The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#312 - I want this

By the time Lu Jing and the others returned to the academy, it was completely dark. However, the students were still enthusiastically discussing the results of the minor competition.

This year's minor competition was significantly more difficult than in previous years. In the end, less than half of the participants solved three problems, only eight solved six, and only Lu Jing, Yan Yun, and Xia Huai solved all seven.

Yan Yun and Xia Huai were expected to do well. The former had always been the top of the younger generation, so everyone was somewhat numb to her performance.

Watching her overcome obstacles and consistently rank first in this minor competition, far ahead of her competitors, most people felt it was only natural.

As for Xia Huai, everyone was more envious and surprised. As one of the only two people in this minor competition who had not completed foundation building, she didn't stand out in the first few questions, ranking outside the top ten. But later, she came from behind, surpassing several people, especially with her amazing performance on the sixth question.

She completed a task that required two people to cooperate alone. If she hadn't waited for Lu Jing, the difference between her and Yan Yun should have been no more than half a cup of tea. Her cultivation talent was indeed terrifyingly strong.

Of course, the most outrageous was Lu Jing. As the only person in the academy who didn't cultivate secret energy, no one knew what got into him that he actually came to participate in the minor competition.

And even more outrageous was that he actually solved all seven questions in this minor competition.

Even now, many people find it hard to believe, especially considering that many people couldn't even solve the second or third question, and some unfortunate souls even fell on the first question.

Thinking that they had worked hard for more than three months, only to lose to an ordinary person with no secret energy at all, and even be left so far behind by the other party, their hearts for cultivating the Dao couldn't help but waver.

They felt like they were falling apart, and the gazes they cast at Lu Jing were filled with complexity.

Discussions like "Isn't this guy just here to annoy us?" and "Was it necessary to go to this extent?" were endless.

Moreover, soon after, someone revealed shocking news, saying that they had learned from other instructors that the difficulty of this minor competition was suddenly increased because of Lu Jing.

It was said that Supervisor Huang deliberately changed the exam questions the night before in order to stump Lu Jing. As a result, not only was the main target not stumped, but the other students participating in this minor competition suffered as a result, tearing at their hair in frustration with the seven questions.

Therefore, when these people looked at the culprit, they naturally didn't have a good expression.

Lu Jing scratched his head. He also knew that he had attracted a bit of hatred this time.

It's like having a lazy student in your class who doesn't study, skips class, fights, reads comics... In short, they don't study. Then, when the midterm exam comes, a group of hard-working top students plan to teach this bad student a lesson.

Unexpectedly, after the results came out, they were all dumbfounded, finding that they couldn't even beat the slacker. One can imagine how big the blow was.

Fortunately, Supervisor Huang and Professor Zheng didn't delay outside for too long and soon returned to the academy one after another.

Afterwards, they personally inquired about the investigation progress of the five students other than Lu Jing and the others who had also solved the seventh question, ranked them, and then selected two people who were only one step away from solving the sixth question.

In this way, the top ten of this minor competition were all determined.

Under the expectant gazes of the crowd, Supervisor Huang took out the prizes for this minor competition.

There were a total of ten items, including two treasured weapons, three talismans, four small bottles, and a booklet.

In the end, most people's eyes fell on the four small bottles, or more precisely, on two of them.

Treasured weapons and talismans were not unattractive, but in comparison, they were external objects after all.

The elixirs in the two small bottles could directly benefit their cultivation.

As for the booklet, it was a water escape technique called "Dragon Gate Fish Shadow" and corresponding cultivation essentials. Many people were also interested in it, but most students didn't lack cultivation methods now.

In fact, most people couldn't even cultivate the spells taught by the teachers in the classroom, such as the invisibility technique that many people failed in this minor competition, getting stuck on the third question.

And it should be known that this was still in the academy. If they went to the outside world where secret energy was scarce, not only would the power of the spells decrease, but the difficulty of casting them would also greatly increase. Without two or three months of hard cultivation, it would be basically difficult to successfully cast a spell outside.

As for thoroughly understanding the spells, the time required would be even longer. Therefore, many people have already begun to subtract, purposefully giving up the cultivation of some spells.

Water escape was good, but there were really not many people who had the spare energy to cultivate it. In addition, the other two small bottles should contain precious raw materials needed for alchemy.

At this time, many people had already begun to rank the value of the ten items in front of them in their hearts.

And in the end, the Foundation Establishment Pill in one of the small bottles was ranked first by almost everyone.

This pill was taken after foundation building. Although it couldn't completely change the result of foundation building, it could indeed make up for the mistakes made in foundation building before, or congenital deficiencies to a certain extent.

It was a very precious elixir. Even in the academy, the number was very small, and because the refining difficulty was very high and the materials required were complex, basically only one Foundation Establishment Pill would be taken out to reward students in each session.

Therefore, after seeing the Foundation Establishment Pill, many people's saliva flowed out, but unfortunately they could only think about it in their hearts, because they knew that this thing was destined to belong to Yan Yun, who was always ahead of everyone.

But when the final result came out, everyone was shocked. No way? Even Yan Yun lost to this guy this time?!

Wait, doesn't this mean that the cultivators were completely defeated in this minor competition and were all stepped on by him?

Thinking of this, many students whose faces were already very ugly suddenly became even more ugly.

Many people were also heartbroken for the Foundation Establishment Pill. How could such a good thing be wasted on someone who had no cultivation talent at all.

But in this way, does it also mean that everyone will have the opportunity to buy this precious elixir from him in the future?

Everyone couldn't help but start thinking about it again.

But then they saw Lu Jing point to another small bottle and said, "I want this one."