The Results Were Voided
Whoosh!
When Bi Dan's appraisal results appeared, Bi Fan could hear an uproar rising from Pill City.
He looked toward the Pill King and froze. Then he abruptly raised his head and looked up at the sky.
There, he saw his ranking: second place.
His gaze shifted upward.
First place: Wang Family, Zhao Juexian, grade: mid eighth-grade, quality: perfect!
"Perfect quality?" Bi Fan murmured, his voice full of wonder.
Pill City was bustling with excitement. Everyone was discussing the grades of the pills made by the Pill King and Bi Fan.
Bi Fan had lost to the Pill King by only a hair, and the crowd was abuzz with discussion.
Though Bi Fan had lost, no one dared mock him. His opponent had been the Pill King, the legendary Pill King, and he had come within a hair of winning. Bi Fan was still so young, too—that showed just how terrifying his potential was.
As for Lei Tianhu and the others, they were overlooked beneath the dazzling brilliance of Bi Fan and the Pill King.
Holding the pill he had refined, Lei Tianhu watched the rankings in the sky, his expression shifting.
Looking at the rankings, then at the pill in his hand, he had the bizarre feeling that what he had refined was nothing but garbage.
His hand twitched. In the end, he still couldn't bring himself to crush the pill. Instead, he gently placed it in the appraisal slot to be assessed.
After the appraisal was complete, Bi Fan put his pill away. By the rules, any pill refined by a contestant belonged to that contestant.
As soon as he took out the pill, the entire platform trembled slightly, then dissolved into streaks of light. Bi Fan began falling toward the ground below.
Amid