Unlike Tang Wuchen, who worked swiftly, cleanly, and efficiently.
Gu Ningyun was much slower, and not just compared to Ming Yun.
She was much slower even than the ordinary disciples.
The elder from the Heavenly Music Pavilion could not help sighing. Their prodigy was certainly skilled at refining pills and identifying herbs, but she was extremely slow at preparing medicinal herbs.
That was simply because all the medicinal herbs she had handled before had already been prepared by other disciples of her sect.
Once they reached her hands, she could use them to refine pills without doing almost anything else.
Thus, Gu Ningyun was actually at quite a disadvantage in this round.
With Gu Ningyun out of the running, Ming Yun naturally became the second to finish preparing her medicinal ingredients.
When Ming Yun finished her work, she instinctively glanced at Gu Ningyun, who stood not far away.
Seeing Gu Ningyun's somewhat unpracticed technique, Ming Yun could not help raising her eyebrows, the corners of her lips curling slightly.
However, her expression was subtle enough that no one noticed the contempt in her eyes.
Only as the allotted time was about to run out did Gu Ningyun barely finish preparing all the medicinal ingredients before her. She glanced at the sun overhead and sighed softly. Fortunately, she had still made it in time.
Next, the judges inspected how the disciples had prepared their medicinal herbs.
Without question, the first to be eliminated were the sect disciples who had never finished preparing their herbs.
Next came the disciples whose ingredients had been incompletely prepared.
The final group eliminated consisted of disciples whose herbs retained less than sixty percent of their medicinal potency.
After all, the medicinal potency retained in a spirit herb indirectly determined the grade of the pill refined from