"Alright, alright, that's enough!"
Several examiners shouted immediately.
What if the phoenix blood is really taken away!
Lu Minxing extinguished the fire in his hand. The examiners looked at each other awkwardly and asked, "What ancient book did you read this in?"
They all came from major sects. If there were ancient books that even their own sect didn't have, then they shouldn't be found anywhere else. But why hadn't they seen them?
If they had read this ancient book, they would have identified this thing long ago, so why would they need this guy in front of them to identify it!
Lu Minxing got a little nervous when he heard this. Ancient books and such were all made up by him, but in fact, they were all told to him by the system!
However, Lu Minxing's face remained quite calm and he didn't let outsiders see it.
At this time, I can only bite the bullet and continue to edit.
"I saw it in a book called 'Secret Records of Strange Beasts of Mountains and Seas'."
The examiners looked at each other, asking with their eyes: What book? Have you read it?
It turned out that no one had heard of the book.
"Where did you see this ancient book? Can you take it out and let us see it?"
"I read the ancient book by chance when I entered a secret realm. It wasn't even written on jade slips, but on ordinary bamboo slips. When I took it out of the secret realm, it turned into dust."
Lu Minxing's lies became smoother and smoother as he made them up.
The examiners couldn't help but show disappointment on their faces.
"Although you say so, we haven't been able to see it with our own eyes because of this ancient book. Even if we did, we wouldn't be able to tell whether what it says is true or not. So, can you tell us what other properties this phoenix blood has?"
This is obviously a question about usage.
Lu Minxing said: "Phoenix blood itself actually has magical powers. Just one drop can save a seriously injured and dying person.
"If it's refined into a pill, the effect will be even more outstanding. Those who are unsure about their tribulation survival can take one before the tribulation. If they really die during the tribulation, this pill can revive them, and their realm will not fall after resurrection."
When everyone heard this, they all gasped.
Isn’t this equivalent to having an extra life?
How many people cannot survive the heavenly tribulation, and end up with their souls torn apart!
If there really is a pill that can save lives, not to mention returning to the original realm after resurrection, even if the realm drops, it would be too precious!
"Do you have a recipe for the elixir?" another examiner asked hurriedly.
Of course there is a recipe for the pill, given by the system, but would Lu Minxing tell it to others casually?
He shook his head and said, "That ancient book is just a collection of exotic beasts, not a complete collection of elixir recipes. It only describes the effects of phoenix blood, but doesn't provide the recipe. It simply mentions 'using phoenix blood as the main ingredient, supplemented by hundreds of other precious materials that are no less precious than phoenix blood.' So even if one knew the recipe, they wouldn't be able to refine it."
The examiners were immediately disappointed and even forgot to say anything to Lu Minxing.
Lu Minxing waited for a while, but couldn't help himself and asked, "Um... examiners? Should the assessment continue?"
The examiners suddenly realized, yes, the exam is still in progress!
The questions continued, all of them strange and tricky. However, seeing that Lu Minxing hadn't been stumped, one examiner simply threw out a problem he had recently encountered in alchemy.
"When refining the Flowing Golden Pill, why does it always fail to take shape at the last step?"
As soon as this question was asked, the other examiners looked at him with dissatisfaction.
What grade of medicine is the Liujindan?
This kind of medicine is used to treat the injuries of Jindan cultivators, and is usually only available to those in the Yuanying stage. Isn't it a bit too much to ask a cultivator in the Ninghai stage this question?
Furthermore, it was widely acknowledged in the world of cultivation that the Liujin Pill was difficult to refine, and the chances of success were extremely low. Therefore, to avoid wasting medicinal materials, alchemists rarely refined this type of pill, instead using other equally effective elixirs instead.
Lu Minxing continued, "Because the recipe for the Liujin Pill that's been passed down is wrong. The problem isn't in the last step, but in the third step.
"It's too late to add the Golden Ganoderma in the third step. If you had added it three breaths earlier, the pill would have been formed."
Everyone else who heard this was in disbelief.
The examiner who asked the question immediately rushed out. Everyone speculated that he was going to test whether Lu Xing was right.
Lu Minxing sighed in his heart again.
Is it so difficult to take the exam to become an alchemist? Refining the Golden Elixir takes a lot of time. How long will he have to wait here?
Not to mention Lu Min, the others who came to take the test were also getting impatient.
This assessment requires one person to enter one by one. The people who entered before were quite fast, so why was it so slow when it was this person's turn?
Why does it take so long to figure out whether that person passed or not? When will it be my turn?
After a while, the examiner hurried back and shouted to the other examiners in the room as soon as he entered the room, "It's done! It's done! It's really been refined!"
Everyone turned around and looked at Lu Minxing in surprise.
"How do you know the recipe is wrong?"
"How do you know how to modify this recipe?"
"How can you, a Sea Condensation Stage cultivator, change the elixir into a Golden Core?"
…
Everyone asked a bunch of questions at once, and Lu Minxing didn't know whether to answer or not.
Then the others stopped caring and started throwing out their own questions.
"I'm creating a recipe for a pill that requires both Ice Heart Grass and Zhurong Branch. However, these two herbs conflict with each other. Is there any way to combine them?"
"Alchemy requires Cold Pond Spiritual Liquid, but what should I do if I don't have it?"
"After the silver needle grass was placed in the furnace, why did the scene inside the furnace differ from what was written in the recipe?"
…
Lu Minxing had no choice but to answer them one by one.
"If you insist on fusing the Ice Heart Grass and Zhurong Branch, you can add an appropriate amount of Broken Spirit Sand."
"If you don't have the Cold Pond Spiritual Liquid, you can take the Green Spirit Fruit and squeeze out the juice. Repeatedly condense it and it can replace the Cold Pond Spiritual Liquid."
"You can't put the whole silver needle grass in. You need to pick off the leaves and remove the roots and stems."
…
Lu Minxing answered fluently.
After getting the answers they needed, the examiners could no longer sit still and wanted to return to their alchemy furnaces to verify whether what this person said was correct.
Seeing these people anxious to leave, Lu Minxing also became anxious, "Then...did I pass?"
"You passed, you passed. Wait for the practical test!" an examiner said to him quickly.
Lu Minxing breathed a sigh of relief and could finally leave.
As soon as his figure disappeared, the shock in the examiners' eyes could no longer be concealed.
"Honestly, this is even more powerful than us, right?"
"Just because he recognized the Phoenix Blood, I want to give him nine stars!"
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