The third round, which is the finals.
Only the top three in this round will receive rewards.
Everyone held their breath as they watched the people on stage skillfully pick herbs and refine medicine.
When they saw Yan Rui, the crowd almost laughed. Yan Rui was using a scale to weigh herbs, which made her really stand out compared to the others who were skillfully grabbing herbs by hand.
All around were well-known alchemists with perfect control of herb weights, only Yan Rui was meticulously weighing the ingredients. None of them had seen alchemy done this way before.
Xue Ziping sneered, "Little girl, you came here to join the fun. Come back in a few decades after practicing at home."
Yan Rui put down the scale beam and raised her hand to the judges: "Respected elders, this person is not taking the competition seriously and is making disparaging remarks to me, affecting my performance, with evil intentions."
The judges’ gazes sharply turned to Xue Ziping. One judge stood up and sternly said, "Xue Ziping, if you lack confidence in yourself, you can forfeit now. Resorting to such despicable tactics against a child is a disgrace to the alchemist’s identity!"
Xue Ziping was dumbfounded, his eyes wide as he saw Yan Rui rolling her eyes at him.
"I was wrong, I apologize. I’m sorry." Xue Ziping was capable of bending and stretching, quickly apologizing. He cursed himself internally for being foolish, how could he forget this brat was a little demon. What a miscalculation, actually complaining at this moment, you’ve got guts!
Yan Rui ignored him and continued sorting the herbs, preparing for alchemy.
Luo Yunfei struggled to suppress laughter down below, finding the junior sister simply too adorable.
Tianmiao outright laughed out loud, as expected of Yan Rui, this style is great and powerful.
The competition continued.
When the final rankings were announced, no one expected what happened.
Xue Ziping indeed had genuine skill, taking first place. After all, he was extraordinarily talented, having learned alchemy from a young age with great intuition.
Luo Yunyi placed fourth, missing the top three. Luo Yunfei was already surprised Yunyi could achieve such a ranking despite cramming last minute. Luo Yunyi felt there was much room for improvement in his performance as a sword cultivator, and it was only with Chi Yu’s help that he could get such a result.
The surprise though was Yan Rui.
She still made it, securing third place.
"What? I’m third? Ahahahaha." Yan Rui jumped and danced with joy, "So alchemy is this simple, huh."
"Such nonsense, how is it simple! How old are you..." Xue Ziping was about to scold her, but choked on his words halfway. She was only fourteen! He was several times fourteen already. Could this brat’s aptitude be better than his? Xue Ziping stared wide-eyed at Yan Rui.
"Little friend, may I ask how long you have been learning?" The second place was an old man with white hair and beard, a loose cultivator, who asked politely.
"Ah, not long, just started learning after arriving in Qing City a few days ago." Yan Rui replied with a chuckle.
The judges exchanged glances of surprise.
No one doubted her words.
Because this little girl was not just anyone, she was Yan Rui, the little demon of the Chengtian Sect. People never heard of her studying alchemy before, and her clumsy method of sorting herbs showed she hadn’t been learning for long.
This? Did their Alchemy Dao conference accidentally discover an alchemy prodigy???
The disciples of the Chengtian Sect excitedly sent messages back to the sect. They also had someone take back the footage recorded by the Shadow Stone. The little demon, oh no, the junior sister, turns out to be an alchemy genius!