The End Results
Zhou Lihua felt sweat trickly down her scalp as she removed the pill from her cauldron. She had just barely finished in time. If she had been even one second later, even a split second later, she would have been forced to forfeit.
She looked at the pill in her hand. It was a light blue color with a silvery sheen that made it seem luminescent. She could not see any imperfections on its smooth surface. That did not mean it was a perfect pill since there could still be imperfections underneath the surface, but it was a pill with an unblemished appearance, which was normally a good sign of a high-grade pill.
“You there!” Sao Yong suddenly pointed at a young man on the stage below Zhou Lihua. “I said to stop, didn’t I? Why are you still attempting to refine a pill? If you cannot refine this within the time limit, then you have no right to be here. Pack up your cauldron and leave.”