"What happened?" someone asked loudly.

The two alchemists looked up at each other, seeing the shock in each other's eyes, and their voices couldn't help but tremble.

"Pei Yun refined ten pills from his first bottle of Gathering Spirit Pills... nine of them were top-grade, and one was... the Perfect Pill."

"Pei Yun refined ten pills from his second bottle of Gathering Spirit Pills, seven of which were top-grade, and... three Wuque Pills."

After the two of them announced that they were done, there was complete silence. Everyone was stunned by the result and couldn't react for a while.

Duanmu Cheng, who was sitting at the top, was the first to come back to his senses. He took Pei Yun's pill and looked at it carefully. After a moment, he laughed out loud and praised Pei Yun: "Miss Pei is indeed a genius in alchemy. She has such a wonderful alchemy skill at such a young age. After all, she will be the top alchemist of my Zhouxia country in the future..."

"Your Majesty!" Patriarch Cui's face was full of disbelief. He stood up suddenly and saluted. "Your Majesty, could you let me see the elixir that Miss Pei made?"

In his heart, the emperor looked down on the Cui family for their refusal to admit the truth, but he did not show it on his face. He generously ordered someone to take the pill down and show it to the Cui family. He not only wanted to show it to the Cui family, but also to circulate it to everyone present to let them know that the Cui family, a family of alchemy, could not compare to a little girl in alchemy skills.

All the members of the Cui family gathered around and carefully examined the pills made by Pei Yun, trying to find even the slightest flaw.

But facts speak louder than words. The entire Cui family was hit hard. Cui Qian stroked his chest and stared at Pei Yun with complicated eyes.

Cui Lan stared at Pei Yun fiercely with a look of reluctance and jealousy, muttering to herself: "Impossible, how is this possible... How could a little girl like her win over my Cui family..."

But Patriarch Cui was worthy of being the head of the family. He calmed down his fluctuating emotions and sat down without saying a word.

Pei Yun's pills were passed around among the people for viewing, and in the end, everyone present was conquered by her alchemy skills. Combined with the previous pagoda competition, they knew that if this peerless genius did not die in the middle, he would definitely be the top cultivator in Zhouxia Country in the future.

Make friends! Must make friends! Even if not for the future, for her alchemy skills, she must make friends. The eighth-grade elixir is enough for the foundation-building stage. Zhouxia Country is only a small country with medium strength in Beiqizhou. Most of them are still in the Qi Refining Stage and the Foundation Building Stage. Pei Yun, who can refine the eighth-grade perfect elixir, is definitely one of the most sought-after alchemists.

For a moment, everyone gathered around Pei Yun again, and City Lord Zhao and others also came forward to greet her.

Pei Yun bowed to everyone and the emperor, and returned to the topic she wanted to talk about: "Your Majesty, I won this competition, right?"

The emperor glanced at the Cui family, who were in a gloomy mood, and smiled even more: "Of course."

"Shouldn't the Cui family fulfill their promise?" Pei Yun put his hands behind his back and looked at Cui Lan indifferently, "From this moment on, I never want to see this person appear in front of me again..."

She walked towards Cui Lan step by step and said softly: "Cui Lan, shouldn't you get out?"

"Pei Yun!" Cui Lan's eyes were filled with hatred. She no longer cared to restrain herself and raised her hand to slap her, but Pei Yun easily grabbed her arm and threw her arm back. She took a few steps back unsteadily.

"Father, just watch an outsider deal with our Cui family!" Cui Lan ran to the head of the Cui family. She knew that she could not defeat Pei Yun, and Duanmu Yi was staying away from her and would not stand up for her, so she could only rely on her father.

Pei Yun didn't say anything, just looked at Patriarch Cui quietly. The others didn't say anything either, looking at Patriarch Cui with a look of embarrassment on their faces.

The head of the Cui family was silent for a moment. Unexpectedly, he used a spell to attack Cui Lan's knees. Cui Lan felt his knees go soft and he fell to the ground.

"Apologize to Miss Pei."

Cui Lan turned to look at her father in disbelief, but the head of the Cui family only glanced at her coldly. Cui Lan couldn't help but tremble. She lowered her eyes to hide the tears and hatred in her eyes, and knelt down to Pei Yun: "... Cui Lan has said a lot of wrong things before, please forgive me, Miss Pei."

"There is no grudge between you and me, except for what happened in the medicine shop. This is the second time we've met. I don't know why you've been targeting me..."

"I... didn't target Miss Pei."

