TFHS: Chapter 155

Qiu Yi had an expression of disbelief on his face and wanted to run over to take a look to see if Feng Ming was cheating or something. How could an alchemist refine mostly best-grade in one furnace?

However, after the pills were refined, they were collected by the staff for identiﬁcation by the referees.

After Feng Ming’s pills were collected, the other referees couldn’t wait to take a look. Several best-grade pills were passed around among them in turn.

“Yes, it is definitely a best-grade pill that just came out of the furnace.”

“With this appearance and this medicinal fragrance, it is a genuine flawless best-grade pill.

“Even the top-grade pills are of excellent quality.”

Qiu Yi, who had also refined a best-grade pill, had his best-grade pill tested by the judges.

There was a beautiful jade in front, so his best-grade pill seemed ordinary. The pill’s aura was dull in comparison.

The audience in the stands was also talking about it. They hadn’t expected the simplest first-round refining of a first-grade pill to cause such a big commotion. It didn’t seem simple at all.

First, nearly half the alchemists were eliminated, including many second-grade alchemists.

Then came the appearance of the best-grade pills. Normally, a best-grade pill was extremely difficult to obtain. Now that two alchemists produced best-grade pills at the same time, it didn’t seem that precious any longer.

But that was only in appearance. Even the children of the rich and powerful in Imperial City knew how rare best-grade pills were.

“At first, I thought Feng Ming was too arrogant. Unexpectedly, he is actually so capable.”

“That’s right. Qiu Yi is already outstanding enough, but Feng Ming is even more surprising.”

“But this is only a first-grade pill. It is still unclear whether Feng Ming’s alchemy skills have surpassed Qiu Yi or not. We have to wait and see how he refines the second-grade, third-grade, or even fourth-grade pills.”

“You are uninformed right? Feng Ming has sold many varieties of third-grade pills at the counter of Wuyi Pavilion in Sihong Academy, and many of them were top-grade pills.”

“In any case, it seems that the most noteworthy competition in this alchemy competition is the one between Feng Ming and Qiu Yi. The other alchemists are just a foil.”

“They were born at the wrong time. Who would’ve thought that they would run into these two?”

In just the first elimination match, Feng Ming appeared in everyone’s sight with a very domineering attitude. He no longer relied on his background to attract attention.

Since it was an elimination match, there was no need to select the best player. Those who remained on the stage successfully advanced to the second round of the elimination match.

The elimination match format was very rough and simple. The second round was refining a second-grade pill.

However, this time, formations were set up around each alchemist’s alchemy table to strengthen the protection of the alchemist.

This made the second-grade alchemists eliminated in the first round feel a lot of regret. Why were they so impatient? They just had to get through the first round, and there would be no need to worry about being affected by others again.

The second round of refining was a medicine that Feng Ming was very familiar with, the pulse opening pill. After getting the materials, Feng Ming still went at his own leisurely pace.

This time, the audience in the stands no longer thought he was too slow. Even the referee felt that this ger was too calm.

Qiu Chen came to talk to Yu Xiao again. “Can your disciple refine another flawless best-grade pill?”

Yu Xiao glanced at him, eyes seemingly saying that he no longer wanted to talk to this person. Still, he answered, “That depends on my disciple’s own thoughts. Maybe he doesn’t want to be too eye-catching.”

Qiu Chen felt his question was unnecessary after hearing this. Yu Xiao kept praising his own disciple. Wasn’t it eye-catching enough just now?

Yu Xiao turned to watch Feng Ming refining the medicine, the corners of his mouth slightly raised. He always told the truth, but some people didn’t believe it. What could he do?

Just because Feng Ming was holding back, he couldn’t judge if there would be another best-grade pill. If his disciple didn’t hold back, he would definitely be able to give Qiu Chen a positive answer.

His apprentice was so outstanding that he was worried.

If Qiu Chen could hear his inner voice, he would probably want to hit someone.

Finally, there were no more furnace explosions in the second round. The formation isolated the noise of the surrounding areas, allowing the alchemist to focus on their own furnace.

Feng Ming’s alchemy technique had been adjusted. Even if there were alchemists from the Shengyuan Sect present, they wouldn’t be able to tell that he had inherited the complete alchemy heritage of the Shengyuan Sect.

He and his master had already considered this situation, or they might’ve been exposed on an occasion like today.

A master of alchemy like Qiu Chen must’ve had exchanges and discussions with the alchemists of the Shengyuan Sect. How could he not be familiar with the Shengyuan Sect’s heritage and alchemy techniques?

Qiu Yi was the first to finish again. He still had a full furnace of pulls. There were no more best-grade pills, but there were seven top-grade pills. He was very satisfied with this result and thought that his performance this time exceeded his usual level.

The moment it was over, he turned to look at the situation on Feng Ming’s side. After the first round, he no longer underestimated Feng Ming, thinking that Feng Ming was an arrogant person who relied on Yu Xiao’s power.

This person really had the ability to challenge himself. He truly regarded Feng Ming as his opponent.

As for the other alchemists, his attitude was the same as before. None of them were worthy of his attention.

He didn’t have to wait too long. Feng Ming also collected the pills. Qiu Yi’s eyes widened again when he saw the nine pills flying out of the furnace.

