Everyone has found their own position, Dan Daozi said: "Well, now you have all found your own positions. The medicinal materials in front of you are the alchemy materials prepared for you. Each person has three portions of medicinal materials, that is to say, you have three chances to refine the elixir. If all three attempts at refining the elixir fail, then you will be directly eliminated. Also, you must complete it within 15 hours. If you exceed the time limit, you will also be directly eliminated." After Dan Daozi finished speaking, he sat down again.

  The crowd participating in the exam looked at the materials on the stage and found that there were indeed three, no more or less. The crowd quickly took out their own prepared furnaces and rapidly infused their true yuan to preheat them. However, a small number of twenty or thirty people who only had foundation-building cultivation participating in the trial could only bring forth prepared earth fire flames and slowly controlled the flames, unable to control them as well as golden dan period cultivators.

  Ye Tianfan was not in a hurry to refine the elixir, firstly because he knew that refining this kind of elixir would be very quick and there was no need to rush, otherwise it would easily attract everyone's attention; secondly Ye Tianfan also wanted to pay attention to everyone's refining level, so that he could know how much strength he should use to win this competition.

  Among them, several people caught Ye Tianfan's attention. One was a middle-aged man with a beard, who performed each step of the refining process as smoothly as flowing clouds and running water, without any hesitation or delay, obviously very familiar with this refining medicine.

  Another is a young man, although in the refining process can be seen that the refining technique has some greenness, but he grasps the key of each step very well, obviously with great alchemy talent, and Ye Tianfan can see that he is always making progress, because his refining technique gradually becomes more rounded.

  The last one was Ye Tianfan's most concern, and it was a female disciple around 28 years old. This light just looked at her young appearance to know that she was not very old, but she was proficient in alchemy, whether it was the fluency of alchemy or the speed of alchemy, like an old alchemist who had been obsessed with alchemy for decades or even hundreds of years. From this point, it can be seen that the female cultivator's alchemy talent is very good.

  Ye Tianfan was observing from below, but weren't the people on stage the same? After all, almost everyone on stage was a Dan Dao master who could refine top-grade elixirs.

  Only to see the master of Jinling Peak say: "It seems that there are many good seedlings this year, at least a few dozen have reached the level of refining middle-grade elixirs. I wonder if Dan Lao can find any satisfactory ones? These disciples are very admiring of you and hope you will accept them as your disciples." As he spoke, the master of Jinling Peak asked his curious question, while the rest of the crowd also looked at him curiously.

  Dan Lao smiled and said, "This time's alchemy competition indeed has many good people, worthy of the sect's great nurturing. As for taking in disciples, I've never considered it before, but this time's Alchemy Convention did make me think about taking in a disciple. However, let's talk about this after I finish watching this Alchemy Convention."

  "Oh, it's actually true that Dan Lao has taken a liking to someone. I wonder who it is?" Everyone looked at him curiously, and Huo Lingfeng, the hot-tempered master of Huo Ling Peak, hastily asked.

  It's no wonder they were surprised, as a master alchemist had once asked to be Dan Lao's apprentice and was rejected with the evaluation: "You barely passed the entrance exam in alchemy and are only average, so I won't accept you as my disciple."

  Now Dan Lao can speak quite well, it's clear that this person is definitely better than that alchemy master. Even if he's not as good as the alchemy master now, his future achievements will likely be much higher than that of the alchemy master.

  "Who this person is will be kept secret for the time being, and I haven't decided whether to accept her as a disciple or not. What's the point of saying all this? Let's just focus on watching the match."

  Everyone listened to Dan Lao's words, although they were somewhat disappointed that Dan Lao didn't say more, but still seriously watched the competition, hoping to select a few people with good talent to make Muling Sect prosperous and eternal.

  Having watched for a while, Ye Tianfan also started to refine the elixir himself. However, in order not to stand out too much, Ye Tianfan lowered his speed, quantity and purity of refining the elixir by a lot.

  Originally, Ye Tianfan only needed one hour to refine the Qingling Dan, but he insisted on increasing the time to two and a half hours. The method of increasing the time was to reduce the power of his dan fire and slow down the speed of injecting his true yuan by half.

  As for lowering the purity of his own elixirs, it's even simpler. He just needs to slightly disrupt the balance during the refining process, and the quality of the elixir will only be a little higher than that of ordinary elixirs of the same kind, without being too outstanding.

  Soon, Ye Tianfan's elixir was successfully refined, a total of eight elixirs. At this time, a small number of people had already succeeded in refining them. The three people Ye Tianfan paid attention to took only about three hours to complete it.

  Seeing that someone has already succeeded, some people who have not yet succeeded in refining suddenly became anxious, and then the continuous "bang bang bang" was endless. It is clear that some people were distracted by their anxiety, causing themselves to fail in their refinement.

  Some of the failed ones quickly adjusted their state and continued to refine, while others got worse and worse, failing one after another, and were eliminated before the time was up, leaving in dismay.

  Before long, the fifteen-hour time limit arrived, and Dan Daozi stood up and called out: "Everyone, the trial is over, stop what you're doing." As soon as Dan Daozi gave the order, everyone involuntarily stopped what they were busy with, but at this moment, there were still many "bang bang" sounds of furnaces exploding, obviously someone was still refining elixirs.

  "Everyone, stay where you are. I will send my disciples to come and collect the elixirs you have refined." As soon as Dan Daozi finished speaking, over a hundred pre-arranged disciples arrived in front of the crowd, beginning to collect the refined elixirs from everyone.

  After the Dan medicine was collected, Dan Daozi and others began to check one by one, according to their standards to determine which ones passed and which ones were eliminated.

  Soon, several people had finished viewing the elixirs refined by more than a hundred contestants and selected fifty of them as finalists.

  Since the candidates had already been decided, Dan Daozi stood up and said: "The fifty people who passed the preliminary round are Cheng Xu, Sun Xing, Li Wuxi, Ye Tianfan......" The fifty names were quickly read out.

  The crowd under the stage was naturally divided into those who were delighted and those who were distressed, apparently feeling very disappointed that they had not been able to make it into the finals.

  "After finishing the name, Dan Daozi continued: "Now the preliminary round has ended. Those who want to participate in the final round should come back three days later. The final round will also be held here three days later. Everyone can go back and rest now." After saying these words, Dan Daozi started chatting with the people on stage, apparently reminiscing about old times."