He paused, then continued, "The plaza has undergone special expansion and reinforcement. It is large enough to accommodate several thousand people refining pills at once—truly the greatest in the empire!"
According to the Guild's preliminary internal statistics, nearly two thousand alchemists had registered for this conference!
This was the most participants any conference had seen in recent years, an unprecedented grand occasion!
Before long, they arrived at the entrance to Alchemist Plaza.
Guild personnel were stationed here to verify identities. Only alchemists holding Guild credentials and registered participants could enter through this entrance.
Ordinary spectators, meanwhile, had to use separate passageways leading to the surrounding stands, which rose layer upon layer like a ring of mountains.
With Mite'er Tengshan, the Mittel Family patriarch and one of the empire's foremost commercial magnates, personally leading them, the inspection process encountered no obstacles whatsoever.
The guards respectfully bowed and quickly let them through.
Passing through the entrance, their view suddenly opened up!
A colossal plaza, so vast it shook the soul, unfolded completely before Xiao Qing's eyes.
The plaza floor was paved with some kind of dark bluish-green hard stone, polished as smooth as a mirror.
Countless complex and mysterious runes had been carved across it, vaguely forming a massive formation that covered the entire plaza!
Clearly, it had been designed to gather energy and prevent energy surges during pill refinement from interfering with one another.
Thousands of stone platforms stood in neat rows across the plaza, each equipped with a standardized Medicine Cauldron of uniform quality.
Quite a few alchemists who had entered early were already standing before their respective platforms. Some rested with their eyes closed, while others checked their cauldrons. The air was filled with a tense, solemn atmosphere.
The circular stands surrounding the plaza could hold hundreds of thousands