Xiao Yan's Eagle Wings were exaggeratedly enormous, spanning nearly four meters when fully extehe blood-red Ten Thousa Fme emitted faily roars that caused an involuntary tremble in the hearts of those who heard it.

  Upon closer iion, one could even dis lifelike carvings of beast spirits on the fiery wings.

  The enormous fire wings directly blocked Yao Ye and Ya Fei beside him and even obscured Nan Yanran not far away. The spectators iands were all captivated by the sight of these massive fire wings.

  At this moment, in the VIP area, not even Association Chairman Fa Ma or the Dou Emperors Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian were as eye-catg as Xiao Yan.

  "Holy shit! Dou Qi f wings!! Is he a Dou King?!"

  "Aeen-year-old Dou King?! How is that possible!!"

  Whether it was the spectators iands or the numerous alchemists in the ter of the pza, all were engaged ied discussions.

  The first to notice was naturally Chairman Fa Ma.

  "No, those aren't Dou Qi Wings. That's an exceptionally rare flying-type Dou Teique!"

  Xiao Yan fpped his wings vigorously and soared straight into the sky with a thunderous boom. Ya Fei's face was flushed as she hastily held her skirt down to prevent it from being lifted by the gust.

  A blood-red fme streaked across the sky like a meteor, transf into a fiery light before slowly desding onto the very ter of the pza, the position reserved for the top scorer in the preliminary test.

  "He's the most childish one." Nan Yanran naturally khat Xiao Yan possessed a flying-type Dou Teique and that he deliberately expahe Eagle Wings to their maximum size.

  Xiao Yan was the oing most childishly!

  Without a doubt, Xiao Yan's enormous fire wings pletely ighe crowd. Waves of cheers, screams, and appuse surged like tides.

  "So handsome!"

  "Woah!! So cool!"

  Just those fire wings alone had already enamored tless wome with this young man who was the only o wearing an alchemist's robe.

  "He truly has some genuine skill. No wreat-Grandfather holds him in such high regard," Yao Ye murmured softly as she gazed at the youth calmly receiving the tless cheers in the ter of the arena.

  Even Nan Yanran's beautiful eyes were fixed on that most dazzling star in the pza. A rare softness appeared on her pretty face, though it was unclear what she was thinking at this moment.

  The Mu 's Dou King Mu narrowed his eyes as he stared at Xiao Yan in the arena. After a moment, he turo Mu Zhan behind him, whht hand was bandaged, and asked, "Is he the one who severed your hand st night?"

  "Yes!" Mu Zhan replied viciously. What he found most unbearable was beien like that in front of Ya Fei!

  Of course, aced to running wild, he wouldn't sider that he had been the oo make the first move.

  After p for a moment, Mu shook his head and said, "Don't provoke him."

  "But—"

  Mu cast a g Mu Zhan and said coldly, "You 't beat him. If you like Ya Fei, you pursue her through proper means. But I advise you to give up; the Mittel won't choose you either."

  Mu Zhan was about to speak but, seeing Mu 's face darken, he could only shrink his ned relutly agree.

  Xiao Yan naturally didn't have time to think about what was being discussed over in the VIP seats. At this moment, he had already picked up the tier 2 pill recipe oable.

  This wasn't a standard pill recipe formed with Spiritual Strength, but a handwrittehis made precision during the refining process difficult, requiring the alchemist to rely on their own abilities to make judgments.

  "This round will probably eliminate most of those below tier 3," Xiao Yan thought. Although it's just the lowest-grade Tier 2 Bone Growing Pill, ordinary 2nd-tier alchemists wouldn't be able to refi without a precise pill recipe, and even 3rd-tier alchemists would find it challenging.

  Moreover, there were only two sets of medial ingredients oable, meaning there was only one ake a mistake.

  "I'm sure you've all noticed some things. In this first round of assessment, you are required to refine a finished medial pill based on this somewhat inplete pill recipe. You have two sets of ingredients in total. If you use up all the ingredients or time runs out before successfully refining the pill, you will be eliminated."

