Swordsman the Wanderer
Ch. 734 - Cunning Smile And Mocking Laughter
When Mu Hawk, standing among the crowd, saw Zhang En take center stage as he appeared and a cold light flashed in his eyes. He snorted, "This scoundrel is so unpleasant for me to see."
Maung Li who was standing next to him smiled casually, “Don't worry, Brother Mu. I have heard that Elder Mou Li has made plans to change the ingredients of the potion for Zhang En. This round will be the end for him.”
Hearing this, Mu Hawk's face turned into a smile, “Hehehe... I can't let that Zhang En defeat me and make him open his eyes to the prowess of the alchemist nicknamed, this Dark Mu.”
Maung Li then laughed, “With your status, there is no need to equate yourself with Zhang En's Brother Mu. In fact, that Zhang En is not even qualified to be your servant.”
Laughter loudly came out of Mu Hawk's mouth and touched by Maung Li's words replied, "What you said is true."
As all the participants of the alchemist competition continued to arrive, the competition arena became increasingly dense.
About an hour later, the supervisor of the Alchemy Competition for this round finally appeared, an Elder from the Alchemist Union.
He then briefly explained the rules of this round and gestured for the other supervisors to activate the small portal.
When the portal was completed activated, it would move all the participants to the pill refining room within the room that only everyone else contained potions and pill furnaces that they had prepared beforehand.
In this round, all participants were required to create a Recovery Pill that could recover the Qi of a cultivator.
The time allotted to each participant to complete the refining of this pill was three days. Three days later, whether they were successful or not in making pills, they would be sent out automatically from within the room.
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After Zhang En was sent to one of the pill refining rooms, he saw an ordinary pill furnace, and there were hundreds of ingredients already placed on the table.
Zhang En's senses swept through all of the potions and immediately realized that, among the hundreds of pill-making potion ingredients reserved for him, there were ten of them that had been replaced from the original ingredients.
Seeing this, Zhang En curled his lips mocking, "As I had expected!"
He already knew that Mou Li would not let him pass this round smoothly and easily just like that.
According to the rules of the competition, if participants saw any problems with the materials provided, they could ask the disciples of the Alchemist Guild outside to return to give the original materials.
However, Zhang En realized that the disciple outside should have already received an order from Mou Li. Hence, it was impossible for him to request a complete herb ingredient from them.
HOONNGGGS!!
A bright light shone from Zhang En's hand as ten different herbs appeared.
These ten ingredients of the potion were what Mou Li had altered to thwart Zhang En's pill refining process.
Zhang En then replaced the potion with a new one that happened to be in his spatial ring.
Even though each pill refining room was monitored from the outside, and if any participating disciples changed the potions that had been prepared without permission, they would be instantly failed.
But for Zhang En, he could manipulate this room as if nothing had happened, even if he changed all the materials inside this room, the disciple in charge of watching outside would not find any irregularities.
Briefly, this process took place just like he did when making the Heavenly Core Pill. Then, following the refining method of the Recovery Pill, Zhang En continued to combine all the herbs into one.
From start to finish, the refining process went smoothly, without any hindrance. It seems easy to see, but even the slightest mistake can result in failure during pill condensation.
WUSSHHHH!!!
The more potions merged and formed pills, gradually also emitting a bright light.
Almost half an hour later, a wave of pill sounds colliding in the air rang out from the room where Zhang En was.
These sound waves were a sign of a successful pill formation, but only a God-class pill upwards could produce this type of sound wave during pill condensation.
Right at this moment, outside the competition area, a flickering light appeared as a figure of a body came out from one of the rooms. This figure is Mu Hawk.
When the demon clan disciples present there saw the appearance of Mu Hawk, they all cheered for him.
Elder Mu Rui stepped forward, congratulating, "Congratulations to Young Master Mu Hawk for ranking first in this round."
Since the competition started, no other disciples had come out and finished this round.
Mu Hawk's face beamed, replying, "It's still the preliminary round, there's still the next round until the final that's still waiting for me to become the absolute champion."
"That's right, that's right!" Mu Rui laughed as she assented.
Mu Hawk then asked as his tone changed, "I wonder how Zhang En is ..." Pouting, he added, "He should be coming out soon."
In his opinion, with the ingredients of the broken potion causing the refining of the pill Zhang En would fail, and be disqualified from the competition.
Meanwhile, a disciple entered the pill refining room where Mu Hawk had used to take out the pills he had made and handed them over to the supervisor to assess.
After the pill was assessed, the Recovery Pill that Mu Hawk had made had been designated a Top Grade Recovery Pill, and the pill refining time, twenty-nine minutes, twenty-three seconds.
Therefore, Mu Hawk was declared a pass in this round and will again continue the next round!
As Mu Hawk, Elder Mu Rui, and the demon darinklan disciples were about to leave the outer area of the competition, a flickering light appeared as a figure of a body came out from one of the rooms.
As Mu Hawk looked at this person's face, he smiled widely, as this person who came out was none other than Zhang En.
Although he had thought that Zhang En would be out soon due to failure, he had not expected it to be this fast.
He approached Zhang En happily, saying, "Zhang En, I didn't expect you to be the one to come out after me." Mu Hawk smiled cunningly, “Just a little slower than me with the results of the High-class Recovery Pills. How're you? Don't tell me you're out because you failed!”
At this moment, Mu Hawk could again hold back his laughter and as if ridiculing Zhang En.