The Ultimate Playboy Novel - Chapter 1562
Chapter 1562 Black Lotus
Forty disciples had already gone to Area One, twenty disciples to the Spirit Pill Master Examination Area, and Qin Feng was heading towards Area Three. He found that the compartments here were much larger than the other two areas, and the equipment inside was even more complete and up-to-date.
At the same time, Qin Feng also discovered a problem. Actually, this pill refining pavilion was huge enough to accommodate a thousand people at the same time. However, the Pill Gathering had limited the number of people who could enter the pill field every time. This was due to the concentration of spiritual energy in the Pill Refining Pavilion.
One had to know that condensing a pill required a large amount of spiritual energy, especially the condensation of a sixth-grade Golden Core. Now that 70 people were concocting pills at the same time, they had just reached the standard required for spiritual energy.
“Eh? That disciple, did you go to the wrong area?”
Just as Qin Feng brought Zhuo Xiaoyue to a spatial array, he heard an old man shouting coldly from the judges’ arena.
The old man had gray hair and was dressed in Danbao Pavilion’s clothes. He was Lu Yunqing, one of Danbao Pavilion’s main pill refiners, and was a rank seven pill king.
When they realized that Pill King Lu Yun was talking to Qin Feng again, a hint of amusement appeared on everyone’s faces. They were waiting to see how Qin Feng would make a fool of himself.
“Senior, I didn’t go to the wrong place. I’m here to test my identity as a Golden Core Master.” Qin Feng cupped his fists at Lu Yunqing and said.
Unexpectedly, Lu Yunqing’s expression was cold as he mercilessly scolded, “Humph! Seeing that you are only in your early twenties, you dare to come here to test as a Golden Core Master? You are simply wasting the resources of our Pill Gathering.”
Originally, Qin Feng treated Lu Yunqing more respectfully because he was a judge. After seeing Lu Yunqing’s attitude, Qin Feng’s expression turned cold.
At this time, Zhuo Xiaoyue quickly introduced Lu Yunqing to him, “Young Hero Qin, this is Lu Yunqing, Danbao Pavilion’s master pill refiner. It’s best that you don’t cause any conflicts with him.”
Qin Feng’s expression became even colder. He had a bad impression of Danbao Pavilion. “There is no restriction on the examination level of reference disciples in the Pill Gathering. What’s wrong with me examining Golden Core Master’s identity?”
These words stopped Lu Yunqing. In front of the rules set by the Pill Assembly, he really couldn’t do anything to Qin Feng.
However, how could Lu Yunqing let Qin Feng off so easily when he was forcefully scolded by a brat in front of the other pill workshop elders?
‘”Hmph! There hasn’t been a twenty-year-old Beisha Continent in Golden Core Master. Do you think you can? Although the pill will not limit the grade of the reference, you obviously can’t pass the exam, but you’re still wasting the exam materials. Do you know how precious the refining materials of a sixth-grade Golden Core are?”
Every year, in the pill master examination, the pill association would provide medicinal ingredients and appoint examinees to refine a certain pill. Right now, Lu Yunqing had grasped this point and wanted to suppress Qin Feng.
Ordinary people would definitely retreat when they found out Lu Yunqing’s identity. Otherwise, they would not be able to continue living in Pill City in the future, and they would not be able to buy pills from all Beisha Continent branches in Danbao Pavilion.
However, Qin Feng would not back down. He would definitely take down the identity token of a Golden Core Master today.
“Stop talking nonsense. I will participate in the examination according to the rules of the Pill Gathering. You have no right to expel me.”
This sentence made Lu Yunqing choke again. He stared at Qin Feng with a cold face for a long time, but did not say a word.
Lu Yunqing snorted coldly and sat back down angrily. Apart from Elder Xu, there were also two other people on the judges’ bench. They were the main alchemists of the Spirit Pill Association and the Immortal Herb Sect. These four judges were all Pill Kings. Seeing that Lu Yunqing had been defeated, the other three seemed as if they hadn’t seen him.
