Chapter 148 - Dan Chen and Cao Ying Shine

Rolling thunder continued to reverberate over this vast, azure sky. The thick clouds gave one an extremely pressurizing feeling.

"Bang!"

A silver-colored giant-python-like bolt of lightning suddenly tore through the sky from the thick, dark cloud. It explosively rushed down before being forcefully received by a human figure on a stone platform. Immediately, a substance-like pill fragrance spread apart…

"Ha ha, I have succeeded!"

That man, whose hair was a little white, laughed wildly at the sky in front of everyone's eyes. His hand held a dragon-eye-sized medicinal pill that was emitting an alluring luster.

None of those present reprimanded this man, who had lost himself and laughed out loud. Instead, there was an additional heat in their eyes as they looked at him. An alchemist, who could refine a tier 7 middle grade medicinal pill would definitely receive VIP treatment no matter where he went.

Currently, the Pill Gathering had entered its last stages. At this moment, there were only two types of people still continuing to refine medicinal pills.

The first type were those who truly possessed great talent while the other type were those simply making up the numbers.

Of course, in this kind of situation, the first group held the majority. After all, there were very few people with faces thick enough to embarrass themselves in this kind of event.

If one were to carefully count the number of pill fires still rising on the stone platforms, one would find that there were still thirteen left.

In other words, there were still thirteen competitors focused on preparing the medicinal pill that they were best at with great care.

These thirteen people naturally included Xiao Feng, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and the other competitors who were viewed as the people with the most potential to become this Pill Gathering's champion.

Xiao Feng sat on his stone platform. Rolling thunder reverberating in the air had no impact on him. He still refined his Pill with lazy look on his face.

Unlike Xiao Feng, the faces of everyone else on the other stone platforms were filled with grave expressions.

The faces of some of them had even revealed a paleness. Clearly, this kind of exhaustion was really something that they had difficulty enduring.

"Bang!"

A certain part of the sky suddenly emitted a low, deep explosion in front of the eyes of a countless number of people.

The hearts of everyone immediately sank. Their gazes swiftly flew over, only to see a middle-aged man staring at the medicinal cauldron in front of him with a stunned expression.

There was a chaotic energy ripple being emitted from within. Clearly, an unexpected situation had occurred during the refinement…

"How is this possible…"

The middle-aged man was dull as he looked at the medicinal cauldron.

His eyes instantly turned blood-red. He had worked hard for so many days yet all his effort to went to waste.

This kind of blow was really a little too difficult for him to endure.

Everyone quietly sighed within their hearts as they watched the dull expression of the middle-aged man. They felt a little regretful for this person.

Failure was not rare when it came to pill refinement.

However, a slight failure at this moment would decide if one would lose the qualification to compete with the other experts.

There were those who were happy and those who were anxious. If there were those who succeeded, there would naturally be those who failed.

The Pill Gathering had never been a stage for comedy to be performed.

During the remaining time, there were people continuously refining a medicinal pill successfully among the thirteen plus people who remained.

Of course, there were also those who failed. All of these people who failed became a lot more dispirited without exception.

Although they might not be able to obtain the top ten position even if they were to refine their pills successfully, there would, at the very least, have been a chance.

However, if they failed in their refinement, they would not have even the slightest chance…

Half a day later, five people had successfully refined their medicinal pills during this time.

They were all tier 7 peak medicinal pill. These pills naturally attracted the attention of the crowd.

With the remaining number of competitors, the atmosphere in the stadium had become quite hot. Everyone looked at the people sitting on the stone platform with hot eyes.

Dan Chen was seated with her legs crossed on a stone platform. At this moment, her face was slightly pale. Her body was originally weak.

If it wasn't for Xiao Feng's help, her situation might be quite hard. She would have hard time while refining.

"I'm about to succeed!"

The eyes of Dan Chen seemed to be focused on her medicinal cauldron. Her hand seals continued to change.

A vast and mighty Spiritual Strength continuously surged into the medicinal cauldron. There was a faint spiritual aura that was vaguely spread over the Spiritual Strength.

"Grug!"

Dan Chen's face suddenly turned red while the seal formed by her hands changed.

Immediately, a mouthful of fresh blood was spat out before being shot into the medicinal cauldron.

Finally, it merged with the medicinal pill that was rolling within the flame.

"Boom!"

A bright and powerful glow suddenly appeared within the medicinal cauldron like a sun after the fresh blood touched the medicinal pill.

