Chapter 22: The Great Alchemist

  After turning two corners, I saw a Alchemist Guild.

  As a metropolis with millions of people, the Alchemist Guild's building is extremely grand. The huge pill furnace-shaped house is 150 meters high and 90 meters wide, which is a three-hundred-fold enlargement of an ordinary pill furnace (ordinary pill furnaces are only half a meter high and thirty centimeters wide). And this is just the main entrance of the Alchemist Guild, who knows how big it is inside!

  With a thread of excitement in his heart, Long Song prepared to enter the Alchemist Guild, and see what it was like inside.

  "Hey, kid! The Alchemist's Guild isn't a playground, go play somewhere else!" one of the twelve burly men guarding the entrance said to Long Song.

  "I'm here for the Alchemist Certification Exam!" Long Ge said with a smile, his upbringing allowing him to not care that others saw him as just an ordinary kid.

  "Haha!" The twelve burly men guarding the entrance burst into loud laughter, their muscles convulsing wildly as they guffawed. "A little kid thinks he can come take the alchemist exam? Haha!!! It's killing me!!!"

  Long Ge was speechless, and didn't want to say anything to those muscular but simple-minded people at the moment. He took advantage of their tears blurring their vision and slowly walked into the gate!

  "Hey! Kid! Stop right there!" The big man discovered Long Ge had gone in and hastily rushed over, if a kid were to go in and cause trouble, he would be fired!

  Long Song is not something he can catch up to, every time Da Han wants to grab him, Long Song is just a little faster, haha! It's really cool to play with a nine-level master of Qi!

  "Who's making all the noise over there?" A loud voice came, and with this voice, an old man with a white beard and a red face walked over.

  "It's... it was this kid who ran in himself, I'll take him out!" the big man said cautiously, hoping that the old white-bearded man wouldn't blame him.

  White Beard's Profile: Alchemist Guildmaster of the Dragon Empire Local Branch.

  Name: Wolfberry (Haha! Easy to remember, right!)

  Age: 837 years old

  Alchemy level: Third-class mid-grade alchemist (can refine Zhonghun Dan)

  Affable and amiable

  "It's just a little kid! Is it worth catching? Can't you just call him out?" said Huang Qi with a smile.

  "I called him, but he won't come out!" the big man said.

  "Oh!" The Wolfberry Association president started to show some interest "Little friend, what brings you here? Are you looking for someone?" The Wolfberry Association president began to think of a reason for Long Ge's arrival.

  "I'm here for the Alchemist Certification Exam!" Long Ge said loudly!

  At this moment, all the passersby around were stunned, staring at Long Ge, and then they gathered around to watch the excitement!

  "This kid also wants to take the pharmacist certification exam!"

  "Has your brain gone bad at such a young age? What a pity!"

  "It's said that a master alchemist appears only once in ten thousand people and requires ten years of training. Just look at him, he can't be more than six years old!"

  "He must be someone's child, and it's understandable that he wants to become an alchemist."

  It's really uncomfortable being surrounded by people, especially when you're surrounded by a group of people who are much taller than you, it's like a dark and oppressive atmosphere that makes your heart feel suffocated.

  "Boom!" The dragon singer suddenly emitted a fiery orange-red flame from his body, instantly releasing a strong heat that made the people around him disperse. The dragon singer's mood also improved somewhat.

  "Are you really here to take the alchemist certification exam?" Although the head of the Chinese wolfberry had lived for a long time and seen many geniuses, he still didn't think Long Ge would be able to refine pills!

  "Yes, I can take it now!" Long Ge said firmly.

  "Then, come with me!" The head of the wolfberry hesitated for a moment, and still took Long Ge to the examination area. Although these trivial matters were not his turn to do, he really wanted to see the miracle happen!

  The crowd watching from the side also didn't want to miss the miracle happening. Even if a miracle couldn't happen, they could still make fun of it as an after-dinner joke.

  "Hello! What brings you to our examination area in person?" The examiner, a 50- or 60-year-old young man (what can you do? On the Human Continent, people live long lives; those under 100 are considered young, those between 100 and 200 are middle-aged, and only those over 200 are considered elderly!), said respectfully.

  "It's this young friend who wants to come and take the Alchemist Certification Exam!" said Director Gouqi, pointing at Longge standing beside him!

  "Is that a young child from your household?" The young alchemist asked cautiously, as it was not uncommon for families to send their own children to participate in the examination and gain some experience.

  "It's not, this child came by himself. Stop talking nonsense and let the child take the test!" The orange willow elder was getting impatient.

  "Alright." The young alchemist turned his head and asked Long Ge, "Little friend, what kind of first-grade inferior dan do you want to refine?"

  "Can I directly refine a second-grade elixir?" Long Ge's words left the people around him speechless!

  "It won't do, our rules here are to test one level at a time. Otherwise, it would be a waste of medicinal materials!" The young alchemist's implication was that Long Ge wouldn't be able to refine the elixir anyway, so why waste the materials!

