Martial Master

Ding ling ling!

Soon, the time for submitting the papers arrived.

"This set of questions is so difficult!"

Especially the comprehensive questions at the end; it seems there's no hope again this time.

"Oh heavens, why am I so unlucky!"

The candidates all wore worried expressions, sighing as they submitted their papers.

"Everyone go outside and wait. If you pass the assessment, we will notify you for the next round."

After Chen Mu and Ouyang Cheng chased the candidates out, they began grading the papers separately.

"Wrong, wrong again."

Not a single point earned on the comprehensive question. Who is this person that dares to come and participate in the assessment?

The more they graded, the more furrowed their brows became, and the angrier they felt.

The quality of this round of assessments is truly too poor. Even if Master Liu Guang made the questions a bit difficult, it shouldn’t be answered like this.

"Chen Mu, Ouyang Cheng, the first round of assessments is over, right? How many people passed?"

At that moment, an elderly man with brown hair walked over, wearing a gray-brown alchemist's robe, with a furnace embroidered on his chest, bordered in silver, representing a second-tier alchemist rank.

"Master Liu Guang."

The two quickly stood up; the visitor was indeed the chief examiner of this alchemist assessment, the steward of the Alchemy Pavilion, second-tier alchemist Liu Guang.

"Master Liu Guang, you’re here. With the questions you set, how many people can pass? Scoring above sixty would be considered excellent!"

Chen Mu and Ouyang Cheng forced a bitter smile.

"Hmph, although my questions are somewhat tricky, they are not difficult. They just require careful analysis. Any first-tier alchemist can answer correctly. Those who got it wrong either lack knowledge or are not careful enough. If such people pass the assessment, it would only be the shame of our Alchemy Pavilion."

Master Liu Guang said coldly.

"Besides strength, the most important thing for an alchemist is attention to detail. After all, refining pills is very serious. If there are any mistakes, it’s lucky if the pill is ruined; it’s a crime if it kills someone."

"Let me take a look."

Casually picking up a stack of papers, Master Liu Guang began to read. The more he looked, the more he resisted the urge to laugh.

"Look at this guy, he can't even distinguish between sheep chrysanthemum and sheep chrysanthemum flower. One is a remedy for calming the heart and moistening the lungs, while the other is a deadly poison. If such a person passes the assessment, once he makes a mistake in refining pills in the future, whose responsibility will it be?"

"And this, the refining of the Yuzui fruit requires six techniques, but he only wrote five, and the one he missed is the most important one. If he can't even extract the medicinal effect, how can he refine pills?"

"Hmm? This one scored seventy points; it seems like a better score. What? All the basic questions are correct!"

After flipping through several papers, Master Liu Guang suddenly stopped at one and was taken aback.

A score of seventy, neither high nor low, but what shocked him was that all the basic questions were correct.

"This is written by a cocky brat who isn't even an alchemy apprentice, yet he wants to take the assessment for a first-tier alchemist. If it weren't for the rules of the Alchemy Pavilion, I would have kicked him out long ago. He only got some questions right by rote memorization, while the comprehensive questions are written nonsense."

Upon seeing that it was Qin Chen's paper, Chen Mu couldn’t help but mock.

"Oh? What kind of person, not even an alchemy apprentice, dares to take the first-tier alchemist assessment, and yet gets all the basic questions right while the comprehensive ones are nonsense? Let me see!"

Master Liu Guang became interested and opened the paper to look at the comprehensive questions.

"Hmm?"

Upon seeing it, Liu Guang was momentarily stunned and suddenly exclaimed.

"This is—"

He looked at the first question, his expression excited, and his eyes bulged as if he was going mad.