A terrifying energy ripple, which caused people to be shocked, explosively surged out of the medicinal cauldron with a 'bang.'

The medicinal cauldron that could endure burning of any Heavenly Flame had been blasted into countless number of fragments under this kind of frightening ripple!

"Sizzle!"

A green light pillar, a hundred feet in size, shot out of the medicinal cauldron when it blasted apart. It shot toward the sky in the process!

The light pillar entered the sky in front of a countless number of eyes.

Soon after, clouds suddenly appeared wherever the light pillar rushed past. Within the short blink of an eye, it had agglomerated into a hundred-meter-large thundercloud!

Moreover, the thing that caused others to feel shocked was that the thundercloud that has been formed this time around possessed four different colours.

"Four-colored thundercloud?"

The entire stadium made a great uproar when they saw the four-colored thundercloud that had appeared in the sky!

Many people present were seeing Pill Lightning with four colors for the first time in their life!

Tier 8 medicinal pills could already be considered the peak level of the golden pagoda within the alchemist world. Tier 8 and tier 7 might only differ by one tier, but that difference was like the heaven and earth.

A tier 8 medicinal pill possessed some spirituality. One could even say that it possessed basic intelligence. In other words, a tier 8 medicinal pill already possessed a life force that belonged to it!

It could already be categorized as a creature!

Moreover, the division within tier 8 medicinal pills was exceptionally harsh. Its quality could no longer be differentiated by one's naked eye. Instead, it was differentiated through the colors of Pill Lightning!

The higher the grade of the medicinal pill, the Pill Lightning that it would attract when it was formed would possess even more colors.

It was rumored that if one could attract a nine-colored Pill Lightning, it meant that the medicinal pill had already advanced to the ninth tier, which possessed the strength of creation!

It would not be overboard to describe a medicinal pill of this tier as a divine pill.

By being able to attract a four-colored thundercloud, it meant that she had successfully refined a tier 8 medicinal pill.

Moreover, it was a tier 8 medicinal pill that possessed four-colored Pill Lightning.

The four-colored thundercloud lingered over the vast sky. A mighty thunder spread down from it.

Dan Chen wiped off the trace of blood on the corner of her mouth as she stood on the stone platform.

Her cute little face looked at the four-colored Pill Lightning in the sky and a smile surfaced on the corner of her mouth as she stood up. Her delicate, small body caused even the Dou Zun class experts to be afraid of underestimating her.

"Ha ha, sister Dan Chen, you have already succeeded, so I will not fall behind."

Just when a smile surfaced on Dan Chen's face, a lovely laugh was suddenly transmitted from the distance.

Dan Chen turned her head, only to see Cao Ying slowly standing up. Her enchanting face was also slightly pale.

Even though this was the case, the smile on her beautiful face was still bewitching. Looking at her Dan Chen also smiled.

After becoming Xiao Feng's women, the relationship between both of them has also progressed a lot.

Cao Ying's hands suddenly formed a hand seal. After a while she softly cried out, "Rise!"

"Bang!"

Her cry had just sounded when a large light pillar also erupted out from the medicinal cauldron in front of Cao Ying, shooting into the sky!

The clouds in the sky swiftly gathered as the light pillar erupted. After which, four colors appeared in front of the countless number of shocked eyes below. Everyone were once again shocked.

"It is another tier 8 medicinal pill!"

The entire stadium was boiling at this moment. Countless numbers of eyes were red as they looked at the bright thundercloud in the sky. An excitement surged within their hearts as the blood in their bodies began to boil!

This was the true Pill Gathering!

Successive tier 8 pills of Dan Chen and Cao Ying shocked Xuan Kongzi and others. Even they could not refine four coloured tier 8 pill easily yet these two girls refined them. It took a while for them to calm themselves down.

After calming down, Xuan Kongzi sighed, "These two girls are really strong. Even I didn't know that Cao Ying had progressed so much in past few years."

"It's just, as long as that person is there, these two can never win." Xuan Kongzi's tone was a bit low when he said the last sentence.

"Indeed, as long as, he is there, these girls will never win the Pill Gathering." The dark skinned elder nodded right after Xuan Kongzi.

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While everyone was taking, Xiao Feng also stood up. Immediately a huge beam of light lot up from his cauldron.

The light piller of more thousand feet in size appeared on the field. Everyone looked intently towards Xiao Feng after looking at the light piller.