Chapter 656 Assessment
"Daoyou Li, you have had a good life these years." Wu Tianyou couldn't help but smile when he saw Li Qianqing.
Wu Tianyou is not far from the peak of the Spiritualization Stage.
After he reaches the peak of the Spiritualization Stage, it shouldn't take long for him to break through to the Void Refining Stage. After all, in his previous life, Wu Tianyou finally became the master of the branch hall of the Dan Palace in Nanmo City.
"Hahaha, it's not bad." Li Qianqing smiled back, and then said, "Looking at your current appearance, Elder Wu, I think it won't be long before you become the deputy master of this branch hall."
Wu Tianyou accepted Li Qianqing's blessing, but did not continue to talk about this topic. He returned to Li Qianqing.
"I didn't expect that Daoyou could open up a space channel in the Fanmao Realm. I underestimated it before."
When Li Qianqing had enough contribution points and became an honorary deacon of the Dan Palace, Wu Tianyou invited Li Qianqing to join the Dan Palace, but was rejected by Li Qianqing because he wanted to build power in the spirit world.
At that time, he also said that the spiritual world is not like the mortal world, and it is not easy to complete the formation of a spiritual transformation force.
Opening up a space channel and transferring all the cultivators above the late Yuanying stage from the lower world can indeed perfectly solve this problem.
The reason why Wu Tianyou knows more is naturally because he pays more attention to Li Qianqing in the future.
A cultivator with alchemy talent like Li Qianqing is worthy of his attention.
He knows that Li Qianqing is now the head of the Li family in the mortal world, and he also knows that they have created a family ancestral land in the area near Liuyun City. He also knows that most of the pills sold in the Li family shop are from Li Qianqing.
Although Li Qianqing did not continue to take tasks in the Dan Palace, he did not waste his talent in alchemy, and he was still very happy.
After the two exchanged greetings, Li Qianqing told the purpose of looking for Wu Tianyou.
"Elder Wu, I came here mainly for the Alchemy Competition."
Wu Tianyou could easily guess why Li Qianqing was here. He said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "You didn't come to the Alchemy Competition a thousand years ago. I thought you were not interested in this Alchemy Competition."
"Hahaha. With my level a thousand years ago, participating in the Alchemy Competition was just a formality."
"It seems that you are very confident in your alchemy level now."
"Of course." Li Qianqing smiled confidently.
"That's good. We'll go to the main hall together in a few days."
Wu Tianyou also meets the criteria for participating in the Alchemy Competition. When he breaks through to the Void Refining Stage, he will not be able to participate in the Alchemy Competition.
If a cultivator in the Void Refining Stage can participate, there is not much point in participating, because the rewards of the Alchemy Competition are mainly for the Transformation of Spiritual Stage cultivators.
For example, the reward of the Five Elements Pill Root this time is of no use to cultivators in the Void Refining Stage.
The Alchemy Competition, to put it bluntly, is to motivate talented alchemists in the Transformation of Spiritual Stage, hoping that they can grow better in the future.
Soon after Li Qianqing explained his purpose, Wu Tianyou reported his information.
There is another benefit of timely reporting of information. You don't need to pay any spiritual stones to teleport from Nanmo City to Danhe City where the Dan Palace headquarters is located. The Dan Palace will pay for the round-trip expenses.
If you go to the Dan Palace headquarters to register, you will have to pay an extra amount of spiritual stones. When you come back, you will use the teleportation array, and the fee will still be charged to the Dan Palace.
Later, under Wu Tianyou's arrangement, Li Qianqing lived in the Dan Palace branch for a month.
During this period, Li Qianqing also took on a simple alchemy task, which was completed just before leaving Nanmo City.
When he set off, Wu Tianyou was accompanied by two men and one woman. Like Li Qianqing, they were all alchemists who signed up for the alchemy competition, and they were all invited by Wu Tianyou to go with him.
Those who can be invited by Wu Tianyou, in addition to having a good relationship with him, also have good alchemy talents.
After other alchemists register with him, he is responsible for reporting the information and will not retain them.
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Danhe City, the northern region of the Renling region.
Danhe City is a large city, but its scale has surpassed that of ordinary large cities.
In a large city like this, there is at least one fusion-stage cultivator guarding it all year round, and you may also encounter a Mahayana cultivator.
Of course, the possibility of encountering a Mahayana cultivator is very small, as there are less than ten Mahayana cultivators in the human race.
