novelHire Chapter 160: Breaking into the Alchemist Alliance (1/2)
Chapter 160: Breaking into the Alchemist Alliance (1/2)
Xuanfeng King City, inner city, outside the branch of the Great Zhou Alchemist Alliance.
Li Yanxin's clone, dressed in blue, walked in.
This is a new clone split from the clone that bears Su Han's identity.
Otherwise, if Li Yan's true body were to send a clone here, it would probably take several months according to the current chaotic world.
A man relies on his clothes, and a horse relies on its saddle. Li Yan is dressed in luxurious clothes, and he looks like a young man from a wealthy family.
Looking at his confident and calm expression, the gate guard who knew countless people was even more sure.
So, when Li Yan approached, the man quickly bowed and said, "Master, please come in."
Li Yan nodded symbolically, and then threw a gold leaf to the other party. Looking at the gold leaf on the ground, the guard bent even more.
Although Li Yan could no longer see him at this time.
But the guard insisted on his attitude. If he saluted the other party, he would get a gold leaf worth dozens of taels of silver. If he could continue like this, he would be willing to bend his back.
The guard opposite him looked at him with envy and jealousy, feeling regretful in his heart.
You know, although the people who come in and out of here are either high-ranking officials or noble alchemists, their status is low, and few people will look at them seriously.
And their role is actually to symbolically look at the door.
Although they all have the strength of the blood exchange realm, how can this strength be seen here? If someone really dares to make trouble, there will be experts who will take action.
After Li Yan entered, someone immediately greeted him.
This is a beautiful-looking woman, wearing a maid uniform embroidered with an alchemy furnace pattern. She is obviously a maid here.
In the entire alliance branch hall, Li Yan saw that everyone who came in, regardless of gender, would have such a maid beside them.
There are more maids in the same clothes waiting next to the door. Once a guest comes in, the first maid will immediately greet him.
"Hello, young master, you look a little strange. Do you want to ask for elixirs or do you want to test the alchemy master?"
The maid next to Li Yan asked softly, and her voice was very pleasant to the ear.
Whether it is an alliance branch or a sub-division, its functions generally have three types.
First, assess the alchemists and accept those with formal alchemist abilities for the Alchemy Alliance. Anyone who becomes an alchemist in the Alchemy Alliance is considered to have joined the Alchemy Alliance;
Second, to refine specific elixirs for people. After all, no one will come to the Dan Alliance to ask for ordinary elixirs. This function can be expanded, that is, to refine a large amount of elixirs, you can also go to the Dan Alliance;
Third, there is a fee for providing alchemy sites for alchemists from other places. The higher the level of the alchemist, the lower the fee.
Li Yan did not wear any sign indicating his identity as an alchemist, so the maid did not ask about the third situation.
"I'm here to examine the alchemist and lead the way. This is a reward for you."
After speaking, Li Yan took out three gold leaves and threw them into the maid's arms.
Li Yan likes to reward beautiful women more. Anyway, gold and silver are of little use to him now.
After receiving the three gold leaves with lingering warmth, the maid showed an expression of surprise on her face, and her attitude towards Li Yan became more enthusiastic: "Please come here, and I will take you to evaluate the alchemist."
Although the maids received more rewards than the guards because of their beautiful appearance and sweet voices, there were too many maids, and generous guests like Li Yan were rare.
Someone like Li Yan might not receive a reward once a month, and the most reward she received was only twenty taels of silver.
The three gold leaves given by Li Yan were worth more than a hundred taels.
Dazhou's gold leaves are all standard. The leaf prototype is a very common evergreen tree in Dazhou. Because of its evergreen leaves all year round, the weight of the gold leaves is also controlled to the standard four taels.
The ratio of gold to silver is more than one to ten.
The maid led the way, twisting her waist while introducing the rules for evaluating alchemists to Li Yan.
Li Yan admired and listened to the other party's detailed explanation.
When Li Yan was taken to a room on the second floor, all the rules had just been explained, which made Li Yan secretly praise the other party's professionalism.
The maid came to the door of the room with the sign "Alchemy Assessment", knocked carefully three times, and then said respectfully: "Dear Alchemist Wu, a young man wants to take the alchemy assessment. You see, you have time here. ”
After waiting for about three breaths, a somewhat vicissitudes of voice came from inside: "Let him come in."
Upon hearing this, the maid quickly opened the door carefully and made a gesture to Li Yan to come in.
"Sir, please come in. I hope you can get what you want this time and become a distinguished alchemist."
The maid whispered.
In response, Li Yan smiled and said, "I'd like to lend you some good words."
Then, he gave the other party a gold leaf as a tip and walked in.
This tip is useful. The Royal City Alchemy Alliance branch can be said to be the branch with the largest number of registered alchemists besides the Alchemy Alliance headquarters in Medicine Dao.
