Alex was watching a bunch of participants makes poison on the stage. The task wasn't a very visual task as everyone tried their best to hide their thods from the audience.
All they did was mix a bunch of ingredients with each other and soon the poison would be completed.
"That guy from your group is quite fast, junior brother," Luo i said.
Alex looked at a man currently finishing the preparation of the poison. "Ah, yes. What was his na again? Tang Bao, I think. He is ranked 8th in our sect if I rember correctly. He seems to be quite adept at poison," Alex said.
He hadn't known the person's na before today and had only learned when Ma Rong had chosen him during the registration.
"He should make it into the top ten," Luo i said.
Alex silently nodded. As expected, he finished in the 7th position. That was more than what anyone from the Hong Wu sect was expecting from a competition that was not about Alchemy.
As the poison competition was ending, ng Yun stood up and walked away with an elder. "Is sister ng taking part in a competition too?" Alex asked.
"Yes. ng Yun is quite good with the tunes, so she is taking part in the music competition," Luo i said.
"I see," Alex said and went back to watching the competition. There was another competition going on, one that he had never seen before, a puppet competition.
The competition holders provided the puppets and the participant's job was to refine the puppet and make it theirs the fastest.
The puppets were just small chanical rats so the competition holders didn't lose much by handing them out. The winner of the puppet competition was soone from a sect called the Thousand Hands sect.
After the puppet competition and the poison competitions were over, it was ti for the music competition.
ng Yun and a bunch of other disciples got onto the state and the host started explaining the rules.
As the competition was thed Speed, the participants had to play a certain piece at a fast speed while staying above a certain threshold of errors.
Everyone was made to take out their instrunts. So took out drums, so took out zithers, so took out guitar-like stringed instrunts. ng Yun took out her flute that he had used against Alex's fight.
When they were given the go, everyone instantly started playing the music piece that was floating in front of them. Alex couldn't understand what the bunch of lines floating midair ant, but it seed the participants fully understood them.
As soon as they started playing, a graph of sorts appeared on top of each of the participant's heads letting the audience know how correct they were.
Everyone aside from a few kept on fluctuating up and down on the accuracy scale, but never dropped below a threshold marked by 25%.
Only a few could consistently keep it at around 40%. ng Yun was one of them. She was very good at playing the piece as if she had learned it all her life and her average level seed to be around 42%.
"Oh wow, ngng is so close to becoming a Heaven Grade musician," Luo i said from the side.
"Heaven grade is at 50%?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, it's always the sa for any profession that can check its quality in percentage. 10% is the mortal threshold, 25 is the Earth, and 50 is the Heaven. Honestly, if ngng spent just a bit more ti practicing her craft instead of trying to serve , she would definitely be Heaven grade by now," Luo i said.
"S- Serve you?" Alex was a little confused. 'Isn't ng Yun a player? Why would she serve senior sister?' he thought.
"Oh yeah, didn't I ntion it yet? ngng is my maid. My family sent her to the sect with to take care of . Although it turned out that her talent was quite good, so master agreed to make her a disciple of the sect. However, she still tried to take care of and follows around," Luo i said while shaking her head.
"Oh," Alex said, unable to articulate any more words. His entire view of ng Yun ca crumbling down. 'Wait, so she isn't a player, but is just a talented NPC?' he thought.
ng Yun was on the stage currently finishing up her piece. She was quite fast, even when compared to participants who ca from genuine music sects.
Finally, she finished and ended up being the first to do so. Her highest lody was around 45% and her lowest was at 38%. On average, she stayed at around 42% lody.
She had passed without question. Other participants also started finishing one by one. A few of them actually had a higher lody than her, but they weren't as fast, so they failed to get into the top 3 rankings all the sa.
Once the results were out, ng Yun happily returned back to the seating area.
"Congratulations ngng," Luo i said as she stood up and went to hug her.
"Good job. You got us 100 points where we weren't expecting any," Wen Cheng said.
"Congrats, sister ng," Alex said.
Other people started congratulating her too. Soon, ng Yun was red as a beet from all the attention and quickly went to hide near Luo i.
Alex looked back onto the stage. He had nearly missed the formation setting competition, but even after watching it, he didn't realize what was happening.
He couldn't understand the logic as to why the participants threw their flags at the place they did. Soon, that competition was over too without Alex really knowing what took place.
'It seems watching a formation-making competition without the slightest idea on formation making is not a good idea,' he thought.
Finally, he looked back towards the Hong Wu sect's seating area and saw that Ma Rong was missing. So were the three disciples.
It was ti for the pill-making competition.
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