The Nine-Colored Pill Lightning in the sky struck down once at intervals, each bolt more powerful than the last. By the end, Gu He was no longer meeting them with his fists, but using Dou Techniques.
A full half hour passed before the dark clouds, having poured out all the energy they had gathered, slowly dispersed in unwillingness.
At that moment, everyone still standing could not help but cheer loudly, celebrating the birth of another legendary alchemist in Sacred Pill City.
With a flick of his sleeve, Gu He lifted the cauldron lid. He then made a grasping motion with his right hand, catching the pill that had escaped from the Medicine Cauldron and placing it into a jade bottle.
"Gu He, congratulations." As Gu He put away the pill, Xuan Kongzi and the other two, who had long been waiting nearby, offered their congratulations with complicated expressions.
It was not as though they had never considered the possibility of Gu He refining a pill that summoned Nine-Colored Pill Lightning. Xuan Kongzi especially had known, after watching Gu He flawlessly refine an Eight-colored Pill Lightning pill in the Small Pill Tower, that Gu He would be able to refine a Nine-Colored Pill Lightning pill within three years. Yet he had never expected that not even a year had passed—only a few months—and Gu He had already done so, bringing his alchemy to the same level as theirs. Their emotions were exceedingly complicated. They had practically watched Gu He improve step by step to reach this point, but even having witnessed his entire journey, it still felt like a dream. Honestly, even if they had encountered the same opportunities as Gu He, they might not have reached his current level.
"Haha, I should also thank the three of you for never