"Well, what can I do? It is her choice, isn't it? If she wants to put on a show, then who am I to stop her?" Han Dingsun laughed.
"Put on a show huh?" Liu Feng chuckled as he kept looking.
Everyone around in the stands was already murmuring, having the same question that Liu Feng did. To win against that man, all Bai Zhiqui needed to do was make more pill than him in general. She did not need to put on a show this big.
But she did, and it was something that Liu Feng was willing to enjoy. He needed the battle to go on until it reached the fourth round and that meant that one person had to win.
He had no confidence in any of them because all of them were people who lost against him. For someone who lost against him, a person who did not even practice alchemy that much, he did not have high hopes for.
Still, he kept watching, hoping that a miracle would occur.
Both the alchemists took out a bunch of medicinal ingredients from their spatial rings. With a snap of her wrists, Bai Zhiqui sent all the herbs into the ninety six pill fires that were created around her furnace.
One by one, the herbs turned into essence, but they hovered in thin air, as if they were levitating. This was by the effect of Qi, and it was probably taking all the concentration that Bai Zhiqui had.
The same situation was seen in the case of the man from Handu, but it was just a lesser load.
Liu Feng could only see one use case of this type of pill refining that was for sheer speed. If an alchemist was managing a whole force of his own, then he would use this pill refining technique.
All of a sudden, sounds appeared. These were coming from the alchemist from Handu. He was finishing his pill refinement much quicker than Bai Zhiqui. One by one, pills from the pill fires started flying into his furnace.
Soon, the fires dimmed down, and thirty one pills flew into his furnace. One of them was not condensed, and had burned too much, causing it to be a failure. Still, it was a commendable achievement.
"I did not think that Handu had so many pill geniuses. I thought that Han Dingsun was their biggest pill genius, but it looks like they have geniuses who match the pill genius. If only our own was not so arrogant as to think that she could pull ninety six refinements at once." one experienced alchemist from the audience sighed and said.
Bai Zhiqui could probably hear all of this, but she just did not pay any attention to it. In fact, if she was paying attention to it, then she would have failed all of these refinements already.
Sweat was dripping from her face as she carefully made a few hand signs.
Liu Feng could see that many of the pills were forming inside the pill fires.
Both of them were making the Qi Supplement pill, truly the easiest pill to make. It was probably the first pill that humans knew how to make. The ingredients used to make them were very common, and any alchemist could just perform its alchemy with ease.
It was clear that the difficulty level rose sharply here because of the number of pills they were trying to make at once.
"Doing it like this is just stupid. The best number of pill fires is definitely three. That way, the medicinal essence will not be wasted, and every pill fire will have a yield of three pills or even more with less than a tenth of the time that they took." Liu Feng noted, deciding that if he was ever in a situation where he wanted to take in a large group of people, this was what he would do.
Ding!
Ding!
Successively, the pill fires around Bai Zhiqui started disappearing, and pills were flying from them into her furnace.
Liu Feng counted the pills that were coming in, and in a minute, they crossed thirty two. Bai Zhiqui definitely defeated her opponent with that now.
But she was not done yet. The pills kept coming in, and all the alchemists who had complained before all shut their mouths. That was because with this now, they had no reason to say anything. She had proven that she was the better alchemist by a whole mile.
The last pill fire remained, but it did not just disappear. Bai Zhiqui rose her arm, and the pill fire slowly moved to the furnace, where she started performing a few hand seals.
The runes on the pill furnace started lighting up, and someone stood up in shock.
"That furnace, that furnace is definitely a treasure! Master Mu is definitely exorbitant with his disciples." the alchemist who stood up said.
Liu Feng was a little intrigued by this. Bai Zhiqui definitely recognized the furnace that he had, which was apparently quite precious and she left it because she had another that was fated for her.
Ding!
The last sound was crisp and gave a clear sound of victory. The pill that came out shone with a dazzling light, and everyone who looked at it nodded with appreciation.
"An eighty percent purity, Master Mu raised a good disciple." someone nodded.
"Such a display. It is not a shame to lose against such an alchemist. I am astonished that Master Mu has such a personal disciple." the middle aged man stood up and smiled.
Once again, his words were tactful and simple. He made light of the victory of Tiandu by stating that Bai Zhiqui was just too talented, and that the loss of Handu meant nothing. But who could do anything about it?
While the young geniuses from Tiandu had the support of the entire kingdom which came for this, the Handu kingdom had nothing at all.
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