C403 (1/2)
Amidst the crowd's discussion, Chen Feng and Tao Rui followed the stream of people and arrived at the top of the stone platform.
”Everyone, our apothecaries are already here. ”Next, I shall announce the start of the Apothecary Exchange Competition!” Following Li An's words, nearly a hundred jade boxes suddenly appeared in the middle of the stone stage. Inside the boxes were all sorts of spirit plants.
In an instant, the crowd quieted down once again. Everyone quietly stared at Li An as they announced the rules.
”There are a total of ninety-eight pill refiners participating in this year's Alchemist Exchange Competition. My Soaring Dragon Auction House has prepared a jade box for each of the pill refiners. Every box is filled with pills.”
”In order to make the competition between the alchemists more fair, the spiritual herbs in the jade box have been meticulously selected. Regardless of their age or size, they are all around the same age.”
”In four hours, an apothecary must use the spiritual herbs in the jade box to refine a pill. As for my Soaring Dragon Pavilion, we have also invited a few respected alchemists to evaluate the quality of the pills made by each alchemist, and ultimately, we have determined the final victor. ”
”Next, I announce the start of the pill refining competition.”
As Li An finished speaking, two experts of the Origin Condensation Stage carried a large hourglass to the stone platform. With a loud shout, the huge hourglass landed firmly on the ground after a huge tremor. In the midst of the tremors, the sand that was long covered in dust started to fall down slowly through the small hole in the middle. When the sand in the upper layer had all fallen down, it took two hours.
As the hourglass began to count down, everyone came to the jade box not too far away from them and began to sort out the ingredients needed for the pill refining process.
”Mr. Chen Feng, I will have to trouble you this time.” Tao Rui said in shame.
The reason why Chen Feng came with Tao Rui was because Tao Rui did not have a useful alchemist student. During his illness, he had already dismissed the apprentice alchemist.
Without an alchemist, there would be no face for an alchemist. Even as a Pill Ancestor in his previous life, Chen Feng still had his own apprentice alchemist. If it was because Tao Rui did not have an alchemist child and directly caused the Return of Spring Hall to lose face here, Chen Feng would absolutely not allow it. As one of his businesses in his previous life, Chen Feng decided to help it up once again.
Chen Feng smiled and was about to say a few words of consolation when a strange voice suddenly made him frown.
A fat alchemist walked to Tao Rui's side with a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes and said mockingly: ”I didn't think a sickly ghost like you could come participate in the competition. But, so what if you did? They are just the lowest grade of goods, and are just disgracing themselves! ” As he spoke, the fat alchemist laughed brazenly with the alchemist next to him. He didn't seem to put Tao Rui in his eyes at all.
Tao Rui looked coldly at Fatty. A dense killing intent flashed across his eyes. However, he quickly concealed his killing intent. With a stern face, he bluntly replied, ”Don't laugh at me so much. You fat pig, you think you can become the champion?”
Tao Rui's words infuriated the fat alchemist. He suddenly shouted with a hoarse voice: ”Tao Rui, you loser, you actually dare to talk to me like this. I want to see what kind of flowers you can turn over today!”
After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards an open area on the other side of the stone platform.