  "That's fine!" Long Ge didn't mind "Please give out the questions!"

  "This is the list of first-class inferior Dans, take a look and see which one you want to refine?" The young alchemist handed Long Ge a list, on which were written names such as Xiao Chun Dan, Xiao Li Dan, and Xiao Hui Dan.

  "Let's just refine the Small Cyclic Dan then!" Long Gei glanced around and hastily said, he didn't want to be laughed at for refining some trivial Spring Dan.

  "Xiao Hui Dan is indeed the most difficult to refine among the first-class lower-grade Dans!" Qu Fei said with a smile, he himself was only able to fully master refining first-class middle-grade Dans when he was twenty years old.

  "Oh! Don't worry!" Long Ge said with a smile to the head of the sect, then turned to the young alchemist in charge of the exam and asked "Can we start refining now?"

  "Alright! You come over to this platform. There are only two medicines on this platform. If you succeed once, you pass; if you fail twice, you don't pass!" The young alchemist explained.

  "Alright." Long Song took out his own furnace from the spatial ring and began refining it!

  "Space ring! Must be some rich kid from a wealthy family!"

  "You started practicing without focusing your energy, you really have confidence!"

  "It's probably a mess, I don't believe something so small can refine elixirs!"

  "Just take a look! Don't disturb him!"

  The so-called elixir refining, the most important thing is to purify. For example, a first-class inferior elixir only needs to be purified once, while a first-class middle-grade elixir needs to be purified twice... and so on. To refine a top-grade elixir of the third level, it must be purified nine times. The later it goes, the more difficult the purification becomes!

  Long Song skillfully used a red flame to purify it once (although Long Song's flame color had already reached orange, but in order to conserve his strength, he only used a red flame), and then melted the material, condensing it into a pill!

  "That action is so skilled!" Lian Gudu couldn't help but praise in his heart, haha! After all, Long Ge had been refining elixirs for tens of thousands of years in his past life, it's hard not to be skilled!

  "How fragrant!" The onlookers around couldn't help but exclaim.

  "Alright!" Long Ge clapped his hands carelessly and said with a smile.

  "The entire process only took ten minutes?" The young alchemist was somewhat incredulous! At the very least, it was impossible for him to complete the refinement in such a short period of time, after all, refining the elixir was a meticulous process!

  "Alright!" Long Ge opened the dan furnace. "Take a look at the quality of the dan medicine." Different people refine medicine with different qualities, and the same medicinal materials can produce more round and smooth dan, indicating higher quality.

  "Thirty-six pellets!" The young alchemist exclaimed in disbelief, this was the standard of a perfectly refined elixir! Even for the lowest grade of first-class inferior pellets.

  The onlookers rushed forward with a loud shout, fighting to get a glimpse of Long Song's masterpiece! Long Song tactfully stepped aside.

  "How brilliant!"

  "The smallest alchemist in mainland history!"

  "Yes! Although I don't know what his potential will be like in the future, he has made history!"

  "The future prospects will definitely be boundless!"

  "May I ask, young friend, what's your name? I can immediately help you issue a Level 1 Alchemist Certificate!" The young alchemist said to Long Ge after squeezing out of the crowd.

  "Don't waste extra paper, I want to continue the exam!" Long Ge said!

  "Do you want to take another test?" The people around were shocked, but now they didn't think Long Ge was crazy, instead they hoped to see a miracle again.

  "Alright, here's a list of mid-grade elixirs, pick one yourself!" The young alchemist took out another piece of paper from his spatial ring, haha! Alchemists are really rich, each and every one of them has a spatial ring!

  "No need to look anymore, I've refined the most difficult Zhonghui Dan." Long Ge said confidently.

  Twenty minutes later, when Long Song presented a perfect thirty-six pellets of Zhonghui Dan in front of everyone, people's expressions were truly colorful! There were admiring ones, envious ones, delighted ones, and stunned ones...

  "Can I now write the title of First-Class Intermediate Alchemist on your certificate?" The young alchemist began to fawn over this little kid, such a genius will definitely have a boundless future!

  "Not for now, I still need to continue studying!" Long Ge said calmly.

  ...but the people around were not calm at all.

  "This kid must have been completely taken in!"

  "I think he has this strength!"

  "Are we witnessing the birth of a great alchemist today?"

  As people's discussions grew, more and more people gathered around, and those from other places who heard the news also came rushing over!

  "Are you still refining the most difficult Da Hui Dan?" The young alchemist asked respectfully.

  "Yes." Long Ge's voice was still as calm as ever.

  Twenty minutes later, when a perfectly crafted thirty-six-piece Dahuan pill was placed in front of everyone, even the president of the Lianqiao Association couldn't help but smile, it seemed they had found the right person!

  "Are you saying you want to refine a second-grade lower-tier dan?" The young alchemist asked weakly, if Long Ge could refine it, then his level would be equivalent to his, which is the lowest standard of a Dan Master.

  "Of course!" Long Ge said with a smile.

  What kind of performance will Long Song have next?

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