After traveling nonstop, Jun Wangchen arrived at the Pill Sect that night.
After resting for the night, he reported the results to the mission office the following morning, officially completing his assignment.
On his way back, Jun Wangchen learned that the East-West Shore Exchange Competition would be held the next day.
The competition was an exchange of knowledge in the Pill Dao and Martial Dao.
Put simply, it consisted of martial arts and pill-refining contests.
This time, however, the East Shore would compete against the West Shore. In other words, the First and Second Peaks would face the Fourth and Fifth Peaks in both pill refining and martial arts.
Notably, the East Shore had never managed to beat the West Shore in either field over the past three years.
At every East-West Shore Exchange Competition, the East Shore claimed only a fifth of the top ten places, sometimes even fewer.
In last year's competition, only one person from the East Shore had made the top ten, an utterly embarrassing result.
The main reason was that the East Shore focused on refining herbal pills, while the West Shore specialized in beast-control pills. In martial arts, the East Shore was at a disadvantage from the outset.
As for the Pill Dao, the East Shore used herbs as its foundation and produced relatively gentle pills. The West Shore's pills were far more potent, and its refining methods more complex, giving its disciples a much stronger foundation through their training.
To put it bluntly, the East Shore fell short of the West Shore in both martial arts and pill refining.
This year's competition, however, seemed a little different. Several geniuses had emerged on the East Shore.
Besides Fang Yiqian, Mei Yuxiang, and Maseike, whom Jun Wangchen knew about, there were two other formidable talents: