Chapter 120: Master Lijun
Five days later, Li Fei came to the Eastern Branch of the Danji Sect, Huangshi Academy. ± the top novel, if it is only in terms of geographical environment, Li Fei feels that the geographical conditions of Huangshi College are too poor, and it is only slightly better than the desert with nothing, which belongs to the semi-desertified zone. But there is an endless stream of cultivators coming and going, which really responds to the ancient poem "The mountain is not high, and if there are immortals, there are spirits." Li Fei was on the way here, and he was used to this kind of environment in the next day or two, so he was not surprised.
Yellowstone College covers an extremely wide area, spanning 800 miles from east to west, and 4500 miles from north to south, and is composed of countless large and small volcanoes or ground fissures, many of which are still active volcanoes and often erupt. Due to the harsh environment, there are basically no mortals living within a thousand miles of the surrounding area. However, in Huangshi Academy, after countless years of transformation and operation, there are many treasures suitable for cultivation, with abundant spiritual energy and a relatively good environment.
According to the geographical environment and location, Yellowstone College has two symbolic gateways, north and south, which are used to receive cultivators from all over the world. Now, Li Fei is in the small city of Xiuzhen outside the South Gate - Nandan City. There is Nandan City, and naturally there is also a North Dan City, and this is true for every branch. Since it was getting late, I was going to take the alchemy talent test early tomorrow morning.
Nandan City is only ten miles in a radius of ten miles, and it is still very wrong to build, mainly for the trading of elixirs and elixirs, and the other is to provide a place for transit and temporary rest.
It didn't take long for Li Fei to visit the whole city, and the general feeling was one word: expensive. Due to the existence of the Danji Sect, there is a great demand for various elixirs, and there are very few locally produced elixirs, so most of the elixirs are shipped from other places or other continents, which is naturally expensive.
And the materials for refining the elixir are expensive, Cheng Dan will naturally not be cheap, plus the monks who come from various continents, either they don't come, and if they come, they will purchase them in large quantities, and many of them are purchased in bulk in an organized manner. Because it is difficult for other places to provide such a large supply of pills. In the city, Li Fei also found a shop that sold residual pills, the price was slightly cheaper than what Zhao Yi sold, but it was generally not placed outside, and he needed to ask to know if there was one.
Due to the limitation of the geographical environment, it is not easy to artificially create a better living environment, so the inn in Nandan City is also several times more expensive than other places.
In the end, Li Fei didn't buy anything, and found a small inn to live in. Considering that the time spent in the Danji Sect would not be too long, and that it was convenient and quick to improve the level of alchemy, Li Fei decided that it would be better to join the Danji Sect with his real identity. If the cultivation is too low, there is no ability to learn the higher level of pill refining at all, and if you suddenly improve your cultivation, it will leave a very bad impression, all considered, Li Fei decided that it is best to join directly, anyway, there is no trouble with the Dan Extreme Sect.
Early the next morning, Li Fei habitually bathed and changed clothes, put on a tight-fitting sportswear and went straight to the south gate.
At the south gate, after Li Fei simply answered the inquiries of the disciples on duty, he entered smoothly, followed by a crowd of no more, no less, and soon came to the test place, a circular hall with a diameter of more than thirty zhang.
When Li Fei arrived, there were already hundreds of people in the hall waiting quietly. Li Fei took a look at it and found it very interesting, there were really everyone, there were monks in the chemical martial arts period and the foundation building period, as well as ordinary mortals. The monks were quieter, sitting cross-legged, and the mortals, mainly teenagers, looked around curiously and whispered from time to time.
After waiting for almost an hour, there were almost a thousand people in the main hall, and a middle-aged man with a majestic appearance walked into the main hall accompanied by two young people.
The three of them walked straight to the round platform in the middle, and after the middle-aged man looked around, he said in a loud voice: "Welcome friends to participate in the test of the Danji Sect! If you need to test the spiritual root, you can go to the side halls on both sides of the main hall after I finish explaining, it will take a lot of time." Next, it's still the old rule, I will first explain the simplest and most basic refining method of cultivating the 'Alien Pill', and if you don't understand, you can ask questions on the spot, and then refine it on the spot. In the refining process, if you don't understand, you can still ask the examiner in charge of the assessment. ”
Then, in less than half an hour, the middle-aged man finished explaining the process of refining the "Alien Pill", and after answering the questions of several people, he asked the monk who did not need to test the spiritual root to test the alchemy talent directly with him.
Most of the monks did not test the spiritual root, and they all followed the middle-aged man through the main hall and walked towards the back mountain. Everyone walked for about a stick of incense, and then they came to a relatively open mountain col.
At a glance, almost the entire mountain col was full of transparent small boxes, there were thousands of them, and they were divided into more than a hundred small areas by number, and each area was monitored by three Dan-level sect disciples.
Since Li Fei was already a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building, he received a little preferential treatment, and was assigned to the nearest district with a group of monks in the foundation building period, and the middle-aged man was personally responsible for the assessment.