  "Do you all uand?"

  Fa Ma's voice, amplified by Dou Qi, spread throughout the entire pza.

  "Yes!"

  Below in the pza, the response rumbled like muffled thunder.

  "In that case, the first round of assessment officially begins!"

  As soon as he finished speaking, over a thousand alchemists began to take out their cauldrons. The sounds of them pg the cauldrons on the ground rang out oer another.

  Xiao Yan turo look in the dire of Yue Er and Liu Ling. The alchemy cauldrons they used were both of high quality.

  After thinking for a moment, he decided not to use the Bck Demon Cauldron. Instead, he took out the alchemy cauldron he had acquired from the Amethyst Winged Lion King. He didn't want to have an advantage due to a superior cauldron.

  A ball of bck fme appeared in his palm with a whoosh. He gently tossed it into the cauldron and ied Dou Qi. Soon, the Nihility Dev Fme occupied the entire cauldron.

  "Hmm? That fme isn't as strong as a Heavenly Fme. It seems Xiao Yan isn't using a Heavenly Fme?" In the VIP seats, Deputy Chairman Qie Mi Er frowned and asked in fusion.

  It ractically on knowledge that Xiao Yan possessed a Heavenly Fme. When he had used his Eagle Wings earlier, quite a few elite experts had sehe terrifying aura of that blood-red fme.

  Chairman Fa Ma's experienced eyes looked toward Xiao Yan's cauldron and said calmly, "That bck fme gives me a strange feeling. Although it's not as powerful as that red Heavenly Fme, it's definitely not as simple as an ordinary fme. That young man probably doesn't want to take advantage of the bes of a Heavenly Fme."

  Fa Ma and the others weren't wrong. There was indeed a signifit differeween the Seed Fme and the main body.

  Xiao Yan watched the bck fmes r ihe cauldron and didn't bother to think too much. With a wave of his hand, he tossed all the medial ingredients into the cauldron at once.

  "What?! He threw all the ingredients in at once!"

  "Eagredient o be refi a different temperature. Throwing them all in together will just ruin them!"

  Naturally, Xiao Yan, being the ter of attention, caused a stir iands when he dumped all the ingredients in at once.

  Even some of the elders from the Alchemist Association in the VIP seats were puzzled, not uanding why Xiao Yan would do this.

  Fa Ma nodded silently and expined, "Typically, refining pills involves extrag and refining eagredient separately using the cauldron, as different ingredients require different temperatures. After refining eagredient and processing them, they are then fused to form the pill."

  "This method lead to potential ination of the refined medial essences by the air, even if the ination is only one ihousand, which reduce the pill's quality, though it speeds up the pill formation process."

  "By doing it Xiao Yan's way, he pletely isote the medial essences and prevent any ination. However, this teique demaremely precise temperature trol ara accuracy. Without strong fire trol and Spiritual Strength, it's impossible. He must be very fident in his fire trol and Spiritual Strength."

  The group of elders finally uood after hearing Chairman Fa Ma's expnation.

  Princess Yao Ye murmured from the side, "His fire trol and Spiritual Strength have already reached the level of a 4th-tier alchemist."

  Even with a precise pill recipe, carefully extrag the ingredients required extreme caution, fearing that the slightest mistake could cause the temperature to be too high. This tier 2 pill recipe only provided a list of ingredients, with no further details.

  But Xiao Yan hadn't been refining pills for just a day or two. His alchemy skills were hohrough tless experiences and failures over many years.

  His Spiritual Strength instantly enveloped the cauldron. All the medial essences fused acc to the correct proportions and sequence. Years of alchemy experience allowed him to see at a gnce how these ingredients should be bio achieve the desired effect.

  Before long, three distinct ks rang out as Xiao Yan collected three medial pills into a pill bottle.

  "Three pills ich!!"

  "Is that for real? Is this really his first time refining a Bone Growing Pill? He extract the medial essences so perfectly even with just a handwritten recipe!"