Chapter 175: The Undesirable Result (Part I)
Compared with the crowded examination rooms, the examination room for the medicine refining exam questions seemed a little deserted, and in the past, there were only a dozen or so candidates refining elixirs using the medicine tripods provided in the examination room.
Obviously, compared with other popular exam questions, the exam questions for refining medicine can be completely classified as unpopular among the unpopular, otherwise this is definitely not the case.
Even the dozen or so candidates who are refining elixirs have a worrying level of more than half of them, not only is the rhythm of the herbs thrown out of a mess, but even the basic skills of adjusting the heat are a mess, and they are obviously the kind of speculators who try to hit the luck in this kind of unpopular exam questions.
When Mei Xue stepped into this examination room, no one even raised their heads to look at him, only the examiner of the alchemy exam question glanced at Mei Xue in some surprise.
According to his experience, an unpopular exam question like alchemy was almost completely unattended after the first day had passed, and those candidates who came here prepared to get a score or two would never put too much effort into this question.
Almost half of the people in this examination room today are beginners who come to try their luck, and there are only a handful of candidates who really have the ability to refine medicine.
As the examiner of the alchemy exam, he has experienced this situation more than a dozen times, and he has become accustomed to the three-step rhythm of the candidates being so-so on the first day, being snubbed on the second day, and having no results on the second day.
Therefore, when Mei Xue and Huang Fei came to this examination room, the examiner was so surprised, shouldn't the candidates who came to try their luck today be there a long time ago?
"Qingsheng, this is your home field......" Looking at the group of speculative candidates whose movements were not standard, Huang Feiha smiled, and already knew the results of this exam.
In terms of the level of these candidates, even he is not as good, obviously all of them want to try their luck to get points.
They must not know that there is no luck component in the work of refining medicine. You will be able to do it, and you will not be able to do it, which can be said to be one of the most basic exam questions.
As a full honor student of Tiantai Mountain Immortal Law Academy, Huang Fei also played alchemy when he was bored, although his interest only lasted for a few months before dissipating, but at least he also successfully refined the primary elixir, which is better than these candidates who are wasting elixir I don't know how much.
As for the love saint around him, he was the only genius who got the official identity of a pharmacist in the graduation of Tiantai Mountain Immortal Law School.
A pharmacist from the authentic Yan clan is qualified to go to some small towns to open a medicine and be exempt from taxes.
Mei Xue didn't think it was a big deal, but Huang Fei, who had studied medicine refining a little, knew that the way of refining medicine was actually a branch of the Ancient Dao. Among the graduates of this class of Tiantai Shangxian Law School, Mei Xue was second only to him, the so-called genius.
Of course, that's all in the past. I believe that those teachers at Tiantai Mountain Immortal Law School will all be shocked when they know the results that Mei Xue has obtained in this exam.
This is the exam of the Qinglong Academy, and there has never been a genius in the history of the Tiantai Mountain Immortal Law School who has been named on the gold list in this exam, and this time it is destined to be unprecedented.
"What a nice smell." Mei Xue smelled the medicinal fragrance emanating from the air, as if she had returned to her residence in Tiantai Mountain, the small courtyard where many medicinal herbs were cultivated.
It was in that inconspicuous small courtyard that he refined numerous primary elixirs, and finally promoted to the rank of junior pharmacist.
According to his life plan, in another ten years, he will try to be promoted to an intermediate pharmacist, and then grow steadily and learn, and there is a chance of about 30% of being promoted to a senior pharmacist in his lifetime.
At that time, becoming a senior pharmacist was probably his most optimistic imagination for his future. In order to achieve this goal, he has been working hard in a down-to-earth manner, and even made a schedule to fill in the form of the elixir that he should study and refine.
If he hadn't met Master Huiguo, the dragon of the candle, and hadn't met the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
Fate is always so incredible, and just when you think all the doors are blocked, there is always an open window waiting for you.
"I'm taking the exam for alchemy." Mei Xue calmly walked in front of the examiner of the alchemy exam, this is an old man who is half a hundred years old, there is not much black in his hair, and the wrinkles on his head seem to tell the trajectory of this old man's life.
