The torrential rain fell like a flood.
In the distance, Yao Xing Ji had already climbed to his feet with the support of the two elders. Yet they did not take the opportunity to flee. Instead, they stopped involuntarily and stared blankly upward.
Countless people stood in the water beneath this once-in-a-century downpour, their eyes fixed tightly on Old Man Yao. They did not even dare blink, afraid of missing even the slightest detail.
Thunder roared, violent winds howled, and even the sky seemed to have been pressed lower by the black clouds.
Between heaven and earth, it seemed as though only Old Man Yao remained.
He raised the cauldron and opened the furnace. Every drop of medicinal liquid was now under Old Man Yao's control. Every movement carried boundless profundity, fully displaying the bearing of a grandmaster.
"Dunyī Pill."
From the moment he received the medicine cauldron, Old Man Yao had already decided which pill he would refine.
"This fluctuation... is it the Dunyī Pill?"
Spring thunder erupted within the cauldron. At the mere sound, Xuan Yi on the viewing platform immediately recognized the fluctuation, her lips parting slightly.
"The Dunyī Pill?"
Xuan Kongzi's face immediately filled with shock. He clearly remembered this pill very well.
As the foremost of the three giants, Xuan Kongzi's alchemy had always been slightly superior to Xuan Yi's and Tian Lei Zi's. Nearly every competition ended with his victory.
Yet the one time he had lost to Xuan Yi, the pill she refined had been precisely this "Dunyī Pill"!
His expression shifted repeatedly, and Xuan Kongzi rarely lost his composure. "Why would that old fellow choose to refine this pill? Hasn't he never succeeded before?!"
"Forget the success rate of refining a Ninth-grade Pill. Simply upgrading an Eighth-grade Pill into a Ninth-grade Pill