Chapter 191: Three-Star Master Alchemist
Chapter 191: Three-Star Master Alchemist
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"Did he just send the judge flying?" someone suddenly asked, breaking the silence that had settled.
"The real question is, why did the judge throw himself at him?"
"A fly too big?"
After the initial comments, the crowd started to murmur as everyone began to talk about what had just happened.
Everything that had happened in those few seconds had been too shocking for them.
First, the judges who, for some reason, seemed unwell, with one of them even crying, and then, shortly after, a participant who sent the crying judge flying with a simple slap.
It was not wrong to say that what they had just witnessed was beyond incredible.
At a certain point, some even began to wonder if what they had seen was real or not, but looking at the expressions on the faces of the judges and even some participants who could no longer control their expressions and had witnessed a judge being sent flying, they knew it was real.
The main culprit behind all this, however, seemed unaware of all this and continued to perfect in peace.
After the initial moments of shock, some of the judges immediately left in search of their colleague outside the coliseum.
The others, meanwhile, inspected what had just happened.
The reason none of them managed to react in time to their colleague's outburst was that, unlike them, most of whom were alchemists with cultivation at the third stage, that old man was already halfway through the Fourth Stage.
He was indeed one of the few thought to have a chance to reach the level of a Grand Master Alchemist in less than 100 years.
If such a strong being was sent away with a single slap, then did the one who sent him flying not possess a power even greater than his?
'Where on earth did such a monster appear from?' Once again, the image of Ethan in their minds was modified.
At first, he was considered a talent like the others, then a talent on par with them, and now?
They thought nothing in this tournament could surprise them further, but only heaven knew how wrong they were, and it wouldn't be long before they realized it.
Thirty minutes before the end of the match, a change began to occur at Ethan's workstation.
The cauldron provided by the association, which he was currently using for refining, began to emit a lot of heat, and the intensity was such that it was possible to see heat waves radiating from it.
Just as the judges, who had calmed down and decided not to intervene for the moment, saw this phenomenon, their expressions tightened as they tried to understand what was happening.
A normal person seeing something like that would immediately think the cauldron was about to explode or something similar, but these more experienced judges could tell that this wasn't the case at all.
Using their spiritual perception, they all sensed a vortex of Qi inside the cauldron that seemed to be absorbing all the spiritual energy present inside it, causing its rotation speed to increase even more.
Upon sensing this phenomenon, their eyes widened as they understood what was happening.
"It can't be; is that boy really trying to refine a pill of that level?" one of them said, once again in disbelief at what they were witnessing.
"Seriously, how many more hidden cards does he have?
Is he really one of the younger generation?" said the woman dressed in pink, increasingly doubting Ethan's age.
All of them, as soon as they sensed the vortex inside the cauldron, understood what it was. Continue your adventure with mvl
When a pill reached the third level, its effects were magnified by several degrees, and the higher the grade of the pill, the more miraculous these effects began to become.
Not many knew, but the third level was a transitional stage, separating the second level from the fourth.
A seemingly normal thing on the surface, but in reality, it was much more than that.
All master alchemists who had reached the three-star grade knew that the third level was like a huge chasm that was nearly impossible to fully bridge.
This chasm was what separated a two-star master alchemist from a three-star one.
Those at two stars couldn't bridge the distance created by this chasm, while those at three stars could, to some degree.
Being able to bridge this distance even to a certain extent was what allowed three-star master alchemists to refine high-level third-grade pills, a rarity in itself, and the reason behind the difference between two and three-star master alchemists.
Many master alchemists were still unable to surpass this difference, and those who succeeded understood that the remaining distance to reach the next level of alchemist mastery was far greater than they initially anticipated.
Only upon reaching this point could one truly understand the greatness of those who successfully crossed the chasm and managed to reach the other side.
These individuals were, of course, known as Grandmaster Alchemists.
The three-star master alchemists who had only begun to understand how to cross the chasm knew that the remaining distance to the next level was far greater than they initially thought, which is why there were still so few grandmaster-level alchemists.
Therefore, seeing the vortex inside the cauldron made the jaws of many master alchemists present drop because they could tell that the masked boy's skills had already reached those of a three-star master alchemist, a grade higher than most of them.
Only two people among the ten judges had reached this grade, and as soon as they saw this phenomenon, they stood up from their seats, not daring to sit down again.
Not when in front of them was someone who had revealed themselves to be a notch above them.
It was a sign of deep respect among them for those who were more skilled in this profession, and none of them dared to sit, for that would have been disrespectful toward a senior of theirs.
To everyone's surprise, however, even the two alchemists who had been seated and had reached the level of a three-star master alchemist also stood up.
One of them was the elder alchemist who had been slapped away by Ethan, and the other was none other than the woman in pink.
They, too, decided not to sit before someone who apparently was on their level.
The scene of the judges standing up confused many in the audience, and even the commentator, who was also a master alchemist, couldn't understand their behavior.
Being the farthest away, he hadn't noticed what was happening inside Ethan's cauldron and therefore couldn't grasp the reason behind their sudden change in behavior.
"What on earth is going on today?
First the initial commotion, then colleague Sheng getting slapped away, and now this?"
The commentator no longer knew what to think of the situation.