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♪Holding a sword that pierces nine heavens I'm as carefree as I can be♪

♪Not going to waste my youth while I'm young♪

♪I slay demons at the end of the divine path♪

♪I stop by Hell♪

♪I accept all challenges that come my way♪

♪A young man with two lives♪

♪Roaming the martial world hundreds of nations under his feet♪

♪Had his bloodline awakened in a secret realm♪

♪Refined his body from the inside in thunderstorms♪

♪A hero of the ancient world♪

♪Boiling hot human blood♪

♪His hand stretches through space♪

♪Which fighter will make it to the top?♪

♪In the 33rd realm he'll be slashing the great sky♪

♪That's me, a living legend♪

[Dominator of Martial Gods]

[Adapted from original work of "Dominator of Martial Gods", The Universe Part I by Ruo Hong Culture]

[Episode 13]

This is truly interesting.

This question setter is not bad.

The two questions appear to be simple,

but there are many traps in them.

Take the first one as an example.

The Dragon Incense is a Grade Three spiritual medicine.

Any Alchemist

will want to get it.

Clever students may answer like

"observe the surroundings"

or "to see if there's any danger".

[But actually, these are all wrong.]

[Dragon Incense is the favorite spiritual medicine]

[of Mirage Beast, a Grade Three demonic beast.]

[It's almost inseparable from Mirage Beasts.]

[The scent of a century-old Dragon Incense]

[can only spread about 50 meters.]

[Once you smell it,]

[it means that you're already in]

[the illusion of the Mirage Beast.]

[Now you must take the Disillusion Pill]

[and turn around to escape.]

The second question is also quite fun.

The white-blade spider has a strong toxin.

[Once its toxin gets in your body]

[and you can't detoxicate yourself quickly,]

[you'll die for sure.]

This question is trying to test

an Alchemist's ability to handle emergencies.

After all, an excellent Alchemist

will eventually enter forests

or go into the wild.

He must be both brave and cautious.

All done.

Kid, who gave you permission to stand up?

Do you know the consequences of

disrupting the examination?

I've finished answering all the questions.

Finished?

Well…

It's not even half the time.

Go out, then.

When will the second round begin?

We'll go over your paper.

You'll be noticed when you have passed.

This kid is simply too arrogant.

If I find out that he's just messing around,

I won't go easy on him!

Mr. Chen,

there's no need to be mad at a kid.

Come.

Let's go over his paper now.

Just to teach him a lesson.

Let's just throw it into the trash can!

It's not even an hour passed.

Why is he out so soon?

I knew he didn't pass.

But even if he couldn't answer the questions,

he didn't have to give up so quickly, did he?

What's there to go over anyway?

Can he write a masterpiece of some kind?

Mr. Chen, c-come check this out.

He got the first question right.

[Paper] The second question too.

How is this possible?

Did he cheat just now?

If he cheated,

why didn't we find it with our senses?

Take a look at the next answers.

He got all the basic questions right.

These 50 questions cover

almost all aspects of alchemy.

Even we can't get them all right

if we happen to be careless.

But he actually did it.

Let's take a look at the questions set by Master Liu Guang.

The ones in the front are some basics.

You can answer them by rote learning.

But the comprehensive questions in the back are different.

Without rich alchemy experience,

you can't answer them correctly.

The century-old Dragon Incense

usually is inseparable from Mirage Beasts.

Its scent can only spread 50 meters.

Smelling its scent from 100 meters away

means you're already enchanted by illusions.

You must take the Disillusion Pill

and get out of the illusion range of the Mirage Beast.

It's identical to the standard answer.

Wait, there's more.

After leaving the illusion range,

immediately look for

a herb with three purple leaves.

Putting it in your mouth will mitigate the impact of illusions.

After having sufficient time, you'll be able to find the Dragon Incense

and leave safely.

The latter half

isn't included in Master Liu Guang's answer.

A herb with three purple leaves?

Could it be Three-leafed Purple Sun Grass?

It does help to mitigate minor illusions,

and it grows near Dragon Incense.

But its disillusion effect

is no match to Disillusion Pills,

nor can it block the mental impact of Mirage Beasts.

Isn't going back a suicidal move?

He already gave the right answer.

This is so unnecessary, isn't it?

This is like gliding the lily.

Come, let's take a look at

the next question about the white-blade spider.

Evacuate as soon as you're bitten,

and look for Spider King Grass nearby.

Smash the grass

and mix it with the spider blood on the blade.

Apply the mix to your wound.

If you can't find the grass,

pick the spears of Ye Trees nearby instead.

When you find the spider cave, kill it

and take its demonic core out. Smash the core and swallow it.

His answer to this question is wrong again.

The correct answer should be:

Block your Danzhong, Jiuwei and Xinjue acupoints

and find the Spider King Grass.

Swallow it to slow down the spreading of toxins.

This way, even if the city is ten thousand miles away,

you can still be cured.

