by Feng Yise
Kong Lin's face changed and he bowed and said, "Yes, Master!"
He could not figure out, this punk who was clearly making trouble. So why did his master give Ye Yuan this chance?
Before long, the servants found a piece of mortal grade blank paper.
Ye Yuan received it, took a look, and said, "Mortal grade tier 9, uh … forget it, I'll make do with it."
Kong Lin sneered when he saw the situation and said, "Could it be that you still want to use mortal grade tier 1 wood?"
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "If you can find it, it's not impossible too."
Kong Lin was greatly enraged the moment he heard and said, "Arrogant!"
Ye Yuan said coolly, "Alchemists need to have a calm mind. Brother Kong is angered so easily. This won't do!"
"You! You dare to lecture me?" Kong Lin was already about to rampage.
Ye Yuan said coolly, "Dare not, I was just stating a fact. Excuse me, can I start?"
Kong Lin's expression changed several times and he said in a solemn voice, "I want to take a look at how you pass the round! Begin!"
Ye Yuan smiled faintly and tossed the piece of paper upward. Hs palm moving, a cl.u.s.ter of pale-yellow flames immediately rose up, wrapping the piece of paper up.
When everyone saw this scene, they were immediately dumbfounded with shock.
Did this guy really know how to control fire?
Using such a big fire to go and burn a sheet of mortal grade paper, it would become flying ashes upon contact, right?
Forget about mortal grade, even the Goldsilk Divine Wood could not withstand this kind of burning too!
When they controlled fire, which one wasn't watchful and cautious, fearful of producing a bit more fire.
But Ye Yuan was completely operating without any regard for niceties!
This kind of fire control, using it to directly deal with the enemy was more like it.
Refining pills?
Better forget it!
Refining pills like this would refine medicinal pills into black charcoal.
When Kong Lin saw this scene, he could not help smiling coldly and said, "I knew it! Ignorant fool, prepare to suffer the wrath of the temple!"
Mu Yuanchun even laughed himself into fits and said, "This brat … This brat is simply here to be a fool, I was successfully amused with him."
Not just them, the other examinees all guffawed with laughter.
At this moment, they were incomparably certain that Ye Yuan was here to make trouble.
Although they did not know what was the goal, his objective of seeking popularity by doing something sensational was achieved.
However, they did not notice that the eyes of those three elders on the high platform emitted rays of brilliant light, full of incredulity.
Because being enveloped in flames, the others could not see the appearance of the paper at this time.
Because no need to think and they also knew that the paper already turned to ashes at this time.
But Ye Yuan was still putting on a pretense there.
Kong Lin shouted coldly, "Alright, stop pretending there. Watch this!"
Kong Lin was just about to make a move to take Ye Yuan down, but then he heard Stonefeather said coldly, "Stop!"
Everyone was stunned. Kong Lin also revealed a doubtful look and said, "Master, this …"
Stonefeather just said coolly, "Carry on watching!"
With this, they could not laugh anymore.
It was only for them to see Ye Yuan pull his palm back, and the divine fire dissipated into nothing. A piece of paper drifted down.
Everyone's pupils constricted, looking at this scene in disbelief.
"R-Really did it! This mortal grade paper is actually completely unscathed!"
"This is impossible! I'm so far away and could even feel the temperature of the flames! How can such a weak piece of paper be completely fine?"
"Could it be that his fire controlling technique is truly transcendent to this kind of degree? To actually be even more impressive than Mu Yuanchun!"
Chapter 1745 - Demonic Attraction Art
The paper was still floating as Ye Yuan said with a smile, "Brother Kong, please look it over!"
Kong Lin's expression changed, reaching his hand out and catching the piece of paper.
The moment it came into his hand, it was actually extremely hot!
Bang!
The piece of paper immediately combusted, turning into a cloud of ashes!
"This … Critical temperature! How did you do it?" Kong Lin looked at Ye Yuan with a look of astonishment.
Those present were all professionals, they naturally would not say that Ye Yuan failed because the paper was burned.
The reason why it burned away was that the paper's temperature was heated to the critical point by Ye Yuan.
When Kong Lin received the paper, friction was produced between his palm and paper, making the paper instantly exceed the critical point, that was why it started immolating.
Combustion and not burning depended on just a touch!
This level of fire-controlling means was truly inconceivable.
In the usual assessment, no one dared to play with fire like this, no matter how great his strength!
Because critical temperature was too difficult to grasp. As long as there was the tiniest hint of not controlling well, the paper would be burned.
If Ye Yuan used the Willow Cloud Wood to achieve this, even though it was impressive, it would not be inconceivable either.
But he used a mortal grade paper to achieve this. This was extremely terrifying!
Ye Yuan shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is nothing difficult. I could already do it when I was 300 years old. Uh, if you can find a piece of mortal grade tier 1 paper, I can display my real strength."
Everyone was rendered speechless.
Mortal grade tier 1 could not be found in the Heavenspan World at all.
There were countless trees in the Skydemon Mountain Range but forget about mortal grade tier 1, even mortal grade tier 5 or tier 6 could not be found at all.
