Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Refinement

"Hey, Old Ao, you brought someone here too?" When the atmosphere in the hall was a little quiet, an old laughter broke it. Moving his gaze along the voice, Xiao Yan found that on a high platform on the left side of the hall, some old men in robes of alchemists were standing on it with a smile, and the previous voice was exactly one of them. Sent by an old man with white hair. "That's the vice president of the guild, Qie Mier, who is also the teacher of the little princess." Smiling and raising his hand with the old man, Otto tilted his head and whispered to Xiao Yan.

"En." Xiao Yan nodded slightly. "Don't worry about the eyes of those guys. To be able to become a third-grade pharmacist at this age is naturally someone with outstanding talent. Some arrogance is natural. If they haven't reached their level, they won't pay too much attention to it. Young people with some skills , Most of them are like this." Otto glanced at the young people in the hall, patted Xiao Yan on the shoulder, and comforted him. Xiao Yan smiled, but did not speak. "Follow me to meet those old guys. They are people with great energy in the Jia Ma Empire." As Otto said, he took the lead to go up to the high platform on the side. Xiao Yan hesitated for a while, but also I had to follow up.

Otto walked up the high platform quickly, and laughed and chatted with these old people of similar age for a while, while Xiao Yan stood quietly behind him, and did not take the initiative to come forward to say hello. "Old Ao, this is your Black Rock City's strong player this time?" After laughing and chatting for a while, the snow-white old man looked at Xiao Yan at the side with a smile and asked. Raising his gaze slightly, Xiao Yan took a look at this old man who obviously had a high status in the Alchemist Guild. He was wearing an extremely exquisite alchemist robe, with a slight smile on his wrinkled face, and slightly squinted cloudy eyes. Medium, calm and gentle.At first glance, apart from the identity-representing robe on his body and the four silver ripples shining strangely on his chest, he looks like an ordinary old man without any special aura. However, this An ordinary old man controls nearly half of the power of the Alchemist Guild.

When Xiao Yan was looking at Qie Mier, the latter was also looking at him up and down.The ordinary appearance is also not outstanding.The only thing that made Qie Mier a little surprised was the other party's peaceful expression.Under the watchful eyes of a thousand fourth-rank pharmacists, he can still maintain this picture of being flattered or humiliated.This kind of determination is relatively rare among young people. "Yes. His name is Yan Xiao, and he has great potential." Otto nodded with a smile, then turned his head to Xiao Yan and introduced again: "This is the vice president of the guild, Master Qie Mier."

"Hello, Vice President Qie Mier." Xiao Yan smiled slightly, and bowed politely to Qie Miere. "Hehe. Little guy. I hope you won't invalidate Otto's recommendation. Otherwise, it will really make him lose face." He glanced at the second-rank badge on Xiao Yan's chest.Qie Mier shook his head helplessly at Otto who was at the side.In this level of competition, it is difficult for a second-grade pharmacist to enter the top 20. "I believe at least this test can be passed." Xiao Yan shrugged and said. "It's good to have confidence. Because the person recommended by the president of each branch is stronger. So our internal test will be somewhat difficult." Qie Mier nodded and smiled.

"I try my best." "Hehe, the time is coming soon, so I won't talk nonsense, you go down first, the test will start soon." Qie Mier smiled. Nodding his head, Xiao Yan turned around and walked down the high platform. Then, under the watchful eyes of a group of young people in the hall below, he walked quietly to a corner and stood with his hands down. "Hey, old Ao, how can you say that Black Rock City is a big city? It's impossible to find a younger third-grade pharmacist, right?" Looking at Xiao Yan's figure, Qie Mier turned to Otto Reluctantly said.

"I believe him." Otto said with a smile, his hands in the wide sleeves. "Hey, you old guy... If none of you perform outstandingly at the conference this time, then don't blame the reduction in funding next year. I have to deal with these matters in a business-like manner. No matter how good the relationship is, it doesn't matter." Shaking his head, Qie Miere said. Otto nodded with a smile, not to dwell on this topic, and said, "It's time, let's start the test." Hearing this, Qie Mier didn't say any more, turned his gaze to the people below, and pointed to the left side of the hall, where many black curtains hung down on the wall: "Behind each curtain, there is a separate small room. , that is your examination room..."

"As we all know, the refining of medicinal materials is an extremely important step in the refining of elixir, and our test this time is to focus on your refining of medicinal materials..." "On the table in each small room, the medicinal materials used for the test have been prepared, and all you need to do is to refine the medicinal materials to the ultimate purity that you can achieve in the shortest possible time." "Before the hourglass completely drips down, those who haven't finished refining will fail. Moreover, even if they succeed, we old guys will be the judges. If the medicinal materials you extract do not meet our requirements, the same is true. It will be considered a failure, and the result of failure is disqualification." Qie Mier pointed to an hourglass on the table, glanced at the young people below, and said with a faint smile.

