Tang Cheng supported herself on the ground and sat up again.
However, there was not enough time left for her to refine another batch.
Beside her, a person dressed in the uniform of the Cloud Soaring Sect looked at Tang Cheng's blue and white attire and chuckled mockingly.
"As expected of someone from the Southern Academy, you're so weak. The fire went out before the pill was even formed." The man sneered, showing off the pill he had already refined.
Tang Cheng's face paled slightly, and she bit her lower lip.
Being mocked like this made Tang Cheng, who was already uncertain, feel even more guilty, feeling that she had let the academy down.
However, at the moment she collapsed, the pills had already entered the condensation stage, and now even she didn't know whether the batch of pills had been successfully made.
However, there's a high chance it failed, otherwise how could it not even emit the slightest fragrance of the elixir?
The man felt a surge of pleasure when he saw Tang Cheng with her head down.
Their Yunxiao Sect has been overshadowed by the Southern Academy year after year. Now that she has found an opportunity to humiliate the disciples of the Southern Academy, she will naturally not let such an opportunity pass.
Her voice wasn't quiet, especially since the teacher at the top had used his divine sense to cover the competition area to prevent cheating.
Almost every word and action was taken under the teacher's watchful eye.
Upon hearing this, the teacher frowned slightly.
"No whispering or disturbing others during the competition. Submit your pills as soon as you've completed them, or your results will be invalid!" The teacher repeated one of the competition rules. He used telepathy, making it sound as if he were speaking to the woman mocking Tang Cheng.
The woman, who had been beaming with pride, immediately looked up after hearing those words.
The smug expression on his face quickly disappeared. He smiled at the teacher, not daring to say anything more, and hurriedly presented the pills he had refined.
Tang Cheng, who was sitting in place, looked rather ashen-faced.
She had held onto a sliver of hope, but after being mocked like that, that hope vanished without a trace.
She felt resentful, yet helpless.
Looking at the covered alchemy furnace, Tang Cheng could almost imagine what the waste residue inside looked like.
She took a deep breath and then opened the lid of the alchemy furnace.
As soon as the lid was opened, a unique fragrance of medicinal pills wafted out.
The fragrance of the elixir, which had been gathered in the furnace, instantly spread outwards.
The flavor was so strong that Tang Cheng didn't react for a moment.
Looking at the golden pill in the alchemy furnace, she blinked, then blinked again.
They still seemed unable to believe it.
Tang Cheng didn't realize what was happening until the fragrance of the pills trapped in the furnace had dissipated.
She blankly put the only golden pill into the bottle.
Her brain was so excited that it made her seem a little silly.
She handed over the pills.
The teacher, who had been keeping a stern face, finally spoke after examining the quality of her pills: "Not bad."
Don't underestimate these two simple words.
You should know that this teacher had not said a word about the pills that the others had presented.
This was the first time he had praised her.
Tang Cheng only came to her senses at this moment.
Upon hearing those two words, a look of joy appeared on her face. The corners of her mouth turned up slightly.
He then stepped down from the stage.
The person in front was the same one who had mocked Tang Cheng earlier.
She clearly heard the teacher's praise as well.
As Tang Cheng descended the ladder on one side, someone stepped forward and blocked her path.
Tang Cheng was still immersed in her happy mood and didn't feel anything for this person. When she found that the other person was blocking her way, she turned around and walked towards her own academy's group.
The woman behind her caught up with Tang Cheng in a few moments.
"Stop right there!" She blocked Tang Cheng's way again.
Now that they're off the stage, no teacher will say anything more.
"Is there something you need?" Tang Cheng looked up, glanced at the other person, and chuckled softly.
If you ask her how she feels right now...
Tang Cheng had only one word in her mind: Awesome!
This is so satisfying! Isn't this even more satisfying than getting slapped in the face?
Seeing the woman in front of her become angry and embarrassed, Tang Cheng was not angry at all; instead, her smile widened.
The corners of his mouth turned up, and two small dimples appeared on the sides of his face.
"You..." The woman felt that Tang Cheng was provoking her, and raised her hand to hit him.
Tang Cheng naturally couldn't just stand there and let the other person hit her, and was about to reach out and grab the other person's arm when...
A fair hand suddenly reached out from the side, tightly grasped the woman's outstretched hand, and then flung it away forcefully.
The woman lost her balance and stumbled, but was caught by people from the Yunxiao Sect who rushed over from behind, preventing her from falling.
Tang Cheng glanced to the side and saw Lin Jingge standing beside her: "Gege!"
"Are you alright?" Lin Jingge asked Tang Cheng with concern.
"It's okay, even if you didn't come, I wouldn't let her hit me." Tang Cheng smiled.
Lin Fu and the others arrived a step later than Lin Jingge.
"You people from the Southern Academy are really arrogant, bullying my Cloud Soaring Sect's junior sister in front of so many people?!"
"If Junior Sister hadn't neglected her cultivation because of alchemy, how could you have bullied her like this?"
The Yunxiao Sect disciples who rushed over were aggressive.
Lin Jingge and the others were so angry at Yunxiao Sect's shameless words that they laughed.
Not to mention that these people arrived earlier than others, even Lin Fu and Zhou Xuan, who arrived late at night, witnessed with their own eyes that it was that woman who started the trouble.
They haven't even started harvesting their oranges yet!
"I've never seen such shameless people before." Lin Fu crossed his arms, took two steps forward, and looked directly at the people who had spoken.
His sheer presence alone could hold off a whole group of people. Those who saw him avoided his gaze, not daring to meet Lin Fu's eyes.
Lin Jingge chuckled and stepped forward.
"You can give your eyes to someone else. Just now, it was clearly that junior sister you mentioned who was bothering my Chengzi. She was the one who started it."
"You!" The Yun Ding Sect members were enraged.
However, the junior sister who was being protected behind them quickly stepped forward and pulled one of them away, saying, "Let's just forget about this, senior brother. Our sect isn't as powerful as the Southern Academy. It's okay for me to suffer a little loss."
The woman's voice grew softer and softer until, in the end, her eyes reddened.
This immediately touched the hearts of those who were not around, and they quickly comforted her with gentle words.
This series of actions almost left Lin Fu dumbfounded!
He can't stand seeing women cry, but that depends on whether the woman is on his side.
He picked at his ear impatiently.
"Hey, I said it can't be that bad, can it?" he said casually, his wheat-colored face full of mockery.
"Anyone who didn't know better would think that we from the South Campus were bullying you. You're putting on quite a show. If I hadn't seen you make the first move, I would have believed it too."
Lin Fu's sarcastic words drew laughter from the onlookers.
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