Chapter 1333: 1333
“Disciple gives up . ”
Immediately, a portion of the disciples directly gave up .
These disciples were indignant . Many of their cultivation bases were at the Foundation Forging realm or below . Some were only at the Sea Expansion realm . They obviously couldn’t refine a ninth tier pill .
According to normal standards, a ninth tier pill could only be refined by a Jade Core expert . But in Pill Valley, those standards were overthrown .
Pill Valley always changed the difficulty of the pill to be refined . Sometimes it would be easy, sometimes it would be difficult . But this trial was held every two months, so failing this time wasn’t terrible . As long as their ranking didn’t fall out of the top thousand, they could try again .
Those people who had given up could only blame their bad luck and prepare to test their luck next time . They knew that just refining ninth tier medicinal ingredients into powders was their limit . As for refining a true ninth tier pill, it was a joke . Their Spiritual Strength couldn’t handle such exhaustion .
For almost half the contestants to leave at once didn’t surprise the Soul Transformation experts at all . They were indifferent to this, clearly having long since expected such a thing .
The remaining alchemists had bitter expressions . They had stayed behind, mostly by thickening their faces . They were quite sure they couldn’t refine it .
There were seventy to eighty Jade Core alchemists amongst the people being tested . But they felt even more panicked than the Foundation Forging disciples . Their higher cultivation bases also signified their ages far surpassed these people .
Within Pill Valley, the younger you were and the lower your cultivation base, the greater room for growth you had . Other sects’ disciples did their best to raise their cultivation bases, but Pill Valley’s disciples did their best to suppress their cultivation bases from growing .
The lower their cultivation bases, the easier it would be to comprehend certain alchemy techniques, and the more solid their foundation would be . Once their cultivation bases were higher, it would be difficult to fix the fundamental flaws in their alchemy .
It was like an adult and a youth had the same talent . The younger one would definitely be able to adapt easier, because their minds were still flexible .
Once these Jade Core disciples reached the Soul Transformation realm, their alchemy arts would no longer be up to par with Pill Valley’s standards for people of their cultivation base . They would be expelled from Pill Valley and sent to work in the Pill Towers without any chance of returning to cultivate in Pill Valley .
Although they were doing their best to suppress their cultivation bases, refining pills meant using their core flame, and that was a passive form of cultivation in and of itself . It was impossible for them to not advance eventually .
These Jade Core disciples looked young, but in truth, even the youngest was in his fifties . His cultivation base was about to reach the peak of the Jade Core realm . Once he broke through to Soul Transformation, he would be expelled .
Long Chen looked around . Seeing how nervous everyone else was about this pill, he relaxed quite a bit .
If their expressions had been relaxed, he would have felt much more pressure .
All of them began taking out their Pill Flames and warming their furnaces . All their movements were identical .
If the outside world’s alchemists were to come here, they would definitely die of envy . That was because all these disciples’ Pill Flames were Earth Flames .
It had to be known that in the Eastern Wasteland, the Earth Flame Long Chen had obtained had been the envy of all . Even the Pill Tower hadn’t had an Earth Flame, or the Chai and Fang family’s heads wouldn’t have wanted to kill him to take his Earth Flame .
Just thinking about it made him sigh . Long Chen wasn’t quite able to understand how Pill Valley was so rich but the Eastern Wasteland’s Pill Tower was so poor . Why weren’t they willing to give out a few Earth Flames? Otherwise, the Chai and Fang’s family heads wouldn’t have turned against him, and their fates might have changed .
At this time, people were already starting to refine their ingredients, and Long Chen didn’t tarry . To be low-key, he used the same alchemy techniques as all of them .
However, he couldn’t be too complacent . He had to show his value . Zhuo Tianxiang and the others would only have viewed him importantly if he was valuable, and that was his only chance at obtaining the Nirvana Scripture .
Long Chen’s Pill Flame suddenly began to grow stronger . He was starting to burn his Spiritual Strength to increase the power of his Pill Flame .
A terrifying heat rose, causing the surrounding people to jump .
“Hmph, what a flowery trick . How could a Foundation Forging disciple refine a ninth tier medicinal pill? He couldn’t possibly possess the soul energy required,” sneered some Jade Core disciples .
The Foundation Forging disciples present all felt that they had pretty much no hope . They were simply doing this to experience the refinement of this pill . They had no hopes of forming a pill . Most importantly, they wanted to see if others could refine this pill .
According to reason, a Foundation Forging disciple’s Spiritual Strength should have no problem refining the medicinal ingredients, and it should have no problem during the pill refinement process . It was only at the final moment that they would stumble . By the time they were about to condense the pill, they would have no more Spiritual Strength .
The final part, condensing the pills, took the most energy . Normally, alchemists would reserve fifty percent or more of their Spiritual Strength to control that final burst of energy .
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