Looking at Shi Feng's confident smile, Melancholic Smile was still somewhat worried. However, since Shi Feng had already said so, she could only quietly wait for the outcome of the competition, hoping that too many places in the top ten wouldn't be snatched away by other formal members.

"Letting internal members learn basic alchemy techniques?" Youlan, who was standing beside them, couldn't help but smile slightly when she heard Shi Feng and Melancholic Smile's conversation.

Originally, she was a little worried about Grandmaster Wu Ming's competition with so many advanced alchemists.

But now she was relieved.

If it was just a matter of basic alchemy techniques, Grandmaster Wu Ming had learned quite a few. Although basic alchemy techniques were indeed very precious, she had managed to have Grandmaster Wu Ming learn as many as three due to her status in Underworld and the resources she collected.

Moreover, basic alchemy techniques were just skills that allowed players to better display their own level. Learning three or four actually made no difference in manufacturing potions, with the only difference being in manufacturing potions of their own creation in the future.

With Grandmaster Wu Ming's terrifying alchemy experience and basic alchemy techniques, the probability of winning first place was now very high. This way, they could show some of their usefulness to Shi Feng, otherwise the guild members would definitely be dissatisfied in the future because they were making an enemy of the Blackwater Consortium for them.

In the alchemy room on the top floor, not only the advanced alchemists but also the intermediate alchemists began to refine the materials that had already been placed on the table.

Each person had one hundred portions of these materials, and they weren't making any extremely precious potions, but rather relatively common potions.

Intermediate alchemists made Flame Potions, while advanced alchemists made Ice Soul Potions.

Although Flame Potions and Ice Soul Potions were commonly used, they were both quite difficult to make, and they greatly tested the alchemist's refining skills, which was also deliberately arranged by Shi Feng.

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"It seems this test is quite decent." Wu Ming looked at the materials on the stone table and immediately knew which advanced potion he had to make.

However, Wu Ming didn't know that the main reason Shi Feng chose these two potions was for the Eclipse Gate. Any player going to the Eclipse Gate needed these two potions, especially the Ice Soul Potion, which could increase a player's ice resistance by a small amount while also weakening freezing effects, which was of great help when dealing with the ice and snow-type monsters of the Eclipse Gate.

After all the alchemists were in place, Melancholic Smile gave an order in the team chat, announcing the official start of the competition.

Immediately, the alchemists in the alchemy room started to move.

"Their techniques are indeed not bad!" Shi Feng nodded slightly as he watched the advanced alchemy field displayed in the special-grade alchemy room.

Each of the advanced alchemists was obviously well prepared. As soon as the competition started, they entered a state of selflessness, focusing on refining the potions. Their movements were precise and fast, and they didn't waste any time with unnecessary movements.

This competition not only required ensuring the success rate, but also ensuring speed. The refining time was only one hour, and it was impossible to refine one hundred portions of materials. They just wanted to see how much they could refine, so the final result would naturally be clear at a glance.

"Grandmaster Wu Ming is indeed amazing. Does refining the materials only take so little time?" An advanced alchemist behind Youlan couldn't help but exclaim as he looked at Wu Ming in the picture.

Although he was also an advanced alchemist, he was only at the middle level among the advanced alchemists in Underworld. Facing the competition of 80 advanced alchemists, he didn't have the confidence to get into the top ten, but Grandmaster Wu Ming was different. In Underworld, only one advanced alchemist could compare with Grandmaster Wu Ming, but that person was also an old-generation alchemist.

But he didn't expect Grandmaster Wu Ming to be so powerful.

Refining materials was a very delicate task. He had also made the commonly used Ice Soul Potion, and the Ice Soul Potion had very high requirements for materials. If the purity wasn't enough, it would easily lead to failure, but Wu Ming's refining speed was almost twice as fast as his, an advanced alchemist...

"Where did Guild Leader find this alchemy expert? This speed is simply comparable to Miao Wuyin." Melancholic Smile also saw Wu Ming brought by Shi Feng, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

Miao Wuyin was one of the top advanced alchemists in Candlelight Firm, and could be considered one of the top in the entire alchemy world. Even she was somewhat jealous of her talent. Fortunately, she wasn't an alchemist but a blacksmith.

But now Shi Feng could find an advanced alchemist comparable to her, which really surprised her.

Thinking that both of them were in Candlelight Firm, she had more confidence in Candlelight Firm's competition in the Apocalypse Empire and the Black Dragon Empire.

"Is Candlelight Firm so strong in alchemy too?" Youlan, who was on the side, also secretly exclaimed when she saw Miao Wuyin refining potions in the alchemy room.

Candlelight Firm started with forging. Speaking of forging, probably no one in the entire Star-Moon Kingdom could surpass Candlelight Firm. Placing it in the entire God's Domain, it was also one of the top. After all, she had already received news from Underworld that Black Flame was already a forging master.

Life master was currently a peak in the auxiliary occupations of God's Domain. According to the information she had obtained, there were only three blacksmiths who had become forging masters, including Black Flame, and one of these three had only recently succeeded in advancing.

She never expected Candlelight Firm to be so powerful in the alchemy industry, and there was also an alchemist like Miao Wuyin...

The most important point was that the other advanced alchemists present, although she wasn't an alchemist, could tell that the level of the advanced alchemists present was very high. If Candlelight Firm continued like this, then its competitiveness would be terrifying.

Time passed, and the intermediate alchemists and advanced alchemists in the alchemy room were all focused on making potions, completely immersed in their own world. Unconsciously, the one-hour time limit arrived.

With a piercing sound in the alchemy room, all the alchemists stopped.

"Is the time up?"

"This time, I must rush into the top ten!"

Among the alchemists present, some were worried and reluctant to part with the potions in their hands, while others were full of confidence and directly put down the potions to wait for the statistics.

"Alright, now everyone, please come in and count the potions and materials they have refined, and send them to me here." Melancholic Smile then ordered the NPCs waiting at the entrance of the alchemy room.

In God's Domain, as the star rating of the shops increased, the intelligence of the NPCs inside would also increase, and they could help players do more things. The only drawback was that the price of employment would also increase, but it was nothing for the Candlelight Firm, which made a lot of money every day.

Immediately, one NPC after another entered the alchemy room and began to count the number of potions made by each alchemist and the number of materials remaining. Then, they sent the information of each alchemist to Melancholic Smile.

After a while, the data of a total of 244 intermediate alchemists and 80 advanced alchemists gathered in Melancholic Smile's hands, and Melancholic Smile directly let the system sort it out, and soon got the ranking of this competition.

All the alchemists also walked out of the previous alchemy room and reassembled in the special-grade alchemy room where Shi Feng was, looking at Shi Feng and Melancholic Smile one by one.

"I wonder who will get the top ten this time?"

"I must be among them. My performance this time was extraordinary."

"I wonder who will be the first place?"

"It should be Miao Wuyin. Her progress has been extremely fast recently. I heard that she is already creating advanced berserk-type potions, but she has not been able to create them successfully."

Everyone was full of confidence and curiosity about this competition, and they couldn't help but discuss it in a low voice.

"Please be quiet, I will announce the results now." Melancholic Smile gestured to everyone and said loudly.