Lu Ping returned to the side hall with a stomach full of doubts. At this time, there was no one in the side hall. After asking a cleaning boy, he found out that the disciples who were preparing to be apprenticed to a master had already accepted the test of a Core Forging Enlightened Master in the front hall's square. Everyone in the side hall had gone to the square to watch.
Naturally, Lu Ping was also curious. He quickly went to the square to see the questions that the Core Forging Enlightened Master had set for everyone.
These questions could be said to be strange. Some required the disciple to memorize a spell within a certain period of time. Some required the disciple to write an essay according to the question. Some were more straightforward and ordered the disciple to fight first. The winner would naturally be apprenticed to the teacher. Some were even stranger. They actually asked the disciple to take a fishing rod and go fishing in the stream of Tian Ling Mountain …
In short, there were all kinds of strange tests. It was an eye-opener for Lu Ping and he clicked his tongue in wonder.
Of course, there were more professional tests. For example, those who wanted to be apprenticed to the Pill Concoction Pavilion not only had to report their name, age, place of origin, cultivation level, master, etc., but they also had to refine a specific type of medicinal pill and achieve a certain success rate. Other places like the Refining Hall and the Talisman Crafting Pavilion also had a strict assessment system.
Lu Ping lost interest after looking for a while. However, the girl in the palace dress repeatedly emphasized the ceremony of apprenticing to a master made Lu Ping's mind turn. However, Lu Ping also couldn't guess which Enlightened Master wanted to accept him as a disciple. Moreover, it was a female Enlightened Master.
Originally, the apprenticing ceremony was just a formality. However, people always had the heart to compare. Moreover, it was his future master's daughter who had repeatedly asked him to do so. Lu Ping had no choice but to take it seriously.
Lu Ping thought for a long time but couldn't think of anything on him that could make a Core Forging Enlightened Master's eyes light up. If he really couldn't do it, he could use spirit stones or offer a few high-grade or even top-grade magic tools. He didn't lack these things.
However, when he thought about it again, he felt like a nouveau riche after all. He was afraid that being covered in the stench of money would make his master unhappy. Even if he took out three to five top-grade magic tools, he was afraid that she would not care.
It wasn't that he didn't have things that could attract the attention of Perfected Persons, such as the Azure Spiritual Fire. However, that was only possible if Lu Ping was retarded.
Speaking of the Indigo Spiritual Fire, Lu Ping's eyes lit up. He could make a big deal out of the Indigo Spiritual Fire. Now that he was an alchemist, no one would complain about having too many Indigo Spiritual Fire. Even if his master couldn't use the Indigo Spiritual Fire, she should have some juniors under her tutelage. If he gave the Indigo Spiritual Fire to them, not only would his master gain face, but he would also be able to get along well with his senior brothers and sisters in the future.
After making up his mind, Lu Ping returned to the temporary Cultivation Room that he had arranged for himself. After sealing the Cultivation Room and forming a restriction around it, Lu Ping took out the mid-grade Alchemy Furnace. At the same time, he also took out the Blue Spirit Flame that was burning on the Spirit Gathering Plate.
Fortunately, he had been concocting the Barrier Breaking Pill. The Primordial Giant Crocodile's blood was the main ingredient, so he saved a lot of spiritual herbs. Lu Ping secretly thought about which kinds of pills he should concoct. Suddenly, he remembered that when he killed Yuan Shikong from the Overturning Sea Gang, he obtained a Wonder Gate Pill's recipe from his storage pouch.
Lu Ping held the recipe in his hand. This recipe recorded a pill that sounded quite mystical — the Face Retaining Pill. In fact, this pill wasn't as mystical as it seemed. Just one pill could make one's appearance forever youthful.
In this world, there would never be a pill whose medicinal efficacy would never fade. Otherwise, the Elixir of Immortality would also exist. Why would The Friar need to cultivate so hard?
The so-called Face Retaining Pill was a pill that could maintain one's appearance for several years or even decades. Once this period was over, the medicinal efficacy would fade. Unless one continued to consume the Face Retaining Pill, one's appearance would still age.
The Face Retaining Pill was a kind of Wonder Gate Pill that was in between the Late Blood Condensation Realm and the Core Forging Realm. After reaching a certain level in the Mid Blood Condensation Realm, Lu Ping had also tried to concoct a Late Blood Condensation Realm pill. However, the Face Retaining Pill required five stalks of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs. This undoubtedly increased the difficulty of concocting.
Lu Ping was lucky enough to collect these five kinds of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs on Fei Ling Island. In addition, there were also a few stalks of Qian Zhong Millet magic tool. With the addition of more than twenty 500-year-old spiritual herbs, Lu Ping managed to gather enough for five cauldrons of pills.
However, there were still thousand-year-old spiritual herbs in the cauldron. This was something that an Alchemy Master would only use when concocting Core Forging Realm pills. Although most of the spiritual herbs were still 500-year-old, to be able to concoct this kind of pill, one would at least be in between an Alchemy Master and an Alchemy Master.
Lu Ping pondered for a while and finally made up his mind: Open the cauldron!
This was an unprecedented challenge for Lu Ping. If he succeeded, Lu Ping's alchemy skills would usher in a leap forward.
Lu Ping spent a full two hours to calm his excited heart. Then, he thought about the process recorded in the pill recipe. Following the order in the recipe, he lit the fire, warmed the cauldron, opened the lid, and placed the herbs in … After a long period of work, the medicinal properties of the various spiritual herbs in the cauldron finally began to fuse. This was a long process, but Lu Ping did not dare to relax. He used his divine sense to pay attention to every change in the cauldron.
