Published: December 25, 2024
After Yan Chidao fused the first two flames, Ye Mo and the others did not become arrogant or impatient, and they began the fusion of flames.
Their understanding of the fire attribute was not as good as that of Yan Chidao, who was born with a fire source body, but they successfully fused the first two flames in just about five minutes.
Five minutes later, Yan Chidao refined the third flame.
Seven minutes later, he refined the fourth flame.
In less than half an hour, Yan Chidao had already refined four flames, and the fifth flame was nearly half fused.
"Damn, the total competition time is half an hour, which is one hour. Now, with less than half the time gone, Yan Chidao has already fused four flames. Is he planning to fuse all nine flames?"
Everyone was astonished, as if they were participating in the competition themselves, each unable to contain their excitement.
If Yan Chidao could really refine and fuse all nine flames within half an hour, he would become a legend in this Alchemy Competition.
During the Alchemy Competition, the Alchemy Pavilion strictly selected participants based on their strength and would deliberately expand the test questions, making it impossible for the participants to complete the final goal, thus sorting their rankings.
In the history of the Alchemy Competition over the past thousand years, no one had ever completely completed the first test, and if Yan Chidao could do it, he would create history, with his name forever engraved in the records of the Four-Domains Alchemy Competition.
As time passed, ten more minutes slipped by, and at that moment, Yan Chidao was already integrating the sixth flame. His gaze was sharp, fully focused, and his mental strength showed no signs of relaxation.
Clearly, he understood that if he could complete the assessment entirely, it would bring a milestone achievement to the Nanhua Domain, thus his mental strength was highly tense, not daring to relax in the slightest.
At this point, the disparities in the competition were suddenly revealed.
Leading was Yan Chidao, who had refined the sixth flame, followed closely by Ye Mo and Yu Sihui, both with five flames, then came Qiu Tian and Kui Xinyu, with four flames.
Next, there were many with three flames, including Wei Jinzhu, Qi Aoling, and You Huaqing, totaling around sixty to seventy people, followed by over a hundred with two flames, and nearly a hundred who hadn’t refined any flames at all.
Lastly, there were several dozen who hadn't refined all nine flames yet, but almost all of them had refined to the eighth and ninth flames.
The most shocking was still Qin Chen, who hadn’t refined a single flame even at this point, leaving everyone speechless.
Even the Xuansheng Pavilion Master and Huangfu Nan began to feel nervous, their hands tightly clenched, their foreheads dripping with cold sweat.
"Damn, even if Qin Chen is useless, he shouldn’t be unable to refine a single flame, right?"
"What is he doing?"
Everyone was puzzled and sensed something was wrong. Even if Qin Chen's alchemy cultivation was only at the peak of the sixth grade, it was hard to believe that after more than half an hour, he hadn’t refined even a bit of flame. There must be some problem. Regardless of the issue, the weakest contestant had refined to the eighth flame, while Qin Chen hadn’t refined a single one. At this time, almost no one wanted to pay attention to Qin Chen anymore. Compared to the other contestants, Qin Chen seemed like garbage, completely unworthy of their time.
Just as everyone was preparing to turn their heads away.
Qin Chen, who had been inactive all this time, suddenly moved.
Pa!
He stepped forward, the crisp sound of his footsteps echoing on the silent platform, making it particularly noticeable.
Qin Chen formed strange hand seals with both hands and tapped lightly on the flames in front of him.
Buzz, buzz, buzz...
One by one, the flames that Qin Chen touched, as if performing a magic trick, were instantly attracted in the moment his fingers brushed past, and then swirled around Qin Chen.