readytorunbook Chapter 346 Sect Competition 7
Chapter 346 Sect Competition 7
This explains why disciples who have participated know this; they may have suffered from it before!
As for why Senior Brother Anqi didn't say!
There is no such obligation; after all, once you participate in the competition, you are competitors!
Could Senior Brother Anqi not have noticed that Senior Brother Wen was following behind?
In fact, Cheng Jiu suspected that Senior Brother An Qi deliberately passed by Senior Brother Wen!
It's not impossible!
In the end, it's still Senior Brother Wen and Senior Sister Yingyue who benefit!
"Doesn't that mean a lot of new disciples have been tricked? Are there any new disciples who haven't been tricked?" Cheng Jiu wondered!
Senior Sister Yingyue nodded with a complicated expression. It was obvious that there were many of them!
So although Senior Sister Yingyue looked uncomfortable, she didn't say anything about it being unfair!
After all, the rules were written there, and some disciples noticed them, so there's no one to blame but oneself!
"What should we do with those disciples whose medicinal effects have diminished? We can't just eliminate them like this!"
If that's the case, Cheng Jiu thinks this alchemist competition is utterly absurd.
"Of course not, there are still many people who need to commission alchemy! They provide their own spiritual herbs!" Yingyue shook her head!
The choices are relatively fewer.
Cheng Jiu considered it in his mind. Although he could only accept those commissioned pill refining jobs, his goal was clear.
Treating illness is different; there are only so many medicinal materials available!
Even if you can diagnose the illness, without a miracle cure, you can't cure it.
The medicinal herbs in the Medicine Mountain are scattered and disorganized; it's even possible to not be able to put together a complete set of medicinal herbs.
"The difference isn't that big!"
"But if you want to get a high score, you absolutely have to cure your illness!" Yingyue nodded with a melancholy look on her face. "Not everyone is like you, Junior Sister, who can succeed in making pills 100% of the time and refine them so quickly. If you fail, all your previous efforts will be wasted!"
This is a dead end business; there's no way to find a cure.
This competition is not only a test of the disciples' alchemy skills, but also a test of their ability to flexibly apply various spiritual herbs!
If you can flexibly combine the medicinal herbs from the medicinal mountain without changing the efficacy of the medicine, you will get a high score!
The main focus is on assessing a disciple's innovative ability. The success of a sect depends on its ability to continuously inject new blood into it, not just on being a dullard who can follow pill formulas to refine pills!
To put it bluntly, one purpose of this competition is to select disciples who can achieve outstanding results in the sect competition!
Another objective is to select promising disciples in a sufficiently fair environment!
In the eyes of the Elder and the other elders, a disciple who can refine pills with corresponding medicinal effects based on existing spiritual herbs is a golden egg that shines brightly!
Therefore, high scores are hidden in those diagnoses and treatments, while average scores are found in commissioned alchemy!
If you're really not good at it, just accept commissions to refine pills. The success rate is high, and the final score will be quite good!
This competition format is a two-pronged approach: it ensures that no hidden golden eggs are missed, while also determining the most skilled alchemist.
The scores are a direct reflection of alchemy skills; there's no faking it!
Seeing the indescribable look on Senior Sister Yingyue's face, Cheng Jiu wisely shut his mouth!
I'm afraid this competition didn't bring Yingyue many good memories!
She didn't ask, but Senior Sister Yingyue had a strong desire to share: "Junior Sister, you don't know those disciples of Medicine King Valley! They have such good tempers! They're not at all like the arrogant people in the rumors!"
"Why do you say that? Senior Sister, what happened to you during the competition?" Cheng Jiu asked curiously. In her eyes, Senior Sister Yingyue was also a very good-tempered person.
How could anyone think that the disciples of Medicine King Valley have good tempers? What have they been through?
"You have no idea how difficult those patients are!" Yingyue sighed, rubbing her forehead.
"What happened?" Cheng Jiu asked with great interest.
"Well!" Yingyue hesitated, then sighed deeply, "Junior sister, have you ever heard of the Merit Grass?"
"Merit Grass?" Cheng Jiu recalled for a moment: "In the Valley of No Return, there is a grass with three leaves and two flowers. Red flowers represent merit, and white flowers represent demerit. Consuming it results in merit and demerit. One can exchange merit and demerit for a hundred years. You can't be talking about this!"
"Junior sister is very knowledgeable!" Yingyue nodded with a complicated expression: "A hundred years ago, there was a couple who gave birth to a pair of disabled twins. The older sister was missing an eye, and the younger sister was missing an ear."
The couple somehow obtained some merit grass, which they used to feed the elder sister's karma and the younger sister's merit! Afterward, they sent the elder sister to the mortal realm.
Humans live no more than a hundred years; after a hundred years, the elder sister's lifespan will end, and naturally, it won't benefit the younger sister.
