It was extremely difficult to get a perfect score on yesterday's test, but it was relatively easy to pass the 900-point passing mark.
After all, there is a margin of error for 100 questions.
However, nearly half of them were eliminated.
These people were left speechless.
I'll give you a hundred mistakes and you won't be able to pass it, so why bother complaining?
So Zhang Xiaozu became a topic for these eliminated people to relieve their own embarrassment. They ignored their miserable rankings and laughed at Zhang Xiaozu, a specially invited alchemist who only came in third place, really embarrassing the specially invited alchemist.
"I shouldn't be here."
Zhang Xiaozu sighed dejectedly as he listened to the ridicule and resentment directed at him from all over the street, regretting coming to participate in the preliminary contest.
"Please give priority to the specially invited alchemist Zhang Dayong and alchemist Zhang to enter the examination room."
Following the invigilator's shout, Zhang Xiaozhu was publicly executed again.
Although nearly half of the people were eliminated, there were still a large number of participants, and there were still nearly 3,000 people left.
Today's examination room layout is almost the same as yesterday's.
The only difference is that there is an exquisite vermilion wooden box on the desk.
The examiner is still Liu Chunfeng.
After all the contestants entered the venue, Liu Chunfeng announced today's test question - distinguishing elixirs and medicines.
There are five different elixirs in the exquisite wooden box. The contestants need to taste them one by one, and then write down the ingredients of the elixirs they taste on the examination paper.
It is not required to write out all the ingredients of each pill accurately, but it is necessary to write down as many as possible, because this competition is no longer eliminated based on scores, but only the top 800 will advance.
But you can't write it randomly, because if you write it wrong, you will lose points.
In order to ensure the fairness of the competition, the elixirs in the wooden boxes of each contestant are the same.
The competition is limited to one hour, which is plenty of time.
After Zhang Xiaozu heard the rules of the competition, he felt it was a bit difficult.
Yesterday's test of identifying medicines by looking at pictures tested extensive knowledge of medicinal and spiritual materials.
Today's process of identifying elixirs and medicines has become a huge step up from yesterday's level.
Contestants must have a huge reserve of knowledge. Not only are they required to know various medicinal and spiritual materials, they must also have a good understanding of the medicinal properties of various medicinal and spiritual materials. Only in this way can they identify and infer the properties of elixirs by tasting their taste and efficacy. ingredients.
Fortunately, the pharmacopoeia given to him by the old beggar not only recorded the pictures and names of various medicinal and spiritual materials, but also recorded their medicinal properties and characteristics in detail. He had already used his ability of photographic memory to record them one by one. Keep it in mind.
Zhang Xiaozu opened the wooden box and five pills appeared in front of him.
From left to right, there are five colors: red, green, purple, white, and black. Each one is bright, round and crystal clear.
Zhang Xiaozu picked up the red elixir on the far left, observed it carefully in front of his eyes, and then put it in front of his nose and smelled it. Although it had a pleasant fragrance, he still couldn't help but mutter in his heart: "This If it’s a fucking poison, you’ll be burping after you take it.”
He muttered as he put the medicine into his mouth.
Then his expression changed.
The elixir was extremely pungent in the mouth, and the tongue instantly felt as if it had been pricked severely by countless thin needles.
The sad thing is that I can't spit it out yet, and once I spit it out, I can't savor it.
"Do it!" Zhang Xiaozu cursed in his heart and cursed secretly: "This is a harmful trick thought up by some wicked guy. It is clearly intended to harm people."
For a time, the expressions of the contestants in the entire square were extremely exciting.
"Pooh!"
After ten breaths, Zhang Xiaozhu spat out the spicy saliva, wrote the names of six medicinal materials on the paper, and marked them as ingredients of the red elixir.
Nymphoides chuanensis, cocoon luo, vine thorn, zhilieguo, white wind grass and reed vine.
Among them, the first five are all spicy, and only Weixiangzi has a refreshing fragrance. It is wrapped in the outermost layer to cover the taste of the first five medicines.
These six medicinal herbs have no practical use when mixed together.
Obviously, this is just a pill refined purely for the exam.
"Huh!"
Liu Chunfeng, who was sitting on the high platform in front of the square, gasped in surprise. He was surprised that Zhang Xiaozu tasted the ingredients of the first pill so quickly, and the answer was accurate.
The reason why Zhang Xiaozu was able to answer so quickly was mainly due to his rich knowledge reserve.
