Chapter 79 Assessment
Chapter 79 Assessment
The tenth-level disciple said this and came to a bookshelf next to the stone hall, on which were ten storage bags.
He picked up a storage bag and handed it to Chen Yuan:
"Brother, please take the jade token of your identity and leave the storage bag behind. I will set up a sealing talisman and return the bag to its original owner after you complete the assessment."
This man is short and fat, and when he smiles, his face becomes even rounder, giving people a harmless feeling.
Chen Yuan took the storage bag, probed it with his spiritual sense, and found an alchemy furnace and a portion of spiritual herbs for refining Yuhua Pills inside.
He took out his jade identity card, untied the three storage bags from his waist, and handed them to the short and fat disciple.
The short and fat disciple took it, took out three white talismans and pasted them on.
The talisman burned and turned into strands of white spiritual light threads, weaving into a dense spiritual net that wrapped the three storage bags.
"Please leave a mark of your magic power, Junior Brother."
Chen Yuan raised his hand and made a gesture, injecting a trace of magic power into each of the three spiritual nets.
In an instant, the white spiritual light thread turned into light red, flickering.
Afterwards, the short and fat monk placed the three storage bags on the bookshelf and walked into the stone hall.
Chen Yuan followed him, walked through the stone hall and entered a passage.
The top of the passage is inlaid with a row of luminous pearls, as bright as day.
Every ten feet on both sides, there is a stone door with a shallow groove on it.
In the grooves of several stone doors, there are jade identity cards for the disciples of Lingyun Sect.
The short and fat disciple said:
"Junior brother, you can choose any earth fire room to refine the elixir. Just come out after seven days and return the storage bag."
Chen Yuanyi bowed:
"Thank you for your help, Senior Brother."
The short and fat disciple smiled broadly:
"It's easy to talk about."
Those who can participate in the third-level alchemy examination are all top alchemists, and they often have an alchemy master as their master. As a small chores disciple, he dare not neglect them in the slightest.
After the short and fat disciple left, Chen Yuan randomly chose a fire room, injected a trace of magic power into the identity jade card, and placed it on the groove of the stone door.
The identity jade token emitted a faint light, and the stone door opened silently.
Chen Yuan entered the underground fire room and the stone door closed behind him.
The underground fire chamber is not large, only ten feet square.
There was a three-foot-long formation plate on the ground with intricate patterns.
There was a white jade cushion placed next to it, and nothing else.
When Chen Yuan spread out his spiritual sense and touched the wall, he found that there was a restriction blocking it. He could not send out his spiritual sense, and no one else could send their spiritual sense into the underground fire room.
He felt relieved, looked down at the formation plate, pondered for a moment, pinched the magic spell with his hands, and tried to inject a trace of magic power.
The white-faced monk obviously had ill will towards the independent alchemist, so he allowed him to take the test without saying anything.
The short and fat disciple mistakenly thought that he was a frequent visitor to the underground fire room and did not tell him how to use the underground fire, so he could only figure it out on his own.
After Chen Yuan injected a trace of magic power, the array plate lit up with a faint red light.
He continued to inject magic power, and the red light emitted by the array disk became brighter and brighter.
call!
Suddenly, a red flame emerged from the center of the array, and the temperature in the underground fire chamber rose sharply.
Chen Yuan withdrew his magic power, and the flame shook twice and then stabilized.
Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, took out the alchemy furnace and spiritual herbs, sat on the cushion, and began to make the elixir.
……
Seven days later, in the stone hall, a short and fat disciple was playing chess with someone.
The monk opposite him has been replaced by a new one, who is very skilled in chess.
The short and fat disciple frowned deeply. He was holding a black piece, a huge dragon with sixty-four points, which was already in danger and was about to be surrounded and killed by the opponent.
The disciple sitting opposite him smiled proudly:
"Brother Hu, admit defeat..."
"Two senior brothers, come down and retrieve your storage bags."
A voice came and they both looked up.
The short and fat disciple immediately reached out and messed up the chessboard, then stood up as if nothing had happened:
"Junior brother, you are out now, have you passed the alchemy test?"
The person who came was Chen Yuan. He smiled slightly:
“It was a lucky pass.”
The short and fat disciple smiled and bowed repeatedly:
"Congratulations, Junior Brother, for passing the third-level alchemy test. From now on, you will be the top alchemist in the Alchemy Pavilion!"
As he said that, he hurried to the bookshelf, picked up Chen Yuan's three storage bags, and handed them over respectfully.
Chen Yuan smiled, as if accepting the compliment from the short and fat disciple, and took the storage bag.
The light red spiritual net on it was intact. He injected his magic power, untied the spiritual net, probed into his spiritual sense, and checked it carefully. The things inside were also intact.
He felt relieved, returned the storage bag containing the alchemy furnace to the short and fat disciple, and left the stone hall.
The short and fat disciple sat down to play chess with another person again. His opponent said indignantly:
"Brother Hu, you are cheating!"
"Hey, what are you talking about? I just messed up the chessboard by accident. Come on, fight me for another 300 rounds, and I will kill you without leaving a single piece of armor!"
……
Chen Yuan walked out of the passage, returned to the Alchemy Pavilion, found the disciple on duty who led him to the Earth Fire Room, and went to the quiet room on the second floor together.
The disciple on duty took out his jade identity card and triggered the restriction.
After a while, the ban dissipated, and the voice of the white-faced man came from the quiet room:
"Come in." The two walked into the quiet room, and the white-faced man looked at Chen Yuan with a half-smile:
"How is it? Did you pass the test?"
"Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life."
Chen Yuan took out a jade bottle, bowed slightly, and handed it to the white-faced monk.
The white-faced monk was startled, then filled with anger. He raised his hand and the jade bottle flew into his hand.