Senior Sister Yingyue closed her eyes: "That girl, relying on the power-enhancing flower, is arrogant and domineering, does not cultivate merit, and has made countless enemies and grudges!"
Cheng Jiu gasped: "Then wouldn't all the blame fall on her sister?!"
"She came here specifically to kill her sister!" Yingyue's face showed undisguised disgust: "Not only did her parents not stop her, they condoned her sister's evil deeds!"
"My sister is their daughter too!"
Cheng Jiu couldn't understand why they couldn't properly discipline the younger sister, cultivate her character and virtue, and allow the older sister to live a more relaxed and fulfilling life in the mortal realm for a hundred years, since they had already abandoned the older sister once when the two sisters were born!
The younger sister has already benefited greatly, so why can't she let her older sister off the hook?
With such biased parents and a vicious younger sister, that older sister is really unlucky!
Cheng Jiuguang felt disgusted just looking at it from his sister's perspective!
She has never experienced her parents' love and has never met her twin sister!
Yet he has to bear the malice from his sister for no reason! It's like a bolt from the blue!
"Some parents don't deserve to be parents! And some alchemists are just unlucky to encounter this family!"
Cheng Jiu knew why Senior Sister Yingyue was so upset about the competition, so he asked cautiously, "So, Senior Sister, you encountered it?"
Senior Sister Yingyue closed her eyes and nodded: "The first one!"
"Backfired?"
"They're incredibly difficult to deal with!" Senior Sister Yingyue looked pale. "They didn't say at first that the Merit Flower is so rare and useless, and it only works when taken by someone with a strong destiny. Who would have thought they would use it on their own daughter!"
They said their daughter became deaf and blind overnight.
But my diagnosis was congenital deafness and blindness, which I question!
They assured me that their daughter had absolutely no such symptoms before!
If the injury is acquired, there are special healing pills to repair it.
If it's congenital, then there's nothing that can be done; it's something taken away by the Heavenly Dao, and only a ninth-grade elixir can cure it.
Because ninth-grade elixirs already involve certain laws.
"What a waste of time and a whole batch of pills!" Yingyue said with a face full of resentment. You have to understand that this was not a regular diagnosis and treatment.
This is a competition, so there are restrictions on the medicinal herbs used!
Refining a batch of repair pills requires a lot of medicinal materials. Among the medicinal materials she had, she was still missing the key Snow Jaw Abdominal Powder, so she used Yin Bone Finger and Yang Flame Spring Drops as substitutes!
She was still a little uneasy while refining the pills, worried that the furnace would explode, since she was the one who improved the pill formula.
Unexpectedly, the improved formula produced pills with remarkably good medicinal effects.
She was hoping to get a high score on this batch!
It turned out the pills weren't effective, haha, all for nothing!
"After taking the medicine, the woman's physical deformities did not improve."
Instead, as if stimulated, his karma surged up and he was subjected to several heavy blows out of nowhere!
That father was also unreasonable. Seeing that the medicine wasn't working and had even worsened the condition, he berated me as a quack and even tried to hit me!
Yingyue looked aggrieved. The first family she was to receive on the first day of the competition was this strange family, and she felt it was bad luck!
"Is Senior Sister alright?"
Upon hearing that the other party dared to attack Senior Sister Yingyue, Cheng Jiu asked with concern.
"What could possibly happen to me? A low-level Nascent Soul cultivator! I poisoned him with a handful of medicinal powder!" Yingyue said smugly.
How dare they attack an alchemist! I wonder what they're thinking! Is there any benefit in offending a high-level alchemist?
"Senior sister should kick them out! Stop entertaining them!" Cheng Jiu said seriously.
This is a privilege reserved for alchemists, and no one would say anything if Senior Sister Yingyue did it.
"I was just too kind and good-hearted!" Senior Sister Yingyue said softly, "I felt a little guilty at the time! After all, I was the one who improved the pill, what if she really had an accident because of the pill!"
So Yingyue only sprinkled poison powder as a minor punishment to deter others.
They still didn't get anyone to kick the family out!
The patient's condition worsened after taking his own medicine, and despite the offense, he was simply driven out.
Yingyue still couldn't get over this hurdle in her heart, so she asked the people to stay and continue the treatment!
Perhaps it was the power of Yingyue's poison powder that made them behave relatively well when treating the couple afterwards!
"Yin bone refers to a bone with a predominantly yin nature. Although I used Yangyan Spring Drops to neutralize it, the yin energy was not completely neutralized. Ordinary people will be fine after consuming it."
But didn't that patient take the Karma Herb? After a hundred years, the Karma Flower representing Yin is now inside her body.
The residual yin energy from the elixir stirred the karmic flower, causing it to backfire prematurely.
The "Hereditary Grass" mechanism, though seemingly illogical, actually contains the principles of Heaven.
It's not just a simple matter of karma and merits; the merit and demerit record will show what you've done!
The backlash from a century ago will come exponentially more intensely!