On his body, Mei Xue smelled the unfamiliar smell of medicinal herbs, which was the smell of high-grade elixirs that he was not yet qualified to touch, full of aura and lingering for a long time.
"Name." Most of the people who came to preside over the examination questions were assistants under the deans of the Qinglong Academy, and the one who presided over the medicine refining examination here was the vice president of the pharmacy academy, vice president Hua, who was born in one of the branches of Shennong's descendants, and a senior pharmacist who was rare in the mountains of the seas.
His original name has almost been forgotten, and anyone who sees it will call him "Hua Lao".
"Mei Xue."
"Huang Fei."
Hua Lao first recorded the names of the two, and when he wrote them down, he was suddenly stunned and realized something.
"Mei Xue, plum blossoms like snow?"
"Yes."
For the young man in front of him, even Hua Lao, who presided over the unpopular exam question of alchemy, was like thunder, this was one of the most dazzling stars in the entrance exam of the Blue Dragon Academy, and he was known as the peerless genius of the "Legendary Generation".
"You can also refine medicine?" Obviously, Hua Lao still doesn't know the origin of Mei Xue.
"Yes, I'm a junior pharmacist, Yan Clan." Mei Xue's answer was simple and direct, and at the same time she took out the talisman representing the junior pharmacist.
This is a symbol made by the Apothecary Guild of the whole world, and no one can fake it.
"Good, good, good, it turns out to be the same race." Hua Lao even said three good words, and it was obvious that he looked at Mei Xue completely differently.
People who have not set foot on the path of medicine masters cannot imagine the boring and difficult nature of this road, and all medicine masters who have achieved success on this path need perseverance and patience, otherwise they will not be able to control the various situations that arise when refining elixirs.
This is also the reason why a junior pharmacist can get the privilege of being exempt from taxation, which has always been the biggest reason why demand exceeds supply.
It's a pity that in this era of the prosperity of immortal magic, people with a little immortal talent will desperately pursue the immortal avenue, and there are too few people who choose the path of pharmacist.
Even if it is a Yan clan who is born with medicinal herb affinity, as long as the child has a little bit of immortal talent, the first choice is definitely immortal art, not alchemy.
This has led to a phenomenon that should not appear, the more talented teenagers with immortal arts, the less likely they are to choose the path of pharmacists, but mortals without any talent will be diligent and diligent in learning the way of alchemy.
However, the promotion of a pharmacist also requires the support of immortal talent, and the better the pharmacist with immortal talent, the higher the success rate of refining elixir. Once you reach the level of a senior pharmacist, you can be a master who even an immortal warlock must respect, because immortal warlocks also use elixirs, and if they are injured, they also need a pharmacist to treat them.
For this situation, the Pharmacist Guild was also helpless, and in the end it could only reach some agreements with the major forces of the seas and mountains, and exchanged a large number of precious elixirs for some unsatisfactory immortal talents, and finally could not be promoted to the talents of the immortal warlocks, and used secret methods to improve their alchemy level, which barely maintained the dilemma of the senior pharmacists.
However, the disadvantage of this is obvious, that is, although the method of refining the elixir of this group of senior pharmacists who were driven to the shelves is standard, there is no change at all, and the quality of the elixir refined by everyone is all standard finished products, not to mention the best, even the top grade will be lucky.
This is because they don't have any passion for alchemy from the bottom of their hearts, and they are just alchemy tools with the level of a senior pharmacist. There are fewer and fewer pharmacists who have really come from junior pharmacists to intermediate pharmacists, and finally rely on their own strength to become senior pharmacists, forming a complete disconnection.
None of the pseudo-pharmacists who had been crammed to the rank of senior pharmacist were qualified to go one step further and become a divine pharmacist with a heaven-given immortal ring. Only a pharmacist who really starts from the low level and works hard to master all the six grades of elixir can break the barrier between heaven and man, be lowered by the mountains of the seas and the unique immortal ring of the pharmacist, and become the "divine pharmacist" of the mountains of the seas second only to the direct inheritance of the "alchemist" of Shennong.
