Although they tested only the preparation of an auxiliary agent, only a handful managed to make one on the spot.
And anyone who managed to make an auxiliary agent was asked by Kong Qi to try again.
Yet not one person managed to make an auxiliary agent twice in a row.
"What is it, Brother Xu? Have you, too, been tempted?"
Seeing Xu Yi about to step forward, Jiang Ming sent him a voice transmission. "Pies don't fall from the sky. No one can figure out these people's true intentions. Jiang believes that when we ought to wait, we must wait."
Xu Yi replied through voice transmission, "It's fine. I'm just joining in the fun."
He answered that way only because there was no need to explain himself further to Jiang Ming.
He had already thought it through. No matter the risks, he had to try to make contact with Kong Qi and the others.
It was the only possible way to obtain the secret techniques Kong Qi and the others had demonstrated.
Xu Yi stood and moved toward the front. After a green-robed man failed to prepare an auxiliary agent onstage, no one else seemed inclined to take the stage. Kong Qi was about to remove the pill furnace and shut off the earthfire when Xu Yi leaped onto the platform.
Kong Qi smiled faintly at him and stepped aside, then swept his wide sleeve. Three medicinal ingredients flew toward Xu Yi.
Xu Yi tossed the three ingredients into the pill furnace. His mind went blank, and muscle memory surged awake like a tide. His movements flowed as smoothly as running water. In less than half a tea's time, he had finished preparing an auxiliary agent.
Kong Qi's eyes flashed, and he marveled inwardly. There wasn't a single unnecessary