Chapter 456: Selection of Medicine Boys

Suyan ran over at a faster speed than when she left. Amber and Zuo Feng both realized that something must have happened. Zuo Feng also hurriedly sailed the boat to the shore.

Without any pause, after arriving at the shore, Su Yan flew over and landed on the bow of the ship. Amber and Zuo Feng both looked at Su Yan in confusion. The other party seemed to be being chased here by an enemy, looking very anxious.

Without waiting for the two people to ask, Suyan said directly: "I'm afraid we have to stay here for a while, and I'm afraid we won't be able to return to the family for the time being."

Suyan's words shocked both Zuo Feng and Amber. They didn't know why Suyan suddenly made such a decision. Suyan panted rapidly for a while, calmed her breathing, and then said again: "This year's drug selection has begun, so I say we must stay for a few days this time."

Suyan's words did not solve Zuo Feng's doubts, but made Zuo Feng even more confused, while Amber showed a look of sudden realization. After Amber reacted, she turned to look at Zuo Feng. Su Yan's eyes had been focused on Zuo Feng since she came back.

Seeing Zuo Feng's look, Su Yan smiled bitterly and shook his head and said: "I really don't know what's going on with you kid. How come you have such superb medicine refining skills and haven't heard of the Xuanwu Empire's competition medicine."

Zuo Feng shrugged indifferently, as if it was normal not to know. He knew very well that Suyan would continue to explain to him. Sure enough, Su Yan rolled her eyes fiercely when she saw Zuo Feng's appearance, and then said again: "Actually, this is also a method that the young master had thought of at the beginning. As long as you obtain the title of Yaoshi, you will be able to do it in the Xuanwu Empire." Being able to have a very high status will give you a way to get the antidote. "

Hearing that this matter was related to getting the antidote, Zuo Feng immediately became energetic and his body unconsciously leaned forward. Zuo Feng suddenly leaned towards her like this, and his face turned red with embarrassment even though he was not wearing makeup.

Suyan moved back and then continued: "Yaozi is a person with a special status in the Xuanwu Empire. He is selected from various aristocratic families and people. In the future, he is expected to enter the highest medicine refining pavilion in the empire. And once Once you become a Yaozi, the state will provide funding to help you practice alchemy. In short, there are too many specific benefits. Once you become a Yaozi, you will naturally know them clearly."

After listening to Su Yan's story, Zuo Feng became more interested. If you put aside your own purpose of antidotes, the Xuanwu Empire's policies can encourage many ambitious people to develop into medicine refining. Thinking of these, Zuo Feng couldn't help but nodded, and said casually: "The Xuanwu Empire's method of cultivating talents is really good. No wonder Xuanwu's refining medicine has been able to stand on the mainland for so long."

Amber shook his head and said: "Brother Shen may have misunderstood. This alchemy art is a relatively luxurious skill no matter where it is, and it is not something ordinary people can afford. You must know the level of alchemy art, although it is not complete. It depends on the level of cultivation, but the level of cultivation will definitely affect the level of alchemy.

Therefore, people who are unable to practice are excluded in the first place. In addition, the improvement of alchemy skills requires the cooperation of countless medicinal materials and prescriptions, which is also beyond the support of ordinary small households. Although there are not many restrictions on the number of places to participate in the medicine competition every year, in fact it is only a few important families and city lords who compete for it. "

After listening to Amber's slightly sour story, Zuo Feng immediately reacted. He knew that the Xuanwu Empire's medicine refining skills were famous in the mainland, but he forgot that this kind of skill would be scarce no matter where it was. Naturally, it could not be available to everyone. Opportunity to practice.

Zuo Feng originally thought that the threshold for Yaozi was very low, and he only selected some people with potential to train them, but it seemed that this was not the case at all.

After slowly clicking everything, Zuo Feng turned to look at Su Yan and said, "Uncle Kang has never mentioned the Yaozi competition selection to me. What kind of selection is this? Can you be more specific? "

After Suyan heard this, she unconsciously turned her eyes to Amber. Amber also stood up wisely, planning to avoid it like before without makeup. But Zuo Feng reached out to hold Hu Hua and said, "Brother Hu Hu is not an outsider. You don't have to hide my affairs from him. Just tell him."

Suyan looked at Zuo Feng in surprise, then turned to look at Amber who was standing awkwardly on the boat. She didn't expect that the two of them had gotten along like brothers after just a short period of contact. After a moment of hesitation, Suyan nodded slowly and said, "Since it's your request, I don't have to hide anything anymore."

Zuo Feng smiled and nodded at Amber, indicating that the other party didn't need to mind too much, but Amber's eyes were filled with gratitude. In fact, Amber had some grudges in her heart. Zuo Feng and the eldest master Kang Zhen obviously had an extremely close relationship, so naturally she would be shorter in front of them.

