Urban Divine Doctor Descends the Mountain

Chapter 1814: Chapter 1813 Genius!

Wang Xiuxin began to light the fire, carefully controlling the flames.

It must be said, he indeed has talent in alchemy; his ability to control fire is quite decent.

Very quickly, he managed to control the flame’s temperature to the required range of 61 degrees.

This was no simple task, ah.

But this was only the first step—he still needed to adjust the size of the flame.

While executing this step, he failed three times before succeeding on the fourth attempt.

”Hoo~~” After successfully completing this step, he moved on to controlling the flame’s color.

He failed five times before finally getting it right on the sixth attempt.

With that, the flame now met all the requirements for refining this cauldron of herbs.

From now on, he would need to maintain this state of the flame for five minutes.

This was no small challenge either.

Wang Xiuxin failed a few more times before finally succeeding.

After spending nearly fifteen minutes, he finally refined this cauldron of herbs successfully.

Seeing this, Elder Qingfeng revealed a satisfied smile once more.

Wang Xiuxin also let out a sigh of relief.

Having succeeded with one cauldron, he then started refining the next one.

There were five cauldrons in total, and each required different levels of fire intensity.

Some required high flames for refining, some required gentle flames, some required purple flames, while others needed red and white flames.

Wang Xiuxin refined the remaining four cauldrons according to the requirements.

Finally, after nearly one hour and a total of ninety-three failures, Wang Xiuxin succeeded.

Through meticulous and complex flame control, he managed to refine all five cauldrons of herbs.

Elder Qingfeng inspected them carefully, then said, ”Among these five cauldrons, three have been refined successfully, while two were disqualified due to subtle errors in flame manipulation.”

”You failed a total of ninety-three times and spent fifty-six minutes. Based on these results, your flame control score is four stars!”

”Congratulations, Wang Xiuxin. Both of your tests achieved four-star ratings, so you’ve passed the alchemy talent assessment of our Alchemy Hall.”

”You’ve successfully joined the Preparation Camp of our Alchemy Hall. You only need to study with us for one year. During that time, if you can refine even one pill—regardless of its grade—you can officially join our Dan Alliance.”

Elder Qingfeng said cheerfully.

Upon hearing that he had successfully passed the alchemy talent test, Wang Xiuxin was overjoyed.

Meanwhile, the onlookers couldn’t help but feel envious.

”I can’t believe Wang Xiuxin actually passed the assessment. Truly admirable!”

”He’s now a quasi-alchemist, with limitless prospects ahead.”

”...”

One of the women even threw him a flirtatious glance and asked for his contact information on the spot.

Others also expressed interest in befriending him.

But Wang Xiuxin merely dismissed their enthusiasm coldly, ignoring them entirely.

At this moment, his gaze shifted toward Qin Yitian, his expression changing as he said, ”Miss Yitian, I am about to become an official alchemist!”

”Oh, congratulations then,” Qin Yitian replied indifferently.

She hadn’t expected Wang Xiuxin to truly pass the test, with scores of four stars in both assessments.

Achieving four stars in both tests was enough to be considered a gifted talent.

With this thought, she couldn’t help but glance toward Lin Dong, wondering if Dong Lin would manage to pass the test.

”Miss Yitian, this test is indeed difficult. Haha, I was fortunate to barely scrape through.”

”I wonder, could your favorite person be as lucky as I am?”

Saying this, he shifted his eyes toward Lin Dong.

It was evident that Wang Xiuxin had stayed behind to watch Lin Dong fail and make a spectacle of it.

In his eyes, given its difficulty, Qin Yitian’s favored candidate, Dong Lin, was bound to fail the test.

Elder Qingfeng, smiling broadly, noted that typically only one candidate passes the test in an entire week.

Today’s quota had already been fulfilled.

”Next, who’s up?” For the remaining tests, Elder Qingfeng thought it wouldn’t matter even if everyone else failed.

”Dong Lin, why haven’t you stepped forward to test yet? Are you afraid of failing?”

Wang Xiuxin crossed his arms and watched with amusement.

Having passed his assessment, Wang Xiuxin was basking in his own pride.

Lin Dong replied, ”Do you really want to see me fail that badly? Are you so eager to watch me make a fool of myself?”

”Haha...” Wang Xiuxin laughed, ”Who doesn’t enjoy watching a good laugh?”

”You might be disappointed,” Lin Dong said calmly. Finishing his words, he stepped forward toward Elder Qingfeng.

Approaching him, Lin Dong said, ”I’m next. I’ll take the test.”

Seeing this, Wang Xiuxin couldn’t help but sneer from behind and said:

”Talking big—anyone can do that. Passing both tests? That’s not something you can accomplish just by saying so!”

Lin Dong ignored him, taking the ancient alchemist’s script from Elder Qingfeng and heading straight into the medicinal material repository to begin the first test.

Medicinal preparation!

For Lin Dong, this test was absurdly simple.

Among the tens of thousands of herbs, selecting dozens might be difficult for others.

But for him, it was effortlessly easy.

Lin Dong even took only 30 seconds to complete it!

”What? He selected the herbs in just thirty seconds?” Elder Qingfeng, watching this scene, was stunned.

This had broken records!

What Elder Qingfeng didn’t realize was that Lin Dong wasn’t even trying his best. He had deliberately held back!

Wang Xiuxin was dumbfounded too. Earlier, he had spent several minutes selecting herbs. Yet this Dong Lin managed to do it in thirty seconds?

Ten times faster than him!

”Speed alone means nothing; it’s the following steps that matter. The proportion control and herb integration—that’s where mistakes are most likely to happen,” Wang Xiuxin retorted stubbornly.

Admitting that ’Dong Lin’ was superior to him would be harder than facing death.

However, what happened next shook him to his core.

Lin Dong’s proportion control step took only twenty seconds.

Moreover, there were no mistakes at all!

For herb integration, he spent only slightly longer—a mere one minute.

As for the rest of the steps, they added up to only another minute.

In total, Lin Dong spent just two minutes and fifty seconds to complete the entire medicinal preparation process.

Elder Qingfeng was stunned. He approached to inspect the results, visibly trembling with excitement.

Shortly after reaching Lin Dong’s work, Elder Qingfeng shouted in amazement:

”Genius—this is true genius!!!”

”The medicinal preparation is flawless, not a single mistake!”

”And the time taken—only two minutes and fifty seconds! My heavens, based on evaluation, the score is eight stars, eight stars!!!”

Within the rating system, nine stars was the highest possible score.

Yet Lin Dong had frighteningly achieved eight stars based on these results!

”Apart from our Alliance Hierarch, you are the first to achieve an eight-star rating in the first test! Genius—an absolute genius!”

Elder Qingfeng’s excitement surged, his joy surpassing even that of entering the bridal chamber with a young beauty in her twenties.