Thanks to his Auspicious Beast Light, the Kirin Young Master became the second person to pass the first stage of the competition. That was hardly surprising.
However, with Qin Shaofeng's special presence stealing the show, the Kirin Young Master's achievement had paled somewhat in comparison.
If Qin Shaofeng hadn't been there, the Kirin Young Master's results would surely have been enough to leave countless people amazed and envious.
After the Kirin Young Master, Young Master Ling finally became the third person to pass the first stage.
Although he was the third to pass, there wasn't the slightest hint of joy on Young Master Ling's face.
Perhaps Qin Shaofeng and the Kirin Young Master's outstanding performances had unsettled him. In the end, it took him a full six years to pass the first stage.
More importantly, Young Master Ling's original confidence in achieving a one-hundred-percent success rate had developed a few blemishes at the end.
Perhaps he had been too eager to succeed. In the end, Young Master Ling made a few mistakes, and more than a dozen medicinal plants were ruined during cultivation.
Although such minor blemishes were nothing to worry about, Young Master Ling's results were still quite impressive.
But in Young Master Ling's eyes, he had failed.
After Young Master Ling, no one else could cultivate all one thousand medicinal plants to maturity within just a few years.
It wasn't until the thirteenth year of the competition that a fourth person passed the first stage.
And this fourth contestant did even worse than Young Master Ling, ruining sixty or seventy medicinal plants.
Even so, that was still far better than the one-third required to pass.
From the fourth contestant onward, more and more contestants passed the first stage as time went on.
But no matter how many people