This girl used to be lawless because she had others take the blame for her!
Now that karma has turned around, she and her parents know all too well what they have done.
Out of fear, they went out to seek a solution!
They came here knowing that the Five Great Sects Competition was taking place here. Their target was never these disciples, but the masters behind these disciples!
They believed that a ninth-grade alchemist would definitely have a solution!
That's why they started making a scene at the slightest disagreement—it was all to draw out the powerful figures behind these disciples!
It wouldn't look good if someone died during the two competitions!
Public opinion can be overwhelming; even if it is proven that the ninth-grade alchemist has found the cause, they can only grit their teeth and continue the treatment.
As for the consequences of offending the five major sects and a ninth-grade alchemist!
They had no time to think about the worst-case scenario; their priority was getting through this critical hurdle first!
So they didn't come here for proper medical treatment at all!
Unexpectedly, their scheme was thwarted by Yingyue's poison powder!
They observed for a long time before choosing Yingyue.
He is at the Nascent Soul stage, young, has low martial arts skills among alchemists, but his status appears to be very high among all alchemists.
Dressed in a crimson robe, Yingyue's bright eyes were suppressed, making her look quite gentle! She looked easy to bully!
She's a female disciple. Female disciples are great—they're kind-hearted and responsible!
After much consideration, they spent a lot of money to secure the first reception spot for Yingyue.
I never expected Yingyue to be so fierce!
We dare not provoke them, we absolutely dare not provoke them!
"My second thought is whether someone is cursing me!"
That's the look of someone burdened by karma!
"But upon closer examination, I realized that although the karma was external, it was closely related to the patient!"
Yingyue recalled the situation at the time. She had never seen such a difficult and complicated situation before, and for a moment she was at a loss.
All those prescriptions and books I had read before seemed utterly useless.
Yingyue was almost ready to give up and begged her master to come and treat the patient!
Since it's a competition, not a proper medical consultation, these patients will also enjoy some special benefits!
For example, if a problem is truly unsolvable, the alchemist can request their master to come and resolve it!
We shouldn't let these people make a wasted trip and betray their trust!
Of course, not just anyone can do it.
It also mentions here that the medicinal herbs are selected from the medicinal mountain, and there are bound to be some that cannot be cured. In such cases, the alchemist can choose to give up.
However, if a corresponding treatment method is provided, half of the score will be awarded based on the accuracy rate!
It should be within 20 minutes.
A sixth-grade pill is worth forty points. Compared to refining pills, constantly seeing patients is still not worthwhile!
While Yingyue was completely baffled, the disciples of Medicine King Valley also noticed her situation.
After all, this is a competition. With so much time wasted, the other disciples' scores have increased rapidly, while Yingyue's score remains at zero!
If this continues, Yingyue will definitely be eliminated in the second round of the competition.
Fortunately, this disciple was Jiao Hua, Liu Shaoyuan's fifth senior brother.
I asked Liu Shaoyuan to help me if I encounter Yingyue and Wen Siyuan during the competition!
Seeing that Yingyue was having a problem, he took the initiative to come and help.
After hearing the whole story, Jiao Hua narrowed his eyes and stared at the family opposite him, making them break out in a cold sweat!
He was no newcomer like Yingyue; he was very experienced and immediately noticed the inconsistencies in the couple's description of the illness.
He patted Yingyue on the shoulder, his tone meaningful: "Junior sister, you must understand, patients can lie too!"
"Thanks to Senior Brother Jiao Hua's guidance! I was able to figure it out!" Yingyue said gratefully, "Senior Brother Liu is such a kind person!" Otherwise, she would still be stuck in the pit.
Yingyue wasn't stupid; she instantly connected all the inconsistencies and, after a stern interrogation, the couple finally told the truth!
"How was it finally resolved?"
"How to solve it? No solution, so they kicked her out!" Yingyue rolled her eyes! It wasted a third of her competition time, and she almost didn't make it to the second round.
"A hundred years will pass! Even if another hundred years pass, I doubt my sister would want that!"
As long as the clover remains, the two sisters are destined to be intertwined, inseparable—a fate ordained from birth!
"Then let's hope my sister doesn't live past a hundred years!" Yingyue sighed, for there was no cure for the Merit Grass.
It's likely that the couple still had some feelings for my sister back then, which is why they didn't imprison or kill her after she consumed the Karmic Flower, but instead sent her to the mortal realm. Perhaps that was their last act of love for her!
However, people's hearts are biased. A hundred years have passed, and for them, there is no need to choose between an older sister who is not by their side and a daughter who is!
"By the way, they went to the Heavenly Mystery Sect! But they were rejected!"
"No wonder!" Cheng Jiu nodded, the last piece of the puzzle was now complete.
It's probably because they don't know where their sister is that they make so many blunders.
A deaf and blind orphan girl is as rare as mud in a sea of sand in the vast mortal world!