Lin Shuwen smiled slightly and said, "Okay, you can audit my lectures, but there is one thing to explain, I will give you a year to listen to the lectures, and after a year, I will conduct a formal assessment of you, if you can pass the assessment, you will be considered my official student." ”

Zhan Chen was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you still need to be assessed, why haven't I heard such a requirement in other courses?"

"That's the case, each course has specific requirements for each course, some courses such as counting finance and the like do not need to be assessed, but alchemy is different, alchemy requires talent, not everyone can be competent, I arrange the assessment to take care of all people, if you don't have alchemy talent, you have to stay here to listen to the lectures, wouldn't it be a waste of time to mislead people's children?"

"So that's the case, the students get it. ”

"Okay, you can go down and listen to the lecture first, I'm going to start the lecture soon. ”

"Yes. Zhan Chen replied, so he returned to his seat and began to wait for Lin Shuwen to speak, in the process of waiting, he found an interesting phenomenon, when it was approaching, there were still very few people in the auditorium, only thirty-two, it can be seen that alchemy is indeed an unpopular course, at the same time, Zhan Chen's heart is even more looking forward to it.

After a while, Lin Shuwen finally started to lecture, today's theme is Ning Dan, he expounded some of his views and theories from shallow to deep, some of which are very inspiring for Zhan Chen, after all, the alchemy system of the star magician is very different from what he has studied, Zhan Chen quickly found some of his shortcomings in the past alchemy process from his explanation, and also learned many new Ning Dan runes, which benefited a lot.

The day seemed to be a long time, but Zhan Chen felt that it would pass quickly, and when it was time for the lecture to end, Zhan Chen still had a feeling of unfinished business, and seemed to want to listen to it, but helplessly, Lin Shuwen disappeared as soon as the lecture was finished, and he didn't even have a chance to ask questions to others. So Zhan Chen had to look forward to the next day.

Early the next morning, he rushed to the auditorium again, this day Lin Shuwen talked about the theme of warmth, and taught Zhan Chen a lot of new knowledge, but it was still the same as yesterday, as soon as he finished the lecture, he disappeared. Zhan Chen had to look forward to the next month.

But he soon found out that although Lin Shuwen's things were different from month to month, they were basically repetitive, which was also very easy to understand, after all, Lin Jiawutang was an open academy, and new people would be added at any time, and there were only a few steps in alchemy, so the content of Lin Shuwen's lectures was bound to be repetitive.

However, his course still has a little practical content, for example, he often asks people to demonstrate the various runes used in the alchemy process he explains, and also allows students to actually control the alchemy furnace on the stage, and give on-site guidance.

Zhan Chen estimated that after listening to his class, he should be able to control some of the foundations of alchemy, but he was still a long way from becoming a qualified alchemist.

A year passed in a blink of an eye, and after a lecture, Zhan Chen hurriedly came to the stage and called Lin Shuwen.

Lin Shuwen asked, "Zhan Chen, are you calling me something?"

Zhan Chen reminded: "Professor Lin, it's been a year now. ”

Lin Shuwen stroked his beard and said with a smile: "I know in my heart that I was about to inform you, you remember, on September 1, that is, three months later, at eight o'clock in the morning, you will wait for me in the pavilion in the center of the lakeside garden of our Lin Family Martial Hall, and I will organize you to take the exam." ”

"Listening to you, I'm not the only one participating in the assessment?"

"Yes, I can't hold an assessment for you alone, in fact, there are a few people like you, who have been attending the class for a year, and I am ready to test you uniformly, and only qualified people can further study with me. ”

"I see. ”

So Zhan Chen had to go back and wait, in a blink of an eye, it was March passed, he rushed to the pavilion in the park at seven o'clock to wait, every time it took, another person walked into the gazebo, Zhan Chen recognized him at once, and asked, "Are you Feng Qiang?" ”

Feng Qiang also recognized Zhan Chen at once and said, "You are Zhan Chen." ”

"Exactly. ”

The reason why they can recognize each other at once is because there are only a few people who listen to Lin Shuwen's lectures together, even if there is no contact between them, at least the names are known.

"Are you coming to take the test too?"

"Hmm. ”

"To be honest, I was a little nervous, I didn't know if I could get by, I heard that alchemy is difficult to master. Feng Qiang smiled.

Zhan Chen saw that he was a little nervous, so he guessed that he was a novice, and there were actually very few alchemists with a foundation like himself, so he comforted: "Anyway, we just need to refine according to the alchemy that Professor Lin usually teaches." ”

Having said that, Zhan Chen also had a trace of nervousness in his heart, he had also tried to use the alchemy techniques that Lin Shuwen usually taught to refine the star-rated pills in the dormitory, but the effect was not ideal, the success rate was extremely low, only two percent, and the results were not as good as those alchemy techniques he had mastered in the past, Zhan Chen didn't understand whether Lin Shuwen was wrong in teaching, or if he didn't understand the essence of his alchemy.

