Lost?

"Bang!"

Xia Baichi's hand couldn't help but tremble, and the flames suddenly flared up. That Blood Coagulation Fruit could not withstand the violently changing flames and was instantly burned to ashes.

For a moment, everyone in the audience had an incredibly strange expression, looking at one another, unable to say a single word.

"Long Chen!"

A shrill voice pierced everyone's eardrums, sounding like a vengeful ghost demanding a life, making one's hair stand on end.

That voice came from Xia Baichi's mouth. At this moment, her expression was ferocious, her face twisted and deformed, as she stared fixedly at Long Chen.

Just a moment ago, she was about to find the critical point of that Blood Coagulation Fruit, to know what kind of heat was most suitable for refining it.

But because of the fright caused by Long Chen, the flames flared up for a moment. By the time she wanted to retract them, it was already too late. A precious 300-year-old Blood Coagulation Fruit was just gone like that, making her heart bleed.

"Cough, cough, sorry about that. I have a habit of clearing my throat before Alchemy. For fear of startling you, I shouted twice just to let you know that I was about to begin Alchemy as well. I'm truly sorry." Long Chen said with an apologetic face.

It was intentional, absolutely intentional. Even a blind person could see it. Xia Baichi's eyes were about to spew fire.

However, she could do nothing about Long Chen. In any set of rules, it was never stipulated that the opponent could not make noise. This time, she had suffered a loss in silence.

"Calm down!"

Wei Cang shouted coldly, which finally allowed Xia Baichi to slowly suppress her anger. If she didn't calm down, the possibility of her failure would be even greater.

"I am very calm; you don't need to worry about me," Long Chen replied coldly.

"Young Miss Idiot, why don't you continue refining? Next time I'll try to keep my voice down, how about that?"

Xia Baichi ignored Long Chen, her face livid. She took two strips of cloth from her ring and stuffed them tightly into her ears so she wouldn't have to worry about Long Chen scaring her again.

What left Long Chen speechless was that Xia Baichi took out another Blood Coagulation Fruit. She actually had a backup, which made Long Chen feel a bit depressed.

However, now that she was on guard, repeating the same trick was obviously unlikely to work, so he could only resign himself to bad luck.

"Whoosh."

Long Chen extended his palm, and a yellow flame rose up. What made Wei Cang's pupils constrict was that Long Chen's flame was actually not much weaker than Xia Baichi's.

Looking at Long Chen's Alchemy flame, Great Master Yun Qi was slightly startled. Long Chen's Alchemy flame was much stronger than the last time he performed Alchemy.

"Haha, I told you so! Brother Long definitely has no problem. Look, Brother Long's hand is on fire too!" Fatty Yu said proudly.

Shi Feng and the others were seeing Long Chen condense an Alchemy flame for the first time, and their hearts felt much more at ease. This proved that Long Chen was indeed an Alchemy Apprentice.

However, Long Chen's Alchemy flame shocked many people. Although they had guessed that Long Chen might be an Alchemy Apprentice, seeing that real Alchemy flame still left them quite shaken.

In just two short months, he created an Alchemy Apprentice out of thin air? The crowd looked at Great Master Yun Qi sitting steadily on the stage, their hearts filled with awe.

Great Master Yun Qi, however, smiled bitterly in his heart. Only he knew that Long Chen's Alchemy techniques were not taught by him at all. It seemed that this Long Chen had quite a few secrets.

Chu Yao watched Long Chen focusing on condensing the Alchemy flame. Once the flame stabilized, he began to warm the furnace. His movements were calm, and his expression was indifferent, which made Chu Yao's originally nervous mood become much more relaxed.

Seeing that Xia Baichi had already begun to stably refine the Blood Coagulation Fruit, Long Chen had the heart to say "hello" to her again. However, thinking that the hope of success was not high and it would only invite ridicule, he gave up and also began to refine the Blood Coagulation Fruit.

Long Chen's Blood Coagulation Fruit was only the size of a dragon eye, which was very different from the 300-year-old Blood Coagulation Fruit that was the size of an infant's fist.

Not only was the size very different, but the essence inside was also very different. It could be said that at the starting line, Long Chen had lost by more than a margin; this was completely an unfair competition.

Long Chen could only try his best to remove the Impurities from the Blood Coagulation Fruit to improve the quality of the Medicinal Pill. He was already at a disadvantage from the start and could only make up for it elsewhere.

"Whoosh."

Suddenly, the flames erupted, and Long Chen's Alchemy flame covered the entire Pill Furnace. The terrifying flames made everyone around feel a burst of scorching heat.

"What powerful Soul strength!"

This time, even Wei Cang was moved. Long Chen was using his Soul strength as fuel to support the Alchemy flame, and he also had to divert a portion of his Soul strength to protect the essence within the Blood Coagulation Fruit from being lost. Such a method was truly too crazy.

However, after being moved, a cold sneer appeared at the corner of Wei Cang's mouth. Soul strength was very powerful, but how could a 50-year-old Blood Coagulation Fruit compare with a 100-year-old one? Not to mention that was a 300-year-old Blood Coagulation Fruit.

Consuming so much Soul strength in the early stage meant that when it came time to form the Medicinal Pill, without enough Soul strength to lock the pill, it would be a dead end. In Wei Cang's eyes, this behavior was clearly the method of a layman.

Among those present, only Great Master Yun Qi was not surprised at all by Long Chen's technique, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that only Long Chen was qualified to use such an extravagant method.

"Whoosh."

Long Chen took out a pile of red powder from the Pill Furnace and found that the powder was bright red with not many spots, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Those spots were Impurities, but with his current fire power, it was impossible to completely refine them. This state was already the limit.

