Chapter 401: Long Yuyao's Wild Imagination

Two more days passed in a flash. On this day, while the other contestants were still racking their brains to devise pill formulas, Long Yuyao, Feng Shuang, and Wang Wu almost simultaneously opened their eyes.

After the three tacitly opened their eyes, a sharp light flashed within them; they exchanged a glance, then immediately picked up the paper and brush on their desks to begin writing down the pill formulas they had comprehended.

Each person's expression brimmed with confidence, clearly indicating they had comprehended something extraordinary.

Seeing this scene, the judges, who had long been dozing off, suddenly perked up, wearing smiles as they collectively extended their Soul Power toward the three contestants' desks, their eyes unblinking as they stared at what the three were writing.

Although the three had not yet finished writing, the judges were so impatient they could not wait even a moment longer.

Before long, all the judges wore strange expressions, shaking their heads and bitter-smiling endlessly.

These three had written not just one pill formula; it was easy to see they had clearly created their formulas using Long Xuan's Pill Combination Technique.

This alchemy method had only emerged recently, yet they had already mastered it swiftly and applied it flexibly; they truly were heavenly-born geniuses, causing all the judges to reveal looks of astonishment.

After the Pill Combination Technique appeared in the world, it caused an uproar throughout the entire Alchemy Realm; every one of them had devoted themselves to researching it day and night for a period, yet the number of people who successfully refined pills using the Pill Combination Technique remained vanishingly few.

Refining pills with the Pill Combination Technique was simply too difficult; even this group of Fourth Grade Alchemists found it hard to master.

One must know that alchemy has a success rate, yet the formulas of the Pill Combination Technique require refining not just one type of pill, meaning one must gamble on the success rate many times over.

Finally, all the refined pills must be combined and refined once more, requiring yet another gamble on the success rate; this step is even more difficult, with an even lower success rate, and any mistake renders all prior efforts futile while wasting vast quantities of materials.

With this nesting-doll style of alchemy, the success rate of refining pills is far from being merely halved.

Using this method to refine pills wastes materials and has an absurdly low success rate; therefore, very few people dare to refine pills using the Pill Combination Technique.

Even if a genius succeeds in refining the pill, when accounting for the vast quantities of materials wasted in previous failures, the effort is simply not worth the cost.

Yet this alchemy method, so difficult to master, has not only been perfectly mastered by these three geniuses, but they have even managed to create new formulas based on this technique.

This greatly shocked the over hundred judges, forcing them to silently sigh and acknowledge them as geniuses; the alchemical talent of these three prodigies could truly be called once-in-ten-thousand-years.

Pity that these three alchemical geniuses were born at the wrong time; of all eras to be born in, they just had to be born in the same period as those three monsters.

Although the value of the pill formulas created using the Pill Combination Technique is sufficiently high, compared to those three monsters, they are still not impressive enough.

They are destined to become mere foils to those three monsters.

Long Yuyao, Feng Shuang, and Wang Wu acted with great tacit understanding; they almost simultaneously opened their eyes and almost simultaneously finished writing their pill formulas.

Once the three finished writing their formulas, the judges could no longer hold back; impatiently, they used their Soul Power to draw the three formulas onto the judges' dais, where they were immediately circulated among all the judges.

Every judge watched with great interest, excitedly offering their critiques and comments.

"Wonderful! Truly wonderful! Who would have thought that pills refined using the Pill Combination Technique could possess such terrifying medicinal power, actually allowing a Gu Cultivator at the Spirit Sea Early Stage to wield the strength of the Spirit Sea Late Stage for a short time; this medicinal power is simply exaggerated."

"Continuously raising one's cultivation by two minor realms; never before has any pill achieved this; refining pills with the Pill Combination Technique can indeed create miracles."

Long Xiaoyao was so excited his face turned crimson, and he cast a look of approval at Long Yuyao; even he could not have created such an exquisite formula, meaning this Princess Yuyao's talent in alchemy had already surpassed his own, stirring in his heart a feeling that the waves behind drive on those before.

Hearing Long Xiaoyao's praise, Long Yuyao lifted her head, her gaze filled with pride, like a proud little peacock.

However, at this moment, Feng Tiancheng's voice arrived most inopportunely: "Hmph! Wonderful my foot! As the Chief Alchemist of a Nation, do you only look at the advantages of one pill and ignore its flaws?"

"The flaws of this pill, named the Spirit Restoring Pill, are simply too great; those who consume this pill only gain a combat strength increase of two minor realms for a short time; once the time passes, not only will their realm fall back, but they will also drop one minor realm."

"How difficult it is for a Gu Cultivator to raise even one minor realm; since this pill possesses such powerful side effects, its value naturally suffers a huge discount."

"The Purple Phoenix Pill researched by Feng Shuang still holds higher value; the Purple Phoenix Pill can purify the Feng Clan Bloodline purity once; its only flaw is that the production cost is excessively exaggerated, but for those Feng Clan geniuses, this is perfectly acceptable."

Feng Tiancheng wore a look of pride, not forgetting to step on one while lifting up the other.

Long Xiaoyao put away his smile, looked at him, and retorted: "Your words are mistaken; it is perfectly normal for pills to have side effects; which pill has no side effects?"

"Although the side effects of the Spirit Restoring Pill are strong, this is a pill that can save one's life when facing a powerful enemy; when one's life is about to be lost, do you still care about dropping that one minor realm?"

"To speak without exaggeration, the Spirit Restoring Pill is a powerful life-preserving pill, and life-preserving pills always command high prices on the market."

Long Xiaoyao looked at the pill formula in Feng Tiancheng's hand and sneered disdainfully: "As for the Purple Phoenix Pill in your hand, hehe, a pill that purifies the Feng Clan Bloodline, what use is it to Gu Cultivators of other surnames?"

"The high value of the Purple Phoenix Pill applies only to your Feng Clan Gu Cultivators; for Gu Cultivators of other surnames, the value of the Purple Phoenix Pill suffers a huge discount."

"Since this round of the competition scores based on the value of the pills, then I'm sorry to say, while Long Yuyao and Feng Shuang have been tied for the first three rounds, in this round Long Yuyao will lead by a few points."

Hearing this, the other judges nodded in deep agreement; indeed, if everyone present were Feng Clan Gu Cultivators, then a pill capable of purifying the Feng Clan Bloodline would undoubtedly hold the highest value of all.

But the majority of the judges present are Gu Cultivators of other surnames; for them, the Purple Phoenix Pill does not hold high value, so naturally, they would not award very high scores.

That Feng Shuang's brain is also not very sharp; she actually chose to create such a formula on her own; what was she thinking? What a pity; clearly her alchemical talent is no weaker than Long Yuyao's, but due to this wrong choice, her score will fall behind; all the judges revealed expressions of regret.

Long Yuyao looked at Feng Shuang beside her with a triumphant gaze; at this moment, Feng Shuang's face had turned somewhat pale.

When creating her own formula, she had focused primarily on self-benefit, truly overlooking this issue, thereby causing a grave mistake.

Feng Tiancheng's face turned iron-green; just now, he too had been self-centered, judging the value of a pill formula based on his own needs.

However, his expression quickly returned to normal.

It did not matter if Feng Shuang's score fell behind; with Fen Tian Old Ancestor present, Feng Shuang's score had long become irrelevant to the Feng Clan.

As long as Fen Tian Old Ancestor's score is higher than that of the Long Clan Alchemists, then in this wager-battle, the Feng Clan will be victorious. (End of Chapter)