My Master Knows It All-Chapter 236 - 135: Wrote It and Forgot to Upload_Part 4

At the Gathering Immortals Platform, Yi Sheng was still drawing pills, but gradually, she slowed down. Dense beads of sweat had appeared on her forehead, indicating she seemed to have reached her limit, yet she was still desperately holding on.

The Pill Furnace before her began to wobble, and as it moved more violently, a furious energy surged out from within the furnace.

Gu Chengyu, who had been standing behind, smiling, suddenly showed a look of panic on his face.

"Not good!"

Gu Chengyu’s vast energy within his body burst forth instantaneously, and with a fierce motion of his hand, a dome of transparent light fell like an umbrella, enveloping Yi Sheng’s Pill Furnace.

The next moment, there was a muffled bang as the Pill Furnace exploded, sending shards of metal flying in all directions. They hit the barrier of light and then fell to the ground, as if they had struck an invisible wall.

Everyone around was stunned.

"The furnace exploded?"

"What’s happening?"

"Why did the furnace suddenly explode?"

"Didn’t she already start drawing pills? And she had even successfully drawn out some pills, how could it still explode?"

No one could understand what had happened; they had never heard of a furnace exploding after the successful creation of pills.

"I... I’ve failed..." Yi Sheng painfully extended her hands, covering her face.

"Sigh..." Gu Chengyu sighed deeply, but at that moment he did not know how to comfort Yi Sheng. Besides, as the person responsible for this competition, he could not directly console her. He could only explain to the crowd, "Inside the Pill Furnace, when many pills are refined, there is still a possibility of an explosion even after successful pill drawing.

After all, after the pills have condensed, there are residual medicinal qualities left in the furnace... Never mind, explaining too much to you won’t make sense.

Actually, there was a chance to remedy the situation, but regrettably, the materials here did not include the necessary herbs for that. Therefore, the explosion was unavoidable.

Yi Sheng was too eager to claim first place. If not for that, by using just a little less material, the explosion wouldn’t have happened."

That was all he could do; the only thing left was to make an explanation for Yi Sheng. In fact, he also found it odd why Yi Sheng had caused the furnace to explode. During the time she spent at the Five-Element Pill Ground, he felt that even though she was young, she was still very stable when it came to Alchemy. So why did it happen this time?

It could only be said that Yi Sheng was too eager, desperate to take first place without Peak Master Cao by her side, she lacked confidence, hence the explosion.

"What were they thinking over at Four Treasures Peak? Why does everybody want to rush for first place?"

"So that’s how it is. I understand now. It must be because Ling Xi didn’t get the Peak Bamboo, disrupting the original plan of Four Treasures Peak, making Yi Sheng feel compelled to fight for first place to make up for Ling Xi’s loss but..."

"But now, she doesn’t get even a single Peak Bamboo. According to the rules, an explosion means failure, and the pills Yi Sheng had drawn out are all invalidated!"

"Four Treasures Peak is completely done for."

"Whether Four Treasures Peak is finished doesn’t matter. What’s key is my wagered Spirit Stones; I bet three hundred thousand of them."

"Three hundred thousand? I bet six hundred thousand!"

"I wagered more than both of you combined—I put down a million!"

At the location of the Five Evils of Hundred Peaks, Li Lingwei stared blankly at the exploded Pill Furnace of Yi Sheng, feeling nothing but admiration.

"So this can happen too. Interesting."

"Good, very good!"

The five of them, except for Ru Wenlin, burst out laughing, and even Ru Wenlin had a smile on his face.

Seeing them laugh, the crowd did not think much of it; the Five Evils of Hundred Peaks had already had a falling out with Cao Zhen. Now, seeing someone from Four Treasures Peak fail, it was natural for them to be pleased.

At the position of Vermilion Bird Peak, Tu Zhuque was completely speechless. What’s going on with these two disciples of Four Treasures Peak? If they had performed steadily, they clearly had the strength to compete for first. Even if they didn’t go for the top spot, they could have secured a spot within the top three without much trouble. Now, both of them ended up without even a single Peak Bamboo!

And Cao Zhen, what on earth was he doing? Now, great, the two strongest competitors of Four Treasures Peak in the Six Arts had both failed. How was he going to secure Peak Bamboos in the remaining Arts?

Without winning Peak Bamboos in the Six Arts, how high could Four Treasures Peak go?

Tu Zhuque frowned deeply. Even though her Vermilion Bird Peak had again outperformed Azure Pheasant Peak in the Alchemy competition, she had no mood to provoke Chen Qingluan. She was considering how many ranks Four Treasures Peak would achieve during the spell battles.

What rank would Four Treasures Peak end up with, and how could they be worthy of her family’s Li Ke?

As the Alchemy competition came to a close, the Pill Furnaces on the Gathering Immortals Platform were quickly removed, replaced with a series of furnaces for Artifact Refining.

The Protecting Elder appeared once again and announced, "The third round of the Six Arts competition, the [Artifact] contest, begins. Disciples participating in the competition, please step onto the Gathering Immortals Platform."

At the sound of the announcement, disciples from all the peaks participating in the competition flew out and landed on the Gathering Immortals Platform.

From the direction of Four Treasures Peak, Cao Zhen stopped Xiang Ziyu, wanting to give a few instructions, but then he simply said, "Just have a good time."

Xiang Ziyu was different from both Ling Xi and Yi Sheng.

Ling Xi and Yi Sheng truly had the capability to take first place.

However, Xiang Ziyu had only been studying Artifact Refining for half a month. What was more important was that this fellow always had various odd ideas. During assessments, he didn’t even need to deliberately hold back; he could fail on his own just by refining.