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It was unknown what material Tao Rui's crucible was made of. It was entirely bronze in color and there were all kinds of carvings on it. The glyphs crisscrossed and intertwined in all directions, seemingly without any pattern. However, if one were to look carefully, one would be surprised to find that the seemingly messy glyphs were actually spinning around a large and vigorous character.

This word was called "Zhang."

"Eh? Master Tao's surname is Tao, but why is there a 'Zhang' written on the pill cauldron?" Liu Yiyi, who was standing in the distance, looked at Tao Rui's crucible in confusion and said.

At this time, an old man beside him spoke up, "I also find it strange. Actually, decades ago, I had already asked Master Tao about it. However, he was always secretive, as though he was hiding something from me. "

This person was the manager of the Return of Spring Hall in Eastwood Town, Bai Fang. As Tao Rui's good friend, how could he not watch his friend's competition?

Liu Yiyi seemed to have thought of something. She suddenly slapped her forehead and spoke to Bai Fang and Zhang Yang in a low voice, "Do you think Master Tao stole this crucible from a person with the surname Zhang?"

"Hur hur." Hearing this, Zhang Ziyang chuckled lightly and looked at Liu Yiyi helplessly. He then scolded her with a smile, "You little girl, what are you thinking?!"

Pausing for a moment, Zhang Yang looked at the bronze crucible beside Tao Rui and said with a sigh, "Actually, that crucible belongs to my Zhang Clan. It is a low-grade treasure that my Zhang Clan has given to every apprentice alchemist."

"What?" "Is that your Crucible?" Liu Yiyi asked in disbelief.

Zhang Yang nodded, "That's right. I remember seeing Tao Rui when I was young, but Tao Rui left the Zhang Clan and never came back."

"Hold on..." Liu Yiyi suddenly frowned and said, "Uncle Bai said that Master Tao has been in Eastwood Town for over thirty years. When you were young, you even saw Master Tao. "How old are you?"

"Me?" Zhang Ziyang revealed a proud look, "Looking back, I should be around forty years old."

To be able to reach the late stage of the Body Refinement Realm at the age of forty, this talent was definitely what Zhang Yang was proud of.

"What? Forty years old?" Liu Yiyi suddenly jumped up and looked at Zhang Ziyang warily. She said carefully, "So … So you are this old. Uncle, you're forty years old, why are you still pestering a little girl like me! "

Zhang Yang was speechless. To tell the truth, for an Awakened Soul Cultivator with a few thousand years of longevity, is forty considered old?

"Look!" Master Rui is starting to concoct pills! " Uncle Bai suddenly pointed at Tao Rui on the stone platform and shouted.

Following his shout, the two of them also looked towards the stone platform.

As expected, Tao Rui had already started concocting pills. At this moment, his true energy was poured into the bronze pill furnace. In an instant, a large amount of flames surged out from the pill furnace, burning it until it was somewhat transparent.

"I didn't expect this piece of trash to have such a precious crucible that can produce spiritual fire of its own accord." In another corner, the fat Bao Yu looked at Tao Rui's crucible in surprise, his eyes filled with greed.

However, this greed was quickly contained in his heart as a jade bottle suddenly appeared in his hand. A lively flame was slowly sprayed out from the jade bottle, slowly filling his crucible.

"If I can obtain that trash's Cauldron, my alchemy efficiency will increase by at least two levels!" Bao Yu was a bit furious in his heart: "Let me first completely crush you in pill refinement, then find a chance to take away your crucible!" Subsequently, he concentrated his mind and started refining the medicinal pills.

On the other side, Chen Feng continued to give Tao Rui pointers from time to time.

"The quality of fire can only be said to have a certain effect on alchemy. However, the essence of alchemy still depends on the alchemy skills." Chen Feng warned as he looked at the spiritual flames that were filled to the brim with the crucible.

A spiritual flame, a flame above ordinary fire, already possessed a certain amount of spirituality.

Tao Rui nodded in understanding. He extended his hand, grabbed a scarlet spiritual herb and threw it into the crucible with his primeval essence.

Soon after, Tao Rui made a hand gesture to control the fire, and the spiritual medicine began to slowly melt. Yes, it was melting, with almost no effect on Lang at all.

"It worked!" Tao Rui's heart was also filled with shock, and his mood fluctuated: "I didn't expect that after hearing about Mr. Chen Feng's pill refining experiences, the skill to refine spirit grass is actually useful! "With this hand sign, my success rate will definitely increase by two levels!"

"Bang!" At this moment, a massive explosion sounded out on the stone platform, followed by a thick cloud of black smoke rising slowly into the air. Under the smoke, two men with their heads and faces covered in dust were frozen on the spot with bitter smiles on their faces, looking dejected.

"Isn't that an alchemist from the Immortal Cloud Sect? Why did the cauldron explode?"

"Who knows? Maybe it's because he's not skilled enough and can't control the flames."

Below the stage, the discussion caused the two old men's faces to turn even redder as they rushed down the stone stage in shame and burrowed into the crowd. After they left, that broken pill furnace was quickly cleaned up by the staff.

Chen Feng looked at the two people who had disappeared and thought to himself, "Isn't the Immortal Cloud Sect the sect that annexed the Jade Net Peak? "Seems like that apothecary is really lacking."

However, very quickly, Chen Feng's gaze returned to Tao Rui. Chen Feng did not take this incident to heart. It was a very common thing for an apothecary to explode.

At this moment, Tao Rui had already smelted most of the spiritual herbs, leaving behind only a few main medicines.

"It looks like this Tao Rui's comprehension ability is pretty good as well. I'm afraid that there's actually a possibility for him to become an Alchemist Master this time around." Chen Feng looked at Tao Rui with satisfaction and thought to himself.

Finally, Tao Rui poured all of his spiritual herbs into the ancient copper pill cauldron, and the spiritual herbs melted into a reddish-brown pill.

The next moment, everyone's noses wrinkled.

"So smelly, how could it be so smelly?" The audience below the arena cursed. Following the smell, their gazes locked onto Tao Rui, who was constantly performing hand seals to control the fire.

"That's right, what kind of pill is it? It's so smelly!"

"I think so. It must be some kind of poison pill. And from the looks of it, it must be some kind of powerful poison pill!"

"Then he's definitely going to lose. What's so bad about that? He's actually refining poison pills!" "Could it be that he doesn't know that the pill refiners that the Mayor looks down on the most are the pill refiners who concoct poison pills?"

As the crowd discussed amongst themselves, the two vice city lords on stage cast their gazes onto Tao Rui.

However, their expressions were different. Vice City Lord Chang Hai only looked at Tao Rui in disdain and ignored him. The other deputy city lord looked at Tao Rui with interest. No one knew what he was thinking about.