Just as Lin Fei was conflicted, she had been saying only a moment ago that she did not want to get married.
Yet in the very next moment, Xue Mei went blank-faced and blurted out instinctively!
"Xue Mei, y-you... since when were you so casual? Didn't you say before that unless he was a handsome prince with exceptional talent, you would never marry anyone?"
Hearing Xue Mei say she wanted to marry him, Lin Fei was even more astonished and could not help saying so.
But when she looked at Xue Mei, she noticed that something was wrong with her expression and gaze, as though she had been bewitched by something.
Then Xue Mei spoke as if her soul had been stolen away:
"Yes, I said that, but hasn't that person already appeared? This is my fate. Otherwise, why would he appear here at this time and make a marriage bet with Teacher? This is the marriage fate Heaven has bestowed upon me!"
"No, Xue Mei, what are you talking about? You... whoa, what a handsome young man..."
Lin Fei had been about to sternly rebuke Xue Mei for losing her senses over a man's looks. But then, following Xue Mei's gaze, she looked past the young man who had already formed the pill. She froze as well, and her tone abruptly changed as she marveled aloud.
There, at the center of the hall, although the young man's Elemental Affinity was extremely strong, he was ultimately still far from the level normally required to refine a Grade 4 pill.
Though he had handled the elements and Kneading Pill perfectly, he had failed to clear away the impurities burned out of the medicinal ingredients in time. They burst out from the opening of the medicinal cauldron.
In an instant, purple-black granular