Chapter 21 Assessment
In the alchemy room, more than a dozen alchemists sat together, staring at the boy without turning their eyes.
These alchemists are already quite old, most of them are over forty years old, and the youngest are still in their thirties.
Now seeing a 15 or 16-year-old boy claiming to refine alchemy, everyone was surprised and couldn't help but feel a little unbelievable. Some people even shook their heads secretly, and a hint of mocking appeared in their eyes.
However, they are all people with clear eyes and clear minds. They have heard that Master Yunqi specially gave a young man a nameplate of the alchemy disciple. Although he didn't know whether it was true or not, no one would foolishly mock him.
"Long Chen, although I am the president, I can't break the rules. If you want to pre-produce medicinal materials, you need to refine elixirs in front of all alchemists. Then we will determine the amount you withdraw each time based on the quality of the elixirs." Master Yunqi said with a serious look on his face.
"Boy understands"
Long Chen expressed his understanding of this matter. After all, the Alchemist Guild is not a personal industry. With Master Yunqi's style, he will never give him some small training.
"There are 187 first-level pill recipes here, you can choose any one." An alchemist handed over a piece of animal skin paper, with a slight gloating in his eyes.
The elixirs recorded on that animal skin paper are not ordinary first-level elixirs. The difficulty is among the first-level elixirs, and they are all at the upper and lower levels. The success rate of ordinary elixirs is not high.
What's more, it's strange if you refine pills in front of all alchemists, and there are masters like Yun Qi present. It would be strange if you are not nervous. In such an atmosphere, it is very difficult to successfully refine a finished pill.
The man who handed Long Chen the sack paper was also a elixir. He was already in his forties. When he was assessing the advance quota, he failed seventeen times before he passed.
Everyone present was not much better than him. They basically used it more than a dozen times before they passed the test.
It can be seen that it is not easy to pre-support medicinal materials from the trade union, but once it is successful, it will be much more convenient.
Long Chen looked at the animal skin, pointed to the last pill recipe and said, "Just it."
"What? Are you sure?"
The man said with a strange expression that the pill chosen by Long Chen was called the Violent Qi Pill, which was an extremely domineering pill.
It can make people burst out with powerful combat power in a short period of time, and can almost make people have an increase of nearly 30% of combat power.
The violent elixir is something that adventurers love the most. Although using the violent elixir will cause people to enter a state of weakness for a long time and leave a lot of sequelae.
However, for them who live under the sharp claws of monsters all day long, the violent aura pill is undoubtedly a life-saving treasure.
However, it is very difficult to refine the violent Qi pill, and there are several medicinal materials with extremely powerful medicinal power. Even the elixirs who have mastered the craftsmanship rarely refine such pills.
After all, there are risks in refining alchemy. Although the price of elixirs is extremely high, the materials are not for nothing, and that is all money.
Moreover, the medicinal materials of the Violent Qi Pill are extremely expensive. If they are not refined successfully three times in a row, the alchemist will lose money.
Therefore, not many people have refined this kind of pill. After all, adventurers cannot bear the price of medicinal materials. If adventurers are really very rich, who is willing to take risks?
"That's right, it's it." Long Chen said lightly, ignoring the gloating in the eyes of that person.
Master Yunqi smiled slightly and asked a medicine boy to prepare three portions of medicinal materials. This is the assessment rule. There are only three portions. As long as one portion is successfully refined, it will be considered as passing the test.
When three portions of medicinal materials were neatly placed in front of Long Chen, Long Chen took out his elixir without any hesitation, and a light yellow flame rose from his palm.
After a breathing period, Long Chen slowly transferred the power of the elixir fire under the medicine cauldron and carried out the hot cauldron. The hot cauldron is to use the power of the soul to drive the elixir fire in the cauldron and wander around the cauldron after the cauldron is hot.
The advantage of this method is that the medicine cauldron can be completely turned into the alchemy state, which can reduce the risk of blowing the cauldron, and can also warm the medicine cauldron.
In fact, Long Chen has a more advanced method, but he has to use the most basic methods learned in the Alchemist Guild.
He didn't want to make himself too shocked, as it would be unfavorable for the future. If someone secretly had bad intentions, it would be just to cause trouble for himself.
Everyone looked down on Long Chen at first, but when they saw Long Chen's actions, they looked very standard and old, and the contempt on everyone's faces gradually decreased.
All preparations were done, and Long Chen did not hesitate at all and directly threw a piece of iron wire into the cauldron and started to refine it.
Long Chen's action immediately turned a little interest that many people had just aroused, and it immediately turned into a ridicule.
The iron wire grass needs to be refined for the longest time, usually in the middle and late stages, and then refine it after the medicine cauldron is completely hot.
But only Master Yunqi, with a strange color flashing in his eyes and nodding secretly.
What surprised everyone was that the iron wire grass had just been refined halfway and had not yet completely formed the powder. It was taken out of the cauldron by Long Chen, put it aside, and began to refine other medicinal materials.