With the help of the super memory ability of Ruwei Mingjing, he can remember the medicinal properties and characteristics of various medicinal materials very clearly. He can find suspicious objects from the knowledge base at the first time, and then use his own analysis and judgment to identify these suspicious objects. Suspicious objects are eliminated or confirmed one by one.
It is also because he has a powerful soul and his thinking ability is hundreds of times higher than that of ordinary people. Otherwise, it would probably take him a long time just to search for suspicious objects in the thick knowledge base and list them one by one in his mind.
In addition, this question is actually not difficult.
First of all, this red elixir only contains six medicinal ingredients.
Secondly, the ingredients of these six medicinal materials are not completely integrated during the refining process, making it difficult to distinguish them. The taste of these six medicinal materials is so exciting that they can be easily distinguished.
Therefore, this question seems to be a simple scoring question.
However, when Zhang Xiaozu subconsciously wanted to drink some water to rinse his mouth, he suddenly realized the sinister intentions of the person who asked the question.
When Liu Chunfeng announced the competition rules just now, he clearly emphasized that drinking water is prohibited during the competition.
In other words, the spicy feeling in their mouths is difficult to alleviate or remove in a short period of time. The taste will be greatly affected by it, which will then affect the taste and discrimination of the remaining four pills.
"No wonder it is required to start with the red elixir."
"The person who asked this question has a very bad mind."
"If I'm not wrong, the next green elixir must have a very bland taste."
Zhang Xiaozhu cursed in his heart.
However, such underhanded tactics obviously couldn't stop him, a strong man from the Moon Saint Realm. The powerful power of the Holy Breath circulated slightly and dissipated the spicy taste in his mouth.
He just sympathized with those contestants with low cultivation levels.
Then he picked up the green elixir and put it into his mouth.
Sure enough, the elixir melted in your mouth and had almost no taste.
After Zhang Xiaozu tasted it carefully, he frowned and thought for nearly a moment before writing the names of the five medicinal materials on the paper.
He felt that there should be one or two more ingredients, but he was not completely sure, so he did not write it down because if he wrote it wrong, he would be deducted points.
Then came the third purple elixir.
This elixir tastes fragrant, and when it melts in the mouth, it emits a burst of power.
There are many flavors upon tasting.
Moreover, multiple flavors are blended together, making it difficult to figure out which flavor is the flavor of the medicinal materials themselves and which flavor is the flavor produced by the fusion.
The difficulty suddenly increased.
However, in Zhang Xiaozu's view, this was the serious question that got right to the point. The first two questions were simply a prank by the question maker.
He first listed all the corresponding medicinal materials and spiritual materials in his mind based on the taste he tasted, and then deduced based on the medicinal properties and effects of the elixir to see which medicinal materials and spiritual materials could be combined to make such a product. of elixirs.
Finally, find out the intersection between the former and the latter, and then conduct further screening among these selected medicinal and spiritual materials.
This time it took him a full stick of incense to pick up the pen and write down fourteen medicinal materials and three spiritual materials on the paper.
"It's a bit awesome!"
On the high platform, Liu Chunfeng saw Zhang Xiaozu's answer to the third question, and couldn't help but praise him in his heart, because Zhang Xiaozu's answers to this question were all correct.
Then came the fourth and fifth pills, and it took Zhang Xiaozu more than half an hour to give the answer.
In the end, there was only a little more time for a cup of tea. He deduced the ingredients of three, four, five, and three elixirs twice more, simulating elixir refining in his mind to see if he could refine elixirs with the same effect, and then The ingredients of the fifth elixir have been slightly modified.
He was the last one to finish.
Others finished it early, because their thinking was far less complex than Zhang Xiaozu's. They only wrote down the components they identified, instead of repeatedly deducing it forward and backward like Zhang Xiaozu, and simulating it in their minds. Alchemy.
"interesting."
"But...if I do this in the main game, then I will definitely have no chance to compete for first place, because it would be too easy to cheat."
After leaving the examination room, Ye Mingyue, who was waiting outside, asked Zhang Xiaozu how he felt about the test, and Zhang Xiaozu replied like this.
Indeed, as long as the chosen candidate knows the answer in advance, others will naturally have no chance.
"Quick, show me the answer."
In the marking room, Liu Zhihuan took the time to put down the pen in his hand at the same time as the people in the examination room, and then he couldn't wait to ask the examiner for answers, wanting to see how many points he could get.
