At this moment, Fa Ma suddenly realized something and quickly raised his head to look at the sky. Because the mist inally had a slight white tint, everyone had subsciously assumed that Xiao Yan's medial mist was tri-colored.

  However, upon closer iion, Fa Ma discovered that the white color wasn't just mist—it was an actual, distinct color! This was a four-colored medial cloud, meaning Xiao Yan had employed four different kinds of fmes!!!!

  Hai Bodong's eyes narrowed in the VIP seating area as he recalled how cautious Xiao Yan had been at the beginning of his pill refi.

  "This brat! No wonder he was being so meticulous. He'd po refiier 5 medial pill from the very start!"

  Although Hai Bodong hadn't known Xiao Yan for very long, he was well aware that while this felloeared humble and unassuming oside, he was actually extremely fident and audacious on the inside. Given that Xiao Yan was already just a hair's breadth away from being a 5th-tier alchemist, why would he be so cautious when refining a tier 4 pill?

  It turned out he had been aiming to refiier 5 medial pill all along!

  Princess Yao Ye's eyes flickered with a solemn expression as she said, "To thiill sought to surpass himself in su enviro. He's truly a monster."

  Ya Fei covered her mouth with both hands, her eyes glistening with excitement to the point of tears. It was as if she were happier than Xiao Yan himself at his successful refi of a tier 5 medial pill.

  Nan Yanran ched her fists tightly. She finally uood why Xiao Yan could bee so powerful. It was because he stantly pushed his limits and battled against himself at all times. Only by tinually challenging oneself could one keep growing stronger!

  Xiao Yan g Yan Li, whose legs had gone weak and was now trembling untrolbly on the ground. With a smile, he said, "I believe everyone is clear about the tier of this medial pill. There's no need for further discussion. As for the cim that I didn't refi myself, that's even more absurd. The Four Lines White Spirit Pill is a pill I created by slightly modifying the Three Lines Green Spirit Pill recipe. There are only these two pills iire world!"

  No one dared to raise any further doubts upon hearing these words. There was simply no reason to question him.

  Xiao Yan expined, "The Four Lines White Spirit Pill, like the Three Lines Green Spirit Pill, has the effect of increasing the strength of a Dou Grandmaster. It increase strength by three stars, just like the Three Lines Green Spirit Pill. However, it does so with a 100% success rate and without any side effects."

  Hisssss!!! Everyone gasped in astonishment upon hearing this.

  Being able to directly increase one's strength by three stars without any risk or side effects! A single pill could save several years of arduous cultivation!

  "And moreover..."

  "There's more?!!!"

  Xiao Yan turo look at the Little Princess who had cried out in surprise and said with a smile, "If it only increased strength by three stars without any side effects, it wouldn't really be worthy of being cssified as a tier 5 pill, now would it?"

  The Little Princess swallowed hard as she suddenly realized this wasn't just about adding one more pill li had actually reached the level of a tier 5 medial pill!

  "If an 8-star Dou Grandmaster uses it, there will be side effects. It will only increase their strength by two stars." Xiao Yan grinned and held up two fingers.

  Everyone was momentarily stunned. Why did it bee two stars? But soon, those with quick minds wideheir eyes in realization.

  "Wait! An 8-star Dou Grandmaster gaining two stars… that's a Dou Spirit!!!"

  "If an 8-star Dou Grandmaster es it, they directly break through to the Dou Spirit realm!!!"

  Even Fa Ma's eyes widened as he stared at the wooden box. Increasing strength and breaking through a realm!!!

  Although it seemed like losing a 1-star increase, pills that could assist in realm breakthroughs were incredibly precious!

  One must know that the Spirit Asding Pill, a tier 5 pill that could allow a 9-star Dou Grandmaster to break through to the Dou Spirit realm with a 100% success rate, was sidered a low tier 5 pill! Even though it was at the lower end of tier 5, it was still a tier 5 pill heless!

  By this line of reasoning, the Four Lines White Spirit Pill could be fidently pced at the very least iegory of a peak low-grade tier 5 or even a middle-grade tier 5 medial pill!

  Xiao Yan smiled faintly. In truth, the ability to aid in breaking through to the Dou Spirit realm wasn't an i effect of the Four Lines White Spirit Pill itself, but rather stemmed from the power of Heavenly Fmes.