Among them, there are naturally many alchemists who are qualified to take the alchemy test. Some of them have bad tempers and their passing rate is not high.
Some standards are looser, and the passing rate is higher.
These are all unspoken rules in the Dan Alliance. People who are not here don’t know these very well.
With these tips from Li Yan, the maid specially selected an alchemist for him who currently has the highest passing rate.
The maid who received the tip again had a brighter smile on her face.
When Li Yan entered, she closed the door outside.
After the door was closed, she began to dance in the empty corridor without caring about her image.
She did not return to her dignified appearance until footsteps were heard, and she quietly stood guard at the door.
On Li Yan's side, after entering the door, he saw a man in a white robe reading a book on a chair.
This man had long hair and beard, and his temples were gray. He looked quite old.
The whole room was not small, but it seemed quite empty. Apart from this man, there was only an alchemy furnace, a covered ground fire mouth, and a bookshelf behind this man.
When the door was closed by the maid outside, this man raised his head buried in the book, looked at Li Yan, and smiled faintly: "You are the young man who will take the elixir test this time, right?"
Li Yan nodded quickly and said: "Yes, Master Wu Dan."
The maid had called this man's name at the door before, so Li Yan used it directly at this time.
Master Wu put down the book on his hand, stroked his long beard, and said, "You know the rules, right?"
"The maid just explained the rules to me in detail, I know them."
Li Yan replied.
There are not many rules for this alchemy assessment, only three.
First, you have to pay the material fee before refining the elixir, and you can take the elixir away directly after refining it.
Second, the success rate must be around 30% to have a relatively high hope of passing the assessment. Of course, some strict examiners will even increase this success rate to nearly 40%.
In the name of selecting more outstanding talents for the Alchemy League, rather than letting any cats and dogs enter the Alchemy League.
After passing the assessment, you must sign a contract with the Alchemy League to guarantee that you will complete a task in the Alchemy League within one year.
Third, after completing the task, you will get Alchemy League points, which can be exchanged for many precious things from the Alchemy League's treasure house.
If you don't sign, it means that you are unwilling to join the Alchemy League. The Alchemy League will naturally not recognize your identity as an alchemist, and will also put this person on the Alchemy League blacklist.
The reason for doing so is that the contract will be informed before the other party takes the alchemist assessment.
If you disagree, you can completely not participate in the alchemist assessment.
Now that you have passed the assessment, but suddenly changed your mind, it will naturally cause the Alchemy Alliance to dislike you.
After all, becoming a formal alchemist in the Alchemy Alliance has various preferential benefits in the Alchemy Alliance.
A person who only wants to enjoy benefits and does not want to bear obligations will be disliked by any organization.
Hearing that Li Yan already knew the rules of the alchemy assessment, Master Wu nodded, then stood up and took out a book from the bookshelf behind him and handed it to Li Yan.
"There are thirty-six common first-grade lower-grade elixirs on the market. Pick one of them that you are familiar with and use it as your target for this assessment."
Li Yan couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he heard it. This Master Wu is indeed a good person. No wonder his assessment pass rate is the highest.
If it were those strict and old-fashioned examiners, I'm afraid they would limit a few elixirs or even specify them.
It only took a cup of tea for Li Yan to choose his goal for this assessment.
Li Yan spread the page on the table and showed it to Master Wu Dan: "Master Wu Dan, I choose to refine this elixir."
Master Wu Dan picked up the book on the table and took a look. He saw that the elixir recorded on it was called [Qi Enhancement Pill], which was a kind of elixir commonly chosen by innate warriors in the early stage.
[Qi Enhancement Pill] generally has five types, which are divided according to the five elements, namely [Fire Qi Enhancement Pill], [Water Qi Enhancement Pill], etc.
The number of [Qi Enhancement Pill] with special attributes is very small, and the price is also very high, and it needs to be purchased with spirit beads.
The five elements [Qi Enhancement Pill] can be purchased with silver, which is why it is commonly chosen by innate warriors.
Silver is much easier to make than spirit beads.
"The medicinal materials for one [Qi-enhancing Pill] cost two thousand taels of silver. The assessment requires three materials, and one success is enough, so you need to pay six thousand taels of silver."
As soon as Wu Danshi finished speaking, Li Yan had already counted out a stack of silver notes and placed them in front of Wu Danshi.
Seeing Li Yan's straightforwardness, Wu Danshi nodded with satisfaction, counted, and the number was correct.
Then he called the maid waiting outside in, handed the silver notes to her, and asked her to go to the medicinal materials warehouse of the Dan League branch to get three fresh [Qi-enhancing Pill] medicinal materials.
After the maid left, Wu Danshi began to record Li Yan's personal information.
"Name," Wu Danshi, who was sitting behind the table, asked and wrote with a brush in his hand.
"Xiao Yan."
