The strange scene that had suddenly unfolded in the plaza also caught Xiao Yan completely off guard.
Facing the astonished gazes shooting toward him, Xiao Yan could only shrug helplessly. With a flick of his hand, he tossed the green flame into the medicinal cauldron. Only then did the flames in the other contestants' hands return to normal.
"That guy..." the little princess muttered gloomily.
She had never personally witnessed the might of a Heavenly Flame, so she had always believed her Dry Blue Water Flame was not much weaker. Yet the strange reaction of her flame earlier made it obvious to anyone with eyes that it was far inferior to a Heavenly Flame. Otherwise, it would not have displayed such submission.
Compared to the little princess's frustration, Liu Ling's expression was somewhat uglier. This brown flame had been obtained from the body of a fifth-tier magical beast comparable to a human Dou King, after his teacher had enlisted quite a few powerful experts.
He had never expected that the moment he displayed it today, before it could even show off, it would bow to someone else's flame. It truly left him speechless.
"Hmph, what use is a good flame alone? If you cannot control it, you will only end up playing with fire and getting burned." Yan Li poured the black flame in his hand into his medicinal cauldron and sneered softly.
As the strange scene vanished, the contestants in the plaza gradually turned their attention back to the test before them. They poured the flames in their hands into their medicinal cauldrons, then took out medicinal ingredients from their storage rings and began the first step of pill refinement: extraction!
Xiao Yan's gaze remained fixed on his medicinal cauldron. Every so often, he waved a hand and tossed