Although the materials available for Alchemy were innumerable, with the Federal Pharmaceutical Research Institute discovering new medicinal ingredients daily, this basic stage of the competition still used more conventional and common ones. Ning Xuan had thoroughly studied all known ingredients, so this round was naturally no challenge for her.
However, it was clear that not every contestant had such a solid foundation. As time passed, a steady stream of contestants who lacked the basic knowledge were eliminated. The ingredient identification round was merely a screening process before the blind test began. Approximately 200 people were filtered out, leaving 2,800 to officially enter the blind test stage.
