The crowd around the square was surprised to hear Elder Hao agree to Xiao Fan's request. Although Elder Hao seemed easy to talk to, he was actually a stern old man who rarely smiled. As the manager of the Medicinal Ingredients Office, he was someone most Inner Academy students needed favors from, so they knew his temperament quite well.
They did not know why Elder Hao had agreed, but from what Xiao Fan had said, he had clearly gone up there just for the free pill formula and medicinal ingredients.
The members of Pan Gate knew about Xiao Fan's alchemy skills, but everyone else did not. After hearing about Xiao Yan and Han Xian's contest, they had all assumed that Xiao Yan was Pan Gate's alchemist and that Xiao Fan merely wanted to go up and take a look at the formula.
There were quite a few alchemists among the spectators. Seeing Elder Hao grant Xiao Fan's request stirred their hearts as well. After all, that was the formula for a fifth-grade pill!
They were just about to step forward and get onto the platform like Xiao Fan, but Elder Hao spoke first.
"All right, no one else is permitted to disrupt the contest. Anyone who violates this rule need not come to the Medicinal Ingredients Management Office again this year."
His tone remained calm, but everyone understood his meaning. He was clearly warning those alchemists who had been about to step forward and fish in troubled waters.
The alchemists who had entertained that idea could only stop in their tracks after hearing Elder Hao's warning. What a pity. Why hadn't they moved a little faster?
Had they been just a little earlier, they could have obtained a fifth-grade pill formula.
Elder Hao's gaze swept unobtrusively over several students, inwardly