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Hearing Shi Manyin's voice transmission, although Jiang Yun's face was still expressionless, his heart couldn't help but move slightly.

With the sect leader Yao Jiugong standing by, Shi Manyin actually dared to send a message to him, and he specifically told him not to hide his strength anymore, which obviously meant something.

And what she was referring to could naturally only be the sect leader Yao Jiugong.

"Could it be that as long as I win the respect of Lord Yao Jiu, it will bring me some benefits?"

This thought flashed through Jiang Yun's mind and he didn't think about it any more.

Because the competition has begun.

All the disciples around the Medicine Pavilion could clearly see that a scene had appeared above the heads of Jiang Yun and Dong Xiao.

In the picture, there is the space inside the jade slip, as well as Jiang Yun and Dong Xiao, who have transformed their spiritual consciousness into human forms.

The two of them were more than a thousand feet apart, each standing in the air, waiting for the appearance of the fifth-grade medicinal materials that needed to be identified.

But looking at the expressions on the faces of the two people, those watching could not help but be a little surprised.

As one of the four true disciples, Dong Xiao had a trace of nervousness on his face at this moment.

But Jiang Yun, with his eyes slightly closed and his face expressionless, stood in the air, motionless as a mountain.

It can be seen from the reactions of the two that Jiang Yun is obviously much calmer than Dong Xiao.

Although the competition has not really started yet, just seeing this scene has made many people doubt Elder Qian's accusation of Jiang Yun and Shi Manyin cheating.

If the sect leader Yao Jiugong hadn't been present and personally presided over the competition, they might have thought that Jiang Yun still had some means of cheating, which was why he was so calm.

But since the jade slips had been personally inspected and confirmed by Yao Jiugong, and no one had tampered with them, Jiang Yun could still maintain such composure, which meant that he was confident.

This is indeed the case.

Regardless of the content of this competition, the rules of the competition, and the venue for the competition were all selected by Dong Xiao, but at this moment, Dong Xiao was much more nervous than Jiang Yun.

He is not afraid that he will lose to Jiang Yun, but he is worried that if his performance is not good and he cannot identify too many medicinal materials, and will be noticed by everyone outside, especially the sect leader, it will also affect him. His reputation caused his status to fall again.

After all, although the number of types of fifth-grade medicinal materials is not as good as that of the first four-grade medicinal materials, there are still nearly five million types! Even if Dong Xiao is an eighth-grade alchemist, let alone a seventh-grade alchemist, he has not memorized all the types of fifth-grade medicinal materials.

He was even sure that it would be absolutely impossible for him to pass through these five levels of nightmare tests.

Therefore, now, he can only hope that he can beat Jiang Yun in terms of speed and quantity of identifying medicinal materials.

"Buzz!"

With the slight vibration in the surrounding air, Jiang Yun and Dong Xiao could see large tracts of medicinal materials springing up from all directions around them, like bamboo shoots after a rain.

The spirits of all those watching the battle could not help but be lifted up, and they looked at the two people in the picture more intently.

Dong Xiao's reaction was extremely fast. Almost at the same time as these medicinal materials appeared, his consciousness was already covering the surrounding areas.

There are two ways to identify medicinal materials.

One is to speak the name and characteristics of certain medicinal materials with your mouth.

In this way, everyone watching can hear clearly, and there is absolutely no possibility of cheating.

But the disadvantage is that the speed of this method is too slow.

Another way is to use spiritual consciousness to identify medicinal materials, which is the fastest.

The so-called identification of medicinal materials with spiritual consciousness is to cover a medicinal plant with spiritual consciousness, and then think of its characteristics and name in the mind.

As long as the answer is correct, the medicinal plant will disappear immediately.

If you are not sure, you can ignore it for the time being and identify other medicinal materials that you are confident about.

If you are unsure and force yourself to answer, your spiritual consciousness will be sent out of the jade slip immediately if you answer incorrectly.