When Master Wu heard the name Li Yan reported, he could not help but look at Li Yan seriously and asked tentatively: "Dan Wang Xiao Family?"
Li Yan waved his hand quickly and said with a wry smile: "I dare not associate with Dan Wang Family, we just have the same surname."
Seeing this, Master Wu nodded with some disappointment, and then continued to ask for Li Yan's information.
Dan Wang Xiao Family, a first-class family in Xuanfeng King City, the reason why Xiao Family is called Dan Wang is that in the past, there was a long period of time when Xiao Family successively produced three fifth-grade alchemists and won the title of the leader of the Great Zhou Alchemist Alliance for three consecutive terms.
So, Xiao Family has an additional title of Dan Wang.
When the information fabricated by Li Yan was basically recorded by Master Wu, the knock on the door also sounded.
After the "knock knock knock" sound, a female voice that Li Yan was familiar with was heard: "Master Wu Dan, I have brought the herbs you requested."
Master Wu Dan said without raising his head: "Come in."
The maid walked in carefully, put the herbs next to the alchemy furnace, bowed to the two people, and then left.
When the door was closed again, Master Wu Dan finally finished recording all of Li Yan's information.
"The three medicinal materials have been processed. You can start refining the elixir."
"I will observe the whole process and record it."
As he said this, Master Wu put down the brush in his hand, opened the drawer of the table in front of him, and took out something that looked like a mirror.
Then, he stood up and walked to the alchemy furnace. Li Yan was already sitting cross-legged in the position where the alchemist was refining the elixir.
Master Wu took out a spirit bead from his arms and embedded it behind the mirror. The mirror instantly emitted a white light, and after a breath, the white light disappeared.
Master Wu pointed the mirror at Li Yan who was refining the elixir, and then explained: "This is a spiritual tool called [Image Transmission Mirror], which can transmit the image and sound of your alchemy to the headquarters and store it."
"This is to prevent some examiners and candidates from colluding to cheat, so we specially purchased this spiritual tool."
"Every month, the headquarters of the Alchemy League will check these images. If anyone is found to be cheating, the examiner and the candidate will be deprived of the title of alchemist and will never be able to enter the Alchemy League."
"So, even if you don't pass the assessment this time, don't think about bribing me."
After Master Wu finished reading the script, he announced: "The assessment begins."
At the same time, the [Image Transmission Mirror] made a buzzing sound, and it was obviously working.
Li Yan had no intention of bribing the examiner. Seeing this, he took a deep breath and began to concentrate on refining the elixir.
As soon as he touched the elixir furnace, Li Yan knew that this elixir furnace was a spiritual tool-level elixir furnace, because the true qi could circulate in the elixir furnace.
The reason why a spiritual weapon is a spiritual weapon is that the material used to forge it is a spiritual material, and only materials that can carry true qi can be called spiritual materials.
Ordinary weapons or alchemy furnaces may have harder materials than some spiritual materials, but once they are infused with true qi, their internal structure will undergo fundamental changes and be damaged.
Spiritual weapons can not only carry true qi, but also become more powerful with the blessing of true qi.
With the spiritual furnace in hand, Li Yan is more confident about this alchemy test.
Preheat the alchemy furnace before refining the elixir, especially when it is the first time to refine the elixir.
So, Li Yan opened the lid covering the ground fire, placed the alchemy furnace on the blazing ground fire, and began to adjust the size of the ground fire and preheat the alchemy furnace after the fire element true qi was exhaled.
There is a mechanism to adjust the size of the flame next to the ground fire, but that is only used by acquired warriors, and innate warriors will use true qi to adjust the size of the flame.
This can make the temperature more flexible and increase the success rate of extracting the essence of medicinal materials, which is equivalent to increasing the success rate of pill formation.
If it is a strange fire, the success rate will be even higher. The most basic property of strange fire is that the temperature is at will, not to mention that each strange fire has its own different characteristics.
After the furnace was preheated, Li Yan began to put in medicinal materials to extract the essence of the medicinal properties.
To refine a [Qi Enhancement Pill], a total of twenty-one medicinal materials are needed, twenty of which are ordinary medicines, and only the main material is a spiritual medicine called [Spirit Absorbing Grass].
In the process of serious alchemy, time always passes quickly.
When a burst of the fragrance of the pill floated out of the alchemy furnace, about two quarters of an hour had passed.
The joy on Li Yan's face flashed, and with a wave of his sleeves, the lid of the alchemy furnace was lifted aside.
Then, under Li Yan's control, the five [Qi Enhancement Pills] in the alchemy furnace came into his palm.
The whole process, Wu Danshi has been recording with the [Transmission Mirror].
It was not until Li Yan handed the [Qi Enhancement Pill], which was still steaming in his palm, to Master Wu that he turned off the [Video Mirror].
