Three days later, the three giants of the Pill Tower assembled, preparing to open the seal on the Star Region.
The rules for subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame had been set by the Pill Tower.
Contestants qualified to attempt it would do so in order of their competition rankings.
If one failed, the next contestant would take their turn, and so on.
If an accident occurred during the subjugation process, or someone was even burned to ashes by the Three Thousand Burning Flame—
The Pill Tower would not be held responsible! Thus, although thirty people had qualified, only twelve ultimately came.
Xiao Aotian, third place in the alchemy competition, did not come. Little Yao Xi, ranked fifth, did not come either.
Of these twelve, the more noteworthy ones were Refining Spirit Venerable, first place in the artifact-refining competition, and Hundred Fires Venerable, third place in the formation seal competition.
Among the prodigies of the Ancient Eight Clans, only two had come.
Yao Xingji of the Yao Clan, and Huo Ran of the Flame Clan!
Xiao Mei of the Xiao Clan was actually an Alchemist as well, but her task was merely to bring Xiao Qian Di's puppet to the Ten Thousand Spirits Realm. Her own alchemy had yet to reach the eighth grade.
Huo Ran's alchemy was actually quite good too. During the competition, he had refined an Eighth Grade Pill that produced four-colored pill lightning.
But compared to the "freaks" in the central competition area, he was still far behind, so he had barely received any attention.
Still, his luck was fairly good. He happened to rank tenth.
Apart from those four, Yang Shan, Yao Lao, and Green-Hua Old Freak, the other five, including Zhuang Youqian and Thousand Jade Hands, were all Players.
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