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Following the sound of a gong, a fat guy jumped onto a tall stone platform in the middle of Eastwood Town.

He was dressed in luxurious clothes and had a rich stature. He looked like a successful businessman in the secular world. His face was full of a kind expression.

As he ascended the stage, the tens of thousands of cultivators below the stage all started to boil. They all recognized him as the person in charge of the biggest auction in the entire Eastwood Town — Soaring Dragon Auction House. His appearance meant that the Alchemist Competition was about to begin.

The Alchemist Exchange Assembly this time was funded and organized by the Soaring Dragon Auction House. The Soaring Dragon Auction House had also provided all the required ingredients.

Of course, all the pills refined by the alchemist during this period of time, regardless of their grade, would belong to the Soaring Dragon Auction House.

"Cough …" "Ahem …" Li An cleared his throat. The low coughing sound made the ruckus at the scene stop. Everyone pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what Li An had to say.

Li An was satisfied with the result of his coughing. He raised his eyebrows, raised the loudspeaker magic treasure in his hand, and began to talk.

"Everyone, I didn't think that time would pass so quickly. Fifty years have already passed in a flash. Today, we have welcomed the 50th Year Alchemist Exchange Competition. "

"During the upper realm's alchemist exchange meeting, a new alchemist has appeared in our Eastwood Town. This has greatly increased our status in the Cloud Dragon Mountain Range. "I wonder, during this year's Alchemist Exchange Competition, will there be any more Alchemy Masters?"

Li An's words instantly ignited the atmosphere of the spectators. Alchemy masters in the cultivation world were different from those in the mortal world. In the mortal world, as long as one's alchemy skills were superb and superior to others, one could become a master alchemist. However, in the cultivation world, only alchemists who could concoct pills of the Nascent Soul Stage could be considered a master alchemist.

In the entire Cloud Dragon Mountain Range, there were only seven alchemists. The youngest was the alchemist who appeared in Eastwood Town's meeting 50 years ago. At this moment, this alchemist was serving as the deputy mayor of Eastwood Town. This could be considered as directly raising the status of Eastwood Town.

Li An raised his hand and pressed it into the air, causing the crowd to quiet down once again.

"Today, we were lucky enough to invite two deputy mayor here to be impartial. Next, we invite the two deputy mayor." Following what Li An said, two figures walked up onto the stone stage and walked to the two luxurious chairs in the middle of the room and calmly sat down.

However, to their surprise, their eyes only heard the deputy mayor at the center of the stone stage as they shouted out a name in unison, "Master Chang Hai …. Master Changhai... "

Wave after wave of shouts resounded through the sky like waves of a mighty tide, never ceasing for a long time.

Amidst the cheers of the crowd, the Vice Mayor Chang Hai on the right floated up and cupped his fists towards them.

All of a sudden, everyone immediately shut their mouths. There was not a single sound at the scene.

Chang Hai glanced at the vice mayor beside him and said proudly, "Everyone, although I, Chang Hai, am the previous champion of the Alchemist competition and also a new alchemist grandmaster, I still hope for a master alchemist who is not inferior to me to appear today, allowing me to find an opponent in the Cloud Dragon Mountain Range."

"Master Chang Hai has only been a master apothecary for fifty years. Could it be that his pill cultivating skills have already reached the level of the Cloud Dragon Mountain Range?"

"Of course, Master Chang Hai is not an ordinary person. Those alchemy masters of the older generation are only fit to be his stepping stone."

"That's right. When the time comes, our Eastwood Town will also have a higher position under Master Chang Hai!"

Following Chang Hai's words, the audience was once again filled with praise. It seemed like the image of Chang Hai as an invincible apothecary had been ingrained in everyone's hearts.

Compared to the madness of the audience, the other deputy mayor's face was terrifyingly gloomy. He slightly closed his eyes and vaguely felt like a volcano that was about to erupt.

However, Chang Hai completely ignored this person's anger. He sat down arrogantly with his legs crossed, looking extremely haughty.

"Tsk, with a single look, it's clear that this Master Chang Hai isn't a good person!" In a corner at the back of the crowd, a young girl in beautiful green clothes stomped her feet and angrily cursed, "Look at that arrogant look of his, he's so despicable."

Beside the green robed lady, a young man wearing a conical bamboo hat chuckled and said, "That Chang Hai can be considered talented. He is only a little over a hundred years old, but he has already reached the realm of an alchemist master. If nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely reach the level of a grandmaster in pill forging in his lifetime. "

"Tsk, you think so highly of him, why don't you go and become friends with him?" Liu Yiyi stared at the man beside her angrily.

The man glanced at Chang Hai disdainfully and said rudely, "If you want to be friends with me, Zhang Yang is not fit to be your friend!"

"From your tone, it seems like you're quite amazing." Liu Yiyi stared coldly at Zhang Ziyang under the bamboo hat. Her handsome face was full of mockery as she said, "However, you have a bad character. Why do you have to be such a bad character? You must be a thief."

When she was done, Liu Yiyi added, "No wonder eldest senior sister often told us that men don't have good things, she only talks about people like you."

Zhang Ziyang touched his nose and said somewhat speechlessly, "Chen Feng is also a man, so he's not a good person either?"

"Of course Chen Feng is different!" Liu Yiyi replied without hesitation, "He's a thousand times better than you!"

Pausing, Liu Yiyi suddenly reacted: "Right, I haven't seen Chen Feng since last night. Where did he go?"

"Look, isn't that Chen Feng?" Zhang Ziyang suddenly pointed at the crowd in front of him and saw Chen Feng and Tao Rui walking in side by side. There were also many people walking with them. They all had arrogant looks on their faces, each one of them looking as if they were high and mighty.

"Look, the apothecaries have finally appeared. The Apothecary Exchange Conference is finally about to begin."

"Look, that's the Flying Dragon Palace's Apothecary Wei Dong. A few years ago, I even had a conversation with him!" A bystander said proudly.

"The one wearing black is an alchemist from our Setting Sun Sect. He has a very high skill in alchemy and it is said that he was able to concoct pills of the later stage of the Aurous Core stage a long time ago." "In my opinion, he must be the champion of this Pill Refiner's Exchange!" The other person did not show any weakness as he shouted.

Amidst the crowd's discussion, Chen Feng and Tao Rui followed the stream of people and arrived at the top of the stone platform.

"Everyone, our apothecaries are already here. "Next, I shall announce the start of the Apothecary Exchange Competition!" Following Li An's words, nearly a hundred jade boxes suddenly appeared in the middle of the stone stage. Inside the boxes were all sorts of spirit plants.