From this, it could be seen that the relationship between the four of them was not very good. After all, they were people from different pill factories.
The other three judges did not stop Qin Feng from taking the examination. Qin Feng had already sat down in a spatial array. He wasn’t in a hurry to refine pills. He first studied this spatial array.
Apart from being able to refine pills, Qin Feng also understood formations and artifacts.
Very quickly, he understood that this spatial formation not only divided the field into different compartments, but also had the function of silencing and defending. This was because when refining pills, there would be a huge commotion, especially when the pill was formed, and it could even cause an explosive airflow. This spatial array could block the airflow and avoid causing unnecessary casualties.
“Young Hero Qin, if you have a place where you can use the little girl in a while, just tell me.”
Zhuo Xiaoyue looked at Qin Feng nervously, as if she was the one who wanted to participate in the exam.
Qin Feng smiled and said, “Sister Yue, you don’t need to do anything for a while. Just watch me refine pills quietly. I didn’t call you in to help. I’m afraid that those people outside have ill intentions towards you.”
Zhuo Xiaoyue was suddenly stunned. Only then did she understand Qin Feng’s thoughts.
At this moment, warmth surged in Zhuo Xiaoyue’s heart. She had experienced all the vicissitudes of life in the past 30 years. She had faced everything alone. Now that she had been protected and taken care of by Qin Feng several times, the icy cold heart was melting.
When the crowd took their places, Lu Yunqing stood up again.
He first secretly glared at Qin Feng, then swept past the disciples in the three regions and said, “Now, let me distribute everyone’s exam questions …”
“Disciples of the Miao Pill Master Examination, refine different Miao Pills according to your seat numbers. Odd-numbered examinees refine Clear Profound Pills, even-numbered examinees refine Blood Pill.”
“Spirit Pill Master Examination Disciple …”
After Lu Yunqing finished setting the exam questions for Area 1 and Area 2, his gaze landed on Area 3.
There were only Qin Feng and the other five examinees and their helpers in the large examination hall.
“Xu Baizhen, your exam question is to refine the Cloud Transformation Pill.”
“Fossil Wind, your exam question is to refine the Bone Cleansing Pill.”
…
“Luhui refines the Golden Soul Pill.”
Qin Feng understood all the Golden Core Qin Feng mentioned by Lu Yunqing.
The Cloud Transformation Pill that Xu Baizhen wanted to refine was a fifth-grade, sixth-grade Golden Core. Its main effect was to condense the aura within his body, and it even had the miraculous effect of expanding his dantian.
The Bone Cleansing Pill that Fenghua Stone wanted to refine was one of the Tier 2 and Tier 6 Golden Core. It was mainly used to cut down the hair and wash the marrow. In order to make a breakthrough in the future, it would strengthen one’s physical fitness.
Among the four, the Golden Soul Pill refined by Lu Hui was the simplest. This was one of the easiest pills to refine in a Tier 3 and Tier 6 Golden Core. It could be seen that Lu Yunqing was intentionally giving Lu Hui a back door.
After reading the questions of the four people, Lu Yunqing paused for a moment. He looked at Qin Feng with a playful expression and said, “Qin Feng, you actually dare to test the identity of a Third Grade Sixth Grade Golden Core Master? Then you can refine a batch of Consciousness Gathering Pills.”
Hearing Qin Feng’s question, Xu Baizhen and the others’ expressions changed.
The Sense Gathering Pill was a kind of pill that could strengthen one’s divine sense, and having a strong divine sense could increase the level of refining pills, or even break through one’s cultivation base with epiphany. However, the refining process of the Sense Gathering Pill was extremely complicated. It was originally a third-grade sixth-grade Golden Core, but it had reached the refining range of a fourth-grade sixth-grade Golden Core.
Thus, after Lu Yunqing arranged the examination questions for Qin Feng to refine the Sense Gathering Pill, no one on the stage believed that he could successfully refine it.
“Haha! My surname is Qin, I’ll wait for you to kowtow and pay your respects!”
