Wasting Money to Become an Immortal-Chapter 166: Is he an amateur?

The next morning, I headed off to the same square as before for the second round.

After the first preliminary, we had heard the details of the second round.

It was another free for all, but this time it was testing something different.

This time, it was testing our ability to refine the most basic pills since this required the most basic skills an alchemist could have when refining pills.

The first round was about how one refined with flames.

The second round was actually about refining pills.

It seemed like they cared quite a bit about the fundamentals of alchemy.

But it was said that the basics were the foundations of all skills that one could gain, so it shouldn’t be strange if they cared that much about the basics.

The second round was being held in groups of fifty, with only one person making it through in each of these groups.

It seemed that the top three had been split off into different groups. Then in the final group, there was me.

It seemed that they didn’t want to put me in the same group as those top three just in case anything happened. Though there were still people that didn’t believe that I knew how to refine pills.

After all, they had done their research and knew that I shouldn’t have known anything about alchemy before coming here.

Though even if that was the case, there was what had happened before...

There was that case where I had been able to refine the Refining Crystal to that extent without any experience at all.

This was an example that wasn’t helping their case...

But they chose to believe that this was the truth.

That was why most of those who were ranked just below the top three were put into this round with me. It seemed that they wanted to give them a chance to make it through to the next round without facing those top three.

It seemed like quite the competitive bracket if one ignored the one bit outlier that was in the same bracket.

The other three rounds went as one would expect.

The three top contestants were able to make it past this second round with ease.

It was almost like a bunch of children being placed against a group of adults with how easily they won. It seemed like the top three seeded contestants didn’t even bother trying with how they crushed everyone else.

Senior Brother Hua was among the ones that were crushed.

He had been placed in the same bracket as Leng Tuo from the Medicine King Sect.

When comparing the two of them, there really was no comparison at all since Senior Brother Hua’s technique was just not at the same level as Leng Tuo.

It was the difference in teachings, knowledge available to them, and the ingredients that they had.

The Medicine King Sect was one of the top alchemy sects on the continent, so it wasn’t as if there were better places for one to train as an alchemist.

Naturally, the Star Peak Sect couldn’t compare.

The Star Peak Sect was a cultivation sect and not an alchemy sect, so there was a difference in resources in the first place.

It was only natural that Hua Gang Yu wouldn’t be able to compare to the top disciple of the Medicine King Sect.

It was the same story for Kong Jing.

He had been placed in the same round as Jiang Qing Yu who completely wiped the floor with him.

Kong Jing no longer had the same arrogant look that he had before once his round was over.

When he bumped into me by accident, it didn’t even seem like he had the strength to talk to me anymore. It seemed like he had been completely subdued by what had happened and was even a bit fearful of me.

Though there was a look in his eyes that made it seem like he wanted to see me fail.

Still, that wasn’t about to happen.

I had a secret weapon this time.

When Senior Brother Hua’s round was over, I called him to the side to talk to him in silence for a bit.

"Junior Brother Lin, what is it?" Senior Brother Hua had a confused look on his face when he came over, but he also added, "You should hurry up, it’ll be your round soon."

I just had a smile on my face as if I was telling him not to worry about it.

Then I went in closer and whispered a few things to him.

Senior Brother Hua’s expression was calm at first, but when I finished speaking, there was a shocked look that was on his face. He just looked at me in a daze with this shocked look on his face for a while before he was finally able to say, "Junior Brother Lin, this...how...you..."

I just casually brought a finger up to my lip as if I was telling him to be quiet about this before saying, "Let’s just keep this our secret."

Senior Brother Hua just kept looking at me in a daze for a bit before shaking his head with a bitter smile as he said, "I almost feel sorry for those that are about to compete with you."

I just smiled without saying a thing.

When we came back, I just headed over to the table that I had been assigned.

Because of my placement in the preliminary round, the place that I received was the best one possible. I was placed right in the center of the square for everyone to stare at me.

As I stood there, I could tell that everyone was paying close attention to me, but it was for a different reason.

They were paying close attention to me to see how I would fail.

It was just too bad that they were completely disappointed in the end.

"Is he an amateur? Why does it seem like he’s the master and the rest of them are students?"

"Didn’t they say that he never refined a pill before?"

"What is this technique? Why have I never seen it before!?"