Chapter 708: Doubting Life, A Strange World

Just as the surrounding crowd was chatting animatedly.

On the stone platform, the judges looked surprised and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

"Sigh, Jingming truly lives up to being the Old Ancestor's closed-door disciple. The very first time he emerges into the world, he can already stir up such a commotion and bring us such a great surprise."

"Good thing Jingming stepped in, otherwise today the face of our Mystic Pill Sect would have been hard to preserve."

"Hahaha, I've long heard that Jingming's attainments in the Dao of Alchemy were extremely strong, but I never expected them to be this strong. Even that kid Zhou Yan wasn't his match. It seems we still underestimated him."

"Right, I just wonder once today's news spreads and that Valley Master Zhou learns his son was defeated by our Old Ancestor's closed-door disciple, what kind of expression do you think he'll make?"

"It must be quite a sight, I bet?"

The judges went back and forth, unable to hold back their laughter.

In stark contrast to everyone's reaction was Zhou Yan.

The instant he heard the result, his face changed drastically, and a strong sense of disbelief flashed through his pupils!

At this moment, he even suspected his ears had malfunctioned, causing him to mishear something.

"Five top-grade? This... how could this be?"

Zhou Yan suddenly turned his head to look at Tang Jingming.

At this time, Tang Jingming paid no heed to Zhou Yan's gaze.

He simply lowered his head, stared at his own hands in a daze, his face filled with shock.

"I actually really refined five top-grade Seven-White Pills and completed the comeback?"

Tang Jingming had never imagined that things could truly still take a turn for the better.

Immediately after, he came to his senses and took a deep breath.

Raising his head to look ahead at the utterly dumbfounded Zhou Yan, he couldn't help feeling immensely satisfied.

Tang Jingming's lips curled up in a smile: "Twenty points total. My apologies, but it seems in the end I still have the slight edge..."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yan's face grew even uglier.

Especially hearing the sighs and jeers all around, he felt as though he had swallowed ten thousand flies, an immense discomfort rising within him.

Seeing Zhou Yan suffer a setback, no longer as imposing as before.

Tang Jingming instantly felt refreshed and incomparably pleased.

However, just when everyone thought this Alchemy Conference had already crowned its first place.

The judge finally arrived beside the last contestant, Jiang Yan.

After witnessing Tang Jingming's exaggerated results.

The judge also believed the outcome was already decided.

Therefore, regarding Jiang Yan, he didn't pay much attention.

He merely casually opened the alchemy furnace and began taking out the Seven-White Pills inside.

One... two... three...

Four, mm.

Five, mm?

After pulling out the fifth elixir, the judge's brow arched, feeling extremely surprised.

He had never expected that this youth whom no one had any hopes for could actually, like Tang Jingming and Zhou Yan, refine four Seven-White Pills!

Wait, that's not right!

Inside, it seems... there's still more?!

The judge started in fright and, unable to believe it, reached in and pulled out the sixth Seven-White Pill.

Not just that.

The seventh...

The eighth...

The ninth...

The judge lowered his head.

Staring at the nine elixirs in his hand, he couldn't help falling into a daze.

This youth... what kind of freak is he exactly?

Could he really not be some alchemy grandmaster here to mess around?

The judge felt utterly baffled, and even the hand holding the elixirs couldn't help trembling slightly a few times.

He himself, as an alchemy grandmaster, naturally wouldn't find it difficult to achieve nine pills from one furnace.

But for people of Yanchen, Tang Jingming, and Zhou Yan's age group, achieving nine pills from one furnace was almost impossible!

The judge silently glanced at Jiang Yan.

He had originally thought that first place in this Alchemy Conference would surely be taken by Tang Jingming.

But now, looking at it, he felt it was somewhat up in the air.

"However, there's still some hope. If these nine elixirs are all of low-grade quality, the total would only be eighteen, and Jingming could still win..."

Thinking of this, he hurriedly began carefully examining them.

However, the less said about not examining them, the better.

Once he started examining them, he instantly discovered something even more inconceivable!

The first, perfect quality.

The second, perfect quality.

The third, perfect quality.

The ninth, perfect quality.

All nine pills, without exception, had reached a terrifying perfect grade!

The judge raised his head and looked at Jiang Yan with the eyes one would use to look at a monster.

Yanchen, how exactly did you do it?

At this moment, even if he racked his brains, he could not figure out what method the other party had used.