Stunned Everyone

Scores are determined based on the Spirit Elixir produced from the provided spirit herbs, considering both quantity and grade.

Within three hours, producing one First-Rank Alchemist Spirit Elixir earns ten points.

Producing one Tier 2 Spirit Pill earns thirty points, and producing one third-tier spirit pill earns seventy points.

Producing one fourth-tier Spirit Elixir earns one hundred and twenty points.

The maximum score is two hundred, and anything exceeding that is counted as two hundred.

Generally, fourth-tier Alchemist choose to refine fourth-tier Spirit Elixir, and Tier 3 Alchemist choose to refine third-tier spirit pill.

Most Tier 2 Alchemist will choose to refine Tier 2 Spirit Pill.

Of course, a small number will choose to refine First-Rank Alchemist Spirit Elixir. If they refine four or five pills within the allotted time, that's four or five hundred points, far exceeding the score for refining one Tier 2 Spirit Pill.

And some individual Tier 2 Alchemist even score higher than Tier 3 Alchemist by refining multiple Tier 2 Spirit Pill.

However, this situation is rare.

Historically, there have been fourth-tier Alchemist who refined two fourth-tier Spirit Elixir and received a perfect score, but that is also rare.

Most alchemists can only successfully refine one pill.

To refine multiple pills, extremely refined alchemy techniques are required.

Although in the first part of the competition, the four branch pavilions with fourth-tier Alchemist were twenty points behind Tianchen City.

But they are confident that they can get high scores in this second part of alchemy and leave the people behind far behind.

Tianchen City performed very impressively in the first part of the written test.

But still, no one believes that the Tianchen City branch pavilion can get high scores in the second part of alchemy.

Because Yang Lingtian is too young, and in their opinion, he certainly doesn't have that much alchemy experience, and his refining techniques are unfamiliar.

Yang Lingtian turned a deaf ear to the discussions outside the arena and began to consider what grade of Spirit Elixir to refine.

"Why isn't there a score for refining fifth-grade Spirit Elixir? Otherwise, I would have directly refined fifth-grade Spirit Elixir."

"Or should I refine fourth-tier Spirit Elixir? After mastering pill refinement, I haven't refined Spirit Elixir above the third tier. I can practice this time."

After Yang Lingtian made his decision, he began to refine the fourth-tier Spirit Elixir, the Phoenix Return Pill.

He dumped all the spirit herbs he needed into the alchemy furnace.

This operation attracted everyone's attention, and they all showed puzzled expressions.

"What is he doing? How can he put so many spirit herbs in all at once?"

"God, does he even know how to refine pills? This is too wasteful."

Some alchemists could see that Yang Lingtian had thrown in some high-grade spirit herbs, and they were very surprised.

Only refining fourth-tier Spirit Elixir would require high-grade spirit herbs, and most Tier 2 Alchemist only use low-grade spirit herbs.

They were very puzzled. Could it be that Yang Lingtian was going to refine fourth-tier Spirit Elixir?

No one in the audience believed that Yang Lingtian was a fourth-tier Alchemist.

After all, it was already amazing to become a First-Rank Alchemist at such a young age. They wouldn't even dare to think about a fourth-tier Alchemist.

Even Master Qin Qi, who possessed amazing alchemy talent, was only a First-Rank Alchemist at this age.

At this time, Master Qin Qi couldn't see through what Yang Lingtian was doing either.

He wondered in his heart, "Is this kid planning to refine fourth-tier Spirit Elixir?"

"But even I wouldn't dare to put all the high-grade spirit herbs in together like this."

"This kind of putting all the spirit herbs in at once, instead of putting them in one by one in order."

"Requires extremely refined alchemy techniques to form a pill, otherwise it will easily become a waste pill."

"Even I only dare to do this when refining First-Rank Alchemist and Tier 2 Spirit Pill, otherwise refining Spirit Elixir above the second tier will most likely form a waste pill."

"Does this operation mean that he really doesn't know how to refine pills, or is he too young and therefore too arrogant?"

All the audience could see all the alchemists' operations on the scene.

Except for Yang Lingtian, all the alchemists' operations were normal, and Yang Lingtian's operation had to attract more attention.

Feng Qiulin also laughed wildly and mocked loudly: "It seems that the alchemist of the Tianchen City branch pavilion is a layman in alchemy!"

"We have never seen such alchemy before. Putting all the spirit herbs in at once will inevitably result in waste pills."

"I don't think he knows how to refine pills at all. This refining technique has never been seen before, and the reason why he got a perfect score in the first part of the competition."

"I guess he obtained some kind of pill recipe book, which contains various introductions to spirit herbs and unreleased pill formulas."

"He memorized them all to get a perfect score, but he doesn't know how to refine pills at all."

The people next to him began to agree with this and began to question Yang Lingtian.

"I think that's how it is. I thought he was so amazing, but he turned out to be trash."

"But he is really lucky to be able to get such a rare pill recipe book."

"So what? I think he can only get a zero in this alchemy part."

At this moment, Yang Lingtian was still wholeheartedly immersed in the alchemy process, displaying his unique alchemy techniques.

This was his first time refining a fourth-tier Spirit Elixir, and he was using the most difficult method to control.

However, he remained calm, his alchemy movements elegant and smooth, without any hesitation or nervousness.

Everyone had doubts about Yang Lingtian, but only Wu Xulong believed that Yang Lingtian could refine a Spirit Elixir.

