Bai Yun closed his eyes and slowly meditated for a few minutes, carefully making sure of every detail of the pill he was trying to make. He had to make sure that there was nothing wrong with it if he was to successfully make one.
By now the elders had moved on from Bai Yun. Even though they were very surprised by Bai Yun's skill, and had already determined that he was going to win the competition, now that he was done, there was nothing left to study him for.
After a few minutes, Bai Yun finally opened his eyes. He was ready to begin.
The first thing he did was to put the medicinal cauldron in front of him away. As a general rule, a medicinal cauldron would help improve the chances of making a pill. But the cauldron provided by the association for the competition was so poor, that this time, it would only get in his way.