The Cao Clan Withdraws; Ye Xinlan

Xuan Yi could barely conceal her shock. She stepped forward half a pace and confirmed, "Qin Chen, have you thought this through? Are you saying you can refine a Tier 8 Seven-Color Pill, the Nine-Yang Blazing Flame Pill?"

If it were any of the three of them, refining a Tier 8 Seven-Color Pill would naturally be effortless.

But Qin Chen before them was only around twenty years old. At such an age, even with extraordinary talent, this was simply too terrifying!

Becoming a Tier 8 Alchemy Grandmaster at twenty was astonishing, but not entirely unprecedented. Dan Chen of the Dan Clan, relying on her special constitution and resources, might perhaps reach such a level as well.

But reaching the rank of a Tier 8 Seven-Color Alchemy Grandmaster at twenty... across the entire ten-thousand-year history of the Battle Qi Continent, that was an utterly inconceivable feat!

One had to know that the foremost requirement for entering the Lesser Pill Tower was the ability to refine Tier 8 Seven-Color Pills. The difficulty was practically reaching the heavens, far beyond that of ordinary Tier 8 pills.

Tier 8 Six-Colored and Tier 8 Seven-Color Pills might both belong to the Tier 8 category, but the difference between them was like heaven and earth.

To refine a Tier 8 Six-Colored Pill, one merely needed soul power at the Mid-Stage Spirit Realm and cultivation firmly at Peak Dou Zong to have a chance at attempting it.

But Tier 8 Seven-Color Pills had an entirely different threshold. Even if one's soul power reached the Late-Stage Spirit Realm, without the foundation of Dou Zun-level battle qi, it was fundamentally impossible to control the violent medicinal power during refinement. The odds of successfully forming the pill were minuscule.

Likewise, every additional color in a Tier 8 pill multiplied the