The Greatest Disciple of the Evil Sect
Chapter 220- Abilities That Shock The Crowd (2)

Chapter 220: Chapter 220- Abilities That Shock The Crowd (2)

"Hm? Wait a minute, isn’t it that guy? That rude person who cut in line because of his noble identity? So he was an alchemist as well?"

The girl muttered to herself. Just this morning, she ran across him near the city gate and was still holding a grudge over the fact that he cut in line. Who knew that she would have another chance encounter with him in the Alchemist Association?

"Hmph, let’s see how good you are"

Muttering to herself, she sat back down. Her beautiful violet eyes were placed on Yang Chen noticing his every movement.

With his strong and vigorous soul energy, he controlled the flames and heated the cauldron bringing it to the optimum temperature.

"Hmph, not bad at least he knows how to handle the flames. Next, let’s see how he refines the ingredients.... What?!!"

In the midst of her monologue, she was suddenly forced to swallow her words as the next action that Yang Chen took, made her completely baffled.

Instead of putting the ingredients one by one into the cauldron and refining their essence, he threw all the three ingredients in at once. A step that was extremely foolish of him.

"Sigh, what a waste of good ingredients. I thought he would be somewhat better than the other participants. However, he seems to be even more inexperienced than the others. There is no way he will be able to refine a pill like that. I should get going".

Whoosh... at this moment, the hall below was covered in a beautiful blue hue. Yang Chen had suddenly increased the intensity of his flames, covering the entire cauldron in it.

His movements caught the attention of every participant present inside the hall who wondered what he was trying to achieve. Using heat so intense, there was no way the ingredients would be able to handle that.

They would burn up for sure. This was the thought of every person currently taking the exam had.

Song Zhen who was closest to Yang Chen, also looked at him. His gaze contained part confusion and part pity.

"There is no way you can refine the Profound Strengthening Pill like that" he shook his head, focusing his attention back on his own refinement.

Having memorised and practised making this pill so many times, he knew that the process Yang Chen took was wrong. Hell, throwing all the ingredients at once, there is no way anyone can refine any pill like that or so he thought.

However, those practising Alchemy for a long time like Elder Du who has seen many eccentric and exquisite skills in his life, knew that the process Yang Chen employed was not completely wrong.

One can also refine pills by throwing all the ingredients inside the cauldron all at once. Just that doing so would make the entire process more complicated and difficult.

Not only would the refiner need to distribute his concentration into three different parts, each monitoring one ingredient, they would also have to control the flames separately for each ingredient.

This was a level of skill that was far beyond a tier 1 Alchemist. Nevermind the young man, even he with his proficient soul control or even the Branch master was unable to use such a high level skill.

Elder Du sighed at the youthful mistake. His gaze did not blame Yang Chen instead it became curious towards the other party, wanting to know where they saw and learned such a technique from.

Even though just like all the others in the hall, he also thought that the ingredients would burn up inside the cauldron, he wanted to see what other skills the young man would show him next.

Unbeknownst to himself, his previous impression of Yang Chen disappeared like smoke and he found himself becoming more and more curious about the young fellow. Perhaps, he really did find a gem this time.

There was not even a single person in the hall who believed that he would be able to refine the pill. They all thought that he would need to start over after his cauldron blew up. However, little did they know that not only would he prove them wrong, but he would also successfully refine a pill and at the fastest time possible shocking the entire crowd.

Time passed by, and after the initial surprise spurred by Yang Chen’s actions subsided, they retracted their attention and focused on their own refinement.

There was still a lot of time remaining as only 1/5th of the total time had elapsed until now. The participants held the belief that as long as they had enough time and ingredients they would be able to refine a pill.

A dead silence settled onto the examination hall once again. There would be occasional boom sounds with one or two refiner’s cauldrons exploding. But by now, it had already become a common thing and none of the participants were fazed by it.

They quickly got up dusted their clothes, brought out fresh sets of ingredients and started refining again.

Time was of the essence here, as every participant brought out their best and became busy trying to refine their own pills.

Just as there was only two thirds of the sand remaining in the upper half of the hourglass, another explosion occurred that reverberated through the entire hall.

Another Cauldron exploded huh?

How many did that make?

The participants thought in their heads. However, different from the previous occurrences when nobody would pay any mind to a cauldron exploding, this time one of the elders who had been sitting in silence all this time, got up from his seat uttering a few words in a voice full of surprise.

"What? This... how can this be? The pill has formed?!!" Elder Du exclaimed.

"What’s wrong Elder Du?" Soing Ming who didn’t know what was going on, was taken aback by Elder Du’s sudden yell.

The latter did not explain and continued to stare at Yang Chen’s cauldron.