Chapter 405: Rules for the Final Round

After putting away the pill formula, Long Xiaoyao immediately looked at Long Xuan and sent a soul transmission: "Long Xuan, well done. In this round, you have extended your lead by another point, widening the gap to four points ahead of Fen Tian Old Ancestor in the total score."

"The next round is the finals; even if you lose to your opponent by three points in the finals, the championship will still be yours."

Saying this, a look of excitement appeared on Long Xiaoyao's face once more as he lightly stroked his beard and continued, "Next, let me explain the rules for the final round of the competition."

"There are no rules for the final round; you may refine any kind of pill during the finals, and the higher the value of the refined pill, the higher your score will be."

"Therefore, in this final round, you must refine the pill you are most skilled at making; absolutely no holding back is permitted!"

"I know you possess Heavenly Fire; only Heavenly Fire could refine Water Spirit Ganoderma to tenfold purity, so do not hide this Heavenly Fire any longer!"

"As long as you win this round, the Long Teng Empire will grant you extremely generous rewards and tattoo a dragon upon your body; the Dragon Tattoo is the highest honor of the Long Clan, and every Heavenly Pride bearing the Dragon Tattoo shall be recorded eternally in the Family History."

Upon hearing that he would receive another Dragon Tattoo, the corner of Long Xuan's mouth twitched involuntarily, yet he still nodded with a serious expression and said, "Rest assured, Senior, this junior will go all out!"

Long Xuan sighed inwardly; without needing to think about it, given his four-point lead, even if Fen Tian Old Ancestor and Duan Tianwu had no desire to refine Fourth Grade pills, they would be forced to do so.

Not refining a Fourth Grade pill would mean certain defeat; they were being forced into this situation.

Once these two opponents began refining Fourth Grade pills, he would have no choice but to use his Clone to refine pills beyond his current level to compete against them, forcing him to show off once again.

As for what pill to refine in the upcoming finals, he had already made up his mind; he would simply refine the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill he had just created.

To date, the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill was the most valuable pill in his possession, bar none; even the Heaven-Defying Pill fell slightly short in comparison.

Thus, the next thing he needed to do was to gather all the materials listed on the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill formula as quickly as possible.

Without needing to think about it, the competition organizers would certainly be unable to gather the materials for the Heaven-Defying Pill Formula; how could they possibly possess spirit medicines exceeding the Tenth Grade?

Even if the competition organizers could gather the materials for the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill formula, Long Xuan had no intention of troubling them with the task.

Once the materials on the formula were handed over to the competition organizers for collection, would that not effectively reveal the formula to them as well? How could he possibly be willing to allow that?

This was a unique formula capable of summoning a Thunder Tribulation, so he had to keep it strictly confidential.

Although the materials on the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill formula were undoubtedly difficult to collect, Long Xuan felt he could gather them all within an extremely short period.

This was because Phoenix City was currently filled with high-level Alchemists, and Alchemists were the group most fond of collecting spirit medicines.

At present, several Alchemist Trading Conferences were being held daily in Phoenix City; under such circumstances, it was entirely possible to assemble all the materials required for the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill formula.

Thinking of this, Long Xuan did not wish to delay any further and prepared to return immediately to begin collecting the materials.

The Fourth Round had only progressed halfway; who knew how long the other contestants would continue to rack their brains in thought, and he had no desire to waste any more time waiting.

With such thoughts in mind, Long Xuan rose to his feet, preparing to depart.

However, just at that moment, a person rushed panic-stricken into the hall from outside, and upon entering, cried out in alarm, "Something terrible has happened! Fen Tian Old Ancestor has scattered those two Demon Pill formulas all over the streets!"

"Now everyone on the streets is fighting madly to grab them; the entire city has plunged into chaos!"

"What?"

"Damn it!"

In an instant, all the Judges stood up in unison, their faces pale with shock...

Paying no heed to the chaos outside, after returning to the Inn, Long Xuan ordered his various Clones to go in all directions to collect the materials on the formula.

He intended to gather not only the materials for the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill but also those for the Aphrodisiac Pill simultaneously.

He wanted the Gold-Eating Worms to form a large-scale population as quickly as possible; he looked forward to employing an overwhelming insect-sea attack method.

Four days later.

Gazing at the materials on the table, an expression of excitement appeared on Long Xuan's face; just as he had expected, in a place where Alchemists gathered in such numbers, assembling the materials for a formula was indeed not a difficult matter.

He did not need to worry about collecting the main material for the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill, as the main ingredient for this pill happened to be something he already possessed.

Since the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill could generate a human body out of thin air, Long Xuan had immediately thought of Living Wood, which closely resembled a human form; thus, when creating his formula, he had included Living Wood on a whim, never expecting that his guess would turn out to be correct.

This Heaven-defying spirit medicine capable of creating flesh truly required Living Wood as a material, with the Living Wood serving as the main body, and the quantity required could not be small.

If Nezha was an incarnation of lotus roots, then after consuming the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill, Water Elder would become an incarnation of Living Wood.

This would inevitably create an unavoidable weakness: since wood fears fire, a body constructed from Living Wood would be extremely vulnerable to fire.

In the future, Gu Cultivators skilled in using fire would be the nemesis of Water Elder; this had to be considered a fatal weakness, for even Heaven-defying pills must have limitations, which is the law of the Heavenly Dao.

After painfully chopping off one-third of the Living Wood's branches, Long Xuan finally managed to assemble a full set of materials for the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill.

After preparing these materials and placing them separately into a Storage Ring, he poured out another pile of materials.

This pile consisted of the materials for the Aphrodisiac Pill; upon counting them, he found there were only one hundred sets, causing Long Xuan to furrow his brows deeply.

These were the materials for the Complete Version Fa Qing Dan; unlike the Aphrodisiac Pill (Abridged Version), all these materials were extremely rare, yet he had not expected them to be this scarce; even in a place teeming with Alchemists, he had managed to collect only one hundred sets of materials for the Complete Version Fa Qing Dan.

The difficulty of collecting the Aphrodisiac Pill materials far exceeded his expectations.

This was in a place where Alchemists were everywhere; if he left here and went elsewhere, he feared it would be difficult to collect even a few sets of Aphrodisiac Pill materials.

Long Xuan sighed; a full pill count for the Aphrodisiac Pill was ten pills, and since a Heaven-Defying Extreme Grade Spiritual Insect lays only one egg at a time, even if he wasted none of his materials, he could refine at most one thousand Aphrodisiac Pills, thereby breeding one thousand Gold-Eating Worms.

In his view, one thousand Gold-Eating Worms were truly too few.

He aspired to become an Insect Demon, capable of releasing a cloud of insects numbering in the hundreds of thousands or even millions with a mere wave of his hand, devouring all opponents.

A scale of one thousand Gold-Eating Worms was far from sufficient to make powerful enemies retreat.

Complicating matters, the materials for the Gold-Eating Worms were not entirely spirit medicines; the most difficult material to collect was the Fourth Grade Ink Flood Dragon Venom, and given how elusive Flood Dragon Beasts were, Ink Flood Dragon Venom was nearly impossible to obtain in many regions.

Repairing Gu and cultivating such high-level things required a very long time to accumulate a certain scale.

If he wished to develop the Gold-Eating Worms to a scale of hundreds of thousands, it was destined to take a very, very long time.

At this moment, Long Xuan was anxious, yet he could do nothing but suppress his impatience and wait patiently. (End of Chapter)