Extracting all things: My attributes grow infinitely.

The alchemist assessment will begin soon.

Dozens of candidates arrived at a large hall, which was brightly lit, and the doors to dozens of secret rooms were tightly closed.

Jiang Chuan stopped in front of a secret room, pushed open the door, and went inside.

The secret room was not large.

The four walls were empty.

There was only a stone table in the very center.

Three jade slips, in gray, white and blue, were placed on the table. Behind the stone table stood a smooth, mirror-like stone tablet.

Jiang Chuan's gaze fell on the three jade slips.

I understand.

The first test assesses one's knowledge of Daoist alchemy.

The three jade slips contain records of the pharmacology of 10,000, 100,000, and 1 million kinds of herbs, respectively.

Candidates must choose one of these options.

Memorize the contents within the specified time.

You can then obtain a corresponding evaluation of inferior, good, or excellent.

The entire alchemist assessment was divided into three stages.

According to the promotion threshold of previous years, he would need to achieve at least two "good" grades and one "excellent" grade to be successfully promoted to Spirit Fire Alchemist.

He casually picked up the first jade slip and probed it with his divine sense.

A densely packed list of herbs unfolded in his mind.

Red Marrow Flower, Azure Spirit Mushroom, Three Yin Returning to Origin Vine...

His gaze swept over them.

Most of these were things that Yun Danzi had already thoroughly mastered during his more than 100 years of alchemy practice.

Ten thousand kinds, all gone in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

He put down the first jade slip and picked up the second one.

One hundred thousand kinds.

It contained ten times more information than the first jade slip.

However, most of the herbs were still within Yun Danzi's knowledge base. As for the obscure herbs that Yun Danzi had never encountered, they were just extremely rare varieties. He glanced at them briefly and they were as if they were engraved in his mind.

Of the 100,000 kinds of herbs, from beginning to end, less than half an incense stick was used.

Jiang Chuan sighed slightly.

The 10 intelligence attribute he built up before body tempering was still very useful.

At the very least, his terrifying "hypermeability" is unique among all the cultivators he has ever seen.

Jiang Chuan put down the second jade slip and glanced at the hourglass.

There is still plenty of time.

He picked up the third jade slip without hesitation.

The moment the divine sense probed in, a massive torrent of information surged into the sea of ​​consciousness.

Millions of herbs.

From common medicinal herbs to ancient species that have long since disappeared from the world.

It encompasses everything.

It has everything.

This time, Yun Danzi's knowledge base was clearly insufficient.

Jiang Chuan glanced at them briefly and found that he could recognize less than 30% of the millions of herbs.

However, his expression remained unchanged, and his divine sense, like a vast net, recorded every piece of information about herbs in the jade slip deep within his sea of ​​consciousness.

Outside the secret chamber, in the plaza, stone doors gradually opened.

The candidates emerged from the secret room one by one.

Some breathed a sigh of relief, some looked relieved, and a few looked ashen-faced, clearly having failed to even pass the first hurdle, and slunk down the stone steps at the edge of the square.

"I chose the second jade slip. It took me almost an hour just to look through all 100,000 kinds of herbs, and I only managed to answer less than 30% of them correctly..."

"You answered 30%? I didn't even reach 20%!"

"This first stage is way too difficult. In previous years, a 'good' grade was usually enough. Why haven't the scoring standards on the stone tablet been lowered at all this year?"

"Hehe, with 100,000 kinds of herbs, you need to remember at least 50% to get a good rating, and more than 80% to get an excellent rating! But anyway, as long as you get a good rating in this round, you can move on to the next round. An excellent rating is just icing on the cake."

"That's true, as long as we can pass the test, that's fine."

Suddenly someone pointed to the huge crystal curtain wall hanging in the square.

The progress of the assessment in each secret room is arranged in order on the curtain wall. Most of the candidates have already come out, but the stone doors of three secret rooms are still tightly closed.

"Are there still people who haven't come out?"

"Wait, all the candidates in those three secret rooms chose the third jade slip!?"

The entire crowd fell silent.

"A million kinds? You must be kidding! That third jade slip, it would take me several days just to scan it with my divine sense, let alone memorize it all. Do you think they can all recite it from memory?!"

"It's Young Master Wen and Old Man Han! It's not surprising that they chose the third test... Old Man Han has been taking the test for fifty years, so even if he just memorizes it by rote, he can remember almost everything."

"Who is the third person? Lieyang? I've never heard of that name before?"

A hushed murmur immediately rose from the crowd.

Just then, three lines of numbers on the crystal screen began to jump simultaneously.

The number following Old Man Han's name lit up first, and the count on the stone tablet began to climb rapidly.

One hundred, five hundred, one thousand, three thousand... the numbers rose extremely quickly.

This shows that he has already inputted the pharmacology of no less than five thousand kinds of herbs into the stone tablet in the secret room.

Followed by.

Wen Ziyu's numbers also started to fluctuate.

The two numbers were neck and neck, and soon both broke through the 10,000 mark.

Fifty thousand, one hundred thousand, one hundred and fifty thousand.

When Old Man Han's number broke through 150,000, the square was already completely silent.

150,000 kinds.

This number already far exceeds the entire contents of the second jade slip.

Old Han's numbers finally began to slow down after breaking through 200,000, while Wen Ziyu's numbers showed no signs of slowing down, catching up with his 200,000 mark all the way, and then surging past 300,000 without stopping. 350,000!

When both of their numbers surpassed 500,000, Wen Ziyu's count had already begun to overtake Han Laotou's.

And just then...

Finally, someone in the square noticed the numbers in the third secret room.

Jiang Chuan's count, from the moment the assessment ended, steadily climbed at a terrifyingly uniform pace. There was no pause or slowdown whatsoever.

Three hundred thousand

Four hundred thousand

Five hundred thousand!

"How is this possible?"

"Young Master Wen is a genius unseen in a century at Yuanling Mountain. With Master Shen's personal guidance, being able to recognize 500,000 kinds of herbs is already astonishing. Old Man Han has been studying for fifty years, putting in countless hours of hard work, so it's not surprising that he can recognize nearly 500,000 kinds. But who exactly is this Lieyang? And why is his number still increasing?!"

"570,000! That's more than Old Man Han!"

"It's still rising! 600,000! 690,000!"

When Jiang Chuan's number broke the 700,000 mark, Wen Ziyu's stone tablet was the first to go out.

The genius alchemist emerged from the secret chamber, his forehead still covered in a fine layer of sweat, but his face wore a smug smile.

He just recited the pharmacological properties of over 688,000 kinds of herbs in one go.

This result.

In any previous assessment, it would absolutely be the best.

However, when he looked up at the crystal curtain wall in the square, the smile on his face froze.

His name was surprisingly ranked second.

The one in first place is none other than Lieyang, with 730,000, and his score is still skyrocketing!