Forced to become a pure and innocent female pharmacist in order to cultivate immortality.

The patriarch of Ziwei Palace glanced at the others and then spoke.

"Let's speak frankly today, without any empty talk or wrangling. Mu Yun intends to voluntarily relinquish the position of Holy Maiden and hand it over to Lin Aoxue or Ye Liuyun. These two youngsters are closely related to our three major camps. If you are unwilling to let Mu Yun, who has no connection with us, take over the position of Holy Lord, then surely these two youngsters will be fine with it?"

As soon as the patriarch of Ziwei Palace uttered these words, the patriarchs of Shangqing Palace and Qingxu Palace immediately exchanged a glance.

This was indeed the result they wanted, but they didn't expect that the patriarch of Ziwei Palace would actually give in.

They guessed that it must be the performance of these two little ones that had earned the approval of their faction. Besides, the grandmothers of these two were both members of the Li royal family, so they were considered half members of the Li family, but their relationship with the Li family was not that good.

"Hehe, Fellow Daoist Ziwei, wouldn't it have been better to make this decision sooner? I have no objection to letting Lin Aoxue succeed to the position of Holy Maiden and become the next Holy Lord of the Nine Heavens." The ancestors of the four Shangqing Palaces nodded in unison.

This time, however, the four palaces of Ziwei had no objections, but the four palaces of Qingxu did.

“I think Ye Liuyun is more suitable. Don’t forget, Lin Aoxue is going to become the leader of the Supreme Response Sect. The Supreme Response Sect currently has Lin Tianya, and behind Lin Tianya is a celestial being. She is not the best choice right now,” said Ancestor Qingxu.

Upon hearing this, the patriarch of Shangqing Palace immediately became displeased.

"You haven't even asked anyone, so how can you assume they're unwilling? Don't speak too soon. Although Ye Liuyun is quite special and has many trump cards, her apparent aptitude is far inferior to Lin Aoxue's. Moreover, she's a self-cultivator and cannot inherit the methods of our Nine Heavens Holy Land. How could she be suitable?" Ancestor Shangqing sneered.

These words immediately stung the old master Qingxu.

"The position of Holy Lord has never been used to pass on the Holy Land's methods. The position of Holy Lord has always been for stabilizing the overall situation. Don't you understand this principle?" Ancestor Qingxu retorted stubbornly.

These eight companies are unwilling to let the other party gain any advantage.

Soon, these eight families turned against each other, and a fierce argument broke out, even more intense than the one with the Ziwei Palace.

Seeing that the two camps had fallen out again, Li Muyun looked helpless, but fortunately she had another plan.

"Everyone, Ancestor, please hear what Mu Yun has to say. I have another, even better candidate on my side," Li Mu Yun suddenly said.

Upon hearing this, everyone was quick-witted and soon realized who Li Muyun was referring to.

"You mean their child, Ye Qingxue, right?" the patriarch of Ziwei Palace said.

Lin Aoxue nodded.

“That’s right. If you are not willing to give up any benefits, then I think it is the best choice to let my great-granddaughter, Ye Qingxue, serve as the future Holy Lord. This child’s cultivation aptitude has inherited that of her mother, Lin Aoxue, which is quite good,” Li Muyun said.

Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent. Li Muyun certainly knew what level of physique his great-granddaughter possessed—it was no less than the aptitude of an immortal being—but the people of the Nine Heavens Holy Land did not.

"If that's the case, this child is indeed a very good choice. However, Mu Yun, what is so special about this child that he can be compared to Lin Aoxue?" The Palace Master of Shangqing Palace asked curiously.

Li Muyun didn't hold back; tonight was the time to negotiate, and you needed to have something to offer.

Then Li Muyun uttered the words "Chaotic Body," and those three words immediately stunned everyone.

They couldn't help but look at each other in bewilderment.

Thus, the meeting quickly came to a successful conclusion, as all twelve factions agreed to Li Muyun's plan. However, the next step was to work on persuading Ye Liuyun and Lin Aoxue.

The competition resumed the next day, but today's qualifying rounds were not the combat qualifying rounds. The combat qualifying rounds had all ended yesterday, and today were the qualifying rounds for various secondary professions.

The competition was not held in the Jade Pool Wonderland, but in the Medicine Palace of the Nine Heavens Holy Land, and the referee was the number one alchemist of the Nine Heavens Domain, the Medicine Fairy, who served as the chief referee.

