63 Cha Dao Ling (Second Shift)

  The first hurdle has finally passed, and Chu Xiao couldn't help but let out a light breath, but the expression on his face remained calm as ever, his spirit and intention always focused on the dan furnace. Under his control, those clusters of medicinal properties merged together in an extremely exquisite and unparalleled manner.

  The most important step in alchemy is the fusion of medicinal properties, which almost determines the quality and success rate of the elixir.

  The degree of fusion of medicinal properties is the most able to reflect a Dan refining master's actual refining ability.

  Undoubtedly, Chu Xiao did a great job in this aspect. He controlled the fusion of medicinal properties with precision and delicacy, especially when using multiple top-notch techniques in fusion control.

  A professional alchemist will have their own unique fusion techniques and corresponding alchemy formulas.

  However, to use the alchemy method in the alchemy process, one must reach the spiritual communication stage. In this way, when displaying the alchemy method, one can control the alchemy furnace array method with divine consciousness, and not like the alchemists at the Qi training level, who can only do so by touching the core of the alchemy furnace array method with their palms.

  Chu Xiao couldn't use the alchemy formula, so he could only rely on the Dan Furnace Array Method to control the medicinal properties and perform various intricate cycles of rotation, spiral rotation, nine-turn rotation, double-star rotation, helical rotation, hyperbolic rotation... These cycles were extremely precious and required years of research and experimentation by an alchemist to perfect, but under Chu Xiao's hands, they came naturally.

  If someone uses their divine consciousness to observe the situation in the alchemical furnace, they will discover that those clusters of medicinal properties have formed various incredible trajectories, blending together with each other.

  Don't look at Chu Xiao's ease of use, it's because he has gone through the Xian Tian system's enlightenment. If a Dan refining master wants to master these fusion techniques, he must practice for years and months.

  It is the application of these fusion techniques that makes Chu Xiao's elixir refinement produce effects that can almost be compared to those of divine transcendence-level alchemists.

  Using fusion methods, Chu Xiao's mental energy consumption was extremely high, and during this period, Chu Xiao also took another Spirit Gathering Pill.

  As for absorbing yuan jade and yuan energy, it's already unknown how many times it has been done.

  Chu Xiao was in a state of profound meditation, his mind free from distractions, single-mindedly focused on the fusion of medicinal properties, completely unaware of the passage of time.

  Although it was hard work, Chu Xiao enjoyed this process very much.

  It wasn't until much later, when the last trace of medicinal properties had fully merged, that Chu Xiao knew the most crucial step was finally over.

  Next is Jing Dan.

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  "It's been over 50 minutes already, and Chu Xiao's dan furnace still doesn't show any abnormalities. It seems the situation is better than we imagined, being able to hold on for so long is really not easy!"

  "Not bad, just now there was a 7th-grade alchemist who made 200 Spirit Nourishing Pills at once. During the fusion of medicinal properties and yuanqi, an accident occurred, causing all the pills in the furnace to be scrapped. This is the first alchemist to fail in making pills."

  "In comparison, Chu Xiao has been able to refine three hundred Spirit Nourishing Pills at once and has persisted until now. This is already enough to show that his pill refining abilities and natural talent are not weak!"

  "Look, someone else has failed. He's a sixth-grade alchemist from the Zi Yun Alchemy Division, and he attempted to refine 150 portions at once. Something must have gone wrong at a critical moment."

  "A few nine-grade alchemy masters have reached a critical point in their alchemy, but it's unclear whether they will ultimately succeed."

  "Somebody successfully refined, is a 7th rank alchemist of the Qingyun Alchemy Division. This person only refined one hundred and fifty portions, oh, the success rate isn't bad, ninety-eight were successfully refined, with perfect quality at seventy-nine point seventeen percent, competition score thirty-nine point zero five."

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  Most alchemists have now reached a critical moment, and there are occasional situations that make the originally quiet audience platform lively.

  Of course, Chu Xiao, who was the most popular, was the focus of discussion among the guests.

  At this time, a small number of alchemists began to successfully refine the elixir, but they were all people who refined relatively small quantities.

  Generally, a fifth-grade alchemist can refine 50 to 100 Spirit Nourishing Pills, a sixth-grade alchemist can refine 100 to 150, a seventh-grade alchemist can refine 150 to 200, an eighth-grade alchemist can refine 200 to 250, and a ninth-grade alchemist can basically refine more than 250.

  "Look, Yuan Changsheng from the Qingyun Alchemy Association has finished refining! Two hundred and eighty sets of alchemy materials were refined into two hundred and seventy-nine Spirit Nourishing Pills, each with a quality of 81.94%, truly worthy of being a 9th-grade alchemy master! This quality, this success rate, is indeed extraordinary!"

