Rise of the Alchemy God

Chapter 193: Pill of Eternal Youth

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Ethan's display had once again captured not only the attention of the audience but also that of the other participants, who one by one began placing their pills into the glass vials.

From the demonic cultivator to Xiang Hua, they had all finished with their pills and were now watching this incredible demonstration of skill in Qi control for refining pills.

Hu Xingyan, who had superior abilities among the group, could not help but sigh in defeat as she realized her level of skill was nowhere near what she was witnessing at that moment.

Even Xiang Hua, who had previously asked Ethna to show the full extent of his abilities, could only stand in awe at the sight.

Most of those present weren't even sure what was happening since it was the first time they had seen someone use Spiritual Qi techniques to refine a pill outside a cauldron.

If Ethan had known what they were thinking at that moment, he would have laughed, for this was not even close to the full extent of his abilities.

He was already at a level beyond what could be achieved in the mortal plane.

If he wanted, he could refine this pill in record time, all in the palm of his hand.

Only Bai Yu knew what a great monster Ethan had become over those 25 years of training in the minor dimension.

The vortex had shrunk, and after Ethan closed his palm into a fist, the vortex compressed further, condensing into a small sphere about 3 cm in diameter.

It was emitting an intense light, and even from a few meters away, heat waves could be felt radiating from it.

The judges, upon seeing this phenomenon, were even more astonished.

They were already shocked by the fact that the contestant possessed a level of refinement using Spiritual Qi that allowed him to control when and how specific chemical reactions occurred inside the cauldron.

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Now, seeing him also control the vortex of energy created by the pill and condense it outside a cauldron into the final product left them speechless.

All they could do was stand there in silence, wondering if they had ever seen even a grandmaster perform such a feat.

The answer they found in their minds was the same for all.

No.

They didn't even know one could train their Spiritual Qi skills to such a level.

When one became stronger, they had larger reserves of Qi, and their control over it improved, but this level of control was typically used to manipulate large objects.

Doing so with small ones was challenging, and with many small objects, even more so.

This was because it required tracking every single item controlled with Spiritual Qi; in other words, it was like dividing one's mind into multiple parts, each dedicated to a specific task.

This would be possible for them, but doing it with hundreds or, worse, thousands was entirely different.

The reason Spiritual Qi manifestation was hard to use for refining was that, while floating the ingredients was easy, it became much more complicated once they needed processing since each ingredient required a different treatment.

It was even more challenging when the ingredients entered the cauldron because that's where the magic happened, and tracking every individual reaction with one's mind while simultaneously manipulating elements with speed was almost impossible for them.

Ethan had done precisely this and had achieved it in an even more impossible manner since so many elements that would usually remain in the cauldron were now suspended, an even harder feat to control.

With the slightest miscalculation, any of them could have ended up in the wrong place, destroying all the work done so far.

While the judges pondered deeply over what they had just witnessed, Ethan, who was still refining, paid them no mind and continued undistracted.

At last, the pill finally took form and gradually stopped spinning.

Within moments, even the light it emitted began to dim, allowing its contours to be seen.

Immediately, the judges, who had only just regained their composure, focused their attention on the pill and examined it with their spiritual sense.

As soon as they did, their expressions shifted, showing a mix of astonishment, relief, disbelief, and confusion.

The first two reactions were due to the fact that the pill was indeed of the level they had anticipated.

It was a level 3 high-grade pill, and this alone was considered a success, as pills of this level were challenging to refine.

As grandmaster alchemists, they knew this better than anyone.

Upon examining it more closely, they discovered that not only did the pill reach a high grade of purity, but its purity surpassed even that, achieving a remarkable 97% purity, a percentage exceedingly rare.

None of them, including the two most skilled, could claim to refine a pill of this level with such purity.

At this point, this pill had already attained a high value in their eyes.

What remained was to determine what pill it was, and here, they all wore expressions of confusion.

"I can't determine what kind of pill this is. Is anyone familiar with it?" asked one of them, looking at his companions.

Unfortunately for him, when he turned to seek their responses, he saw that they wore similar expressions, none of them seemed to recognize the pill before them.

This put them all in an awkward position, as it was one thing for the audience not to know the pill, but quite another for master alchemists, experts in the field, to be unfamiliar with it.

So, while the audience waited for one of them to provide further details on the newly produced pill, they were also waiting for one among them to recognize at least the pill's name.

Finally, one of them swallowed his pride, stepped toward Ethan, who had just placed the pill into the vial, and asked,

"Contestant Nuyu, may I ask, what is the name of the pill you produced?"

He spoke in a low voice, though the nearby participants could still hear.

'What? Did he just ask for the name of the pill?' thought Xiang Hua in disbelief.

How could it be that even the judges didn't recognize the pill created by the masked boy, she wondered, which was the same thought shared by the other participants.

Ethan, upon hearing the question, didn't think long and said:

"Oh, this? It's called-"

But just as he was about to reveal the pill's name, a loud sound of something breaking could be heard, followed by an excited voice.

"A Pill of Eternal Youth!"