Lin Aoxue definitely won't participate in this alchemist qualifying competition. Of the more than 30,000 people in the Yaochi Immortal Gathering, only about a thousand are actually capable of participating in this competition.

Of the fifteen holy lands, most could only send one person to participate. They must have known about the secondary profession competition in advance, so they all made preparations beforehand.

However, of these fifteen holy lands, the Gu Ling Holy Land sent all its members, the Wan Hua Holy Land had seven participants, and the other holy lands had fewer, only one or two.

This competition has fewer participants, making it more entertaining. Moreover, the Nine Heavens Holy Land has opened a back door for all alchemists; as long as you are an alchemist, you can go to the competition venue to watch.

As for the rest of the laypeople, it's better to watch the broadcast live. Too many people aren't a good thing for alchemists.

However, participants can definitely go to the event.

And so, the Lin and Ye families went to the Medicine Palace in a grand procession. The competition venue was a large open space in the Medicine Palace, which could easily accommodate more than a thousand participants, or even five thousand.

As for the experts from the fifteen holy lands, they naturally sat in the best positions with the best view beforehand. However, this was just a formality. For them, even if they were thousands of miles away, they could see everything clearly.

"Please all cultivators participating in the Alchemist Immortal Gathering enter." Li Mingjiao reappeared. She was the host, not the referee. The referees were the group sitting at the very front. These people all looked familiar. The Nine Heavens Holy Land had invited almost all the Yellow-level alchemists from the Nine Heavens Domain.

The woman in green robes with silver hair sitting in the very center is none other than Yao Xianzi, the number one alchemist in the Nine Heavens Domain.

"I am quite interested in this match. Fellow Daoist Jiutian, I would also like to be a referee. What do you think?" Yue Xun suddenly spoke up.

As soon as Yue Xun spoke, the Holy Lord of Ten Thousand Flowers and the Holy Lord of Canglan also spoke.

“That’s right, we both have the same idea.”

The three of them, Yue Xun is a god-level alchemist, and the other two are also top-grade yellow-level alchemists.

If they were to be referees, they would certainly be more suitable and authoritative than the Medicine Fairy.

"Haha, if the three of you are interested in participating in the competition, then of course there's no problem," the Nine Heavens Saint Lord agreed.

During their conversation, all the participants entered the venue.

After everyone entered the arena, Li Mingjiao waved her hand, and immediately a series of alchemy platforms appeared in front of them, separating all the contestants.

"The Alchemist Tournament is about to begin. Let me first explain the rules. First, the off-site rules: no loud noises are allowed during the competition. Violators will be expelled from Nine Heavens Island," Li Mingjiao said in a deep voice.

This request is perfectly reasonable, there's nothing more to say about it.

Then there are the requirements for the participants. First of all, the medicinal materials are provided entirely by the Medicine Palace and are from the same year. If any fraud is found, the participant will be immediately disqualified from the competition and expelled from Jiutian Island.

This requirement was also perfectly acceptable. After stating the requirements, Li Mingjiao then began to announce the requirements for passing the qualifying rounds.

"Now that the rules have been explained, let's talk about the competition requirements. This competition requires everyone to refine a new type of pill. The formula for this pill was prepared by the number one alchemist of our Nine Heavens Holy Land, the Medicine Fairy. In other words, everyone must try to refine the new pill and succeed within one hour. There are only three chances to fail within one hour. If all three chances are used up, or if the finished product is not refined within one hour, it will be considered a failure."

"There is no limit to the number of people eliminated; only cultivators who successfully refine their techniques can advance to the next round."

As soon as this requirement was made, many of the young alchemists present looked troubled. Many of them were not even purple-level alchemists, and they had to be purple-level alchemists under five hundred years old. This requirement was actually very demanding.

However, the secondary profession competitions have always been demanding and have never been competitions prepared for ordinary cultivators.

Out of 30,000 people, having 1,000 participants is already quite remarkable.

"Even with a recipe, it's very difficult to refine a new pill. Which alchemist can successfully refine a new pill on their first try?" Some alchemists of lower rank couldn't help but complain.

The onlookers around them also frowned. Most of the cultivators sitting outside were alchemists, including some purple-level alchemists.

They also found it difficult, with only three chances and the requirement to complete the task publicly within an hour. It was more like selecting a genius in medicine than a competition.

Ye Liuyun looked indifferent after hearing the competition requirements.

Anyway, the qualifying rounds would definitely be easy for her. At this moment, she was staring at the Holy Master of the Shi family with a gloomy expression.

