Chapter 52 Promotion
Lingyun Peak.
Li Yu showed his identity jade card at the peak gate and said to the disciple on duty: "I am here to take the first-grade alchemist assessment ."
The gatekeeper disciple was slightly stunned when he saw Li Yu, then blurted out: "Isn't this Senior Brother Li? You're here to take the first-grade alchemist exam so soon!"
Li Yu is quite famous in . Not to mention all the disciples, but almost all the alchemists know Li Yu. After all, in the most crucial round of the competition, he was able to refine ten top-grade pills while flirting with the female disciples and being in a daze. In the past few hundred years, there has been only one person like him.
The gatekeeper disciple enthusiastically brought Li Yu to the assessment place for first-grade alchemists.
This is a hall located on the hillside of Lingyun Peak. When Li Yu walked into the hall, there were several figures should all be here to take the assessment for first-grade alchemists.
Everyone's eyes swept over Li Yu and they began to discuss in low voices.
"Isn't this the champion of the competition? Is he also here to be promoted to a first-grade alchemist?"
"It should be. After becoming the champion, you can no longer participate in future competitions. The champion of each competition will be promoted to the next rank in a very short time."
"The competition has only been over for a few days. It seems that he should have been able to refine first-level pills a long time ago."
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Li Yu sat in the rest area waiting. The most numerous people in Kunlun Sect were alchemists, and every day someone took the first-grade alchemist assessment.
In front of the main hall, there is a row of stone chambers, with people coming in and out from time to time.
Those who went in basically all had a look of trepidation on their faces, and those who came out could be roughly divided into two types: one with a smile on their face, and the other with a dejected look. The results of the assessment could be seen from their expressions.
When an apprentice of alchemy is successfully promoted to a first-class alchemist, his status and position will immediately change. The monthly subsidy will skyrocket from 100 spirit coins to 1,000 spirit coins. Not only will he have his own single-family villa, but he will also have a personal secretary.
If you fail to get promoted this time, you will have to wait until a year before taking the next assessment.
After all, it concerns the future, and everyone waiting with Li Yu looked a little nervous.
Li Yu's expression remained calm. He had refined first-grade elixirs countless times and could easily make them without even using cheats. Taking the test was nothing more than going through the motions.
This confident expression naturally caused some emotion in the eyes of others.
The champion of the competition is the champion of the competition. He probably already has an idea about this assessment.
Li Yu waited for more than an hour, and an old man walked out of a stone chamber. Li Yu saw at a glance that there was a furnace embroidered with two patterns on the chest of the robe he was wearing, indicating that he was a second-grade alchemist.
The most common people in the world of immortal cultivation are alchemy apprentices. The vast majority of people will only be first-grade alchemists in their lifetime. Even though Kunlun started out by making alchemy, there are no more than two hundred second-grade alchemists in the sect. Any one of them, if he leaves Kunlun, will be sought after by other forces.
The old man walked to the door of the stone chamber and said, "Next, Li Yu."
Li Yu stood up. The old man looked at him twice before saying, "Come in."
Although he did not watch the competition, he knew about Li Yu. When they met for the first time, his calm attitude alone made him look at him differently.
Following the second-grade alchemist into the stone chamber, Li Yu took a quick glance. The stone chamber was not big and the furnishings were simple. There were two stone platforms. On one stone platform were jade bottles and bowls, and on the other stone platform was a one-foot-high alchemy furnace.
On the two walls of the stone chamber, there are two medicine racks filled with fresh herbs.
There were only Li Yu and the old man here. The old man didn't say much and asked, "You should know the assessment rules for first-grade alchemists, right?"
Li Yu nodded and said, "To refine three first-grade pills, three materials for each pill, you need to refine ten top-grade pills."
The old man said, "It seems that you have understood everything. Which three kinds of elixirs do you choose?"
Li Yu had already planned it out, and said, "Qi-restoring pills, bigu pills, and primordial pills."
The old man was a little surprised. The Huiqi Pill and the Bigu Pill were the simplest first-grade pills and were also the two must-haves for those who wanted to be promoted to first-grade alchemists. The Baoyuan Pill was a little more difficult to refine and few people would choose it during the assessment.
However, it is his freedom to choose which elixir to refine, and if he fails, he can't blame himself.
He pointed at the herbs on the medicine shelf and said, "The materials for the Qi-Restoring Pill and the Bigu Pill are all here. We are still short of a few materials for the Yuan-Preserving Pill. I will have someone prepare them now. You can refine the other two first and we can start now."
The herbs required for the first-grade alchemist assessment need to be selected by oneself from a large number of herbs. If some alchemists are used to asking others to prepare the medicine and they do not know the herbs themselves, at this step, they can turn right and prepare to take the exam again next year.
This was not difficult for Li Yu. After all, he had been a herb collector for more than ten years and had some talent in identifying herbs.
