Old Five is a Goose.
Chapter 553 Who is He?
Mo Wuji saw the ranking on the array display had already reached the 300th place. Participating Immortal City: Middle-Rank Immortal City, Fengchuan Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Ma Tian. Score: 90.112, advancing to the second round.
Mo Wuji secretly rejoiced. Luckily, he had his own unique methods for refining spiritual herbs, or he would have been eliminated in the first round.
As a Pill Refiner, Mo Wuji was well aware that being able to refine the Bi Liu Immortal Herb to over 90% purity was extremely impressive. Although the refining difficulty of the Bi Liu Immortal Herb was not comparable to the Tian Huang Herb, it was definitely famous for being difficult to refine among Grade 7 and below Immortal Spiritual Herbs. The refining difficulty of many Grade 6 Immortal Spiritual Herbs was far less than that of the Bi Liu Immortal Herb.
However, even with a purity exceeding 90%, one was almost eliminated. Despite not being eliminated, he was still 300th, on the verge of being eliminated.
"Father, Mo Brother's name hasn't appeared yet, which means our Ying Shui Immortal City has entered the top 300 in the first round. Even if we can't participate in the second round, this ranking might secure our Lower-Rank Immortal City position." Seeing the 300th place appear, Wen Lianxi, sitting below, almost stood up in excitement.
She was equally anxious about Ying Shui Immortal City's performance.
Wen Hou clenched his fists. His expression was even more excited than his daughter, Wen Lianxi.
If he didn't know that Mo Wuji's name hadn't appeared and that the number of people on the platform matched the number of unannounced names, he would have suspected it was fake.
"Amazing, truly amazing. I wasn't wrong. This person's future is completely immeasurable..." Tan Liang stared at Mo Wuji on the platform, muttering to himself.
"Uncle Tan, do you think Mo Brother can enter the top 50?" Wen Lianxi unconsciously clenched her hands. Although she wanted to slow down her tone, the excitement was hard to conceal once she spoke.
Tan Liang took a deep breath. "Entering the top 50 might be difficult, or even if he does enter the top 50, he might not get the final ranking. Because the second round is Pill Refining, and Pill Refining and refining herbal essence are two different things. A low-level Pill Refiner, if very talented, can refine herbal essence to a high purity. But a low-level Pill Refiner, no matter how lucky, can't refine high-grade Immortal Pills. This can't be faked or explained by luck.
"Your friend's ability to refine the essence of the Bi Liu Immortal Herb to over 90% is already extremely remarkable. I can't compare to him. Even in the future, surpassing ordinary Pill Emperors is not impossible. Do you know the Pill Refiner Ma Tian who got 300th place? He is a Grade 6 Pill King, and a top-tier Grade 6 Pill King at that."
Wen Hou glanced at his daughter talking to Tan Liang, and the same thought as his wife arose in his mind. What if he could make Mo Wuji his son-in-law?
The ranking on the array display had reached 294th place: Participating Immortal City: Lower-Rank Immortal City, Leihe Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Fei Yuan. Score: 90.216, advancing to the second round.
293rd place: Participating Immortal City: Upper-Rank Immortal City, Luyun Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Gong Ke. Score: 90.219, advancing to the second round.
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From after 2000th place, the difference in scores between every two ranks was extremely small. Even non-Pill Refiners knew this was normal. It was extremely difficult to increase the purity of herbal essence even by a tiny bit. For some Pill Refiners, they couldn't even cross the gap from 90% purity to 91% purity in their entire lives. Sometimes, this kind of refining could not be improved by practicing more.
There were only 300 Pill Refiners on the platform. Some Pill Refiners who had advanced to the second round were now relieved and started to look at the other Pill Refiners around them.
Generally, the Pill Refiners who could stay in the final 300 were basically the top of the top. These Pill Refiners usually knew each other.
Mo Wuji's unfamiliar and young face immediately caught the attention of those Pill Refiners who were no longer under pressure. Who was this person? How could someone so young be within the top 300?
These Pill Refiners searched for Mo Wuji's name on the ranking array display, but all they found were familiar names.
The names on the array display had reached the 120th place: Participating Immortal City: Middle-Rank Immortal City, Zhenya Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Ao Xilun. Score: 91.051, advancing to the second round.
Even the 120th place had been announced, and there was still no unfamiliar name. Many Pill Refiners on the platform started discussing among themselves. Who exactly was Mo Wuji? How could he be within the top 120?
Mo Wuji saw Zhenya Immortal City in 120th place and remembered that he was familiar with this Immortal City. There was a young city lord named Zhong Zhen who had a brief encounter with him in the Wu Sheng Secret Realm. This person was quite good and helped him once back then. Seeing Zhenya Immortal City reach 120th place in the first round, Mo Wuji was also happy for Zhong Zhen.
The ranking on the array display continued, reaching the 51st place: Participating Immortal City: Upper-Rank Immortal City, Lujie Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Yuan Feng. Score: 91.671, advancing to the second round.
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11th place: Participating Immortal City: Upper-Rank Immortal City, Penghai Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Chai Xiao. Score: 91.899, advancing to the second round.
