All herbs had different natures and properties, so they all required different conditions such as different temperatures, pressures, moisture levels, etc. to refine them. But, Joey refined them all of the herbs at once. So, Chief Jugge Huan praised Joey for his expertise in controlling his essence fire.
After ten minutes Joey completely refined all the herbs inside the cauldron without making any mistake.
Then he made multiple hand seals with his hands and shouted, "Activate!" After that, the essence qi around him started concentrating above his head. Then, it slowly transformed into the shape of a dragon. It flew around the room, roared, and entered inside his cauldron. Then Joey shouted, " Closed !"
Then the cauldron closed its mouth. After that Joey started heating the cauldron with his essence flame changing the range of temperature from time to time.
After two minutes later, Joey deactivated the fire and shouted, "Open!"
Then the lips of the cauldron opened and then five purple golden pills flew out from inside it.
He took out a small glass bottle and put the five purple golden pills inside it. After that, he came out of the room and gave the small glass bottle to Chief Jugge Huan. It just took around 17 minutes to concoct that pill.
Chief Jugge Huan nodded at him with a friendly smile and asked, "Your name is Joey, right?"
"Yes, Chief Jugge Huan. I am called Joey." Joey cupped his hand toward him and replied politely.
"Good lad! Alright, you can go down from the platform for now. The result will be declared soon." Chief Jugge Huan said.
Joey bowed slightly at him, came down from the platform, and walked toward Hai Yun. The crowd gave him the way when he passed by them showing him their respect.
While almost all the female cultivators in the crowd started checking out on him.
"He is so handsome!" One of the ladies shouted.
"That pair of golden bars earrings looks good with his face." They all started admiring him.
Joey finally reached Hai Yun and stood beside him.
" Brother Joey, now you have a lot of your admirers. Teeheehee! " Hai Yun giggled and winked at him with a smile.
"Sister Hai Yun, stop joking with me. Are you hungry?" Joey smiled and asked.
"Um, I am famished right now." She replied.
"Alright, let's go to that food stall there." Joey pointed at a stall which was at a far corner and said.
She nodded. Then, they walked toward the direction of the food stall. The crowd gave their ways.
At that time, someone shouted, "Huang Xiaoming has finished concocting his pills and come out."
Then, all the crowd turned their attention toward the handsome tall youth with green hair.
Inside the food stall, Joey and Hai Yun sat at a round table.
An old lady came before them and asked, "Young Master, Young Miss, please take a look. These are the menu of my food stall." Then, she passed the two pieces of paper to them.
Joey and Hai Yun checked on the menu list.
Joey slowly kept it on the table. Then, he looked at the old woman and said sweetly, "Granny, we will taste all the foods in your stall."
The old man bowed at them slightly and walked away.
Joey happened to see the tattoo of a green snake on the back of her neck.
Soon, the old lady came out with two plates and kept them before them.
"Oh, Sweet and Sour pork meat ribs!" Joey exclaimed. Then, he stood up and said, "Granny, bring me to the kitchen. I will help you. "
"Alright, boy, follow me. " The old lady led him inside the small kitchen of her stall.
A few minutes later, Joey came out and took out ten plates containing different dishes from inside his space rings and kept all of them on the table.
Those plates contained five dishes of Fried Rice (Chaofan), Peking Duck (Beijing Kaoya), Hot Pot (Houguo), Char Siu, and Mapo Tofu (Mapo Tofu) each.
"Wow! Come, come, Brother Joey, I can't wait anymore." Hai Yun said excitedly.
Joey sat on the chair with a smile and took out a wine bottle. Then, he removed the cork of the bottle. Suddenly, the sweet aroma of the wine-filled the stall.
"Brother Joey, quickly fill up a cup. Let's drink it first." The wine connoisseur Hai Yun said excitedly.
Joey took out two cups, filled them up with wines, and passed one cup to her.
"Cheers!" They clicked their wine cups and drank up all of it.
Then, the two continued enjoying various dishes.
After half an hour, Joey and Hai Yun came out from the Food Stall and joined the crowd.
When they came back to the crowd, they saw that all the participants had already come out from the pill concocting houses.
The ten elders who had been supervising the competition from the beginning were gathered around Chief Jugge Huan. They were currently checking the pills which were concocted by the last seven participants. Soon, they finished grading the result.
Chief Jugge Huan stood in the middle of the platform and announced loudly to the crowd using his essence qi, "Everyone, we have finally graded the result of the last seven participants." Then, he pointed at the large screen just above the platform and continued, "7th position goes to Li Ling, of the Seven Star Sect. He has scored 7960 points." Then he stopped speaking.
As he said that, the same things appeared on the large screen. Then, one by one the names started showing on it as,
## 6th Rank Wu Youji, of the Hall of Alchemy Union, Red Sparrow County headquarters. Total score= 8249 points ##
## 5th Rank Ji Bu, from the One Thousand Poisons Sect. Total score= 8350 points ##
## 4th Rank Suyin, of the Hall of Alchemy Union, Yueliang City headquarter. Total score= 8995 ##
## 3rd Rank Huang Xiaoming, of Huang Family. Total score = 9107 points ##
## 2nd Rank Lǔ Sù, of the Seven Star Sect. Total score = 9250 points ##
## 1st Rank Joey, of the Hall of Alchemy Union, Yueliang City headquarters. Total score = 1000 points ##
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