Two more days passed. At last, a deep muffled boom rang out above the plaza. The clouds in the sky began gathering with lightning speed, and low thunder rumbled from within them. The first Pill Lightning had appeared.
Following the appearance of the first Pill Lightning, it was as though a chain reaction had been triggered. Thunder began rumbling continuously over the plaza. In a single day, there might be as few as one instance of Pill Lightning or as many as four or five. The rare sight of Pill Lightning appeared one after another at this Pill Gathering, gradually heating up the atmosphere in the plaza. In particular, everyone's eyes turned toward the favorites for the championship on the stone platforms: Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Chen Huo, and Xiao Yan. However, besides those four, Gu He also kept looking toward another ordinary-looking man.
He was a middle-aged man dressed in a gray robe of common material. His features were exceedingly plain, and only the patches of white in his hair made him somewhat noticeable. He appeared utterly unremarkable. If he had not been standing on this high platform, then tossing him into any random city would make it difficult for anyone to recognize him.
However, the energy fluctuations emanating from his Medicine Cauldron forced Gu He to pay attention to him. Based on his many years of alchemy experience, the pill being refined inside the middle-aged man's cauldron was very likely an eighth-grade pill capable of summoning Four-colored Pill Lightning. Among everyone present, only the grade of Chen Huo's pill could compare with his. As for Cao Ying and Dan Chen, although they were somewhat stronger than in the original timeline, the pills they were currently refining were merely eighth-grade pills with Three-colored Pill Lightning. Xiao Yan, meanwhile, had