It was because there was a flawless best-grade pill with the pull aroma among them. Just this one pill meant that Feng Ming had defeated him again in the second round.

“Another flawless best-grade pill!”

The audience in the stands was also shocked. This person’s talent in alchemy was too high.

Qiu Chen glanced at Yu Xiao’s calm face ,and his lips twitched.

The referees coming from the Medicine Hall had Feng Ming’s information in front of them, which clearly stated the time and place when Feng Ming passed the exam of a first-grade alchemist. This information was specially retrieved by the Medicine Hall.

This guy was still at the level of a first-grade alchemist since he never took the exam again. Wasn’t this infuriating?

In other words, how long had it been since he became an alchemist?

Based on this point, his talent in alchemy was indeed better than Qiu Yi’s. Qiu Yi not only started learning early, but he also had the guidance of famous teachers all the way. He was taught by the best alchemists of the Dongmu Dynasty.

On Feng Ming’s road to growth, the one who taught him at first was just a second-grade alchemist of a small town. Later, it was Yu Xiao, a master of alchemy. the resources he obtained simply couldn’t be compared to Qiu Yi at all.

Jiang Ran and his companions were sitting a bit far away, but they could still see the scene on stage. They were all very excited.

“I didn’t expect Brother Feng to have such superb alchemy skills. We traveled with them all the way, but didn’t even know about it.”

Jiang Ran wanted to laugh when he thought about the situation before entering Imperial City. “At that time, we talked about Master Yu Xiao accepting a new disciple, but didn’t know his name. Unexpectedly, this disciple is Brother Feng, and Brother Feng didn’t even remind us. We almost made a big joke.”

Someone said, “Brother Feng is just too low-key. If it was someone else, he might’ve introduced himself as soon as he met us.”

Qiu Yi and Qiu Chen would definitely be speechless if they heard this. What type of filter was this? Looking at Feng Ming’s behavior and attitude, did it have anything to do with being low-key?

The eleventh prince had a very ugly expression on his face, and it was the same for his princess beside him. The better Feng Ming performed, the greater their losses would be.

An alchemist with such a high talent would have even greater achievements in the future.

Once the other person grew up, Feng Ming wouldn’t need to take any action. Others would do a lot in order to please Feng Ming.

It would be fine for other people, but Lou Minjun knew that the knot between the Ningyuan Earl’s Mansion and Feng Ming was difficult to untie.

She knew very well that even if someone talked about peace, Feng Ming wouldn’t have a good impression of their mansion. It was even more impossible for the two sides to shake hands and make peace.

Since she had already offended him, she might as well do it more thoroughly. Lou Minjun became more determined in her idea that she couldn’t allow such a person to grow up.

Feng Ming was a person born in the lower class and knew too little about the powerful and wealthy. Did he really think the Ningyuan Earl’s Mansion had come this far with no support and no trump cards?

No, he was wrong. He would pay a heavy price for his contempt. It would be too late to regret it then.

The other princes, especially those at odds with the eleventh prince, started to gloat over his misfortune.

In their opinion, it was difficult to win over Master Yu Xiao, but it would be easy to win over Feng Ming, who was less than 20 years old.

If Feng Ming was won over, wasn’t it the same as Yu Xiao being on the same boat as them?

The most regrettable thing was that Feng Ming actually got married like this, and his marriage partner was Bai Qiaomo, who was Pei Changqing’s junior disciple and had a high status.

Otherwise, they could promise Feng Ming a position as a concubine. It was the concubine of a prince, the concubine of the future emperor. This status was precious enough. How could Feng Ming not be tempted?

Feng Ming… Feng Ming wouldn’t even bother to talk to these people.

Some people were still eliminated in the second round. Due to there being only one set of materials, some alchemists protested.

However, the referee claimed that even if they were given three sets of materials, they wouldn’t be able to make it to the end and become one of the 20 people who were qualified.

After the second round of eliminations, there were less than a hundred people left on the stage. The elimination rate was quite high, and Feng Ming was somewhat surprised.

Once he finished refining the pill, he rested his chin on his hand and watched others making pills with great interest. He didn’t think there was nothing to learn from others just because their alchemy skills weren’t as good as his.

Before the third round of eliminations began, the atmosphere on stage was much more solemn than at the beginning.

The alchemists who remained on the stage looked at each other. Finally, they turned their gazes to Qiu Yi and Feng Ming.

Even though only two rounds had been held, everyone knew that the gap between these two and them was too big, and they had no way of catching up.

Before the league, they all knew that Feng Ming was Yu Xiao’s new disciple, but they hadn’t taken it too seriously.

Even with the guidance of a famous teacher, it wasn’t certain that he could surpass them in alchemy.

Now they realized that they had taken it for granted. Yu Xiao finally accepted a new disciple after so many years. How could he only be a little bit talented?

If he appeared in Imperial City, they were afraid that even masters like Qiu Chen would rush to accept him.

Qiu Chen did feel a bit regretful. How come he hadn’t discovered such a genius? Otherwise, he could’ve showed off his disciple in front of Yu Xiao now, instead of being forced to listen to Yu Xiao showing off his disciple.

At their level of status, it was just a matter of comparing the disciples they taught with each other, to see whose disciple was more talented or had better alchemy skills.