Therefore, in such a competition, in addition to accuracy, identification speed and strategy are also closely related.

Especially when the number of medicinal materials identified by one party is increasing, far exceeding that of the other party, and if the other party's psychological quality is worse, it is very likely that the other party will collapse immediately and lose without a fight.

Now, Dong Xiao is taking this approach.

He first identified the medicinal materials that he was sure of as quickly as possible, using this to put pressure on Jiang Yun and make Jiang Yun anxious, either making mistakes or completely collapsing.

I have to say that Dong Xiao still has real strength.

In just three breaths of time, he had already identified nearly three hundred kinds of medicinal materials, causing a blank area to appear around him.

Dong Xiao's speed was already comparable to, or even exceeded, Jiang Yun's previous speed in the first-level nightmare test.

In one breath, hundreds of medicinal materials can be identified.

That is to say, divide the spiritual consciousness into hundreds of parts at the same time, cover it on a hundred kinds of medicinal materials, and use it with all your heart to come up with the names and characteristics of these medicinal materials.

This is exactly the method Jiang Yun used before in the first-level nightmare test.

Dong Xiao learned from Jiang Yun.

Looking at Jiang Yun again, he was still standing there with his eyes closed, motionless.

It seemed that he hadn't realized that this nightmare test had already begun.

Looking at Jiang Yun's state, most people were confused and didn't understand whether he really had a plan in mind or if he had other purposes.

As time goes by, more and more people believe that everything Jiang Yun did before was just an act.

He didn't know many fifth-grade medicinal materials at all.

Therefore, in fact, he already knew clearly that he would lose, and now he just wanted to delay it for some time.

However, it was useless for Jiang Yun to delay.

The nightmare test has a time limit, that is, at least one medicinal ingredient must be identified within ten breaths.

If you remain silent for ten breaths without saying a word, or if you cannot identify the medicinal materials, it will automatically be judged as a failure.

Soon, eight breaths of time passed, and Dong Xiao had identified nearly 900 kinds of medicinal materials.

This speed really impressed many disciples.

But Jiang Yun was still standing there with his eyes closed! By this time, almost everyone, including Yan Jingshan and Yao Jiugong, believed that Jiang Yun had given up on the competition and had given up.

Yao Jiugong couldn't help but turn his head to look at Shi Manyin. He was very surprised as to why Shi Manyin would not hesitate to make such a big noise to support a not very special inner disciple like Fang Jun.

However, when Yao Jiugong saw that Shi Manyin still had a calm smile on his face, he couldn't help but be slightly startled.

Obviously, even when everyone thought Jiang Yun had no hope of winning, Shi Manyin still had great confidence in Jiang Yun.

Even though Yao Jiugong was a true emperor and the head of a sect, he couldn't help but frown at this moment. He couldn't figure out where Shi Manyin's confidence in Jiang Yun came from.

It was not convenient for Yao Jiugong to ask Shi Manyin in public.

Therefore, he could only shake his head secretly in his heart and look at the picture again.

At first glance, the eyes of this true-level emperor suddenly lit up.

Because in the picture, Jiang Yun, who had always had his eyes closed, finally opened his eyes.

To everyone's surprise, Jiang Yun, who was clearly on the verge of failure, still had an extremely calm expression on his face, with no ripples visible in his eyes.

Seeing Jiang Yun open his eyes, Dong Xiao, who thought he was already winning, smiled coldly and said, "What, are you going to admit defeat?"

Jiang Yun shook his head and said: "I originally thought that if I gave you eight breaths, you could give me a surprise."

"But your speed is too slow."

As Jiang Yun's words fell, powerful spiritual consciousness suddenly burst out from Jiang Yun's eyebrows, like a golden fountain.

When the fountain reached its highest point, it exploded again and seemed to turn into a downpour, covering the entire space.

When Jiang Yun and Dong Xiao entered the jade slip space for their tenth breath, this huge space was already empty!