When the fire reached a certain point, Lu Ping formed 27 hand seals in a row. Each hand seal was accompanied by a vast amount of arcane energy that was sent into the cauldron. By the time the set of complicated hand seals was completed, it took Lu Ping an hour. Lu Ping felt that it was even more tiring than fighting a Late Blood Condensation cultivator with the Qinghan Sword.
Lu Ping sat beside the cauldron and quickly recovered the arcane energy in his body. After another two hours, the medicinal liquid in the cauldron was finally fused. However, through his divine sense, Lu Ping found that a portion of the medicinal liquid was wasted.
Lu Ping pulled himself together and began to form the hand seals. This set of hand seals was even more complicated. There were a total of 36 hand seals. There could not be a single repetition or mistake. By the time Lu Ping managed to form the hand seals, even with Lu Ping's profound arcane energy, his forehead was covered in sweat and he was gasping for breath.
Even though Lu Ping tried his best to cooperate with him, it was his first time using the hand seals. Under the circumstances where he was not familiar with the hand seals, a portion of the solidified medicinal liquid still turned into black ash.
Lu Ping did not have the time to regret it. He formed the nine hand seals one by one. Each hand seal was executed with all of Lu Ping's arcane energy. The cauldron shook violently. When the nine hand seals were completed, the lid of the cauldron opened with a boom. Two grape-sized medicinal pills with a jade-like appearance jumped out of the cauldron.
The two pills seemed to have a mind of their own. They made a half turn in the air, as if they were trying to avoid being caught by Lu Ping. However, when they were halfway through their turn, they suddenly lost their momentum and fell to the ground.
"Half-step Spirit Transformation, it really is a Wonder Gate Pill between a Blood Condensation Pill and a Core Forging Pill. It actually has a trace of spirituality. Unfortunately, it doesn't have enough spirituality, so it dissipated the moment it flew out of the cauldron."
Lu Ping stretched out his hand and two white jade-like medicinal pellets flew into the Jade Crystal Bottle in his hand as if they were attracted by something.
Lu Ping was very satisfied with his success in concocting two Face Halting Pellets on his first try. After a night's rest, Lu Ping, who already had the experience of concocting the Face Halting Pellets, was much more familiar with the process. But this time, he only managed to concoct two Face Halting Pellets.
Lu Ping continued to work hard. On the third day, Lu Ping was completely familiar with the refining process and increased the number of pills to three. On the fourth day, it was still three. On the fifth day, Lu Ping's success rate finally reached 40%. At this time, Lu Ping was a big step closer to becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster.
There was a total of fourteen Face Halting Pills. Each Face Halting Pill could keep one's face for thirty years. Lu Ping used a jade bottle to store ten as a gift for his master.
After thinking for a while, Lu Ping decided to be more careful. He also refined a supplementary pill that was recorded in the Face Halting Pill's recipe.
This pill was called the Fragrance of Multitude Pill. To put it bluntly, it was a kind of fragrance that lasted for a long time. Unlike the fragrance used to perfume clothes, after this pill was consumed, the fragrance would emanate from the person's skin and last for three years.
Of course, the fragrance of the Fragrance of Multitude Pill could also be chosen. Different Fragrance of Multitude Pills had different fragrance, and cultivators could choose according to their preferences.
This kind of Fragrance of Multitude Pill was just a novelty. It was not difficult to refine. It was only equivalent to the difficulty of refining a late Blood Refining pill. Lu Ping casually traded a few 500-year-old spiritual herbs outside and obtained seven to eight batches of 100-year-old spiritual herbs to refine the Fragrance of Multitude Pill.
Lu Ping concocted all of them in one go. Now, Lu Ping's late Blood Refining pills were showing signs of surpassing pills. In other words, not only did he concoct a full batch of ten pills, but because there was almost no waste of medicinal efficacy during the concoction process, he even managed to concoct eleven to twelve pills!
Lu Ping put the dozens of Fragrance of Multitude Pills into the jade bottle and waited quietly for the arrival of the apprenticeship ceremony the next day.
In the past few days, Lu Ping also came out to communicate with other cultivators during his breaks in the concoction process. Those who passed the apprenticeship test naturally knew who their master was. Every Enlightened Master's test was different, and it also showed their identity.
There was no need to mention those who managed to become apprentices through various connections. As for those disciples who were favored by the Enlightened Master, before accepting them, they would also seek their opinions in advance to see if they agreed or not. Of course, there was almost no one who disagreed.
Lu Ping was the only one who still didn't know who he was going to be apprenticed to!
There were also some disciples who suspected that Lu Ping had already been eliminated, so they lied and refused to leave, waiting for an opportunity. However, the Enlightened Master in charge of the application process personally told Lu Ping to wait in the side hall. That was the treatment that the Enlightened Master would receive if he had already been selected as a disciple by the Enlightened Master. This matter was also seen by many people.
Lu Ping couldn't figure out which Enlightened Master would have the leisure to joke with him like this. Lu Ping wanted to ask the Enlightened Master in charge of the Heaven's Spirit Hall, but he was told by the welcoming boy that the Enlightened Master would be away for a few days. As Lu Ping waited helplessly, Zhenling's apprenticeship ceremony that was held once every three years finally began.
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