Xu Banchang smiled and said, "Focus on finishing the heaven grade level four pill, the rest won't affect you."
To Xu Banchang, Ye Mo succeeded by just climbing to step seven. A nascent soul state cultivator was able to climb to step seven and concoct heaven grade level three pills, this meant that he was already a level four pill king or very close to it. Who would dare to doubt him with such accomplishment?
Ye Mo nodded to Xu Banchang in gratitude.
But Ye Mo wasn't calm in his heart, he knew where the loophole was. The Heaven Glory Pill was an ancient pill recipe, the pills they dissected were special grade. Clearly, it was concocted by a pill king. How could an ancient pill king not have rare flame? So, the Heaven Glory Pill must be concocted with rare flame. However, he used soul flare to dissect a pill made with rare flame. This didn't make sense.
The difference between these two flames were huge. The soul flare shouldn't even be able to refine part of the components. Ye Mo didn't know if the judges could think of this but he knew that since Jiu Qian could think of it, other people would think of it eventually.
If this news was spread out, he would be publicly criticized. That Mo Yousheng's master Chang Shun pill king wouldn't let him go and his enemies would use this to attack him too.
That meant if what Jiu Qian just said was publicized, it was putting him in a lethal situation.
Ye Mo sneered, he was originally happy being second, but now, even if he had to show all of his power, he would get first.
Now, large amounts of pill kings and pill masters were swept off the pill king steps and there were no more than ten people left on the steps. There was only Ye Mo, Xu Banchang and Jiu Qian at step seven and above. But Ji Youting and Qiu Niansheng at step six were about to finish. If the two also succeeded, there would soon be five at step seven and above.
Ye Mo chose the Hollow Meridian Pill for step seven. Hollow Meridian Pill was the best pill for nascent soul state cultivators to break through to hollow spirit state. It wasn't easy to concoct. Usually, pill kings wouldn't choose to concoct this pill as this place wasn't their private pill room and there was that terrifying pressure. Ordinary pill kings would have trouble dealing with the pressure much less concoct Hollow Meridian pills.
The Purple Flower fire rapidly refined spirit herbs under Ye Mo's control, but Ye Mo felt that the higher level the pills he concocted, the more the Purple Flower fire was beginning to feel out of sync. He knew this was due to him rarely using the Purple Flower fire and its level being low.
Luckily, he had concocted Hollow Meridian pills before and wouldn't make a mistake, but because he didn't use Mist Lotus Heart fire, he used a little more time. But this was acceptable, he believed that even Jiu Qian wouldn't have it easy at level eight. He had spirit sense sever cultivation method while that Jiu Qian was only hollow spirit state. Even if he had a spirit sense cultivation method method, it wouldn't be as powerful as his purple eye soul sever.
When Ning Qingxue saw Ye Mo reach step seven, she breathed easy. Even if Ye Mo failed now, she felt it wouldn't affect much.
If it wasn't for that Jiu Qian, Ye Mo would've thought so too. Now, he really had to beat Jiu Qian for him to be safe.
If he beat Jiu Qian, even if Jiu Qian said he cheated in the first round, people would only think he was jealous. After all, not everyone was a pill king and understood this.
But if Jiu Qian got first and accused him of cheating, he would be done for. He might be kicked out of the Pill City, and if that happened, he could only wait for death.
If he didn't have a feud with those few 9-star sects and Mo Youshen, even if he was suspected of cheating, it would be fine. He wouldn't be targeted and people would still seek after him.
Ye Mo believed that if he beat Jiu Qian in the third round, he wouldn't bring this up as either as it would be damaging his own reputation.
"Such a powerful pill king, I've never heard of this Jiu Qian before. He's this powerful, I think he's at least a level six pill king or he wouldn't be having it so easy at step 8!" Wu Tan exclaimed. He was a level six pill king himself.
Yue Qichao nodded. "That's right, this Jiu Qian is indeed very substantial. At step seven, he chose Hollow Meridian Pill and now at step 8 he chooses Spirit Breaking Pill heaven grade level five pill. These are all very hard pills to concoct. Brother Wu is right, this Jiu Qian is indeed at least a level six pill king."
"Sigh, a new generation arrives. Watching that Ye Mo and Jiu Qian, I feel I'm old." Wu Tan sighed.
Lu Wuhu laughed. "You don't need to underestimate yourself. You're a level six pill king, you've stood at the top for many years."
Wu Tan smiled awkwardly.
Shen Guanqing nodded. "That Ye Mo isn't simple as well. After releasing the Purple Flower fire, his pill concoction speed increased quite a lot and the quality of the pills went straight up, it's pretty much all special grade pills. At the seventh step, he chose Hollow Meridian Pill too. Judging by his means, he feels no pressure, so I'm certain he's at least a level five pill king."
Lu Wuhu smiled. "This kid really knows patience. He only released his rare flame for heaven grade pills. Ji Ling, you even ask me to give him a flame. My best flame isn't as good as his Purple Flower fire, what shit can I give him?"
Ji Ling seemed awkward and didn't know how to answer.
"I've been up the 12 pill king steps and I'm really curious as to how Ye Mo doesn't seem to be affected at all during pill concoction. He's only a nascent soul state cultivator, he's not even nascent soul state tertiary stage. The current ten pill kings remaining are at least hollow spirit state cultivators. That Jiu Qian is hollow spirit state peak stage, but he doesn't mind the pressure at all. Wu Tan brother is right, we really are old." Another level four pill king judge sighed.
"Each pill king has their unique specialty, this is normal," Shen Guanqing said.
Perfect concoction of the Hollow Meridian Pill was 6 pills. 30 minutes later, Ye Mo concocted 6 Hollow Meridian pills. Ye Mo saw that they were all special grade pills, but he knew that if he continued to use Purple Flower fire at step 8 he wouldn't be able to concoct special grade pills.
He had to beat Jiu Qian, so he had to concoct special grade pills - otherwise, he might lose. Jiu Qian's pill king level wasn't lower than his. His flame's grade rank was lower than his, but it was faint red already. It was a level higher than the purple flower fire. His fire was weaker.
His flame reached orange color because of Gu Wenqian's purple flame crystal, otherwise, it would be even worse. He suspected that Jiu Qian was a level six pill king. If that was the case, it would be very hard for him to win.
Seeing Ye Mo get on to step eight, Xu Banchang sighed. He completely accepted that he was third now. Both Ye Mo and Jiu Qian were hiding their real power. One level nine spirit pill master and one level seven spirit pill master. Haha, now these two were at step eight while he, the level five pill king, was still concocting his pill at step seven.
Jiu Qian focused on controlling the Sense Sha flame to concoct the Break Spirit pill. He didn't even seem to see Ye Mo come up as he focused on his pill.
Ye Mo scanned the pill, it was the very hard to concoct Break Spirit Pill. It could allow hollow spirit state cultivators to break through to body condensation state.
Ye Mo ate a Spirit Recovery Pill. Facing someone like him, even if he used Mist Lotus Heart fire he didn't have confidence for victory, much less using the Purple Flower fire.
But he had no choice, so he chose the Break Spirit Pill without hesitation.