Chapter Forty-Two, First Show of Strength
Student life was tense and dull, and Qingshi's training became even busier next. Now with the guidance of his master, Qingshi no longer needs to sit in on so many martial arts classes. Except for the compulsory basic martial arts classes of Elder Pu and Elder Qi, he has not attended any other classes. .
There are still three alchemy classes, and only one class from the Zhen Dao Academy is taught by Vice President Du. There are six classes a week, five less than before.
Qingshi spent almost all the extra time in the enlightenment room and trial room. Ou Changzhi affirmed Qingshi's practice of practicing more basic martial arts such as Huang-level low-level skills, and pointed out three points: first, practice more, second, think more, and third, practice more.
So Qingshi spent thousands of credits to borrow no less than ten yellow-level middle-grade or low-grade martial arts to practice. The practice was all done in the enlightenment room, three hours at a time, and required 300 credits.
After practicing, he went to the trial room to compete, using the yellow-level martial arts skills he had learned to fight against puppets whose cultivation level was one level higher than his own. In other words, he was fighting against a puppet equivalent to the fifth level of Qi Condensation Realm.
Ou Changzhi's twice-monthly guidance has been of great help to Qingshi. Master can clearly point out the problems with many vague cognitions and specious perceptions, and then give clear directions and correct approaches.
This made Qingshi's progress in martial arts very great. Although his Qi cultivation was still low, his true combat power was extremely powerful.
This is especially true for the practice of Formation Dao. After more than two months of master's guidance, Qingshi felt that the foundation had become much more solid, and many of the things in the Taixuan Sutra, the treasure book of Formation Dao, in his memory began to be integrated with the content learned in the academy. Connect it.
When it comes to formations, the most important thing is the talent of the Five Elements, because almost all formations use various elements in nature to create murderous intent, illusions or other effects, and almost all elements in the world are inseparable from the basic attributes of the Five Elements.
Therefore, when it comes to array talent, Qingshi is undoubtedly the best in the world. In terms of cultivation resources, Qingshi's memory contains the Taixuan Sutra, the first formation treasure book in the Dahuang world in the past, and there is also a top formation master in the Tianlong Dynasty, so Qingshi's progress in the formation can be said to be rapid.
Qingshi devoted all his efforts to practicing martial arts and formations, but relaxed his practice of alchemy. Ou Changzhi didn't know alchemy and didn't pay much attention to alchemy, so he supported Qingshi to focus on formations and martial arts.
Time flies, and a few months pass in the blink of an eye, and it’s November. According to the regulations of Tianlong Academy, the academic year is from February to November every year, and the holidays are from December and January every year.
Entering November means that the exam season has arrived. What kind of academic performance students have achieved in the past year needs to be verified through exams.
If you study well, you will be rewarded. If you study poorly and fail the basic examination, you will be punished. It is not uncommon for students to make up the exam, repeat a grade, or even drop out of school.
The first is the hard assessment of academic hours. On average, there are three regular classes in the college every week, and Qingshi’s average is more than three, so this assessment can be passed.
Although this requirement is not high, some students still drop out of class. Huang Yuhong from Building 4 on the west side of Cuihu Road is far behind. It is said that he is working hard to catch up with classes every day and has to attend at least eight or even ten classes every day. As long as he is from our college I dare not miss a single lesson.
The second item is the alchemy operation. As a first-year student in the Alchemy Academy, you need to randomly select five of the five most common four-star elixirs and the five most common three-star elixirs for refining. If you succeed in three, you are qualified.
For the seventeen first-year students in the inner courtyard of Qingshi's class, as long as they are not particularly unlucky and all get four stars, they can basically pass the test. The exam is still more than half a month away, and Qingshi is not worried about this.
The third item has nothing to do with alchemy, but an assessment of Qi cultivation. The level of the alchemist is closely related to the level of cultivation, so the improvement of cultivation is also a mandatory requirement.
The basic cultivation requirement for entering the inner courtyard of Alchemy is the third level of Qi Condensation Realm. The first-year requirement is to advance to at least one level every year. When you graduate after six years, you need to reach at least the first level of Qi Condensation Realm to be qualified. Qingshi has risen to two levels in the past year, so there is no need to worry.
The last item is the fourth-level registered alchemist assessment, but it is not a mandatory assessment that one can take or not take.
The minimum level requirement for an alchemist to enter the Alchemy Academy is Level 2, usually Level 3. The graduation requirement is at least Level 4. However, you do not need to wait until six years later to take the Level 4 exam when you graduate. Instead, you can take the assessment once every year.
If you pass the exam, you will naturally get the corresponding registration certificate. It doesn't matter if you fail the exam, as long as you pass CET-4 when you graduate six years later.
Six years of study only requires you to reach level 4, which may not seem like a high requirement, but there is a huge difference between a level 4 alchemist and a level 3 alchemist.
There is a popular saying in the alchemy world: it takes three years to become a first-level alchemist to a second-level alchemist; seven years to go from second to third level; fifteen years to go from third to fourth level; and thirty years to go from fourth to fifth level. Years, there is no fixed number for reference for Level 5 and above.