The Holy Master of the Shi family naturally noticed Ye Liuyun's gaze, but upon seeing it, he felt a strange unease.

"What is this feeling? Why am I afraid of a little girl who only has the combat power of the Transformation Realm?" The Holy Master of the Shi Family immediately looked away and muttered to himself.

Soon the competition began, and disciples from the Nine Heavens Holy Land Medicine Palace delivered medicinal herbs and prescriptions to the contestants.

"A top-grade blue-level pill called 'Azure Vitality Blood Pill'? This? The requirements for entering the competition are too high!" Many blue-level alchemists couldn't help but back down.

Because some of them are not even at the Blue-grade top level, asking them to refine pills that exceed the grade is already a challenge in itself, and setting various restrictions on them basically means they are not given the opportunity.

Unfortunately, according to the rules, once you enter the arena, you must finish the competition; in alchemist competitions, you are not allowed to admit defeat.

After Ye Liuyun received the prescription, he glanced at it a few times and then put it aside. At the same time, he took out his Myriad Medicines Immortal Cauldron. The other alchemists who were confident also took out their own medicine furnaces or cauldrons, because just looking was useless. They couldn't waste too much time. Even purple-level or yellow-level alchemists would likely fail on their first attempt at making medicine.

Because you can't make medicine just by looking at the ingredients; you have to experiment.

"Fellow Daoist Shi, why do you look so worried? I heard that a battle at the Divine Dao level has occurred in your Thousand Autumn Domain. Did your Shi family offend some powerful figure?" Just as everyone was preparing, the Five Elements Saint Lord couldn't help but ask the Shi family Saint Lord.

Upon hearing the Five Elements Saint Lord's question, the Holy Lord of Time immediately showed a displeased expression. The events that had occurred at home had already greatly angered him, and he had no mood to discuss the matter at all.

"This is a matter for our Shi family, Fellow Daoist Wuxing, it's best if you don't ask too many questions," said the Holy Master Shi in a deep voice.

However, the Five Elements Saint Lord did not give the Time Saint Lord any face.

"Is that so? I recently received a message from our Holy Land elders saying that a powerful demon god descended upon your Shi family's territory and fought a great battle with you. Is this true? I heard it was all for an unknown little girl." The Five Elements Holy Lord continued to ask.

Whether the Five Elements Holy Land has any powerful cultivators of the divine path is still unknown, but it certainly possesses divine weapons, and the spirits of these divine weapons can still exert a portion of the power of the divine path.

However, once you reach the Divine Path level, the gap between weapons and cultivators becomes quite large.

Low-grade divine weapons are only equivalent to the first level of the Divine Path. They are no longer effective beyond the second or third level. Mid-grade divine weapons are only equivalent to the fourth level of the Divine Path. High-grade divine weapons are equivalent to the seventh level. Top-grade divine weapons are equivalent to the eighth level. That's it.

“Hey, Fellow Daoist Wuxing, our elders in the Holy Land have also sent word about this matter. I heard that the demon god who attacked the Shi family was from the lineage of the Primordial Demon Emperor. I’m particularly curious why the Shi family would provoke such a terrifying existence. In the end, it was several of our human race’s Heavenly God powerhouses who appeared and stopped the great battle, otherwise, there would probably have been a battle at the level of Emperor Weapons.” Yin Yang also said.

The other Holy Lords immediately joined the discussion, speculating about which ancient royal family the demon god who attacked the Shi family came from, and also guessing the identity of the girl the Shi family had captured.

Little did they know that the girl they were trying to guess was currently sitting in the competition venue refining medicine.

The Holy Lord could not stop their discussion, so he could only try to distract them and not listen to what they were saying, because every word they uttered made him feel ashamed and embarrassed.

Because their Shi family is probably the only sacred place in tens of thousands of years to have attracted the attack of a demon god.

"That wretched brat, this matter won't end so easily." The Holy Lord Shi had no interest in whether Ye Liuyun was truly an immortal being; he only wanted to find an opportunity to kill her.

Because the Shi family suffered too great a loss, they could not possibly swallow their anger; it would also be inconsistent with their status.

However, they couldn't openly confront Ye Liuyun, so they had to do it covertly. She had already begun gathering information about Ye Liuyun.

Revenge is inevitable. If they can't kill Ye Liuyun openly, then they'll target the people around him.

"Master, is that old man plotting something bad?" Ye Liuyun asked, fiddling with the medicinal herbs while observing the Holy Master's reaction.