But the way Zuo Feng treated him made Amber's heart warm. They both smiled at the same time, and everything was unspoken. Su Yan didn't think anything of it at first, but when she saw the two men acting like this, she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart, and her body shivered unconsciously.

After sorting out her thoughts for a while, Suyan said: "Young Master Kang has mentioned your matter to me, and also said that Yaozi's competition is a great opportunity for you. But under normal circumstances, Yaozi's competition should be It won’t start until more than two months later, and it’s only supposed to be the registration phase at that time. I don’t know why it was suddenly held early this time.”

Zuo Feng had no idea about the selection of medicine boys in the Xuanwu Empire, and since Su Yan was confused, he did not say anything.

Su Yan hesitated for a while, then shook her head and said, "Anyway, since the selection of medicine boys has already begun, we must participate. If we wait until we return to the Kang family to select, it will be too late, so we must sign up here to participate."

Zuo Feng nodded gently and said to Su Yan, "What is the process of the selection of medicine boys? Can you tell me in detail so that I can have a general idea."

Su Yan glared at Zuo Feng fiercely and said, "Can't you see that I am very anxious now? Can't I tell you about such troublesome things slowly when I have time? You know, after sunset today, the registration for the selection of medicine boys will end. Once your name is not reported, even with the background and strength of the Kang family, you cannot participate."

Originally, Zuo Feng wanted to say something, but Su Yan directly took his hand and jumped to the shore. Zuo Feng had a bitter smile on his face, but he still went to the shore with Su Yan's power. But Su Yan only jumped halfway and fell down because she was exhausted dragging a person. Just when Su Yan was secretly shocked, Zuo Feng suddenly exerted force and landed Su Yan safely on the shore.

Su Yan stroked her chest with lingering fear, and her beautiful eyes drifted towards Zuo Feng. Zuo Feng's heart trembled, and he quickly loosened his hand, pretending to be calm and waved to Amber.

As early as the two of them jumped off the boat, Amber had already stood up. Seeing Zuo Feng waving his hand to signal him, he said, "You two go and sign up with peace of mind. I will wait for you at the pier in front. After signing up, we will meet up in front."

After deciding the meeting place, Amber paddled straight away, and Zuo Feng followed Su Yan closely to the bare mountain in front.

Along the way, Su Yan also introduced Zuo Feng in detail about the medicine, including a series of competitions after registration. Of course, only those with superb medicine refining skills can be selected in the end.

This kind of competition for selecting medicine sons reminded Zuo Feng of the spiral tower trial he had participated in when he was in Yancheng. This competition for selecting medicine sons was somewhat similar to that spiral tower trial.

There were certain age restrictions for medicine sons. Only young people under the age of 30 could participate, so that some old monsters over a hundred years old would be eliminated. Relatively speaking, this was a fair competition. The competition had nothing to do with cultivation and combat effectiveness. It was entirely based on the individual's medicine refining level.

It was somewhat similar to Ye Lin's spiral tower trial, which was to select talents with excellent qualifications within the empire for training. However, there were only a few people who could obtain these resources in the Xuanwu Empire, and only five people could get the title of medicine son in the selection of medicine sons held every three years.

After listening to Su Yan's story, Zuo Feng also understood that this kind of medicine son competition was originally for the empire to give some people living at the bottom a chance to directly reach the top of the empire, but as time went on, this medicine son competition gradually changed its taste.

After all, it was difficult for ordinary small forces and families to train a pharmacist, so how could they compete with the big forces. Some super families, such as the Kang family, can train dozens of alchemists in each batch.

Selecting people with excellent potential from more than a dozen people is definitely much better than having only one person available in some small families. Therefore, the selection of medicine children every year almost falls into the hands of several major families and several senior officials of the empire, and has little to do with those remote small families.

The biggest difference from the spiral tower trial is that the selection of medicine children here will compete layer by layer, starting from the competition in various small towns, then to various cities, and then to the main city, county city, and finally to the final selection in the empire.

These layers of competition, like the big waves washing away the sand, will eliminate those alchemists with mediocre qualifications. And Zuo Feng now knows a fact that makes him depressed, that is, according to Kang Zhen's original plan, he can register at the Kang family and directly participate in the selection of medicine children in Linshan County, so the selection at the bottom can be ignored.

But if there is no time to rush back to register, the life-saving of the medicine children in the selection will end today, and they can only register here helplessly.

Because everyone had been in Xinjun City before, and because Xinjun City was a very special place, Xinjun City did not participate in any activities of the Xuanwu Empire, so there was no news of the selection of medicine boys, so everyone was not aware of the advance registration of the selection.

If Su Yan had not caught up with the lively registration ceremony in the town this time, I am afraid they would have missed the opportunity this time.