"The strongest Pill Convention in history."
"The most prestigious Pill Convention champion."
"The future number one alchemist."
Discussions of this sort continued to ferment. Even ordinary people of mediocre strength were deeply interested in such topics. Debate over the champion of this Pill Convention had long become the most important topic of conversation in Holy Pill City.
The Pill Convention was already the foremost grand event in the Central Plains, yet this one far surpassed the previous editions. Amid all these "fortuitous coincidences," the atmosphere had reached a peak no one could control.
Yet the Pill Tower, the organizer of the convention, was not at all pleased to see matters develop this way. After people from the Flower Sect and Heavenly Nether Sect appeared, the Pill Tower had begun secretly controlling public opinion surrounding the event.
In regard to this public discourse, the Pill Tower also discovered that another force was pushing things from behind the scenes. Combined with the right time and circumstances, discussion of the Pill Convention simply could not be quelled. Even the Pill Tower's upper echelons had to admit that the convention's development had reached a point where the Pill Tower itself could no longer control it at will.
Then, as though it had all been precisely calculated, a faction called the Spirit Clan announced that it would participate in the Pill Convention. At first, this faction did not cause much of a stir. More people were simply bewildered: the Spirit Clan? Where had the Spirit Clan come from?
Yet just one day later, everyone in Holy Pill City knew of the Spirit Clan.
On the first day after the Spirit Clan announced its participation in the Pill Convention, the Ye Clan announced its separation from the Pill Tower and became a subordinate clan of the