che had suffered such a great loss, and naturally he was resentful. He had hoped to get revenge in this competition, but unexpectedly...
After hearing Qin Che's story, no one present was a fool, and for a moment they were speechless.
It seems there's something wrong with that Mermaid's Tear ring.
Kong Yulan really did foresee everything!
It took a lot of effort.
"There are no fools in the world after all!" Qin Che is starting to have a phobia of finding bargains.
"But senior brother, have you touched it? Are you alright? Do you want to take a look?" Gongcheng asked with concern after realizing what was happening.
"I'm fine. The guy in the attic guarded this ring very closely, only letting Huo Yan and me watch it from a distance. We didn't actually touch it." Qin Che shook his head. He was furious at the time, but now he was really glad.
The group breathed a slight sigh of relief. They were not familiar with Kong Muqing. Although their senior brother Qin Che had a conflict with him, they still felt sorry that a promising cultivator had died in the blink of an eye.
But they absolutely do not want this to happen to their loved ones.
Cheng Jiu felt a chill run down his spine at the thought of the Dao Poison. The team battle was very likely to be held on the battlefield of gods and demons, but now this had happened, and it was hard for Cheng Jiu not to overthink it.
I always felt that they were in a trap, with each step interconnected, making it difficult to see clearly.
The elders of the Heavenly Mystery Sect were also in a dilemma. After this incident, how should they announce the results of the competition?
Kong Muqing is already dead, so there's no one else to compare them to.
Before the results of the competition were announced, the elders of the Tianji Sect dismissed everyone.
This event had a huge impact on the audience, and they are still not quite able to process what happened.
Cheng Jiu and the others escorted Qin Che and Huo Yan away. Both of them were injured and needed to recuperate.
For the next few days, until the end of the doubles competition, everything was calm. Qin Che and Huo Yan voluntarily withdrew from the competition. Qin Che's eye injury needed to be properly cared for to heal, and he was no longer suitable for the next competition.
Fortunately, Guiyuan Sect had more than one team make it to the finals.
The Gong brothers, Gong Cheng and Gong Yu, lived up to expectations and successfully won first place in the Nascent Soul Realm.
After the pairs competition, the much-anticipated competition of the four arts will begin.
From the very beginning of the competition, the entire arena was filled with an atmosphere of extravagance. Those who came were either extremely wealthy, powerful families, or prominent sects.
They're all here to support their favorite gurus or to curry favor with them.
This is the influence and appeal of the Four Arts Masters. In particular, being able to participate in the Four Arts Competition is enough to prove his talent. In the future, he will become a high-level master in the cultivation world.
Each of these items is a treasure, a precious gem, belonging to its respective faction!
Such accidents as those that occur in two-person competitions must never happen in the Four Arts competitions; losing even one person is like tearing flesh from these forces.
Cheng Jiu also received a rare message from Qin Che, who had brought it to her from her senior brother, Nan Yanzhe.
The casino she discovered was the one behind the scenes in Chengdu.
Kong Yulan!
He was chosen by Yeqiu Pavilion when he was young. With such a brilliant older brother, Yeqiu Pavilion could never believe that the younger brother would be mediocre.
It's even better if he's not valued by his parents. Yeqiu Pavilion is a human trafficking organization, and he can fetch a good price by using the name of Kong Muqing's biological younger brother.
With this in mind, the maids who took care of Kong Yulan were gradually replaced by people from Yeqiu Pavilion, and they planned to find a good opportunity to kidnap her.
Gradually, Ye Qiuge discovered that this child was a talented person. Although he was not valued by his parents and appeared timid and honest to outsiders, he actually acted without any scruples, was extremely lacking in love, and was also extremely intelligent.
Their men had been lying in wait for less than half a month when Kong Yulan noticed something was wrong. He had been intentionally or unintentionally hiding, which gave them an opportunity. In fact, if his parents hadn't been so careless, the few men that Yeqiu Pavilion sent out would have almost been wiped out by the Kong family.
And this child is not even seven years old!
Later, Kong Yulan's parents asked her to get involved with Kong Muqing and enter the Wuji Sect, one of the five major sects. The Yeqiu Pavilion's strategy towards Kong Yulan changed instantly.
The approach has shifted from treating goods as commodities to waiting to be sold to actively seeking them out.
However, Kong Yulan did not agree and treated Yeqiu Pavilion with indifference.
Until Kong Yulan completely saw through her parents, she plotted against Kong Muqing and exiled him to the battlefield of gods and demons.
