Martial Master

Everyone stared blankly at Qin Chen, completely bewildered.

What on earth is going on?

Not to mention Zhou Tao and the others, even Chen Mu, Ouyang Cheng, and even Master Liu Guang were equally puzzled, unable to comprehend what was happening.

The refining process of the True Yuan Pill is extremely complex. The timing and quantity of each medicinal ingredient added must be precise to the extreme.

The only results of randomly adding medicinal ingredients are either an explosion or a failed refinement; there is absolutely no possibility of a third outcome.

Yet now, Qin Chen had actually managed to refine the True Yuan Pill right in front of everyone.

This was simply beyond everyone's imagination.

"Let me take a look."

Liu Guang, Chen Mu, and Ouyang Cheng, their minds muddled, involuntarily approached the refining platform and picked up the pills from the jade plate.

As they picked them up, the three of them almost simultaneously shivered.

Twelve pills, plump and round, entirely pure white, resembling works of art—perfect and flawless, with almost no defects.

Holding them in their hands, they felt incredibly smooth, and not a trace of medicinal powder had stained their fingers.

The occurrence of this situation could only mean one thing.

That is, the pills in front of them were at least of upper tier quality.

Pills, just like cultivation techniques, are also categorized by levels among the same type.

For example, the same first-tier True Yuan Pill can be divided into four grades: lower, middle, upper, and perfect, depending on the completion and effectiveness of the refinement.

Among them, a lower tier first-grade True Yuan Pill means that this pill was barely refined, with the medicinal properties not completely fused; after consuming it, a martial artist could absorb true qi, but there would be a large amount of residual impurities.

This also causes martial artists who consume lower tier True Yuan Pills to expend energy to expel these impurities while absorbing true qi, which not only slows down the absorption rate but also affects the purity of the true qi in their bodies.

A middle tier True Yuan Pill would be slightly better than the lower tier.

Upper tier is better than middle tier.

As for the perfect grade of pills, it means that the medicinal effect of this pill is one hundred percent perfectly fused, with absolutely no impurities; once consumed, the entire pill completely transforms into pure true qi, merging into the martial artist's limbs and bones, without needing any additional absorption or refinement.

And the first-grade True Yuan Pill refined by Qin Chen, from its appearance, was at least upper tier, which left Liu Guang and the others astonished.

It is known that the difficulty of refining upper tier pills is extremely high; even Liu Guang, a second-grade alchemist, cannot consistently achieve upper tier results when refining first-grade True Yuan Pills—only a small portion can be upper tier.

As for Chen Mu and Ouyang Cheng, it goes without saying; most of the True Yuan Pills they refined are middle tier, with upper tier appearing only occasionally.

Now, a young man who is merely an alchemy apprentice and simply here to take the first-grade alchemist assessment had actually refined upper tier True Yuan Pills all at once—just thinking about it was unbelievable.

"Could it be that what Qin Chen refined is not a True Yuan Pill?" Suddenly, Chen Mu voiced his doubts, proposing a possibility.

This caused everyone to ponder.

"It is very possible," Ouyang Cheng couldn't help but nod. "Normal first-grade True Yuan Pills appear entirely white but actually carry a hint of light blue; even upper tier True Yuan Pills are like this. But now the pills refined by Qin Chen are completely milky white, without a trace of blue. Could they be some other kind of pill? After all, from the color perspective, there is still some difference from a normal first-grade True Yuan Pill."

His words made everyone nod in agreement.

Including Master Liu Guang.

Because even he had never seen such completely snow-white True Yuan Pills.