In the huge arena, the number of people had dropped from the initial forty-seven to thirty-nine. With eight people leaving the arena, no one dared to be presumptuous and focused on refining pills.
However, while everyone was in the refining stage, Lu An was the only one who had returned to the purification stage. Two days had passed since the start of the competition. Whether or not Lu An could refine pills in the remaining five days was a problem.
Lu An's eyes were calm as he focused on the purification. However, he also felt the pressure of time. His goal here was not as simple as refining pills. He also wanted to obtain the highest ranking.
The Ninth Heavens Sacred Flame burned the materials. Because he had the experience of purification before, Lu An was prepared to be more decisive this time.
Within the furnace, the Ninth Heavens Sacred Flame was crimson red. Lu An did not use the white flame. Instead, he used the pure Ninth Heavens Sacred Flame. In an instant, the violent temperature melted the materials rapidly. When it reached the level required by Lu An, it changed to a white flame with a controllable temperature. Little by little, the final purification was completed.
Following this train of thought, Lu An's purification speed became much faster. However, it still could not catch up with the purification speed of a real Level 8 Medicine Master. Lu An had used sixteen hours to purify previously. However, this time, he felt that he could finish it in twenty-four hours.
The sky turned dark and then bright again. Sure enough, just as Lu An had expected, on the fourth day, he finally completed the purification step. This allowed him to let out a long sigh. Controlling the Ninth Heavens Sacred Flame was different from controlling the white flame. The former was more difficult and consumed more energy. Fortunately, he did not encounter any danger along the way and succeeded in the purification.
Next, Lu An had to return to the refining stage.
At this moment, many Level 8 Medicine Masters in the arena began to move. The six Medicine Masters from the Montenegrin Empire closed the alchemy furnace and pressed their hands on it. Suddenly, the entire alchemy furnace turned crimson red!
Pill condensation?
Lu An frowned slightly. He was right. The people of the Montenegrin Empire had indeed reached the final step, which was to condense the elixir.
However, just as the six of them closed the cauldron, Sun Zhong also closed the cauldron in less than a quarter of an hour. His hands urged the flames to burn the cauldron fiercely, turning it crimson red!
So fast!
Everyone was shocked. This Sun Zhong had been reading for almost eight hours, and he had even been injured in the process. Who would have thought that he would be able to make up for all that time? He was indeed a reclusive master of the Alchemy Divine Nation!
The seven of them had reached the stage of solidifying their pills, which made the other pharmacists present feel extremely pressured. However, for this Yang Reversal Pill, the last step of condensing the pill was the most difficult.
Condensing a pill was not as simple as simply condensing a liquid into a solid. In most cases, the liquid in the pill furnace was divided into layers after refining. The process of condensing a pill required these layers of liquid to rotate without changing their order and without interfering with each other, condensing them into a ball. The liquid at the bottom was at the center of the pill, while the liquid at the top was at the outermost layer of the pill.
However, condensing a pill was not the only thing. The solid body also had a structure. Some were solid while others were hollow. There were also different shapes. Some were like waves while others were like stairs. Every layer was different. All of these required the pharmacist to control the flames and techniques outside the cauldron. For this, the Yang Reversal Pill had extremely strict requirements.
Regarding this last step, even the six pharmacists from the Montenegrin Empire who had refined the pill in advance were very nervous. This competition was originally organized in the last half a month, and they had only obtained the pill recipe for less than half a month. Each of them had only refined two or three times, and the reason why they were treated as people to be protected was because only these six people had succeeded, and the other six people had not refined the pill at all.
This was also the reason why the Yang Reversal Pill was not learned by any Level Eight pharmacists. It was troublesome and there was nothing special about it.
The six Level Eight pharmacists from the Montenegrin Empire were nervously refining the pill. This last step only required twelve hours, which meant that the refining process would end when the sky turned dark. Sun Zhong was still chasing after them. They had to condense the pill as soon as possible to ensure that the first refining process would end.
As long as one of the six pharmacists succeeded, the championship would be theirs!
A race against time had begun. Sun Zhong and the six pharmacists from the Montenegrin Empire were competing against each other. In the afternoon, the other Level Eight pharmacists had also finished refining and were at the final step of condensing the pill.
The only ones who had not arrived were Lu An and the woman on the left.
