Announcement of the Rankings!

"Mm!"

Hearing Fa Ma's assessment of Liu Ling, Hai Bodong, standing nearby, nodded in strong agreement. Then he said with a sigh, "What's been going on lately? First there was Yan Xiao, who at such a young age possessed the strength to battle a Dou Wang and the ability to refine Fourth-Grade Pills. Then came word that the leader of some small mercenary group in Stone Desert City possessed heaven-defying talent. Though his cultivation was inferior to Yan Xiao's, he was even younger. And now, another Liu Ling has emerged, already capable of refining Fifth-Grade Pills at an age most wouldn't even dare imagine."

"Old Jia, all these geniuses came from Jia Ma. You've truly struck it rich!" After Hai Bodong finished speaking, Fa Ma turned to Jia Xing Tian, who was equally stirred, and said, "With the talents of these young people, as long as you seize the opportunity, the Jia Ma Empire may very well become one of the strongest nations on the Northwest Continent in the future!"

Hearing Fa Ma's words, Jia Xing Tian cupped his hands and laughed. "Haha, Fa Ma, old Ice, then I'll gladly accept your auspicious words!"

At this moment, after seeing Liu Ling successfully form his pill, nearly everyone knew that the pill refined by that upright young man was a Fifth-Grade Pill.

"Little Yan, this kid is indeed very strong. At this level, in another five or six years, he could attend the grandest Pill Gathering in the Central Plains and win a respectable ranking! You didn't lose unfairly to him!" Within Xiao Yan's ring, Elder Yao also held Liu Ling in extremely high regard, because he could sense that the energy contained within Liu Ling's pill was far stronger than that of an ordinary Fifth-Grade Pill.

Even without Elder Yao's