"Tianxin grass, Hanxue ginseng, Qingling flower, mint leaves..." He walked around the medicine shelf and quickly gathered all the materials he needed.
During this process, Li Yu discovered that there was something interesting about this level. Many spiritual medicines looked very similar, but their medicinal properties were completely different. If you didn't have a special understanding of herbs, you would accidentally choose the wrong one.
Alchemy is an extremely precise process. If you make a wrong choice, the refining will inevitably fail.
No wonder the passing rate of the first-grade alchemist assessment is so low. Many people will be eliminated just by this stage.
The old man looked at the herbs Li Yu had picked out and nodded slightly. The fact that he could pick out the herbs he needed from the dazzling array of herbs showed that he had solid basic skills, which was the foundation for becoming an alchemist.
Now that all the materials have been found, the next step is to extract the liquid and purify it.
Li Yu naturally had no problem with these, but he was still a little worried. The materials for the first-level elixir were not of high quality, but when it came to the second- and third-level elixirs, high-level main materials would definitely be used. At that time, he might have to wear special gloves, otherwise, all the spiritual power of the medicinal materials would be absorbed by the elixir furnace in his body.
But wearing gloves is not very convenient, so I still have to train Senior Sister Zhou well so that she can do these things for me in the future.
Li Yu is already familiar with .
If he was serious, each furnace could produce ten pills, about half of which were top grade and half of which were super grade. However, Li Yu did not do so. In the first furnace of Qi-recovering pills, he only produced six pills, one of which was super grade, and five were top grade.
In the second batch of Qi-recovering pills, he refined five pills, three of which were top grade and two were super grade.
At this time, the old man said: "You have already refined two furnaces. You can rest for a few hours and then refine the second one."
Li Yu took out a bottle of Qi-restoring pills and said, "No, I'm still fine."
It also took him two furnaces to make ten fasting pills. At this time, he could not perform too well. Once the sect knew that his success rate was 100% and he was only given one portion of materials for each furnace, he would become a mere worker.
After successfully refining the Bigu Pill, he also did not choose to rest, but continued to refine the Baoyuan Pill.
For the final Baoyuan Pill, Li Yu used three portions of materials to refine twelve pills, with an average of only four pills in each furnace. However, the quality was good, with eight of them being top-grade and four being super-grade.
When Li Yu was refining the elixir, the second-grade alchemist beside him was observing him.
He was also full of curiosity about this younger generation who had reached the realm of heaven and man that alchemists dreamed of in the competition and had a legendary figure.
His performance in this assessment was just average, not particularly amazing, nor did he reach the realm of heaven. The pills he refined were of good quality, but his success rate could not be compared with the true geniuses of the sect, so it could only be considered excellent.
However, after refining seven furnaces in succession, he was only slightly tired. His perseverance was truly amazing.
Li Yu placed three bottles of elixirs on the stone platform and asked, "Senior, is it ready?"
The old man nodded and said, "Congratulations, from now on, you are a first-class alchemist."
After a moment, Li Yu walked out of the stone chamber.
Without any surprise, he successfully passed the assessment for a first-grade alchemist.
In another hall, Li Yu received a new uniform. The one he wore before was a disciple uniform. This new uniform was exclusive to first-grade alchemists. There was a beautiful pattern on the alchemy furnace embroidered on the chest, representing the identity of a first-grade alchemist.
In front of a huge sand table, a deacon disciple was introducing Li Yu: "Brother, you can choose any of the villas on these peaks. Most of the people living in Qingyun Peak are alchemists. I recommend you to choose this place. Chaoyang Peak is also good. Most of the people living here are young brothers and sisters like you. Among them are talisman makers and formation masters... As for Ziyun Peak, I don't recommend you to choose it. Most of the people living here are foundation-building elders who are about to die..."
Li Yu said without any hesitation: "Let's choose Ziyun Peak."
As an alchemist, Li Yu spends most of his time making pills in his own yard. It doesn't make any difference to him who lives around him.
He only knew that the young brothers and sisters in the sect, whether they were in the Qi Refining Stage or the Foundation Establishment Stage, were all from the Moonlight Clan without exception. All their spirit coins should have been used to buy elixirs to improve their cultivation. How could they have extra spirit coins to buy his things?
The situation is different for the elders in the Foundation Establishment Stage who are nearing the end of their lifespans. Most of them have no hope of forming a pill and begin to enjoy life. They are exactly Li Yu’s target customers.
Spirit coins are something that you cannot bring with you when you are born and cannot take with you when you die. They are meaningless to them as their lifespan is coming to an end.
Being rich and generous are their common characteristics.
Moreover, compared to young people, Li Yu actually prefers chatting with these old people who have lived for two hundred years. After all, they have lived two hundred years longer than him and have rich life experience. Sometimes a few words of advice can help him avoid many detours.
