Chapter 189: Chapter 189: “Reunion” with a Heavenly Fla
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With the appearance of the Green Lotus Core Fla, the crowd was once again struck with awe.
This was a true Heavenly Fla.
Unfortunately, Xiao Yan’s attempt to switch flas ultimately ended in failure.
With a dull thud, the green fla inside his cauldron quietly extinguished. A faint trail of black ash trickled down from the bottom of the cauldron.
"Sigh~" Upon seeing this, the spectators couldn’t help but let out collective sighs of regret.
Not far away, Xian’er gently pressed her lips together and shook her head slightly.
Judging by Xiao Yan’s technique during the fla switch earlier, it was clear he was still extrely unfamiliar with the coordination required between multiple flas. If this was already his limit, then with only one attempt remaining, the outco probably wouldn’t improve much.
After all, ti was running out.
Unless... a miracle happened—or he chose to refine a different pill altogether.
"Heh, you started strong but finished weak, kid. Since you’ve already failed, that leaves only one other person who poses even a slight threat to
in this competition," the gray-robed youth sneered smugly, glancing over at Xian’er.
The cauldron before him was blazing with a blue-white fla, and within it, the embryonic form of a pill was spinning steadily.
In the VIP section—
The distinguished guests all frowned slightly.
Although Xian’er remained their safety net, Xiao Yan’s failure still left them sowhat uneasy.
Judging from the ti left, Xiao Yan only had one attempt remaining. The pressure on him was unimaginable.
Under such intense pressure, even highly experienced alchemists would struggle to quickly recover their peak condition.
Their ntal state would inevitably be affected.
Therefore, all they could do now was silently hope that this young man—who had perford quite well so far—possessed the kind of ntal resilience that could impress everyone.
If he could bounce back quickly from failure and return to top form, then there was still hope.
Wei Yang narrowed his eyes slightly and let out a soft chuckle. He murmured inwardly, "Let
see how you create your miracle."
The ability to create miracles, to turn the tide in the face of despair—he was eager to witness that power.
A mysterious kind of strength.
One called: Breakthrough Surge!
At this mont, all eyes in the square were fixed on Xiao Yan, who stood motionless on the stage.
After a long while, there was still no movent from him.
It seed he had beco trapped in the spiral of his own failure.
Because of this, waves of disappointed sighs rippled through the audience.
Xiao Yan stood stiffly atop the stone platform, his pitch-black eyes staring at the black ash that had spilled from the cauldron. His usually calm and focused gaze now showed signs of daze and confusion.
Since regaining his talent, in the past three years, this was the first ti he had encountered such an unexpected and difficult obstacle—and failed.
He hadn’t expected that maintaining balance during a fla switch would be this hard to control. In hindsight, he had clearly overestimated his own capabilities.
He had thought that, since he was capable of creating sothing as terrifying as the Angry Buddha Lotus Fla and could barely control it, handling a fla switch during pill refinent would be no problem.
But reality had delivered him a harsh slap in the face.
"This ti... I’m really in trouble. Master... what should I do now?" His lips trembled slightly as he muttered softly under his breath, his voice full of confusion and helplessness.
The long-absent sting of failure, coupled with overwhelming pressure, left Xiao Yan completely at a loss.
"Sigh... Little Yan, now... you really have to face this on your own," Yao Lao responded quietly, then fell silent again.
"This is a bottleneck in your path as an alchemist. If you can break through it, the benefits to your future are imasurable. But if you can’t, this mont may beco a heart demon—forever haunting you, dragging down your progress..."
This was sothing even Yao Lao could not assist with directly. Everything now depended on Xiao Yan himself.
Whether he would evolve or collapse—the outco rested on a single thought.
"So I have to rely on myself..." Xiao Yan muttered. His fists clenched slightly as he fell into deep silence.
Yet the competition’s tir did not pause just because he had stopped moving—it continued ticking away relentlessly.
And on the stage, the battle for the championship was gradually entering a white-hot phase.