The [Video Mirror] flashed red, and the spirit beads in the spirit bead slot behind the mirror were taken down by Master Wu.
Putting away the spirit beads, Master Wu looked at Li Yan with admiration and praised: "Master Xiao Yan, your alchemy skills are very skilled and experienced. I can see that you have put a lot of effort in."
"You can succeed in refining the pill in one go. Even though I have tested many alchemists, few can do it. You are very good."
"And you are so young, only in your early thirties, and you have already achieved innate cultivation. The future belongs to you young people."
At the end, Master Wu touched his beard mixed with some white, and couldn't help sighing.
Li Yan reported his own age information to him as 33 years old, and his cultivation information was that he was an innate warrior in the early stage of practicing the fire method.
Li Yan was not sure what to say, so he modestly said, "Maybe I felt better today, so I performed exceptionally well?"
Then he changed the subject and pointed to the remaining two [Qi-boosting Pill] ingredients, "Should I continue to refine these two ingredients?"
Looking at the two ingredients Li Yan pointed to, Wu Danshi thought for a while, and then said to Li Yan, "The Dan League has a rule that the ingredients and pills that have left the warehouse cannot be put back."
"So, you can take these ingredients back, or you can continue to refine pills here. Anyway, you have passed the assessment, so there is no need to rush."
Li Yan chose to refine pills on the spot: "Then I'd better refine these two ingredients into pills. It's not very convenient to take the ingredients out."
So, Li Yan spent half an hour refining two furnaces of pills. One furnace failed, and the other furnace produced six pills.
The reason why the pills were improved was because Wu Xingyun, a third-grade alchemist, was there to give instructions.
Wu Xingyun had not told Li Yan his full name before because Li Yan was not yet an official alchemist of the Alchemy League.
Now that Li Yan had passed the alchemy test and had already stepped half a foot into the Alchemy League, Wu Xingyun became much closer to him.
After collecting the eleven [Qi-boosting Pills], Li Yan began to complete the last step of becoming a formal alchemist of the Dan League accompanied by Wu Xingyun.
Signing the contract and awarding the alchemist badge.
This process cannot be done by Wu Xingyun alone, and someone at the level of an elder of the Dan League branch must come forward.
There are a total of five elders in the Dan League branch of Xuanfeng King City, all of whom are fourth-grade alchemists, and their cultivation is also in the Condensed Evil Realm.
Wu Xingyun is looking for the third elder Xiao Zhenyun, a member of the Dan King Xiao family.
Perhaps Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhenyun have the same surname. In Xiao Zhenyun's opinion, maybe they were from the same family five hundred years ago, so Xiao Zhenyun is very kind to Li Yan.
In his words, he highly praised Li Yan for being humble.
Then, he gave the green light to the whole process. It took less than an hour for Li Yan's name to be entered into the list of alchemists of the Dan League.
At the same time, a alchemist badge with Xiao Yan's name engraved on the back also came into Li Yan's hands.
Li Yan became the 1,185th registered formal alchemist of the Xuanfeng King City Danmeng Branch.
When he heard the news, Li Yan was surprised for a while. How could there be so many formal alchemists?
Then he figured it out. Xuanfeng King City is too big. The inner city alone has nearly one million people, and the outer city is more than ten times the inner city population.
Among so many people, even if the people in the inner city are excluded, at least millions of people will embark on the path of cultivation. No one will be content with being ordinary.
As long as there is an opportunity to practice, even if it is to work like a cow or a horse, there will be a lot of people rushing to do it.
With a huge base, the number of masters must be endless, and the demand for elixirs is also terrifying.
Thinking about it this way, more than a thousand formal alchemists are a little too few.
"Oh, are you going to work in the Danmeng?"
Xiao Zhenyun looked at Li Yan and asked curiously.
Li Yan gave a good reason: "There is also a branch of the Dan League in our family. The reason why I came to Wangcheng is because I heard that there are many alchemists in Wangcheng and they are strong. I feel that only here can I make faster progress."
Li Yan's words echoed in his ears, which made him compare Li Yan with his younger generations. He found that at this age, although the alchemy level of the younger generations in his family was high, their temperaments were also very proud. They were not as humble and motivated as Li Yan.
This naturally made Xiao Zhenyun appreciate Li Yan more and more.
"However, newcomers who have just joined the company will have a harder time and will not have as much freedom as the alchemists. Let me ask you again, are you sure you want to join our Wangcheng Dan League branch?"
Li Yan's answer was very affirmative: "I am sure."
"Okay, I will arrange for someone to arrange for you to go through the entry procedures later."
Xiao Zhenyun stepped forward and patted Li Yan's shoulder kindly.
With the words of the elders, the procedures were completed quickly, and Li Yan became a member of the Wangcheng Dan League branch.
At night, Li Yan even slept in the house assigned to him in the Wangcheng Danmeng branch.