Chapter 291: Fourth Day (1/2)

Alex was greeted by the now-familiar Focus Mode. He very quickly adjusted to the amplified sense and looked around. The sun was up by now and the room was lit.

'What's the time?' he thought and looked. It was 6:42 PM. 'Oh, I took quite a while today to log back in,' he thought.

Had he not woken up early, he might have missed today's competition start.

Very soon,  there was someone calling them by knocking on their door, and in a usual fashion, Alex and Wan Li walked out.

”Everyone is here. Let's leave,” Ma Rong said and walked down the stairs with the whole group. In 15 or so minutes, the group reached the coliseum and entered it.

They went to the stage along with the other dozens of sects looked at the competition for now. For the Alchemy competition, the competition was that they would learn a new pill recipe, made specifically for the competition by the Royal Alchemist and the participants would have to follow it to make the best pill in under an hour.

This required a lot of knowledge regarding the different pills and how ingredients interacted as well as being able to remember every single movement from the pill-making process, including the timing, the flame temperature, the order of ingredients as well as the movement they had to make in the cauldron.

The competition asked for a lot, and only those that could deliver on it could win.

Alex was sure he would do quite well in the competition but still didn't want to take part in it. He wanted to experience the combat or specialized competition at least once.

Ma Rong took the ones that wanted to participate and took them to register, while the rest of them went to the seating area.

Alex saw the Tiger sect and greeted his master and his senior sister, but didn't go join them. Luo Mei insisted on it so he promised he would do that the next day.

Once she agreed, he went back to the Hong Wu sect seating area.

”I don't think I've said this before but I am really surprised that you are the disciple of the sect leader of Tiger sect as well,” Wan Li said.

”Haha, that sorta just happened. I can't believe it myself as well,” Alex said.

”Learning both Alchemy and battle at the same time, I'm very envious of you, Brother Yu,” Wan Li said while making a weird face.

'Huh?' Alex was a little surprised but Wan Li focused back on the stage, so Alex let go of it.

The first few competitions started and Alex looked at them. He felt very unenthusiastic towards the whole competition as a whole today.

People were learning before doing anything, so they made a lot of mistakes and not many intense competitions took place.

Even the formation ones that kept his attentions usually didn't manage to grab his interest. 'Sigh, this is boring,' he thought and looked around the coliseum.