Chapter no.83 The Alchemist Competition

[ POV Change ]

[ The Toxic Forest ]

[ The Dao Shaman Tribe ]

In the north of the Toxic Forest lies the Dao Shaman Tribe , a tribe made from the survivors of the Demon Beast Wars that ravaged the Sacred Empire Era causing the fall of humanity and the start of the Age of Darkness .

The survivors of that time escaped to the toxic forest and with the help of an old female expert they were all taught in the ways of the Unorthodox Gu Alchemy which allowed humanity to gain the ability to survive in the Toxic Forest .

Ever since the time of the founders , an age old tradition has been kept maintained .

The tradition of conducting an annual Pill Competition in which anyone can enter and if they win , they could gain guidance from the Chieftain or gain access to the resources of forbidden library .

This Pill Competition was made so that the talent hidden within can blossom through competition or so the people of the Toxic Forest believe .

Many carriages could be seen heading towards a small hut .

This Small hut was actually an entrance to the reverse pagoda .

The Reverse pagoda was the place where all the top Alchemist usually worked . It was built up a Fire Vein , a type of natural occurrence when soul force of the environment is condensed into a single point creating a soul vein and with the attributes of Fire and Yang , the soul vein is known as a Fire Vein or the Vein of Alchemy .

From within the darkness of the surrounding forest , the void split open as a woman walked alongside of Euronymous " The Shadow Devil " .

As the woman walked towards the light , her face was visible . It was Yang Xin who was wearing a veil to cover her face along with a beautiful dress . Her hair was dyed black while she was wearing a necklace that casted an illusion of her eyes being green .

( A.N : Imagine this )

Yang Xin looked like a beautiful fairy descended from the Heavens who was disguised out of her own caution in going outside of Glory City into a human settlement .

As she gazed upon the Shaman Tribe , one could see the magnitude of emotions running through her eyes .

Even though Euronymous had informed her that Lin Lingtian had ordered him to take her to a human tribe outside of Glory City for an Alchemist Pill Competition , she was still as shocked as ever since this was the first time in her life she had ever gone beyond the safety of the Walls of Glory City . It looked like the fate of being a safe caged bird was not for her .

Euronymous blended himself into the void as they both walked towards the entrance of the reverse pagoda .

As Yang Xin continued to walk , many people were attracted by her beauty which was enhanced by the mystery of her veil .

Multiple Men walked towards her with a swagger but the moment they came a few feet from her , a feeling of death enveloped them . Their bodies froze as the putrid smell of urine permeated the air . Their bowels had released from fear of death .

Yang Xin was aware of the men that approached her but she didn't care as Euronymous had whispered into her ear that he will handle it .

" hehe " Lightly chuckling Yang Xin asked Euronymous ," Master Euronymous , could you please enlighten me of your Cultivation rank ? "

Yang Xin asked in intrigue as her instincts told her that Euronymous was much more dangerous then the legend rank Demon beast horde .

" Miss Yang Xin , you don't have to refer to me as master Euronymous , you can just call me Euro and for your question my Cultivation rank is Spiritual God ."

Yang Xin's eyes couldn't help but widen as she heard the words ' Spiritual God ' .

( ~ Gulp ~ )

Yang Xin couldn't help but gulp as dry saliva entered her esophagus when she thought of it .

' Euro is working under Lin Lingtian so how powerful must he be ? '

The image of Lin Lingtian in Yang Xin's heart and mind increased in reverence for him .

Walking through the entrance of the small hunt , Yang Xin could help but subconsciously smile .

The entire reverse pagoda was filled with lines of children, teens and men waiting to be assigned their number for their chambers .

In each of these chambers, not only did a pleasant medicinal scent diffuse out, there was also the smell of burnt matter. As they came together, there was a stench. This increased her smile. When she first encountered pill cultivation, she did cultivate something of such a smell before.

There were times where good pills were created, but there were times where waste was created instead. At times, they were mixed together, that created this smell that Yang Xin was familiar with.

Yang Xin quietly stood in line as she ignored the looks of Lust from horny teens and glares from the women . Many men looked at those beside Yang Xin with jealousy but if one looked closer they would see that the men around Yang Xin were all pale in complexion . A fear of death had enveloped their bodies as these men couldn't think straight as even the rate of their breathing could cause an increase in the aura of death around them .

Many didn't notice it at first but it became obvious that something was wrong with these men as they all tried to sneak into their clothes with their backs hunched , their breathing abnormally quiet .

An Alchemist Master approached these men as an ear piercing scream bellowed out from them . These men all were running out of the reverse pagoda as they all had one thought in mind and that was to survive and get as far away from the reverse pagoda as soon as possible.

While all of this was happening , Yang Xin took her number from the front desk as Euronymous whispered into her ear about the rules of the pill competition .

The Competition was simple , everybody was given all the ingredients they needed in their chambers alongside a pill formulae . The contestants had to make the pill in the given of 5 hours after which a judge will determine if you pass onto the next round.

The next round would be the same just the they passing contestants would go to the next floor where they would again have to make the pill from the given ingredients within the allocation time .

Similar to before the surviving contestants would go down one floor until only one contestant remains .

The last contestant would then go up against the Alchemist Master and if the contestants could beat them then they may go to the second last floor to face off against the Alchemist Grandmasters and if they may beat them then the contestant would gain an audience with the Chieftain who would fulfill one wish of the contestants .

Beats of sweat dropped from Yang Xin's forehead as the pressure was on . She knew that Lin Lingtian had given her a chance to massively improve her skills in Alchemy and she planned to make him see that she and ultimately Glory City were worthy of his protection .

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