Wasting Money to Become an Immortal-Chapter 158: Refining Crystal

The Strange Flame that was being offered was the forty fifth ranked Strange Flame, the Profound Azure Flame.

Though it was forty fifth ranked out of fifty flames, this was still a powerful flame that not even the elders of the sect would have.

Even Elder Wang didn’t have a Strange Flame like this.

So all of the disciples were excited about this prize, especially the ones that had the best chance of winning.

The moment that they won and obtained this Strange Flame, it could be said that they would be placed on the path of becoming the best alchemist on the continent.

Many of them even had looks on their faces as if they thought that they were the chosen ones.

But that didn’t matter to me since I didn’t care about how I did in this tournament.

I was just here for my mission.

Or at least that was what I thought...

The first round of the tournament was a simple test of one of the most basic skills that an alchemist would have. However, since it was one of the most basic skills, that meant that it was a skill that was hard to master.

It was a skill that everyone could learn, but few could master.

It was the ability to refine ingredients.

Of course, they wouldn’t be using real ingredients for this since it would be a waste.

Shen Qing Feng stepped forward and raised the crystal that was in his hand for everyone to see before saying, "As you all know as alchemists, this is a Refining Crystal. I’m sure that many of you have used it before to test yourselves as this is a tool used by those that start learning alchemy to learn how to refine ingredients. However, these Refining Crystals are special."

Everyone was surprised when they heard this, but they waited to see what Shen Qing Feng had to say about these Refining Crystals.

Instead of telling them, Shen Qing Feng raised his hand and gathered his flames.

The moment that they saw these flames, everyone was impressed since the flames that he released...were Strange Flames.

It could be said as expected of the Great Elder of the Medicine King Sect, it wasn’t strange that he would have a Strange Flame.

The flame that Shen Qing Feng had was the twenty first ranked Strange Flame, the Yellow Garuda Flame.

Though these flames were yellow in colour, they were anything but weak. The moment that they wrapped around the Refining Crystal, it had already started changing colours.

It went from violet to indigo to blue to green before slowly turning yellow, but that yellow colour only came in spots and didn’t turn the entire crystal yellow.

Shen Qing Feng didn’t continue with this refining and stopped his flames there, though it was also clear that he hadn’t been taking this seriously in the first place. He had only been casually releasing his flames to refine the crystal with.

Even then, he was able to reach this fifth stage.

It was clear that Shen Qing Feng’s attainment in alchemy was deep.

After he finished showing off, Shen Qing Feng said, "As you can see, this is a multi stage Refining Crystal that changes colour depending on how skilled you are. This is the Refining Crystal that our Medicine King Sect uses to test ourselves. The colours change in response to how deep the refining is and I want you all to note that yellow isn’t the final colour that you can reach. The best result you can get is red, which means that all of the ingredient’s medicinal essence was refined."

Everyone had a serious look on their faces when they heard this before looking at each other.

It was clear that they were determined to reach this stage that Shen Qing Feng just mentioned.

Seeing this, Shen Qing Feng knew that his demonstration was enough, so he raised his hand and gave a wave. With this wave of his hand, there were Refining Crystals that suddenly appeared in the sky and floated over to each contestant.

When they stopped, everyone had one crystal in front of them.

Only after this did Shen Qing Feng say, "You will have an hour to refine these crystals as best as you can. When the hour is up, if you haven’t finished your refining, then you will be disqualified. Only the top two hundred will be allowed to the next round."

Then as if he was giving them advice, Shen Qing Feng started explaining what they should do to properly refine these crystals. However, there were some that had sharp eyes that could see that the clock in this square had started moving.

This clock had been stuck for the longest time, but now it suddenly started moving...

It was perfectly placed so that it had been on the hour, which meant...

The time had already started and it was a trap to listen to Shen Qing Feng like this.

There were only a few at first, but soon there were many others who started refining instead of listening to Shen Qing Feng.

Shen Qing Feng just continued talking as if he didn’t care about this at all.

In the end, there was only one person who was still listening to him.

That person was me.

I didn’t know a single thing about refining in the first place, so it was actually a good lesson for me.

But then again, it wasn’t as if I would be able to use any of it since there were a lot of technical terms that were used by Shen Qing Feng. As a layman who had never done any kind of pill refining, there were many things that I didn’t understand because of it.

When Shen Qing Feng was finished, five minutes had passed.

He didn’t care about whether anyone listened or not and just walked off the stage.

Though his eyes did move to a certain someone, the one person who had listened to the end.

As for that person...

I had no idea what to do as I just stared at my cauldron.