"Seriously, what is he even trying to do?"
"Show off. He's absolutely showing off."
"This Miracle Treasure Pavilion is unbelievable. How are the other factions supposed to survive?"
"Exactly! They're not leaving anyone else a way to live."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. They've got no shame."
As Chen Changan continued refining pills, Miracle Treasure Pavilion's points climbed rapidly.
Looking at the current runner-up, Eternal Hall, its ranking hadn't changed, but its pitiful two points were almost too painful to look at.
The Three Hidden Sects had made the rankings too, but aside from the one point they'd earned at the beginning, their score hadn't budged.
"Pill Refining Ranking updated"
"Second place: Outsider Alliance, Points: 100"
Huh?
"Holy crap!"
"The Outsider Alliance is amazing!"
"They've come out of the gate with a hundred points. That's pretty much the same as Miracle Treasure Pavilion! Holy crap, I thought the outcome was a foregone conclusion, but something unexpected just happened?"
"There's someone that powerful in the Outsider Alliance?"
"Do you think the Outsider Alliance can recreate Miracle Treasure Pavilion's miracle?"
"I don't know if they can recreate it, but I'm even more curious whether they'll overtake them. Now that would be interesting."
"That might be a bit of a stretch, right?"
"Look at Miracle Treasure Pavilion's points. They've already..."
Everyone looked up at Miracle Treasure Pavilion's score. It had been 140,000, but now it had climbed to 350,000—and it was still rising.
But the Outsider Alliance's points were climbing just as quickly.
In no time at all, they'd passed a thousand.
"Damn it!"
"How could the Outsider Alliance surpass us?"
"Those damn outsiders are always going against us. They deserve to die."
"Are our people really that useless?"
"How much of our resources have they wasted over the years, all to cultivate their pill-refining