At the center of the arena, flames of every color surged from countless palms!
They transformed into all manner of beastly shapes as dozens of flame-control techniques bloomed!
The audience's gazes focused on the various contestants.
Yao Yue stood before her own medicine cauldron, her expression intent.
The pink flame at her fingertips flickered brightly and dimly as she precisely controlled the temperature.
Beneath the ornate medicine cauldron, which stood as tall as a person, pink flames raged.
They wrapped around it like scarlet flowers, blossoming brilliantly.
They meticulously extracted every trace of essence from the medicinal ingredients!
The jade marrow floating within the cauldron gradually turned transparent beneath the licking flames.
Just as the jade marrow slowly transformed into liquid,
Yao Yue tossed two medicinal ingredients into it at once!
A commotion immediately erupted among the lower-grade alchemists in the audience:
She was refining the Seven Leaf Ice Heart Lotus and the Crimson Flame Fruit together?
The properties of those two ingredients conflicted.
Fusing them together would be extraordinarily difficult!
Yet despite such a bold maneuver, the ingredients did not burn away in an instant.
Instead, under her skillful control of the flames,
the two ingredients melted into a blue-and-red liquid within the cauldron.
As ice and fire intertwined, a pale golden fluid slowly emerged.
Yao Yue bit her lip tightly, fine beads of sweat forming on her forehead.
Her eyes did not dare leave the medicine cauldron for even a moment.
She focused everything on maintaining that delicate balance.
On the right side of the arena, the attention of half the audience was also fixed on Liu Ling.
Cold sweat seeped from his forehead, and his expression was tense.
The deep-blue flame transformed into seven writhing snakes, tightly coiling around the medicine cauldron.
The three Beast Cores within