Alchemy Hall of the Capital

Zhou Mei looked at the list and sighed a little. She had gotten 26 points in the competition and had thus become 5th in the rankings. Normally, she would've been happy, but right now, she only frowned. 

'How did that guy get so many points while everyone else struggled?' she thought. It was really hard to believe that someone that was not even in the same cultivation realm as her could possibly gather so many ingredients. 

'Does he have a really good mind or what?' she wondered. She knew he was talented. Even with all the opportunities, one was given, it was impossible to reach where he was without having some talent of one's own. But she found it difficult to accept precisely because he was given so many opportunities. 

She sighed and moved out of the arena along with the other nearly hundred disciples.