Chapter 64: No furnace warming

"Now, I will explain the Rules of the competition. First, you cannot leave the martial arena unless one side dies."

"Second, the spirit plants you use for Alchemy must only be obtained from the stage. You are not allowed to bring any spirit plants or Medicinal Pills of your own. Do you understand?"

"Understood," Ji Wu and Qin Ming replied.

"Within one hour, refine a Medicinal Pill and give it to your opponent to consume. After they take it, you will have one hour to refine an antidote."

"If nothing happens, you can continue to the next round until one of you dies."

"If there's nothing else you don't understand, then start inspecting the spirit plants and Pill Furnace on the stage now."

Qin Ming took a casual stroll around and nodded in satisfaction.

"Are you both ready?"

The referee looked at Qin Ming and then at Ji Wu. After receiving affirmative answers, the referee said:

"Begin!"

Ji Wu immediately began selecting spirit plants. There was a rule in the duel: however many spirit plants you selected, you had to use them all. If they weren't refined into a Medicinal Pill, the opponent wouldn't have to consume it.

Therefore, Ji Wu naturally had to be meticulous in his selection.

However, he already had a plan in mind. He directly took the best of the spirit plants he needed and began preparing for Alchemy.

Qin Ming unhurriedly began his selection. He picked up a spirit plant, looked at it, felt it, and then put it down.

He picked up another spirit plant, shook his head, and tossed it aside.

"What is this Qin Ming doing? Does he think he's grocery shopping?"

City Lord Qian couldn't understand Qin Ming and didn't know what he was doing.

Family Head Chen smiled and said:

"Perhaps Qin Ming doesn't know Alchemy at all. The information we received might be false!"

City Lord Qian frowned and remained silent, continuing to watch the arena.

In reality, his heart was not as calm as it appeared on the surface.

He was determined to obtain those ten perfect qi gathering pills.

If he presented these perfect qi gathering pills to the Imperial Family, his position as City Lord would be as stable as Mount Tai.

That way, he could be at peace in his role as City Lord.

Although a perfect qi gathering pill was ostensibly only ten times more expensive than an eight-mark qi gathering pill, perfect qi gathering pills were simply too rare.

There was always a price, but never any supply.

Even if it were twenty times more expensive, there would still be plenty of buyers.

After picking and choosing, Qin Ming finally selected the spirit plants he wanted.

"No way! The spirit plants Qin Ming chose are all grade-less spirit plants. What kind of Medicinal Pill does he want to refine? Is he surrendering in advance?"

"I don't get it. Wasn't it said that Qin Ming is a Pill Apprentice? Why isn't he refining a first-grade poison pill? He has a Grand Alchemist for a master, so he should have plenty of poison pill Pill Formulas, right?"

"I don't know. Look, Qin Ming has started the Alchemy."

Seeing that Qin Ming had finally started the Alchemy, the people below the stage watched with rapt attention.

Qin Ming calmly walked to the alchemy furnace, poured all the spirit plants inside, placed his palm on the alchemy furnace, and began the Alchemy.

"What? Does Qin Ming even know Alchemy? Isn't it said that Alchemists must first warm the furnace? Why didn't Qin Ming do it?"

"Look at Ji Wu, he's currently warming the furnace. Look, Ji Wu is even sweating."

"I don't understand, I don't understand… Maybe refining pills is just like cooking; you can do it this way too!"

"Bullshit… do you even know what you're talking about…"

"…"

As Qin Ming's Alchemy began, the crowd below started buzzing with discussion again.

"What is Minger doing? Why didn't he warm the furnace first? Could he be too nervous?"

"It's fine, an hour is still a long time. Perhaps Qin Ming can refine another batch."

Qin Father looked at Qin Ming with worry.