  An ordinary Four Lines White Spirit Pill wouldn't possess this effect. However, if four kinds of fmes, all being Heavenly Fmes, were used during refi, the pill would gain this additional breakthrough-aiding property.

  Fa Ma stared at Xiao Yan in astonishment, momentarily at a loss for words. Finally, he mao squeeze out a few words through ched teeth, "You modified the pill recipe in just one night?"

  He was acutely aware that Xiao Yan had only obtaihe Three Lines Green Spirit Pill recipe the previous night.

  In the span of a single night, Xiao Yan had transformed the peak tier 4 Three Lines Green Spirit Pill recipe into a tier 5 one!

  To Fa Ma, this achievement was even more shog than Xiao Yan successfully refining a tier 5 pill at the tender age of eighteen!

  An average person might spend the whole night just trying to uand the recipe!

  Xiao Yan simply smiled and didn't tell Fa Ma that he was extremely familiar with the alchemy method used ihree Lines Green Spirit Pill.

  He wasn't sure about the retionship between the mysterious elder Fa Ma mentioned and the owner of his ste ring, or whether they were, in fact, one and the same person. However, he knew with certainty that the alchemy method Fa Ma had utilized to create the Three Lines Green Spirit Pill shared the same roots as those he had learned from the ring.

  However, what Fa Ma possessed was merely scattered fragments and pieces e knowledge, while he had learhe plete set and ied the full legacy.

  So, st night, he modified the Three Lines Green Spirit Pill's alchemy method. He didn't simply ge it from alternatiween the fmes to using all the fmes simultaneously. He had even gone so far as to slightly alter the medial ingredients themselves, adding two types of tier 5 medial ingredients into the mix.

  This was the reason why the base color of the medial pill had turned white and why he had been so cautious aiculous when refining the ingredients.

  There were ihree plete sets of ingredients for the inal Three Lines Green Spirit Pill, but he only possessed a si of the two newly added tier 5 ingredients.

  If he had failed even on the refi process, it would have been the end.

  Xiao Yan was just that ambitious. He had already been just a step away from reag tier 5. As long as he could successfully refiier 5 medial pill once, everything would fall into pce, and reag tier 5 would naturally follow, like a river flowing into the sea.

  Moreover, the modified Four Lines White Spirit Pill articurly suitable for him to refi was the most fitting among all the tier 5 pill recipes he possessed. So he decided to take a big gamble and, in the finals of the Alchemist Graing, utterly crushed Yan Li with an invincible stance.

  He achieved an indisputable, undeniable victory.

  No matter how many excuses Yan Li made, they all paled in parison to those four words 'tier 5 medial pill'. He couldn't even find any sembnce of an excuse to g to anymore.

  Yan Li colpsed to the ground. His entire body went limp, his spirit was broken, and his eyes were vat and lifeless. He had already uood the grim fate that awaited him.

  Fa Ma and the h-ranking members of the Alchemist Association exged gnces, each seeing a bzing light iher's eyes!

  Surpass Gu He? With the strength and talent Xiao Yan dispyed today, he had already surpassed Gu He!

  Gu He was indeed a 6th-tier alchemist. However, Xiao Yan's fire trol and Spiritual Strength had already reached a level that was not inferior to a 6th-tier alchemist's. All he cked in parison was experience. In other words, it was merely a matter of time.

  Moreover, Xiao Yan possessed many things that even Gu He couldn't obtain.

  Heavenly Fme, creativity, and youth.

  Pill King Gu He held a pinatus in the Jia Ma Empire. Even Fa Ma was only parable to Gu He iation, but signifitly inferior in strength.

  In the eyes of tless novice alchemists, the four words 'Pill King Gu He' had once represented an insurmountable peak!

  But now, Xiao Yan had pletely repced that onscable peak. This eighteen-year-old youth had bee the new, insurmountable mountain in the hearts of tless alchemists!

  He was the true Pill King!

  Regardless of anything else, from this day forward, Xiao Yan's name would truly resohroughout the entire Jia Ma Empire!

  "As the Chairman of the Jia Ma Empire's Alchemist Association, I hereby annouhat the champion of the 7th Alchemist Graing is—Xiao Yan!!!!"