At Shi Feng's instruction, everyone in the Special-Grade Alchemy Room began leaving quietly and in an orderly fashion.
However, everyone still found the competition results unbelievably surprising. They had originally thought Miao Wuyin would be a favorite to win, yet she had not even made it into the top three. The gap had been so obvious that it was simply incredible.
But just as Shi Feng had said, they had still underestimated Candlelight Trading Firm's foundations.
The difference in training between Candlelight Trading Firm's internal members and official members was far greater than they had imagined. It was like an uncrossable chasm.
Only now did everyone truly understand why Shi Feng had originally announced that official members could participate in the competition.
From the very beginning, Shi Feng had never believed the official members had the strength to claim the top spots. That was why he had so boldly allowed the relatively unrestricted official members to take part.
Although the benefits for placing in the top ten were all quite good, there was an essential difference between them and the top three.
In God's Domain, Mithril Grade alchemy tools were indeed precious, but every major Guild possessed at least some. Starting from third place, however, contestants could use an entire set of Adamantite Grade alchemy tools, Ocean's Glow. This was no ordinary precious item that every Guild could acquire. Even Super Guilds might not possess it, much less the Dark Gold Grade alchemy tools available to second place.
With the help of these top-tier alchemy tools, the success rate for creating new potions would rise by an unknown amount. Otherwise, they would not have attracted so many advanced alchemists to join Candlelight Trading Firm.
As everyone departed one after another, Miao Wuyin suddenly walked over to Shi Feng.
"What's going