Li Fei deliberately chose the No. 18 Dan room, and after walking in, he found that he could not see the outside in the Dan room, and the sound insulation effect was also excellent. The area in the Dan room is very small, only the size of a zhangxu, but there are a lot of alchemy utensils, a mini Danding is placed on a small Dan stove, and there are five herbs with a little soil on the table next to it, as well as a small cabinet, a large amount of water and other items.
Li Fei unhurriedly followed the steps told by the middle-aged man, coupled with his own experience and understanding, and officially started the test.
An hour later, the middle-aged man turned around a few times, and finally stopped outside Li Fei's Dan room and watched Li Fei's alchemy with interest.
After watching for a while, one of the disciples who followed the middle-aged man asked a little puzzled: "Master Lijun, this person's cultivation is not low, but it seems that he has not memorized the master's words, and he is not doing what the master asks him to do at all, some of the steps are not in place, and some have added a lot of redundant steps, can this be done?"
Master Lijun frowned slightly, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "I'm not sure about some of them, but this fellow Daoist should have been involved in Dan Dao for a while, and some of the techniques are still very novel and worth learning." ”
The two disciples were greatly surprised, they did not expect that Master Lijun, who was rarely convinced in the Dan Dao and had a strange temper, would praise a monk who came to participate in the test.
Three hours later, Li Fei walked out of the Dan room with a calm face, and saw the middle-aged man who led the team standing in front of his Dan room, and saluted respectfully: "I have seen the master, the disciple's Dan has been refined, please check it by the examiners." ”
The middle-aged man nodded, entered the Dan room with the two disciples, made a move with his right hand, ingested the little Danding into his hand, opened the lid of the Ding casually, took out a dark green pill, and after smelling it, he praised: "This is the most distinctive 'Dust Removal Pill' I have ever seen, no matter the color, medicinal properties and fragrance can be said to be perfect! Most junior alchemists can't refine this level of Dust Removal Pill, are you interested in learning alchemy directly with me?"
The two disciples thought that they had heard it wrong, and they closed their mouths in surprise for a long time, when did Master Lijun speak so well, not to mention the ordinary disciples, even to many junior alchemy masters, this time he took the initiative to ask to come and see, otherwise, no one in the entire Yellowstone Academy could move him.
After hearing this, Li Fei hesitated for a while, and replied respectfully: "Thank you very much for the favor of the master! I am also willing to follow the master to learn the Dan Dao, but I want to start learning from the most basic apprentice class, if I can pass the assessment of each level and reach the level of a junior alchemist, then I will learn from the master at that time, I will get twice the result with half the effort, and at the same time, I will not disgrace the reputation of the master." ”
Master Lijun said indifferently, "It's okay. I mean, you don't have to study in the periphery first, you can directly join the advanced class of the inner disciples. I'm the general instructor of all the advanced classes, so I can easily guide you. ”
One of the disciples was very embarrassed to hear that Master Lijun bypassed all the procedures and directly accepted those who did not meet the requirements into the core class of the inner gate, but where his responsibility lies, he reminded stubbornly: "Master Lijun, according to the convention, there are still a series of procedures to go through for the recruitment of inner disciples......"
Master Lijun's eyes widened, and he reprimanded: "What kind of procedure is not procedural? What I said is ...... Oh, you have a point, lest those pesky elders besiege me again. I don't care, you can do it. After finishing speaking, he walked away.
The two disciples glanced at each other, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and directly announced that Li Fei had been successfully admitted, and first went back to the main hall to wait for the other testers to be divided into classes after all the other testers were finished.
Li Fei was the first to come to the empty hall and close his eyes to recuperate. Although he failed to become an inner disciple, Li Fei didn't care, refining the "Dust Removal Pill" had already attracted enough attention, and there should be a chance in the future.
According to Li Fei's idea, he originally wanted to start from the most basic learning, and did not want to skip the systematic learning process all at once, because the most basic things are what Li Fei needs most.
After another hour or so, all the testers completed the test. Since Master Lijun had already left, one of the deacon's disciples had to announce the results of the test: a total of 1,087 people participated in the test, and the six people who passed the test were Li Fei, Zhang San, and Wang Si......
Li Fei was greatly surprised, he didn't expect so many people to take the test, and only six people passed the test! You must know that most of the people who came to take the test were cultivators. If recruited directly from mortals, maybe there would be none. Li Fei finally understood why the Danji Sect was recruiting disciples every day, but there were not many people.
In the end, among the six people, only Li Fei was assigned to the formal junior apprenticeship class to receive formal Dan Dao learning, and the remaining five were only sent to various places as peripheral apprentices to engage in some miscellaneous labor first, of course, it was also related to alchemy, but it still had to look at further performance, and outstanding performance could really stay, Zhao Yi belonged to this category.
Under the leadership of a deacon disciple, Li Fei came to the learning base of the junior apprentice class.