  "Yes, now there are many who have successfully refined it, but Yuan Changsheng's competition score is still the highest, reaching 76.2 points."

  "Currently ranked second is Eighth-Rank Alchemist Zhao Ming, with 230 portions of alchemy materials, yielding 224 Spirit Nourishing Pills, with a perfect quality rate of 80.33%. The competition score is 59.97."

  "Ranked third is Eighth-Rank Alchemist Ye Xiu, with 220 portions of alchemy materials, producing 216 Spirit Recovery Pills, with a perfect quality rate of 79.84%, and a competition score of 53.74."

  "Ranked fourth..."

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  As each alchemist successfully refined their elixir, the crystal screen automatically displayed the corresponding medicinal properties and inspection information, even the final competition results and preliminary rankings appeared.

  The calculation of the competition results is very simple, it's just Perfectness * Success Rate * Alchemy Rate. The perfectness refers to the perfect quality of the elixir, the success rate refers to the success rate of alchemy, and the alchemy rate refers to the proportion of how many parts are refined at one time out of 300 parts of alchemy materials.

  The theoretical highest score is one hundred, requiring a hundred percent success rate, plus a hundred percent perfect quality and a hundred percent elixir refinement rate, which is fundamentally impossible to complete.

  Boom!

  Suddenly, a dull sound came from the alchemy platform, and all the guests saw that the lid of an alchemist's crucible was blown off, with thick smoke pouring out. Fortunately, there was a defensive light shield that blocked the lid.

  The alchemist dodged quickly and barely avoided being hit by the cauldron lid, then emerged from the alchemy platform with a disheveled face.

  "Unexpectedly, Li Shijun failed, he was an eighth-grade alchemist, what a pity."

  "This time he refined too much elixir, two hundred and sixty portions, the failure rate is very high."

  "Yes, he is still too impatient."

  "Look, his competition results are displayed on the screen, and it's zero. Now he looks embarrassed."

  "Who made him refine two hundred and sixty portions at once?!"

  ....．

  Seeing this alchemist fail, some shook their heads and sighed, while others gloated over his misfortune.

  Many guests took a glance at the huge timer and found that nearly an hour had passed, with only a small portion of alchemists still in the process of refining.

  At this moment, the 9th-grade alchemist Cha Dao Ling finished his alchemy and his alchemy information appeared on the crystal screen.

  "Three hundred sets of alchemy materials, refined into 287 pills, with a perfect quality rate of 81.27%, and a competition score of 77.74. More than one point higher than Yuan Changsheng, temporarily ranking first."

  There were guests who recited the information about Chaodao Ling's alchemy.

  Cha Dao Ling was a middle-aged alchemist with a tuft of whiskers on his chin. He turned off the formation's light shield and looked at the information on the crystal screen, revealing a hint of satisfaction on his face. For him, the only threats were now Yuan Changsheng and Li Aiping. As for other alchemists, he simply ignored them.

  It wasn't long before Li Ao also succeeded in refining the elixir.

  "Three hundred sets of alchemy materials, two hundred and eighty-eight items were refined, with a perfection rate of 80.78%, and the competition score was 77.54."

  Cha Dao Ling saw Li Ao Ping's competition results and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, his face revealing a relaxed expression. He knew that the Dark Spirit Gathering Root Dan was already in the bag, and now there were only a few 7th or 8th rank alchemists left who hadn't completed their dan refinement yet.

  Li Ao Ping closed the protective light shield in a hurry after finishing the alchemy, and when he saw the information on it, his face showed a hint of disappointment. He was only 0.2 points away from Cha Dao Ling's score, and just like that, he missed the first place by a hair's breadth.

  In the previous Dan furnace refining process, a mistake occurred in the alchemy technique, affecting the fusion effect of the medicinal properties. Although the final success rate of refining Dan was higher than that of Zha Dao Ling, it was slightly inferior in quality.

  Soon, another alchemist completed the refining of the Nourishing Spirit Pill, but no one shook Cha Dao Ling's first place.

  As all the alchemists finished their alchemy, oh no, there was still one more, also the protagonist of the master's banquet, Chu Xiao, who had the lowest level among all the alchemists and had not yet completed his alchemy, quickly attracting the attention of all the guests and even the alchemists.

  Especially when many alchemists heard that Chu Xiao had refined 300 Nourishing Spirit Pills at once, they were all stunned.

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  P.S: The second update is here, this chapter has 2,800 words, which shouldn't be considered a small amount!

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