The person who was most pleased with himself was Lu Hui. He deliberately chose the cubicle on Qin Feng’s left and was currently smiling at Qin Feng.
Although every compartment was blocked by spatial formations, no sound could be heard. But from the shape of Luhui’s mouth, Qin Feng and Zhuo Xiaoyue knew what he was talking about.
“I’m also looking forward to your kneeling down to become a disciple. However, don’t worry, I will refuse to accept you as my disciple after you kowtow. I, Qin Feng, won’t have such a stupid disciple like you.” Qin Feng replied without showing any weakness.
Lu Hui clearly understood and was so angry that she almost rushed up to fight. However, he quickly calmed down. When he thought that Qin Feng was going to refine the Sense Gathering Pill, Luhui was filled with confidence.
“Hmph! The Sense Gathering Pill can’t even be refined to my current pill refining level. Let me see how you play it.”
Lu Hui muttered as she began to refine pills. Flames had already risen.
Rumble!
At the same time.
Dozens of different kinds of flames emerged from the pavilion. The colors of the flames varied, and the intensity of the flames varied greatly. This was the first time Zhuo Xiaoyue had seen the pill refining process, and she immediately became interested.
“Wow! Lu Dan Master actually possesses a type of beast fire. I remember that he used an internal fire last year. It seems that Lu Dan Master has undoubtedly advanced to rank three, rank six, Golden Core Master this time.”
At the beginning of pill refining, everyone was not in a hurry to throw medicinal ingredients into the pill furnace. Instead, they looked around.
To alchemists, pill fire was an extremely important factor. In Empyrean Mainland, fire seeds were divided into five major categories. From low to high, they were natural fire seeds, internal fire, beast fire, earth fire, and sky fire.
Inner fire was the flame that a cultivator’s aura transformed into. Beast flames were the flames emitted by magical beasts, demonic beasts, and spirit beasts that possessed intelligence. As for Earth Fire and Heavenly Fire, they were both Heaven Earth Fire, extremely rare.
Many people looked at Luhui. A ball of pale yellow flame jumped from his palm, looking like a flame from a flaming beast.
Lu Hui naturally knew that there were many people staring at him, so she was instantly extremely pleased with herself. She even deliberately increased the beast fire and played a few tricks around her body.
After doing all this, he even tilted his eyes at Qin Feng, as if he was flaunting his might.
“Everyone, look, Pill Master Feng also uses a type of beast fire.”
“Immortal Grass Sect’s Pill Master Xia is also a beast fire …”
Everyone cried out in alarm, but under the effect of the spatial array, their voices could not be heard at all. All they could see was their wide mouths wide open in shock.
However, in the next moment, the sixty disciples of Zone One and Zone Two completely boiled. Everyone’s gaze landed in Xu Baizhen’s cubicle, burning a ball of black flame in his hand. The flame was mysterious and spiritual, as if it had devoured all the light in the surroundings.
“What kind of fire seed is Senior Xu Baizhen using? I actually haven’t seen it before.”
“Even though it is separated by space, I can still feel the ferocity of that black flame seed. This is obviously not a beast flame level. Could it be a Heaven and Earth Heavenly Flame?”
When it came to the Heaven and Earth Heavenly Flames, the crowd could no longer remain calm.
Rumor has it that in Empyrean Mainland, there are 58 types of earthflames, 28 types of skyflames, a total of 86 types of Heaven and Earth Fire. These flames coexisted with the heavens and earth, and each of them was an incomparably powerful existence. If an alchemist was able to subdue one of the Heaven and Earth Heavenly Flames, his alchemy level and combat strength would explode by several times.
“Then, that’s Earth Fire Black Lotus, ranked 58th …”
There was still a lot of knowledge in the crowd. When he reported the fire seed that Xu Baizhen had used, the entire Pill Refining Pavilion fell into silence. The group of disciples stared at the Black Lotus in True Void White’s palm with burning eyes, as if they wanted to rush forward and snatch it away.