Chapter 43 - Very Slow… Very Slow...
“It cannot be… He is the Little Turtle!!” Everyone was in an uproar.
Compared to everyone else, the person who was shocked the most was Xu Baocai. He looked dumbstruck at Bai Xiaochun. His eyeballs felt as if they were going to pop out of their sockets. He had just scorned Bai Xiaochun in his heart for not taking the third volume of the spirit beasts seriously, but looking back, Bai Xiaochun didn’t really need to take it seriously……
“Mastery of herbs, mastery of spirit beasts… By being here, Bai Xiaochun is clearly ridiculing me now! However, this is too unbelievable, he has only been in the sect for a few years… He couldn’t possibly be the Little Turtle?” Xu Baocai took a deep breath. He quickly retrieved the small notebook and recorded everything. Deep down in his heart, he was thankful that his resentment towards the other party had already dissipated, and that the scorn in his voice wasn’t too obvious.
While everyone was still shocked, Bai Xiaochun stepped away from the arch with a sigh. In reality, if there was no need to reveal his attainments in the ten herb and spirit beast steles, he wouldn’t have exposed them either. After all, among Zhou Xinqi’s admirers, there are inner sect disciples as well.
But he didn’t have a choice today. He couldn’t let such reasons stop him from being promoted. Although he was annoyed, seeing everyone’s expressions and hearing their voices, Bai Xiaochun couldn’t help but feel touched.
“They really are a good bunch of fellow sect disciples. If everyone was like this, how nice would that be!” That was how Bai Xiaochun felt as he walked away from the arch. Under everyone’s gaze, he chose a pill furnace and sat down.
Elder Xu glanced thoughtfully at Bai Xiaochun, the corner of his lips giving away a hint of a smile which quickly disappeared. Calming down once again, he lightly spoke.
“There are ten herbs in the bags in front of you. The Grade One medicine which is to be refined ten times is the Black Incense!”
“Using the success rate as the basis for the assessment, two successes and you qualify. To the candidate who refines the most… The reward is five thousand contribution points. Begin.”
As soon as Elder Xu’s words reached them, the outer sect disciples observing the assessment were shocked.
“The assessment this time is actually Black Incense!”
“Even though this Black Incense is not the most difficult herb to refine amongst those in the first grade, the level of difficulty is not to be underestimated….. It is not like the Dried Incense that a lot of Spirit Children have practiced beforehand.”
“Humph, even a better way to test a person’s herb refining abilities. Have all of you failed to notice that the previously required fourth volume of herbs has already turned into the fifth volume? And now the increase in the level of difficulty for the medicine shows the examination’s difficulty will only increase more in the future.”
While everyone was whispering among themselves, the participants, who were sitting in front of their pill furnaces, were awaiting their assessment with composed expressions. Although many felt like crying in their hearts when they heard ‘Black Incense’, they did not have the luxury to be distracted. All of them quickly opened the bags and inspected the herbs.
Despite having heard of the five thousand contribution points reward from Xu Baocai, after hearing Elder Xu’s words, Bai Xiaochun felt his heart racing. He did not have many contribution points left and regardless of whether it was to purchase medicine recipes or to purchase herbs itself, it all required contribution points.
“If I can obtain the five thousand contribution points, it will save me a lot of work. I won’t need to think of ways to earn more for a while.” As Bai Xiaochun’s thoughts reached this point, he opened the bag in front of him. Besides the ten sets of herbs inside, there was also a jade piece. Pinching it in his hands, it turned out to be the medicine recipe for the Black Incense.
Bai Xiaochun did not immediately start refining the herbs. He concentrated, attentively examining the medicine recipe.
He inspected it very slowly. This was related to his habit of refining herbs. Even if it was just a minuscule problem, he felt the need to overcome it first in order to feel prepared.
This inspection took him an hour.
In this hour, Du Lingfei and the others had already completed their inspections of the herbs and had started refining them. In fact, they acted so fast that the first half of the sets had already been refined.
Looking at the whole arena, with the exception of Bai Xiaochun, the rest were all already refining their herbs. It was only Bai Xiaochun who was still inspecting the jade piece in his hands. This strange scene surprised the observing outer sect disciples, including Xu Baocai.
It was at this time that bursts of muffled rumbles rang out, showing the results of the first batches of medicine. Besides Bai Xiao