But now was not the time to think about these questions.
Whatever happened, he had to win the first Pill Gathering trial before anything else.
Xiao Mo collected his number token and prepared to begin the first Pill Gathering contest.
"Begin!"
At the judging elder's command, Xiao Mo took a Medicine Cauldron out of his system space.
The pill he intended to refine this time was the Three-Turn Soul-Congealing Pill.
It was a level-six pill, and its score would surely crush his opponent in an instant.
Blood deer antler, pinellia, agarwood immortal herb, and a Level Three Magic Core.
Those were the ingredients for a level-six Three-Turn Soul-Congealing Pill.
Xiao Mo began by refining the magic core.
Of the four ingredients, the magic core was the hardest to refine.
The ingredients that could withstand high temperatures had to go into the Medicine Cauldron first, before he began refining the rest.
If he failed to get the timing right, all his efforts to make the pill could go up in smoke.
After refining the magic core over a low flame, Xiao Mo tossed in a piece of blood deer antler.
He continued refining it with the flame.
Then he placed the pinellia and agarwood immortal herb into the Medicine Cauldron.
He began thoroughly refining them with the flame.
Half a minute later, the initial shape of a pill had appeared inside the Medicine Cauldron.
He kept firing it, and five minutes later, the finished pill emerged from the cauldron.
Xiao Mo wiped the sweat from his forehead with a silk handkerchief, then presented the refined pill to the judging elder in a jade box.
"Greetings, Elder. I've finished refining my pill."
The judging elder took the pill and examined it carefully for a while.
Then he used his sea of consciousness