Long Dan was so choked up that his chest felt stifled.
"Activate the barrier?"
He had considered it, but Xu Xiaoshou had provoked him again and again, while Chen Qi and Li Mingji laughed and mocked him from behind.
Today, he truly had no face to raise that protective barrier.
The crowd below wore equally expectant expressions.
Though no one said it aloud, with three sixth-grade alchemists competing on the spot, this group of spectators was clearly the silent panel of judges.
Long Dan felt that if he showed weakness first and raised the barrier ahead of time, would he not forever be a level beneath Chen Qi and Li Mingji? This damned pride...
Xu Xiaoshou gave an extremely low-key shout, instantly making Long Dan's old face flush crimson.
"You!"
"Cursed, Passive Value +1."
"Hehe, what about me?"
Xu Xiaoshou looked over cheerfully.
The moment he detonated the medicinal liquid inside the pill cauldron, he had known that the performances of these three were over.
That was right.
Even though his brain had spasmed just now, the three sixth-grade alchemists had already gone from refining each spirit herb one by one to the stage of extracting and forming the pill.
Did Xu Xiaoshou need the steps that followed?
No! He had memorized what needed memorizing. After that, he possessed an absolute understanding of spirit herbs.
If he truly followed the various pill-refining methods of these three sixth-grade alchemists, it was not merely that Xu Xiaoshou did not know how. Those techniques, each of which now appeared riddled with flaws...
Xu Xiaoshou truly could not be bothered to steal and learn them.
As long as he had spirit herbs, paired with the absolutely perfect "Mastery of Culinary Arts" in his mind, he could brew a pot of genuinely fine pills!
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