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Chapter 681 - 681 678 Alchemy Without a Tripod Furnace

681: Chapter 678: Alchemy Without a Tripod Furnace 681: Chapter 678: Alchemy Without a Tripod Furnace Lin Yanhan led his subordinates mightily towards the Alchemy Grandmaster Guild.

At the time, Huang Xiaolong was sitting in a corner of the Great Hall of the Alchemy Grandmaster Guild, waiting with Elder Sheng Yue and Shi Xiaofei for the alchemist examination.

Sitting there, watching the levels of alchemy demonstrated by family disciples during their assessments, Huang Xiaolong shook his head inwardly.

In his eyes, even those who passed the assessment and became jubilant alchemists exhibited incredibly poor levels of alchemy, some of their techniques were simply unbearable to watch.

Not only the alchemy techniques, but even their fire control skills, and their ability to identify medicine were shockingly poor.

Elder Sheng Yue sat there with his eyes closed, seemingly lost in thought, his gaunt face showing no emotion, as if everything around him was of no concern to him.

Shi Xiaofei was staring with her beautiful eyes at the family disciples being assessed.

Since Shi Xiaofei’s alchemy level was not very high, she found some of the techniques the family disciples used during their assessments quite impressive.

After a period of waiting, it was finally Huang Xiaolong’s turn.

Huang Xiaolong stepped forward.

“How many years have you practiced alchemy techniques?” the Alchemy Grandmaster from the Guild, Jia Liang, casually asked as he conducted Huang Xiaolong’s assessment.

Before the assessment, there were usually some simple questions to allow the assessors to get a preliminary understanding of the candidate – it was standard procedure.

Huang Xiaolong thought for a moment and then honestly replied, “Less than thirty years.”

In fact, to be exact, he had been learning Alchemy Techniques from Elder Sheng Yue for no more than twenty-five years.

Jia Liang, who had just asked the question casually, was taken aback, as were all the family disciples around the Great Hall who had already passed the assessment and become alchemists.

Less than thirty years!

Following this, all the family disciples who had passed the assessment and already become alchemists burst out laughing.

“Does this kid have a screw loose?

He dares to come and take the alchemist assessment at the Alchemy Grandmaster Guild with less than thirty years learning alchemy!”

“I don’t think this kid is a fool.

Maybe when it’s time for the assessment, he will definitely surprise us all, haha.”

“A surprise?

I fear that later on, he won’t even be able to produce a simple Fifth Grade or Sixth Grade Elixir Pills and will just turn a bunch of spiritual medicine into crap!”

The crowd laughed lightly.

All of them had practiced alchemy techniques for hundreds of years.

In their view, without hundreds of years of painstaking practice, it was utterly impossible to even reach the threshold of an alchemist.

All over the world, there were thousands of types of spiritual medicine, and remembering the names, medicinal properties, and common effects of these thousands of types required many years of hard work.

A person who had practiced for less than thirty years might not even fully recognize some of the alchemy spiritual medicine, so how high could their alchemy level be?

The presiding alchemist Jia Liang frowned and looked at Huang Xiaolong, “Are you sure you really want to take the alchemist assessment?” His implication was that he doubted whether Huang Xiaolong was truly there to take the assessment or merely to play around.

Huang Xiaolong replied calmly, “Indeed.”

Jia Liang’s brow tightened further and he asked, “Does your master know you’re here for the alchemist assessment?

Is he here?”

Huang Xiaolong nodded, “He knows, he’s here.” pointing to Elder Sheng Yue, who was sitting in the corner of the hall, seemingly sleepwalking with his eyes closed.

Jia Liang and all the family disciples looked in the direction Huang Xiaolong was pointing, and saw Elder Sheng Yue dressed in his old robe, seemingly sleepwalking, nodding off.

The crowd was taken aback and then burst out laughing once more.

“Is this old man this kid’s master?

Could he just be a beggar from some street corner in Pill King City?”

“I feel like I’ve seen this old beggar before?”

“Could it have been at the Beggar Gang?”

Everyone laughed again.

The Beggar Gang is no small force, well-known across the Four Great Star Rivers, famous because all its disciples are beggars.

Jia Liang glanced at Elder Sheng Yue, then turned to Huang Xiaolong and said, “Alright, you can go now.” Meaning there was no need for Huang Xiaolong to undergo the assessment since the result would be the same whether he did or not.

Huang Xiaolong’s eyebrows raised, seeing that people generally had issues with their thinking, judging cultivation achievements solely on the duration of cultivation, and the same went for alchemy.

“Who says that one can’t become an alchemist if they haven’t practiced Alchemy Technique for less than thirty years?” Huang Xiaolong stood firm, his expression indifferent, as he retorted, “Do you think just because they have practiced Alchemy Technique for hundreds of years, their alchemy level must be higher than mine?” He pointed at the mocking family disciples around him.

As soon as Huang Xiaolong spoke, the family disciples who had just passed the assessment to become alchemists couldn’t help but feel indignant.

“Kid, what did you say?!

You dare to compare yourself with us!”

“Exactly, what qualification does someone who has practiced Alchemy Technique for less than thirty years have to compare with us!”

At this time, these family disciples still stubbornly believed that because they had been practicing alchemy longer than Huang Xiaolong, their alchemy level was definitely higher than Huang Xiaolong’s.

When Alchemist Jia Liang heard Huang Xiaolong’s counter-question, his face turned cold: “Fine, as long as you can use these spiritual medicine materials to prepare a Heavenly-grade Elixir, no matter what the quality, you will pass the assessment.

But if you can’t, kid, I’ll assume you’re here to cause trouble, and then don’t blame us for throwing you and your beggar master out!”

According to the rules, as long as one can use the Alchemy Grandmaster Guild’s provided spiritual medicine materials to prepare a Heavenly-grade Elixir, they would pass the assessment and become a first-level alchemist.

Upon hearing this, Huang Xiaolong’s expression turned cold.

He did not respond, but instead, with a wave of his right hand, the hundreds of prepared spiritual medicine materials from the Alchemy Grandmaster Guild flew up.

“What does this kid want to do?

Alchemy without a tripod furnace?”

“He must be here just to play around.

Does he think he’s a High-level Alchemy Grandmaster?”

Some family disciples mocked upon seeing this.

According to the Alchemy Grandmaster Guild, the ranks from low to high are Alchemist, Master Alchemist, Grandmaster, and Grandmaster.

Moreover, each level is further divided into low, intermediate, and high, with first to third being low-level, fourth to sixth being intermediate-level, and seventh to tenth being high-level.

A tenth-level Grandmaster is the highest level.

Generally, only someone at the high-level Grandmaster stage could perform alchemy without a tripod furnace.

These family disciples naturally did not believe that Huang Xiaolong was a high-level Grandmaster!

How could someone at the level of a high-level Grandmaster come to take the assessment for the lowest-level alchemist?

Naturally, that’s impossible!

Seeing Huang Xiaolong performing alchemy without a tripod furnace, Jia Liang’s expression also darkened, thinking that Huang Xiaolong was truly here just to mess around.

Anger surged in his heart—did this kid think the Alchemy Grandmaster Guild was a place where you could come and play whenever you liked?!

However, just at that moment, he saw the flying spiritual medicine materials suddenly form a dragon in mid-air!

Jia Liang was taken aback.

Those family disciples, staring at the dragon made of spiritual medicine in the sky, were also stunned.

(To be continued.

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