Kong Yulan encountered Yeqiu Pavilion's people who came looking for him on the battlefield of gods and demons.
Upon learning that Kong Yulan had actually found a way to cultivate using Dao poison in such a harsh environment.
Yeqiu Pavilion now values him even more!
After joining Yeqiu Pavilion, Kong Yulan's status rose steadily, and she actually became the head of Jinguan City, one of the core cities of Yeqiu Pavilion, with the cultivation of Nascent Soul Realm.
Over the years, he had been intentionally or unintentionally collecting information from his brother because his brother was a disciple of an elder in the Tribulation Transcending Realm, and very little information about him was available, making it quite difficult to obtain.
This time, the casino in Jin Guan City was destroyed, and several elders of Ye Qiu Pavilion were already dissatisfied with him sitting in charge of Jin Guan City as the hall master with his Nascent Soul stage.
They pinned all the blame on him.
He was at his wit's end, so in the last moments of his life, he used the last embers of Yeqiu Pavilion to plan this long-planned murder.
Currently, Kong Yulan's body was taken away by the Tianji Sect the moment his identity was discovered.
Although a person is dead, their past life trajectory remains. Even if it is just a corpse, the Heavenly Mystery Sect can still investigate a lot of information.
Moreover, in the world of cultivation, death is never the final destination; the soul is. His betrayal came too suddenly, and the forces behind him did not have time to cleanse his soul.
Therefore, his soul can be found in the ghost realm.
The Ghost Emperor generally doesn't concern himself with the grudges and grievances of those who lived in the past. Even if someone is burdened with sins and has unresolved resentment, if they don't have any merit to bless them, the Ghost Realm deals with these kinds of evil spirits in a rather simple and brutal way.
If you can atone for your sins and resolve them, then do so. If it is truly difficult to resolve, the ghost realm will not mind losing one less evil spirit.
As for worldly grudges and grievances, not everyone can see the Ghost Emperor or bring them to his attention, unless they are exceptionally capable.
This usually comes at a considerable cost.
The Heavenly Mystery Sect is an exception. As a sect that can communicate with the Heavenly Dao, the Heavenly Mystery Sect also has considerable influence in the Ghost Realm.
Furthermore, their power is different from that of the five major sects. They are legitimate official organizations. Many members of the Tianji Sect hold positions in the Ghost Realm. Relying on the glory of their ancestors, they still have some influence with the Ghost Emperor.
It's quite easy to propose a demon that has only recently entered the demon realm.
The first of the four arts competitions was alchemy, and under the leadership of Medicine King Valley, the alchemy profession in the cultivation world has flourished.
It is clearly the first of the four arts, so the first competition among the four arts is alchemy.
Early in the morning, Yingyue was sent to meet up with Cheng Jiu and the disciples below.
There were quite a few familiar faces participating in the alchemy competition, including Senior Sister Xueyuan and Senior Sister Chaoyan, whom I had encountered during the previous hunting battle, as well as Liu Shaoyuan and his senior brother. Standing next to them was a beautiful woman, who should be Senior Brother Liu Shaoyuan's Daoist partner, his seventh senior sister.
Judging from this, they have quite a few disciples selected.
Liu Shaoyuan naturally noticed them as well, but neither of them greeted each other. The occasion was inappropriate, since they were, in a sense, rivals.
Of the disciples sent by the five major sects to participate in the alchemy competition, Medicine King Valley had the most, while Dragon Abyss Sect had the fewest, with only ten.
These ten people are not all alchemists who specialize in alchemy; most of them are alchemists as a side job. They are skilled in both fighting and alchemy, and are top-notch in the Dragon Abyss Sect.
Although there are few people, their ranks are not low at all; the lowest-ranking one is a sixth-grade alchemist!
It can only be said that the world has never lacked geniuses.
Compared to the five major sects, which are filled with high-level alchemists, the other forces participating in the sect competition are far inferior.
High-level alchemists are like stars surrounding the moon, surrounded by countless other stars of varying quality.
The alchemy competition was hosted by Elder Huoyan and Elder Duqing from the Medicine Alliance.
Both of them are veteran rogue alchemists in the Medicine Alliance, highly respected and never showing favoritism. They are in charge of presiding over the alchemy competition, and everyone trusts them completely.
The fire veins were neatly arranged on the arena, and all the alchemists entered and took their seats in preparation.
Next to each fire vein is a ring containing the elixirs to be used in the first six rounds. All elixirs used in the first six rounds must be those contained in the ring; using elixirs brought by oneself will be considered cheating and will result in disqualification from the competition.
