Chapter 627: Tournament 2
’Not a tournament, but has to do with fighting?’ Yu Nianzhen fell into deep thought.
However, he couldn’t figure it out.
"Hint?" He asked.
"Hmmm..." Jiang Yue hummed and soon spoke.
"Puppets." He said.
’Puppets?’
A moment later, a trace of enlightenment flashed in the swordsman’s eyes, and he looked at Jiang Yue with a smile.
"It’s a good idea." He said.
"You have guessed?" Jiang Yue smiled.
"Puppet tower?"
"Exactly." Jiang Yue nodded and continued.
"Our people lack physical strength and combat experience. Since we have a gravity mountain and a thunder lake, physical strength won’t be a problem much longer. However, combat experience is another matter."
"Combat puppets are harder to refine than ordinary puppets, but they are worth refining if they can train our people." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
"With a puppet tower, monster forests and the sea, it won’t be long before our people become fighting experts."
"We can also send people to train in the border guard arena and the foreign devils’ battlefield."
"I suddenly feel we should have stayed in seclusion." Jiang Yue sighed and leaned on his lover.
"Why are there so many things to do?" He complained.
"Our responsibilities will decrease once the Archipelago is on track. Hang in there." Yu Nianzhen soothed while rubbing his lover’s hair.
"Speaking of responsibilities..." Jiang Yue started, sighed, and then continued.
"We still haven’t built the formation forest and sword intent tower."
"Mmmm." Yu Nianzhen nodded.
"We will get to it after the tournament." He said.
"Azhen, we have a place to train the swordsmen, martial artists, and formation masters. However, we have nothing for everyone else."
"We can’t do much since we are not alchemists, talisman masters and weapon refiners." Yu Nianzhen frowned.
"For now, let’s find the materials needed to arrange a soul training formation." Jiang Yue suggested.
"Soul training formation?"
"The map of the soul training formation is in my formation inheritance." Jiang Yue said and continued.
"High soul power is necessary for alchemists, formation masters, talisman masters, weapon refiners, and puppet masters. Since we can’t help with their art, we should at least help them improve their soul power."
"Okay, but we don’t have to personally search for the materials. Let’s issue a task in the border guard arena. We can also build a task hall in our archipelago. This way, searching for resources and getting some things done will become easier."
"Alright." Jiang Yue smiled and turned to the stage.
"Half the alchemists have finished their work. It won’t be long before the others finish." He said.
As Jiang Yue speculated, it only took another hour for the remaining half to finish their work.
After that, Xiaolan began to check the pills.
"Eight low-grade pills, disqualified." She said after arriving at the first workstation.
"Six mid-grade pills and two low-grade pills, barely qualified." She stated and began to calculate the score.
"Eleven points for successfully refining the level one bigu pill. Zero points for the low-grade pills and six points for the mid-grade pills. The total is seventeen points."
"Nineteen points."
"Forty-six points."
"Twenty-nine points."
"Twenty-seven points."
"Forty-two points."
"Forty-three points."
"Forty-five points."
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"Thirty-three points."
Of the forty-two alchemists, thirty-four managed to refine pills.
As for the remaining eight, they mainly failed due to carelessness and nerves.
After Xiaolan tallied the scores, Ying Ba narrowly won with a score of forty-six points.
Following that was Fang Die with forty-five, Yu Chang with forty-three, while Gu Feiyan and Xue Ling tied for fourth place with forty-two points.
Seeing the results, Jiang Yue sighed.
"Ying Ba was a little better, but her overall strength is lower than Fang Die." He said, and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
"Fang Die is consistent. From three furnaces, she refined two high-grade pills, eighteen mid-grade pills, and four low-grade pills. On the contrary, Ying Ba refined three high-grade pills, ten mid-grade pills, and eleven low-grade pills. Fortunately, the competition only scored the best eight pills. Otherwise..."
"It’s not just Fang Die, Gu Feiyan is also very consistent. She refined one high-grade pill, twenty mid-grade pills, and three low-grade pills. As for Yu Chang..." Jiang Yue sighed, and his lips twitched
"One high-grade pill, eight mid-grade pills and fifteen low-grade pills." Yu Nianzhen shook his head.
"But Azhen, did you notice?"
"Mmmh." Yu Nianzhen nodded and looked at a young girl from one of the associate families they brought along.
"She refined twenty-four, high-grade, level one rejuvenation pills." Jiang Yue said with a hint of admiration in his voice.
"She can be trained." Yu Nianzhen said, looking at Ao Tian.
"I will let someone keep an eye on her." Ao Tian said.
"I think her name is Lin Shu. She is Lin Feng’s sister." Jiang Yue suddenly said.
"Isn’t Lin Feng courting Jiang Xing? Your Jiang family will be related to a powerful alchemist when the two become Taoist partners." Yu Nianzhen teased.
"The falling flowers have intentions, but the flowing water is merciless." Jiang Yue sighed.
"Give it time." Yu Nianzhen said.
"If we didn’t return to Earth, those two would have married and had a good life together. Let’s hope our actions didn’t destroy their fate." Jiang Yue said with a worried face.
After all, Lin Feng had not succeeded after courting Jiang Xing for so many years.
"You are worrying too much." Yu Nianzhen smiled and continued.
"The main problem is Lin Feng."
"What do you mean?"
"The kid hasn’t dared to say anything to Jiang Xing. Maybe things wouldn’t be this way if he had."
"What a turtle!" Jiang Yue complained but felt a little at ease.
"Let them deal with their feelings. When the time comes, they will naturally get together."
With that, the two turned to the stage.
At this point, Xiaolan had finished ranking the alchemists.
"The top twenty is almost fifty-fifty." Jiang Yue said.
"Eleven for the martial artists and nine for us. It’s not a bad result." Yu Nianzhen nodded.
"After a few years of training, our Zhenyue archipelago will have some outstanding alchemists."
