Chapter 260: Alchemy Hall of the Capital (1/2)

Zhou Mei looked at the list and sighed a little. She had gotten 26 points in the competition and had thus become 5th in the rankings. Normally, she would've been happy, but right now, she only frowned.

'How did that guy get so many points while everyone else struggled?' she thought. It was really hard to believe that someone that was not even in the same cultivation realm as her could possibly gather so many ingredients.

'Does he have a really good mind or what?' she wondered. She knew he was talented. Even with all the opportunities, one was given, it was impossible to reach where he was without having some talent of one's own. But she found it difficult to accept precisely because he was given so many opportunities.

She sighed and moved out of the arena along with the other nearly hundred disciples.

Some of the hundred disciples were a little happy to have earned something, but most were actually sad and frustrated. It wasn't so easy to go in, look at the list, remember it, look at the thousands of ingredients in front of them and pick one that matched the list.

Even if they did remember a few, they weren't sure if they would be gone by the next day. That was just how hard the competition was.

Alex and Zhou Mei as well as the other disciple made their way to the seating area.

CLAP CLAP CLAP

”Congrats on the 1st place Yu Ming”

”Nice job.”

”That's the sect leader's disciple for you.”

”No wonder she took him as her direct disciple.”

Alex smiled and thanked them as he walked up to and sat in his seat. ”Great job Yu Ming. I knew you could do it for sure. You too MeiMei, good job on getting 5th place. That was a terribly difficult task. I doubt Fanfan could get that much, let alone Wan Li.”

Zhou Mei nodded when she heard Ma Rong say that, but internally she was still disappointed. Out of the top 3, she was the only one to not be in the top 3 of the competition.

”Alright, let's leave,” Ma Rong said and stood up. The rest of the members stood up and started walking too. The competition was over for the day, so everyone else would be leaving soon as well.

The other sects didn't want to be stuck among the waves of the audience trying to leave the place, so they started to leave as well.

Alex and the rest smoothly got out of the coliseum and went back to their hotel. ”You guys can go around and roam you know? You don't have to follow the rest of us back,” Ma Rong said.

Some of the disciples nodded and got out of line to leave but the rest of them followed the group back.