After all, he had seen Yang Lingtian refine third-tier spirit pills and successfully produce five of them.

However, he was still a little worried, because it seemed that Yang Lingtian was about to refine a fourth-tier Spirit Elixir.

This was on a completely different level of difficulty compared to refining third-tier spirit pills.

He worried that Yang Lingtian was being too risky by directly refining a fourth-tier Spirit Elixir like this.

Directly refining five third-tier spirit pills was already a perfect score, so why try to refine a more difficult fourth-tier Spirit Elixir!

Time passed by, and after more than an hour, someone completed their refining.

Then, they extinguished the furnace fire, and the Spirit Elixir floated out of the alchemy furnace, hovering in mid-air.

After more than two hours, the Tier 2 Alchemist and Tier 3 Alchemist had completed their refining.

They refined the corresponding Tier 2 Spirit Pill and third-tier spirit pill.

Only a few people managed to produce two pills. After inspection by the alchemists of the main pavilion, their scores were determined.

Now, only the remaining four fourth-tier Alchemist and Yang Lingtian were still refining.

After all, refining a fourth-tier Spirit Elixir required more time.

However, there were different voices from the audience regarding the remaining five alchemists who were still refining pills.

They all believed that the four fourth-tier Alchemist were genuinely refining pills.

But as for Yang Lingtian, they all thought he was messing around, and the pills inside the alchemy furnace were already ruined.

"Why is the Tianchen City branch still refining? If it's ruined, just stop!"

"That's right, it's a pity that so many high-quality spirit herbs didn't play their role and became waste pills."

"Yes, the main pavilion made a big investment for this grand pill competition, taking out so many high-quality spirit herbs, and the Tianchen City branch wasted some of them."

Amidst the rumors and gossip, the first fourth-tier Alchemist completed their refining.

A dazzling fourth-tier Spirit Elixir slowly floated up from the alchemy furnace.

After inspection by the main pavilion, it was indeed a fourth-tier Spirit Elixir, and this branch received a score of 120.

Immediately afterward, the second and third fourth-tier Alchemist also completed their refining, also producing a fourth-tier Spirit Elixir.

This made them very proud. Now, they had all scored 120 in the second part, currently tied for first place.

Now, only the pills from the Tianchen City branch and the Qingquan City branch had not been produced yet.

Suddenly, the alchemy furnace of the Qingquan City branch opened, and two dazzling fourth-tier Spirit Elixir slowly floated up.

After inspection by the main pavilion alchemist, it was announced that the Qingquan City branch had successfully produced two fourth-tier Spirit Elixir, scoring 200 points.

This immediately caused an uproar among the audience.

"Heavens, they actually produced two pills at once, and these are fourth-tier Spirit Elixir."

"It is said that in the history of the grand pill competition, no one has been able to produce two fourth-tier Spirit Elixir for fifty years."

"It seems that the first place this time belongs to the Qingquan City branch."

"In the grand competition ten years ago, Master Yu Qiang, the fourth-tier Alchemist from the Qingquan City branch, only produced one fourth-tier Spirit Elixir."

"I didn't expect that after ten years, Master Yu Qiang could refine fourth-tier Spirit Elixir and produce two pills."

Faced with the praise from the crowd, Master Yu Qiang revealed a proud smile.

Producing two fourth-tier Spirit Elixir was a perfect score.

It was eighty points more than the 120 points scored by the fourth-tier Alchemist from the other three branches.

As long as the final third part, pill identification, was not less than twenty points, the total score would be higher than the other three branches.

In everyone's opinion, the first place in the grand pill competition had already been decided.

It was a certainty that the Qingquan City branch would take first place in the grand pill competition.

As for the Tianchen City branch, which had not yet opened its furnace, they had already ignored it.

Master Yu Qiang was so elated that he didn't take Yang Lingtian seriously at all.

In the first part of the competition, Yang Lingtian scored full marks. At first, Master Yu Qiang suspected that Yang Lingtian was a hidden alchemy expert.

However, when he saw Yang Lingtian put all the spirit herbs into the alchemy furnace at once, coupled with the unprecedented alchemy techniques, Yu Qiang thought that Yang Lingtian was just refining blindly, and it was inevitable that they would become waste pills.

While the sparse discussions had not yet stopped.

Yang Lingtian's alchemy furnace suddenly opened, and an unbelievable scene appeared before everyone's eyes.

Five Spirit Elixir slowly rose, dazzling beams of light radiated in all directions, and the rich fragrance of the pills spread around.

Instantly, it attracted everyone's attention.

The more discerning judges and the four fourth-tier Alchemists from the branch pavilions immediately recognized that all five were fourth-tier Spirit Elixirs.

They were all dumbfounded, unable to believe what they were seeing.

In particular, the four fourth-tier Alchemists from the four branch pavilions all shouted in unison, "This is impossible!"

Most of the audience outside the arena couldn't tell that they were fourth-tier Spirit Elixirs, but they could also feel that these five Spirit Elixirs were not simple and were definitely not waste pills.

They were also very surprised and stunned.

"How is it possible that he actually produced five pills!"

"Are those five fourth-tier Spirit Elixirs? They're not Tier 1 Spirit Pills, are they!"

"What Tier 1 Spirit Pill? Would a Tier 1 Spirit Pill have such a dazzling light and such a rich pill fragrance when it's produced? I think it's at least a Tier 2 Spirit Pill."