Clang!
The bronze gong sounded, and the Pills Convention, which had lasted twelve hours, officially came to an end.
Those unfortunate pill refiners ranked just beyond the hundredth place were not too dejected, because the current Pills Convention was merely the preliminary selection for entering the Pill Domain.
Without sufficient skill in the Dao of pills, even if they barely squeezed into the top hundred, they would only return in disgrace in the end.
Moreover, aside from those freaks of the Dao of pills and the Heaven's Chosen in the top twenty, all the other contestants were filled with worry.
Everyone had won the Preliminary Round with such difficulty. In the finals, where prodigies from countless Great Worlds gathered, could they truly be certain of victory?
"The Pills Convention has officially ended. The top hundred pill refiners, please arrive at the Pill Tower on time one year from now."
"As for those pill refiners who were not selected this time, do not lose heart. On the path of the Dao of pills, one can also accumulate deeply and burst forth late."
"May the Dao of pills flourish for you all."
After speaking these few perfunctory words, the many pill refiners of the Green Mountain Pill Domain departed one after another.
The top hundred contestants had received only a special passage token, with no other rewards.
Although the Green Mountain Pill Domain had not distributed rewards to the top hundred pill refiners, the major forces of the Green Mountain World were all extending olive branches to the pill refiners below.
And the most sought-after were instead those pill refiners ranked outside the top hundred but within the top thousand.
Though these people had not been selected, that did not mean their pill-refining skills were truly poor.
More than ninety-eight percent of