The Twilight Consuming Pill, which was worth 18 points, was made up of 13 different ingredients. One of those ingredients was a leaf with blue veins spreading across its green body, known as the Sky Gold Jade Leaf.
The Sky and Jade in the leaf's na ca from the colors blue and green, while the word Gold ca from the energy the leaf primarily had, tal.
There were 10 such leaves packed into a single box in front of Alex at the mont, all the sa. Except, they were not the sa.
One of the leaves was not like the other.
While visually the leaf was identical, and even had a strong tal aura to it, one of them was not the sa leaf. It was a variant of the Sky Gold Jade Leaf, with a much lower tal energy than the other ones.
It wasn't sothing that was generally supposed to exist and was very, very rare in most cases, which it was understandable if even Divine Realm cultivators could've missed it.
Hell, even Alex had missed it when he looked through the ingredients the first ti around. It was only after he had brought it out, ready to turn it into a pill that he noticed the issue. And this was a major issue. This ant that the initial recipe for the pill would not give the sa pill. It was difficult to say if following the recipe would even result in a stable pill.
Alex's mind was already spread into two other cauldrons at the sa ti, making 20 different pills at once, so he couldn't even spare a mont to a thought about what he had to do next.
Should he call for the staff? Should he stop making these pills? Would the competition restart just for him?
A dozen different thoughts ran through his mind, none unable to take hold of him. He didn't have the ntal capacity to think of the issue right now.
Without thinking anymore, Alex put aside the Twilight Consuming Pill and pulled out another set of ingredients to make a 17-point pill called the Radiance Tearing Pill.
Now, he was making 3 types of pills with 1 worth 16 points and 2 others worth 17 points. Once Alex saw that there were only 18 minutes left, he imdiately began speeding up as quickly as he could.
Alex didn't even have the ti to think about what he could do with the Twilight Consuming Pills. He needed to focus on the current pills for now.
While stress built up in the back of his mind, Alex didn't let any of it affect his pill-making skills. The flas roared and subsided as needed, the True Fire Dao working tirelessly to help him make pills.
Soti later, Alex finished the Azure Visage pills and pushed away the cauldron before bringing the other one. In it, he began making the 16-point pill called the Luminous Harmony Pill. The ingredients flew out of his storage bag and landed before him, making him fear that there was sothing wrong with these ingredients too. He didn't believe what had been done to him had been on purpose, but he couldn't help but be paranoid about everything now.
As he began making those pills, the Diamond Twisting Pills were ford as well, so he pushed aside those cauldrons and pulled out the final cauldron he was going to use, alongside the ingredients for the final 16 points pill called the Sapphire Desire Pills.
Thankfully, the last two pills were of a lower tier in strength so that gave him just enough free ntal space to think about what he was going to do next. He barely glanced up at the ti and saw that he had just crossed the 10-minute mark.
And he had yet to even start making the final pill.
'No,' Alex thought, 'I'm too slow. I need to be faster.'
Should an alchemist want to, they would sotis place so ti formations to aid them when making pills. Those formations weren't available, so he couldn't slow ti a bit to help with the pill.
The 6th set of pills, the Radiance Tearing pills were done around the sa ti as the clock hit 9 minutes. Now, Alex had exactly 9 minutes to do what he wanted with the final pill.
'9 minutes,' Alex thought. 'Can I pull this off?'
The last pill was supposed to be one of the easiest ones to make because he would be struggling the most for this, and yet it was the second hardest.
But that could not stop Alex.
'I can do this. One way or another, I must.'
The ingredients separated beneath him, the set of 10s turning into a set of 9s, with one of each moving to the side.
Because of this, Alex was not only going to lose a chance to get 18 extra points but also end up with 100 fewer points as any set of pill ingredients not turned into a pill took away the points.
'Surely not here,' Alex thought. 'The staff made a mistake with this.'
He wasn't so sure that would be the case. He couldn't bla others for failing to check it beforehand himself.
'Ignore it,' he thought, looking toward mory. 'I need to make these 9 pills first.'
The first set of ingredients flew into mory and began being refined as it was ground up across the heated walls on the side.
The tir kept lowering without waiting for anyone. 'I don't have much ti,' Alex thought with concern. His face showed nothing at all, but his heart beat faster and faster.
Less than 9 minutes, was that really enough? Was he sure that was enough? Not with this pill it was not.
'I need ti,' Alex thought. 'I need help.'
He so very wished that he had learned the Dao of Temporal Stagnation by now so he could use it. If he could slow down ti, then…
'I don't know the Dao,' Alex thought, a curious possibility coming to his mind. 'But I know the aura. Could I perhaps…?'
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