Once the little incident involving Xiao Yan had been dealt with, the Medicine Ceremony fell into a minor impasse: how should it end?
Ordinarily, that would not have been a problem. The ceremony's star could simply announce its conclusion, and that role should have belonged to Yao Dan, the Yao Clan's chief.
To rally their people, the Yao Clan had spared no expense. They had brought out the Burning Sky Cauldron, ranked first on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking. To ensure Yao Dan succeeded in refining a Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill on his first attempt, they had even sacrificed the future of their young prodigy, Yao Tian, forcibly taking back the Heavenly Flame he had obtained and returning it to its former owner, Yao Dan.
As the Yao Clan's foremost Alchemist, Yao Dan had lived up to expectations and successfully refined a Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill.
That should have been a perfect ending, complete from beginning to end. But then came the brilliant performance of Yao Chen and his disciple, Xiao Yan.
They too had refined a Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill. Its quality was hard to judge at a glance, but measured by the Black Demon Lightning it had attracted, Xiao Yan's pill was better.
Fusing two Tier 9 Medicinal Pills of the same kind to forcibly raise their quality to the level of a Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill was an unprecedented feat of alchemy. Like the many great masters before him, Yao Chen would forever hold a place in the Douqi Continent's history of Alchemists—a name that could never be erased.
And that was before Xiao Yan had eaten Black Demon Lightning to aid his cultivation. He was also the one who had actually brought the Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill into being.
The Yao Clan could, of course, offer plenty of explanations. Xiao Yan and