Chapter 278: Next Batch (2/2)

Finally, he stopped distracting himself and put in the first ingredient once again. He slowly moved it around the cauldron. He wasn't in a hurry, so he followed the recipe as well as he could.

Once the ingredient was down to powder and all the energy had escaped from it, Alex put in the second ingredient.

The lid was still on the cauldron, but by now the staff members had pretty much ignored it. They were still talking in low voice about how the Royal Alchemist's direct disciple had nearly made a heaven rank pill.

Alex continued making his pill but was definitely taking his time. He looked up at the clock from time to time and by the time he put in the 5th ingredient, only 15 minutes were remaining.

He continued making the pill and put in ingredients every minute or so as per the recipe's instruction. After 10 or so minutes, he finally finished putting in all the ingredients.

The metal energy was now fully covering the inside of the cauldron. Just at this time, a contestant stood up and went to get her pills tested.

Alex continued his task while keeping an eye on the contestant's harmony. Unfortunately, the contestant got 41%. She had lost.

A few more contestants started standing, while Alex decided to focus back on his pill-making. He used Elemental guidance to force the energy to flow into the powder to make the energy in it more concentrated. He needed as high a harmony level as possible.

Thanks to the resulting energy being Metal in nature, controlling it wasn't as hard as with the other energies.

Finally, it was time to form the pill. He slowly got the powder together and started forming the pill. He kept on using Elemental guidance to help the energy go into the powder, but it didn't do as well as he could have hoped for it.

Suddenly, he heard gasps throughout the surrounding, most of it coming from the staff members. He wondered if Huang Fu did something good again, but he wasn't there this time.

Instead, he saw a familiar green-robed figure standing in front of the pill tester. Alex saw that Han Long was there too with his dropped jaw.

Alex noticed that he had a 47% harmony pill, yet he was flabbergasted by Wan Li's performance.

Alex turned his attention back to Wan Li and saw that the fog in the pill tester had reached unusually high. He slowly looked at the number and was surprised himself too at how great the harmony was.

The pill he made had 49% harmony. That was the same as the harmony level of Huang Fu.

Most of the contestants stood up and went to check their pill's harmony level, and only 2 were remaining. One was Alex and the other was Huang Fu.

With 1 minute left on the clock, Huang Fu stood up from his seat and took the pill out of the cauldron before walking upfront to the pill tester.

It was time for him to check.