He wanted to compete with Zhang Xiaopeng, so he did it very seriously.
"The first question...well...all correct, no challenge at all."
"The second question..."
Liu Zhihuan frowned when he saw the answer to the second question.
He wrote six ingredients, but got one wrong and only got four points.
"The third question...all correct."
"The fourth question... is missing some medicine. Oh, what a pity. I wanted to write it, but I wasn't very sure about it, so I didn't write it as soon as I hesitated."
"The fifth question... is also correct."
"It should be... not bad."
After Liu Zhihuan corrected himself against the answers, he nodded with satisfaction.
Then he sat there looking towards the door eagerly waiting for Zhang Xiaozu's answer sheet to arrive.
After a while of burning incense, the examiner who collected the papers moved the stacks of answer sheets from the examination room.
"Quickly, bring me the answer sheet used by Zhang Da and I will correct it for him."
Liu Zhihuan shouted urgently.
An examiner immediately found Zhang Xiaozu's answer sheet and sent it to Liu Zhihuan.
"The first question...all correct."
"The second question..."
Liu Zhihuan couldn't help but feel a little depressed after reading Zhang Xiaozu's answer to the second question.
Zhang Xiaozhu only wrote five ingredients, which was one less than him. However, Zhang Xiaozhu’s five ingredients were all correct, so he got one more point than him.
"The fourth question... is also correct."
"Question 5... Haha, this guy answered three ingredients incorrectly. He was deducted three points. His total score is... four points less than mine. He must have calculated correctly."
"Anyway, I won."
Liu Zhihuan laughed happily.
"Don't get too happy yet." Liu Chunfeng walked over.
The smile on Liu Zhihuan's face suddenly froze when he heard this, and he stared at the place where Zhang Xiaozu had changed the fifth question, and said depressedly: "This guy won't be like yesterday, deliberately hiding his clumsiness and changing the right answer to the wrong answer. "
Liu Chunfeng did not answer him, but stretched out his hand and handed Liu Zhihuan a black elixir, which was the elixir in the last question, and said: "Take a closer look at this elixir, and then compare yours with his." Answer."
Liu Zhihuan didn't understand what Liu Chunfeng meant, but he still obeyed him obediently.
After about half a stick of incense, Liu Zhihuan suddenly changed his expression after hearing Zhang Xiaozu's answer, and said in shock: "This guy... this guy... did he write this on purpose?"
Liu Chunfeng nodded and said, "His original answer was correct."
Liu Zhihuan's breath froze when he heard this, then he smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "I lost."
This black elixir was a medicine temporarily developed by Linlang Pavilion to cope with this preliminary competition. It has never appeared on the market.
It is a pill that increases spiritual power.
The effect of the medicine is not too strong, slightly weaker than the Broken Star Pill.
Because it was developed temporarily, the efficacy of the medicine is not stable, and the prescription needs to be improved.
The answer on Zhang Xiaozhu's answer sheet was an improved elixir recipe. He replaced three medicinal ingredients. The replaced three medicinal ingredients were cheaper than the original ones. They did not weaken the medicinal properties of the black elixir and greatly improved it. improve the stability of drug efficacy.
With Liu Zhihuan's alchemy skills, he quickly saw the value of Zhang Xiaozu's answer.
He suddenly felt that he was one level below Zhang Xiaozu. While he was racking his brains to think of the correct answer, Zhang Xiaozu had actually made more sophisticated adjustments to the recipe.
For a moment he was mentally shocked.
Liu Chunfeng comforted him: "I can't say that you lost. It's because you didn't think about it so much. If you thought about this, the answer you gave may not be worse than him."
Hearing this, Liu Zhihuan felt upright and nodded vigorously.
"So...are you sure you don't need me to use the examiner's privileges to eliminate this guy?" Liu Chunfeng suddenly asked.
"..." Liu Zhihuan's expression suddenly turned bitter when he heard this.
Liu Chunfeng's question made him feel that Liu Chunfeng's comfort just now was just a simple comfort. In Liu Chunfeng's heart, he had been surpassed by Zhang Xiaozu. Otherwise, why would he face a formidable enemy on his behalf and not hesitate to use dirty means to kill Zhang Xiaozu? Eliminate.
"Hui Ancestor, don't-need-need it!"
Liu Zhihuan was annoyed and gave an extremely firm answer.
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