Paragon of Sin

Ying remained still in thought.

This only heightened their anticipation as the commentary started to explain Wei Wuyin ’s process, and what various methods Qingye Ying might deploy. 

An hour passed.

The crowd was still hyped, being informed about the Predetermined Alchemist process known as Mental Simulation.
This only raised the expectations in the crowd and spectators ’ hearts.
After all, Wei Wuyin just jumped right into it.
If he could succeed with barely any preparation, then Qingye Ying, the one who chose the recipe, should perform incredible wonders!

Three hours!

Finally, Qingye Ying broke out of her thoughts.
She briefly glanced at Wei Wuyin, seeing him staring at her with a faint smile.
He waved casually, causing her expression to change and her heart to thumb irregularly for a moment.
She steeled her heart, ignored him, and started her extraction method.

Slowly, she started to extract each essence and unique energy of the materials one by one.

Seeing her start, the crowd cheered like maniacs.
They raged and roared with exhilarating positive reinforcement and discussions! 

Ten hours.

She was now extracting the seventh sub material with her method.

”… ”

Three days.

She finally started to extract the essence, unique energies, and mana from the main materials.
A faint smile was hidden behind her veil.

”She ’s just being careful! ” Yi Yun speculated.
He proceeded to explain that not every method was as violent and widely polarizing like flame-type extraction methods.
After all, they could incinerate everything, including the essences, unique energies, and mana.

Nine days.

She finally extracted the unique qualities from every material! With all this finished, the screen zoomed into her cauldron. 

Li Che ’s eyelids twitched, ”That ’s enough for eight attempts! ” When he thought of Wei Wuyin ’s over forty sets of extracted essences, he couldn ’t help but feel shocked.
But what happened next shook the crowd!

Qingye Ying threw away seven of the sets, choosing only the best of the bunch and started to concoct.
She was working on only a single product! As for the disposed of sets of extracted essences, they vanished into the world and dispersed naturally.
She wasn ’t even bothering with them.

This was a standard and normal process for an alchemist, but after observing Wei Wuyin, this felt extremely harsh and foolish. 

Yi Yun tried to explain, remaining impartial, ”The Growth Stage requires one to bring the various extracted essence, unique energies, and mana into an acceptable concoction range for the grade of the recipe.
By discarding the weaker portions, choosing merely the best, she can decrease the potential error of overshooting the Growth Stage while simultaneously reducing concoction…time. ” The last bit came out rough.

While it was the truth, it felt insulting to say for some reason. 

Then, Qingye Ying began the Growth Stage.

Twenty days.

She had carefully brought the materials with her alchemic force into an acceptable range.
Her brow was wet with sweat, but she was fully focused.
With her Alchemic Force, she had it much easier than other alchemists, capable of accomplishing this task with relative ease.
A smile of excitement emerged on her lips!

She started to work on the other stages.

The crowd just watched.
The loud cheers went silent.

Thirty days.

Sixty days.

Seventy-three days!

She was finally brought to the Fusion Stage.
She was performing exquisite sets of intense handseals, focusing her alchemic force with extreme precision.
The liquid energies were being merged into one, slowly but certainly.
At times, she would release faint bursts of power, releasing soft and cute grunts like a tennis player. 

Throughout the entire starfield, for those moments, everyone just watched on in silence. 

When she succeeded, displaying the greatness of alchemic force, she was left with the last step: Liquidize Step.
She would transform the liquid energies into an elixir.
This step was absolutely crucial, so she devoted her entire focus to it.
She even used the inherent formations on her cauldron to support her.

It took three full days! But then a swish of liquid surrounded as it splashed inside her cauldron.
This sound to her was the most beautiful sound.
The sound of success! She did a faint pump of her fist, trying to keep it discreet from viewers. 

When she withdrew a vial and slowly sucked in the liquid, she observed the radiant liquid that flashed with various colors of light reminiscent of a rainbow.
It was beautiful.
It lacked any form of impurities, her alchemic force displaying its powerful effects! 

When she held it as if it was the most precious object, she turned to see Wei Wuyin.

Her eyes widened in disbelief!

Wei Wuyin was laying down on what seemed like a bed! Where did he even get the bed? And he was sleeping! While the others couldn ’t hear, she could faintly hear the sounds of snoring! The audacity!

She pouted her lips.
”Wake up! ” She blasted a spiritual transmission to Wei Wuyin in the most direct manner, causing Wei Wuyin to jump slightly.
His eyes were drowsy as he looked around, noticing Qingye Ying hold a vial of rainbow liquid triumphantly within her hand. 

He smacked his lips slightly, ”Oh.
You ’re done. ”