Star Trace Gate

tick, tick...

Beads of sweat slid down his cheeks, fell straight to the ground and shattered.

Ren Ye had been standing next to the golden medicine cabinet, thinking for about three or four minutes. During this time, the temperature in the hall skyrocketed to the point where it was unbearably hot and stuffy.

The alchemy furnace standing in the main hall was like a blazing sun, emitting a strong and scorching heat.

At the door, the dean's disciple stood there with a smile on his face. He didn't say a word, just looked at Ren Ye with a smile, as if he had everything planned out for himself.

"Uh……!"

Ren Ye reached out and loosened his collar, his expression extremely focused, but his body did not move.

The temperature in the hall continued to rise, and it was impossible for him not to feel it. He even guessed the "hard rules" of this level in his mind.

Xingmen reminded, "There are many ignorant guys who have turned into ashes here..." This sentence is very detailed, just like Lao Liu's life, it is hard not to attract attention.

Although there is no time limit for this level of assessment, the temperature in the hall will definitely get higher and higher, and will eventually be high enough to "burn people".

In other words, he had to find the correct five medicinal herbs and put them into the furnace before he was burned to death.

However, he knew in his heart that the more anxious he was, the more he should not panic or act rashly. He had to use his brain and think clearly before taking action, otherwise he would be the one who got hurt in the end.

Next to the cabinet, he reached out to wipe the sweat from his cheeks, his brain completely boiling.

First of all, there are five medicine cabinets in this hall, with more than 400 drawers of various sizes. Without the prescription, it would be even more difficult to choose the five missing herbs from so many drawers... than to use two dollars to try to win five million.

Don't worry, just stroke it...

You have to know that not all players who enter the Star Gate understand Yin-Yang Taoism, and not everyone can make pills. Therefore, the test given by the Heavenly Dao rules must be applicable to everyone and must be fair...

There are so many medicinal herbs in the five cabinets, and the effects of each herb are very obscure and difficult to understand just by listening to them.

With a question like this, except for players who are in the Yin-Yang system and specialize in alchemy, others may not even be able to recognize all the questions, let alone find the correct answer.

Therefore, if you follow the conventional ideas given here, try the herbs again and again, and look for various traces to deduce, that would definitely be the stupidest approach, and you will most likely be burned to death.

Well, to fully understand the rules...

Ren recalled the conversation between himself and the head disciple again and again in his mind, and suddenly murmured: "He said... putting the wrong herbs in will not affect the pill. Hey, if I take all the herbs and throw them all into the pill furnace, then there must be five correct ones!"

"Fuck, I'm a genius!"

Thinking of this, Ren Ye suddenly raised his head and rushed out in one quick step.

He did not hesitate and did what he said. He just moved the leftmost side of the golden cabinet and frantically pulled the drawers to take out the medicinal herbs inside.

For convenience, he took off his coat and used it to hold the herbs.

Not far away, the head disciple looked at him, his eyes sparkling, a smile on his face, and exclaimed: "What a smart fool!"

All magical weapons and supernatural powers are forbidden in this hall, but relying on the speed of the third-grade Tianshe entering the life body, it only took less than three minutes for Ren to take a portion of all the medicinal materials in the golden medicine cabinet.

"Whoosh!"

His body turned into a shadow and suddenly appeared next to the alchemy furnace. His skin flushed red as he shouted, "I want to put the herbs into the alchemy furnace."

“Use your consciousness to sense the Phoenix Fire Furnace, then you can open the furnace and add medicine.” The dean’s disciple responded softly.

"it is good."

Ren Ye put the herbs in his coat pocket and concentrated on sensing them.

In the hall, the heat waves surged, and the surrounding scene became distorted. His clothes were soaked with sweat, and his skin became redder and redder, with spots on it, like a rat that had just crawled out of its mother's womb, looking a little scary.

"Crack!"

A wisp of thought was thrown into the Phoenix Fire Furnace, and the lid of the furnace made a slight sound and actually floated up by itself.

Ren did not dare to delay for a moment. He just swung his clothes and threw all the medicinal materials inside into it.

"Whizzing……!"

Densely packed medicinal herbs flew into the furnace through the gaps in the furnace cover like a rainstorm.

"Boom!"

The moment the medicinal materials met the fire, an irresistible red heat wave burst out visibly to the naked eye.

The furnace mouth erupted like a volcano, rolling up flames several meters high and burning violently.

"Oh!"

Ren Ye stood there, and was instantly blown away by the heat wave, and the coat in his hand caught fire.

He staggered back and threw his coat away, but even so, the sleeve of his arm was still burning.

"Tear!"

Ren did not dare to delay for a moment. He tore off all the clothes on his body, and flew to the farthest place as if he was avoiding the plague. He then kept slapping his skin with his palms to put out the fire.

tick, tick...

He looked down at his arms. Dense white blood bubbles had appeared on the bloody red skin, and some of the broken arms were already oozing blood and fat.

“Boom, boom, boom…!”

The Phoenix Fire Furnace burned fiercely, the flames rolled higher and higher, and the temperature in the entire hall soared again.

Ren Ye stood ten steps away from the stove, feeling that his entire chest, mouth and nose were spewing fire. His skin became greasy and filled with piercing pain.

"Uh……!"

He lowered his head, took a deep breath of hot air, and gritted his teeth to endure it.

