Shocked Manghuang Mountain

--As for skill competitions, Qin Fengming knew that even masters who had immersed themselves in a given skill for decades or centuries could not possibly claim to make not a single mistake.

Take alchemy, for example. It not only required the contestant to have mastered the manipulation of various flames to perfection, but also demanded that the cultivator know the properties and medicinal effects of every kind of spirit herb like the back of his hand. How easy was that?

Thus, during Manghuang Mountain's competitions, it was stipulated that whenever a participating cultivator performed a particular skill, he was allowed one mistake. However, he had to pay spirit stones or other valuables of equivalent worth for any materials lost.

Manghuang Mountain's approach was also rooted in a down-to-earth attitude. Unwittingly, it allowed them to select cultivators of truly outstanding ability.

Judging from the tests just now, nearly two thousand cultivators had come to participate in this selection. Although one or two hundred had failed to meet the requirements during the tests of bone age and cultivation, and had already been sent away from Manghuang Mountain, more than seventeen hundred cultivators remained.

Among these cultivators, aside from several dozen who had entered the competitions for herb cultivation, beast taming, and Puppet Technique, more than eighty percent had come for the three events of alchemy, artifact refinement, and talisman crafting.

With so many cultivators participating in the skill competitions at once, the amount of rare materials consumed alone would be immeasurable.

Although the materials used during the competitions were not exceptionally precious, the number of spirit stones needed to gather them all was absolutely astronomical.

An ordinary sect would certainly have been unable to make such a grand gesture. From this alone, one could see how profound Manghuang Mountain's foundation was.

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