Chapter 276: Beginning of the third Competition (2/2)

And finally, with an air of Elegance, sitting in front of one of the fire pits was perhaps the best alchemist amongst the competitors here today. He was Huang Fu, the Royal Alchemist's disciple.

Alex hadn't seen him properly the first time as he had only heard the person's name and caught a glimpse of him while he was leaving the arena.

Today, he got to see him very well. Huang Fu was a moderately tall man that seemed to be not even 20 years old. He had a slim face with a pointed nose and sharp eyes.

Huang Fu seemed to notice Alex's eyes and turned towards him before giving a small nod in greeting. Alex reciprocated with a nod as well.

Everyone else was randomly seated around the place. No two sect disciples were allowed to sit with each other.

A new female host walked up this time and stood on top of a small podium and started talking.

”Welcome everyone, to the Best Pill-making competition. I hope you guys are doing well and are well prepared. You guys probably went through this already but please take these storage bags and keep your required ingredients in there. Everything else, please put it in the box,” the female host said.

A group of staff members walked forward handing everyone a box and storage bag. Alex took them both and stored everything aside from the required ingredients into the box.

He locked the box with his Qi and handed it to the staff. He looked at the ingredients in the storage bag. He had kept two sets of ingredients just in case.

'Ah, hopefully, the double pills won't happen this time,' he hoped. Even if the pill splitting Qi did appear, he was sure that he could reach at least 42% harmony level.

However, that wasn't enough to win the competition. The best of the best were gathered here. Even if they couldn't reach Heaven grade, which he wasn't sure about, they would definitely make better pills than 42% harmony.

So, he was prepared just a bit. Now, all he could do was wish he didn't need to.

The host saw that the storage bag situation was taken care of, so she started to speak again.

”As every one of you knows, this is the competition where you rank based on the best pill you can make. So you will be given an hour exactly to make the pill.”

”The competition will rank you based on the best pill you make, so you are allowed to make multiple ones. In fact, we urge you to make multiple pills,” the host said.

All the participants seem to have expected that and were ready with the extra ingredients just like Alex.

”There are also rules that you will have to follow. If you are unable to follow them, you will be disqualified.”

”If you don't have a pill by the end of the hour, you will be disqualified. If your cauldron explodes, you will be disqualified. If you disrupt others intentionally, you will be disqualified.”

”If you are found guilty of having cheated during any of the parts in the competition, you are disqualified. Those are the rules, everything else, you are free to do what you like. Good luck.”