The alchemy competition held this time in the Star Scar Realm offered a fairly wide variety of celestial herbs—over a thousand types, with at least ten portions of each. However, they were all relatively common celestial herbs. Even so, this was still a grand gesture; ordinary factions could never bring out so many celestial herbs at once.
Jiang Chen scanned the herbs one by one. He was contemplating exactly what kind of elixir he should refine. As he pondered, he also observed the other alchemists, deducing from the ingredients they chose what kind of elixirs they intended to brew. The alchemists who had made it this far were no simple figures. Jiang Chen noticed that the elixirs they were preparing to refine were at least at the fifteenth grade of the celestial path. While they were using high-grade celestial herbs, they were merely using them as substitutes; this ensured that even if a mistake occurred during the refinement process, the final elixir would still reach the fifteenth grade.
It seemed the artifact spirit was right; if he wanted to win, he needed to refine at least a fifteenth-grade celestial elixir. However, Jiang Chen could currently only refine tenth-grade celestial elixirs. Back when he was in the Celestial Mansion, he had attempted to refine eleventh-grade elixirs, but he had only succeeded once in ten tries.
Chapter 1458