Chapter 187: Alchemist Examination
Bingqing Pills are a kind of elixir that clears the heart and the spirit. Among the first-level elixirs, their quality can only be considered to be the middle-level elixir and is not too high. But for newcomers who are here for the first time to evaluate, this is much more difficult than elixirs such as Yangqi Pills and Detoxification Pills.
This is mainly because almost no one will refine this kind of pill. After all, the Qingxin Ming Shen can only use it when a monk falls into an illusion, or encounters a demon in his heart and loses control. But how many monks will be in these dilemmas for no reason? Even Jiang Chen’s own storage bag has not prepared such pills.
"Is it because the examiner deliberately made things difficult for me?" Jiang Chen murmured in his heart, then glanced at the other two disciples who participated in the assessment. He saw that on the jade slip in front of them, one was written with the Qi Pill and the other was written with the Detoxification Pill, which were much more difficult than the elixir he wanted to refine, and the difficulty was relatively simple.
"Damn it must have been tricked by the examiner. It was probably because I was a little contradicting them just now, so I deliberately made the most difficult thing for me!" Jiang Chen glanced at the three examiners behind him, but saw that they all had faint smiles. There was no flaw on the faces of the three old foxes.
He had no choice but to shake his head helplessly, then turned his eyes to the five boxes on the table again, and put five pieces of ice-clearing pills in it according to the category. At a glance, he could find that they were basically ground.
Next to the elixir materials, there are several jade bottles of different colors, which must be used to prepare elixirs.
Jiang Chen took his eyes back from the platform and slowly calmed down in his heart. With his current level of alchemy, he wanted to successfully refine the Bingqing Pill. It would not be much difficult, but he was not sure whether he could refine two or even three portions. After all, he had never refine such elixirs with very little demand.
"Oh! If it is Yangqi Pill, then I am sure to use five ingredients to make three pills!" Jiang Chen thought without regret.
At this time, the two monks who had arrived earlier also stood in the alchemy room and scanned the alchemy tools and materials inside.
"Are Zhang Yong, a disciple of the Demon Sect in the No. 1 Dan Room, ready? Have the materials been checked?" asked the examiner who looked like a middle-aged scholar.
"No problem! You're ready!" The disciple of the Demon Sect who looked like a burly man, who called Zhang Yong, agreed.
Then, the middle-aged beautiful woman also asked, "Lin Yushang, a monk from the Lin family! Are you ready?"
The beautiful girl Lin Yushang also agreed crisply: "Okay!"
"Lin Yushang? The Lin family's monk? This Lin family is the Lin family, one of the three major families in Xiangyang City!" Jiang Chen was slightly surprised after hearing this. However, he quickly calmed down. After all, the Lin family's monks were to come for reference. It was not a strange thing.
The bald old man also asked Jiang Chen the same question. After receiving a positive answer, Fang shouted: "You are all ready, are you? If there is no problem, now, the alchemist qualification assessment will begin!"
His eyes swept through the alchemy room. The bald old man waved his right hand and saw that the hourglass in the middle of the hall began to slowly leak down!
The bald old man laughed and said, "The time is now started! Six hours later, the exam is over! Three children, hurry up!"
After hearing the announcement of the beginning, all the candidates in the alchemy room immediately placed the cauldron in their storage bag on the dragon's head. Then they quickly put their palms on the switch of the dragon's head and then swung them hard. In the big mouth where the dragon's head opened, bright red flames suddenly surged out, wrapping the entire outside of the alchemy furnace.
When the flames in the cauldron were completely burning, the three examiners kept moving and exerted a series of turbulent spiritual energy. A circle of transparent light curtains slowly rose outside the three alchemy rooms, which isolated all the sounds and light colors from outside were transmitted into it. This was to prevent the candidates from being disturbed by the outside world, affecting their moods, and causing failure to refine the alchemy.
The three examiners are now staring at the actions of the candidates in the three alchemy rooms. First, observe their alchemy techniques to see if they have potential, and second, see if there is any fraud or the behavior of elixirs.
At this time, Jiang Chen also started his alchemy practice, and saw that he began to pour various stalks and ingredients into the alchemy cauldron in the proportion of the elixir recipe...
The examiner who looked like a middle-aged scribe and a middle-aged beautiful woman couldn't help but nodded slightly when he looked at Zhang Yong and Lin Yushang in front of him. After all, the two of them had relatively proficient techniques, and at a glance they knew that they had been carefully trained within the sect and family.
Both of them couldn't help but think that if they kept maintaining this level, it would be no problem to become a first-level alchemist. Of course, whether they can successfully evaluate the test depends on the most critical step in the formation of the elixir.
The bald old man frowned deeply when he looked at Jiang Chen's alchemy technique, because Jiang Chen's technique was too amateur. He didn't seem to be a sect training and guidance from senior alchemists, but he seemed to be a novice who had just started learning alchemy for less than two months.