The master of the main hall of the Dan Palace is not only a ninth-level alchemist, but also a Mahayana cultivator. So far, he has been in this position for at least 50,000 years.
In the alchemy competition, the highest host is only the elder of the main hall of the Dan Palace. It is difficult for these alchemists to meet the deputy hall master, let alone the master of the main hall.
"Everyone, see you in three days."
"See you in three days."
After arriving in Danhe City, everyone temporarily parted ways.
The alchemy competition will start in three days, and they will all go to the Dan Palace headquarters at that time.
Li Qianqing had never seen the three deacons of the Dan Palace branch halls who followed Wu Tianyou in his previous life. One of them later became a well-known alchemist, and he had heard of him.
In the next three days, Li Qianqing visited the monks' market in Danhe City.
The focus was to patronize the monks who set up stalls to see if there was a chance to pick up bargains, but in the end he didn't buy anything.
Picking up bargains still depends on luck.
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Today, the main hall of the Dan Palace is unusually lively, and talented alchemists from all over the place gather here.
The alchemy competition held once a thousand years is about to begin, and this competition also attracts many monks living in Danhe City.
If you want to watch the alchemists' alchemy competition, you need to buy a ticket.
The ticket costs 100 medium-grade spirit stones.
The ticket location is divided into the inner area and the outer area.
Both are 100 medium-grade spirit stones, but the difference is that the tickets for the inner area are only sold to alchemists.
As a contestant, Li Qianqing has entered the main hall of the Alchemy Palace with Wu Tianyou and the other four, and came to the place where they were assessed.
The assessment must get more than 90 points to be eligible to participate in the final alchemy competition.
The assessment is divided into two levels, each with 50 points.
"Don't let you fail to pass the assessment level, otherwise I will be laughed at by a group of old guys." Wu Tianyou couldn't help but say when the assessment level was about to begin.
As the elders of the branch halls of the Alchemy Palace, the elders of each branch hall are also secretly competing with each other.
The alchemists they brought here are also his face.
If the alchemists Wu Tianyou brought can't even pass the assessment level, then the four words "old and dim eyes" will accompany him for at least a thousand years.
The title of "wise eye for pearls" is what he wants.
"Don't worry, Mr. Wu. If I can't pass the assessment, I will never make pills again."
"If you can't even identify the medicine, then don't make pills."
No one would think that they can't even pass the assessment. The assessment is at most a test. It's rare to become an honorary deacon of the Alchemy Palace.
Of course, the assessment can't be taken lightly. In previous alchemy competitions, there have been alchemists who stumbled at the assessment.
"Enter the assessment room in order, Wu Tianyou, Li Qianqing..."
"It's our turn, hurry over."
"Okay."
When entering the assessment room, it means that the assessment officially begins.
In the first stage of the assessment, the screen in front of you will show the spiritual medicine. You just need to say the grade of the spiritual medicine and the effect of the spiritual medicine.
If this is the assessment of the spiritual plant master, it will be more detailed, such as the year of the spiritual medicine, when it enters the maturity period, what to do at each stage of the growth period, etc.
The assessment in front of you is not difficult for Li Qianqing.
When the screen appears, he gives the corresponding answers for the fifty kinds of spiritual medicine.
"Congratulations, you got all the answers right, you got 50 points, now we are going to the second round of the assessment."
The one who was assessing them was not a person, but the spirit of the auxiliary magic weapon left by the ancestors of the Dan Palace.
It is said that the main body of this magic weapon is a medicine basket, but no one has ever seen it except the senior leaders of the Dan Palace.
The second round of the assessment also presented a series of pictures. The difference from the previous round was that this time the pictures only showed three places on the spiritual medicine. They had to answer the corresponding spiritual medicine according to these characteristics.
Compared to the previous round, even experienced alchemy masters may make mistakes in this round. The total score for the assessment is 90 points. As long as Li Qianqing did not get 11 questions wrong, he could pass the assessment.
There were still 50 questions, and Li Qianqing was just a little stuck on two of them. The answers to the others were very smooth.
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"Congratulations on passing the assessment!"
In the end, he passed the assessment with full marks.
This was also his requirement for himself. He was already an alchemy master in his previous life. If he could not do this, he would reflect on the problem.
"Contestant, what elixir are you going to refine next?"
"Sixth-order lower-grade, Huaxu Pill."
"Okay."
After the weapon spirit's voice disappeared, a pattern appeared on the honorary deacon's token on his waist. The pattern flashed for a moment and soon disappeared.
This is the mark that he passed the assessment.
