Another three days passed in the blink of an eye!
Cao Ying and Dan Chen had both reached the pill-condensing stage!
As two pillars of light shot into the sky, clouds swiftly gathered above their heads, revealing two colors beneath countless watching eyes.
In Cao Ying's case, faint traces of a third color had already appeared within the two-colored thundercloud she had summoned.
This meant that the quality of her pill already had one foot across the threshold of an Eighth-Tier Pill that summoned three-colored pill lightning.
To reach this level at their age would have made them outstanding even within the Yao Clan.
Dan Chen, in particular, had refined an Eighth-Tier Pill that summoned two-colored pill lightning at just eighteen. It was downright terrifying.
(In the original novel, Dan Chen refined a pill that summoned two-colored pill lightning at seventeen or eighteen. To keep pace with the protagonist, the power scaling in Tudou's novel felt increasingly broken as the story went on.)
Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Yao Ling!
Any one of these three women would have had a chance of winning any other Pill Gathering!
Yet they had been born in the wrong era!
Just as the pill lightning above Cao Ying and Dan Chen was about to strike, an exceptionally rich pill fragrance spread outward from Xiao Yan's position.
In the blink of an eye, it had enveloped the entire square.
Everyone who caught its scent felt refreshed, their minds clear and their spirits uplifted.
Countless gazes immediately turned toward Xiao Yan, and cheers like collapsing mountains and roaring seas shook the skies.
Even more people wondered what grade of pill Xiao Yan was refining to trigger such a phenomenon.
They soon received their answer!
Rumble!
A thunderclap suddenly exploded across the sky. In an instant, wind and