Chapter 308 – The First One to Advance a Stage (1)
Shen Yanxiao didn’t wait for those curious students to check what medicinal herbs she had actually put inside the cloth sack. Before everyone’s eyesight, Shen Yanxiao suddenly grabbed the cloth sack and went towards the refining site which wasn’t far away.
Shangguan Xiao was now looking for the last medicinal herb he needed when he felt something was wrong. When he turned around to see it, he saw a petite figure in the refining site. No one knew how she suddenly appeared there, but she now occupied one of the ten medicine refining tables which was also the best.
Shangguan Xiao’s mouth slightly twitched.
The other students also saw Shen Yanxiao’s actions and dazedly look at one another. It was clear in their faces that they had no idea what had just happened.
“Why did that little demon go over there already?” Several of the participating students looked at the position they had already chosen before in their minds. Standing at the east side, they look towards the west direction where Shen Yanxiao currently at. Their mood was extremely complex.
From the thirty minutes given to them, ten minutes still remained, but most of them had only found half of the medicinal herbs they needed while others had been robbed by their opponents. If they still couldn’t find all the medicinal herbs they needed once thirty minutes passed, they wouldn’t be able to continue to the next stage.
“I’m guessing that he’ll just concoct a low level potion and went there already to secure a place. Heck, maybe he doesn’t have all the medicinal herbs,” the unhappy students said with sarcasm.
Being robbed by a freshman kid made their mood quite bad.
And because of Shen Yanxiao’s actions, the spectators couldn’t help but issue a series of strange noise.
When the group of freshmen students led by Lin Xuan saw Shen Yanxiao took the first spot, their hearts finally felt relieved, but they immediately became worried again.
Those junior students weren’t even able to find all the medicinal herbs they needed in this short period of time, so how could Shen Yanxiao do it? Was she really going to concoct a low level potion to participate in the next stage of this competition?
Everyone felt like their hearts were beating like a drum.
A moment later, Shangguan Xiao found the last medicinal herb he needed and went to the area where Shen Yanxiao was. He occupied the medicine refining table behind her.
“You’re just concocting a low level potion, you can’t fool others.” Shangguan Xiao put the medicinal herbs he was holding into the basket that was lying on top of the table while squinting his eyes at Shen Yanxiao’s back.
He was just a little nervous a while ago, so he didn’t have much time to observe or see Shen Yanxiao when she was grabbing medicinal herbs. However, judging by the time, Shen Yanxiao’s herbs wouldn’t be a lot. Shangguan Xiao needed thirty-five different kinds of medicinal herbs, and he didn’t even hesitate grabbing the medicinal herbs during the search. Yet, he was still four or five minutes behind Shen Yanxiao.
He didn’t believe that Shen Yanxiao could find more than twenty different kinds of medicinal herbs in just about twenty minutes.
“You don’t need to worry about it. Whatever the potion I’ll concoct, you’ll naturally know after the third stage.” Shen Yan Xiao didn’t bother to even turn around and look at him as she returned a sentence with a calm indifference tone.
Her arrogant attitude really made Shangguan Xiao’s heart angrier.
The desire to defeat her in the competition was getting even stronger than before.
When there were only three minutes left, some students had started pushing others to snatch their medicinal herbs. Finally, one second before the time limit, the remaining eight medicine refining tables had been occupied by junior and senior students.
While the remaining more than one hundred twenty participating students, at this moment, had lost the qualification to enter the next stage, and dejectedly left the venue with the help of the mentors.
Chapter 307 – Sharp-eyed and Deft-handed (3)
The crepis grass had a certain amount of toxin. If used properly it could save a life, but if the measurement wasn’t accurate then it could send the person into the next life. This was a very strong medicinal herb which required one to completely grasp its right dose.
Even the senior students wouldn’t dare to use it in concocting a potion, so what’s more for Shen Yanxiao who was just a freshman student.
It was clear that Shen Yanxiao had picked up the crepis grass instead of a dusk grass.
Pu Lisi’s mouth had a trace of sneer. The only difference between a dusk grass and a crepis grass was the veins on the grass, but this kind of detail was a small difference, yet some people were able to notice this difference.
Pu Lisi knew that the moment Shen Yanxiao picked the crepis grass, she had already lost.
“Naive kid, I would like to see how stupider can you be.” Pu Lisi’s mood increased greatly. If the Crepis grass was used in concocting a potion instead of a dusk grass, it would produce a small explosion. And when that time came, Shen Yanxiao’s face would be at a loss, and she would become a laughingstock.
He believed that after Shen Yanxiao had done such a disgraceful thing, Ye Qing would not keep this smelly brat anymore!
Pu Lisi was in such a good mood after taking a glance at Shen Yanxiao, knowing that she would fail. Then, he shifted his gaze towards Shangguan Xiao afterwards.
After ten minutes of searching, some students finally distinguished a few medicinal herbs. But, they were still far away from their objective. A lot of students even gave up concocting the potion they initially planned to make and instead just looked for some medicinal herbs that were needed for some low level potions.
And since there were only a few medicinal herbs needed to concoct a low level potion, the speed of searching for the medicinal herbs was naturally faster.
Rather than failing to find all the medicinal herbs and being eliminated, they were more willing to concoct a low level potion.
That way, they could also get in the first ten.
Everyone was searching for the medicinal herbs they needed, but at this time, Shangguan Xiao had already found more than ten different kinds of medicinal herbs. Still, his pace didn’t slow down, and he continued to search for more.
This made a lot of students who were spectating be secretly amazed.
“In the end, what kind of potion Shangguan Xiao is planning to concoct that even though he has already collected more than twenty different kinds of herbs, he’s still searching for more?” A student asked.
An intermediate level potion usually only required ten different kinds of medicinal herbs at the very least. The more medicinal herbs needed, the more difficult it was to concoct. Hence, concocting a potion that had twenty different kinds of herbs and above was more difficult.
The more they watched Shangguan Xiao as he continuously grabbed more medicinal herbs and put them in his bosom, the more everyone looked forward to the competition.
Besides their feelings of anticipation, the students were even more eager for the drama that would soon rise because of Shen Yanxiao, who had remained quiet for a long time already.
Actually, Shen Yanxiao’s tiny figure was easily missed in this crowd of hundreds of people.
And right at this moment, that petite figure was being blocked from their sight by an unknown figure of a participant.
“Did that kid called Shen Jue take some medicinal herbs? How come I can’t find him?” A second year student stretched his neck to find that petite figure that could easily be overlooked.
“There he is,” Another student pointed to a petite figure that had just come out from the back of the other contestants.
Only to see that, to make things convenient, Shen Yanxiao had prepared a cloth sack where she could put all the medicinal herbs inside, so they wouldn’t get lost. The spectating students couldn’t see what it contained, so they were highly uncertain of how many herbs she had gotten in the end.
Because that figure was being blocked for some time, they could only see his figure from time to time. Even the students present at that place, as well as the mentors, were uncertain as to how many herbs she had collected in the end.
Even Pu Lisi had only seen her taking a crepis grass. As for the other medicinal herbs that were stuffed into the cloth sack, he couldn’t even see their root hairs.