Ye Chen is actually not worried about his alchemist level.
After obtaining the star map of the One-Horned Fire Spirit Dragon, his "God" attribute has reached 60 points!
According to the standard he used when testing soul value at the Ye family before, if he had 60 points of godhood, his soul value would be around 600 points.
According to Danta's standards, 600 soul points could already reach the level of a sixth-grade alchemist...
Of course, the level of the alchemist is not determined by the soul value alone, but also by a series of factors such as the proficiency in alchemy, the control of fire and the control of soul.
However, with the bonus of the Star Map, Ye Chen's soul power control and flame control are very good, and his soul power is even more so, so now he only needs to increase his proficiency in alchemy.
In half a month, if I focus on one kind of elixir and practice a few more times, I should be able to succeed even if it is a fifth-grade elixir.
This method is a bit tricky in general, but it doesn't matter. At worst, you can be more diligent and practice more in the future, and strive to consolidate your alchemist level at the level of a fifth-grade alchemist. Then you can take the assessment directly after arriving in Shengdan City.
Having made the decision, Ye Chen immediately prepared to take action.
Judging from Fang Yu's appearance, he should be the local tyrant of Xuantian City. It should be no problem to ask him to help find a place to stay. Then he can start refining medicine like crazy!
Not long after, Fang Yu finally walked out from the crowd again, looking quite embarrassed.
"Hahaha, Brother Song Chen, sorry for the long wait. I've already seen the rules of this tournament and the champion rewards!"
Ye Chen smiled and nodded, "Then I'm all ears."
"Yes. As for the rules of the tournament, they haven't changed much from previous years. The first stage requires refining a designated elixir, and there's a set time limit. The goal is to eliminate those who are just filling in the numbers. As for the second stage, it's a soul power test..."
Soul power test?
Ye Chen's heart moved. Could it be that they were testing the soul value directly like the Ye family did in the past?
However, as soon as this idea came up, Ye Chen gave it up. After all, soul stones are very precious. Apart from Danta, only the five major families in Danyu can own one. No one else can possibly own one.
Sure enough, Fang Yu's words also proved this point.
"The soul power test will cause the contestants to enter a special formation. Only those who pass it will be qualified and eligible to enter the final alchemy competition."
Ye Chen nodded in realization, but he was still a little curious about the formation he mentioned. It seemed that the Song and Lu families were quite powerful, as they could actually come up with a formation to test soul power...
Of course, this kind of test certainly can't be as accurate as the soul stone, but it is enough.
Unfortunately, people like Ye Chen, who have strong soul power but insufficient alchemy level, have a loophole to exploit...
I have to say that this Alchemist Conference is really beneficial to Ye Chen!
Fang Yu naturally didn't know what Ye Chen was thinking, and he didn't even know that the other party was an alchemist.
"As for the champion's reward, as expected, it's a sixth-grade pill recipe. Besides the recipe, there are also rare items like low-level Earth-grade fighting skills and fifth-grade elixirs. The rest are cultivation resources, including something called meteorite stones, ten of them. I don't know what they are, though. Perhaps they're made of some rare metal..."
Ye Chen, who had been calm when he heard about the pill formula and fighting skills, his eyes widened when he heard Fang Yu's last words about the meteorite stone.
"Meteorite? Are you sure it's a meteorite?"
This thing may not be very useful to other people, it can only help purify the fighting spirit, but for Ye Chen, a meteorite stone is ten points of star essence!
Although he was a little confused as to why Brother Song Chen reacted so strongly to the meteorite stones, Fang Yu nodded and said, "Yes, they are meteorite stones. And there are ten of them."
After confirming it again, Ye Chen felt a little excited.
These are ten meteorite stones, which means 100 star energy points. Even after having the star energy map, it will take a full hundred days to accumulate so many star energy points.
If he had these one hundred points of star essence, he would be very close to lighting up the next star palace!
"Originally I just wanted to meet Song Qing, but now it seems that I must win the championship of this conference!" Ye Chen made up his mind, and his expression became solemn.
Next, under Fang Yu's leadership, Ye Chen and his companions found a decent courtyard in Xuantian City, and then began to frantically refine medicine to increase their experience.
Improving your alchemy skills, in other words, means burning money, or burning medicinal materials. No matter how talented an alchemist is, practice is the most important thing, and to practice alchemy, medicinal materials are naturally indispensable.
Fortunately, Ye Chen had originally planned to hone and improve his alchemy skills when he came out this time, so he brought a large amount of various medicinal materials he needed.
This also saved him the trouble of searching for medicinal herbs. Now all he needed to do was refine the elixir...
Regardless of whether the refining process succeeded or failed, at least some experience could be gained, and this experience was also a treasure trove that belonged to the alchemist alone. With the gradual accumulation of this experience, combined with Ye Chen's excellent conditions in all aspects, it would soon erupt completely, bringing about a qualitative change.
The spacious room was filled with scorching heat, making the secret room as hot as an oven.
Fortunately, everything in the room had been moved out, otherwise, with the temperature, anything would have been set on fire, and nothing would have been left.
In the center of the room, Ye Chen sat cross-legged. One meter in front of him was a crimson medicine cauldron. Inside the cauldron, a silver flame burned fiercely...
Three days have passed, and this is the fifth furnace of pills that Ye Chen has opened in these three days.
Because we started with fifth-grade elixirs, the previous four furnaces had two successes and two failures, so the success rate was only 50%.
Although such a success rate of pills cannot be guaranteed even by those who have just entered the realm of fifth-grade alchemists, this does not satisfy Ye Chen.
Because this Qi-Yin Dan is only a primary fifth-grade elixir, which is a relatively simple type to refine among fifth-grade elixirs. If this can't achieve a success rate of more than 70%, then some fifth-grade advanced or even fifth-grade peak elixirs are out of the question!
Inside the medicine cauldron, the silver flame was still rising fiercely. Amidst the burning flame, one could faintly see the prototype of a pill, and a faint pill fragrance emanated from it.
Under the scorching flames, the originally lumpy shape of the pill gradually became rounder. About an hour later, Ye Chen's eyes, which had been tightly closed, suddenly opened...