Chapter 800: Calculations Ahead

"Puff, puff, bang bang..."

A series of low muffled sounds rang out in the square. These sounds may be very pleasant to ordinary people, but in the ears of the alchemists, they are absolutely heartbreaking.

This sound is the sound of a furnace of precious medicinal materials exploding in the furnace. During the refining process of medicinal materials, there will be a state of balance between flame power and spiritual power. With the assistance of spiritual power, the flame power allows the essence of the medicinal materials to be separated and warmed at the same time.

This process is very simple to say, but there are very great risks. Flame power and spiritual power must reach an absolute balance under the control of mental power. Once this balance is broken, the result will be a furnace explosion.

Therefore, this kind of furnace explosion does not necessarily mean that the medicine furnace or medicine cauldron is directly blown up, but a furnace of medicinal materials is destroyed in the explosion. If it is normal, many people will be heartbroken when such a furnace of good medicinal materials is destroyed. But now the loss of medicinal materials can be ignored. What they actually lost is this competition. After all, they have lost the qualification for this competition.

All of these people were distracted by the smell of medicine just now, which affected their minds and caused the furnace to explode at the critical moment.

In fact, it is not surprising that these people behaved like this. Even Zuo Feng and several judges on the high platform could not accept it at the moment. However, among these people, there was one who looked more normal, or he seemed to have expected everything in front of him.

The deputy city lord Yao, who had not had much emotional fluctuations from beginning to end, was the first to react at this moment. He looked over the city lord You on the right and looked at Yao Zhen. There seemed to be a slight anger in his eyes, but this anger only appeared for a moment and was forcibly suppressed.

After all, he was a person of equal experience and scheming as You and Su, and he concealed this emotion very well, and did not let the people around him notice it.

The identity of the deputy city lord Yao belongs to a relatively high class in the empire, and Yao Zhen has the title of Yaozi. If there is friction between the two, it will be ridiculed by other families.

He had such concerns but didn't show anything, but Old Zhong didn't have such a restraint. He turned around and glared at Yao Zhen and said, "Yao Zhen, you have lost your status by doing this. The selection of medicine boys is still a county-level competition. If you make a move here, don't you think that people will underestimate your title of medicine boy?"

Yao Zhen, who was originally smug, immediately showed embarrassment on his face after hearing this. After a few words, he said, "If there are any problems with the rules of the selection of medicine boys, the city lord and the deputy city lord will naturally preside over it. Although you have a judge position in Duobao Pavilion, it is not possible for a judge to make decisions here."

"You"

Old Zhong said "you" in a cold voice with some excitement, and stood up from his seat at the same time, but he looked at the other party for a long time without saying a word, and finally sat back in his seat again angrily.

Yao Zhen laughed arrogantly, no longer paying attention to Elder Zhong, but turned his head to look at the competition venue and said, "The competition has not yet ended, but someone can't sit still. Could it be that you, Duobao Pavilion, want to cultivate a medicine boy? Strength is the hard truth. If you lose, you don't need to find many excuses and make others laugh at you." Yao Zhen's words were obviously targeted, targeting what Elder Zhong said, and even pointed the finger at Zuo Feng at the same time. Everyone who knew the cause and effect knew that Zuo Feng accepted Elder Zhong's invitation and nominally held the position of elder of Duobao Pavilion. His words were equivalent to pulling both of them in at once. Elder Zhong's temper was not so bad, but Yao Zhen did something a bit too much today, and he also cared about Zuo Feng, so he behaved a little bit out of control. But what surprised Yao Zhen was that his sarcastic words did not make Elder Zhong lose control more this time. In the end, he just snorted coldly. Yao Zhen was very surprised, but he couldn't hold on to this topic and talk endlessly. In fact, he himself knew which side he stood on.

What no one noticed was that there was a detail just now, that is, when Zhong Lao stood up in anger, Deputy City Lord Yao beside him gently pulled the corner of his clothes and gave him a look of "calm down".

Although the two of them didn't communicate much on the surface, they actually had a very good personal relationship. Although each of them had their own standpoints and positions, because of the exchange of medicine refining, they seemed to be close friends.

Deputy City Lord Yao showed such an attitude at this moment. Although Zhong Lao didn't understand it very well, he also realized that it was unwise to fall out with Yao Zhen here. So although he didn't understand what Deputy City Lord Yao meant, he still suppressed his anger.

