Bi Fan dared to pull off such a feat only because his Spiritual Power was strong enough.
At that moment, he poured all his Spiritual Power into the alchemy process, meticulously controlling the refinement of every medicinal ingredient.
After a brief moment of surprise at Bi Fan's flame cauldron, the other contestants gradually focused their attention on their own cauldrons, devoting themselves completely to alchemy. Once they reached this stage, they generally had little energy to spare for anyone else.
Time trickled by. Before anyone knew it, three days were almost up.
During that time, contestants had been completing their pills one after another. However, none of the pills they refined were of particularly high grade. There were Fourth-grade and Fifth-grade Pills, with Fourth-grade Pills making up the majority. After all, in all of Pill City, families with a Fifth-grade Alchemist were exceedingly rare; having one was enough to place a family among the upper ranks.
As for Sixth-grade and even Seventh-grade Pills, Alchemists capable of refining them were rarer still. Lei Tianhu of the Lei Family, the foremost of the Four Great Noble Families, was only an early-stage Seventh-grade Alchemist. Even he couldn't be sure of successfully refining a Seventh-grade Pill on his first try.
Far more contestants had failed than succeeded. This was the Pill Festival, and none of them dared hold back. They had gone straight for the highest-grade pills they could refine—and most of them had failed.
Some failed soon after they began. Fortunately, there was still plenty of time, so they immediately started a second attempt. Some had learned their lesson and no longer dared attempt pills beyond their control, while others were stubborn as ever and continued challenging themselves with their highest-grade pills.
Those who succeeded were naturally grinning from ear to ear, but