My Master Knows It All

233: Chapter 135: Wrote It and Forgot to Upload_Part 1 233: Chapter 135: Wrote It and Forgot to Upload_Part 1 The reason why the Hundred Peaks Sect holds the Great Sect Competition is to motivate disciples from each peak in their cultivation.

In the past Competitions, whether it was the comparison of the six arts or the final magic combat, the experts within the sect would point out various problems with the disciples on the spot, offering them guidance.

However, whether to offer guidance depended on the will of those responsible sect experts.

Gu Chengyu had no desire to give guidance.

With Peak Master Cao in the distance and Yi Sheng among the disciples being assessed, what guidance could he possibly give!

“Ahem…”

He cleared his throat, just as he was about to announce the next pill to be concocted, Bai Fengzi’s voice, which hadn’t spoken since the start of the Great Sect Competition, came from behind.

“Since all the Peak Masters have asked Elder Gu to offer some guidance, then Elder Gu, please do so.”

“Yes.” Elder Gu could not refuse, if Sect Leader True Person said so, could he possibly say no?

“The second round of the alchemy competition will be the concoction of the Tiger Bone Jade Marrow Pill.

Now, let the competition begin.”

As these words ended, figures appeared one after another on the Gathering Immortals Platform, all from the Immortal Palace tasked with enforcement!

Making pills and making talismans were not the same.

A low-grade talisman, if it fails to form, might burst but won’t cause much harm; but pill-making failures could be quite dangerous.

If someone failed and the pill furnace exploded, that could be hazardous.

Therefore, during the alchemy competition, there would always be people watching over to prevent any explosions that might endanger anyone or affect other disciples.

Upon hearing the name “Tiger Bone Jade Marrow Pill,” many people on the surrounding peaks, knowledgeable in pill-making, nodded slightly.

“As expected, it’s the Tiger Bone Jade Marrow Pill.”

“When they were collecting materials just now, I guessed it.

Those were indeed the ingredients needed to concoct the Tiger Bone Jade Marrow Pill.”

“The time required to concoct high-quality pills is usually long, so in the Great Sect Competition, each round of pill-making competitions always involves first-grade pills which take less time to concoct.”

“The Tiger Bone Jade Marrow Pill, although it is a difficult one to concoct among the first-grade pills, doesn’t take long to make, which is ideal for the competition’s purposes.”

Upon hearing the announcement, the disciples participating in the competition were not surprised and promptly started their tasks.

Having prepared the ingredients beforehand and already lit their fires, many among them immediately began tossing the materials into their pill furnaces to start the concoction process.

Some, however, took out some more ingredients, and along with those they were already processing, threw them into the pill furnace as well.

“Look quickly, that’s Dan Juezi, the head disciple of Drunken Pill Peak.

He’s still adding ingredients…

Is he doubling the materials?!”

“That’s fierce!”

“He’s so confident.

Isn’t he afraid of blowing up the furnace?”

“Zhuang Xiayan of Five Elements Peak has also added double the ingredients!”

“And both Bian Ling from Vermilion Bird Peak and Mu Xuan from Azure Pheasant Peak have put in double the amount of materials too.”

“Look over there, that female disciple from Four Treasures Peak, she’s not stopping either; she added double the ingredients.”

The competition rules dictate that one must concoct the Tiger Bone Jade Marrow Pill, and since everyone is making the same pill, the winners are distinguished based on the quality and quantity of the pills produced.

If you make one pill and someone else makes two, your ranking would naturally not be higher than theirs, unless your pills are of higher quality.

As everyone knows, all pills are classified into lower, middle, upper, and best quality.

For a first-grade pill like the Tiger Bone Jade Marrow Pill, they would be classified as upper first-grade, middle first-grade, or lower first-grade to differentiate quality, with the upper first-grade being of the highest within first-grade pills.

According to the rules of the Great Sect Competition, one upper first-grade pill is worth ten middle first-grade pills, and a hundred lower first-grade pills.

After everyone has concocted their pills, the rankings are determined based on the quantity and quality tallied up.

Naturally, there are special circumstances.

If you manage to concoct a single best quality pill, even if that’s all you make, and none of the others concoct a best quality pill, then even if someone in their furnace made a hundred upper-grade pills, the one with the single best quality pill would rank higher.

Best quality pills are too difficult to concoct; even those alchemy masters in the sect cannot guarantee to produce a best quality pill when making first-grade pills.

In the last ten editions of the Hundred Peaks Sect’s Great Sect Competition, no one has managed to concoct a best quality pill.

Therefore, no disciple tries to compete for a single best quality pill; everyone aims to make more pills instead.

After all, the rule states that the ranking is based on the number of pills concocted in a furnace.

Naturally, adding more materials means being able to make more pills.

But pill-making isn’t as simple as putting one dose of materials in to get one pill out, or two doses for two pills.

The difficulty is entirely different.

When more ingredients are added, the potency of the materials doubles, requiring even more precise control.

A slight mishandling can cause the properties of the various materials to clash during fusion, which could directly lead to an explosion.

If the furnace exploded, there was only one outcome: elimination.

Therefore, while everyone knew that adding more materials logically resulted in more pills, in practice, very few dared to do so.