The Dandao Competition, which was once every ten years, finally kicked off as scheduled.

Although it is not as important as Qingzhou Zhulu, which was held every ten years in the same year, after all, Qingzhou Zhulu has an official nature, with each county and country as the main participants, reflecting the will of the country. The results of the competition are related to the ranking and positioning of the county and country; and the Alchemy Competition is unofficial and the alchemy associations of each country decide whether to participate.

However, the scarcity of alchemy geniuses is still valued by the alchemy associations of various counties and countries and the attention of major sects and families. Tianlan Kingdom also sent personnel to attend the opening ceremony of the alchemy competition to show its importance.

The person responsible for observing this alchemy competition was Nangong Lingfeng, the third prince of Tianlan Kingdom, and the one who was with him happened to be Nangong Shi. This person had personally visited Yunwu County and conveyed the message of Qingzhou's rush, and tried to take Zhou Ruozhu, the ninth princess of Yunwu County, as his concubine. He was cleverly rejected by Zhou Zhengyu, the sage lord of Yunwu County, and he always held a grudge for this.

The letter Zhao An brought to him secretly made Zhao An even more angry. A small alchemist from a low-ranking county state played Zhao An in his palm.

The host of this alchemy competition is Zhao Nankui, president of Qingzhou Alchemy Association, which shows the importance the Qingzhou Alchemy Association attaches to the alchemy competition.

The opening ceremony of the Qingzhou Alchemy Competition was arranged in a very spacious open space. Ninety-six participating alchemy associations set up a special rest area for the contestants and the county and state to rest.

Of course, the rest area of ​​the nine first-class county and state alchemy associations is clearly located in the center of the front row of the venue.

Zhao Wuji has never been interested in alchemy, but this time he came here to cheer Xuan Yuanhao up.

Zhao Nankui cleared his throat and said loudly, "The highly anticipated Qingzhou Alchemy Competition officially kicked off today. In the next eight days, we will witness the superb alchemy skills of 288 alchemists from 96 counties and state alchemists, and decided on three grade alchemists in total, 36 final places. Who can win the final championship, let us wait and see. These participants represent the top alchemy level in our Qingzhou alchemy industry. I hope that in this alchem ​​competition, we will exchange and discuss with each other, improve the level of alchemism, and jointly help the Hongtu Avenue of Qingzhou's alchemist."

"According to the regulations of previous alchemy competitions, contestants who enter the final circle will receive generous rewards based on their final rankings. This year, on this basis, we will provide additional rewards. Fifth-grade alchemist can directly become a tribute to the Qingzhou Alchemist Association, sixth-grade alchemist can become a visiting alchemist of the Qingzhou Alchemist Association, and seventh-grade alchemist can choose to enter the Zhao family alchemist hall, become a disciple of the Zhao family's foreign surname, enjoy the same treatment as the core disciple of the Zhao family, and also become my own registered disciple. I will take some time every year to guide them in person to refine alchemist. Of course, if you perform well enough, it is not impossible to become a personal disciple."

As soon as Zhao Nankui finished speaking, a scream sounded from the field. Everyone knows the normal rewards, but unexpectedly, this time, the Qingzhou Alchemy Association will take out such a rare position as a reward for offerings and guest alchemists, and reward them to fifth-grade alchemists and sixth-grade alchemists. What's more, the twelve seventh-grade alchemists who entered the final circle can actually be disciples of the foreign surname of the Zhao family of the first family in Qingzhou, becoming a registered disciple of Zhao Nankui, or even a personal disciple. This is something that many people dream of and envy.

In the previous Qingzhou Alchemy Competition, the Zhao family would also choose one or two particularly outstanding seventh-grade alchemists with potential as disciples of other surnames. Other seventh-grade alchemists who have not been selected will also have other aristocratic families and large sects to rob, but they certainly did not enter the Qingzhou Zhao family with such a face and gloriousness.

After hearing this, Xuan Yuanhao was also happy. He originally planned to find a way to enter the Zhao family after fighting in Qingzhou to investigate the Zhao family warrior Xu said that he had sent him to Jiangshan Town, Yunwu County. In this way, as long as he could successfully enter the final circle, he could enter the Zhao family with justice and would not arouse anyone's suspicion.

