Invincible Divine Sword - Chapter 203
Chapter 203: Chapter 203: Is Yang Xiaotian Going to Be the First One Eliminated?
Blindfolded, he searched for herbal ingredients!
This alone was enough to make many pharmacists think twice.
Without eyesight, one could only rely on smell to identify the herbs, which made this task countless times harder than the alchemist contest Yang Xiaotian had participated in within the Divine Sea Kingdom.
However, after entering the Medicine Realm, Yang Xiaotian calmly covered his eyes with a black cloth.
To prevent cheating, these black cloths were distributed by the Empire Pharmacist Hall.
After blindfolding himself, Yang Xiaotian felt the world around him quiet down.
Breezes whispered past his ears.
Yang Xiaotian stimulated his Soul Power, sensing his surroundings.
Now, his Soul Power covered a range of one thousand meters!
Even many of those at the Supreme Emperor Realm did not possess such Soul Power.
Once he expanded his Soul Power, every movement within a thousand meters around him was clearly transmitted to Yang Xiaotian’s mind.
He executed the Skywalking Thousand Swords technique and flew forward, breaking through the air.
At the Imperial Capital Plaza, a gigantic Stone Mirror reflected everything happening in the Medicine Realm. Shi Yongping saw Yang Xiaotian execute the Skywalking Thousand Swords at the Summit Mastery Realm and exclaimed with admiration, “The Skywalking Thousand Swords of the Summit Mastery Realm, truly befitting of an unparalleled Sword Dao genius!”
Chen Nian also praised, “As far as I know, Yang Xiaotian has cultivated the Myriad Aspects Sword Technique, the Shocking Heaven Sword Art, and the Burying Heaven Sword Technique to the Summit Mastery level. With the addition of the Skywalking Thousand Swords, that makes four techniques.”
“For someone of his age to have cultivated four Supreme Divine Powers to Summit Mastery, is truly rare!”
Wang Zhou snorted derisively, “Just four techniques. He’s about to break through to Martial Ancestor. At most, having four techniques at Summit Mastery level will only allow him to condense a high-quality Golden Core. Compared to the supreme talents of the ten Supreme Sects who have condensed top-quality Golden Cores, the difference is not just slight.”
However, Shi Yongping laughed, “Yang Xiaotian has already condensed five Nine-Colored Sword Hearts. I believe that with his Sword Dao Talent, he will definitely cultivate ten Supreme Divine Powers to Summit Mastery level before his breakthrough to Martial Ancestor.”
Wang Zhou sneered, “Just five Nine-Colored Sword Hearts. You Yi from the Unparalleled Emperor Kingdom has already condensed the sixth Sword Heart, which is also the Strongest Sword Heart.”
“Furthermore, You Yi has also cultivated seven Supreme Divine Powers to Summit Mastery.”
“Compared to You Yi, Yang Xiaotian is just downright trash!”
Upon hearing Wang Zhou constantly belittle Yang Xiaotian, Qingxuan glared at him fiercely, indignantly retorting, “Brother Xiaotian will definitely surpass that You Yi in the future. He will certainly condense a top-quality Golden Core!”
Caught off-guard by Qingxuan’s rebuttal, Wang Zhou let out an embarrassed chuckle and chose not to argue with Qingxuan any further, especially considering her status and the fact that she was but a young girl.
Within the Medicine Realm, after flying for a while, Yang Xiaotian landed before a stretch of mountainous land.
There, in front of him, lay an enormous field of medicinal herbs.
The field was densely packed with thousands upon thousands of medicinal plants.
The Seven-Flavor Grass, one of the ingredients needed for the Four Symbols Spirit Pill, was among the herbs in this field.
However, there were many other plants around the Seven-Flavor Grass whose scents and colors were extremely similar to it, making it no easy task to identify the right plant.
After sniffing around for a while, Yang Xiaotian accurately approached the Seven-Flavor Grass, plucked it out, and stored it away before continuing his search for other ingredients.
Shi Yongping closely watched Yang Xiaotian, and upon seeing him find the Seven-Flavor Grass accurately, he nodded to himself in silent approval.
Truth be told, he held great admiration for the boy.
The rules for the first two rounds of the Empire Alchemist Contest were set by him.
The first round of finding herbs didn’t require much strength, which undoubtedly favored Yang Xiaotian, who was at the Martial King Realm.
