In the vast square, a heavy silence descended, and only after a long while did waves of regretful sighs echo from the audience. “Ah…” The young princess gently brushed off the dust that had splattered onto her robes, raised her head to look at the white mist where Xiao Yan stood, and sighed softly, shaking her head. No one would have thought that this black horse, who was supposed to be on par with the mysterious youth in this grand assembly, would fail because of such a ridiculous result. “This time, the guild is truly going to lose a lot of face.” “Haha, Guildmaster Fama, since Yanxiao has failed, then please announce the final results of the assembly!” After a bout of manic laughter, Yan Li finally managed to suppress the wild joy in his heart, lifted his head to look at Fama and the others in the VIP seats, and said with a big laugh. “What should we do?” Hai Bodong frowned slightly, a cold, sinister intent flickering across his face. He glanced grimly at Yan Li below and muttered, “What can we do? Can we really kill him in front of all these people?” Fama’s expression was equally grim, but he too was at a loss. “If we had known this would happen, we should have just dealt with him last night…” Jia Lao slashed his hand down, speaking coldly. “Sigh, killing him would be troublesome too… That guy has a grip on our weak spot, preventing us from exposing his identity,” Fama shook his head, sighed, and said with a bitter smile, “It seems we can only let him take the championship… In front of so many people, the guild can’t possibly detain him for no reason, right?” Hearing this, both Hai Bodong and Jia Lao frowned deeply, exchanged glances, but found themselves helpless, and could only nod darkly. Taking a step forward, Fama swept his gaze over the square, and the sense of helplessness in his voice was clear to everyone. “According to the rules of the assembly, whoever produces the highest-grade and most practical medicinal pill in this round will be the ultimate victor… Although Princess Xuner and Liu Ling also produced fourth-grade medicinal pills, in terms of grade and practicality, they were inferior to Yan Li’s Zixin Breakthrough Pill. Therefore…” A profound silence fell over the immense square, broken only by Fama’s voice, which resonated slowly. “Therefore, the victor of the Gama Empire’s alchemist assembly…” With his arms crossed, Yan Li smiled gleefully at Fama and the others on the high platform, their faces grim, and stretched lazily. He could almost imagine the adoration he would receive when he returned to the Yun Country. At that time, no one would be able to challenge him for the position of guildmaster! “The victor… is Yan…” Slowly closing his eyes, Fama gritted his teeth and spoke the final words. “Wait!” A sudden shout echoed across the square, interrupting Fama’s words. Countless gazes followed the sound, all converging on the stone platform enveloped in a white cold aura, from where the shout had come. Soon after the shout, the white mist that had been motionless around the stone platform began to fade. After a while, the white mist had become so faint that it could no longer obscure vision, and the scene within came into view. The hard bluestone platform, having been cracked by the explosion of the medicinal cauldron, was in disarray. A little further, a young man with tattered clothes, holding onto the platform, was panting heavily. His body was covered in faint bloodstains, likely caused by the fragments of the exploded cauldron. Sensing the final wisps of coldness dissipating, the young man raised his somewhat pale, ordinary face, and rasped at Fama, “There should still be about ten minutes left in the competition, right?” “Fourteen minutes!” Looking at the extremely weak Xiao Yan, Fama nodded and replied. “Yanxiao, your medicinal cauldron has already exploded. Even if there are still ten minutes left, what can you do? Are you going to replace the cauldron and start over? Haha! I advise you to just concede. This kind of indecisiveness is not like a man’s behavior.” Seeing Xiao Yan reappear, Yan Li couldn’t help but mock. “Retreating when you still have the strength to fight is not like a man’s behavior.” Smiling faintly, Xiao Yan tilted his head, a mocking smile playing on his lips. “Besides, who told you that I need to start over?” “What do you mean?” Seeing Xiao Yan’s mysterious demeanor, the smile on Yan Li’s face gradually faded, and he asked uneasily. Ignoring Yan Li’s questioning, Xiao Yan, under the watchful eyes of the thousands of spectators, slowly raised his right hand, his palm slightly curved, and a surge of suction force suddenly erupted towards the sky. Following the direction of Xiao Yan’s palm, thousands of gazes slowly rose, eventually stopping in surprise at a white flame hovering in the air. Due to the color of