Chapter 378: The Strange Sed Test!

  “This time, the prescription you’ll be w with is an official one. Our associatio several months creating it. For this test, you are required to successfully refihe pill acc to the prescription. The materials in front of you are enough for two attempts. In other words, you have only two ces. Onaterials are used up, that means failure!” Fa Ma’s voice echoed through the arena.

  “Huh?”

  After hearing Fa Ma’s expnation, the testants were momentarily stunned.

  “Refining a pill acc to the prescription? Isn’t that a bit too easy for a test?”

  “Following a recipe is even simpler than the first round. What’s going on?”

  “With how serious this petition has been so far, why would they e up with su easy test?”

  Puzzled, Liu Ling, Xiao Yan, and Princess Yao Yue all picked up the prescription scrolls simultaneously.

  As they unrolled the scrolls, Liu Ling closed his eyes slightly and released his soul power, carefully sing the details recorded on the prescription.

  As his soul power swept over the prescription, various precise data were quickly imprinted into his mind. Every importaail needed for the refining process was clearly remembered. This was the advantage of w with an official prescription.

  Once all the information was recorded in Liu Ling’s mind, he noticed that the details stored within the scroll via soul power were rapidly dissipating.

  “Windwalking Pill, a third-tier pill. Effects: The er bees highly sensitive to the wind attribute energy in the enviro, thus greatly enhang their movement speed.”

  Although this prescription was valuable, for someone like Liu Ling, who had seen even sixth-tier prescriptions, it wasn’t impressive. Moreover, he had refined simir pills before.

  “Acc to this, refining the Windwalking Pill requires the fusion of nine different medial ingredients. It’s not too many, but it’s also not too few,” Liu Ling murmured as his gaze swept over the nine ingredients pced before him. “As long as one is a third-tier alchemist and has the prescription, refining this pill isn’t difficult. Is this test so simple because they went too hard on us in the first round and want to make things easier now?”

  Liu Ling frowned slightly as he carefully reviewed the tents of the prescription again, falling into deep thought.

  Meanwhile, Xiao Yan had already throurple pill into his mouth and began igniting the fmes within his cauldron.

  From the VIP ptform, Fa Ma looked down at Xiao Yan and Princess Yao Yue, both of whom had already started their fires. His brow furrowed slightly as he muttered under his breath, “This test is not as simple as they think. They mustn’t be careless.”

  In the massive square below, after reviewing the prescription, most alchemists were visibly pleased with the seemingly easy challehey quickly lit their fires and began preparing to refihe pill.

  Of course, among the many alchemists, there were also some cautious ohe sudden simplicity of this round surprised them. But after staring at the prescription for a long time and finding nothing amiss, they relutly shook their heads and carefully began their preparations.

  Xiao Yan’s gaze remained fixed on the rising fmes inside his cauldron. As the fire grew hotter, he slowly tossed in one of the medial ingredients, closing his eyes as he began refining it.

  Not long after Xiao Yan began refining, the princess beside him also lit her fire and started her process. With the official prescription and their skills, as long as they were careful, refining the Windwalking Pill wouldn’t be too difficult for them.

  Of course, this assumed that their luck wasn’t particurly bad, as no refi process ever guaranteed a 100% success rate.

  As the alchemists resumed their refining, the chatter in the audience began to die down. One by ohe spectatazes swept over the alchemists, their eyes filled with envy as they watched fmes burst into life with every movement.

  However, while Xiao Yan had already refined five of the nine medial ingredients, Liu Ling hadn’t even started yet.

  At this moment, several capable testants in the square had already begurag the necessary medial pos. After a brief hesitation, they gritted their teeth and poured the refined esseo their cauldrons, beginning the final stage of pill refi.

  Xiao Yan, meanwhile, was carefully watg a herb swirling inside his cauldron. ed about potential unforeseen problems, he roceeding with the extra at a slower papared to the other testants, many of whom had already pleted this phase while he tinued his cautious refi.

  "Seems like everything is fine," Xiao Yan muttered after a while, watg as the material in the fme of the pill cauldron transformed into a pile of pale purple powder. He carefully opehe cauldrorieved the powder, and stored it in a jade bottle.

  As his gaze swept across the nine jade bottles in front of him, Xiao Yan realized that he had successfully extracted all the pos o refihe Windwalking Pill. Now, the final step of bining them y ahead.

  His haly stroked the cool surface of one of the jade bottles, and after a moment of ption, he decided to proceed without further dey. Just as he was about to pour the tents into the cauldron, a muffled sound suddenly echoed from a nearby stoform. Xiao Yan turned and saw a fellow alchemist staring bnkly at a pile of bed ash that had spilled from the bottom of his cauldron—a clear sign of failure.

  "How could this be? I followed the prescriptioly. How did I fail?" the alchemist muttered in fusion. Uo find an answer, he chalked it up to a mistake in trolling the heat and quickly cleared the ashes. Without wasting time, he added the st of his ingredients into the cauldron for atempt.

  Narrowing his eyes and watg the alchemist’s as closely, Xiao Yaated. He reized this alchemist from the internal tests and knew he possessed the skill of a third-tier alchemist. Logically, someoh his ability shouldn’t be making such a basic mistake in trolling the heat while refining a third-tier pill. Yet the evidence was undeniable—he had failed.

  "Something’s nht," Xiao Yan thought, his suspis growing.

  As time passed, simir muffled sounds began eg oer another across the square. More and more alchemists stared at the bed ashes in their cauldrons, their faces filled with fusion and disbelief. The dazed expressions on their faces made it clear that they, too, had no idea what had gone wrong.

  (End of Chapter)

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