Everyone was utterly convinced by Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng also smoothly earned seven points in the second round, not losing a single point!
In the end, Zhuang Ling still missed out on that one point.
Across both rounds, Jiang Feng had won perfectly.
Logically speaking, with two wins out of three, Jiang Feng had already secured victory and had no need to proceed to the next round.
However, in Huang Wuji's view, the next round was the true test of a person's pill-refining skill.
—Trial pill refinement.
The third stage of the pill debate was to refine pills within a trial space. The reason it was conducted there was mainly due to considerations of time, pill tribulations, and rare heavenly treasures.
The seven participants had to unleash their greatest abilities within the trial space and refine the divine pills of the highest grade and greatest efficacy.
In the end, Cold Sword White Bamboo, together with several core disciples skilled in pill refinement, would determine the winner.
As the competition began, changes arose atop each of the seven platforms. Huang Wuji personally cast incantations, and a Trial Gate appeared on every platform, drawing all seven contestants into their respective gates. Next, they would have to refine the pill they were most proud of within their own trial spaces.
This was the most direct display of a pill refiner's true skill. Each trial space had its own settings, and everyone had only one chance to refine a pill. Once refinement failed, they would be eliminated outright. Thus, the contestants had to proceed steadily and surely, allowing no room for the slightest mistake. This prevented some from gambling on high-grade divine pills they were not proficient in refining, only to succeed by a stroke of luck and distort the assessment of their true