There were two people present who didn't participate in the matter here, that is, the two more cunning You City Lord and Su Lan Marshal. However, the two were also old and smart. They observed quietly, and combined with the outstanding performance of Hua Qi at this time, how could they not know what happened.

They have some understanding of Hua Qi's abilities, and it is understandable that he can rank among the top contestants below, but his outstanding performance shows that there is another reason.

Combined with Yao Zhen's previous rebuttal, it was obvious that he was the instigator of this matter. They also understood that Yao Zhen must have worked hard in secret, but the two of them were not very interested in knowing who was promoted, but they were very happy that Zuo Feng lost the qualification for promotion.

Putting aside the changes on the high platform, Hua Qi looked very arrogant and confident at this time. He looked at Zuo Feng over the crowd, as if everything he did was to hit Zuo Feng.

After smelling and seeing the three-color medicinal fragrance just now, even Zuo Feng felt a huge shock in his mind. Putting aside the fact that this was a competition, being able to refine in such a short time and carry out the final fusion is already a difficult thing, or it is a bit unlikely.

As far as Zuo Feng knows, it is impossible to refine the medicinal materials in such a short time and start the initial fusion without reaching the high-level alchemist. If Hua Qi has such outstanding skills, I am afraid it should have spread all over the continent long ago, and even this time the selection of medicine should have a very high voice for him.

The actual situation is that before this, Zuo Feng had only heard of the painter, and had not even heard of the painter, the Seventh Young Master. His alchemy skills were described by Amber and others. Although he was excellent in the super family, there were no fewer people with his level and ability.

So it seems that there must be something else going on. Only if he used other means in the process of refining could he have such a high speed.

According to Zuo Feng's judgment, he might have taken some high-end drugs before the game. Some pills that improve mental strength or allow people to concentrate highly in a short period of time can help increase the speed and success rate of alchemy.

However, there is another possibility, which is the medicinal materials processed by high-level alchemists. This sounds a bit incredible, but the ancient method of alchemy is a method of processing medicinal materials from the root. Although there may not be many people who know this method, Zuo Feng knows that one person has this ability, that is his master's wife, Zhuang Yu.

If the medicinal materials have been processed by Zhuang Yu, they will definitely get twice the result with half the effort during the refining process. Not only will the refining time be shortened exponentially, but the fusion will also be much easier.

However, this method of processing medicinal materials is very complicated and can never be completed in three or five days. It can take dozens of days or even months. In addition, this ancient method of processing medicinal materials has almost disappeared on the mainland. The only person who can do it is Zhuang Yu, and the other person should be Yao Lao.

But when thinking of this possibility, Zuo Feng immediately thought of a person, a person he has always paid attention to, Yao Tuozi.

If this medicinal material originally belonged to Yao Tuozi, and then Yao Zhen gave it to Hua Qi to deal with him, everything seems to make sense.

Zuo Feng did not expect such a thing. He was busy going to Linshan Villa to figure out the pseudo-beast crystal these two days, and at the same time to understand and study the formation runes. He did not expect that his enemy had not been idle all the time.

But even if he thought of it, there was no way to deal with it. These medicinal materials processed by ancient methods can no longer be described as precious. I really didn't expect that the other party would spend so much money to deal with me.

Hua Qi's smile was still on his face, but he then turned his gaze away with a disdainful curl of his lips, and turned his attention to the medicine cauldron in front of him again. He was now able to fuse with all his strength, and the three-color mist that appeared before indicated that the level of his medicine refining this time was not low.

If others did not understand, Zuo Feng, who was knowledgeable about medicine refining, could already know what he was refining. It was a kind of medicine liquid that improved combat effectiveness, and its level was definitely upper among the medicine liquids.

However, the medicine liquid that could generally improve combat effectiveness would only have two colors of mist appearing at most, and the fact that three colors could appear indicated that the ability bonus to the warrior was also three times as much. In addition to the normal increase in speed and strength, it could also bring the spiritual power to a new height in a short period of time.

Such a medicine liquid could be said to be a sure thing, and even if the medicinal materials processed by the ancient method were not used, it would be more than enough to get the first place.

Facing this situation, Zuo Feng smiled bitterly in his heart. Since the other party had calculated so carefully, it seemed that he did not give himself a chance to save the situation. The reason he thought so was that while Zuo Feng was observing Hua Qi, he also noticed that the other two young men had just completed the extraction of medicinal materials.