Chapter 70 : Bet!!!

Nie Li and Lee looked at the walls as they were lots of papers on it, all were problems that were encountered during refinement.

Nie Li had solved most of these in his second life, you can say that he had gotten half of these completed...

As Lee was staring at them as well he decided how it would be best to Shut his mouth and follow his lead during their talk with the President and Director...

Surprisingly enough Nie Li was thinking the same, he had to admit that Lee even though he seemed Lazy he does works on key points and helping him indirectly...

Therefore he thought to use the papers and gauge out his knowledge with the premise of promising to never cross each other path...

Nie Li : "Hey Lee, here's an idea."

Lee : "What a coincidence i also have an Idea..."

Both : "What about a Bet?? The Loser will never cross the other..."

The examiners were shocked seeing them being competitive as they heard that, they were shocked even more when they had the same words in their minds...

Lee : "So, how do we judge?? The one who answers more??"

Nie Li : "There are almost 200 pages around us, how about we pick 20 for each other??"

Lee : "Deal..."

They both looked at each other and started walking at opposite direction as they unplugged the questions in the papers from the walls causing frowns from the Masters there as many of what they selected can only be achieved by Grand Masters...

They both sat down on a free table there and passed each other the papers... There layed two horned pens which surprised them as they remember that only one existed before...

Nevertheless, they both took up the horned pens from the table. They looked at each other in the eye and finally, Lee spoke up to him...

Lee : "The one who finishes first wins...."

Nie Li : "Sure, The loser will follow the other for a month..."

Lee : "Why a month??"

Nie Li : "Because at that point i have another Bet, which you know..."

Lee : "Oh!!! Right... No, wait!! A week and a favour!!!"

Nie Li : "Hmm?? Are you sure??"

Lee : "Yep..."

Huyan Ming : "Wait!"

Nie Li : "What is it?"

Huyan Ming : "You plan on answering those questions?"

Lee : "Yes, we did make a bet after all..."

Huyan Ming wanted to say that all those questions on the wall were encountered by Alchemy Masters during their refinement process. Just reading books wouldn't be able to answer them.

One has to personally refine and search for the solution. None of them thought that Nie Li and Lee would be able to answer those questions.

They turned their attention back to each other and both turned to the examiners and glared them, the examiners were stupified by their glare and after a few seconds, they finally realised what it meant.

They wanted a signal to start...

De Yan : "Well then, the one who answers 20 pages faster Wins... Now... GO!!!!"

Nie Li swiftly moved his hand, writing down the answers after taking a glimpse at the problems from what he got from Lee and Lee was the same...

One page, two pages, three pages both of them had caught fire as inside the room only the scribble of the pen could be heard...

When Nie Li reached the 10th page his speed slowed down by 1 second and kept going with the 11th, 12th and at 15th he was far behind Lee for about 5 seconds...

There were many problems, which had different meanings and had to read them in order to understand what solution will bring the best results...

Surprisingly enough when they reached the 19th page, it was Lee's turn to get stuck and even though Nie Li managed to close a gap of 10 seconds that was enough to answer a question of these calibres, Lee finished it first with a split second of brushing it in the side...

The Alchemy Masters who were watching had popped out their eyes with these kinds of answers, there were many who had totally changed the ratio of the formulas based on the materials...

Others who completely crossed out their material and even listed reasons for it. Seeing how fast Nie Li and Lee had reached the last page to the problems they were shocked...

They didn't know if these answers were true or false unless someone tested them, however, now they cared more about who will win this bet...

What surprised them was that they both started crossing out the questions as invalid and almost lost their minds...

It was a shout of a young man that awakened them and looked at Lee who raised his pen as he had finished crossing his questions while Nie Li had formed a half X in it...

Nie Li lost for 1 freaking second and almost snapped his pen in his anger but held it down...

De Yan : "Winner Lee..."

Lee : "Damn that was close..."

Nie Li : "Sigh..... Fine I lost....."

Lee : "Then as promised... You'll follow my lead for a week and you owe me a favour..."

Nie Li : "I know you don't have to remind me..."

Lee : "Which reminds me why did you get stuck for a split of second?? Well, I did as well but only because i saw a few familiars questions..."

Nie Li : "Instead of familiars should i say similar ones??"

Lee : "Well, even if we didn't get stuck we were pretty much the same in speed..."

Both of them stood up and went and sat in another table as they wanted to check a few things and the Masters there took the pages and started reading them from up and down...

Luo Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. They both did not go through the refining process and yet he could already come out with the solution.

Luo Tao's gaze then fell onto one of the questions, it's a problem with herbal equilibrium.

Luo Tao : "How should the ratio of Snow Grass, Nine Immortal Grass, and Dragon Gall Grass be??"

Huyan Ming : "According to the alchemy theory, combining these three herbs would definitely be able to refine an extremely strong antidote medicine. However, how should the ratio of these herbs be? Up till today, there is still no answer to it,"

And Lee's answer to it is: 'No matter what the ratio, it will keep failing each time. Dragon Gall Grass should be changed to Solani Grass or Calming Weed. The ratio would be 3:1:2. or 2:2:1.

Solani Grass is very similar to the Dragon Gall Grass, both have detoxification effects. However, the Dragon Gall Grass is violent, whereas the Solani Grass is much calmer. Furthermore, this ratio for the herb is perfect.

Calming Weed is very similar to Solani Grass but has mashup properties that tie all other material and the best thing is it enhance their medicinal properties...

Luo Yan : "Brilliant!"

De Yan continued looking at the papers on the table with the others while Nie Li and Lee were talking about what they would do here...

Nie Li : "Since i lost in the fiasco you made to let them on their thoughts, you wanted to say something isn't that right??"

Lee : "True, but i also wanted to beat you..."

Lee : "Let's get this over with shall we??"

Lee : "When they came inside, we are both apprentices under the same Master, with me being a core disciple and you an outer core..."

Nie Li : "What's in for me??"

Lee : "Nothing... As you will have to follow my lead for a week!!"