Want a mortal grade tier 1 tree, one could only go find it in a small world.
Furthermore, the 300 years old that Ye Yuan said was not this lifetime's 300 years old, but the previous life's 300 years old!
Previous life, when he was still Ji Qingyun, he could already achieve this at 300 years old.
Now that close to a thousand years had passed, Ye Yuan's fire controlling technique was absolutely not what a mere mortal grade tier 1 paper could measure anymore.
But this was already shocking enough!
On the seats of honor, the three elders also exchanged glances, extremely shocked.
"Young man, what's your name?" Stonefeather opened his mouth and asked.
"Ye Yuan!"
Stonefeather nodded and said, "Ye Yuan, your fire controlling technique is indeed impressive! Even the few of us old fellows are likely not your match too."
The moment these words came out, those examinees were all shocked until they stared dumbfounded with gaping mouths.
Someone as powerful as Elder Stonefeather actually took the initiative to admit that he was inferior to such a young man?
Especially Mu Yuanchun, he wished to find a hole on the ground to tunnel into when he heard this.
Wasn't Stonefeather's words slapping his face?
Previously, Ye Yuan said that this kind of understanding would not work on some people.
Now, didn't it affirm such words?
Those elders above, which one wasn't an old monster who lived more than 100 thousand years?
Their acc.u.mulations, ordinary people found it hard to imagine.
However, Ye Yuan said that he reached this kind of standard when he was 300 years old, was there something more disgraceful than this?
But Stonefeather's tone changed and he said, "But refining demon divine pills are different from refining the human race's divine pills. You have to pass the two rounds
of assessments at the back before it's considered successful."
Ye Yuan clasped his hands and said, "Yes, Elder. Ye Yuan won't let you down."
Stonefeather nodded his head and said, "Carry on then."
Only then did Kong Lin recover from the shock and said, "Next, starting the second round, demonic attraction art! People who were eliminated in the first round don't need to take part anymore."
A hundred demon powerhouses, more than half were already eliminated in the first round.
Present, those who remained were merely 30 to 40 people.
"There are a hundred types of wood ch.i.p.s here, what you have to do is to use the demonic attraction art to glue them together! The more types bound together, the better the results naturally! Those who bind more 25 types and above, pass!" Kong Lin said.
The so-called demonic attraction art was the foundation skill of the demon race's alchemy technique.
The human race's divine soul was powerful. Furthermore, the secret arts were numerous and they could cultivate the divine soul.
But the demon race's talent did not lie in the demonic soul, so their demonic souls were also relatively weak.
Apart from some minority powerful races, the demonic souls of the majority of the races were inferior to humans.
Wanting to be like a human alchemist, using soul force to serve as a lubricant for refining medicinal pills, it was beyond their power.
But the demon race also had an advantage that humans were not equipped with. It was that they were naturally closer to nature.
The demon race's demonic divine essence also had more affinity with spirit medicines.
Hence, they blazed another trail, using demonic divine essence as a substitute for the humans' soul force to refine medicinal pills.
This was the cultivation system of the demon race.
The strength of the demonic attraction art reflected the strength of the demon alchemist to a very large extent.
All in all, humans based soul force as the principal, divine essence as supplementary. The demon race based demonic divine essence as principal, soul force as supplementary.
Under Kong Lin's guidance, the examinees started undergoing the second round.
Binding wood ch.i.p.s, this test method was similarly very novel.
Wood ch.i.p.s were not spirit medicines, there would not be too many law fragments complementing each other.
Wanting to adhere them together as a whole was not an easy matter.
However, this tested the alchemist's demonic attraction art even more too.
Those people taking the test were watchful and cautious, fearful of missing any hint out.
But their strength could at best only bind together a dozen over kinds of wood ch.i.p.s.
Any more and it would not work.
In a corner, Ye Yuan stared at each person's way of handling without moving his eyes, deducing non-stop in his mind.
Ye Yuan was totally clueless about the demonic attraction art, but he knew that the demonic attraction art had common aspects with the soul attracting art.
A burst of faint demonic divine essence flowed in Ye Yuan's palm, he was currently imitating binding those wood ch.i.p.s.
Feeling the demonic divine essence undulations, quite a few people looked over sideways.
When Mu Yuanchun saw this scene, he could not help being stunned.
"This kid … doesn't know the demonic attraction art at all! Hahaha, like I said, this guy is simply a human alchemist, wanting to sneak into the Priest Temple!" Mu Yuanchun said.
When the rest saw this scene, they immediately perceived something wrong as well.
"No way, right? His fire controlling art is so incredible, but he actually doesn't know the demonic attraction art!"
"Looks like he hasn't refined demon divine pills before at all!"
"This guy wouldn't be thinking of learning and selling on the spot, right? This … This is also too funny!"
...
The first round, Ye Yuan astonished everyone.
But this scene currently, subverted everyone's view of him.
Perhaps, Ye Yuan was indeed a very formidable human alchemist.
But he did not even know demonic attraction art. So how could he possibly pass the second round's test.