the flame blending with the surrounding clouds, if one didn’t look carefully, they wouldn’t notice that it was a burning white flame. This white flame was the one that Xiao Yan, in the critical moment before the medicinal cauldron exploded, had struck the bottom of the cauldron, using a clever force to wrap the Three-Patterned Qingling Pill in a cocoon of Bone Spirit Cold Fire, sending it up into the sky, thus avoiding the impact of the cauldron’s explosion… In those final crucial moments, to think of such a clever way out, even Xiao Yan felt a bit of admiration for himself. That seemingly reckless slap had turned the entire assembly around! “What is this?” Staring in amazement at the white flame in the sky, Fama could detect the icy cold aura surrounding it, but more importantly, at the center of the flame, there appeared to be a green medicinal pill, intermittently visible! “Haha, it seems that declaring defeat is a bit premature. Miracles always happen at the last moment, and moreover, this guy never lacks for them.” Looking at the white flame, Hai Bodong felt a weight lifted from his heart. He knew that to defeat that little monster, Yan Li’s strength was still lacking. “Good boy… indeed, we underestimated him! But why does he always make the competition so twisty?” Clapping his hands, Jia Lao exclaimed with admiration. Fama nodded in agreement. Watching this guy’s matches, if you didn’t have a strong heart, you might actually be scared to death. Just this one match had made countless people’s hearts rise and fall, and then rise again… “A terrifying fellow, in that last moment, he actually thought of a way to preserve the medicinal pill. Sigh… I have to admit, I’m impressed!” Nalan Jie stroked his beard, praising endlessly. Her chest rising and falling gently, Nalan Yanran let out a long breath of the stifled air in her chest, nodded slightly, and then unnoticeably wiped away the cold sweat on her smooth forehead. She hadn’t expected this match, which seemed to be a done deal, to turn around again. “What is that thing?” Staring grimly at the white flame in the sky, an even greater sense of unease filled Yan Li’s heart. In the square, the white flame in the sky, under the suction force released by Xiao Yan, began to rapidly descend. As it fell, the white flame on its surface dissipated quickly, and the green medicinal pill inside became more and more visible… When the medicinal pill was only half a meter away from Xiao Yan’s palm, the flame finally completely dissipated, and the smooth, green medicinal pill accurately fell into Xiao Yan’s palm. Retracting his hand, Xiao Yan looked down at the green medicinal pill, which had undergone twists and turns before finally being successfully produced, and couldn’t help but take a deep, slightly cool breath. The medicinal pill was green, the size of a dragon’s eye, with three rings of green, purple, and white arranged in perfect order on its smooth surface. Holding the medicinal pill, Xiao Yan could even sense the surging energy contained within it. “Finally succeeded…” A relieved smile appeared on his pale face. Since learning the art of alchemy, this was the first time Xiao Yan had expended so much effort to produce a single medicinal pill. “Succeeded? What grade is it?” Seeing the smile on Xiao Yan’s face, the young princess and the others nearby couldn’t help but ask. Because of the cold, the Three-Patterned Qingling Pill had not even emitted any fragrance before being frozen by the icy cold. So the young princess and the others did not know the exact information about the medicinal pill Xiao Yan had refined. Of course, although there was no fragrance, they were not foolish enough to think it was a low-grade medicinal pill. Xiao Yan smiled lightly, cast a glance at Yan Li, who was looking grim and restless, raised the green medicinal pill high, and gazed intently at Fama and the others smiling on the high platform, and shouted loudly, “Fourth-grade medicinal pill, Three-Patterned Qingling Pill!” “Haha… Good!” Seeing the young man below holding the medicinal pill and shouting, Fama couldn’t help but feel excited, and burst into a gratified laugh. “Three… Three-Patterned Qingling Pill?!” The sound in his ears was like a thunderclap, exploding in Yan Li’s heart. His ears buzzed, and his originally smug face turned ashen. His gaze was unfocused, fixed on the green medicinal pill in Xiao Yan’s palm, and his legs weakened, finally collapsing onto the ground. Although the Zixin Breakthrough Pill was strong, Yan Li knew very well that a third-patterned Qingling Pill would definitely be stronger! The championship, which was within his grasp, had changed hands in less than five minutes! This, was a miracle! A miracle created by a young man not yet twenty years old!
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