The Sword God of the Universe

Chapter 545: Chapter 545: Demented and Stunned

Bai Lan was an incredibly capable Pill Master, and he was very familiar with the alchemy process. In all his years, he had never seen anyone conduct alchemy like Jing Yan.

Therefore, he was certain that Jing Yan’s alchemy results would not be good. With such a speed of refining, even if he did indeed produce elixirs in the end, the quantity and grade would definitely be subpar.

He had already prepared himself. Once Jing Yan’s results were revealed, he would seize the opportunity to fiercely attack Youhai Commerce and Jing Yan. Although Jing Yan’s performance in the first two stages had greatly enhanced Youhai Commerce’s reputation, which was now inevitable, Bai Lan would not just give up on his attacks. He could not allow Youhai Commerce to grow unchecked.

Among the onlookers, there were a few who understood the Alchemy Dao. They also subconsciously nodded.

Jing Yan’s movements and speed were indeed too fast. Compared to the other Pill Masters on the Fourth Tier Square, he was more than twice as fast. Was this really alchemy?

Thirty minutes had passed.

”It’s done!”

”Open the furnace and retrieve the elixirs!”

Jing Yan’s lips slightly curled upward as he felt the Fire Burning Pill had finished taking shape. After exhaling gently, he opened the furnace and took out the Fire Burning Pills, placing them inside a jade box in front of him.

In front of each Pill Master, there were two jade boxes placed ready.

After refining elixirs, Pill Masters needed to place them into jade boxes to ensure the efficacy would not dissipate.

Knowing his Fire Burning Pills would have no issues, Jing Yan did not need to inspect them. As Primordial Energy surged, the Fire Burning Pills inside the Pill Furnace were rapidly placed into the jade boxes.

Countless eyes were fixed on Jing Yan’s actions.

When they saw Jing Yan open the furnace and take out the elixirs, they couldn’t help but stare blankly.

What was Jing Yan doing?

Could it be that his first batch of elixirs was already finished refining?

At this time, the majority of Pill Masters had not even finished extracting the essence from the Spirit Grass, yet Jing Yan had already begun retrieving pills from the furnace?

This must be a joke!

But soon after, their speculations were confirmed. Jing Yan really was opening the furnace to retrieve pills. Because his movements were too swift, they couldn’t clearly see; the elixirs in Jing Yan’s Pill Furnace had already been moved into the jade box.

”Did you all see clearly?”

”Pill Master number sixty-six has successfully refined the Fire Burning Pills?”

”I only saw a blur, it seemed like shaped elixirs, but how many formed, and what the quality of the pills was, I do not know.”

”Seriously...”

Many people showed expressions of speechlessness.

While they hadn’t snapped back to reality, Jing Yan had already cleared the residue from the Pill Furnace and started refining the second batch of the Three-Complete Pills. His actions were the same as before, indifferent and swift.

He... After refining one batch of elixirs, he wasn’t resting a bit to recover? Was this guy really doing alchemy?

Quickly, the Spirit Grass needed to refine the grade-five Three-Complete Pills was placed inside.

Even the ten judges on the Highest Staircase Square were somewhat dumbfounded. They were mostly gawking, finding it hard to believe what they were watching Jing Yan do. They were all paragons among level-eight Pill Masters and the youngest among them was around two hundred years old. Living for so long, they had never seen such casual alchemy.

”Gentlemen, what do you think?” Sun Qi looked around at those beside him, unable to restrain himself from asking.

Even Sun Qi couldn’t help but speak out.

Although he did not mention names, the other judges knew what Sun Qi meant and whom he was referring to.

”When the Fire Burning Pills were being collected from the furnace, I looked very closely. If I’m not mistaken, there should be seven pills that took shape!” a judge said, turning to speak.

Jing Yan’s speed at collecting the pills was indeed fast, but for those warriors with great strength, their eyes were sharp, so they managed to see Jing Yan take out the elixirs.

The only uncertainty was whether these elixirs had collapsed after being placed in the jade box.

For Pill Masters, forming the shape was not the end; they also needed to stabilize it. If the shaping was successful, then upon opening the furnace, it would indeed seem that the pills had formed. However, these pills might still be unstable. Unstable pills, once taken out of the furnace, could collapse in a short period of time.

The judges saw Jing Yan placing the collected pills into the jade box, but they were not sure whether the pills Jing Yan placed in the box were stable. Only stable pills count as successfully refined.

”Indeed, seven pills took shape. It’s just unclear whether any have collapsed,” another judge nodded and said.

”How much time did he use to refine the Fire Burning Pill from start to end?” a judge asked.

”About thirty minutes, I believe!” someone responded.

Two hours was equal to the time of four incense sticks.

For this competition to refine two batches of elixirs, a total time of six hours was allocated, yet Jing Yan had used only thirty minutes to finish refining the first batch of Fire Burning Pills.

While the judges were discussing, Jing Yan wasn’t thinking so much. He was cultivating the Qiankun Pill Path, continuously stimulating his own Primordial Energy, extracting and refining the essence of the Spirit Grass needed for the Three-Complete Pill, purifying and shaping it.

Another thirty minutes passed.

”It’s ready!”

Jing Yan exhaled once more.

He glanced at the other Pill Masters, who were all still refining the Fire Burning Pills. Some of them still had parts of the Spirit Grass needed for the Fire Burning Pill in front of them.

Jing Yan shook his head, opened the furnace, and retrieved the pills.

A flash of green light, and the Three-Complete Pills were taken out, placed inside the second jade box.

Having covered the jade box, Jing Yan sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and seemed to be resting. With the two batches of elixirs already refined, all that was left was to wait for time to pass and the staff would collect the pills for scoring.

Those warriors who saw Jing Yan conclude refining two batches of elixirs were all dumbfounded!

Two batches of elixirs, completed in only an hour’s time.

Seriously, was this really elixir refining?

Or was it just some hasty job to scrape through?

Many people really wanted to rush over to ask Jing Yan if he was truly refining, or to look into the jade boxes in front of him to see if he had indeed successfully refined the elixirs. Of course, that was not permissible. Besides Jing Yan, there were a hundred Pill Masters refining elixirs on the Fourth Tier Square. Even if they were very curious, they could not disrupt the other Pill Masters.

”I really don’t know what to say!” Sun Qi took a deep breath and shook his head, saying to the other judges.

”Nor do I.”

”Indeed, what can we say? Within half an hour, two batches of pills, one batch of Fire Burning Pills, and one batch of Three-Complete Pills... I dare say, I certainly couldn’t do that in half an hour,” a judge laughed self-deprecatingly.

”The speed is fast, but that doesn’t prove anything. We still have to see the quantity and quality of the elixirs,” a female judge pondered aloud.