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However, at that moment, a cold smile and mockery appeared on Qinghong Dan Shi's face.

Qin Chen was playing with fire and burning himself. The reason he used these methods for refining was entirely due to the Qingyang Fire. But what about Qin Chen? Although his Qinglian Flame was also quite powerful, it was after all not the Qingyang Fire. Different flames, yet using the same methods and processes to refine, and even at a speed much faster than his—could he possibly succeed within a third of an hour?

No matter how brilliant the skills were, they all served the medicinal pills themselves. If Qin Chen couldn't refine the Runmai Pill, what was the use of flaunting his skills?

In the end, he would only face failure.

The other alchemists clearly thought of this as well, expressing great doubt about whether Qin Chen could refine the Runmai Pill. However, this did not affect their shock towards Qin Chen.

Just by watching Qinghong Dan Shi refine once, he perfectly replicated the skills that Qinghong Dan Shi had previously displayed. What kind of concept was this? How could such a terrifying genius exist in the world?

Under the astonished and fervent gazes of the crowd, Qin Chen accelerated the refining process. Various techniques were continuously displayed, dazzling and unmatched, and every step was about twice as fast as Qinghong Dan Shi's refining. The key was that, until now, there was no sign of an explosion from the furnace; this was simply a miracle.

Time passed by second by second.

As the designated hour approached, Qin Chen finally completed the last step of the refinement.

"Rise!"

He shouted softly, and suddenly a divine light burst from his eyes. With a clang, the lid of the elixir furnace exploded open, rich medicinal fragrance filled the air, and twelve dazzling pills shot up into the sky.

"Success."

"This Qin Chen actually succeeded in refining."

"Twelve beams of pill light, hiss, this is a perfect twelve-grade pill."

"Oh my heavens, has the Pill God descended?"

The crowd was stunned, each person wide-eyed. Some alchemists even fell to their knees with excitement, tears brimming in their eyes.

The so-called perfect pill refinement refers to the maximum number of pills that can be produced from a single set of materials. In the Alchemy Pavilion, this is an extremely rare phenomenon, and the usual number is twelve.

This means that for any medicinal pill, if one set of materials is given, the maximum number of pills that can be refined is twelve. This is a limit, representing that the spiritual herbs in a single set of materials have been fully utilized to the extreme.

Like the previous Qinghong Dan Shi, who successfully refined ten pills, which was already extraordinarily exaggerated, representing a usage rate of more than eighty percent, almost no waste at all.

Yet, from Qin Chen's elixir furnace, twelve pills flew out at once, representing that Qin Chen’s utilization rate of the spiritual herbs had almost reached one hundred percent.

Of course, this did not mean that Qin Chen had definitely won.

In the competition of alchemy, the quantity of pills is often secondary; what is truly tested is the grade of the pills.

Although twelve beams of pill light flew out from Qin Chen's furnace, this did not mean that these twelve pills had truly formed. There was still a possibility of producing waste pills, meaning pills that had failed in the refinement.

Moreover, even if all twelve pills had truly formed, it depended on their grades. Even if more than half of the twelve pills were superior-grade pills, compared to Qinghong Dan Shi’s ten superior-grade pills, Qin Chen's result would still be a loss.

Thus, at this moment, everyone's eyes were fixed on Qin Chen, trying to discern the grades of the pills in his hands.

As the twelve beams of pill light were drawn into Qin Chen’s hands, instantly, twelve pills appeared before everyone. Each pill radiated colorful light, dazzling and sparkling.

Additionally, the surface was covered with pill patterns, which were fuller and clearer than the ten superior-grade pills previously refined by Qinghong Dan Shi.