Hearing such a severe punishment for failure, the group of young people below looked at each other, except for a few people, their faces changed slightly. His eyes slowly swept downwards, and Qie Mier's eyes suddenly stopped on Xiao Yan who was standing in the corner with his hands hanging down. Looking at his flat face, he couldn't help being slightly stunned, and muttered in his heart: "Could it be that this guy is really capable?" ?” "Okay, let's start, pay attention to the hourglass time." After clapping his hands, Qie Mier looked away from Xiao Yan and said with a smile.

Hearing this, everyone in the hall began to walk towards the left in twos and threes, and then opened the black curtain and walked in. Xiao Yan also found a remote black curtain, and just about to go in, the laughter from behind made him stop his steps, and turned his head calmly. "Hehe, I didn't expect Brother Yanxiao to participate in this kind of internal test. We are really destined." Liu Ling approached Xiao Yan and smiled, but that soft smile made Xiao Yan frowned slightly. . Xiao Yan glanced at him indifferently, and said: "I was pulled over to make up the number."

"Brother Yanxiao really knows how to joke. Although you are not good at level, but you have a strange thing like a strange fire, your grades must not be too low." Liu Ling turned his eyes on Xiao Yan's face, to be honest, He still has a lot of doubts about whether Xiao Yan possesses the strange fire. After all, this kind of thing is just his guess. Although he also asked Nalan Yanran in private, but for this kind of secret thing, Nalan Yan Ran did not tell him the exact answer. Xiao Yan shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, did not answer, and after casually coping with it, he lifted the black curtain and walked in, leaving Liu Ling standing there frowning slightly. "Brother Liu, are you still going in?" A crisp voice sounded behind Liu Ling, and the pretty little princess walked over with a smile, glanced at the curtain where Xiao Yan disappeared, and smiled sweetly. "I met an acquaintance. If the little princess is interested, I can introduce you." Liu Ling smiled softly at the little princess. "Forget it, a second-grade pharmacist... I'm not in such a good mood as you." The little princess lazily shook her head, obviously she was not as interested in Xiao Yan as she was in Liu Ling. In terms of strength, appearance, etc., Liu Ling was far ahead of him. "Hehe, it's up to you." Liu Ling smiled slightly. The little princess's attitude of ignoring Xiao Yan made him feel a little happy. Liu Ling, who has always been regarded as a genius, felt quite upset. "I'll go first, Brother Liu, don't lose to me." She winked playfully at Liu Ling, and then the little princess flashed behind a black curtain nimbly. Smiling and nodding, looking at the hall that had become empty, Liu Ling didn't delay anymore, and walked behind the black curtain without haste, her calm attitude made Qie Mier on the high platform admire nodded. "The test questions this time are not bad. Refining medicinal materials is not only a necessary step in refining medicine, but also the ability to control the temperature of the fire is extremely important. This small item is able to roughly test the strength of these little guys. I have some abilities." Looking at the empty hall, Otto turned his head and smiled at Qie Miere. Qie Mier smiled and nodded, sat down on a chair beside him, took a sip from his teacup, and said with a smile, "Next, let's see who can come out with the purest medicinal ingredients." Walking through the black curtain, a small room appeared in Xiao Yan's line of sight. The room was not spacious, but it was quite elegant and tidy. There was a bluestone platform near the wall of the small room. On the stone platform, there was a An hourglass, and several neatly stacked herbs. Walking to the side of the stone platform, Xiao Yan glanced at the medicinal materials that looked like pieces of black charcoal, and there was a flash of surprise in his eyes, and he murmured in a low voice: "It turns out to be the black iron spirit leaf that is most resistant to burning. It takes a lot of energy to refine things, these old guys are really worrying." Shaking his head, Xiao Yan flicked his finger on the ring, and a dark red medicinal cauldron appeared on the table. He picked up a black iron spirit leaf, squeezed it in his hand, and then frowned slightly. Worrying about whether to use Qinglian's heart fire... After pondering for a moment, Xiao Yan shook his head. He didn't want to use his hole cards under this preliminary test. This kind of simple test, using Qinglian's heart fire, is undoubtedly a sledgehammer. With a flick of his finger, a purple pill appeared between his fingers. Xiao Yan threw it into his mouth, chewed it slightly, and then spit it out. Immediately, a group of purple flames burst out, and was captured by Xiao Yan. Yan held it in the palm of his hand. Holding this group of purple flames, Xiao Yan smiled lightly, because he had devoured the purple flames before, so now he can also control this kind of flames very proficiently, although it is still not as good as when he controlled the blue flames. Strength, it can be used to refine black iron spirit leaves, but there is no big problem. The soul power slowly protruded out of the body, and then controlled the group of purple flames, and slowly poured them into the cauldron. Immediately, the cold medicine cauldron began to heat up, and the purple flames rose and lingered in it. Looking at the bright purple flame faintly, Xiao Yan raised his palm, and the iron wood spirit leaf in his hand came out, and was projected into the medicine cauldron. The purple flame surged up, wrapped it in, and began violent calcination. Ten fingers danced nimbly in front of him. After a while, Xiao Yan, who was controlling more and more smoothly, actually closed his eyes gradually, relying entirely on his perception to control the burning of the flame... In the refining room, the hourglass on the table was slowly descending.