53. The Monthly Test Begins
In the script, there was no plot of him giving pills to the four girls, but Yan Zhen was very grateful for their care these past few days, so he decided to repay them a little.
For this, he had already thought of an excuse—
“I bought them from a stall. The stall owner didn’t know their value and thought they were just ordinary Wound-Healing Pills, so the asking price was very low.”
In the xuanhuan world, stalls had all kinds of treasures, and the protagonist was especially good at finding top-grade treasures at stalls. Unintentionally finding a few Small Primordial Pills, wasn’t that very normal?
However, the four girls didn’t believe it. Yan Meng’er and Mi Xue’er, who had awakened their memories from their previous lives, as well as Instructor Yu Xuan, quickly associated it with Yan Zhen’s future miraculous alchemy skills.
With their insight and familiarity with Small Primordial Pills, they easily saw that the refining of these Small Primordial Pills was relatively crude and didn’t seem to be made by a veteran.
Could it be that he refined them himself?
Did he specifically take a leave and hide at home to refine pills?
Yan Ruyu also vaguely felt that the pill in her hand might be very meaningful to Yan Zhen, otherwise he wouldn’t be so energetic.
She recalled the scene in her dream where Yan Zhen controlled flames of five colors and refined a pill from a landscape. She wondered if these pills were refined by him? But when did he learn alchemy?
Right! When the clan elder fell ill before, it was Yan Zhen who brought out a fourth-grade pill from somewhere to cure him.
Yan Ruyu suddenly realized: Perhaps Yan Zhen had a fourth-grade alchemist master teaching him behind the scenes!
“This is also my first time seeing the Small Primordial Pill mentioned in books. There are five pills in total, just enough for one each. Take them all.”
Seeing his excitement, the four girls were a hundred percent certain that Yan Zhen had refined these himself.
A novice alchemist, after finally refining Small Primordial Pills, couldn’t wait to share them with them, carrying a little pride and complacency.
— So cute~
The four girls’ gazes towards Yan Zhen suddenly became hazy.
Being silently stared at by them, with very warm eyes, as if taking care of a mentally challenged person, Yan Zhen felt a bit awkward, thinking that there was nothing wrong with his explanation.
The four girls quickly came back to their senses and spoke one after another:
“Thank you, Cousin. Cousin is so good. Meng’er loves Cousin the most~”
“Little brother Yan Zhen actually gave me such a precious pill. Senior sister is so touched. Love you~”
“Thank you. It happens to be useful. I…I won’t stand on ceremony and will accept it.”
“You’re so thoughtful, Yan Zhen.”
Hearing the thanks from the four girls, Yan Zhen’s vanity was satisfied. He even drank two more bowls of porridge, then returned to the crystal space to continue refining pills.
Small Primordial Pills were indeed good things. They could be used all the way to the Mystic Master realm. Refining more of them could be used for both consumption and sale.
Although he didn’t need to recoup the cost.
…
At night, three auras of Mystic Disciples spread out in the mansion and took a long time to retract.
Instructor Yu Xuan knew that her three disciples had all advanced.
As for her, she had been at the five-star Mystic Master level for some time. Let’s take this opportunity to advance.
After staring at the Small Primordial Pill in her palm for a while, Instructor Yu Xuan reluctantly put the pill into her mouth.
In fact, one Small Primordial Pill was not enough to support her breakthrough, so Instructor Yu Xuan had also prepared other pills.
By dawn, she had become a six-star Mystic Master.
…
Yan Zhen didn’t expect that their efficiency would be so high, advancing in just one day.
“There is one week left until the monthly test. Everyone should prepare well.” Instructor Yu Xuan began to lecture, “The monthly test lasts for two days and includes four parts. First is the theory test, second is the cultivation test, third is the mystic technique test, and fourth is the combat test.”
The theory test was a centralized written exam.
For the cultivation test, one just needed to touch the test stone tablet on stage. Those who met the cultivation standard would be promoted to the next class.
