The Last Hope

Compared to the tall cauldrons around him, each with its own distinctive features, Bai Ge's cauldron looked utterly ordinary. Yet the flames within every cauldron all pointed toward the slowly burning deep green flame in Bai Ge's cauldron.

The scene was like ministers paying homage to their sovereign in court, leaving the watching audience unable to stop marveling!

But once Bai Ge tossed the medicinal ingredients into his cauldron and the Green Lotus Core Flame began its work, the majesty of the Heavenly Flame receded, and the surrounding Beast Fires immediately returned to normal.

And at that moment, the third round officially began.

Compared to yesterday's noisy square, the square was exceptionally quiet today.

Anyone who had made it to the final stage had superb alchemy skills and would hardly encounter a problem in the very first step.

Everyone wore solemn expressions as they watched the cauldrons before them, continuously using Dou Qi to draw the medicinal ingredients from the bluestone platforms and toss them into their cauldrons for refinement.

What pill refinement required was the purest essence of the medicinal ingredients. Thus, the higher the purity of the extraction, the better the quality and medicinal efficacy of the final pill would be—and this depended largely on the flame.

That was precisely why alchemists craved all manner of unusual flames.

Among them, Heavenly Flames naturally ranked first. Born from heaven and earth, their power was naturally second to none.

Next came the Beast Fires of powerful magical beasts. The stronger the magical beast, the stronger its Beast Fire, and for alchemy, Beast Fires with the Wood Attribute were the best.

Besides improving refinement, they could also catalyze the medicinal properties of ingredients during the fusion stage.

As time passed.

The bluestone platforms before the alchemists in the square gradually became