Compared with the sea of people at the Pill Tower's Youth Tournament four years earlier, the crowd in the Pill Tower square today was neither as varied nor as large.
Though there were fewer people, the stature of those present seemed even greater than at the Youth Tournament back then.
Of the alchemists who had come to watch today, aside from the youngsters who had hung around with Xiao Yan back then, even the lowest-ranked was a Seventh-Rank Alchemist.
Beyond them were some peripheral members of the Pill Tower and onlookers drawn over by the commotion in the square.
"What occasion is this? Why have so many big shots gathered here?"
A Sixth-Rank Alchemist stared in disbelief at the group of alchemists in the center of the Pill Tower square. Any one of them was a top alchemist whose name resounded throughout the Central Plains.
At the very center, in particular, stood more than twenty eighth-tier alchemists.
Aside from a few old fellows in secluded cultivation who would not emerge, almost every eighth-tier alchemist in the Pill Tower had turned out.
After all, the news they had received yesterday had stirred tremendous curiosity in their hearts.
The boy who had refined a Seventh-Rank Pill before turning sixteen four years ago was actually going to refine an Eighth-Tier Pill today?
These old fellows, who commanded immense respect across the entire Dou Qi Continent, were secretly astonished.
An eighth-tier alchemist not yet nineteen! Such talent had already surpassed even the Medicine Emperor in his youth!
Just as they were thinking this, a spatial ripple spread across the sky, and a handsome young man dressed in black stepped out of it.
The moment the young man appeared, every gaze converged on him.
"It's Xiao Yan! That very boy! He's actually about to advance