Elder Mo's horrified voice echoed through the room, and Yao Ye and Liu Ling felt their minds explode.
"H-how many times?" Liu Ling asked in a trembling voice.
His result had been four times, while his master, Pill King Gu He, had managed seventeen.
"Thirty-seven times!"
"Thirty-seven times!"
Elder Mo looked as if he had gone mad, excitement gleaming in his shocked eyes.
"That's impossible!" Liu Ling could not believe it.
Yet at that moment, a huge crimson "Thirty-Seven" slowly appeared on the hanging Testing Machine's screen.
"Thirty-seven times..."
Silence.
Dead silence.
The red glow flickering on the Testing Machine's screen shone over Liu Ling and Yao Ye's faces, reflecting their stunned bewilderment.
One had to know that an alchemist's ability to refine medicinal ingredients depended on their mental strength and their control over flames.
In the Jia Ma Empire's ten-thousand-year history, only one extraordinary person had ever refined an ingredient twenty times.
And it was said that person had later become quite famous across the continent.
"Elder Mo, may we go in and have a look?" The muscles in Liu Ling's cheeks twitched.
Though Yao Ye was more composed than him, she did not stop him.
She wanted to verify it as well!
"Please, go right ahead!"
Elder Mo beamed as he searched for Xiao Yan's file according to the information on the voucher.
Liu Ling abruptly threw open the curtain, rushed into the room, and leaned over Xiao Yan's refining table.
Yao Ye followed right after him.
"Th-this..."
The medicinal paste in the refining table resembled a translucent pale-green gemstone. Even when inspected with mental strength, not a single impurity could be found.
"That's impossible!" Sweat slid down Liu Ling's cheeks, and his pupils trembled.
There would always be impurities in alchemy. This was the consensus of all