A quarter of an hour later, Feizhou arrived at Yunxiao College. Yang Zhen and Dai Miaoying walked together and arrived at Xuandan Building.
The final exam of the alchemy course is simple and clear, it is alchemy.
Of course, the place will not be upstairs where classes are held, but on the ground floor, where there is underground fire drawn from the earth's veins.
For traditional alchemists, either earth fire or alchemy fire is used to make elixirs. However, using spiritual trees like Xuanyang wood to make elixirs is not the right way.
Burning wood to light a fire, what is the difference between this and a mortal master making medicine!
Yang and Dai found the disciple in charge of registration. Yang Zhen took out the token, and Dai Miaoying paid ten spirit stones in addition to the token. She was retaking the exam and needed to pay for it herself.
When the two of them sat down in the stone room on the ground floor, thirty or forty people were already sitting in this hall that could accommodate a hundred people.
After all, it is the last day, and all the exams have been completed.
However, when Yang Zhen inquired about it, she discovered that except for herself, everyone else had retaken the exam!
It turns out that the alchemy course examination starts on the 15th day of the first lunar month and ends on the 29th day of the first lunar month every year, lasting fifteen days.
The vast majority of people will choose to take the preliminary exam in the first few days.
If you do well in the exam and get an excellent score, that goes without saying. If you do poorly in the exam, it doesn't matter. You still have about ten days to take the exam again.
Although each retake requires ten spiritual stones, most people can still get it by gritting their teeth.
After all, once you are qualified for selection, you will hopefully become a disciple of the Alchemy Academy. When that day comes, let alone a bright future, at least you don’t have to worry too much about training resources.
Xuandan Pavilion is also happy that everyone is like this. Firstly, it can increase their income, and secondly, under such pressure, it can also stimulate the potential of these students. There are often people who suddenly understand a certain key during this exam.
As a result, the results explode and reach excellence.
Today is the last day, and the number of people is several times greater than the previous two days. By the end, the hall was packed with nearly a hundred people.
Next to everyone, there is a first-level mid-grade alchemy furnace and a sufficient amount of medicinal materials.
Yang Zhen took inventory and found that the quantity and quality of the medicinal materials were all intact, and they were exactly the materials for refining the Qi-Returning Pill.
According to the exam requirements, a furnace of twelve Qi-Reviving Pills can produce seven, and each pill is above the first-level mid-grade. If you pass, you can get the qualification certificate of an alchemy apprentice.
With this certificate, even if you are a casual cultivator, you can easily be hired by various families and become the alchemy boy of that family. In the years to come, you can improve your skills step by step and improve your situation.
If you get more than ten Chengdan in the exam, and at least eight of them are top-grade, you can get excellent.
This goal is not difficult for Yang Zhen. As early as a few months ago, when he was still in the early stages of Qi training, he already had twelve pills, all of which were top-grade.
The Qi-Rejuvenation Pill does not require high spiritual consciousness, but you must have good talents in refining herbal medicine and controlling fire.
To refine medicine, you need to be very clear about the properties of the spiritual grass. In addition, many subtleties, such as the year of the spiritual grass, the length of storage time after picking, and the storage environment, etc., will affect the effect of refining the spiritual grass.<
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Although Yiyi is sleeping, under Yang Zhen's guidance over the years, he knows the properties of many medicinal herbs even better than the most brilliant alchemists. After long-term practice, almost every spiritual grass can be twisted in his hands.
The length of picking time and the amount of environmental moisture are already roughly known, so that quenching can be carried out at the most appropriate time.
As for fire control, he is very skilled in using Xuanyang Wood. Although he is not familiar with Earth Fire, he has tried it here many times a year ago. Even if he can't get all of them to be top-grade, there are still ten at worst.
So today, Yang Zhen is full of confidence in the alchemy class exam.
The time has come, and a disciple in white with a medium build and a stern look came to the field.
This man's surname was Jiang, and he was one of the lecturers in the alchemy class. He had considerable experience in fire control, and Yang Zhen benefited a lot from him.
I saw this man saying loudly:
"The assessment project of the Alchemy Course, refining the Qi Restoration Pill, takes one hour!"
"No one is allowed to take out spiritual herbs, elixirs or any other items from the storage bag. Violators will not be allowed to pass!"
Next, there are the performance requirements for the number and grade of Chengdan, which are the same as what Yang Zhen asked about before.
After Senior Brother Jiang finished speaking, he scanned the entire audience and when no one raised any objections, he announced loudly:
"Start!"
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Following this order, everyone got busy.
Yang Zhen first turned on the control switch of the ground fire, and a dark red flame rose instantly, burning brightly under the alchemy furnace.
This is the first step, warming the furnace.
At the same time, Yang Zhen grabbed the medicinal materials one by one. Most of them have been processed, and some still need to be refined according to their own habits.
After a few breaths, when the temperature of the alchemy furnace was about the same, he began to put these medicinal materials into the furnace one by one.
Although the steps are all the same for everyone, at this time, the length of time between each medicinal ingredient and the amount of portions are gradually different for each person, and the differences gradually appear.
In this step-by-step manner, it takes exactly half an hour until all the medicinal materials have been refined.
Yang Zhen smelled the smell of the medicine emanating from the alchemy furnace and looked at the appearance of the medicine. They were all consistent with his normal performance. The time was also controlled very well, and he couldn't help but be very satisfied.
Next, is the process of controlling the flame and refining the liquid medicine.
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Half an hour ago, the third floor of Xuandan Pavilion
Senior Brother Jiang is concentrating in the room with his eyes closed. Although his face has a usual stern expression, he is in a good mood.
After this batch of students take the test, not to mention their results, from the registration fee for the re-examination, I can get hundreds of spiritual stones.
This is almost equivalent to two months’ salary.
It's a pity that such an exam only happens once a year.
He was thinking so wildly when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Who?" He shouted softly, and then his consciousness reached out.
"Oh, it turns out to be Junior Brother Yin!" He immediately stood up, opened the door, and welcomed the guests into the house with a smile.
"Junior Brother Yin is a rare visitor!" Senior Brother Jiang warmly asked the other party to sit down, served him a cup of tea, and then sat down opposite him.
"Junior Brother Yin is here, but what's the matter?" After a few words of greeting, he asked directly.
"There is a person who I don't want to pass the assessment." Yin Nanxing said.
Senior Brother Jiang frowned imperceptibly: "Who is it?"
"Yang Zhen."
"No," Senior Brother Jiang shook his head: "This person performed well in my alchemy class. In several tests a few years ago, he scored ten adult elixirs, and all of them were top-grade. I couldn't stop him.
Passed."
Yin Nanxing smiled, took out a jade box from his arms, and placed it on the table.
The jade box was opened, and inside were three middle-grade fire-type spiritual stones that were glowing red.
"Is it okay now?" he asked proudly.
Senior Brother Jiang swallowed hard and stared at the spirit stone tightly, unable to look away again.