At this moment, another beautiful woman also walked here, and Zhan Chen recognized her as a classmate named Zhu Xiaodan, who had come to listen to Lin Shuwen's lecture nearly a month later than himself.

The three of them greeted each other, and continued to wait for Lin Shuwen's arrival, and after a long time, a familiar figure finally appeared in the distance, it was Lin Shuwen, who was walking towards here, followed by a young man in a gorgeous costume.

Zhan Chen immediately recognized the identity of the young man who was following him, his name was Lin Qingquan, I heard that he was one of the grandsons of Lin An, the head of the Lin Family Martial Arts Hall, and he usually listened to Lin Shuwen's lectures with everyone, so Zhan Chen could know his details.

Lin Shuwen took Lin Qingquan to the pavilion, looked around at everyone, nodded and said, "It just so happens that everyone has arrived, and it is the four of you who will participate in the assessment today." Come with me. ”

So, the four of them followed Lin Shuwen out of the pavilion, crossed the avenue, and came to a secluded courtyard in the southwest corner of Lin Jiawutang, there were dozens of houses in the courtyard, and the gate was written with three big characters "Purple Smoke Garden".

Lin Shuwen introduced: "This is my home, I usually live in the Lin Family Martial Arts Hall, and of course this exam is also held in my home. ”

The family members who were waiting outside the door saw Lin Shuwen coming, and they all said in unison: "Hello master!"

Lin Shuwen walked into the gate with Zhan Chen and the others, and led them into a large hall next to it, and there were more than 100 large and small Dan furnaces next to the main hall, which attracted the attention of Zhan Chen and the others.

Lin Shuwen sat directly in the middle seat and said to the four of them: "I'm going to come up with a question next, this time the topic is to use the alchemy knowledge I taught you to refine a Shuluo Dan in half a day. I will give you the pill of Shuluo Dan and three elixirs for each person, and as for the Dan furnace, you can choose one of them in the main hall. ”

Lin Shuwen stretched out his hand a little, and a jade slip and dozens of boxes of elixirs appeared out of thin air in front of the four of them.

Everyone didn't dare to delay, they all accepted the things, and then hurriedly opened the jade slip and looked at it.

After reading, Zhan Chen found that this elixir called Shuluodan was just the most ordinary one-star elixir, and its effect was healing, which could double the recovery ability of the cultivator's body within fifteen minutes, that is to say, after taking this elixir, the injuries that originally took an hour to recover could be recovered in only half an hour.

However, after all, this is the most common pill and is not valuable, so Lin Shuwen is willing to contribute it as a question for the exam.

Zhan Chen quickly memorized all the steps and runes used to refine this elixir, and then he turned his gaze to the Dan furnace on the side, and suddenly a trace of realization suddenly appeared in his heart: " It seems that not only the process of refining the pill is the content of the exam, but even this small link of selecting the Dan furnace has hidden mysteries, not that the more advanced the Dan furnace is, the better the ability to refine the good pill, but according to the actual situation of my body, for example, my cultivation is a six-star quasi-star realm, if I want to use a two-star quality Dan furnace, it is simply impossible. ”

Thinking of this, Zhan Chen walked towards the pile of Dan furnaces, he had already seen that the other three had already taken back a Dan furnace and started refining the pills, obviously none of them realized the importance of choosing a Dan furnace, so they chose one at random.

The problem immediately appeared, Lin Qingquan picked a Dan furnace with a very delicate surface texture, it was not ordinary at first glance, but his cultivation was only a six-star quasi-star realm, so it seemed a little difficult to drive that Dan furnace.

Although Feng Qiang and Zhu Xiaodan can refine normally, they don't seem to be particularly smooth looking at their movements.

Zhan Chen walked unhurriedly to the rows of Dan furnaces, picking left and right, and also entering the star power into the Dan furnace to try the furnace fire, as if he was not worried about the lack of time at all.

And Lin Shuwen had to be leisurely at this time, he actually closed his eyes and began to meditate, for him, just look at the results.

"There is!" A glint flashed in Zhan Chen's eyes, and what he was holding in his hand at this time was a small Dan furnace that was only the size of a palm, although this Dan furnace was not of high quality, it was the closest to the one that Zhan Chen usually used when refining pills, and this was exactly what he was looking for.

Taking the Dan furnace, Zhan Chen came to sit down beside the three of them, and then took out the elixir that Lin Shuwen handed over to him and began to extract it.

However, at this moment, a puff of black smoke came up next to him, Zhan Chen was startled, and when he turned his head, it turned out that the black smoke came out of Lin Qingquan's Dan furnace, and his refining failed. And his failure seemed to have caused a chain effect, and then black smoke rose from the Dan furnaces of Zhu Xiaodan and Feng Qiang.

This made Zhan Chen's heart tense inexplicably, and his hand slowed down slightly, and as a result, a puff of black smoke also rose from the Dan furnace.

The first four medicinal herbs were all wasted, and none of them were spared!