Gu He swiftly took the ingredients needed to refine a Tier 5 Wind Travel Pill from his Storage Ring and began preparing with full concentration.
He believed that only a Tier 5 medicinal pill could possibly surpass Xiao Qing and salvage the situation!
Meanwhile, on another much-watched stone platform, Xiao Qing's movements appeared calm and unhurried.
Xiao Qing did not take out any particularly magnificent medicine cauldron. With a wave of his hand, a pitch-black cauldron, ancient and unadorned in design yet faintly exuding an aged, weighty aura, landed steadily in the center of the stone platform.
It was Old Yao's Black Demon Cauldron!
After Old Yao fell asleep, Xiao Qing had taken out his beloved cauldron and used it relentlessly for alchemy.
Then, Xiao Qing waved his sleeve again, and dozens of medicinal herbs of different shapes flew out of his Storage Ring as though summoned, hovering neatly above the stone platform.
These herbs came in countless varieties and possessed different energy attributes. Several of the main ingredients even radiated an immense medicinal potency that made one's heart tremble. The instant they appeared, they stirred faint fluctuations in the surrounding natural energy.
On the viewing platform, President Fa Ma, who had been closely watching Xiao Qing, suddenly contracted his pupils when his gaze swept over those herbs!
Fa Ma abruptly rose from his seat. His aged face was filled with extreme shock and horror, and even his voice trembled slightly.
"Black Demon Cauldron! That is... the Black Demon Cauldron?! And those herbs... They are the ingredients for refining an Emperor Ultimate Pill! He... he is actually going to refine a Tier 6 Advanced Emperor Ultimate Pill?!"
"An Emperor Ultimate Pill?!" Yun Shan, seated nearby, was equally startled upon hearing this.
Although Yun Shan was not an alchemist and did