"Those-those are actually two Bone-Regenerating Pills!"
Xiao Yan's performance stunned the entire crowd. He had actually refined two pills simultaneously in such a short time!
After all, the entire Alchemist Conference allowed only two attempts, and the first was generally used for trial and error.
Unless someone had absolute confidence in himself, he would never attempt to refine two pills at once.
Even then, if he could not maintain a constant temperature for both pills, one might overheat while the other remained too cool, ruining them both.
Refining two pills simultaneously was practically impossible unless the alchemist's rank far exceeded that of the pills. The risk was simply too great.
Absolutely awesome, absolutely amazing.
Yet there was no doubt that Xiao Yan's performance had sent the audience into an uproar. Outsiders watched for the spectacle; even if they knew nothing about the finer points of alchemy, surely they knew two pills were more than one.
"That fellow really is rather handsome." Even the ever-proud Princess Yao Ye widened her beautiful eyes in the stands. No wonder her great-grandfather thought so highly of him. He truly had something extraordinary about him.
"Hmph, nothing but showing off. If you'd failed, you wouldn't even have made it past the first round."
The black-robed youth snorted coldly. No matter how he looked at it, Xiao Yan had won this round.
"Hehe, those of you who passed the first round have already surpassed the vast majority of alchemists in the Jia Ma Empire. But that alone is not enough to claim the championship of this Alchemist Conference.
"Now, I declare the second round officially underway."
Fa Ma spoke with a chuckle. Meanwhile, the Alchemist Platforms before all the remaining contestants slowly descended. When they rose again, they held the second round's challenge.
For the second