Chapter 742 End of the First Day
Alex was taken to another location on the stage after the first round ended and was given a pill vial each.
"Now begins the second round of today's competition," the second host spoke to them.
'What? There's another one?' Alex thought. Since the room he was in previously was soundproof, he couldn't hear to know that there was another competition there. Not to mention, this one seemed more secretive than the other one.
Alex was handed a talisman paper as well and the host started explaining the rules of this competition.
"There are 3 of the same pills in there, the name of which has not been set yet."
"The pill uses exactly 10 different ingredients, and your task is to name the ingredients. You have exactly 1 hour to name it all and you may use whatever method you require to find out the name of the ingredient."
"You will not be given any other hints aside from the information that the pill is not harmful to eat."
"Points will be based off of the number of ingredients you get correct, and points will be deducted per ingredients you get wrong."
"Your 1 hour starts now."
The moment the host said that every single one of the 20 participants immediately sat down on the ground and started looking at the pills.
Alex sat down too and brought out the pill. It was a greenish pill with specks of black scattered throughout the surface.
Alex took one of the 3 pills out and looked at it. He tried to think of any pill he had made that looked the same as this one, but given how this was a new pill, there was likely no way for him to figure out the ingredients in this way.
He could tell that the pill had about 35% harmony, but other than that, he was getting no information at all.
"Smell then," he said to himself and started taking in the smell of the pill.
He got a distinct acidic, citrusy smell amongst the many other smells and wondered what it could be.
He made a mental list of all the ingredients that he could think of that made this smell when performing alchemy.
Alex then went on through the rest of the smell and one after another, he made 10 different lists of what it could be.
Once he had the list, he started going through each ingredient and seeing if they would ever cause pigmentation on the pill to cause it to become green.
He didn't toss away those that didn't, but he did pay extra attention to those that did.
Once it was all done, Alex wondered what else he could do. He put the pill between his fingers and crushed it.
He checked the powder with his eyes, and once he realized that wasn't helping, he started using his spiritual sense.
He went through the powder and found the 10 different shapes. Then, he started comparing it with the information he had in his mind through the many months of refining pill recipes.
This was a really hard task and Alex barely stumbled on 2 different ingredients that he was sure belonged to the pill.
Still, he waited before writing it down.
He took the powder of the pill and put it in his mouth. The competition holders had mentioned that there was no problem with eating the pill, so tasting it would cause no problem either.
Not that Alex had to worry about it either way.
Alex tried to isolate the multitudes of tastes he was getting. It was hard, but he managed to separate them to a certain level and figured out the 3rd ingredient.
Unfortunately, most of the flavors weren't unique enough to pinpoint them to the ingredients on the list.
"Guess there's only one thing left to do then," Alex thought and took out one of the remaining two pill. Then, without any hesitation, he popped the pill into his mouth and swallowed it.
Alex waited around for a second for the pill to take effect and realized that he could feel his cultivation base elevate a little.
'It improves your cultivation base huh?' Alex thought. That gave him some more ideas.
He felt the energy from the pill for a few moments and started going through his list one more time.
He waited for a few moments for the pill's effects to disappear and ate it one more time to see what he could find out.
There wasn't much difference between the second and the third pill, so there wasn't much Alex could figure out.
'Well, I guess I'm only doing this much then,' he thought as he looked through the 6 ingredients he had figured out.
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