The inner court of Tianlong Academy's Alchemy Academy requires six years to upgrade from Level 2 or Level 3 to Level 4, which only a genius can accomplish.
Qingshi entered the inner courtyard as a second-level alchemist and passed the special recruitment assessment. Soon after entering the hospital, he was arranged to take the third-level alchemist assessment and passed it in one fell swoop, obtaining the third-level registered alchemist qualification certificate.
Now he can refine some commonly used fourth-level pills, but this does not mean that he has the level of a fourth-level alchemist. Despite this, Qingshi still signed up to take the fourth-level assessment together with most of the first-year students in the inner courtyard.
Two weeks later, various examinations began one after another. During the alchemy operation, Qingshi drew three three-star elixirs and two four-star elixirs, and successfully passed all the tests.
Among the other sixteen students, only Wu Qingyun was unlucky enough to draw four kinds of four-star elixirs, and failed three. Fortunately, during the make-up exam, he drew all three-star pills, and successfully passed three of them.
Xiang Wan thought that during the draw for the make-up exam, Fatty Zhong took advantage of Classmate Wu and let him go, but no one took it seriously.
Next came the fourth-level registered alchemist assessment jointly organized by the academy and the Imperial Alchemist Guild. The guild came with five high-level alchemists headed by Vice President Liang, which showed how seriously it attached importance.
The fat man who pressed the clock said: "You guys, do your best. If you pass the Level 4 exam, you'll be fine. Then you'll be on the empire's blacklist and your whole family will be protected... Oh! That's not black." The list is the honor roll."
There were a total of twenty-three people from the two grades of the inner courtyard who participated in the fourth-level registered alchemist examination. Three of the last two grades passed, including Jin Yumei, Dean Jin's precious daughter, Fang Chengzong, and Na Zhiyong.
Na Zhiyong immediately applied for the Preparatory Presbyterian Academy examination but failed.
As for the first grade, one person actually passed the exam. This is something that has never happened in the inner courtyard of Dan Dao in the past ten years. The person who passed the exam was not Tang Dan, who was known as the strongest genius in the first grade, nor Qingshi, a special talent, but the beautiful girl Minghui.
As the college exams progressed, a lot of breaking news came out from various colleges, and Minghui was just one of them.
Yuan Renfeng, a second-year student in the martial arts outer academy, nicknamed the Madhouse, entered November. He was originally unknown in the outer academy's dragon and tiger rankings, but he actually challenged Sun Yu, who was ranked ninth. Sun Yu didn't know why he agreed, but Sun Yu lost miserably.
Then this 'madhouse' challenged them one after another, winning seven games in a row and not stopping until they reached the top three.
The rankings of the Dragon and Tiger Rankings of the Martial Arts Inner Academy also change a lot. It is like this at the end of every year, so it is not surprising.
What attracts the most attention is the high school examination of the Martial Arts Inner Academy. This year, there are a total of forty-two people applying for the high school examination, all of which are sophomores.
In the end, seven people successfully passed the assessment, but they were quite satisfactory and no better than previous years. But one of the girls is extraordinary. Four years ago, she made big news by directly entering the Martial Arts Academy when she was under the age of thirteen. This year, she passed the examination of the Martial Arts Academy when she was under the age of seventeen and became a The first girl to do this in a century.
This girl is Duan Xiaoyu from the Duan family, one of the six major families in Chao Ge.
The exams at the Martial Arts High School were the most exciting, attracting a large number of students to watch, especially the Tianlong Ranking battle. As usual, the top three remained unchanged, with Jiang Chenying first, Shen Feiyun second, and Jiang Chenxiu third. The power of the Jiang family, the royal family of the Tianlong Empire, has been like this for thousands of years.
The most eye-catching thing was that Duan Wutian challenged Chen Tianye again. This time, naturally, no one showed off, but the two did not show off in advance, but just started fighting. Therefore, no more than a hundred people saw the two of them taking action.
The result of the battle was that Chen Tianye defeated Duan Wutian. Duan Wutian immediately challenged Guo Damin, who was ranked fifth, and vented all his anger on Guo Damin for losing to Chen Tianye. Unfortunately, Guo Damin accidentally broke three of his ribs with a punch from Duan Wutian and then kicked him. Kicked out of the ring.
As the end of the month approaches, the assessments in each college have basically passed their climax, but unexpectedly, an even more jaw-dropping news comes out today.
The fourth-level registered formation master examination of the Formation Dao Inner Academy was jointly hosted by the academy and the Imperial Formation Dao Masters Guild as usual. In addition to the eighteen people who registered for the first and second years of the Formation Dao Inner Academy, there was also one student from the Alchemy Path Inner Academy, led by Dean Jin Yiming of the Alchemy Academy recommended it. Dean Luo Yun of the Formation Academy initially disagreed. Later, Dean Mo Sihai specially approved the participation.
The result of the examination was that the entire army of the Array Dao Inner Academy was wiped out, but the specially approved candidates from the Dan Dao Academy actually passed the exam and received the Imperial Level 4 Registered Array Master Qualification Certificate on the spot.
For a time, the whole school and even Chao Ge were in a sensation. The student of Alchemy Academy who was specially approved for reference was naturally Qingshi.
