As Xiao Yan murmured softly, the pitch-black ring on his finger remained still for a moment. Then, it suddenly began to tremble lightly, and a faint icy sensation started to coil around his fingertips.
His knuckles had turned slightly white.
As if sensing something, the purple flame within the medicinal cauldron began to flicker uneasily.
Fortunately, Xiao Yan's soul power held it under absolute suppression, so its restless flickering did not cause any trouble.
On the square, as Yan Li's wild laughter gradually faded—
The gazes fixed upon the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill shifted once more toward Xiao Yan.
He was now the only one on the stage still refining.
The other alchemists had either conceded defeat or left the stage long ago.
After all, before the quasi-fifth-tier pill Yan Li had refined, they did not possess the heaven-defying ability needed to achieve a comeback that would shock everyone.
Yan Li stopped tossing the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill in his palm. With his arms folded across his chest, he sneered at Xiao Yan's futile struggle in the distance.
On the high platform, Fa Ma's somewhat ashen face suddenly tightened.
He frowned and raised his head, looking toward Xiao Yan.
As the highest-ranked alchemist on the square, he was naturally able to swiftly detect the changes in the flames within Xiao Yan's area.
"What happened? Why has the fire in the cauldron begun to stir so restlessly?" Fa Ma muttered in confusion. Then, at a certain moment, his expression abruptly changed.
His eyes, fixed on the medicinal cauldron before Xiao Yan, suddenly contracted.
There, he seemed to vaguely glimpse traces of something white. Moreover, a chill was slowly seeping out from the medicinal cauldron.
"A chill?" Feeling the square's temperature suddenly drop, Fa Ma's expression changed again. Even he was utterly