Pei Yun shook his head: "The first time we met in the medicine shop, you questioned that the pills I sold were not made by myself. Today's dinner was supposed to celebrate the city competition. The cultivators in each city are the ones who should be paid attention to. But you insisted on asking me to make pills in front of everyone. You thought you could make me look bad, right? I really wonder, whether I can make pills or not, and whether I can make perfect pills, what does it have to do with you?"

"...So you can't blame anyone for your current situation. It's all your own fault, because you are the one who caused all this trouble." After Pei Yun finished speaking, he no longer looked at her and walked straight to Chi Ningcheng's position.

Duanmu Cheng looked at Pei Yun with a meaningful smile and ordered his men to drag Cui Lan out.

After this episode, the dinner returned to its previous bustle.

Pei Yun politely entertained the monks who came to chat and make friends. Chi Ningcheng, as previously instructed by City Lord Zhao, also changed his high-profile attitude in the square and sat quietly in his seat to eat and drink.

The entire dinner lasted until most of the night before it dispersed. Pei Yun entered his room and began to retreat until the second competition three days later.

Chi Ningcheng still sat in his old seat. Perhaps because of his ranking in the first competition, City Lord Zhao and others felt less anxious. Even if he ranked last in this arena competition, the combined points of the two competitions would put him in the middle, which was much better than they had expected at the beginning.

"...The monks from each city will be randomly selected to compete on stage. Winning the first game will earn one point, winning the second game will earn two points, and so on. The losing monks will be eliminated... and finally ranked according to the cumulative scores." As soon as the royal elder finished speaking, ten competition arenas appeared in the center of the square, surrounded by a transparent barrier.

Another elder began to call out the names of the monks fighting in each city.

Pei Yun did not attend the first competition, so she went with City Lord Zhao and others to watch the competition of an elder from a big family in Chi Ning City.

This elder Yu was in the late stage of foundation building, and he was fighting against a cultivator from a small city in the late stage of foundation building. Both of them used swords, and they tested each other at the beginning. Pei Yun watched the two fight with a frown, and when he saw the mysterious artistic conception of the opponent's moves, he knew that this elder Yu would definitely lose.

As expected, within a dozen moves, Elder Yu, who had not comprehended the artistic conception, was defeated. The second elder to come on stage was another elder in the late stage of foundation building, who was also eliminated without any suspense.

In the third match, Pei Yun played against a cultivator in the late foundation building stage. Because of Pei Yun's amazing performance in the first match, the opponent did not dare to underestimate Pei Yun, and even carefully put all his energy into dealing with her.

Pei Yun's appearance also made most of the cultivators present focus their attention on her. They really wanted to see how powerful this genius was.

As soon as the opponent swung the whip in his hand, Pei Yun knew that the opponent in front of him had mastered the artistic conception of wind just like himself. Every time he swung the whip at her, there would always be a biting cold wind blowing towards her, and the invisible wind blades collided with her water shield again and again.

In this case, let's see whose wind realm is more powerful. Pei Yun raised her palms and made a starting motion. The first motion was "Wind Rising". With each of her palm movements, a breeze surrounded her. The invisible wind was orderly mobilized by her, and even the opponent's wind blade was used by her, forming a large storm with her as the center.

The opponent didn't expect that Pei Yun would take advantage of his wind state of mind. The wind around him became chaotic and he could not use his whip skills as he wished.

The little girl's state of mind of wind must be higher than the level he has comprehended. At this time, he can only find a way to exhaust her spiritual power. His cultivation is higher than Pei Yun, so he can definitely hold on longer than her.

Pei Yun didn't know that the person on the other side wanted to drain her spiritual power. Even if she knew, she wouldn't be worried. She was practicing the Three-Element Qi Transformation Art, a mid-level Xuan-level internal energy technique that was rare among cultivators in the foundation-building period. The biggest advantage of this internal energy technique was that it was a peaceful and powerful spiritual power.

Peaceful spiritual power is not likely to lead to insanity. As for strong spiritual power, it means that the spiritual power in the dantian after practicing is almost twice that of ordinary internal skills. Therefore, it is impossible for a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building to make her surrender by exhausting her spiritual power.

The third move - Wind Madness, Pei Yun controlled the storm with both palms and attacked the opponent...

The monk didn't care about anything else and tried desperately to escape, but was eventually affected and was blown away by the wind, falling on the barrier and his body slid to the ground.

Pei Yun stopped attacking and bowed to the monk, saying, "I hope you can forgive me if I have offended you."

The monk only suffered some minor injuries. He knew that Pei Yun did not use his full strength, so he shook his head indifferently and bowed in return.

The judging elder glanced at Pei Yu and announced: "Chi Ningcheng Pei Yun wins, one point added."

