<h4>Chapter 840: Who Is the Real Dark Horse?</h4>


    Grey stared nkly at the scenes unfolding before him as waves of shock surged through his heart.


    “What’s going on? Is my eyesight failing me?” He rubbed his eyes before looking in An Lin’s direction again to discover his hands dancing fluently in the air.


    It was as if his crimson mes possessed a life of their own and they leaped for joy as they engulfed the ingredients within the pill refinement cauldron while refining the ingredients with great speed and efficiency.


    “Why… Why can’t I understand these techniques?” Grey felt as if he were watching a magic show.


    The essence from all the ingredients were extracted before fusing to form a whole.


    The pill-condensing process had already been set into motion, and the entire process was extremely smooth. It could even be said that An Lin’s operation throughout this process was perfect.


    The properties unique to his mes began to act on the spirit pill while slowly improving its quality.


    Boom!


    At this moment, a powerful vital energy fluctuation erupted from the distance.


    Someone hadpleted their pill!


    An exuberant, green pill hovered in the air.


    Rika, whose entire body was constructed from blue liquid,ughed heartily as she stroked the pill in her hand. “I’ve finally sessfully refined a fourth-grade spirit pill! This is my first one!”


    She was extremely ted to be able to refine a fourth-grade spirit pill as a spot in the top five was pretty much in the bag.


    She turned her eyes toward herpetitors, the ck Sword Lord and Ban Yue, to discover that they had progressed to the pill-condensing stage as well. It looked like it was only a matter of time before they refined fourth-grade spirit pills.


    Huh, that blue ice dragon also looked like she knew what she was doing and could be a potential dark horse. Was her name Julia?


    A hint of caution welled up in Rika’s heart. There were so many prodigies in this world that it was only normal for strongpetitors to pop up. It looked like that blue dragon was a dark horse.


    She then turned her eyes toward another direction with a taunting sneer on her face.


    It was time to see how that arrogant, foolish human was going.


    Had she broken down? Or was she in despair?


    Rika turned toward Xu Xian, and her pupils contracted as she stood rooted to the spot upon seeing the mes Xu Xian had unleashed. “Is-is that… a Divine me?”


    The Divine me she had been yearning for was being unleashed by a human she had looked down upon.


    Boom!


    Xu Xian’s pill wasplete!


    Rich pill aroma wafted throughout the entire space, seeping into everyone’s hearts.


    The green spirit pill had a golden ming phoenix revolving around it. This was the result of her Divine me’s enhancement effect.


    Rika’s body swayed slightly, and she felt as if a sword had been stabbed viciously into her heart. “That spirit pill… is most likely at the pinnacle of fourth-grade spirit pills!”


    The moment Xu Xian sessfully condensed her pill was the moment when the entire audience numbering in the hundreds of thousands fell into a stunned silence again. All the living beings that had hurled abuse and insults shut their mouths as humiliation and shame swept through their hearts.


    The ten elders of the Pill Tower were also slightly shocked upon seeing this. They knew that Xu Xian was a strong contender, but her skills had exceeded even their expectations.


    “Soul Creation Stage pill refinement technique, Divine me level pill refinement mes,bined with an extremely powerful cultivation base… Genius, she really is an exceptional pill refinement genius!” A twisted crimson spider eximed.


    “The Pill Sage’s daughter has a strong opponent this time…” The four-armed ape stroked its beard as it spoke.


    “Hmm, this intermediate-rank immortal tool, the Nine Spirit Cauldron, was a present the Pill Sage had nned to bestow upon her daughter, but now…” A white ming humanoid shook its head with a worrisome expression.


    Boom! Boom!


    At this moment, the ck Sword Lord and Ban Yue had alsopleted their pills in quick session.


    They had already heard the cheers erupting from the crowd, and uponpleting their pills, they turned toward the center of all the attention, upon which they faltered upon seeing the sight they were greeted by.


    This was a spirit pill with extremely powerful energy fluctuations with the aura of Divine mes revolving around it…


    Xu Xian! It was her again!


    There was no need for the elders to act as referees here. Even they could clearly see that Xu Xian’s pill was superior to their own pills.


    Thinking back to what they had said in the past, it felt like a p to the face…


    She went full throttle from the start? A spirit pill at the pinnacle of fifth grade was the extent of her abilities? She was an attention-whore?


    All their condescending words were thrown straight back at them.


    The ck Sword Lord and Ban Yue bothpletely fell silent and hung their heads in shame.


    It was true that she did like attention, but she also had the ability to crush them all the way from the start until the end of thepetition! What could they do about that aside from concede?


    “Who would have thought… That the title of champion really is going to pass us by this time.” A bitter expression appeared on the ck Sword Lord’s face.


    “Xu Xian, is it? Looks like a first-rate pill refinement master is going to appear in the human race soon.” Ban Yue heaved a forlorn sigh.


    “She’s most likely going to be the champion. She really is the biggest dark horse here. We can only try to secure top five berths now…” Rika also wore a resigned expression. She had no choice but to yield in the face of such a superior opponent.


    Boom!


    Another violent energy fluctuation erupted.


    Everyone turned toward that direction to discover a woman in a ck robe with the corners of her golden eyes slightly crinkled, as if she was smiling. Before her was a green Spirit Rejuvenation Pill with golden threads intertwined on its surface and rich life energy radiating from within.


    All thepetitors’ expressions shifted drastically. In particr, Rika, the ck Sword Lord, and Ban Yue’s expressions were filled with shock.


    This was also an extremely high-quality fourth-grade spirit pill!


    Yet another dark horse had appeared!


    They had beenpletely knocked down a notch!


    “Who is that? I can’t tell because they’re wearing a ck robe…”


    “Where did all these prodigiese from? This doesn’t make sense!”


    “Sigh, it’s way too difficult to try and be the champion.”


    Just as the three of them were discussing among one another, violent tremors suddenly erupted from elsewhere.


    A pir of green light soared straight into the clouds, and a rich pill aroma wafted through the air in a radius of over a kilometer!


    Countless people began to turn their attention toward a man who had been forgotten.


    There, they discovered a dumbstruck ck dragon and a human male in a flowing white robe.


    A green spirit pill floated over the man’s hand, from which overwhelming life-force energy erupted forth, seemingly having broken a certain shackle and ascended to a higher level.


    In the air above, Meimei’s red lips gaped open as her eyes widened in shock.


    Everyone else also had their incredulous eyes fixed firmly on that man.


    All thepetitors had already been scared sh*tless.


    Even the sh*t-talking trio had beenpletely silenced.


    The woman in the ck robe turned toward that direction as her smile slowly receded.


    Xu Xian’s jade dress danced in the breeze as a vibrant smile blossomed on her face. “An Lin, you really are something… Are you trying to surprise me everywhere we go?”


    All ten of the elders stood up, almost in unison, as incredulity appeared on their faces.


    One elder eximed in shock. “This has already transcended beyond the pinnacle of fourth-grade. The extract was wless, the fusion was wless, and the pill-condensing was wless! All these stepse together to create a wless fourth-grade spirit pill!”


    The white ming humanoid shook its head. “No… The pill aroma wafted for over a kilometer and the pir of light indicating grade ascension has already appeared. This can no longer be referred to as a fourth-grade spirit pill, this is… a third-grade spirit pill!”


    Gasp… All the elders heaved sharp intakes of breath.


    The human man’s pill refinement technique had enhanced the spirit pill to such an extent, that it had elevated what was meant to be a fourth-grade spirit pill into a third-grade spirit pill…


    What a terrifying prodigy!


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