For the mystic technique test, one would perform the mystic techniques learned in class on stage, mostly the “Void-Breaking Seal,” because it best tested the students’ mystic power intensity and control ability.
For the combat test, it was a one-on-one battle against a Mystic Scholar puppet holding a light shield. Breaking the shield head-on or attacking the vital spots marked with red dots would result in victory. The faster one won, the higher the score.
The total scores of the four tests would be ranked. The top one hundred would receive pill rewards of varying amounts, and the top ten could also freely choose a mystic technique from the academy’s book pavilion.
The week before the monthly test was free cultivation time, with no classes. The three girls all stayed in the mansion to consolidate their cultivation, and Instructor Yu Xuan would guide them from time to time, occasionally going out to guide Xiao Xinyan as well.
As for Yan Zhen, he was still refining pills.
The monthly test was not difficult for him at all and required no preparation.
In this “Mystic Academy” plot of the script, the only things that could make him take it seriously were reaching the top of the Nine Star List and the graduation assessment.
The days passed by one by one, and soon it was the end of the month. The monthly test began.
Yan Zhen’s leave ended, and he returned to the academy with the three girls. The system also issued a task.
First was the theory test, with four questions in half an hour.
They were all basic questions about the Mystic Disciple realm. Students who had attended classes even a little could get high scores.
Yan Zhen happened to be the part that didn’t attend classes, so he would lose points on it.
Although he was familiar with the script and understood the setting, in order to meet the acting requirements, he controlled his score to around eighty.
After the theory test, it was the cultivation test.
The test venue was moved to the testing plaza. Starting from student number one in each level’s class 1, they went on stage to test their cultivation.
Among them, four-star Mystic Disciples from the junior class could enter the intermediate class, seven-star Mystic Disciples from the intermediate class could enter the advanced class, and nine-star Mystic Disciples from the advanced class could be listed on the Nine Star List.
As for the Mystic Scholar-level seniors who were about to graduate, they no longer needed to participate in the monthly test and only had to wait for people from the Sacred Land Academy to pick them up.
“Intermediate Class 1, student number eighteen, Mi Xue’er, nineteen years old, six-star Mystic Disciple, evaluation: Good!”
“Intermediate Class 1, student number nineteen, Yan Ruyu, nineteen years old, six-star Mystic Disciple, evaluation: Good!”
The two academy flowers of the intermediate class went on stage one after another, attracting everyone’s attention. Gazes of fiery passion fell on them.
The two academy flowers were not only beautiful but also talented. They were the dream girls of many male students in the Mystic Academy. There were even some ignorant people in the audience who shouted “I like you” and then had their test qualifications canceled by the discipline instructors and were thrown out of the testing plaza.
“Intermediate Class 1, student number forty-nine, Yan Zhen, sixteen years old, six-star Mystic Disciple, evaluation: Top-notch!”
When the young instructor in charge of hosting excitedly reported Yan Zhen’s cultivation, the students of the intermediate class below the stage were in an uproar.
They had long paid attention to Yan Zhen. After all, he was the only male student accepted by Instructor Yu Xuan and was so close to several academy flowers, making people envious and jealous.
They remembered that he was a five-star Mystic Disciple when he enrolled. In just one month, he had already advanced a star? The speed was too fast!
The “top-notch” evaluation was very rare, meaning that he would definitely enter the Mystic Scholar realm before the age of twenty. It could be said to be an honor worthy of being recorded in the academy’s history!
“Intermediate Class 2, student number thirty-eight, Xiao Shi, seventeen years old, five-star Mystic Disciple, evaluation: Excellent!”
Xiao Shi clenched his fists, looking at Yan Zhen who was surrounded by Yan Ruyu, Mi Xue’er, and other girls, his face full of envy and unwillingness.
He took a deep breath, thinking that the following mystic technique test and combat test would determine who was stronger.
“Intermediate Class 3, student number two, Lan Guang, twenty years old, seven-star Mystic Disciple, evaluation: Good!”
Hearing the two words “Lan Guang,” Yan Zhen looked up.
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