"The questions in the alchemy exam are very simple. There are a thousand kinds of medicinal herbs here, as well as a six-grade six-pattern cloud dragon tripod, you can freely choose any combination, and finally refine a taste of elixir for me to rate. "Appreciation is appreciation, but Hua Lao will not open the back door to Mei Xue, and what kind of score he can get depends on himself.
Elixir doesn't lie, so what quality elixir Mei Xue refines, she will get the points that this elixir deserves.
"I understand." Also as a pharmacist, Mei Xue certainly recognizes such a rule.
He looked at the place where the medicinal materials were stored in the examination room, and then walked over without hurrying, and at the same time began to think about what kind of elixir to refine.
When it came to the elixir he had mastered, the Blood Clotting Herb, which was one of the most difficult questions in the Intermediate Pharmacist Exam, was naturally the highest. I believe that once the refining is successful, the score will definitely not be low, and you can probably get about five to six points, and if you refine the perfect quality blood condensation grass, then the score can be added by a few more points, reaching about eight points.
However, the medicinal properties of the Blood Condensation Grass were extremely unstable, and after losing the bonus of the Winged Quartet, Mei Xue was not 100% sure of refining it, and the perfect quality was even more difficult.
At this time, Mei Xue especially missed the flowing rhythm when refining medicine with Xiaoliu, and the feeling of heart-to-heart connection between the two of them was definitely not as simple as one plus one, it was completely a qualitative leap.
Coincidentally, in another examination room, Koyanagi was also nostalgic for the happy time when he was refining medicine with Mei Xue. For her, alchemy is secondary, and the time spent with Mei Xue is the most important.
Mei Xue, I miss you...... Casually throwing some messy herbs into the potter burning boiling water in front of her, Koyanagi began her unique refining process.
Specifically, it is to do nothing, throw the herbs in and burn them, and then think about Mei Xue, think about Mei Xue, think about Mei Xue.
The corners of the examiner's mouth twitched for a while in the medicine refining exam on Xiao Yanagi's side, he knew that Xiao Yanagi was the peerless genius of this "legendary generation", and he also acquiesced that she could refine medicine however she wanted, but such a careless attitude was too hurtful.
This girl, can she really refine medicine?
……
Well, that's all, choose the blood clotting grass! Although Xiao Yanagi was not around, Mei Xue finally chose the most difficult elixir he would know at the moment, the Blood Clotting Grass, which was known as one of the symbols of an intermediate pharmacist.
After deciding, Mei Xue began to quickly select medicinal herbs, and several main medicines and auxiliary medicines were all neatly selected by him from the medicinal material library in the examination room.
I have to say that the Qinglong Academy has a profound heritage, the years of these herbs are all ten years, about a hundred years, and their medicinal properties are very well preserved, there is almost no trace of leakage, and at first glance it is a good product that has been handled by a master-level pharmacist.
After such perfect treatment, the medicinal properties of these herbs are perfectly preserved, and all the toxicity is removed, even if used alone, it has some of the effects of the elixir.
If she failed to refine medicine with such excellent medicinal materials, the first thing Mei Xue didn't forgive was herself.
"Hey, good medicine, good medicine!" As soon as the connoisseur stretched out his hand, he knew whether there was a way to refine medicine, although the level of refining medicine could not even catch up with Mei Xue's shadow, but Huang Fei had studied medicine refining in the eighth classic, so when he touched it and smelled the medicinal materials in his hand, he knew that these were all good goods that money in that small place in Tiantai Mountain could not buy.
Your use of this herb is simply a cow's chewing peony, it's too wasteful—Huang Fei looked at the candidates around him with disdain as he was refining a pile of medicinal residues, and then began to prepare the potion he wanted to refine in a decent manner.
Hua Lao looked at Huang Fei's medicine selection, touched his beard, and found that this little fat man still has a bit of real material, it would be better if he trained and trained again, and if he successfully refined the elixir, it should be no problem to give a reward point.
The question of refining medicine is like this, only candidates who refine elixir are eligible to be scored, and even those who can't refine the primary elixir are just a waste of time, so it's better to try their luck on other exam questions.