Penghai Immortal City was another familiar Immortal City. Mo Wuji knew the young city lord of Penghai Immortal City, Zuo Yixian. Zuo Yixian was a good person. This time, Penghai Immortal City even obtained 11th place in the first round. As long as Zuo Yixian returned from the Shattered Realm, he would definitely come to Penghai Immortal City. After this Grand Pill Dao Competition, he could go visit him.
The ranking on the array display had reached the 7th place: Participating Immortal City: Upper-Rank Immortal City, Pingyi Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Liu Tiao. Score: 92.232, advancing to the second round.
6th place: Participating Immortal City: Middle-Rank Immortal City, Chidi Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Fei Gao. Score: 92.301, advancing to the second round.
5th place: Participating Immortal City: Upper-Rank Immortal City, Baiding Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Kuang Zhiyao. Score: 92.411, advancing to the second round.
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At this point, whether it was the Pill Refiners on the platform, the Pill Refiners below the platform, or the insiders, they couldn't help but discuss animatedly.
Almost all informed Pill Refiners who didn't recognize Mo Wuji focused their gazes on him, because they knew the background of the 5th place just now. Kuang Zhiyao was a Half-Step Pill Emperor from the Pill Dao Immortal Alliance. In this place where almost all the Pill Dao experts of the Immortal Realm were gathered, it was not surprising for a Half-Step Pill Emperor to get 5th place. What surprised everyone was that the name of Mo Wuji, whom no one recognized, had not appeared yet. Could this unbelievably young guy be in the top four?
"Who is this person? Could he be in the top four? Surpassing Senior Kuang?"
"Could there be a problem with the ranking array display? Or a problem with the identification array?"
Some Pill Refiners who were eliminated stood up excitedly. If there was a problem with the array for identifying the level of herbal essence, it meant that the first round would be invalidated, and everyone would compete again.
Not to mention those Pill Refiners, even the Vice Alliance Master of the Pill Dao Immortal Alliance, Hu Zhenyu, was staring at Mo Wuji in surprise. He also didn't recognize Mo Wuji, and at the same time, he knew that Mo Wuji's name hadn't appeared yet.
As for the ranking array display, he knew that there was definitely no problem with it.
"Father, could there be a problem? Mo Brother's name hasn't come out yet." If Wen Lianxi was surprised before, now she was a little apprehensive.
Wen Hou was also a little at a loss. To say that Mo Wuji's ranking was even better than Kuang Zhiyao, a Half-Step Pill Emperor famous throughout the Seven Great Immortal Domains, he himself didn't believe it.
Tan Liang stared at the huge ranking display and hesitated for a moment before saying, "It's not necessarily the case. You must know that the herbal essence that Master Mo refined from the Grade 8 Spiritual Herb back then reached 100%..."
Tan Liang directly elevated Mo Wuji's level to Master Mo.
"But that was a Grade 8 Spiritual Herb, a thing from the cultivation world. Now, it is the extremely difficult-to-refine Bi Liu Immortal Herb of the Immortal Realm..."
Wen Hou's words stopped because the fourth place was announced.
4th place: Participating Immortal City: Middle-Rank Immortal City, Shengli Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Wu Yunsheng. Score: 96.009, advancing to the second round.
As soon as this ranking came out, the entire platform and the area below were in an uproar.
The score of the fourth place was a qualitative leap from the fifth place. Kuang Zhiyao in fifth place only had a little over 92 points, while Wu Yunsheng in fourth place directly rose to over 96 points.
It should be known that in herbal essence refining, it was extremely difficult to increase it even by a fraction of a point, not to mention increasing it by nearly four points at once. Moreover, the higher the purity of the herbal essence, the more difficult it was to increase it.
However, no one thought there was a problem with this because Wu Yunsheng was a true Pill Emperor, one of the very few Pill Emperors who did not belong to the Pill Dao Immortal Alliance.
Although Kuang Zhiyao was a Half-Step Pill Emperor, he was still far from a true Pill Emperor.
"Surpassed the Pill Emperor, he actually surpassed the Pill Emperor..."
Because of word of mouth, even those who didn't know Mo Wuji knew at this moment that there was a young Pill Refiner in the participating area whose name had not yet appeared on the ranking display. With such an unusual situation, how could everyone not pay attention to Mo Wuji?
Despite the many eyes on him, Mo Wuji's expression was normal. He was not afraid at all. So what if the Bi Liu Immortal Herb was difficult to refine? He had used all his skills in this competition. If there were no restrictions on flames in the competition in Yong Ying Immortal Domain, he would have even used his Qing Jin Heart to refine herbal essence.
3rd place: Participating Immortal City: Upper-Rank Immortal City, Lujie Immortal City. Participating Pill Refiner: Heng Jun. Score: 96.163, advancing to the second round.
Heng Jun was also a Pill Emperor, but Heng Jun was a Pill Emperor from the Pill Dao Immortal Alliance. At this time, everyone was numb. An unknown young man had actually surpassed two Pill Emperors, and now there were only two names left unannounced. One was this young man, and the other was Gongyang Xue, another Pill Emperor from the Pill Dao Immortal Alliance.
No one thought that Mo Wuji could really enter the top two. Perhaps in the minds of many cultivators, they were thinking about how the person in charge of hosting the competition would clean up this farce in the end.
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