Chapter 1745: The Art of Demon Attraction

"Brother Kong, please take a look!" Ye Yuan said with a smile as the paper was still floating.

Kong Lin's expression changed, and he reached out to take the paper.

The moment it touched his hand, it was extremely hot!

Boom!

The paper directly ignited, turning into a pile of ashes!

"This... the critical temperature! How did you do it?" Kong Lin looked at Ye Yuan in shock.

Everyone present was an expert, so naturally they wouldn't say Ye Yuan had failed just because the paper burned.

The reason it burned was that Ye Yuan had heated the paper to the critical point.

When Kong Lin received the paper, the friction between his palm and the paper instantly pushed it past the critical point, causing it to ignite.

Burning or not burning, it was only a touch away!

Such control over fire was truly beyond belief.

In ordinary assessments, no one dared to play with fire like this, no matter how strong they were!

Because the critical temperature was too difficult to control; even the slightest misstep would burn the paper.

If Ye Yuan had achieved this with willow cloud wood, it would have been impressive but not unbelievable.

But he did it with ordinary paper—that was terrifying!

Ye Yuan shrugged and said, "There's nothing difficult about it. I could do it when I was three hundred years old. Well, if you can find paper of the mortal first rank, I can show you my current strength."

Everyone was speechless.

Mortal first rank paper simply didn't exist in the Tongtian Realm.

The Heavenly Demon Mountain Range had countless trees, but not even mortal fifth or sixth rank could be found, let alone mortal first rank.

To get mortal first rank wood, one would have to search in small worlds.

Moreover, the three hundred years Ye Yuan mentioned were not from this life, but from his previous life!

In his previous life as Ji Qingyun, he had already achieved this at three hundred years old.

Now, nearly a thousand years later, Ye Yuan's fire control could no longer be measured by mere mortal first rank paper.

But this was already shocking enough!

At the head of the table, the three elders exchanged glances, equally stunned.

"Young man, what is your name?" Shi Yu asked.

"Ye Yuan!"

Shi Yu nodded and said, "Ye Yuan, your fire control is indeed remarkable! Even we old fellows might not be your match."

At these words, the examinees were all dumbfounded.

Even Elder Shi Yu, as strong as he was, actually admitted to being inferior to such a young man?

Mu Yuanchun, in particular, wished he could find a hole to crawl into.

Shi Yu's words were practically a slap in his face, weren't they?

Earlier, Ye Yuan had said that this kind of understanding didn't apply to some people.

Now, wasn't that exactly being proven true?

Which of those elders up there hadn't lived for over a hundred thousand years?

Their accumulation was beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Yet Ye Yuan said he had reached that level at three hundred years old—could there be anything more embarrassing?

But Shi Yu changed the subject and said, "However, refining the Demon God Pill is different from human divine pills. You need to pass the next two rounds to succeed."

Ye Yuan cupped his hands and said, "Yes, Elder. Ye Yuan will not disappoint you."

Shi Yu nodded and said, "Continue."

Only then did Kong Lin recover from his shock and said, "Now begins the second round: The Art of Demon Attraction! Those eliminated in the first round need not participate."

Of the hundred or so demon clan experts, more than half had been eliminated in the first round.

Now, only about thirty or forty remained.

"Here are a hundred types of wood shavings. What you need to do is use the Art of Demon Attraction to bond them together! The more types you bond, the better your result! Bonding more than twenty-five types qualifies!" Kong Lin said.

The so-called Art of Demon Attraction was a basic skill in demon clan alchemy.

Humans had strong souls and many secret techniques to cultivate them.

But the demon clan's talent did not lie in the demon soul, so their demon souls were relatively weak.

Except for a few extremely powerful races, most races had demon souls inferior to humans.

It was difficult for them to use soul power as a lubricant to refine pills like human alchemists did.

However, the demon clan also had an advantage that humans lacked: they were naturally closer to nature.

The demon clan's demon divine origin also had greater affinity with spiritual herbs.

Thus, they took a different path, using the demon divine origin to play the role of human soul power in refining pills.

This was the demon clan's cultivation system.

The strength of the Art of Demon Attraction largely reflected the strength of a demon clan alchemist.

In general, humans relied mainly on soul power, supplemented by divine origin; the demon clan relied mainly on demon divine origin, supplemented by soul power.

Under Kong Lin's guidance, the examinees began the second round.

Bonding wood shavings—this assessment method was also quite novel.

Wood shavings were not spiritual herbs, so there wouldn't be much complementary law fragments between them.

Bonding them into a whole was not an easy task.

But it also tested the alchemist's Art of Demon Attraction even more.

The examinees were all extremely cautious, afraid of making the slightest mistake.

But at best, they could only bond a dozen or so types of wood shavings.

Any more, and they couldn't manage.

In a corner, Ye Yuan stared intently at everyone's operations, constantly deducing in his mind.

Ye Yuan knew nothing about the Art of Demon Attraction, but he knew that it had commonalities with the Art of Soul Attraction.

A faint trace of demon divine origin flowed in Ye Yuan's palm as he simulated bonding the wood shavings.

Sensing the fluctuation of demon divine origin, many turned to look.

Mu Yuanchun saw this and was momentarily stunned.

"This kid... doesn't know the Art of Demon Attraction at all! Haha, I told you, this guy is just a human alchemist trying to sneak into the Priest Temple!" Mu Yuanchun said.

Others also immediately saw something was wrong.

"No way? His fire control is so amazing, yet he doesn't know the Art of Demon Attraction!"

"It seems he's never refined a Demon God Pill before!"

"This guy... isn't he trying to learn on the spot? This... this is too ridiculous!"

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In the first round, Ye Yuan had shocked everyone.

But now, this scene completely overturned their view of him.

Perhaps Ye Yuan was indeed a very skilled human alchemist.

But if he didn't even know the Art of Demon Attraction, how could he pass the second round?

"Elders, this guy knows nothing about our demon clan's alchemy. He likely has ill intentions and wants to infiltrate our Priest Temple! I beg the elders to execute him on the spot!" Mu Yuanchun cupped his hands and petitioned.

Ye Yuan paid no attention to Mu Yuanchun; he was already immersed in it.

The examinees' skills were not particularly strong, but Ye Yuan was constantly learning from their strengths, deducing, and perfecting in his mind, and his own skill was advancing by leaps and bounds.

Shi Yu's eyes were like torches, fixed on Ye Yuan, and he said calmly, "This child is no ordinary person. Let him try."