He pulled out the jade stopper, poured out four Yuhua Pills, opened his eyes wide, and examined them carefully.
Chen Yuan looked at the white-faced monk's actions with a respectful expression.
A full quarter of an hour passed before the white-faced monk raised his head, looked Chen Yuan up and down, and said:
"Junior Brother Wen, go to the Earth Fire Hall and check to see if this person has really completed the alchemy test and whether he has cheated!"
"Yes!"
The disciple on duty responded, turned around and walked out.
Afterwards, the white-faced monk closed his eyes and meditated, no longer paying attention to Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan was not annoyed. He lowered his eyes and stood there, waiting for the result.
After a while, the disciple on duty walked into the quiet room and bowed to the white-faced monk:
"Uncle Yin, I asked Brother Hu who was on duty at the Earth Fire Hall, and Brother Chen had indeed completed the third-level alchemy assessment and handed in his storage bag ahead of schedule. He did not commit any cheating."
Upon hearing this, the white-faced monk's expression changed and he said coldly:
"Bring me your identity jade token and alchemy assessment token."
Chen Yuan took out two signs from his storage bag and handed them to the white-faced monk with both hands.
The white-faced monk took it, put away the alchemy assessment token, injected a trace of magic power into Chen Yuan’s identity jade card, and flicked his finger, and the identity jade card flew towards Chen Yuan.
"I'll give you two choices. One is to accept the sect mission issued by the Alchemy Pavilion. The other is to join the Alchemy Pavilion and become an alchemist. However, you need to refine 120 bottles of Yuhua Pills for the sect within ten years."
Chen Yuan bowed and said:
"The disciple chooses to accept the sect's mission."
The white-faced monk heard this, and the disgust in his eyes lessened slightly, but his voice remained cold:
"Hand in a bottle of Yuhua Dan within one month and you will be rewarded with 20 good deeds."
As he spoke, he took out three spiritual herbs for refining Yuhua Dan from his storage bag, as well as a jade token with the word "Ling" written on it, and handed them to Chen Yuan.
"Yes."
Chen Yuan took the spiritual herbs and the jade token, put them into his storage bag, bowed to the white-faced monk, and turned to leave.
The door of the quiet room slowly closed. The white-faced monk frowned and murmured:
"A casual alchemist can actually pass the third-level alchemy test. It seems that the 40% success rate is a bit low and needs to be raised..."
……
After Chen Yuan left the quiet room, he asked the disciple on duty about the rules of the Earth Fire Hall and returned to the Earth Fire Hall.
The short and fat monk was overjoyed to see him come back. He disrupted the chessboard again and asked Chen Yuan what he wanted.
Chen Yuan paid ten spirit stones, rented a third-class earth fire room, and began to make pills.
There is a fire vein buried under this Underground Fire Palace. Using the underground fire to refine elixirs can greatly reduce the consumption of mana.
Moreover, the earth fire is more stable and pure than the flame created by magic power, and the pills refined from it are of better quality.
The underground fire room is divided into three grades, among which the third grade is the worst, and the monthly rent is ten spirit stones.
Further up, there are second-class earth fire chambers and first-class earth fire chambers, which can only be used by foundation-building cultivators and Jindan elders.
In the Equipment Refining Pavilion, there is another Earth Fire Hall, where the fire veins are even more violent and suitable for equipment refining.
Twenty-one days later, Chen Yuan refined three furnaces of Yuhua Pills with a success rate of 60%, and a total of 18 pills were produced.
He left the Earth Fire Room and returned to the Alchemy Pavilion, handing over a bottle of pills and a mission token to the disciple on duty. Twenty more good deeds were added to his identity jade card.
Afterwards, Chen Yuan returned to the cave and waited until late at night to let the starlight fill his body.
There was no sunlight in the underground fire room, and there had been no starlight infusion for a month, so the growth of the spiritual consciousness had slowed down a lot.
After the starlight infusion was over, Chen Yuan felt his spiritual awareness expanding by another inch, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He returned to the training room and took a Yuhua Pill to restore his magic power.
The sect's mission has been completed, and I have nothing to worry about.
In the next year, he can concentrate on preparing for his trip to Dongxu Mountain.
In the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, rare spiritual herbs grow, as well as the three main ingredients of the Foundation Establishment Pill. Disciples from various factions are fighting fiercely.
Chen Yuan thought for a long time and decided to make preparations for both scenarios.
The first is to collect information, and the second is to improve your strength.
When Lingyun Sect lets disciples enter the secret realm to fight for elixirs, they must issue a map.
Mo Jingchun had been to the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain once and had a deep understanding of the situation there, so the first point was nothing to worry about.
As for improving his strength, his cultivation has not made any progress and he can only work on magic weapons and talismans.
The Qianjun Axe is extremely powerful, but it cannot be used frequently.
The Blood Sword is just a top-grade magic weapon. When encountering the top Qi-refining disciples from various sects, it is not powerful enough.
In his competition with Huang Yunshang, the Blood Sword only had a restraining effect and did not play the role that a main attacking weapon should have.
The Purple Bee Needle is only suitable for sneak attacks, so he also needs a top-quality flying sword as his main attack weapon.
In addition, the Qingning Shield was scrapped, and he needed a new defensive weapon.
The fixed light mirror is undoubtedly the best choice, but the cracks on its mirror surface need to be repaired before it can exert its full power.
There was no need to replenish the talismans. Together with the talismans he got from Huang Yunshang, he still had more than twenty mid-grade talismans, a dozen high-grade talismans, and four top-grade talismans. The trip to Dongxu Mountain would not take too long, so these talismans were enough for him to use.
Chen Yuan thought about it in his mind and determined his next goal, which was to repair the fixed light mirror and buy a top-grade flying sword as the main offensive weapon.
(End of this chapter)