As the saying goes, knowing yourself and your enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. Xuan Yuanhao is quite confident in his own alchemy level. There is no 100% guarantee to win the championship, because no one knows what monsters are hidden among these 96 seventh-grade alchemists, especially the contestants from nine first-class counties and countries, which are even more mysterious.

But to enter the final round, Xuan Yuanhao has enough confidence, which is definitely a foregone conclusion. If he can't even enter the final round, it will be too disgrace to the face of the Dan Sheng Qixia, a thousand years ago.

After hearing Zhao Nankui's words, nine seventh-grade alchemists including You Baili, Feng Chuxue, Shen Danqiang couldn't help but feel happy after hearing the words of Zhao Nankui. For them, the attraction of entering the Zhao family may not be great enough, but being able to get Zhao Nankui's personal guidance and becoming Zhao Nankui's registered disciples or even personal disciples is very attractive.

These nine people were ready to try and wanted to go directly over the lengthy opening ceremony of the Alchemy Competition and enter the official competition stage.

After Zhao Nankui's exciting speech, a staff member of the Qingzhou Alchemy Association announced the lengthy rules and precautions, and began to announce the grouping situation of the first round of the competition.

In order to avoid the situation where the best alchemists gather in a group in the first three rounds of competition, the Qingzhou Alchemy Association has arranged a list of seed players based on the approximate strength of each alchemist. After all, it is to decide the list of seed players based on the strength of the county and state.

According to the rules of the Alchemy Competition, the first round of the competition is divided into twelve groups, and the top four players in each group enter the next round.

The first round of the competition was determined in advance by the Qingzhou Alchemy Association according to the principle of combining the players' approximate strength and draws of lots. In each round of subsequent competitions, the temporary draws will be arranged on site based on the promotional players' situation and the ranking of seed players.

Hu Bugui was assigned to the fifth group in the fifth-grade alchemist competition. Except for a fifth-grade alchemist from a first-class county, the players in the same group have relatively average levels. With Hu Bugui's level, it is not a big problem to enter the next round.

Wei Dansheng was assigned to the eighth group of the sixth-grade alchemist. Since Wei Dansheng received the "Miaoshou Danxin" transferred by Xuan Yuanhao, his alchemy level has improved by leaps and bounds. In time, Wei Dansheng will definitely be among the fifth-grade alchemist. Therefore, Wei Dansheng is determined to win this alchemy competition, and also sets his goal to pass the first three rounds of assessment and strive to go further.

Xuan Yuanhao was assigned to the tenth group of the seventh grade alchemist. As for the people in the same group, Xuan Yuanhao had only heard of Qin Tianwen from Aosheng County and the country. This was a coincidence that he heard others discussing it in the betting point.

Although Xuan Yuanhao didn't care, the other people in the same group and alchemists were stunned when they heard the list of the tenth group and let out a low scream.

No wonder they were shocked. This was really coincidental. In the tenth group, there was actually a seventh-grade alchemist from the first-class county, two seventh-grade alchemist from the second-class county, and two seventh-grade alchemist from the third-class county, and almost the full configuration of the seed selection.

In other words, in the tenth group, seventh-grade alchemists from first-class counties and states were almost sure to win a promotion place. The remaining seven players will compete fiercely for the other three promotion places. Two of them will be relatively large in the second-class counties, but they are only relative. Among the remaining five, except for Xuan Yuanhao's weak reputation, the other four, although they are from third-class and fourth-class counties, are also small-achieving alchemists.

But no one doubts the fairness of the grouping. Qingzhou Dandao Competition has always been known for its fairness and justice, at least it is so.

Therefore, when he learned that he was assigned to the tenth group, except for Qin Tianwen and Xuan Yuanhao, the other alchemists couldn't help but stir up trouble in their hearts.

Qin Tianwen is sure because of his confidence. His goal is to win the final championship. How could he care about the small first round of the game?

Xuan Yuanhao is sure that he knows himself. Although he doesn’t know much about people in the same group, Xuan Yuanhao has 100% confidence in entering the finals.

When the staff of the Qingzhou Alchemy Association announced the group list, Nangong Shi, who was in the VIP seat, could not help but sneer flashed across the corner of his mouth after hearing Xuan Yuanhao's name.

After the first round of group reading is completed, three contestants from the Alchemist Association of the same county will be separated and will face their own challenges in the next eight days, fighting for their own alchemist associations and their own future.

