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After leaving his room and heading down from the inn, Long Xuan looked around before finally making his way toward the plaza.

His appearance drew the attention of many people on the street, their gazes filled with respect and awe.

The competition half a month ago had made him completely famous. No one in the city was unaware of his name, and everyone had listed him among the favorites to win the championship. Naturally, he was highly conspicuous walking down the street now.

Today was the day the second round of the Alchemy Competition began, so the streets were packed. People were crammed shoulder to shoulder, making it difficult to pass through.

Long Xuan frowned slightly, but when he saw alchemists occasionally flying toward the central plaza overhead, he realized that, just like in the previous round, contestants were allowed to fly through the air.

Long Xuan no longer held back. With a light tap of his toe against the ground, he soared high into the air, stepping across eaves and darting over rooftops. He became a blur, and before long, he landed at the plaza.

The central plaza was the competition venue. No one was standing within it for the moment, but an entire row of tables had been arranged around it, each piled with precious storage rings.

The items stored within these storage rings were the medicinal ingredients for the competition. Every ring was filled with spirit medicines, while signs on the tables marked their categories.

At the sight of these storage rings, Long Xuan secretly clicked his tongue. There were simply too many of them; every table was already covered in storage rings.

Storage rings possessed incomparably vast internal space. Most people only carried storage pouches with much smaller capacity and could not afford storage rings at