"Although it has an impact, if the Grand Elder can stabilize himself, he should be able to successfully refine the pill. It'll just take a bit longer," said Xiaojin. However, he always felt that the Grand Elder's own strength was not up to par, so he might not succeed in refining the pill on his first attempt.
"Should I slow down my alchemy speed then? Otherwise, it'll be too eye - catching," Feng Yuqin said helplessly.
"Master, your pill is almost done. It's too late to slow down. How about I seal your aura so that others won't know you've successfully refined the pill?" Xiaojin suggested.
Feng Yuqin frowned. After a moment, she said, "That's the only option."
"Look, Feng Yuqin is frowning. Can't she refine the pill?"
"Probably. Could her furnace explode?"
"Let's stay away. We don't want to get hurt if the furnace really explodes."
Some people started to move away from Feng Yuqin.
"These people are so afraid of death," Meng Xingyu said speechlessly when he saw this.
"It's normal. After all, they're just here to watch the show. They don't need to get injured on their way back," Yan Xiao commented.
"Brother's right. It's better for them to stay away. If they really get hurt, they might blame the Dark Night Pavilion," Yan Geng added.
Meng Xingyu thought it made sense and stopped complaining.
However, they never expected that Xiaojin's words would come true. The Grand Elder's alchemy furnace exploded.
Meng Xingyu burst into laughter immediately. Pointing at those who had just moved to the Grand Elder's side, he said to the Yan brothers, "It's so funny. They were afraid of being affected by Qin Yu, so they moved to the Grand Elder's side, and then the furnace exploded."
A look of surprise flashed across Feng Yuqin's eyes. She never thought the Grand Elder's furnace would explode.
The Grand Elder had been a third - level alchemist for many years. There was no way he should have such an accident. At most, the quantity or quality of the pills he refined would be a bit worse than those he made in the alchemy room. But an exploding furnace was just too much.
Xiaojin explained, "I originally estimated that if he could stabilize himself, he would be able to successfully refine the pill on the first try. Unfortunately, just now, some people moved towards him. There were too many people, which affected the surrounding aura. After all, alchemists have high requirements for the environment."
"Why did those people want to watch the Grand Elder refining pills?" Feng Yuqin hadn't noticed this before. Since her pill was almost done, her mind was focused on it. After all, she had two beast pets. They would tell her if anything happened around her.
"Because they were afraid your furnace would explode," Xiaoying said, laughing so hard that her stomach hurt. "So they moved to the Grand Elder's side. One person led to another, and quite a few people went there. The commotion made the Grand Elder lose his balance, and the furnace exploded."
Even Xiaojin couldn't stop laughing at this.
Feng Yuqin couldn't help but curl the corners of her lips slightly.
The Grand Elder had just swept away the exploded alchemy furnace. When he looked up and saw Feng Yuqin smiling not far away, his face darkened. "Don't be so smug. Although my furnace exploded, your alchemy technique is wrong. You'll never be able to refine a pill in your life."
"Let's wait and see," Feng Yuqin said briefly and then ignored him.
Yun Feiyue was also surprised that the Grand Elder's furnace exploded. A look of disappointment flashed across his eyes as he looked at the Grand Elder, and then his gaze shifted to Feng Yuqin.
He always felt that Feng Yuqin would win. But could a teenage girl really defeat the Grand Elder?
He was conflicted. Sometimes he thought Feng Yuqin would lose, and sometimes he thought she would win. After all, she was so young.
Feng Yuqin didn't care about Yun Feiyue's thoughts. She used her spiritual power to sense the pill she had just refined and found that she had gained some new insights. Although she had just been promoted, she was already on the verge of becoming a fourth - level alchemist.
She closed her eyes, emptied her mind, and focused on her insights.
"Is Master going to be promoted again?" Xiaoying asked Xiaojin in surprise when she noticed Feng Yuqin's change.
Since Xiaojin had merged with the space, his sensitivity had increased a lot. "Yes, Master is going to be promoted to a fourth - level alchemist."
"Isn't this a bit too fast? She was just promoted to a third - level alchemist three days ago," Xiaoying said in shock.
"Master was a medical saint before. She has a solid foundation, so that's why she's been promoted so quickly," Xiaojin thought for a while and continued, "I guess she'll be promoted quickly before reaching the tenth level. After that, her promotion as an alchemist will slow down a bit."
"What's wrong with the master of the Dark Night Pavilion? She closed her eyes. Is she giving up on alchemy?"
"Did she just give up?"
"If she gives up, does that mean the Grand Elder wins?"
"The Grand Elder's furnace exploded. How can he win? He's not as good as the master of the Dark Night Pavilion. At least her furnace hasn't exploded yet."
"So the Grand Elder has to successfully refine a pill to win."
These people had high expectations for the Grand Elder before. After seeing his furnace explode, their respect for him as an alchemist had diminished a lot.
If it were someone who had just been promoted and was unstable in their realm, an exploding furnace could be understandable. But the Grand Elder was probably sixty years old.
It was said that he had been a third - level alchemist since he was forty. After more than ten or twenty years, an exploding furnace was just unacceptable.
"Brother, what's cousin doing?" Yan Geng whispered to Yan Xiao, leaning towards him.
Yan Xiao shook his head. "I don't know, but cousin won't lose."
Yan Geng thought so too. No one knew the situation of the Yan family better than the two brothers.
When their grandfather and father had an accident, they had invited the Grand Elder to take a look. Although the Grand Elder was a greedy man who asked for a very high fee, he said after the examination that he couldn't cure them.
The two brothers were present at that time, so they were sure that the Grand Elder was telling the truth. He really couldn't cure their grandfather and father.
As for Old Tan, who was the royal alchemist, they didn't have the qualification to ask the emperor for permission.
So they had to find a way on their own.
As a result, the problem that even the Grand Elder couldn't solve was cured by their cousin.
So the two brothers believed that their cousin's alchemy strength far exceeded that of the Grand Elder. Not to mention anything else, at her age, she had already reached the level of a third - level alchemist. Who in the entire Western Song Kingdom could do that?
Even the most talented royal alchemist was almost fifty years old.
Their cousin was only fifteen, with boundless potential.