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Chapter 154 Provocation

"when!"

With a notification sound indicating completion, Xiao Yan's cauldron lid opened, and a pill shot out, landing in his hand.

"Someone has already finished?"

When they saw that less than a third of the way through, everyone present was stunned.

Apart from those who failed twice in a row, the others hadn't even refined the third ingredient yet.

Even those who progressed quickly, like Liu Ling and Yao Yue, had only refined the fifth medicinal ingredient so far.

In such a short time, Xiao Yan had already completed the refining process, attracting the attention of everyone present, including the alchemists.

"Is this guy even human? How could he be so fast?"

"He must have known the answer beforehand, otherwise he couldn't have been this fast."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Even if others know the answer, they haven't finished extracting it yet."

After all, those who were eliminated before Xiao Yan finished refining the medicine were all talents whose refining failed and caused the medicinal materials to be wasted.

"Damn it, how could it be so fast?"

Liu Ling secretly glanced at Xiao Yan; she had only made one-third of her progress, while he had already finished.

However, he then thought again that speed alone was useless; in the end, the score depended on who trained better. With his speed, even if he succeeded, he would probably only achieve a lower or middle grade.

"This guy is a monster. I really don't understand who taught him alchemy." Even Princess Yaoyue couldn't see through Xiao Yan anymore. This speed was probably even faster than a fifth-grade alchemist.

Meanwhile, in the VIP section, Nalan Jie laughed heartily: "Hahaha, see? This is my grandson-in-law. It's a pity that old man Xiao Lin is no longer here. Otherwise, if he saw his grandson's achievements, he would be beaming with joy."

Mittel Tengshan wasn't too surprised by this. Xiao Yan had the combat power of a Dou Huang, so his alchemy skills were likely around the fifth rank.

Using this level of alchemy skill to participate in the Alchemist Conference is just blatantly humiliating noobs.

If the reward weren't a sixth-grade pill recipe, he probably wouldn't have even glanced at this competition.

Mittel Tengshan was truly amazed by this, thinking how incredibly lucky the Nalan family was. He wished it had been Ya Fei who had been engaged to Xiao Yan back then.

However, considering the age difference between them, Mittel Tengshan shook his head helplessly. Who could have predicted such a thing?

After completing the refining process, Xiao Yan sat cross-legged on the spot, closed his eyes and concentrated. As the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire was withdrawn, everyone's flames finally returned to normal.

At this time, Xiao Yan had undoubtedly become the idol of countless young women in the entire Jia Ma Empire.

Many noble ladies have even begun to consider using their families' influence to arrange a marriage alliance with the other side.

However, after hearing that Xiao Yan was already engaged to Nalan Yanran of the Nalan family, he gave up on the idea.

Nalan Yanran's excellence is far beyond what they can compare to.

With Xiao Yan's completion of the alchemy process, the entire alchemist conference fell into an inexplicable atmosphere of tension.

Although there is still plenty of time, once someone finishes refining, many people will feel that time is already counting down. If their mindset is unstable, they may even make huge mistakes during the refining process.

In the next ten minutes or so, dozens more alchemists failed to refine their potions and left the stage in disappointment.

When the hourglass reached halfway through, the alchemists who were making the fastest progress had already begun to condense pills.

"Even if I can't get first place, I can't fall too far behind." Liu Ling's hands moved faster and faster, eventually entering the pill-forming stage.

"when!"

Just then, a second voice rang out, and the second alchemist finished the refining process. However, the other party was just a fair-skinned, thin-looking young man, not an alchemist from the Gama Empire.

The completion of his pill refining was undoubtedly a slap in the face to the alchemists of the Jia Ma Empire. If Xiao Yan hadn't been incredibly fast, he could have really taken this opportunity to mock the alchemist community of the Jia Ma Empire.

"There are actually people faster than me. It seems this year's competition is truly full of hidden talents." Liu Ling felt a sense of pressure. Less than a minute after the second voice rang out, he had already completed his core formation.

"when!"

Less than half a minute after Liu Ling finished, Yao Yue also finished refining, and a clanging sound came from the alchemy table.

A few minutes later, the clanging sound rang out like a chain reaction, and people began to finish one after another.

It was from this point on that the number of people passing through began to increase.

At this point, only the last grain of sand remained in the hourglass.

"Time's up! All those who haven't finished are eliminated!"

As Fa Ma's voice rang out, all the alchemists who were still refining their potions, whether they succeeded or failed, were eliminated.

The difficulty of this first round of competition was so high that it eliminated nearly a third of the participants.

Even so, more than a thousand alchemists completed the refining process, which is enough to show that all of them were quite skilled.

Even Xue Mei and Lin Fei completed the refining at the last moment and successfully passed the first round.

"Congratulations, Brother Xiao Yan, your refining speed is truly extraordinary."

Liu Ling offered his congratulations immediately, but Xiao Yan didn't care about his intentions.

"Oh, not at all. As long as you refine it, you've passed the level. What difference does it make whether you're first or last?"

If someone who is slow at refining said this, they would be perceived as being a bit stubborn.

But now that this statement was made by the person who refined it the fastest, almost half an hour faster than the second-fastest, his statement can only be interpreted as humility.

"By the way, Brother Xiao Yan, have you noticed that guy?" Liu Ling pointed to a young man cleaning an alchemy table in a southwestern location.

That guy looked very young, even younger than Xiao Yan.

Liu Ling's gaze also caught the other party's attention. The boy suddenly gave her a thumbs up, and then turned his thumb upside down.

This scene was undoubtedly provocative, making Liu Ling slightly angry: "That guy seems to be an alchemist from another country, I didn't expect him to be so arrogant."

Looking at the other person, Xiao Yan felt that the guy's aura was very strange and something was wrong, but he was too far away to investigate carefully.

"That guy is indeed a bit strange, but in this Alchemist Conference, all we need to do is give it our all. As for the rest, let him be."

Xiao Yan didn't care about the other person's identity; as long as he did his own thing, that was enough.

As for the young alchemist's provocation, he didn't take it seriously. If that guy was the trump card of the Izumo Empire, then he wouldn't mind tearing that trump card away.