He looked up at Xia Baichi and found that after her ears were plugged, she was deaf to things outside, her efficiency was extremely fast, and a pile of red powder was placed beside her.

That was the powder of the Blood Coagulation Fruit. What made Long Chen's pupils constrict was that the 300-year-old Blood Coagulation Fruit was just different; the powder was much brighter than his side, and there were fewer Impurities.

Long Chen couldn't help but frown. It was hateful that he had many superb Alchemy techniques but dared not use them. If that bastard Wei Cang saw the trick in it, he would definitely deal with him.

Let's take it one step at a time. If it really doesn't work, I'll just go all out; in any case, I absolutely cannot lose.

Refining the medicinal herbs into powder one by one, calculating the time, an hour had already passed. When he looked at Xia Baichi again, she had already sealed the furnace and begun to refine the Medicinal Pill.

After sealing the furnace, it was basically set. Apart from the final step of pill gathering, there was nothing that could easily go wrong.

"Long Chen, time is running out. I am looking forward to you licking my toes," Xia Baichi had already taken off her earplugs and sneered at Long Chen.

Now that she had sealed the furnace, she only needed to maintain the input of the Alchemy flame. To avenge the previous grudge, she began to distract Long Chen.

"I beg you, shut your mouth. The foot odor you're spewing will affect the air quality," Long Chen said indifferently.

"You…"

Xia Baichi was furious, and the Alchemy flame in her hand jumped slightly again, scaring her into hurriedly collecting her thoughts. She dared not speak again and plugged her ears once more.

She discovered that when it came to arguing, even ten thousand of her would not be Long Chen's match. She now put all her energy into the Medicinal Pill, looking forward to the moment Long Chen would be humiliated.

A moment later, Long Chen also began to seal the furnace, and the two of them each urged their Alchemy flames to accelerate the formation of the Medicinal Pill.

"Bang!"

A quarter of an hour later, the Pill Furnace on Xia Baichi's side let out a vibration, and the originally silent scene suddenly became boisterous.

Even if they hadn't seen Alchemy, they had heard that when the Medicinal Pill was formed, the Pill Furnace would have an anomaly; this was clearly a precursor to the pill's formation.

As the Pill Furnace continued to rattle, the sound grew louder and the vibrations more intense. Xia Baichi gave a cold shout, slapped her hands onto the Pill Furnace, and her Soul strength surged in.

"Boom!"

After a loud noise, the Pill Furnace became silent, and Xia Baichi could not suppress her excitement.

Relying on her rich Alchemy experience, she was 90% sure that she had succeeded, but her heart was still a bit uneasy.

She slowly reached out and lifted the furnace lid, and a rich medicinal fragrance rushed towards her face, instantly spreading to the entire venue.

"What a rich fragrance!"

The crowd couldn't help but exclaim. A look of complacency appeared on Wei Cang's face; without looking, just by the fragrance, he knew that Xia Baichi had succeeded.

"Hahahaha…"

Xia Baichi held a round Medicinal Pill in her hand, her face full of fanaticism, and let out a burst of laughter. However, because she was too excited, the laughter was a bit hoarse and unpleasant.

"Who stepped on your neck?" Long Chen glanced at Xia Baichi and asked with concern.

Although she knew that Long Chen's words were full of sarcasm, Xia Baichi didn't care. She looked at Long Chen coldly and said, "Kid, I am waiting for the moment you kowtow and lick my feet. Haha…"

Long Chen shook his head slightly and stopped talking, but he was shocked in his heart. This crazy woman had such good luck that she had actually refined a Medium Grade Blood Coagulation Pill. No wonder she was laughing like a madwoman.

Long Chen saw that on that pill, there was a trace of an extremely faint pill pattern. Although it was very faint, it was indeed a pill pattern.

With strength like Xia Baichi's, the probability of refining such a Medium Grade Medicinal Pill would definitely not exceed one percent.

Could it be that the heavens favor idiots? Long Chen couldn't help but curse inwardly. If this continued, he might really be defeated. No, he had to think of a way.

"Bang!"

At this moment, Long Chen's Pill Furnace also let out a vibration, indicating that Long Chen's pill was also about to take shape, and it had reached the most critical moment.

"No, I must make a move."

Long Chen took a deep breath. Amidst everyone's stunned gaze, he slapped his palm onto the Pill Furnace lid, and the Pill Furnace lid was gently lifted by him, opening a tiny gap.

"What?"

Yun Qi was startled. This was the key moment for the Medicinal Pill to take shape; one must absolutely not open the furnace lid, otherwise all the medicinal properties would be lost.

Even Wei Cang was startled. This action of Long Chen's obviously did not conform to common sense in Alchemy, but Long Chen's expression was serious; it didn't look like he was giving up on himself at all.

Just as the furnace lid was lifted, Long Chen's Soul strength ran wildly, tightly locking the medicinal properties inside the Pill Furnace.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The Pill Furnace was constantly rioting, and sweat beads were dripping down Long Chen's face. At this moment, the Medicinal Pill inside the Pill Furnace was like a wild bull struggling incessantly.

Long Chen used his Soul strength to lock it tightly, but this consumption of Soul strength was extremely terrifying.

Oh no, my Soul strength is almost running out.

Long Chen suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion and shouted loudly, and his Soul strength surged out wildly.

"Boom!"

The Pill Furnace let out an explosive sound, and the entire stage shook. Long Chen tightly pressed the furnace lid down and covered it firmly.

Until the Pill Furnace completely quieted down, Long Chen breathed a sigh of relief. His whole body was soaked in sweat; the consumption just now was too great.

He slowly lifted the furnace lid, and a medicinal fragrance drifted out. Looking at the Medicinal Pill lying inside the Pill Furnace, Long Chen's expression changed.