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Jinyang City.
Many alchemists were somewhat perplexed at this moment, unable to understand why Chu Ning had begun alchemy, and why the Divine Transformation expert in the heavens hadn't made a move.
"The Elixir Domain assessment is a step for all of us alchemists to leap over the dragon gate," said an elder. "I do know a bit from some records left by our Ancestral Master."
An alchemist from the Elixir Association, who was a Third Grade alchemist, explained upon seeing the puzzled expressions of many alchemists: "The Elixir Domain is one of the Nine Great Middle Realms."
After experiencing the realm wars, many cultivators from the Chengshan Realm already knew that their area was merely a Lower Realm and that above them lay the Middle Realms. They could understand what this Third Grade alchemist was saying.