Waves of pill fragrance continued to waft from the various cauldrons, gradually drawing the audience’s attention back to the other participants.
When more than half of the competition ti had passed—
Inside the cauldron before Xian’er, a tornado the size of a washbasin whirled rapidly, forming a barrier that completely obstructed external vision and blocked the diffusion of pill fragrance. No one could see what was happening inside.
Because of this, no one could determine what stage Xian’er was currently at.
If soone’s vision could penetrate the veil of the Wind and Thunder Fury Fla, they would be shocked to discover that the fla at this mont was only acting as an outer shield—it was no longer being used to temper the pill.
Inside that barrier, at the center of the cauldron, a fist-sized dark green fla sphere floated silently like a small green sun. The surface of the fla pulsed gently, and at the tips of its fla tails, there were hints of pale gray-white light.
It looked calm and ta, almost ordinary—giving off no sense of danger at all.
And within it, faintly visible, was a cyan-green pill, perfectly round and plump, rotating quietly. Two distinct bands of red and yellow pill patterns encircled its surface, and a third green pill pattern was faintly forming.
Waves of visible pill fragrance coiled through the air inside like mist—rich and intoxicating—but none of it escaped past the fla barrier ford by the Wind and Thunder Fury Fla.
It turned out that, without anyone noticing, Xian’er had silently switched to a different Heavenly Fla.
Heavenly Fla: Ghostly Poison Fla!
Her delicate brows were furrowed slightly. Clearly, this was not easy for her either.
Especially since she had to devote much of her focus to suppressing the toxic nature of the Ghostly Poison Fla, preventing its poisonous essence from contaminating the pill.
Thankfully, the most dangerous step—the fla transition—had already been completed silently and successfully.
Now, she only needed to calmly nurture the pill, and once the timing was right, it would be complete.
If this were discovered and spread, it would surely turn this small alchemy competition into a legend, shaking the entire Northwestern Region.
After all, in what was rely a regional alchemy tournant within the Jia Ma Empire, three different Heavenly Flas had appeared:
Wind and Thunder Fury Fla!
Green Lotus Core Fla!
Ghostly Poison Fla!
Such a grand occasion might not even be witnessed in the Central Plains’ Pill Tower Grand Tournant.
In the anti, the cauldrons of the gray-robed youth, the little princess, and Liu Ling had all begun producing the solid embryonic forms of their pills.
So ti later—
A strong wave of pill fragrance was the first to spread from the little princess’s cauldron.
Its richness was undeniable—anyone could tell at a glance that it was a fourth-tier pill.
Gasps of astonishnt instantly rippled through the crowd.
A trace of satisfaction surfaced on the little princess’s lovely face.
This was the only fourth-tier pill she had any real confidence in refining—and even then, the success rate was low. But fortunately, her luck had exploded today. She’d actually succeeded on her first try.
But the gasps hadn’t even died down when another burst of even richer pill fragrance emanated from Liu Ling’s cauldron on the other side.
The two waves of fragrance drifted into the air, twining together in the sky above the square, nearly indistinguishable from each other.
However, so of the sharper-sensed alchemists could easily tell that the pill Liu Ling refined was clearly a grade higher than the one from the little princess.
Liu Ling, too, had experienced a stroke of luck and succeeded on his first attempt, refining a fourth-tier pill he previously hadn’t had full confidence in—one with a high failure rate.
It seed that, in this competition, everyone’s potential had been pushed to the limit. Or perhaps, there was so unseen force of fortune at play, enabling many of the participants to outperform themselves.
...Xiao Yan excluded, of course.
"Tch, this guy!" The little princess had also noticed the clear difference between their pills. She furrowed her brows and shot a sharp glare at Liu Ling, who was smiling at her.
"Hehe, Yue’er, my apologies—looks like I’ve pulled ahead this ti," Liu Ling said with a cheeky grin, cupping his hands politely.
"Gaga, you two little brats are already celebrating? Don’t you think it’s a bit early for that?" A strange, mocking laugh suddenly rang out from the corner of the stage.
"You think I’m not even here?"
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