"Some people say that boiling a frog in warm water is the cruelest thing. Little do they know that the most painful thing is for a living person to die in flames." At the door, the head disciple, who was not affected by the temperature at all, said jokingly, "If you want to scream, just scream."

"brush!"

Ren Ye suddenly turned around, looked at him with a purple face, and said nothing.

"There are still four cabinets of medicinal herbs that you can experiment with." The head disciple looked at him and said softly, "I just don't know if you can hold on until you put all the herbs in the four cabinets into the Phoenix Fire Furnace."

Ren also lowered his head and stood there, motionless.

“You are the most patient person I have ever met, but it’s a pity that you came to the wrong place, hehe…!” The dean’s disciple threw down this sentence and said no more.

Ren was also deep in thought while being roasted by the raging fire. He felt that his way of thinking was wrong.

Perhaps, if all the medicinal materials in the five cabinets were put into the fire, the furnace could pass the test, but his body could not bear it and put all these medicines in.

After the last wave, the fire was obviously more intense, and the temperature of the entire hall was raised by more than one level. He was a third-grade flesh body, and in the eyes of ordinary people, it was not an exaggeration to say that he was invulnerable to swords and guns, but in just a moment, his skin actually burned...

Ren also concluded that putting the wrong herbs into the furnace would not affect the pill formation, but it would make the fire in the Phoenix Fire Furnace more violent, causing the temperature in the hall to surge. Without magical powers, who could put hundreds of herbs into the pill fire at the same time without any error?

If he couldn't do it, then every mistake would make the Dan fire stronger. Before the right medicinal materials were refined, he would definitely die in this hall.

"I was wrong... I was wrong. Very wrong."

Ren Ye stood there, muttering, "No, no, there must be something I didn't notice. Xiao Yuan and I just came in through the front door... Shit, yes, there are stairs...!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his head and looked towards the depths of the hall, his bloodshot eyes fixed on a staircase.

Just after entering the hall, Xiao Yuan disappeared from there, so there should be rooms downstairs.

Thinking of this, Ren Ye rushed out and ran towards the stairs.

“Pah, pah…!”

He stepped on the red bluestone floor with his feet, and liquid flowed out from under his feet, and a faint white smoke and burning smell rose. The soles of his shoes touched the hot ground and began to melt slowly.

"Whoosh!"

He flashed past on the stairs, and went down more than ten steps at an extremely fast speed, and came to the next floor.

The temperature here is slightly lower, but only slightly.

This alchemy room is smaller in size. There are more than twenty alchemy children on the left side, sitting cross-legged on cushions, with their backs to Ren Ye and facing the wall.

In their left hands they held a stone mortar for pounding medicine, which they placed on their legs; in their right hands they held a stone pestle, and they kept hammering and pounding the mortar, just like they were pounding medicine.

But the strange thing was that there was no medicinal material in the mortar, it was empty, so it was more like they were pounding the air.

In the center of the alchemy room, Xiao Yuan was sitting next to a huge alchemy furnace, gently waving a palm-leaf fan to fan the fire.

Only then did Ren notice that the Phoenix Fire Furnace was not placed on the upper floor, but stood entirely across the two floors. The upper floor was the alchemy furnace, and the lower floor was the fire furnace.

Xiao Yuan sat cross-legged on the mat, his eyes closed, fanning himself with a palm leaf fan, as if he was controlling the fire. His entire body was purple, his skin was greasy, and he was sweating profusely, and he was obviously being roasted by the high temperature.

However, perhaps because he had a palm-leaf fan, he seemed to be in better condition than Ren Ye.

Ren Ye's eyes swept around and he searched this floor very quickly, trying to find some clues and a way to break the deadlock.

But unfortunately, this floor is even cleaner than the previous one, and there is no item related to elixir making at all.

He was forced into a desperate situation and wanted to snatch Xiao Yuan's fan and fan himself a few times, but he was pushed away by a huge force and his body almost fell apart.

Four or five minutes passed and he found nothing.

In the extremely hot alchemy room, Ren also felt as if he was in a furnace, his skin was dry and cracked, and he was itchy and painful.

He was already dehydrated, and after the thick blood flowed out, his purple-red skin gradually became like cracked ground. His skin shrank and cracked.

Ren also felt itchy and couldn't help scratching it with his hand.

"Fuck."

The friction between my fingers and my arm actually caused a layer of flesh to fall off at the same time...

"what--!"

The intense pain caused veins on his forehead to bulge and he let out an unbearable groan.

Damn... am I going to stay here?

what? !

Even the anti-fraud personnel with very strong willpower felt despair at this moment.

Since he became a player, he has never been forced into such a situation by any secret realm test.

“Hoo, hoo…!”

Ren Ye looked at the cut on his arm and kept muttering in his heart: "I haven't slept with my beloved concubine yet... Comrade Daguo is lying in the coffin, still waiting for the restart; Qingning is also fighting... Qingliang Mansion still has so many favors to repay... My friends are all outside the door, and my two masters also have high hopes for me... If I die, many people will be very sad and disappointed."

"You can't die, absolutely not!"

"Calm down, I have to calm down."

"Even if you are about to be roasted, as long as your brain is not on fire, you can't stop thinking and you can't give up."

"I must have missed some important information, I must..."

"Let me sort it out. After I entered the room, Xiao Yuan left. Xingmen and the head disciple read out the rules, and the test began... Then I started to look through the medicine cabinets, and the first one I looked through was the golden cabinet..."