Alchemies

chapter 4 alchemists

He opened his eyes in the room at the tavern. As soon as he did, he heard his stomach rumble.

"I'm hungry too?"

Fortunately, he was already in a tavern, so he walked to the ground floor and ordered a bowl of soup for himself. It cost one Silver, but he didn't care about his money at the moment.

He listened to the conversations of various people in the tavern and obtained information that was of interest to him. Hong Wu Sect is holding an entrance examination tomorrow.

At dinner, the three people told him that he had to find the sect as quickly as possible. 'If they really take the test, then I should give it a try as well.' He thinks.

He walked up to the people who were talking about this and asked, "Hello, can you tell me where exactly this examination is done?"

"I suggest you don't bother, Brother. The Hong Wu Sect was an alchemy sect, so it was extremely difficult to enter it. But, if you still want to know, it will take place around 8am in Hong Wu. Sect."

'Alchemy?' he was confused because he had never heard of the term before. "I have to check it out in the morning."

He returned to his room after eating and thought, "It's late at night. So, I better not get out, right? Why don't I take this opportunity to cultivate just."

He sat down cross-legged on the bed and started meditating. Slowly, she began to get sleepy, and before she realized it, she lost consciousness and entered a trance state.

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Alex suddenly woke up. He did not realize when he was asleep in the game, but when he woke up, the time had already shown at 6 am.

"Where am I?" he became confused for a moment before he realized that he was still in the game. “But, I fell asleep, how am I still in the game?” he's confused. After he stopped thinking about it, he logged out.

Alex dropped out of the game and realized his body was not tired at all. In fact, he felt quite rested. 'So sleeping in the game actually works.' He was very surprised.

He takes a shower and waits for people to log out. All along, he had decided to check out what alchemy was really about. According to the Internet, Alchemy in Immortal Cultivation was the process of pill making.

“Hmm... In addition to artifacts, Pills is one of the most expensive items in the game, Immortal Cultivation.” He read what the information outlet told him. She hung up the phone when her roommate started waking up and went for breakfast.

After breakfast, he wanted to come back to play, so he did. He looked at the time and realized that he only had 45 minutes to get to Hong Wu Sect.

He hurriedly went to the tavern and asked the directions to his guard. The guard instructions were simple. Hong Wu Sect in the North and Tiger Sect in the south of Scarlet City. When Alex asked him what the Tiger sect was, he discovered that it was a place where ordinary cultivators joined.

“So there are 2 sects in this Scarlet City huh. I still like the idea of joining an Alchemy sect, compared to other normal sects.” He said to himself.

He quickly walked to the north, asking for directions to the Hong Wu sect along the way. When he finally reached Hong Wu sect, he was shocked.

Alex is now outside the gate. Outside the gate, he could see a tall mountain with many houses on it. That mountain was the sect grounds in Hong Wu sect.

Time was running out, so he immediately registered himself at the gate and directed to the large tent inside the gate. Alex saw his paper which was a registration slip. It only had the number 174, along with its name Yu Ming and the age of 18.

He almost reflexively said Alex but held back at the last second. He walked into the large tent and sat in the open on the ground, among the many people who were all sitting symmetrically.

Immediately, an important-looking man, in his late 20s walked into the tent. He was wearing a green robe with a silver lining. As soon as he entered, several dozen younger-looking men and women entered.

Everyone listen, the man said as he stood on the podium. “I'm your tester, and I'll do your test here.” The man pointed to the side.

The group of men and women who entered walked around the place and handed each of them a storage bag and a piece of paper.

"You have an hour to name 100 ingredients in it. If you can name more than 50, you graduate. Make sure the amulet you answer also has your registration number and your name." He said the man left the tent. However, someone else stood there, watching the different examinees work on their exams.

Alex tried to pull out each ingredient to see what it was called, but each time it was just written [???????]. The game didn't help at all.

“They said the exam was tough,” her sigh while stopping to think about the exam and instead starting to see the setting through things. He wasted another 15 minutes in that.

"Inventory" he said in a low voice. A blue panel appeared in front of him that did indeed have over a hundred items. He randomly picked one to see what his name was, but still called ??????.

'Sigh,' he was about to close his inventory when he realized something. In the first box of inventory, there is a book icon.

“Cultivation method?” he wonders. He tried clicking on the description but accidentally clicked on learn.

"Huh, Alchemy?" he's dumbfounded.

“Cultivation Method,” he said and a list of cultivation methods appeared. There's only one. 'But is it a book?' he's confused.

'Ah right, didn't the treasure give me a technique as well. I completely forgot about that. Is this a technique?'

He opened the technique panel, and in the studied section, he could see the book icon. He clicked on it and opened the description.

[Achemical God Guidelines: Level 1

Value: Mortal (Growth)

Unlocked: You have knowledge of all alchemical materials.

Unlocked: Can learn any alchemy recipe instantly.

Unlocked: +50% chance of producing additional pills during alchemy.

Level 2 is required to unlock more]

"growth? Whatdoes thatmean? This technique can level up?" he wondered, but he didn't care about it for now. The thing that caught his attention was the first thing that opened,

'Unlocked: You have knowledge of all alchemical materials.'

"What does that mean…?" he began to have a glimmer of hope and anticipation that appeared deep within him. He took inventory and looked at his name.

[Bluethorn Leaf]

"Yes," he shouted slowly.

[Turtle Root Grass]

[Aquatic Berry]

It's working. He took the paper to start writing his names. There was no pen, but he realized he could write in it what he wanted just by thinking about it.

As he began to write down his name, a strange pattern began to appear on a piece of paper. It took him a few minutes to mention all the ingredients in the bag.

At exactly 9, the man returned to the tent and shouted, "Time is up, everyone put your answers in the bag and give them to your seniors."

After handing over his bag, Alex walked out. He heard that they could come tomorrow at 8 to see the results.

Alex took his time walking back to the tavern and came out when he got to his room. It took him an hour to get back, so by the time he logged out, it was almost 10 in the morning.

As he got out of his bed, he heard Logan yell, "Yes. I've succeeded. I broke through to the True Realm."

"Are you on pills?" Eric asked.

"No. The price is too expensive. The alchemists took around 50 dollars for even the lowest. I wouldn't waste my money on it unless it was indispensable.

Alex did not participate in the celebration. Instead, he looked at his phone that had a new notification. It was a message from his cousin.