74 Chapter 74 – Capital City (2/2)

She calmed down seeing everyone looking at her and asked Zhu Xuan to confirm if she heard right ”You are really a 15 year old rogue cultivator here for mid grade apprentice alchemist test?”

Zhu Xuan was puzzled at why this girl acting like this and said with a clear tone ”Yes, that's right. Register for my test.”

Zhu Xuan's surroundings burst in laughter once he finished speaking and everyone had a derisive smile looking at him. Zhu Xuan frowned at their reaction when Li Niu spoke in a low tone ”No one has ever seen a rogue cultivator to be well versed in alchemy at such a young age, only cultivators of major clans are good at alchemy at your age and they are considered talented in alchemy.”

Now he understood why the crowd around him reacted that way and calmed down. He smiled at her and said ”Thanks for explaining it to me. Can you please register for my test now?”

She nodded animatedly and entered his detail in a sheet with a seal and gave it to him ”Go inside the hall and enter the second hall from the left.”

He thanked her again and entered the hall and found multiple doors on both sides and understood each door is for different grade of test and entered the second door in the left.

The crowd didn't disperse and waited for him to come out believing he will make a fool out of himself in the test.

One hour later Zhu Xuan walked out of the room and the crowd started laughing seeing him come out, but the next second the entire place became silent because an old man followed behind him to send him off with cupped hands and said ”Looking forward to seeing you soon again Alchemist Shen.”

Li Niu and the rest of the crowd's eyes were wide open seeing this scene because they know the old man was the examiner who is a master alchemist.

No one could blame them for laughing when Zhu Xuan came out at first because the exam took place for one hour and then there is the procedure of verifying the quality of the pill and if he succeeded, he would receive a token with his name and grade engraved which will take some time. So once he came out exactly an hour later everyone thought he failed.

If they knew that Zhu Xuan actually finished the exam in less than half the time and forming a pill of peak grade, they would be so shocked they would have spit blood.

After gaining the Bodhi essence fire, he has incredible control over fire to the extent he felt like it is a part of him like moving his hands. With his incredible control and practice for the past two months and his fire enhanced by essence fire, his pill concocting time has reduced a lot and the grade of pill also improved faster than his usual practice.

The old man was so shocked when he saw the fire control of Zhu Xuan and the speed he is refining the ingredients and concocting the pill and was amazed. He was even more shocked when he saw the final product was a peak grade pill and immediately sent message to the manager of the pavilion about the situation.

The manager asked him to maintain a good relationship with Zhu Xuan and try to rope him to join the Heaven's alchemy pavilion. This is the reason for the old man's respect for Zhu Xuan

Even though she already know, Li Niu approached him and asked stuttering ”Shikong… Alchemist Shen did you pass the test?”

Zhu Xuan just smiled and took the token out to show her, an iron token with two stars and his name below it. Everyone saw the token and thought ”Where did this guy pop out from with such a talent?”

He kept the token back in his pocket, nodded at her with a smile and walked out of the alchemy pavilion in a steady pace.