However, that was all he could do to aid Yang Xiaotian in the initial two rounds.
What rank Yang Xiaotian would achieve in the third round was up to his own destiny.
“I just hope the kid can make it into the top hundred,” Shi Yongping thought to himself.
Although he knew it was an unlikely prospect, deep down he still harbored a flicker of hope for a miracle to occur.
If Yang Xiaotian could emerge within the top hundred in this contest, he would be able to join the Empire Pharmacist Hall.
Otherwise, even he would be powerless to help.
Supported by a powerful Soul Power, Yang Xiaotian quickly found over a dozen types of medicinal ingredients.
Because the first round’s rules prohibited snatching or attacking other competing disciples, everyone within the Medicine Realm was merely focused on finding medicinal ingredients, and no conflicts arose.
In less than ten minutes, Yang Xiaotian had gathered dozens of medicinal ingredients and then exited the Medicine Realm.
Yang Xiaotian was the first to come out.
Seeing Yang Xiaotian come out first, Wang Zhou coldly huffed.
Jiu Wu from the Subduing Dragon Sword Sect was also in a bad mood.
“Yang Xiaotian just got damn lucky, blindly grabbing at stuff, and he managed to find all the ingredients so quickly,” said a disciple beside Jiu Wu.
Jiu Wu coldly said, “It’s useless to perform well in the first two rounds; rankings are only decided in the third round, and he simply won’t be able to concoct a Profound Level Elixir.”
“By then, he will be the first to be eliminated.”
The second and third to emerge from the Medicine Realm were Gu Shaozong and Li Qianqian.
Seeing Yang Xiaotian ahead of them by two steps, both of them frowned.
“It’s just the first round,” Li Qianqian said dismissively, “It doesn’t prove anything.”
Gu Shaozong nodded.
Two hours passed quickly, and in the end, only a little over fifty thousand had passed the first round.
Next came the second round.
The second round involved using the medicinal ingredients found in the Medicine Realm to concoct the Four Symbols Spirit Pill.
The time limit was also two hours.
However, unlike usual alchemy, the second round also required competitors to be blindfolded.
Searching for medicinal ingredients with blindfolded eyes in the first round was already extremely difficult, but concocting elixirs blindfolded in the second round increased the difficulty by more than double.
One must know, if one is even slightly careless in controlling the Heaven and Earth Fire, it could burn the medicinal ingredients to ashes.
Before applying the blindfold, Lan Yi made a covert signal to one of the Subduing Dragon Sword Sect’s competing disciples.
“Begin alchemy now!” Chen Nian announced loudly after everyone had been blindfolded.
Yang Xiaotian adeptly placed the medicinal ingredients for the Four Symbols Spirit Pill into the Medicine Cauldron in sequence and slowly began controlling the Heaven and Earth Fire to incinerate and melt them.
These procedures might seem simple, but if the sequence of the medicinal ingredients was incorrect, or if they were not fully melted, the pill would not form.
Just as Yang Xiaotian was about to successfully melt all the ingredients, suddenly, the flame controlled by the competing disciple from the Subduing Dragon Sword Sect surged wildly, and like an uncontrollable savage beast, it charged toward Yang Xiaotian’s ingredients.
The faces of Shi Yongping, Qingxuan, and others changed.
The flames from that disciple of the Subduing Dragon Sword Sect were extremely fierce; if Yang Xiaotian’s medicinal ingredients were burnt, they would be completely destroyed.
By then, forget about advancing to the third round; he wouldn’t even be able to pass the second!
“Be careful!” Qingxuan, Wu Qi, and the others shouted in alarm.
Just as the aggressor’s flames were about to destroy Yang Xiaotian’s medicinal ingredients, suddenly, the Medicine Cauldron controlled by Yang Xiaotian shone brightly, and the flames miraculously reversed, burning back at the Subduing Dragon Sword Sect disciple with even greater speed and ferocity.
The disciple from the Subduing Dragon Sword Sect instantly became a man of fire, screaming miserably.
A putrid smell of scorched flesh spread throughout the air.
This frightening occurrence threw the surrounding competitors into a panicked disorder.
Smelling the burnt flesh, Lan Yi’s face involuntarily twitched, and he nearly burnt his own medicinal ingredients due to a slip of his hand.
(Three more chapters tomorrow)
