Seated upon his throne, Bai Ge quietly waited for the alchemists to pass the first trial, his gaze sweeping across the vast plaza before him and the stone platforms floating above it.
These stone platforms were where the alchemists who passed the first Illusion Realm Pass would be teleported.
After being transported onto the platforms, the alchemists who had passed the first trial would each be randomly given a pill formula and a list of medicinal ingredients to collect.
They would then be sent into the Pill Tower's special world, the Pill Realm, to gather medicinal ingredients before returning to begin refining pills.
This differed somewhat from the original plot.
In the original plot, the first Illusion Realm Pass and the second Pill Realm trial had been connected, but now, the two trials had been separated.
Moreover, it was not merely the first and second trials that had changed. The entire process of the Pill Gathering had been altered to some extent.
This was perfectly normal. The Pill Gathering had been held in the Central Continent for countless years. It had long since ceased to be a grand event belonging solely to the Pill Tower; it was now an event where alchemists from across the Central Continent displayed their strength to all the factions of the Central Continent.
With trials like those in the original plot, it would have been impossible to accurately sort and select the outstanding alchemists.
But with the current format, in which every trial involved another round of selection, the outstanding alchemists could be chosen with far greater accuracy.
As he waited quietly.
The first person to pass the first trial finally appeared atop one of the stone platforms in the plaza. It was none other than Xin Lan!
However, Xin Lan's face was slightly flushed