However, unlike Lu An, the woman on the left was also at the end of the refining process. She would be able to finish before nightfall. Only Lu An would need two and a half days to complete the refining process.
Bang!!
Suddenly, without any warning, there was a loud explosion. The hundreds of thousands of people in the audience were shocked and almost fell sick!
If the people outside the competition were like this, what more the people in the competition? Immediately, the pharmacists' bodies shook. They were almost interrupted from condensing the pill!
The one who exploded was none other than a pharmacist from the Montenegrin Empire who was in the second half of condensing the pill. His alchemy furnace shook and the lid was pushed open. Thick smoke came out from it and a pungent smell wafted out.
This was a true failure. The alchemist stared blankly at his own cauldron, dumbstruck. He couldn't believe that he had actually failed.
In the VIP room of the Montenegrin Empire, the Emperor frowned when he saw this scene. The others were the same. If they could not win the championship after receiving the news in advance, it would be very embarrassing. If in the end, not a single person was able to successfully refine it, then it would be extremely embarrassing.
However, the process of condensing the pill was too difficult. It required a lot of control over the fire. The liquid in the alchemy furnace was divided into thirteen layers from top to bottom. Thirteen layers meant thirteen different shapes. To condense the liquid into a pill that was less than an inch in size, the thirteen layers had to communicate with each other. One could imagine how difficult it was!
The pharmacist who had failed did not continue. Instead, he stood there in a daze. He really did not know what he had done wrong. He did not even want to try again.
In fact, this explosion was just the beginning.
One hour later …
Bang!
Bang!
The sound of the explosion could be heard every half an hour. It came from all over the competition grounds. Every time there was an explosion, the audience would jump in fright and become more and more frightened. Sure enough, this Yang Reversal Pill was not an ordinary pill. Even a Level 8 pharmacist had a hard time refining it!
The sky gradually darkened and night fell. Out of the thirty-nine pharmacists in the competition grounds, twenty-four had failed. They did not continue and stood there looking around. Half of the people from the Medicine God Empire had also failed. Out of the five from the Montenegrin Empire, only three were left.
Including Lu An and the woman, there were only 15 alchemists left refining pills. These fifteen people were nervously refining. To the hundreds of thousands of people in the audience, all of their attention was on Sun Zhong and the three from the Montenegrin Empire.
Hundreds of thousands of people had been waiting here for three days. Finally, the results were about to come out. They all wanted to know who would be the first to finish refining the pill!
The sky had completely darkened. It was now Xu Shi. The entire competition had entered the final stage. During this time, another eight people had failed.
Only seven people were left. Other than Lu An and the woman, there were five people left. Two from the Medicine God Empire, two from the Montenegrin Empire, and one from the Heavenly Dragon Empire. As for the Southern Cloud Empire, Yang Rong Empire, and Heavenly Dragon Empire, they were all defeated.
This result caused the atmosphere in the VIP rooms of the three empires to become very heavy. The Emperor of the Heavenly Dragon Empire was furious and was throwing a tantrum at everyone. Although the Emperors of the Southern Cloud Empire and Yang Rong Empire did not go berserk, their faces were very gloomy. No one in the room dared to say a word.
Twenty minutes after Xu Shi …
Forty minutes after Xu Shi …
The time was getting closer and closer to Xu Shi. When Xu Shi arrived, the results would be out. Everything depended on whether anyone could finish before Xu Shi.
Bang!
Bang!
At this moment, the pill furnaces of the Medicine God Empire and Montenegrin Empire exploded again! Suddenly, thick smoke rose. Both empires had lost one person!
In the Montenegrin Empire's VIP room, everyone sucked in a breath of cold air. They gritted their teeth and even prayed. The people of the Medicine God Empire were the same. Everyone's eyes were fixed on Sun Zhong, hoping that he would succeed.
At this moment, two rays of light suddenly shot out from the pill furnaces! The pill furnaces of Sun Zhong and the Montenegrin Empire lit up at the same time. Both of their bodies trembled!
Both of them acted at the same time. The dazzling light was completely shrouded and forced back into the pill furnaces. As if it was under great pressure, the lid of the furnace could no longer withstand it. With a loud bang, it flew out!
Following that, the pill shot out from the furnace!
Pa!
Pa!
At the same time, Sun Zhong and the Montenegrin Empire's pill refinement was completed!
The entire room was silent. After a short moment of silence, there was an explosion of cheers!
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