Chapter 798: Stay Calm

The competition for the selection of medicine sons in the county is very special. It is different from the previous competitions. The candidates need to prepare the medicinal materials and choose the prescriptions by themselves.

For all those who participate in the competition for medicine sons, this is the last door to the final gorgeous stage. If you can pass it, regardless of whether you get the title of medicine son in the end, you will still be the focus of attention of all parties, and you will undoubtedly be one of the new generation of darlings of the Xuanwu Empire.

Having such a darling is the dream of all forces, and it is also an opportunity for many families to stand out.

The reason why the county-level competition for medicine sons will formulate such a rule is to encourage each family to fully cultivate medicine sons, and at the same time to eliminate some people who do not have a deep background. Of course, this elimination is not for suppression, but to allow the audience to see those people who have excellent potential but no background.

This is another role of the competition for medicine sons, which is to help those talented people with excellent potential find a force willing to fully cultivate themselves.

The medicine boy in this county-level competition needs to prepare prescriptions and medicinal materials by himself, which is like a gap that ordinary people cannot cross. The price of medicinal materials is very expensive, especially those used to make high-level liquid medicines or even pills.

The price of prescriptions is even more terrifying, because most of the good prescriptions are controlled by large families and forces, and it is difficult for ordinary people to obtain them even if they have money.

Zuo Feng knew this rule long ago, and he also prepared a prescription and several medicinal materials for this competition. Of course, he is not like ordinary people who are restricted because of their lack of background. Zuo Feng has many ways to obtain prescriptions and medicinal materials.

Of course, the most direct and safest way is to buy. In addition to the money-saving cards he obtained at the beginning, he also has a lot of property obtained from the Kuixiang storage crystal.

However, Zuo Feng also carefully prepared a prescription for this competition. The level of this prescription is not very high, but he estimates that it is absolutely a sure result to use it in this county-level competition.

After Tao finished all those long-winded speeches, he spoke again: "Today's competition is very important to everyone, so I hope everyone can do their best to complete the best work, so please start refining."

When he read out the rules, some smart people had already taken out the medicinal materials and medicine cauldrons. Although they had not started refining, they were already ready to refine the medicine. However, there were also a few people who seemed to be participating in such a competition for the first time, and they were still listening to Tao's words in a daze.

Especially when Tao finished the last sentence, there was an extremely obvious polarization on the scene. On one side was a group of people who reacted quickly. They almost started to heat up the medicine cauldron as soon as Tao's voice fell.

These people actually placed the flame crystal in the medicine cauldron before refining the medicine, or even before coming to the competition venue. Now they just need to activate their spiritual power to drive it.

The other part had a slightly smaller number of people. They all realized that they were really inexperienced when they saw that the people around them were already so fast at the start.

The whole arena was like a spark thrown into it, instantly igniting the entire arena. A group of people have already taken a step ahead and will never let their advantage fall. Some people feel that they have slowed down a lot, and they are also seizing every opportunity to catch up, and they are also in a posture of never admitting defeat.

Zuo Feng did not enter the state as quickly as they did, and at this time, there was nothing in front of him, and none of the medicinal materials, medicine cauldrons, etc. were taken out.

While others began to act, Zuo Feng slowly closed his eyes, as if he had entered into a state of meditation.

There were naturally people on the high platform who were paying attention to the movements here. Seeing Zuo Feng like this, Old Zhong laughed and shook his head, saying: "This little guy really has an intriguing taste everywhere. Not bad, not bad, it suits my taste."

As Old Zhong spoke, he reached out and stroked the snow-white beard on his chest.

The city lord and Su Lan naturally saw Zuo Feng's situation at the first time, or they had never taken their eyes off Zuo Feng since they came here. For the two of them, Zuo Feng has another meaning, and this meaning is very great.

After Zuo Feng left last night, they also recalled it seriously, especially the formation, which they studied almost all night until they came here.

After Zuo Feng left, the first thing they did was to see if the scene just now was secretly tampered with by someone. If they want to know whether it is really as Zuo Feng said and done, the best way is to learn from Zuo Feng to rearrange it.

They still have a lot of soul-gathering crystals, so even when Zuo Feng left, they didn't say a word even though they knew he had secretly taken a lot away.