Hu Bugui, Wei Dansheng and Xuan Yuanhao looked at each other and smiled, everything was in vain and rushed to their respective competition areas.

The first round of competition event for the seventh-grade alchemist is Wendanbiao medicinal materials.

In order to prevent cheating, each group will provide different elixirs. Participants must not only write down the medicinal materials and proportions needed to refine the elixir on paper, but also explain the growth habits, performance, and efficacy of each medicinal material one by one.

This is the most basic quality that an alchemist should have.

Judging from the group competition in the first nine rounds, the competition process was calm. All contestants from first-class counties and countries, and all contestants from second-class counties and countries entered the next round; most of the contestants from third-class counties and countries also entered the next round. Sure enough, the level of an alchemist is proportional to the overall strength of a county and country.

When it was Xuan Yuanhao's turn, the staff distributed a jade box containing a elixir to eight contestants in the same group.

"There are 15 medicinal materials for this elixir recipe. Please write these 15 medicinal materials, their ratios, their growth habits, performance and efficacy on paper one by one, as the basis for judging this round of competition. The medicinal materials written can only be equal to or less than fifteen. If more than fifteen kinds of medicinal materials, the answer will be invalid and will be automatically eliminated." A referee announced seriously.

After Xuan Yuanhao put a jade box, he picked up the spiritual pill, first observed it carefully, and then placed it on the tip of his nose to distinguish the medicinal materials and other formulas used in the spiritual pill.

After a little smell, Xuan Yuanhao quickly confirmed that this was a Ningyuan Pill, whose efficacy was similar to that of the Lingling Pill, and both could promote the practitioners to accelerate the formation of spiritual power.

The merging spirit pill is only an eighth-grade spiritual pill. It is a widely used elixir in Qingzhou. Its formula is also relatively fixed. It is used to help warriors who have just entered the cultivation stage to accelerate the formation of spiritual power. It can be regarded as the best use of things.

However, Ningyuan Pill is a seventh-grade spiritual pill. Because its formula is more complex, it is more difficult to refine, and its effect is far higher than that of the eighth-grade spiritual pill, so the price is far higher than that of the eighth-grade spiritual pill. However, using the expensive seventh-grade spiritual pill to help a warrior who has just entered the cultivation stage to form spiritual power. It looks like killing chickens and using the ox knife. It is useless to use a large amount of material. Therefore, few warriors will look far and away, and abandon the cheap and wide range of eighth-grade spiritual pills, but use the seventh-grade spiritual pill.

Of course, occasionally there are some large sects and aristocratic families, which are very valuable. In order to better help the sects, the children of the family practice, they turn to the seventh-grade Ningyuan Pill.

Therefore, the elixir of Ningyuan Pill gradually became unknown.

It can be seen from this that Qingzhou Alchemy always treats this alchemy competition with uniqueness and uniqueness.

However, Xuan Yuanhao did not have this obstacle. The alchemy inheritance of the Dan Sheng Qixia old man named "Miaoshou Danxin" records a large number of elixir recipes, as well as some very precious elixir recipes that have been lost in ancient times. Of course, it is even more difficult to use the seventh-grade Ningyuan Pill.

Moreover, with Xuan Yuanhao's current level of alchemy, even if he "stewed" some messy medicinal materials in a pot and randomly refined them into a certain spiritual elixir, Xuan Yuanhao can easily distinguish each medicinal material and its approximate proportions.

To be cautious, Xuan Yuanhao was still looking and smelling, carefully released a wisp of spiritual consciousness, entered the Ningyuan Pill, and distinguished each elixir fragrance and medicinal herb. As expected, he had expected.

Xuan Yuanhao held a pen and quickly wrote down the medicinal materials used in Ningyuan Dan, and wrote down the growth habits, performances, efficacy, etc. of each medicinal material in turn. However, Xuan Yuanhao left a little hand and deliberately missed the effects of one of the medicinal materials.

According to Xuan Yuanhao's writing, the medicinal materials used in Rongling Pill include black dragon wood, dog leaf vine, star grass, black evil lotus, dragon santhemum, tiger medicine, orchid grass, desert silver, silver feather grass, monkey head mushroom, black jade lotus, ghost vine, black orchid, silver vine, and Ningyuan fruit.

The people watching the game off the court were surprised to see that Xuan Yuanhao was the first to write down the elixir recipe and the performance of each medicinal material. You know, this group can be said to be hidden and hiding. They all thought that the first person to complete must be Qin Tianwen from the first-class Aosheng County.

