Judges' seats.
The Alchemy Competition officially entered the first round of the competition, and the minds of the eighteen judges were fully focused on the scene.
Seeing that the pill recipe and spiritual ingredients had all been distributed, the five hundred contestants hesitated to start.
The old presidents sitting above, one by one, started to chuckle with a sly grin.
"This time, in concocting the Thirst Generating Pill, it's unclear how many will perish at the first step, and it's also uncertain how many will be able to hold out until the final Magic Pill Condensation phase."
"Haha, the recipe for the Thirst Generating Pill has been verified time and again. It's error-free, but those three set challenges within it, who knows how many people they'll stump."
"In an elimination competition, with over a thousand contestants, it's always better to eliminate more people during the process. It makes the subsequent scoring easier to manage."