Above the roaring purple corona of the Central Alchemy Sun, a dazzling golden river of 100,000 Rank 8 Braised-Beef Star-Marrow Pills hovered in the sky like a constellation of miniature suns.
Each cherry-sized golden pill was wrapped in Nine Flawless Golden Cloud-Rings, pulsing with 100% pure medicinal essence and filling the entire star system with the mouth-watering aroma of five-spice braised beef brisket, sweet roasted bone marrow, and aged soy-sauce glaze.
On the ten thousand VIP viewing barges surrounding the arena, all three hundred white-bearded elders of the Nine-Sun Alchemy Alliance were still sitting in a daze of euphoria, their robes fluttering with freshly broken-through Star-Qi just from inhaling a single breath of the wok steam.
Yet on the left obsidian platform, Supreme Grandmaster Dan Yang (Rank 8 Mid) refused to believe his own eyes!
Clutching the small jade box that held his single, rough, walnut-sized Nine-Revolution Sun-Soul Pill (which was 40% fire-poison and smelled like burnt rubber), Grandmaster Dan Yang stumbled to the edge of the star-jade bridge, his sunken green eyes bloodshot with madness and denial.
“Fake! It’s all a kitchen trick! Hahahaha!”
Grandmaster Dan Yang laughed shrill and wild into the live broadcast cameras, his voice shaking as three hundred billion viewers across all thirty solar systems watched him on the sky-screens.