"They're definitely trying to scheme against you, that's for sure," Lin Qingyou replied.

Ye Liuyun snorted coldly, then raised his hand and sent the Myriad Medicine Immortal Fire into the medicine cauldron. As soon as the Myriad Medicine Immortal Fire appeared, all the alchemists present were greatly surprised. Even those alchemists who had seen Ye Liuyun's strange fire before were still quite shocked to see Ye Liuyun's flames again.

"Strange fire? This little girl really has a lot of tricks up her sleeve," Yue Xun and the others said in surprise.

This is something every alchemist dreams of. However, Yue Xun herself possesses a different kind of fire. But the moment Ye Liuyun's fire appeared, she discovered that the fire within her body actually felt fear, which meant that the other party's fire was superior to hers.

"Interesting. She even possesses a different kind of fire. Just how many trump cards has this little girl kept hidden?" the other Holy Lords remarked.

As soon as Ye Liuyun's strange fire appeared, Fu Yunshi looked at Ye Liuyun immediately, knowing that she must be representing the Nine Heavens Holy Land in the competition.

"With her here, it seems that the first place in this Alchemist Competition is destined to be hers." Fu Yunshi sighed, then released her strange fire and focused on cultivation.

"Another user of a different kind of fire?" Yue Xun and the others were taken aback again.

Two kinds of strange flames, which are not usually seen, appeared all at once today.

Ye Liuyun looked at the burning medicine cauldron and then threw all the medicinal materials for refining the Azure Vitality Blood Pill into the cauldron.

There were seven ingredients in total, a sight that sent chills down the spines of all the alchemists present.

"Wow, what kind of alchemy technique is this? How come she just threw all the medicinal herbs in? If this woman didn't possess a strange fire, I would probably think she's an amateur after seeing this." An alchemist outside the arena couldn't help but whisper.

Ye Liuyun's method of refining medicine was quite novel, which must have attracted the attention of many alchemists. Under the watchful eyes of so many alchemists, the seven medicinal materials in the cauldron were quickly melted into essence, and then fused together under Ye Liuyun's control.

Everything was incredibly smooth and effortless.

"No way, this is possible?" The cultivators outside the arena exclaimed in low voices again.

If it weren't for the off-field rules, they would probably have been terrified.

Yue Xun and the others were quite surprised by Ye Liuyun's alchemy skills.

Looking at Shi Youlan, she was conflicted. In order not to reveal her and Ye Liuyun's identities, she had forcibly separated her alchemy from Ye Liuyun's. They chose to refine the medicine one batch at a time, so it was unremarkable, but it made her feel very uncomfortable.

"This is so troublesome, this pretense is so unpleasant," Shi Youlan complained inwardly.

Soon, five minutes later, a pill rolled out of Ye Liuyun's medicine furnace. She picked it up and looked at it, and found a pill pattern on it.

"Fortunately, it's just a single pill pattern, that's enough." Ye Liuyun stood up with the pill in her hand and, under the puzzled gazes of the crowd, delivered the pill to the seats where the Medicine Fairy and the others were.

"Gentlemen, seniors, my pills have been successfully refined. Please check if there are any problems." Ye Liuyun placed the still-warm pills on the table.

Upon seeing the pills on the table, the Medicine Fairy and the others suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

"This, Danwen?"

The sound was so loud that many contestants were startled by the Medicine Fairy's exclamation.

This made them very dissatisfied, and they immediately looked ahead, but when they saw that it was the referees making the noise, they seemed helpless.

Of course, after hearing the explosion in the furnace, the referees immediately released their power to block out the sound.

After seeing Ye Liuyun refine the pill patterns, Yue Xun and the other two Holy Lords also teleported to appear in front of Ye Liuyun.

Chapter 641 The All-Round Contestant (5000 words)

These pill patterns are rare marks of medicinal pills in any region of the Eastern Continent. Only those with highly skilled alchemy techniques can produce them. They are not something that can be easily refined.

Moreover, the Azure Vitality Blood Pill today is a top-grade blue-level pill, and it's a new formula that I've never heard of before. Yet Ye Liuyun actually succeeded in refining it on his first try, and even created pill patterns. This is truly astonishing and unlikely to be just luck.

As soon as Yue Xun and the other two arrived, Yao Xianzi and the others quickly and politely bowed to them.

"Greetings to the three Holy Lords. Would the three Holy Lords like to personally examine this elixir?" the Medicine Fairy asked politely.