Manager Zhou kept rushing from one door through another. They have finally reached a grand hall. At the entrance of the hall, there was a massive door with dragon markings. The guard the door greeted Manager Zhou.

"Prepare an Advancement test for me, I'm making the third grade Wood Mist Pill", Manager Zhou ordered the guard to prepare the materials. The news that Manager Zhou is taking Advancement test has instantly spread across the Alchemists in the branch.

Somewhere in the building, inside a large room, a purple robed expert was sitting in front of a cauldron, preparing pills. An Alchemist entered the room in a hurry, "Master Zifan, Manager Zhou is taking the Advancement test!", he was flustered when speaking, as he knew that if Manager Zhou became a Grandmaster Alchemist, then Cheng Zifan would not be in a good position.

"That fool thinks too highly of himself, his luck isn't going to be of any help to him. The last time I have seen that his True fire is only the first grade. To become a Grand Master, he needs to have at least second grade True fire. Let him make a joke of himself, it'll be quite a show", he fling his robe and started walking towards the Advancement hall. The other alchemists started to follow behind Zifan.

In the Advancement hall, the guard prepared all the materials required for Wood Mist Pill. The cauldron stood at the center of the Advancement hall. Manager Zhou flicked his wrist and a black mesmerizing flame hovered on his hand.

It was just then, all the Alchemists and Cheng Zifan entered the hall. They were paying attention to Manager Zhou. If Manager Zhou successfully becomes a Grand Master Alchemist today, then they will have to choose wisely on which side they want to stand. Cheng Zifan was currently the only Grand Master Alchemist in this branch.

Many Alchemists noticed a kid seating at the side of the hall. All the Alchemists that were standing here were either Alchemy Apprentices or Alchemy Masters, they thought that the kid was either too dumb or too arrogant. Tian was completely didn't care about any of them, he was only looking at Manager Zhou, he was sure that Manager Zhou would be able to become a Grand Master Alchemist today.

The True flame on Manger Zhou's palms started to divide and spread across the cauldron. The flames glowed brightly and moved in sync like a whirlpool, they glowed brightly and formed the shape of a black dragon that coiled itself on the Cauldron.

All the Alchemists including Cheng Zifan got surprised by the sudden formation of dragon silhouette. Many people started recording the process Manager Zhou was making the pills.

Manager Zhou guided the alchemy material one after the other into the cauldron. He controlled the alchemy formation accurately and the materials were processed successfully. The next step was to fuse the materials and make their essence into one, forming the spirit pills.

The black dragon silhouette roared and started flying high up into the air and circling the roof of the hall, it suddenly gave off a cry and dived directly into the cauldron.

Spoooshhh...

Everyone was silent, they didn't knew if the pills were successfully formed. The pills have to be at least Superior Level for Manager Zhou to become a Grand Master Level alchemist.

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Manager Zhou slapped the cauldron and the pills came out flying, falling directly into a pill bottle in his hands. He stood up and walked slowly to the stone platform in the hall. He placed the pills in a glass cylinder with many inscriptions on it, the pill bottle instantly vanished instantly.

Tian was really surprised by this. He had never seen such complex inscriptions since his arrival on earth. He studied the inscriptions on it carefully with his enhanced vision, it took him a while to understand that it was a teleportation formation inscribed on it. The extent to which earth has developed inscriptions in a mere 2 centuries has really shocked Tian.

Manager Zhou and all other Alchemists were attentively looking towards the stone platform. The pills came back inside the glass and a silhouette of old man appeared before them, "Congratulations Zhou Lan, you have successfully refined a Grade three pill, with 1 Perfect Level, 3 Profound Level and 5 Superior level among them. You have been promoted to Grand Master Level, you would receive your token soon", the old man disappeared as soon as he announced the Advancement result.

The entire crowd was speechless. Manager Zhou knew about the pill grades when he took them out from the cauldron, but hearing it from the Assessment elder was completely different from that. Cheng Zifan silently took his leave, he didn't want to face Manager Zhou right now.

Many alchemists decisively took the side of Manager Zhou, even though Cheng Zifan was a Grand Master alchemist for longer than Manager Zhou, even he couldn't produce 9 servings of pills in one batch and that too with a perfect level pill.

Manager Zhou received everyone's greetings, while Tian went into Manager Zhou's chamber to wait. Manager Zhou returned to his room after the formalities with other alchemists.

"I thank you from the bottom of my heart brother! You have done the greatest favor for me", Manager Zhou bowed before Tian to express his sincerity. Tian instantly lifted him up, "Don't speak like that, if your truly treat me as your brother", Manager Zhou has helped him with the situation of Cheng Ran, he was returning the favor.

Manager Zhou and Tian had a chat about Cheng Ran and what to do with the situation. Manager Zhou assured that Cheng Ran would not cause anymore trouble to Tian, he said he'll make sure of it.

After talking for a while, Tian asked if Manager Zhou would buy Pill formulas, "Are you kidding my brother? Pill formulas are completely different from Potion formulas. Potions can be made basically by anyone. But Pills can only be made by those possessing True fire and also the effects of a Pill can never be compared to a potion. Potion formulas are rare to come by, they are not circulated in the market. If you can truly take out a pill formula, I'd gladly buy it brother", Manager Zhou knew that this was a serious matter.

"The Pill formula I want to sell is Purple Yang Pill, it would increase the chances of breaking through into Earth Realm by 80%. Anyone in Advanced Energy Refinement Realm can take it and be able to overcome cultivation bottlenecks", Tian had countless pill formulas, but he didn't want to show his cards. Tian didn't have any money on him , after buying materials for Red Storm, Titan shield and Storage ring, he was almost left with nothing. He even gave a 100 million to the Sect. He needed money urgently.

Manager Zhou thought for a second and said, "Alright brother, but I cannot decide the value of the pill formula myself. Give me a moment", He went to contact Elder Huang Zi. After hearing that the person selling the pill formula is the same person who sold him potion formulas, he immediately agreed to buy the formula without any testing. He said that to buy the Pill formula for 5 billion.

Manager Zhou got the pill formula from Tian and transferred the 5 billion to him, Tian wasn't surprised this time. He understood the value of knowledge he possessed. Elder Huang Zi was already in Huang City, he asked Manager Zhou to stall Tian for some time before he arrives. But Tian had some things to take care of, he said he'll surely visit him again and took his leave.

Tian wanted to avoid meeting Elder Huang, all these guys go around calling him little brother, which seriously made him question his own age. Time to run away from here.