Su Tian had no attention to spare for anything happening around him.
Even though everyone present had their eyes fixed on him, as though waiting for the moment he would break free of his cocoon and emerge as a butterfly.
"That violent fluctuation just now-did he... break through?"
Nalan Yanran's beautiful eyes followed Su Tian's every movement. At that moment, he seemed like a brilliant star, radiating his own light beneath everyone's gaze.
As she sensed the fluctuations of the invisible power that had erupted from Su Tian's body, Nalan Yanran could make an educated guess, even though she was not an alchemist herself.
Unless she was mistaken, Su Tian had just broken through to the next alchemist rank.
Because of Pill King Gu He, Nalan Yanran had gained a fair understanding of alchemists during her time in the Misty Cloud Sect.
Breaking through as an alchemist was far harder than advancing one's Dou Qi cultivation. The difficulty could even be said to multiply several times over.
That was also why high-ranked alchemists were so much rarer.
For an alchemist to break through, their soul power had to increase until it reached a certain threshold, allowing them to enter the next realm.
But since methods for cultivating soul power were not widely available, increasing it was exceedingly difficult.
Only when one's cultivation advanced would their soul power grow along with it, and even that growth was not particularly substantial.
Thus, to become a high-ranked alchemist, one first needed to reach a certain level of strength.
Even someone as formidable as Gu He had only reached the rank of Sixth-Rank Alchemist through his strength as a Dou Wang expert.
Even a genius like Liu Ling had only just become a Third-Rank Alchemist.
Yet Su Tian, whose strength was merely that of