"I'm willing. I'll bear all the consequences myself." Feng Yuqin's words made the people around her feel as if they were watching a joke.
However, Feng Yuqin didn't want to waste time talking to these people.
She walked up to the last pill - refining furnace. There were partitions all around.
After special treatment, except for the assessment teacher standing in front and the several upcoming judges, no one else could see inside.
Half a stick of incense later, the three judges showed up one after another.
The assessment teacher glanced at the incense that had just burned out beside him. "Time's up. The assessment begins."
"Master, I'll go and check how the others are refining pills." Xiaoying had no problem passing through these barriers, so he could see how the others were doing.
The first person he checked was Xing Zhuojia.
Xing Zhuojia was supported by the resources of the family.
In the past, during cultivation, the family had piled up all kinds of rare treasures for her. Later, when they came to the Inner Domain, only Xing Zhuojia and her brother were left in the Xing family. So Xing Mengyao had spared no effort to improve the strength of the two siblings.
After testing them, Xing Mengyao found that Xing Zhuojia's pill - refining ability was a bit stronger than Xing Zhuohua's. So more resources began to be tilted towards Xing Zhuojia.
For this assessment, Xing Mengyao had high hopes for Xing Zhuojia.
At least, Xing Mengyao was waiting outside now with her son Xia Xuefeng and Xing Zhuohua.
"Master, which level do you plan to reach in this assessment?" Hun Bing asked curiously when he saw his master start refining pills with ease.
"The Xuanyu Realm is a bit different from the continent we were in before. According to my age, I should at least reach the Mortal - level." Feng Yuqin was thinking about how far she should go while refining pills.
After all, being too outstanding would invite jealousy, but being too low - key wouldn't be smooth for her future cultivation path.
She still had a lot of things to do, so she needed to continue to rapidly increase her power.
The most urgent thing now was to let others see her abilities, which would speed up her progress on the cultivation path.
"According to your age, the pill - refining strength of a good candidate is at the initial stage of the Mortal - level. Xing Zhuojia's pill - refining strength is at the initial stage of the Mortal - level, which is why the Xia family values her so much." Hun Bing said.
"My performance must be better than Xing Zhuojia's. A good candidate is at the initial stage of the Mortal - level, a genius is at the middle stage of the Mortal - level, and a super - genius is at the high stage of the Mortal - level. My current pill - refining strength is at the high stage of the Sect - level. There's still a Mysterious - level between the Mortal - level and the Sect - level, so I have to control this well." As Feng Yuqin thought like this, she initially decided to aim for the high stage of the Mortal - level.
After all, the Xuanyu Realm was such a vast place that there must be many geniuses.
But the number of super - geniuses should still be small.
And since her current strength was not enough, she needed her pill - refining talent to make her journey in the Xuanyu Realm smoother.
In the midst of her thoughts, Feng Yuqin successfully refined a first - grade pill.
The people beside her thought they were having an illusion when they smelled the fragrance of the pill and just continued refining pills without taking it seriously.
After all, they had never heard of anyone refining pills so quickly.
It had only been one - third of the time of half a stick of incense.
Feng Yuqin's speed of pill - refining shocked the assessment teacher and the judges in the guild.
When Feng Yuqin put the refined pill into the special box in front for holding pills, the assessment teacher stepped forward to take a look at the pill and was stunned.
In fact, after so many years in the Pill - Refining Guild, he had never seen anyone refine a first - grade pill of such high quality.
"This..." The assessment teacher looked at Feng Yuqin in surprise, picked up the pill, and walked towards the judges.
One of the squinting judges saw this and a flash of dissatisfaction crossed his eyes. "So fast. Can the thing refined be a real pill?"
Another fat judge beside him also said with a smile, "Young people these days are too impetuous. First - grade pills are for laying the foundation, but they think first - grade pills are useless, so they don't put effort into refining them. As a result, many pill - refiners find it difficult to upgrade later because their foundation was not solid enough. I think this Feng Yuqin is the same."
The assessment teacher just happened to hear this when he walked up to them. He instantly felt that the pill in his hand was like a hot potato.
"Meng Kai, what are you standing there for? If the pill doesn't pass, just dispose of it directly." The squinting judge, Wei Yuanlong, said.
The chubby Ruan Yucheng saw Meng Kai's expression and said with a smile, "Teacher Meng, is there something wrong with this pill?"
Meng Kai hesitated for a moment but still showed the pill to them.
The three judges who came today were the squinting Wei Yuanlong, the chubby Ruan Yucheng, and Cai Hanlin from the Cai family.
All three of them were from the top ten families.
Meng Kai put the pill in front of Cai Hanlin in the middle. "Elder Cai, this is the pill refined by Miss Feng."
Hearing this, Wei Yuanlong sneered. "Meng Kai, haven't you taken some kind of benefit from her? How dare you bring up a semi - finished pill?"
In fact, Meng Kai was also from one of the top ten families.
However, there were differences in strength among the top ten families.
And the Wei family happened to be stronger than the Meng family.
So Wei Yuanlong always called Meng Kai by his name when he saw him.
There was no respect in his words at all.
Meng Kai was broad - minded and didn't care about Wei Yuanlong's attitude.
His eyes were just fixed on Cai Hanlin and he said, "Elder Cai, I think this pill is of the best quality I've ever seen."
Wei Yuanlong began to mock in a sarcastic tone. "Sure enough, you've never seen the world."
Cai Hanlin knew that Meng Kai had always been steady and reliable in his work. He didn't take it seriously at first, but then he opened the box cover.
The fragrance of the pill rushed out.
The fragrance not only attracted the judges but also the people refining pills on the opposite side.
At first, they didn't take it seriously. But when they saw Meng Kai go into Feng Yuqin's partition and then walk towards the judges with the pill - refining box in his hand, they realized that the situation might be different from what they had imagined.
When Cai Hanlin saw the ten round pills inside, his eyes suddenly widened. "A ten - fold pill output and ten - fold quality? Without a trace of impurity."
"What?" Hearing this, Wei Yuanlong subconsciously reached out to grab the pill from Cai Hanlin's hand.
Cai Hanlin was still in shock, so Wei Yuanlong managed to snatch the pill from him smoothly.
After looking at the pill, Wei Yuanlong murmured, "No... It's impossible... It's impossible. Our Wei family is a family of pill - refiners, but no one has ever been able to achieve both ten - fold quantity and quality in pills."
Not to mention ten - fold. Only one person had reached eight - fold many years ago, but that person was already dead. Now, at most, the Wei family could refine pills of seven - fold quality.
On the other side, Ruan Yucheng also took the pill and studied it carefully. "I just said that no one would put effort into first - grade pills, but here comes someone. A pill - refiner who can refine first - grade pills so well will go further on the pill - refining path than others."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at Feng Yuqin in unison.