36- 1-star Alchemy Examination (II)

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Soon, Adel moved through the crowd as he got to a place not too far from Kaiser.

Kaiser then started speaking again, adding a little oppression from his cultivation:

"I'll make things straightforward since you're all here for the exam: No cheating on the first test,

Or you'll be prohibited from taking the exam forever! "

"Yes!" The mob hurriedly shook their heads, implying that they wouldn't cheat no matter what.

What a joke, getting prohibited for the rest of your life for just cheating? Only idiots would do such a thing. If they failed the exam, they could redo it later, so why cheat in front of Kaiser, who has the ability to sense you with his power?

That did not carry out the participation of idiots in this test...

Kaiser nodded his head in approval as he saw them comply. "Now that I've addressed the rules, I'll go on to the examination's content.

The examinations are split up into two rounds: First and foremost, a theory trial, which will include questions on medicinal herbs that will be randomly tested, and one can only be considered to have passed if he is correct on at least 80% of the questions."

"Then, after two hours, you'll be given a few herbs and given a certain period of time to determine what herb it is and what properties and effects it has.

The criteria for this test is more strict, and a score of 90 percent is required.

Secondly, a practice trial, which requires you to make an E-grade pill and then have your cultivation examined.

All participants need to have at least a cultivation at the second step high stage. " After Kaiser finished, many people groaned in disapproval of this, as they didn't want to expose their cultivation to others.

Kaiser simply ignored them, as he continued:

"What's the purpose of having such a requirement?

Essentially, as an alchemist, how can you not have the ability to manipulate energy, quickly differentiate herbs, or create pills with a fire-attribute manual if your cultivation is lacking?"

The people nodded, as they sighed before leaving the test.

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Adel knew all this, as Kaiser told him on the way here, so he was already prepared to enter the examination and finish it, hopefully getting his 1-star badge today...

"Let's begin with the first round now that everyone has a good knowledge of the procedures and contents of the first examination, the theoretical trial. The duration is six hours. "

After that, Kaiser passed the examination paper down.

The test paper was a humongous pile with at least several dozen pages.

"Describe the different uses of purple joint stone and the unique traits of the blue centipede corpse..."

"How many medicinal herbs can the Purple Joint stone be complemented with..."

Such questions filled the papers, as Adel started writing down several answers he'd gotten from his memories.

But he didn't want to stand out, so he wrote at a slow pace...

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Six hours passed, and Adel finally put down the pen as he finished writing the last description of the medicinal herb.

The other participants had their foreheads covered in sweat from nervousness.

It wasn't easy at all —thought Adel. Without the information he got, even he would have a hard time answering these questions.

They included many different races' specifics. For example, it even told him to describe what the saliva of an elf would be used for!

Adel was dumbfounded, but he was greatly thankful to the mind-door for allowing him to get such information.

Without it, he was pretty sure he would've gotten at least below the criteria; which was 80% correct.

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Soon, it was time for Adel to start refining his pill. It was an explosive Ki pill, useful for those who cultivated the body cultivation system.

As the name suggests, it explosively increased one's strength for a short period of time— presumably even two stages higher—but had a massive backlash after the end of its effect: it made one go back one stage, and unable to cultivate for a whole decade.

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Adel went to a seat that had a cauldron in front of it, before he grabbed the nearby herbs and started tossing them into the cauldron, while also manipulating them with his soul energy.

His soul energy was already incredibly powerful, so handling trivial matters such as concocting a 1-star pill was as easy as drinking water for Adel.

He could also concoct 2nd grade pills, but that required him to show more cultivation than he could.

After all, with his current soul cultivation, he could fake the energy fluctuations to the level of two stages above him at best, by converting it slowly.

So, he would only be called a genius for concocting a 1-star pill at the high stage of the second step, not a freak who could do 2-star pill pills at the high stage of the second step.

After all, alchemy required one's own manipulation of energy to be at a superior level, and Adel already was at the 6-star alchemist grade in his previous life.

Therefore, he could concoct at best a 6-star pill pill—even with the alchemy knowledge from the mind-door included— when he reached the mid stage of the fifth step; well, it differed in the grades as well, so he could make an F grade pill then.

So, Adel began manipulating the herbs, with his soul energy, while creating a small fire with a technique that turned water into fire, which then melted the herbs and made them into liquid.

Just as they turned into liquid, Adel hastily changed their form to that of a round pill by secretly adding water now, making it a solidified S grade pill!

He could use it on his technique called [Alchemy's Divine Technique].

It relied on two sections:

Section 1: Using the water attribute, which he had gotten from tempering his body, then turning it into fire attribute to use it and make flames hot enough to make pills.

Section 2: Using the water attribute to freeze the liquid form of the medicinal herbs and turn them into pills.

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Back to the current time. After Adel finished, he passed the pill to the examiner.

The examiner was stunned, as it had only been ten minutes.

He then sent messages to someone, letting them know that an alchemy genius had appeared, and one capable of concocting S grade pills, if they could, make connections with him... They might even get him into their ranks....

The examiner gulped a mouthful of saliva as he started daydreaming...

Adel's soul energy range naturally didn't have the change in energy fluctuations escape his senses, so he knew of it.

But that was what he wanted in the first place by coming here...

Although he did want to stay low-key at first, he decided against it after he reached the second trial.

He could make this background of his powerful enough for....