As soon as she stepped down from the stage, she was surrounded by City Lord Zhao and others, who praised her lavishly.

Although they knew that Pei Yun was a genius in cultivation, they could not see any competition in the pagoda. When they actually saw Pei Yun successfully challenge a higher-level opponent on the ring, everyone in Chi Ning City finally felt a sense of honor.

After the first round of ten games, Chi Ningcheng had eliminated five participating cultivators, including two in the Jindan stage. Their opponents were both cultivators in the Jindan stage.

After the first round, most of the cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage in the small city had been eliminated, and only five people were left, including Pei Yun.

In the second round, Pei Yun was the first to play. Her opponent was a cultivator in the early Jindan stage, who also came from a small city.

The person who came was holding a sword and was a sword cultivator. Although he was older than Pei Yun, he looked quite young compared to the cultivators present and seemed to be less than 40 years old.

Pei Yun also took out her own Golden Sword. Her Nine Profound Golden Swordsmanship had been honed through constant fighting in the pagoda and had already achieved some success.

The opponent watched Pei Yun in her previous fight and thought that she was proficient in palm techniques. Now, seeing her holding a sword, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised, but didn't think much about it.

After they exchanged greetings, the battle was about to break out. The golden swords attacked the opponent one after another continuously. The nine sword moves were more powerful than the last, and they displayed an overwhelming momentum. Pei Yun's performance this time was exceptional.

The opponent on the other side calmly swung the sword in his hand and easily blocked Pei Yun's attack.

While blocking, he turned around and stabbed Pei Yun with a sword. Pei Yun felt at first that a sparkling water surface appeared in front of her eyes, and then the cold silver sword light was close to her. She quickly used the Water Light Shield to block it, and at the same time, she used the Sky Realm to escape from the attack range. But the Water Light Shield could not resist at all, and her escape speed was still a beat slower, leaving a bloody mark on her shoulder.

The other party must have comprehended the artistic conception of water. She also comprehended the artistic conception of water because of the spell secret book of Water Source Light, but she was still a little worse than the person in front of her.

With her current magic, it is difficult to resist the opponent's swordsmanship. Unfortunately, she has not yet fully cultivated the third level of the Three Levels of Soul Refining. In the pagoda, she can still use soul power to attack with the help of soul clones, but she cannot use it at all outside.

But she would not give up easily. She had agreed to City Lord Zhao's proposal to participate in the competition in order to hone herself.

Pei Yun held the Golden Sword in his hand and used the Space Realm with his feet. He dodged his sword moves here and there while taking advantage of every opportunity to use the Nine Profound Golden Sword Technique.

Although I was always being suppressed by him, I was gradually able to withstand a few moves from his sword and fought a few rounds.

The opponent also saw Pei Yun's intention to use him to hone himself, but he did not intend to continue like this. He disdained to exhaust the opponent's spiritual power to win the game, and he still had competitions to come, so he could not waste his spiritual power.

The sword cultivator held his spiritual sword in front of him, and with his other hand, he tapped the silver-glowing sword with two fingers together. The next moment, several swords made of water floated around him, forming a sword formation with the sword in front of him. A bright blue light emanated from above the sword formation...

Pei Yun's face was solemn. She stopped and held her own Golden Sword in front of her. She closed her eyes and recalled the guidance of Senior Brother Luo Qi.

The gold sword technique is the sharpest. If one can comprehend the sword meaning of gold, then the Nine Profound Gold Sword Technique will be even more powerful...

Gold is indestructible, everything can be broken...

Pei Yun suddenly opened his eyes and thrust his sword forward. The moment the sword array collided with the attacking sword array, a golden light bloomed and stabbed in the air with the blue sword array. After a moment, the golden light gradually weakened until it disappeared, and the light of the sword array was also weakened a lot, but it still attacked Pei Yun...

The move Pei Yun just performed was the Nine Profound Gold Sword Technique combined with the Gold State of Mind. It was the most powerful move she could perform at present. She didn't expect that this competition would actually allow her to enter the Gold State of Mind. It was really an unexpected surprise.

However, the opponent's sword formation was still more powerful. After she performed the Nine Profound Golden Sword Technique just now, most of her spiritual power was exhausted. At this time, she used the Water Light Shield to resist for a moment with difficulty before admitting defeat.

The opponent was superior to him in cultivation, swordsmanship, competition experience and state of mind, so it was impossible for him to win. The fact that he could break through and comprehend the state of mind of gold on the battlefield was beyond the expectations of everyone present. Those cultivators who had been silently following this game felt that it was great that Pei Yun could hold on for so long.

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