The Embryo of Pill Tempering! Concede and Leave!

That pill was black as soot, with no cloud pattern on its surface, only a few uneven pits.

If no one had watched Li Bufan refine it with their own eyes, no one would have believed it was a pill.

Yet it lay quietly in Li Bufan's palm, giving off a faint, barely perceptible aura.

The entire venue fell silent.

Everyone stared at the black pill in Li Bufan's hand, not knowing what to say.

Outsiders watched the spectacle; insiders saw the craft.

Those spectators whose cultivation was lacking only thought that Li Bufan had blown up his pill furnace and surely failed. Yet the expressions of the judges onstage grew graver than the last.

Before the attendant could step forward, the pill in Li Bufan's hand was seized away by an invisible force.

Gu Qingyang and Sun Xuanyuan struck at the same time, each grabbing one half as they snatched the pill into their hands.

"Old Sun, let go!"

"You're the one who should let go! I got it first!"

"I struck first!"

The two glared at each other, neither willing to yield.

The other three judges sighed helplessly and gathered around to inspect it together.

Gu Qingyang raised the pill before his eyes and sent his Spiritual Sense into it. His expression gradually changed.

"This... this is..."

Sun Xuanyuan also sensed something strange and sucked in a sharp breath. "Pill Tempering Art? This brat actually created the rudiments of the Pill Tempering Art by accident?"

The Pill Tempering Art was an advanced technique that performed a second tempering after a pill had taken shape. It was generally only used when refining Golden Cores of seventh grade or above.

Yet Li Bufan, a young man in the Acupoint Realm, had stumbled into touching the threshold of Pill Tempering Art.