Many geniuses were present. Every one of them had shown dazzling talent in pill refinement to reach the ninth grade.
But Yao Lao and Xiao Yan were every bit as gifted as they were.
Yao Lao had left the Yao Clan while still young and ventured through the Central Plains alone. He had not only won the Pill Convention but also become the continent's foremost Alchemist in the public eye.
Xiao Yan's rise had been no less formidable than his teacher's. At what might have been the fiercest Pill Convention in history, he had faced the Spirit Clan head-on and seized the championship.
Ever since his revival, Yao Lao had been exploring his path as a Ninth-grade Alchemist. The Spirit-Raising Method he had created was exquisite, but its materials were no longer sufficient at the ninth grade. He had long pondered how to improve it so it could be applied to Tier 9 Medicinal Pills.
At first, even Yao Lao had racked his brains without finding an answer. Then Xiao Yan experienced the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation within the Ancient Bodhi Tree and showed genuine potential to reach the ninth grade. Yao Lao conceived a bold idea: fuse two pills, using the spiritual essence of one as the foundation to raise the spirit of the other.
By the ninth grade, a pill's ingredients were already among the finest in existence. Rare treasures alone would not suffice as additional material. But another Tier 9 Medicinal Pill certainly would!
The idea was daring and extraordinarily difficult to carry out. To raise a pill's spirit with medicinal power, both pills had to remain unfinished. Their refinement also had to stay as closely synchronized as possible. If the two Alchemists differed in the fundamentals of their craft, they could not succeed.
But Xiao Yan and