“Nonsense.
We investigated this a long time ago.
There are only sixteen people from Xingyue City participating in the grand competition this year, and all of them are Pill Masters below tier one, fourth grade.
“Meanwhile, our Young Master Wang is already a Tier One Fifth Grade Alchemy Master.
“According to the rules of the various Earth Realms, Xingyue City’s Divine Pill Pavilion and Miaodan Square can only recruit local Pill Masters.
If this quota for the Divine Pill Pavilion doesn’t belong to Young Master Wang, could it possibly belong to that useless fool?”
As they finished speaking, the Ye Clan Members all drew a sharp breath.
To be a Tier One Fifth Grade Alchemy Master at such a young age meant his future was boundless.
The Ye family elder who had spoken earlier was astonished.
“You must be joking, my young friend.
This quota definitely belongs to Young Master Wang.
Even if it were anyone else’s turn, it would never fall to that piece of trash.”
The Ye Clan Members nodded repeatedly in agreement.
Latching onto Wang Jiang, this towering tree, was like clutching a lifeline.
Right at this moment, a sudden commotion broke out in the crowd.
“Heavens, what a beautiful young girl!”
“Could she be the number one beauty of Xingyue City, the Ye family’s daughter, Ye Qingxian?”
“No wonder the Qilin Child took a liking to her.
She is indeed devastatingly beautiful.”
“So that means the young man beside her is that piece of trash?”
When Jiang Hao’s group of three appeared in everyone’s line of sight, the endless Cultivators didn’t focus on the trash first, but rather on Ye Qingxian.
Even the Pill Masters and Cultivators who had come from other Earth Realms couldn’t help but stare at the young girl with glowing eyes.
Wang Jiang gulped heavily, his mind seemingly already conjuring countless tantalizing scenes.
However, he quickly shifted his gaze to Jiang Hao.
His eyes were filled with disdain as he said, “To think he actually dared to come and participate in the Pill Master grand competition.”
At the same time, on the other side of the crowd.
“Do your best, little fool,” Ye Qingxian said with a sweet smile after personally escorting Jiang Hao to the Battle Platform.
Ye Tiannan’s eyes were also filled with expectation.
“Hao’Er, whether you obtain an Alchemy Mark today or not, you are still the only son-in-law I, Ye Tiannan, will ever acknowledge.”
Jiang Hao gave a gratified smile at their words.
He slowly turned around and walked toward the Battle Platform.
On the massive Battle Platform, over a thousand figures were already seated around a gigantic Alchemy Stele that towered hundreds of feet into the air, silently waiting for the grand competition to begin.
Evidently, those sitting cross-legged up there were all the new generation of Pill Masters participating in the grand competition.
They were the total number of rookie Pill Masters gathered from the hundreds of Earth Realms across the Eastern Domain.
However, despite nearly a thousand participants, this number was still far too small for the boundless Eastern Domain.
Scattering these thousand-odd people across the Eastern Domain was like throwing a drop in the ocean; they were but scattered specks, exceedingly rare.
As Jiang Hao stepped onto the platform, countless pairs of eyes locked intensely onto his figure.
Without warning, a barrage of insults erupted from the crowd.
“Trash!
Garbage!
A useless thing who couldn’t even awaken a martial spirit dares to participate in the Pill Master grand competition?
You’ve completely disgraced Xingyue City!”
“Brat surnamed Jiang, if you don’t have a mirror at home, can’t you at least piss on the ground and look at your own reflection?
You think you’re worthy of participating in the Pill Master grand competition?”
“Jiang Hao, if you have even a shred of self-awareness, you’ll roll down from there yourself.
Stop dragging Xingyue City’s name through the mud!”
“Is this the kid who was fighting over a woman with the Qi Family’s Qilin Child?
He really doesn’t know his own worth.
He isn’t even fit to shine Qi Tianyang’s shoes, is he?”
“I heard the Ye family arranged a marriage between him and Ye Qingxian a long time ago.
The Ye family really picked a fine son-in-law!”
Countless extreme Cultivators harboring prejudices between the Earth Realms had immediately voiced their disdain, hurling insults and causing a massive uproar across the venue.
Hearing this, the Ye Clan Members looked as if they had swallowed flies.
Several elders turned green in the face.
“This piece of trash has thrown away all of the Ye family’s face!”
“Back when he failed to awaken his martial spirit, I said we should kick this trash out of the Ye family, but you refused to listen.”
“From now on, no one is allowed to mention this trash again.
Our Ye family has absolutely nothing to do with him!”
For a time, the entire venue was a boiling cauldron of noise, drawing the sidelong glances of the thousand new-generation Pill Masters.
However, facing the arena full of contempt and uproar, Jiang Hao turned a deaf ear to it all.
He silently walked to the spot bearing his name and sat down cross-legged.
This scene instantly caused several nearby new-generation Pill Masters to frown.
“I truly never imagined that we, as highly respected Pill Masters, would one day have to compete on the same stage as a piece of trash.”
“This will be the humiliation of a lifetime.
Even if I become a Pill Dao Giant in the future, this will be an indelible stain.”
Many of the new-generation Pill Masters slowly shook their heads, their eyes filled with mockery and resignation.
When everyone saw Jiang Hao take out a crude, large medicine pot, their gazes became even more sarcastic.
Wang Jiang, who was slowly stepping onto the Battle Platform, watched this scene with eyes brimming with scorn and disdain.
“Just as I thought.
Trash will always be trash.
In the end, he’ll never amount to anything.”
Faced with the blatant stares of those around him, Jiang Hao acted as if no one else was there.
After setting up the large medicine pot, he subsequently brought out numerous stalks of Spirit Medicine.
These Spirit Medicines were all exchanged from Wu Jing of the Divine Pill Pavilion using the Tier One Seventh Grade Opening Pill he had refined last time.
At the same time, in the spectator stands surrounding the Pill Master Battle Platform.
These stands were built high on all four sides.
Those qualified to sit up there were all terrifying factions from various regions; the very least among them were representatives of first-rate families from the Xingyue City Earth Realm.
At this very moment, in the Tang family’s stands, countless Tang family experts breathed heavily as they watched Jiang Hao take out the large medicine pot.
“Yan’Er, are you absolutely sure he is the exalted figure the Old Master met?
“Could this person truly win first place and obtain the mark from the Royal Clan Alchemy Stele?”
The Tang Family Acting Patriarch and the group of Tang family experts with terrifying auras all stared fixedly at Jiang Hao in the center of the arena, utterly bewildered and filled with doubt.