A Worthy Opponent?

A quarter of an hour later, Ge Lin finally stopped.

He had successfully refined all ten batches of medicinal ingredients.

And all ten Sacred Elephant Pills he had made were of perfect quality.

Only then did Ge Lin finally come out of his alchemical trance. He instinctively glanced at Qin Shaofeng.

To his surprise, Qin Shaofeng had also refined five pills.

Huh?

That fast?

Seeing the pills Qin Shaofeng had made, Ge Lin was astonished.

But a moment later, after looking more closely, Ge Lin's pupils shrank, and he was stunned.

Those were... perfect-quality pills?

Ge Lin had been a grandmaster-level alchemist for years.

The reason outsiders didn't know was simply that the Ge Family had kept the matter under wraps.

After all, once the medical hall learned someone had become a grandmaster-level alchemist, that person would belong to the medical hall—not the Ge Family.

In fact, over the years, the medical hall in Lihuo City had turned a blind eye only because of the Ge Family's influence.

But now the sister of the Ge Family Patriarch's wife—the favored concubine who had given King Qing a prince—had raised the family's status considerably.

So the Ge Family had finally torn away the last veil of secrecy and sent Ge Lin to the medical hall for certification.

Because of his age, Ge Lin lacked the experience of Grandmaster Yun and Grandmaster Fang, but he still had a grandmaster's discerning eye.

And since he was standing not far from Qin Shaofeng, one look was enough for him to see that all five Sacred Elephant Pills Qin Shaofeng had refined were of perfect quality.

That stunned him!

But after watching for a while, Ge Lin saw that Qin Shaofeng was slower than he was and that his technique was still clumsy. That put him