[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-urban-peerless-expert":3,"chapter-urban-peerless-expert-urban-peerless-expert-chapter-1486":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Urban Peerless Expert",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1447442,1898,"Chapter 1486 - 1486 1506 Isn't This Neglecting One's Duty","urban-peerless-expert-chapter-1486",1486,"\u003Cp>1486: Chapter 1506: Isn’t This Neglecting One’s Duty?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>_1 1486: Chapter 1506: Isn’t This Neglecting One’s Duty?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>_1 “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the scene of the Cloud Sky Continent Pill King Competition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today we will kick start the first stage of the competition, namely the preliminary contest.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There are dozens of assessment tasks for the preliminary contest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each group of competing alchemists will be randomly assigned a task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as the task is completed, they will become an official contestant in the Pill King Competition.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The preliminary contest is an elimination round, everyone only has one chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please take it seriously.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Atop the gigantic high stage, the host of the Pill King Competition was using a sound amplifying technique, explaining passionately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The immense stadium was packed with tens of thousands of spectators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These cultivators had all rushed over from various parts of the continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the venue is the Imperial City, ordinary people obviously cannot participate in the activities of cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary people and cultivators belong to two distinct worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The competition field is filled with pill furnaces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the pill furnaces are identical, obviously mass-produced with decent quality, but not particularly good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The assessment and competition are mainly about fairness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the same medicinal herbs and the same pill furnace, if others can do it and you can’t, it means that others are more capable than you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every hundred alchemists who register for the competition form a group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One hundred people enter the field at the same time, each standing in front of a pill furnace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The referee supervisor in front randomly draws a question publicly, then the service staff delivers the medicinal herbs matching the question to every contestant, and the timing starts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the time is up, the alchemist presents their finished product.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it meets the standard, they pass and they will immediately be given a contestant token.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who fail are eliminated on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alchemy competitions naturally take some time, but for cultivators, what is this little bit of time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After watching a few groups, Lin Chen found that the elimination rate was quite high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of a group of hundreds of people, only about thirty percent could pass the preliminary contest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest were all eliminated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, there were really many contestants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if only thirty percent passed the preliminary contest, there were still at least several thousand people participating in the official competition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it’s all the alchemists from the entire Cloud Sky Continent, and the number of people is naturally not small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the third day, it was finally Lin Chen’s turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Chen entered the competition field with others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once everyone had arrived, the referee supervisor had publicly drawn a question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Refining the Hundred-Grass Pill.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Chen raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His luck wasn’t so good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The grade of the Hundred-Grass Pill isn’t high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Period could refine it, but its success rate isn’t high because it has so many ingredients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the handling is even slightly off, the pill will be ruined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Lin Chen had been learning from the Pill King for so long, he still had to be careful, otherwise, a tiny mistake could lead to a major blunder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Lin Chen was concentrating on refining the pill, a young woman with a veil over her face arrived late on the spectator’s stand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Choosing a spacious corner to sit down, the young woman leisurely scanned the entire field, but then her gaze suddenly stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes widened, staring directly at Lin Chen among the crowd, showing an astonished and delighted look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t she say she was going to the White Crane Immortal Sect to look for him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t expect him to be here taking part in the Alchemy Competition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t he only capable of basic alchemy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s he doing here making a fuss?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching a show?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile appeared in the young woman’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder Lei had said that there was nothing interesting about the preliminary contest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she hadn’t been bored and decided to come and have a look around, she would have missed crossing paths with Lin Chen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his alchemy skills, he probably won’t even get through the preliminary contest, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young woman was, of course, none other than Yao Xuanji, the Lord’s daughter, whom Lin Chen hadn’t seen in a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After she returned to the Immortal Domain, she was busy dealing with Weijiao’s forces and acting as the domain master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Lin Chen joined the White Crane Immortal Sect, Meng Gongxin had sent a letter to the Immortal Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Lin Chen was someone Yao Xuanji had asked him to look after.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that Lin Chen had joined the White Crane Immortal Sect, he naturally had to report it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, it also gave the White Crane Immortal Sect a chance to show their presence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Xuanji was quite surprised when she learned that Lin Chen had received the Heavenly Sword Inheritance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Su Shaoling was a legend in the Thunder Immortal Domain, and his strength was not inferior to that of Domain Lord Yao Xiong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Chen’s ability to receive his inheritance indicated a promising future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weijiao and her forces had all gone into hiding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was virtually impossible to find them in public.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Xuanji had been acting as the domain master and had been busy up until now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, she found some free time and brought Uncle Zhong and Elder Lei to the Cloud Sky Continent to find Lin Chen, but she didn’t expect to run into him here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Xuanji’s mood suddenly became cheerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wonder how he’d feel if he got eliminated in the preliminary contest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll enjoy teasing him about it later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of cultivating properly, he’s learning to refine pills!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t that being irresponsible?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhenxiu was sitting next to Lin Chen and noticed Yao Xuanji’s sudden cheerfulness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Curious, she asked, “Miss, did you see something interesting?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Xuanji gave a slight nod, “The fifth row, the third one…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>see it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhenxiu’s gaze landed on Lin Chen, who was busy refining pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at him for a few moments, slightly confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man was indeed handsome and carried an impressive demeanor, but was there something wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I see him, what about him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Xuanji giggled, “That’s Lin Chen.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1060,"2026-06-06T01:52:05.231Z",1,"novelbin.me","c1f510452b6cd9a30007a5200920a3f647e84dc769ff3e1fb8f18e97d90f941b","urban-peerless-expert-chapter-1487","urban-peerless-expert-chapter-1485",4071,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Furban-peerless-expert-cover.jpg"]