"Impossible!"
"He only has purple flames and this kind of green Heavenly Flame. There's absolutely no way he could refine a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill."
Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill.
It required transforming between three kinds of flame to refine successfully.
A fourth-grade pill, it could help a Dou Shi break through and become a Da Dou Shi. An ordinary Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill gave a Da Dou Shi a small chance of increasing their strength by one star, without any backlash from its effects.
A supreme Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill with three rings of pill patterns, on the other hand, could temporarily raise a Da Dou Shi's strength by three stars. It had some backlash, but would only lower their strength to one or two stars, which was no great concern and posed no danger to their life.
A person could only take one Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill in their entire life as a Da Dou Shi.
Xiao Yan watched the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill in the furnace. The second ring had already appeared. Since he was refining it, he might as well make a supreme pill with three rings of pill patterns.
After a long silence,
Xiao Yan finally moved again.
At the same time,
The other alchemists saw Xiao Yan resume refining, and their attention was drawn back to him. This required a third kind of flame, and demanded extremely precise control over the flames.
"Could it be that he really has a third kind of flame?"
As soon as the thought crossed their minds,
A chill suddenly swept out from Xiao Yan's position. The moment they felt it, everyone grew uneasy. When refining pills, the greatest taboo was losing control of the temperature.
Now that this icy aura had appeared,
Even the Dou Huang experts on the platform couldn't help standing up. "What is this icy aura?"
Jia Xingtian was the first to look at Hai Bodong.
"Hai Bodong, did you cause this?"
Hai Bodong looked at Jia Xingtian speechlessly.
But Hai Bodong knew very well what this icy aura was. He knew that Xiao Yan had another icy Heavenly Flame within him.
Fa Ma furrowed his brow.
"This isn't right. Although this aura is cold, I can sense a searing heat within it."
"Could it be..."
Whoosh!
"Teacher, lend me your strength!"
A bone-white flame appeared in Xiao Yan's hand. The instant it emerged,
The icy aura vanished, replaced by the scorching heat of the flames.
"Ning!"
Xiao Yan didn't dare let his guard down for even a moment. He wasn't very adept at controlling the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
"Is that a Heavenly Flame?"
Fa Ma could no longer hold back. "That young man actually has two Heavenly Flames?"
"Is he not afraid of dying?"
Heavenly Flames were the most violent things in the world. Having one Heavenly Flame inside a person was already the limit, let alone two. That was practically asking for death!
"Impossible!!"
When Yan Li, the alchemist from the Cloud-Out Empire, saw Xiao Yan bring out a third kind of flame—and one that was clearly another Heavenly Flame—his entire worldview shattered. He glared at Xiao Yan with a twisted expression, wishing the furnace would explode on him that instant.
In fact,
Xiao Yan's situation was turning out much as he had hoped.
The furnace kept trembling.
With a sharp crack,
The sound was so grating, but to Yan Li, it was music to his ears.
"Ha ha!!"
When he saw a crack appear in Xiao Yan's furnace, he finally burst into laughter. "Looks like your furnace is no good! One moment cold, the next hot—it can't withstand the temperature of your flames."
"Looks like you're going to fail!"
Xiao Yan glanced at Yan Li indifferently. "It's not over yet. If you jump to conclusions now, I'm afraid your face will hurt later!"
Yan Li sneered disdainfully.
"What a stubborn fool!"
As Xiao Yan continued raising the temperature, more and more cracks appeared on the furnace.
"It's almost done. Just hold on!"
Xiao Yan took a deep breath.
The furnace had reached its limit.
Boom!!!
The furnace exploded right in front of Xiao Yan. The fiery energy inside burst out, engulfing him.
Seeing Xiao Yan's furnace explode,
Yan Li finally couldn't hold back. "Out!"
The fragrance of pills wafted through the air.
Yan Li's pill had finished refining. Everyone looked at Xiao Yan, whose furnace had exploded, their faces dark with despair. Had the alchemist from the Cloud-Out Empire stolen the Alchemist Conference championship from the alchemists of the Jia Ma Empire?
"Damn it!"
"I'm going to kill that bastard today!"
The fury in Jia Xingtian's heart was obvious.
Shen Shihuang said calmly, "It's not really over yet. It's still uncertain who will win and who will lose."
Hearing Shen Shihuang's words, Jia Xingtian's anger finally eased.
On the stage,
Xiao Yan's figure gradually came into view. A ball of bone-white flame still burned before him, and inside it was a pill. Three rings of patterns had appeared.
"Did he succeed?"
"He really refined it?" The Little Princess stared at Xiao Yan in disbelief.
Nalan Yanran also watched Xiao Yan in shock.
He could still turn things around under those circumstances?
Xiao Yan at that moment
was simply
so damn cool!!
Xiao Yan reached out and took the pill, nurturing it in his palm. As the last of the flames vanished, he opened his hand, and the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill came fully into view.
"Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill!"
Xiao Yan looked at Yan Li. "Until the very last moment, no one can tell who the eventual winner will be!"
"Clearly, this time, you lost!"
Yan Li saw this
and shouted angrily, "I don't believe it! After the furnace exploded, there's no way your pill wasn't affected at all. I demand that his pill be inspected!"
Jia Xingtian was about to speak,
But Fa Ma said, "Demanding an inspection is perfectly reasonable. If we refuse, they'll probably use it to make trouble for us later."
Jia Xingtian was a little worried. "What if...?"
Fa Ma gave a cold laugh.
"An inspection will be carried out by someone qualified. He won't be the one doing it!"
Hearing this,
Jia Xingtian breathed a sigh of relief. If that was the case, then there was no problem.
Once Xiao Yan's Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill had been confirmed to be perfectly fine, Yan Li grabbed his own pill and ran outside.
"Don't rush."
"We'll deal with him later."
Hai Bodong said calmly.
Jia Xingtian grinned. "Hmph. This time, I'll show him what a Dou Huang expert can do!"
"Young Master Shen, would you be interested in going to take a look?" Jia Xingtian invited him.
Shen Shihuang stood up.
"Not interested."
"Since it's over, I'll be off!"
He waved his hand and left the venue with Ya Fei.
At the Mittel Family estate,
By the pond,
The system's voice sounded in Shen Shihuang's ears.
"A new sign-in location has been selected."
"Please proceed to the Misty Cloud Sect to sign in."
Shen Shihuang heard the familiar voice.
A smile spread across his face.
"A new location, the Misty Cloud Sect?"
"Looks like I'll have another show to watch."
Ya Fei walked over to Shen Shihuang and asked curiously, "Shihuang, what are your plans now?"
Shen Shihuang turned around.
"What is it?"
Ya Fei said, "Elder Hai would like to invite you to go out with him."
Shen Shihuang shook his head.
"I can pretty much guess what it's about. I'll go have a look when the time comes."
Ya Fei understood what it was about, too.
She looked at Shen Shihuang.
"The Misty Cloud Sect is a major power. If you don't want to go, no one can force you."
Shen Shihuang smiled faintly.
"The Misty Cloud Sect?"
"Don't worry, I don't take the Misty Cloud Sect seriously."
This time,
It was his best chance to obtain the Green Lotus Core Flame.
Even without Hai Bodong's invitation,
He would definitely make a move.
Following Xiao Yan's life philosophy, he'd end up with a source of Heavenly Flame to provide him with power! At the very least, he could take in a few spirit bodies, couldn't he?