Chapter 192: Failure (1/2)

Alex continued making the Bone Sealing pill as per the recipe. While more than half of the energy had escaped, he didn't worry about it. The pills would have enough energy left for him to pass.

He continued putting in more and more ingredients as the Elder kept on watching. Finally, with the last ingredient, he was done putting in everything. It was now time for him to form the pill.

He slowly gathered the powder around to shape it into a sphere. It was beginning to form a clump of powder when suddenly, a different strand of Qi escaped from his body and went into the pills.

'No!' he thought, horrified. This was the last thing he wanted happening to him. He wasn't worried about the Elder seeing him split a pill into two. The cauldron was at a distance where the Elder couldn't see inside at all, but the problem was…

The powder clump separated into two equally sized clumps that started forming into pills. A vortex started on top of them sucking in as much energy as they could from their surrounding. However, most of it had already escaped and so the pills were left with none.

After a minute or two, the vortexes stopped forming and the pills were done.

Alex went into Focus mode. Time slowed down as his senses started to become a lot more acute. A little scared, Alex quickly put his hands into the cauldron, hiding the pills from the Elder. As he brought his hands back towards him, he looked at the pills.

[Bone Sealing Pill: 19%]

[Bone Sealing Pill: 17%]

'Sh*t,' he started distressing. He quickly shot the 17% pill down his sleeve and showed the 19% pill in his palm. The pill suddenly flew off as soon as he opened his arm, falling into the Elder's hand.

The Elder started testing the pill's Harmony level in the Pill tester and sighed. He shook his head as he saw the number 19 on the pill tester's glass body. Seeing that number was a little disappointing for him.

The Elder had heard quite a bit about the Sect Leader's disciple from the other Elders, especially the one in charge of registering pills for the core disciples.  'Was he lying? Or was the disciple cheating at those times?' the Elder wondered. His gaze turned a little harsh now that he knew that the disciple was not very talented at making pills.

However, nothing could be harsher than the way Alex was berating himself on the inside.

'You stupid idiot. You could've just used Elemental Guidance at the end and you would've been fine. Just a single percentage increase and you would've passed the exam. Goddammit! Why did the stupid pill splitting Qi had to get come out at this time.'

'I should have just used my cauldron and I could have fixed this. If only I had a lid, the harmony would go up by about 5% for sure.'

He started thinking about the different things that went wrong or the mistakes he made. However, nothing would now change the fact that he failed to make a 20% pill during the core disciples exam.

'Sigh. Half an hour went just like that,' he thought.