"Elders, this guy is simply clueless about our demon race's alchemy skills. He probably has malicious intent and wants to sneak into our Priest Temple! Elders please summarily execute him on the spot!" Mu Yuanchun clasped his hands and pleaded.
Ye Yuan completely ignored Mu Yuanchun. He was already immersed in it.
Those examinees' strengths were not considered strong, but Ye Yuan continuously learned from others' strong points while overcoming the weak points in his mind, deducing, and perfecting. His strength was currently advancing by leaps and bounds.
Stonefeather's gaze was akin to a torch, staring fixedly at Ye Yuan, and said coolly, "This child isn't an ordinary person. Let him give it a try!"
Chapter 1746 - Learning and Doing on the Spot
Mu Yuanchun was so depressed!
This guy was clearly clueless about the demon race's alchemy techniques, so why did the elder still let him carry on?
How could he know that what Stonefeather saw was completely different from what he saw!
The things he saw were Ye Yuan's crudeness and ignorance.
But what Stonefeather saw was Ye Yuan's improvement!
Actually, since after the first round, he had been paying attention to Ye Yuan all along.
When the second round started, from when the first person took the field, Ye Yuan's gaze never left his body before.
From the initial-most completely ignorance to the later slightly rustiness.
This improvement was truly too astonishing.
Stonefeather was an expert in this area, so how amazing was his vision?
Ye Yuan's improvement simply made people sigh with wonder!
One had to know, prior to this, he was still a complete and utter newbie.
Stonefeather very much wanted to see to what extent Ye Yuan could reach when he enter the field.
The examinees went up one by one, but those who could pass the test could be counted on one hand.
Of course, there were also a few with decent strength who bound together 30 over kinds of wood.
And these people's achievements, the inspiration it gave Ye Yuan was naturally greater.
Very soon, it was Mu Yuanchun's turn to take the stage. He shot the very engrossed Ye Yuan a glance, his expression showing disdain.
The moment he made his move, Mu Yuanchun amazed the audience.
It was only for them to see him move like lightning, using an extremely short time to bind together more than a dozen types of wood.
25 types were naturally not his goal.
"So impressive, looking at him, he can at least bind together more than 40 kinds, right?"
"Even though the first round's limelight was snatched by that punk, Mu Yuanchun's strength is really very strong!"
"That kid is simply a layman regarding demon divine pills. Scared me until I even thought that I encountered a great alchemist just now!"
...
Mu Yuanchun's demonic attraction art was clearly very brilliant, more than a notch stronger than the others.
These people's gazes were all attracted by Mu Yuanchun. No one noticed that the eyes of the Ye Yuan in a corner became brighter and brighter.
"45!"
"46!"
...
"50!"
"51! My God, he finally failed!"
"This number already surpassed even Priest Kong Lin's!"
The further back, everyone started to help Mu Yuanchun count.
Finally, after Mu Yuanchun fused 51 wood ch.i.p.s, it collapsed.
But the number of 51 types of wood ch.i.p.s still let Mu Yuanchun obtain extremely high praises.
One had to know, Kong Lin was a genius universally recognized in the recent few assessments. Bu
t he only completed 47 kinds of wood ch.i.p.s in the last season too.
While Mu Yuanchun was actually four more than him!
Stonefeather secretly nodded his head. Since he internally decided on Mu Yuanchun, his strength naturally left no room for doubt.
If he could not even do this, he also would not be fit to be his personal disciple anymore.
Hearing everyone's sigh of admiration, the confidence that Mu Yuanchun had just lost returned once more.
Since many people were eliminated in the middle, the next one was Ye Yuan's turn.
Mu Yuanchun smiled and said, "Our layman is going to take the field. Let's see how many types of wood ch.i.p.s he can fuse together? Why doesn't everyone make a guess."
The moment these words came out, everyone immediately felt like they were injected with stimulants.
"I guess that it's at most no more than 10 types!"
"10 types? Are your eyes blind? Just the likes of him can fuse 10 types? I guess at most five types!"
"Pooh! He's totally clueless, alright? I guess not even one!"
...
Hearing everyone's discussion, Mu Yuanchun had an amused look.
But Ye Yuan said coolly, "Each and every one of you, prepare your faces, I'll come and slap them one by one in a while!"
Finished talking, Ye Yuan walked up.
Different from the natural smoothness in the past, this time, he appeared rather cautious and wary.
After all, it was his first time using a demonic attraction art.
Ye Yuan's divine essence slowly flowed out, drawing out the wood chip in the first box.
That wood chip trembled shakily as if it could drop down at any time.
Clearly, Ye Yuan's demonic attraction art appeared very stiff. One look and it was new until he could not be any more newer of a novice.
When everyone saw this scene, they could not help bursting into laughter.
"Haha, are you hitting our faces like this? Come on, my face is extended out, slap it!"
"Really ridiculous! Do you really think that learning and doing on the spot, you can learn our demon race's demonic attraction art?"
"You're also looking down on our demon race's alchemy technique too much! If you can learn with one glance, then wouldn't our thousands of years of bitter cultivation become a joke?"
...
Ye Yuan's appearance immediately drew a burst of ridicule.