Notice the expression of the bald old man, the middle-aged scribe and the middle-aged beautiful woman could not help but look at Jiang Chen's alchemy technique. Both of them showed disdainful surprise.
"Master Ouyang, this guy named Jiang Chen is too bad! Although we stipulate that we can take the exam by handing in full spirit stones, we must have some basic skills. This performance is completely a rookie..." The middle-aged scholar shook his head and said.
"That's it! Master Ouyang, look, that technique is not at all proficient... He actually uses a spoon but doesn't use a camera. Is he so confident that he can just scoop up so many jobs in one spoon?" The middle-aged beautiful woman also said endlessly.
Master Ouyang, a bald old man sitting between the two, just nodded slightly and said lightly: "He is like this on the surface. But I felt a strong sense of confidence from him, as if he had full confidence to pass the assessment and obtain the qualification of a first-level alchemist. I think this young boy should not be the kind of person who is ignorant of the sky and throws a thousand spirit stones into the water for nothing... So, let's wait and see!"
After hearing what he said, the middle-aged scholar and the middle-aged beautiful woman stopped talking. She glanced at Jiang Chen, who was concentrating on refining the pills in the middle elixir room, and then focused on the candidates he was about to observe.
Jiang Chen, who was in the light curtain, naturally had no leisure to pay attention to the evaluation of the three examiners outside. His alchemy was originally self-taught. He did not have any senior alchemists to guide him, so the alchemy techniques naturally seemed vulgar and alternative in the eyes of the Dan League officials.
But he didn't care at all. Anyway, the alchemy only looked at the result, not the process. No matter how elegant and beautiful the technique is, the failure of the alchemy in the end is equal to zero.
Jiang Chen's eyes swept over the medicinal materials on the stage. However, he picked up several medicinal powders without any haste and threw them into the alchemy cauldron in an orderly manner in proportion. Then he held the switch of the dragon's head with one hand and controlled the bright red ground fire to bake the alchemy furnace...
On both sides of him, Zhang Yong and Lin Yushang seemed to feel Jiang Chen's calm behavior. Although his techniques seemed very unfamiliar and clumsy, the expression on his face exuded a strong sense of confidence, which made them a little surprised.
Jiang Chen, who was a few years younger than them, did not feel any nervous on his handsome face. A faint red layer of red earth fire was printed on his handsome face.
If they didn't look at his clumsy techniques and just looked at his leisurely and calm temperament, they almost almost thought that the person standing between the two was not a young boy, but a senior alchemist with rich experience in alchemy.
And at this moment, they heard the bald old man reminding him: "One hour has passed, and you still have five hours!"
Zhang Yong and Lin Yushang looked at each other, Fang Qing sighed, both of them retracted their attention and devoted themselves to the alchemy once again.
The first pill of the two of them had already been refined at this time, but it was a useless pill. So they had to shake their heads, smile bitterly, and then threw the second medicinal material into the alchemy cauldron and began another round of refining.
Jiang Chen, who was concentrating on whether his pill was refined, naturally did not notice the attention of the two neighbors on both sides of the world. His eyes were fixed on the elixir, and the pill was about to come out...
Finally, at the time of finding the elixir, Jiang Chen decisively turned off the flame switch of the dragon head. Then he flicked his finger and saw the cover of the elixir on the elixir being bounced away by a true energy. With a move in his right hand, a light green pill broke through the elixir and flew quickly towards Jiang Chen.
He quickly grabbed a jade porcelain bottle with his left hand, then held the elixir in his right hand and put it in. He then covered the bottle with the plug. The light blue Bingqing Pill was accurately put into the bottle.
Unexpectedly, the second time was successful. This was really unexpected by Jiang Chen. Although he had never refined the Bingqing Pills much, he quickly overcame the discomfort at the beginning and achieved success with the accumulation of thousands of experience in alchemy.
Seeing that Jiang Chen had refined a Bingqing Pill, Zhang Yong on the left and Lin Yushang on the right were even more anxious. This urgent thing was easy to make mistakes. Their second and third ingredients were not successfully refined. All the ones released were waste pills.
Seeing three consecutive failures, they began to realize that their mentality was too eager to achieve success.
Lin Yushang's beautiful eyes flashed for a moment, thinking to herself, it seemed that she had to work hard, not even this little brother who had a lower cultivation and age than her. She immediately held her breath and concentrated, tried to calm down her emotions, and began to refine the fourth pill...
Six hours passed in a flash. When the hourglass was flowing, the bald old man let out a heavy hum and then sternly said: "Everyone stopped his hands immediately and left your pill room. We started to check! If someone was still practicing pills after I fell out of my voice, he would be judged to be disqualified from the assessment!"
After he finished speaking, Jiang Chen and the other three did not dare to do anything anymore. They left the Danfang with their hands in their arms and stood aside.
Immediately, the three examiners went to the alchemy room where the three of them had just worked and inspected the waste pills, remaining materials, and finished pills that they had refined.
Chapter completed!