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Chapter 947: Handicap
The moment the man gave the order, Pill Saint Flura lit her pill flame.
Kent looked at the blue flame on her palm, and his eyes narrowed.
’A tier ten pill flame, huh?’
Pill Saint Flura, who misunderstood what Kent’s expression meant, sneered, "No need to despair yet. The fun hasn’t even begun yet."
Kent raised his brow and laughed, "Have you ever heard this saying, that ’a princess with no brain on her head is still an idiot?’"
Kent chuckled, "It is the same as a Pill Saint with good flame but no knowledge, who will lose to a mere Pill Grandmaster with a Tier 9 pill flame."
Kent lit his pill flame, causing a yellow flame to appear in his palm. However, a few seconds later, he put away his pill flame and instead chose to look at the Pill Saint, who also chose to ignore Kent.
So far, when it came to the verbal conflict, Kent has the upper hand. So she knew if she continued to banter with him, she might just lose focus and burn her ingredients.
After she won, she would have the chance to gloat.
Kent didn’t mind her sudden quietness. He knew why she made that decision, so he merely sat there and started to look at her.
After 15 minutes of heating the cauldron, she opened it, added one ingredient, and began extracting the medicinal essence.
’That is all I need to see to know she has lost even before the race began.’ Kent smiled, sat properly in a lotus posture, and closed his eyes.
When the onlookers saw this, their minds flipped...
"Is it just me, or is this Pill Grandmaster overdoing it... I mean, accepting a challenge from a Pill Saint as a Pill Grandmaster is already enough. Why go as far as giving her a handicap?"
"What do you expect? The saying that the arrogant always have someone more arrogant than they are is true. Today, this young man has proved that saying."
"He is just sitting there like he wasn’t concerned at all."
"Maybe he has given up."
More murmurs began to spread as everyone shared their opinions about Kent’s character. None was even focused on the Pill Saint, for they had already seen what she could do.
Kent, however, is a newcomer with a big mouth and a rude character. They wanted to see if his skills matched his mouth.
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On the last floor of the Pagoda, three people, each with a cultivation base of a Peak Heavenly Ascension and soul power that could nullify the effect of even a Tier 18 Soul Extinguishing Pill, sat with a calm look on their faces.
If someone who knew the dynamics of the Pill World were to see them, they would recognise them as the three Pill Sovereigns of the Aerithyne Pill Alliance.
They are alchemists with the means of concocting Tier 14 and Tier 15 pills, said to invoke Pill Tribulation every time one is made.
Those tribulations are, in a way, dangerous if care is not taken, so their importance in a high world is greatly appreciated..
Before one can be recognised as a Pill Sovereign, they must concoct at least three Tier 14 Pills and pass the pill tribulations.
It is one of the critical junctions in the path of pill making, and these three have been through this trial and are now recognised as Pill Sovereigns. The Pyris Pill Alliance has only one Pill Sovereign, one of the many reasons why it ranks 7th.
They all seemed to be staring in the same direction, which was the 5th floor.
"This kid is arrogant," one of them, by the name Pill Sovereign Ric, said, his gaze calm.
"What do you expect? As someone who managed to join an alliance as a Pill Grandmaster, even if it is a lowly one like the Pyris Pill Alliance, he has some leeway to be arrogant." Pill Sovereign Okra responded, keeping a close eye on Kent.
Pill Sovereign Bryn held a calm look on his face as he looked at Kent. To him, this brat had already done enough that he deserved to be punished.
Even if a Pill Saint were to be arrogant, a Pill Grandmaster had no place to lecture them. However, since Kent wasn’t from the alliance, there was nothing he could do but wait for Pill Saint Flura to win.
"Let’s just watch. I want to see where this arrogance of his is coming from," he said.
On the 5th floor, Kent sat with his eyes closed, and even after 30 minutes had passed, he remained like that.
Soon, 1 hour had passed.
Pill Saint Flura had already extracted five out of the nine ingredients required for the Bone Tempering Pill. At her pace, she would finish extracting everything in the next 30 minutes.
However, even after she was left with two more to go, Kent remained seated in lotus posture with his eyes closed.
Pill Saint Flura didn’t mind Kent’s action and continued to focus on her work.
The man who was sent by Pill Monarch Nefeli sat with his arms crossed and eyes narrowed at Kent. He didn’t know what Kent was doing, nor did he want to know.
At the moment, the reputation of the Pyris Pill Alliance was on the line, and as a Pill Emperor, he knew if Kent didn’t do anything by the time 2 hours were over, he would lose.
Extracting the essence from the ingredient takes time, and so if he wasted time by just sitting there, he would lose. He even wanted to shout at him, but he knew better than to do that.
So just like he feared, when 2 hours passed and Pill Saint Flura had long finished extracting the essence from her herbs, he only sighed.
Meanwhile, inside Kent’s Mind Space, a pill hovered before him as he sat in a lotus posture, admiring it.
"Although I achieved 100% on my first trial, my Enchanted Eyes told me she had achieved 100% purity in all the challenges she had with those losers.
This means I must surpass her, and the only way out is pill rings. If I can form a pill ring, she will lose for sure."
Kent smiled and added, "Although she is hateful, she has some talent as an alchemist. I merely put on the show for my own sake, but defeating her is also not a problem."
Kent saw Pill Saint Flura’s information using his Enchanted Eye. The lady is brilliant, and Kent knew that. But he couldn’t let her gloat like that...
"Thankfully, Nana gave me a Pill Ring Refining Technique, and another technique that allowed me to work on an imaginary pill inside my Mind Space."
The techniques Nana gave him are out of this world. Kent didn’t know why she was so keen on him becoming even more brilliant as an alchemist than he was in the past, but he appreciated it.
He knew with this head start she had given him, his name would soon spread far and wide.
"Now that I know what to do, I guess it is time for me to do the real thing." By the time Kent opened his eyes, two and a half hours had passed.
By then, Pill Saint Flura was burning impurities from the medicinal essence extracted.
Kent stood up and stretched, then he yawned, causing people to look at him weirdly.
When he sat down, his flame lit up, and then, without even heating the cauldron, he slapped his side, and the lid flew off, hovering in the air.
His left hand moved, and three 3-ingredient roses rose into the air. When everyone saw this, their expressions changed.