The spiritual herbs inside the ring are not very plentiful, which greatly tests the alchemist's ability to utilize the herbs and the success rate of alchemy.
Cheng Jiu placed the alchemy furnace and waited patiently for the competition to begin.
She is never picky about the environment for alchemy; if given an iron pot, she can also make pills.
But the alchemist next to him was clearly not as mentally strong.
"boom!"
A violent burst of fire rushed towards her location, but was firmly blocked by a defensive array. However, flames soared into the sky beside her, directly forming a red-hot furnace.
As the red light faded, a young man appeared, his robes charred by the explosion. Several fragments of a pill furnace lay scattered before him, the nature of the event self-evident.
The young man hurriedly apologized to the fellow cultivators who had been affected: "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry! I... I don't know how she exploded..."
The young man was almost crying, his whole body huddled together with guilt, clearly a newcomer to the competition.
Fortunately, the explosion only affected the young man's area. The alchemists present were not petty people, and they silently looked away after hearing his apology.
The young man breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. Sure enough, his master was wrong; there were still more good people out there!
The young man skillfully tidied up the fragments and took out a new alchemy furnace from his ring. Clearly, this was not the first time this had happened.
Cheng Jiu withdrew his gaze. He had plenty of time to prepare, and since he didn't have anything else he wanted to do, he simply closed his eyes to rest during this time.
Unbeknownst to her, the surrounding alchemists were all looking at Cheng Jiu with scrutinizing eyes. They were quite familiar with Cheng Jiu; his name was well-known to them.
Putting aside his outstanding performance in the hunting battle, they had also heard of Cheng Jiu's reputation before, as the future number one alchemist and a record-breaking seventh-grade alchemist!
She has now broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm, and everyone is speculating whether she has reached the eighth rank.
Cheng Jiu simply closed his eyes to rest, but this held a unique significance in the eyes of these people.
When the time came, Elder Huoyan announced the start of the competition. The first round consisted of ten Grade 5 Qi Cultivation Pills, with a time limit of three hours.
All elixirs will be uniformly appraised by Wanbaoge.
The alchemists can decide for themselves whether to use the refined pills or have them purchased by Wanbaoge. This is considered an alchemy competition and a unique perk.
The spiritual herbs in the storage ring were scattered and disordered, without any discernible pattern. Finding the spiritual herbs to refine the Qi-Nourishing Pill would be a considerable undertaking.
Instead of searching blindly, Cheng Jiu first organized the spiritual herbs in her storage ring, categorizing them in order. Three hours was plenty of time for her.
While she was tidying up, the alchemists around her began refining pills one after another.
Cheng Jiu didn't care at all and continued to arrange the medicinal herbs in a leisurely manner.
Only after everyone was neatly arranged did Cheng Jiu begin to take out the spiritual materials for refining the Peiyuan Pill. When she received the three qianzi, she couldn't help but pause. These three qianzi were only enough for two portions.
Cheng Jiu couldn't help but look up at Elder Huo Yan and Elder Du Qing sitting in front of him. He kept a watchful eye on things and then exchanged the three qian of seeds for a larger amount of xian qing.
Sanqianzi is one of the auxiliary ingredients in Peiyuan Dan, and its main function is to stabilize the medicinal properties.
In comparison, Sanqianzi is a fourth-grade spiritual herb, while Xianqing, which has the same medicinal effect, is only a third-grade herb and is more troublesome to process. Using Xianqing to refine herbs is more difficult than using Sanqianzi, but the medicinal effect is the same.
Given Cheng Jiu's success rate in refining pills, she was absolutely certain that she could use those two portions of three-qian seeds to refine ten Qi-cultivating pills.
However, Cheng Jiu did not believe that the alchemy competition would only prepare two portions of three-qianzi for no reason. Perhaps it was to test the success rate of alchemy? But Xianqing could be substituted, which is common knowledge among alchemists.
In Peiyuan Dan, Sanqianzi is merely an insignificant auxiliary ingredient, but what about in other elixirs? What if it is an irreplaceable main ingredient?
Anyway, refining pills with the green thread wasn't too difficult for Cheng Jiu, so Cheng Jiu kept a watchful eye on it.
Cheng Jiu's alchemy speed was incredibly fast, almost like flowing water. With the blessing of life force, these spiritual herbs were very docile.
In the last half moment, Cheng Jiu refined two batches of pills in one go and handed them over at the last minute.
Each one is round and plump, carrying Cheng Jiu's own unique mark.