The Alchemy God explained the rules of the competitions and how it would go.
Everyone in the competition was to make pills at the same time. They would be given one of the 10 random sets of ingredients, which they would have to turn into a pill above a certain threshold of Harmony.
Everyone believed the threshold to be higher this time around, but in actuality, they had decided to lower it instead. The threshold was now 75%, meaning for the pill to count as being successfully made, one had to reach that Harmony.
One didn't immediately fail upon making a bad pill, only instead of getting another set of ingredients for another pill, you would receive two instead.
The sets of ingredients would come every 20 minutes, each of which had to be turned into a pill. While each pill had to be above 75%, there was also the requirement that at least one of the pills in every five pills must be above 90% in Harmony.
