The man who stepped forward was the Fifth Elder of the Taiming Branch Alliance, an intermediate blue-robed alchemist.
Seeing the Fifth Elder volunteer, quite a few people breathed a sigh of relief.
"With the Fifth Elder handling this, nothing can possibly go wrong."
"Hahahaha! We're using an ox-cleaving blade to kill a chicken."
"Exactly. The Fifth Elder is an intermediate blue-robed alchemist. He'll have absolutely no trouble."
"Since the Fifth Elder has volunteered, let him crush that brat. Let him learn that not just anyone is qualified to challenge our branch alliance's strongest alchemist right off the bat."
"Good."
Once they had chosen someone, the branch alliance leader led everyone to meet the challenger, Chen Changan.
When they saw Chen Changan, they looked him up and down. He looked very young, and his cultivation was not particularly high-only the second stage of the Ultimate True Immortal Realm.
Someone with such low cultivation probably had limited alchemy skills, too. Still, becoming a green-robed alchemist at this cultivation level should mean he was fairly talented.
Yet people like that were often the very ones who had no idea how much they actually weighed.
"You're the one who came to challenge our Taiming Branch Alliance?"
"That's right. It's me."
"You have courage, but... we won't let you challenge us so casually just because you say you want to."
"If you want to challenge our Taiming Branch Alliance's strongest alchemist, you must first pass our test."
"We're taking you seriously enough, too. We won't look down on you just because you're a green-robed alchemist."
"So we'll first send out the Fifth Elder, an intermediate blue-robed alchemist, to compete against you."
"If you lose, go back where you came from. We won't make things difficult for you. If you win... then you'll qualify to challenge