Moreover, the first round of assessment is one stick of incense, and the contestants have enough time to identify the medicinal materials used in the spiritual pill recipe. There is no need to blindly seek speed.

Among the people watching the battle, they all believed that Xuan Yuanhao had either had the honor of seeing this pill recipe, so he could quickly identify the pill recipe with divine help; or

The other people in the same group couldn't help but look sideways, either shocked, panicked, or ridiculed, but they quickly adjusted and continued to distinguish the medicinal materials in the elixir. After all, in the first round of the competition, the accuracy rate, not speed.

Even several of the nine referees could not help but shake their heads, all of whom felt sorry for the youngest boy in the same group's sloppy and rough behavior.

However, among the people off the field, three were very confident in Xuan Yuanhao.

Qin Yayan is full of confidence in Xuan Yuanhao because Xuan Yuanhao is her lover, and she trusts Xuan Yuanhao as much as she trusts herself.

Gu Huaixiang is full of confidence in Xuan Yuanhao because Xuan Yuanhao is both a teacher and a friend to her. How could a genius who even praised his grandfather Hu Bugui and his father Gu Qingshan be in this small first round of test?

Chen Danfeng was full of confidence in Xuan Yuanhao because Xuan Yuanhao was his master. In Shen Danfeng's mind, Xuan Yuanhao was a god-like existence, and Chen Danfeng might have trusted Xuan Yuanhao for no reason.

Xuan Yuanhao was not in a hurry. After writing, he did not watch other people's answers. Instead, he sat on the ground and started the second level of Hongmeng's initial stage "Qi Refining and Transforming Gods", seizing all opportunities to practice.

The referees who had been shaking their heads at the beginning, and seeing Xuan Yuanhao so confident and calm, not being influenced by the outside world, they couldn't help but secretly praise Xuan Yuanhao. This is the basic material that an outstanding alchemist should have - love and hate are not in the heart, joy and sorrow are not in the mind, not joy and sorrow are not in the mind, not in the joy and sorrow are not in the heart, not in the joy and sorrow, not in the joy and sorrow of things, not in the sorrow of oneself, and indifferent, so that they can explore the ultimate path of alchemy.

Next, about half an incense stick, Qin Tianwen from Aosheng County and State quickly wrote down the properties of the elixir recipes and various medicinal materials; the other six people also completed the first round of the competition within the specified time one after another.

The staff collected all the answers written by the eight people one by one and handed them over to the nine referees, and the nine referees scored them one by one based on the answers of the eight players.

When the nine referees saw Qin Tianwen from the first-class county, Aosheng county, and the country, he couldn't help but nod and praise him. Qin Tianwen not only accurately wrote down each medicinal material from Ningyuan Dan, but also accurately wrote down the growth habits, performances, and efficacy of each medicinal material.

It can be said that this is a textbook general answer.

He is worthy of being a genius alchemist from a first-class county and country. Moreover, Qin Tianwen is only twenty-four or five years old, and this is still very young among the seventh-grade alchemist.

Among the following few people, two contestants from second-class counties and countries wrote down the recipe for Ningyuan Dan accurately. Unfortunately, when describing the performance of medicinal materials, they did not fully answer the growth habits of one and two uncommon medicinal materials.

However, in the eyes of the nine referees, this is already very valuable. After all, although the effect of Ningyuan Pill is better, it has long been replaced by the eighth-grade fusion spirit pill, which is simpler in the formula and more convenient for refining. Its pill recipe is relatively small.

Among the contestants behind, either someone made mistakes in the medicinal materials in the elixir recipe, or did not distinguish all fifteen medicinal materials, and there were still some omissions.

Finally, when the nine referees examined Xuan Yuanhao's answer, they found that Xuan Yuanhao also clearly distinguished all the fifteen medicinal herbs, and just did not fully explain the effects of one of the silver vines. When he saw that Xuan Yuanhao was from a fourth-class county and was not over twenty years old, he couldn't help but look at him. You must know that a twenty-year-old seventh-grade alchemist, even if he was in the first-class county or Tianlan Kingdom Fuyao City, could be regarded as a top genius of alchemy.

Obviously, Xuan Yuanhao's answer was second only to Qin Tianwen from Aosheng County and a player from a second-class County.
Chapter completed!