Chapter 192: Failure (2/2)

The Elder stood up at this point and walked a little closer towards him. He then spoke.

”Disciple Yu Ming, You have failed to make a pill with 20% harmony under an hour. Do you have anything to say,” the Elder asked?

Alex sighed. He was about to shake his head when he suddenly caught up on something. ”Um… Elder, Do I pass the exam as long as I can produce a 20% harmony pill in under an hour?” he asked.

”Why are you repeating what I just said and asking if that is true? Of course, it is,” The Elder replied a little annoyed at Alex.

Alex however didn't mind it. His eyes were shining from the bit of information he had just received. ”Elder, so I can make another pill, and if it turns out to have a harmony higher than 20%, I am fine, right?” he asked.

”Yes, but I will have to inspect your ingredients again and it's already over half an hour now,” the elder said.

”No worries,” Alex said and immediately opened the box to take out his storage bags. He looked into a few of them and took out the ingredients for the pill once more and handed it to the Elder.

The Elder spent some time checking the ingredients and handed it back to him. Alex looked at the time and only 20 minutes were left. He had to hurry up.

Alex was worried the Elder would waste more of his time if he brought out his cauldron at this point, so he decided to stay with the bad one for now.

Without hesitation, he put the first ingredient into the cauldron. The tendon started turning to powder and releasing energy. Alex slowly used Elemental Guidance to keep those energies inside the cauldron as much as possible.

After some time, he put in another piece of ingredient and used Elemental Guidance to keep its energy inside the cauldron too. As more and more ingredients were added into the mix, the harmony between the elements began to set.

Alex made sure everything was fine when he decided to start forming the pill.

'Oh god please don't release the pill splitting Qi,' he prayed. He then collected the powders in the cauldron to a clump and used Elemental Guidance to move whatever energy was left in the cauldron.

The little amount of energy passed through the powder, increasing the harmony ever so slightly. He could tell that the powders had absorbed a good amount of energy and that the pill would be high leveled now.

He was starting to get hopeful about his chances to pass at this point. He looked at the time and realized he only had less than 2 minutes to complete the task.

He proceeded to complete the task, but just then, the thing he least hoped for happened. The Pill Splitting Qi came out of his body once more.