blogombal 437. Heavenly Talent
437. Heavenly Talent
"The strongest Dan tournament in history."
"The most prestigious champion in the national women's volleyball competition"
"The future number one alchemist."
Discussions like these continued to escalate, and even ordinary people of average strength found the topic extremely interesting. The debate over the champion of this Pill Gathering had long become the most important topic of conversation in Saint Pill City.
The Alchemy Gathering is already the premier event in Zhongzhou, but this year's gathering far surpasses previous ones. Due to these various "coincidences," the atmosphere has reached an uncontrollable peak.
However, Danta, the organizer of the Pill Gathering, was not happy to see things develop this way. After the appearance of people from the Flower Sect and the Heavenly Nether Sect, Danta had already been secretly controlling public opinion.
In response to this public opinion storm, Danta discovered that there were forces at play behind the scenes, and the combination of favorable timing and circumstances made it impossible for the public discourse surrounding the Dan Association to subside. Even the higher-ups at Danta had to admit that the Dan Association had now developed to a point where it was no longer something Danta could easily control.
Then, as if it had been precisely calculated, a force called the Spirit Clan announced its participation in the Pill Gathering. This announcement initially didn't cause much of a stir; most people were simply bewildered: The Spirit Clan? Where did the Spirit Clan come from?
A day later, the Spirit Race became known to everyone in Saint Pill City.
On the first day that the Spirit Clan announced its participation in the Pill Gathering, the Ye family announced its separation from the Pill Tower and became a subordinate family of the Spirit Clan!
The day after the Spirit Clan announced their participation in the Pill Gathering, the Qiu family announced their separation from the Pill Tower and became a subordinate family of the Spirit Clan!
Three days after the Spirit Clan announced its participation in the Pill Gathering, the Bai family announced its separation from the Pill Tower and became a subordinate family of the Spirit Clan!
Four days after the Spirit Clan announced their participation in the Pill Gathering, the Cao family announced their separation from the Pill Tower and became a subordinate family of the Spirit Clan!
In just four days, four of the five major affiliated families of the Dan Tower actually switched their allegiance to the Spirit Clan!
Although on the fifth day, the Dan family, the strongest of the Dan Tower's affiliated families, declared that they would continue to stand with the Dan Tower without any change, their decision finally stabilized the situation for the Dan Tower to some extent. However, the direct departure of the four affiliated families still caused a huge shock to the Dan Tower.
The strong smell of gunpowder began to permeate Saint Pill City, and even the most idiotic person could sense the confrontation between the Spirit Race and the Pill Tower.
Since the Pill Tower became a top power on the continent, it has always been one of the most watched forces due to the powerful abilities of its alchemists. Although the Soul Palace has a rather hostile relationship with the Pill Tower, it has never engaged in such a brutal and confrontational confrontation.
The Spirit Clan's high-profile and undisguised acquisition of four of the five major affiliated families of the Pill Tower comes at an astonishing price, fueling curiosity about the true nature of this mysterious family and their audacity in so directly challenging the Pill Tower's power.
What other tricks might the Spirit Race have up their sleeves? How will the Pill Tower launch its counterattack? These questions instantly overshadowed who would win the Pill Tournament championship.
For several days, Danta remained silent. Danta had sensed the Spirit Clan's movements from the beginning and had been taking targeted precautions, but he never expected that this reclusive family of Dou Di descendants, which had lived in seclusion for many years, would make such a grand and ostentatious move. At Danta's level, he had a considerable understanding of Dou Di descendant families; they were always low-key yet powerful, and the Spirit Clan's actions this time were absolutely unprecedented.
The question of how to respond divided the Pill Tower into two factions: one side believed the Spirit Race harbored wolfish ambitions, and the Pill Tower had to retaliate with the strongest measures. For example, they would not allow members of the Spirit Race to participate in the Pill Gathering.
The other side, intimidated by the Spirit Clan's immense power, suggested negotiating with the Spirit Clan's higher-ups. The reason was that the Pill Tower's power was fundamentally different from other families. As the leading force that gathered all the alchemists in the Central Continent, the Pill Tower's organization had always been loose, in order to consolidate as many alchemists as possible. If the Pill Tower were to truly become hostile to the Spirit Clan, mobilizing its forces would be a troublesome matter in itself.
The power and background of the Spirit Clan are terrifying; even the Pill Tower was genuinely thrown into a panic by the Spirit Clan's actions.
Just as the Dan Tower's higher-ups were locked in their dispute, the Spirit Clan's methods followed immediately.
The Spirit Clan, in alliance with the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, created the Heavenly Mystery Elite Ranking.
On the surface, the list was a selection of the many talented geniuses who would participate in the Pill Gathering, intended as a reward for these young talents. However, almost everyone could see that the Spirit Clan clearly intended to use this list to rival the Pill Gathering.
Thinking deeper, if the Spirit Clan managed to win over the experts on the list and prevent them from attending the Pill Gathering, then the Pill Tower's painstakingly managed Pill Gathering could very well lose all its authority.
Many insightful individuals saw through the Spirit Clan's intentions, but almost no one could resist competing for the Heavenly Talents List.
The reason is simple: the rewards on this list are incredibly generous. Especially the reward for the top spot: a furnace cauldron among the top five on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking, a high-level Earth-rank soul skill, and a top-grade eighth-rank pill recipe.
Any one of these rewards is something to be envied and thrilled with; each one is designed to appeal to alchemists' desires. Moreover, the Spirit Race is incredibly wealthy; anyone who makes it into the top 100 of the rankings receives a corresponding reward.
This list is only for the younger generation; those over fifty can only enter the secondary list, which, while still offering rewards, is far less prestigious.
The Spirit Clan's goal is clear: to compete with the Pill Tower for young geniuses. Young geniuses have unlimited potential, and even the Pill Tower needs a constant influx of fresh blood to continue operating stably.
The Spirit Clan's move can be said to be aimed directly at the Pill Tower's Achilles' heel. Selecting young geniuses is a pretense; their real intention is to target the Pill Tower.
However, with such great benefits, few people could remain unmoved. Only then did the people in Saint Pill City understand why the original affiliated families of the Pill Tower would so directly abandon the Pill Tower and join the Spirit Clan. The offer from them was simply too much.
Finally, Danta could no longer restrain himself, and a highly secretive meeting began between Danta and the Spirit Race, the contents of which remained completely unknown. However, in the end, Danta and the Spirit Race reached a temporary agreement.
The Pill Tower and the Spirit Clan jointly set five major tests for all young alchemists, ranking them based on their performance. The Spirit Clan's Heavenly Talent Ranking indeed needed the Pill Tower's authoritative approval, and the Pill Tower could not allow such a high-profile list to be completely out of its control.
Thus, the first phase of the competition between the Spirit Clan and the Pill Tower finally came to an end. After the five major tests were confirmed, both the Pill Tower and the Spirit Clan regarded the ranking on the list as the most important thing. Many forces painstakingly cultivated geniuses with amazing alchemy talents, and it was because of this list that they became known to everyone.