After passing the assessment, you need to explain to the weapon spirit what elixir you want to refine in the final competition.
The spirit medicine needed for refining the elixir will be provided by the Dan Palace.
The Dan Palace recommends not to refine elixirs that are too niche. If there are no corresponding spirit medicines in the Dan Palace, there are only two options left.
One is to prepare it yourself.
The other is to cancel the qualification.
At the beginning, there was no such rule. Until one alchemy competition, someone wanted to refine a very niche sixth-order lower-grade elixir, and the Dan Palace could not make up the spirit medicine for refining this elixir, so this rule came into being later.
Disqualification is not a joke.
If you refine an elixir that is too niche, the elders of the Dan Palace will have reason to say that you are looking for trouble.
The sixth-grade lower-grade Huaxu Pill that Li Qianqing was going to refine, which can also be directly called the lower-grade Huaxu Pill, is one of the most popular pills among the cultivators in the Huaxu period. In the previous alchemy competitions, many alchemists in the late stage of Huashen used the lower-grade Huaxu Pill to participate in the final competition.
Huaxu Pill, Li Qianqing is good at refining.
The pills that he is good at refining are easier to control, so that he can create results that suit him.
It can be excellent, but not too outrageous.
When Li Qianqing came out, everyone else was in the assessment.
At this time, he did not attract much attention from alchemists.
There were alchemists who were faster than him before, and these alchemists did not think that they would be worse than Li Qianqing.
Everyone is a senior fifth-grade or ordinary sixth-grade alchemist, and they all have their own pride.
"Daoyou Li, I didn't expect you to come out." Wu Tianyou was a little surprised when he saw Li Qianqing. He thought that among the five people, he, the most experienced, would finish the test the fastest. "How did the test go?"
"I passed."
"Okay, okay... By the way, how many points did you get?"
"Elder Wu, I passed with full marks." Li Qianqing smiled slightly.
His smile made Wu Tianyou a little embarrassed. His test score this time was 99 points.
The first level was very simple, mainly because the characteristics of the two spiritual medicines in the second level were too similar, which led to his mistake.
Last time he scored 98 points, so this time he has made some progress.
"Not bad, not bad, the young are formidable." Wu Tianyou nodded in the end, and did not say that he scored 99 points.
Seeing this, Li Qianqing naturally did not take the initiative to ask. When he answered that he had a full score, if Wu Tianyou's score was the same as his, he would definitely explain it.
The three people who followed also came out.
Their scores were between 95 and 97 points.
According to the statistics of the Alchemy Palace, the most alchemists scored between 94 and 97 points, accounting for more than 90%.
The main problems were in the second level of the assessment.
There are many spiritual medicines in the world that look very similar, and if you don't distinguish them carefully, you can't tell them apart at all.
These spiritual medicines are placed in front of you, but the assessment not only gives a picture, but also only gives three parts, which increases the difficulty of the assessment.
Since the objects of the assessment are all alchemists at the level of transformation, the final result is actually not bad. If it is an alchemist below the level of transformation, it is not easy to get 90 points.
Over thousands of years, the experience of alchemists in identifying spiritual medicines will be greatly widened.
After everyone came out, under the leadership of Wu Tianyou, the five people went to the real competition of the alchemy competition.
The alchemy competition, which is held once every thousand years, has about 2,000 alchemists participating. Except for the Renling area, which has more than 200 participants, the other areas have less than 200 participants, and some areas have less than 100 participants.
The number of alchemists from Qianfeng area this time is 130.
The five people came to a hall. At this moment, many alchemists have gathered here.
"This way." Wu Tianyou is still at the front of the team.
Li Qianqing followed Wu Tianyou to a counter. Soon after showing his token of honorary deacon of the Dan Palace branch, he received a number plate.
The number on the plate is 675.
"Next, just wait."
After the five people received the corresponding number plates, Wu Tianyou took them to a place in the hall to wait.
After all the registered alchemists have completed the assessment, the final competition will almost begin.
During the waiting period, there were five alchemists who came to talk to them. They all came to see Wu Tianyou.
These five alchemists were elders from other branch halls in the Dan Palace.
Wu Tianyou was more experienced among the elders of the branch halls and knew many of them.
Li Qianqing and the other three alchemists chatted with each other from time to time, and most of the chats were about alchemy.
"Fellow Daoist Li, what kind of elixir are you refining for the competition?" asked the only female alchemist among the three.
"I am refining the Huaxu Pill." Li Qianqing answered truthfully. (End of this chapter)
