From the Heavens Descended an Immortal Sister

"Subversion?"

Ch Chg was stunned. The weight behind these two words was immse—could his understanding of alchemy be so easily subverted by a junior?

Yet, on the other hand, Lin Bozhong was not one to make gless claims. If he was unsure, he would never say such things—that was impossible.

Regarding this, Ch Chg maintained an attitude of half-belief, half-doubt.

...

As the aristocratic scions and their parts in the stands began to chatter incessantly, some of the studts below, who considered themselves of no lesser status, also started to show their disdain.

"Ha, for an elder of a first-class Alchemy Guild to talk about elemtary-level topics at such an evt, how childish!"

"How is society these days? Everyone knows it. Instead of spding so much effort stressing about all that superficial stuff, it would be better to think how to make people speak of my household's contributions, a distinguished name for thousands of years."

"If I believed what he said, th I might as well have lived all these years in vain. What's the use of high quality if it's not about strgth being supreme? A Xuanyang Realm master could say anything distasteful, and you have no right to resist—do you talk about quality with such a person?"

...

Sevth Elder's face grew more and more livid as he listed to some of the aristocrats' words.

The reason he had said all that was for their own good. If they truly angered the princess of the Bai Family or Young Master Fang of the Fang Family, any of the families could wreak havoc on them all.

Fine, since they wished to court death themselves, he certainly couldn't stop them. He did what he had to do. As for the princess and Young Master Fang, he had already maxed out their goodwill towards him. In any case, he had nothing to lose.

"Elder, the competition time has arrived; distribute the medicinal ingredits," said Ah Si, who was also standing in the cter of the ara. Seeing the Sevth Elder being rebuffed by a group of aristocrats, he felt secretly pleased, but on the surface, he ran over earnestly and reminded the Sevth Elder to watch the time.

The Sevth Elder glanced at Ah Si with some disdain. This fellow, although talted in Alchemy, was petty-minded and overestimated his abilities—his achievemts in life would not be very high.

Ignoring Ah Si, the Sevth Elder continued, "Due to the withdrawal of a large number of studts from two universities, we will reduce the original five s of competition to four. The first three s will determine some superior competitors to participate in the fourth , evtually selecting five to ter the finals…"

"As for other matters, I have already spok yesterday. Today, I will not repeat them here. I hope everyone is clear on that," emphasized the Sevth Elder, th added, "The competitors for the first three s will be determined by drawing lots. There is no restriction on the range of elixirs and methods of refinemt.

Whoever can produce the highest quality elixir in the shortest time will be the victor. Of course, any form of cheating by the competitors in the ara is strictly prohibited."

The reason he specifically mtioned "competitors" wh referring to cheating was that he felt the princess and Young Master Fang were merely there to observe, thus not included among the competitors.

After briefly mtioning other matters, the Sevth Elder waved his hand grandly, "Now, each school's studts called by name, go to your campus's signpost to draw lots and write the names of the required medicinal ingredits on the back of your lot."

As the Sevth Elder's voice fell, the invigilators in front of each school began to call names.

At Yangming University, there was only Fang R, so the invigilator didn't ev call out. He just placed a box for drawing lots in front of him and th immediately left.

Watching the invigilator's dismissive departure, Fang R didn't bother with it and instead stepped forward, reaching into the box to randomly grab a piece of paper.

Glancing at the number on the paper, he was in the first . He th quickly took the lot and a p nearby, swiftly writing down the names of eight medicinal ingredits.

Just as he was about to place the paper with ingredits writt on it onto the table, Bai Qi suddly came over and grabbed his hand.

"What's the matter with you?" Fang R asked, looking at her.

Bai Qi shook her head slightly, "Let's withdraw."

Fang R was tak aback, th laughed, "What are you talking about? We've come this far."

After speaking, he put the paper on the table and walked towards where he had be standing before.

Bai Qi stayed by the table, looking down at the ingredits he had writt. Th her brow furrowed and she turned, running after him.

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Bai Qi asked in an utterly bewildered tone, "The ingredits you listed are all for making a Fourth-order elixir. Surely you're not so blatant about cheating, right?"

Fang R froze; the girl had be silt before, he wondered why she suddly became like this.

"No need…" Bai Qi shook her head again, her voice low, "I won't go, I don't want to anymore, let's go back, okay?"

Fang R sounded somewhat helpless, "I've told you, I'm not going to cheat. Can you believe me a little?"

Bai Qi shook her head, "No, I'd rather just go back with you and attd school properly. I don't want to face Brother Song."

"Why all of a sudd you don't want to see him?" Fang R really couldn't understand her, and quickly said, "Don't think too much. The main reason I took part is not purely to help you; I have my own things I want to do."

Bai Qi lowered her head in silce for a while before speaking as if after much consideration, "You said, if we come back from the finals, our relationship won't ever be as good as it is now, will it…"

Fang R didn't expect her to switch to this topic so suddly. After being silt for a bit, he wanted to say yes, but just at that momt, an invigilator had already tak his lot and was approaching from the signpost area.

Bai Qi, with her back to the signpost, couldn't see the approaching invigilator, only the silt Fang R.

His expression, landing in her eyes, was the aftermath of the turmoil following a conversation they had the night before.

"What are you messing a with!" The invigilator walked over furiously, holding the piece of paper and shouted, "If you don't want to participate, just withdraw! Don't cause trouble here!"

Bai Qi, already in a bad mood, heard someone yelling behind her and turned a to retort angrily, "Don't interrupt me!"

The invigilator was stunned. A studt from Mediocre University dared to speak to him like that?

The invigilator immediately replied with anger, "Believe it or not, I will disqualify you right now…"

He hadn't finished his stce wh the Sevth Elder suddly appeared in front of him, grabbed him, and said with a furrowed brow, "Give me the lot, step back."

"Sevth Elder, these two studts are clearly just here to cause trouble!" the invigilator protested with a frown.

"I told you to step back!"

The Sevth Elder snatched the lot from his hand, his voice growing increasingly displeased.

Seeing this, the invigilator couldn't understand what the Sevth Elder was trying to do, but since the Sevth Elder had spok, he could only shut up and step down.