Subsequently, Hua Lao put all his attention on Mei Xue, and among all the candidates in this examination room, probably only Mei Xue was a real pharmacist.
The fluency of drug selection and the proficiency of medicine blending are absolutely impossible to fake, just by looking at it, Hua Lao knew that Mei Xue's basic skills were absolutely extremely solid, and even more stable than the pseudo-masters spawned by the pile of pharmacists.
No, it's more than stability. What Hua Lao felt in Mei Xue was the aura that the group of alchemy tools absolutely did not have, which was the aura that only a true pharmacist could have who had practiced step by step from the basics, experienced countless failures, and grew little by little.
This is the temperament that a real pharmacist should have, and only a pharmacist who grows up step by step can refine a high-grade, superlative, and perfect quality elixir, and a hundred pseudo-masters of that kind can't add up, they will only repeat the knowledge and posture that have been forcibly instilled, and everyone's actions in refining medicine are exactly the same, they are simply puppets of alchemy.
The more he watched Mei Xue's movements, the more Hua Lao looked forward to his performance.
Judging from the several main medicines Mei Xue chose, he could probably guess that what he was refining was Blood Condensation Grass, which was a battle elixir that some senior intermediate pharmacists were not sure of 100% refining.
It can be said that as long as you can refine the blood condensation grass, then the position of an intermediate pharmacist is nine out of ten.
Mei Xue's movements are not fast, but the movement of her fingers is accurate and rhythmic, which is something that those pseudo-masters cannot master in their lifetime, and each pharmacist has a different rhythm.
Although there was still some uncertainty before the beginning, once she started refining the medicine, Mei Xue forgot everything around her and devoted herself to the refining of the elixir this time.
This self-forgetfulness is manifested in reality, which is absolute self-confidence.
Mei Xue believed in herself, believing that she would definitely be able to refine the most perfect blood condensation grass.
As a result, Mei Xue's movements have become more fluid, and every step is like a cloud of peers, full of artistic beauty.
That is the realm that those pseudo-masters who are used as puppets of alchemy can never reach, although their movements are also extremely standard, almost everyone can be absolutely accurate, but the so-called "absolute accuracy" is actually equivalent to a mistake when refining elixir.
Because even if it is two identical herbs, because of the sunshine and the different growth environment, there will be a slight difference in their medicinal properties, not to mention that the compound elixir is composed of a variety of medicinal materials, and the slightest error will lead to a decrease in the effect of the final refined elixir.
Therefore, the elixirs refined by those pseudo-masters who had mastered the absolutely correct method could not even reach the top, but some beginner and intermediate pharmacists would occasionally refine perfect-level elixirs.
It was not the difference between luck and probability, but the difference between a rigid and rigid copy-type alchemy technique and an individual alchemy technique with various possibilities.
In Hua Lao's eyes, Mei Xue's alchemy technique was the most aura and perfect rhythm among all the candidates he had seen, and even far surpassed many students in the pharmacy academy.
Everything was so smooth, everything was so natural, when Mei Xue's hand was about to put the last herb into the medicine pod, the main medicine of the spirit grass had begun to slowly turn green, showing a transparent color like jade.
It's done! As a senior pharmacist, Hua Lao could see at a glance that the blood condensation grass refined by Mei Xue this time was simply perfect, and even he himself would not be much better than Mei Xue.
What he can beat Mei Xue is probably about the formula of the Blood Coagulation Grass, which is the accumulation of experience and knowledge, not the gap in the refining level of the two sides.
Top grade? The fingers of Hua Lao's right hand moved a few times, and he began to guess the grade of Mei Xue's blood condensation grass, but he quickly overturned this conclusion.
No, it's not just the top grade, but the better, more outstanding quality, that is, the best, and this is still in the state of Mei Xue's last herb without input.
Then, if this most exquisite herb was also perfectly matched, Hua Lao would be taken aback just thinking of that result.
Could it be the perfect quality - beyond the best, the perfect match of the medicinal properties of all the herbs, flawless, 100% integrated quality!
How is this possible!