Chapter 278: Next Batch (1/2)

”Woah, the participants are quite good this time around, aren't they?” one of the staff members said.

”Yeah, look at that fellow, his pills just showed 42% harmony. Wow, is that the highest yet?” the other staff members asked.

”No, the highest one belongs to that one guy in green. His pill had a 43% harmony,” another one of the staff said.

”Let's wait for our Huang to do his best. He will probably win this competition,” they said.

”Oh look, here he comes.”

Huang Fu stood up from his spot and walked up. Alex too stood up, only 1 step behind. His pills hadn't shown the harmony level he had desired, so he had taken the best of the two and left the other one inside. He would take care of it later.

Huang Fu walked up and put his pill inside the tester. By the time Alex reached his, the pill tester slowly fogged up and started going up.

Alex put his pill inside the tester too to show his harmony level. He, just as everyone around right now, looked at Huang Fu's pill tester rise up.

Soon it crossed 30% and kept ongoing. Alex's own pill tester was above 20%, but he didn't care about it as he already knew the result.

Huang Fu's harmony level kept on increasing and increasing until it stopped right before it reached Heaven grade. His pill's harmony was 49%.

Sounds of gasps appeared from everywhere as people realized how great his pill was. Alex turned around and looked at his own 43% pill and shook his head.

'If the pill splitting Qi appears once more, I'm as good as having lost the competition,' he thought. He took his pill and went back to his area.

The other pill inside the cauldron was at 42% harmony. So in total, he had lost about 15% of the energy either due to the ingredients being bad, him making a mistake, or the energy just escaping from the cauldron.

He couldn't do anything else, so he simply just crushed the extra pill inside the cauldron and removed all the powders outside.

And then, he was ready for another batch of ingredients. He looked at the time and realized that he still had a little over half an hour to make his pill.

So, he could take his time. He looked around and saw that a few of the participants had beads of sweat on their faces.

'Huh? I remember master saying that normal people can't make pills for too long, but is it really this bad? They are only done with a single pill though,' Alex thought.

He looked around and saw that it was only a few of the participants. The good ones weren't really tired and could probably go on for a few more rounds.

However, unlike Alex, they couldn't last for a whole day of pill-making. 'That's because of how robust my qi is right?' he thought.