Chapter 464: First Place, xuanhuang pill furnace

To think that someone had refined a 4th-Grade Medicinal Pill before the age of twenty-five!

This shock made them truly doubt their own lives.

You must know, in the entire Wuhuang Province, the only person to refine a Medicinal Pill before the age of thirty was 4th-Grade Alchemist Jiang Yi.

Yet now, there was another one: Xiao Fan.

In truth, even Xiao Fan himself was bewildered… Wasn't the heaven mending pill he refined a 3rd-Grade one?

How did it become a 4th-Grade Medicinal Pill?!

But since the Black Tower had already given the result, Xiao Fan couldn't exactly say the Black Tower's evaluation was wrong, could he?

Besides… Xiao Fan himself was feeling a bit doubtful at this moment.

Perhaps the Pill Formula for the heaven mending pill he obtained was flawed…

"He previously refined 3rd-Grade Medicinal Pills with great ease, yet he was exhausted after refining this heaven mending pill… Could this heaven mending pill actually be a 4th-Grade Medicinal Pill?!"

Xiao Fan considered this possibility, and the more he thought about it, the more likely he felt it was.

If the heaven mending pill was a 4th-Grade Medicinal Pill, then everything could be explained.

"Those who did not make it into the top three, leave now." The Black Tower's ethereal voice echoed out, and a huge light screen tower gate appeared.

You Shi left the Black Tower resentfully; he was very unconvinced…

He had clearly refined a low-grade 3rd-Grade Medicinal Pill, so why wasn't he third?

As for Xiao Fan refining a 4th-Grade Medicinal Pill, he instinctively chose to temporarily forget about it!

He dared not compare; he was afraid he would be angered to death…

The others also left the Black Tower one after another…

Inside the tower, only Xiao Fan, Lu Yueshan, and Gu Yuan remained.

"Reward for third place, Gu Yuan…" The Black Tower's voice paused, then spoke: "An ancient book of medicinal records…"

An illusory ancient book slowly materialized and solidified. Gu Yuan took it in his hands, his expression filled with great joy…

It contained records of various rare Pill Formulas, ones that had never even been heard of in the outside world…

"Reward for second place, Lu Yueshan…" The Black Tower's voice paused, but before it could continue… Lu Yueshan interrupted first.

"Wait, I… I don't believe he could refine a 4th-Grade Medicinal Pill!" Lu Yueshan was going a bit crazy; she would never believe that Xiao Fan had actually refined a 4th-Grade Medicinal Pill, even if it killed her.

She glared at Xiao Fan with resentment, wishing she could eat him alive.

Xiao Fan spread his hands, looking helpless… In truth, he didn't even know how he ended up in first place!

"Protest invalid. I do not make errors in evaluation…" The Black Tower's voice transmission responded quite humanely.

"I, I am not convinced!" Lu Yueshan said, gritting her teeth.

"Protest invalid. If you continue to protest, you will be forcibly expelled, disqualified, and your rewards will be stripped!" The Black Tower warned, its voice devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

Lu Yueshan shut her mouth… and behaved herself…

She naturally understood how important the Black Tower's rewards were, and she dared not say anything more.

The Black Tower continued to speak…

"Reward for second place, Lu Yueshan: one volume of Dao of Alchemy records, and one volume of insights on the Dao of Alchemy…"

Two blue-covered books materialized in front of Lu Yueshan…

One was the Dao of Alchemy records, and the other was the insights on the Dao of Alchemy from a high-ranking alchemist.

Under any other circumstances, receiving such precious items would surely have made Lu Yueshan overjoyed.

But at this moment, she only felt stifled inside…

"Reward for first place, Xiao Fan…" The Black Tower paused for a long time before continuing: "One xuanhuang pill furnace!"

"xuanhuang pill furnace?" Xiao Fan was stunned.

However, a Pill Furnace was exactly what he needed right now, so it was a perfect gift.

A huge golden Pill Furnace materialized and appeared before Xiao Fan…

This Pill Furnace was taller than Xiao Fan, looked exceptionally heavy, and radiated a daunting pressure…

"Good, good stuff." Xiao Fan was shocked, his mouth wide open in surprise.

This Pill Furnace… the pressure it radiated was powerful and terrifying. Judging by Magical Artifact standards alone, this Pill Furnace had likely already reached the Earth Rank!

Xiao Fan was delighted. Once the xuanhuang pill furnace became tangible, Xiao Fan approached it and kept tapping it up and down…

"Clang," "Clang," "Clang"…

The Pill Furnace emitted a heavy echo. The more Xiao Fan looked at it, the more he liked it, and he couldn't wait to store it inside his Storage Pouch.

"Reward distribution complete. You may leave…"

On the grassland, that light screen reappeared inside the tower…

Xiao Fan clasped his hands and bowed toward the Void Realm; the person he was bowing to was naturally the Tower Spirit.

Whether the other party appreciated it or not, Xiao Fan did…

Entering this Black Tower, he had gained too many benefits… and in the end, it even gave him first place.

"You are quite good." The Black Tower unexpectedly responded…

"Thank you, Senior." Xiao Fan said, then left the Black Tower.

Lu Yueshan and Gu Yuan also left the Black Tower one after another…

After they left, the Black Tower's light screen dissipated…

The grassland inside vanished in an instant, turning into a quaint, massive palace. In the center, there was a tea table, and a middle-aged man dressed in white robes with a head full of white hair was drinking tea by himself…

"A very good young man…" His gaze turned toward Xiao Fan's retreating back outside the tower, and he muttered with a wry smile…

…

After exiting the Black Tower, Xiao Fan's vision was once again a vast whiteness, and then he opened his eyes to find quite a few people standing around him.

Among them were You Shi, as well as the Jixian Sect Disciples who had left a step before them…

"Could it be that, inside the Black Tower just now, time was also calculated at thirty times the speed?" Xiao Fan muttered to himself. In the end, they had stayed in the Black Tower for less than half a quarter of an hour.

So, in the outside world, perhaps only a few breaths had passed…

It was even possible that the outside world didn't yet know who was in first place.