Chapter 217: Struggling for Plant Mastery (1/2)

Chapter 217: Struggling for Plant Mastery

All thirty thousand apprentice alchemists were respectful and sole Hao, not a one appeared to be under thirty years of age

They had all been apprentices for at least 10 years and had deep, profound understanding of e so deeply that if they left the Sect for another on the outside, they would be rated as a ht now, they sole Hao took a deep breath as he looked around at the workstations, selected one, and sat down

This was his first ti in an examination for pro was not strange to hi felt quite familiar

The scene around him was very much like the examinations he had taken part in back when he was a scholar in the State of Zhao He had participated in the preliminary rounds of the Ih he had never scored top marks, he was still very fa Hao chuckled to himself “There really are a lot of similarities between the two This e of medicinal plants The more plants you remember, the more details you recall, and the more accurately you do so, will determine how close to perfection your final score is It’s not very different at all from the imperial examinations” He felt like he was back in the i for a scholarly rank, but promotion in the Dao of alchemy

He took another deep breath and looked around at all the apprentice alchemists as they peered down at the jade slip in front of the screens appeared in front of them, upon which could be seen various medicinal plants

The task of all the apprentice alchenized and then record their habits and characteristics, planting requirethatHao tapped his jade slip, and ihtfully at the an to record the name of the plant, its characteristics, and some other details

Tiht oldHao to be the test administrators They looked around the examination square Clearly, if anyone caused a disturbance, severe punish Hao soon fell into a rhyth the questions He quickly recorded the information about the plants that appeared in front of him Many of them he had seen with his own eyes in the Celestial Land Others, he had even held in his own hands when assisting Li Tao in pill concoction

Six hours quickly passed Meng Hao was i out his answers His eyes shone with determination He had discovered that this was an excellent method to verify how much he had learned All of the infor the better part of the year once again floated up in his mind

As he reached down into the depths of hishe had as a scholar all those years ago, the joy that can be found in the midst of hardshi+p

Soon, it beca apprentice alche their brains for answers More time went by, another four hours Some of the apprentice alche unfamiliar medicinal plants, which they would skip past quickly However, soon, they discovered that the unfamiliar plants becaan to abandon their struggles and bitterly leave the examination field They moved off to the side to observe

Within a short tian to stare bitterly at the screens in front of them They would stare blankly for a while, then stand and walk off to the side, heaving bitter sighs Despite ten or more years of experience,so many medicinal plants After all, there were one hundred thousand of them, with a h, Divine Sense could be used to brand the inforh, the only other method was roteHao, of course, was by nature a scholar and an intellectual Froun to tread the path of a scholar, each and every day had been devoted to s

His expression was calaze was locked onto the screen in front of hi co medicinal plants The rew Hiswater, natural and spontaneous Soon, he began to attract the attention of so the proceedings

More time passed The exainal thirty thousand participants, only twenty thousand continued to fill in answers The surroundings were as quiet as ever Those who had abandoned their efforts did not leave, they stood by quietly, watching on

By the time the thirtieth hour arrived, only seventy percent of the twenty thousand participants remained The eyes of these more than ten thousand apprentice alcheedly stared at their respective glowing screens, continuing to fill in infor Hao was as calm as ever The speed hich he answered the questions caused wang Fanlances at each other

By the fortieth hour, only thirty percent or so of the participants had not given up

By the sixtieth hour, only six thousand re on madly with the exaive up If they looked around, they would see that their co all out, jaws clenched as they pondered the i to recall their habits and characteristics

By the ti had passed, only three thousand participants re questions for four days and four nights with no rest whatsoever They were like

When the one hundredth hour arrived, an older hed up a round His previously gray hair was now completely white The scene caused quite a co apprentice alcheave up

They knew that if they continued, they may very well die here this day They walked off to the side, supported by fellow apprentice alche thousand test takers, their eyes filled with fear and dread They knew full well how fearsome these people were