When the sixth medicinal herb was refined, Long Chen continued to refine the iron wire grass, but it still had not been completely refined and began to refine other herbs.
This action puzzled everyone, but looking at the praise in Master Yunqi's eyes, everyone was shocked. Could it be that there is any trick in this kid's technique?
Long Chen's iron wire grass was extracted thirteen times in total before it was considered to be refined. At this time, more than 20 medicinal materials had been refined.
Under normal circumstances, ordinary elixirs will adjust their breathing at this time to relieve their nervous spirits.
However, Long Chen didn't have the time to pay. After refining the essence of herbs, he started to refine the alchemy and threw the medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace.
What everyone couldn't understand was that Long Chen pressed the essence of the iron wire grass several times before putting it into the medicine cauldron.
"call"
The power of the soul was circulating, and the elixir fire rose rapidly. A burning air came, and Long Chen began to refine the alchemy in a serious matter.
"What a powerful soul power"
Everyone was shocked, but at the same time, they all shook their heads secretly. At this time, they started to increase their firepower. When it was formed, what would they use to gather the pills? After all, the young people are young people and they can't hold back.
Master Yunqi looked at the boy with interest. He was the only one here who understood the meaning of Long Chen doing that. At the same time, he liked Long Chen even more. He had a strong soul and was willing to work hard to study, so that it would be easier to achieve results.
What everyone unexpectedly expected was that half an hour passed, and Long Chen's soul power did not stop, but instead output became stronger and stronger.
"Bang"
With a sound, the medicine cauldron vibrated slightly, and a strong wave came. Everyone's hearts couldn't help but tighten. They all knew that this was the critical moment.
The medicine cauldron kept ringing. Logically, at this time, the alchemist should slow down the power of the elixir fire and stabilize the medicine cauldron.
However, not only did Long Chen not slow down, but his soul power increased, the elixir fire became more scorching, and the sound in the medicine cauldron became even more violent.
"What is he doing?"
Someone couldn't help but change his face. This is not an alchemy. He did this entirely to fry the stove. This was clearly intentional.
"boom"
Another loud bang, and when the medicine cauldron was lifted, Long Chen suddenly pressed his big hand tightly against the cap of the cauldron, and suddenly a powerful soul power broke the shot with all his strength.
"Bang"
The ** elixir furnace suddenly stopped tyranny, fell to the ground, and returned to peace.
"This bad method is really hard."
Long Chen wiped his sweat and used this method to refine the alchemy, which was so exhausting that he could not reveal his strength. He could only do it in a stern way. Long Chen had no choice but to say it.
Bang!
The stove lid was gently lifted, and a strong elixir fragrance instantly filled the entire hall, and everyone was shocked.
"It actually succeeded"
All the experts present were experts. You don’t have to look inside the cauldron. Just smelling the elixir fragrance, you can tell that Long Chen succeeded, and many people were filled with shock.
"Very good, there should be at least a medium-grade pill inside."
Master Yunqi looked at Long Chen with admiration in his eyes. Long Chen was beyond his expectations this time.
He knew that it should not be difficult to successfully refine pills with Long Chen's soul power, but he wanted to know what Long Chen's foundation was.
When I saw Long Chen today, I saw that his basic skills were extremely solid, and he did not give in to some alchemy disciples who had practiced for many years.
The most commendable thing is that Long Chen is well aware of pharmacology and understands that the strong medicine of Iron Grass needs several times to be refined to reduce its intensity, which will make the elixir more effective and have a higher success rate.
No one knows this way of refining in the current Alchemist Guild, but some seniors in the secret library of the guild have recorded this experience.
Unfortunately, the records above are very vague, and they only express a theory: after repeated refining of iron wire grass, it should reduce its fierceness.
But most of those experiences are extremely common methods, or some immature concepts. How many alchemists are so great that they will give their efforts to share with others for free?
If others don’t say it, even Master Yunqi knows how to refine iron wire grass, but he has never mentioned it to anyone.
One is that he has no obligation to teach others, and the other is that as a alchemist, he doesn’t even dare to innovate and never think of any great achievements in his entire life.
When everyone heard Master Yunqi say this, they were shocked: Medium-grade elixir? Is this possible?
Long Chen saw everyone looking at him, smiled slightly, waved his hand, and pulled his soul power. Five plump and round pills appeared in his hands. Two of them were printed with extremely eye-catching patterns - pill patterns, which are the characteristics that only medium-grade pills have.
For a moment, the audience was silent. Except for Master Yunqi, everyone's eyes were filled with shock and envy, and of course there was a hint of jealousy.
Looking at the five pills in his hand, Long Chen breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, Master Yunqi said: "Long Chen successfully refining the alchemy, granting him a second-level credit."
Master Yunqi's words made everyone's eyes suddenly change. The second-level credit is the right to pre-protect the second-level elixir, which makes people jealous.
From the complicated eyes of everyone, Long Chen followed Master Yunqi and left the hall. Master Yunqi suddenly said seriously to Long Chen:
Chapter completed!