Without any mistakes in the order and position, the two of them put the soul-gathering crystals back, and the same scene appeared in front of them again. This made them both excited and secretly relieved at the same time.

If the arrangement failed this time, the problem would probably become more complicated. Fortunately, they restored everything in their memory and successfully activated the formation. In this way, if they need to rearrange it next time, they will no longer need Zuo Feng, and if they report to their superiors, they will have a basis in hand.

In addition, they also want to go further and uncover the deeper secrets of the formation. But they were busy until dawn, and there was no progress.

This was originally a normal thing. Imagine that many ancestors and many powerful people in the empire had to rely on external help to barely adjust the formation. The two of them were not as good as any of the powerful people at that time, so how could they crack it.

This is also because they saw Zuo Feng before, and after failing several times, he showed this space in front of them in one breath, so they ignored the difficulty.

At the same time, the two of them also doubted Zuo Feng. Being able to unlock the formation to such a degree should never be something that such a young man can do. There must be some hidden secrets in it, which Zuo Feng did not reveal, and it is a very important secret.

But the helpless thing is that the two sides have reached an agreement. Although they forced Zuo Feng to swear an oath, the two of them did not swear. But once they violated the agreement, Zuo Feng could naturally not abide by the oath, so this agreement would also make the two of them tied up.

It was for this reason that the two of them not only paid special attention to Zuo Feng this morning, but also felt that the young man in front of them was really a bit tricky. After hearing the evaluation of Mr. Zhong, they both instinctively filtered it out and pretended not to hear half of it.

Yao Zhen was naturally paying attention to Zuo Feng, and at the same time he was also observing the expressions of You Chengzhu and Su Lan. The information he obtained was that Zuo Feng finally stayed in You Chengzhu's Linshan Villa for one night. Although he also wanted to see what was going on, he was stopped at the door and the reason given was that he didn't want Yao Zhen and Zuo Feng to have unpleasantness in the villa.

Yao Zhen certainly didn't believe this kind of reason to lie to children, but no matter how he inquired, he still got nothing until now when he participated in the selection.

Seeing Zuo Feng like this, he was even more annoyed and said bitterly: "What's so great about pretending? This competition is about refining medicine, not about who can be calm. I wonder how you can pretend if you can't make medicine."

He said this, but cursed in his heart. It would be best if Zuo Feng was eliminated as soon as possible, so that he would have a chance to attack. However, he was also worried. If he attacked in Linshan County, the city lord and Su Yan would not let it go. He might need to find a few helpers to act.

When he thought of this, his eyes turned to a place not far from Zuo Feng. There was a young man who was concentrating on refining medicinal materials. It seemed that his work was also in an orderly manner, as if he had a plan in mind.

After seeing this young man, Yao Zhen's face also flashed a sly smile. The person he was looking at was Hua Qi Gongzi, who had a lot of entanglements with Zuo Feng.

Only the deputy city lord Yao did not say a word from beginning to end, but his eyes fell on Zuo Feng at this time. Although this deputy city lord Yao met Zuo Feng for the first time, he had heard this name too many times in the past few days, especially from Su Lan, the city lord, and Zhong Lao. This itself can explain the extraordinaryness of this young man.

Although this deputy city lord Tao was not selected as a medicine boy at the beginning, the person who won the title of medicine boy that year was the direct disciple of the legendary medicine hunchback, so no one would think that his strength was not good.

At this time, he observed Zuo Feng with the eyes of a master of alchemy, but his eyes became brighter and brighter, and it seemed that his interest in Zuo Feng became stronger.

At this time, Zuo Feng suddenly moved. He first slowly raised his palm, and then gently waved it on the table. This waving action seemed to brush away the dust on the stone platform, but the moment his hand passed over the stone platform, a medicine cauldron and countless medicinal materials appeared like magic.

The other participants in the competition basically didn't notice it, and the people watching from afar didn't see it clearly, after all, Zuo Feng's movements were a bit too fast. But there were also sharp-eyed people who noticed this detail, which could only mean that Zuo Feng was wearing a storage device.

After seeing this scene, Deputy City Lord Nayao also smiled, and this smile seemed to contain a special meaning.