He has completely gone in the wrong direction.

He got the basic questions right by mechanical memorizing.

When it comes to real knowledge, his hands are tied.

He doesn't have any actual experience.

That's the best he can do.

The examination has ended.

Students, leave the room.

Heaven above!

Why am I so unlucky? Why was it so hard?

Just try harder next time.

Qin Chen!

-How did it go with you? -I'm doomed this time.

We've definitely failed this time…

Not bad.

Not bad?

He even got this question wrong?

He… He's worse than that kid!

What a bad batch of students this time.

The questions are indeed difficult,

but they don't have to perform so badly.

Chen Mu.

Ouyang Cheng.

Master Liu Guang.

How many people

have passed the first round?

With the questions you set,

I don't think a lot will pass.

[Liu Guang, General Deacon of Dan Pavilion] Although my questions are tricky,

as long as they analyze carefully,

any Grade One Alchemist

can give the correct answers.

If they can't even do that,

letting them pass the test

will only disgrace our Dan Pavilion.

Apart from knowledge,

an Alchemist must be careful.

Any mistake

will cause serious consequences.

Let me see.

Look at this one.

He can't even tell Yangju Grass from Youngju Flower.

One is a drug to moisten the lungs,

while the other is a poison.

If we let people like this pass the test,

when something goes wrong in medicine making,

whose responsibility will it be?

Now take a look at this.

The extraction of Crime Fruit needs six methods,

but he only wrote five,

leaving out the most important one.

If you can't extract the efficacy,

how can you make Dan medicine?

This one got seventy points.

Seems not bad.

[Paper]

He's right about all the basic questions.

This is the paper of an arrogant kid.

He's not even an alchemy apprentice yet,

but he wants to be a Grade One Alchemist.

If not for the rules of Dan Pavilion,

I'd have driven him out.

He got the basic questions right

by mere rote learning.

His answers to the latter questions make no sense.

Now I'm curious.

[Paper]

This is…

Great idea!

He actually thought of using Three-leafed Purple Sun Grass

to block the attack from the Mirage Beast

and pick the Dragon Incense successfully!

He managed to get out of danger

and get the Dragon Incense!

Killing two birds with one stone, this is a genius idea!

This…

But Three-leafed Purple Sun Grass

can only undo mild illusion, right?

What do you know?

The Three-leafed Purple Sun Grass

does help to mitigate minor illusions.

Its effect is less than one-fifth of Disillusion Pills.

But if it is combined with a Disillusion Pill,

it can boost the effectiveness of the latter by more than one fold.

This is totally able to block the attack from the Mirage Beast.

Did he answer this one correctly?

More than correctly!

His answer is even

better than mine.

Let's take a look at the next one.

[Paper]

Excellent!

Mixing Spider King Grass with the white-blade spider's blood on the blade,

or use spears of Ye Trees as a replacement.

Apply it to your wound and then kill the spider.

How did he come up with this?

Look at this…

Master Liu, did he get this one right too?

It's literally perfect!

This…

The blood of the white-blade spider is poisonous as well,

but the Spider King Grass

and the toxin in the spider's blood

can react with each other.

If you apply it to your wound,

you'll be immune to the

toxin for hours,

and your mobility will be recovered.

Apart from that,

the leaves of Ye Trees

have the same effect.

It's just that they have a shorter effective duration.

But even so,

the toxin inside the body still hasn't been cleared.

And isn't swallowing the spider's demonic core

a suicidal move?

What do you know?

The white-blade spider kills only by its toxin.

As long as you are immune to

its toxin,

even if you're a Human level cultivator,

you'll be able to kill it.

Also, swallowing Spider King Grass with the core

can eliminate the remaining toxin in the body.

This way,

not only can the toxin be cleared,

but you'll also be able to kill the spider

and get the materials from it.

His answer is better than mine

over ten folds!

This…

You actually gave him zero points!

Are you stupid?

Genius! How can there be such a way out

when encountering a Fire Lion?

I didn't even think of this idea

when I designed the question.

And this one.

Decomposing the toxin of a silver-ring scorpion with Cinder Weed.

How… How did he come up with it?

When I was designing every question,

I had a fixed answer for it.

But this person is capable of solving them

with even better solutions.

This is enlightening!

Knowledge is boundless.

This is true as ancient wise men say.

Genius!

Let me see

what his name is.

[Qin Chen]

Qin Chen?

Why does it sound familiar?

Where is he?

Call him in right now.

Let him take the second round.

I'm curious to see

how good he is when it comes to practices.

Oops.

Before you came,

we'd already sent men to announce the results.

I'm afraid that Qin Chen has already left now.

What did you say?

Come out with me right now!

See if he's still here.

If he's gone,

see how I'm gonna punish you!

Mentor Ouyang and Master Chen Mu have gone over the papers.

Your results will be published now.

Wei Zhen.

It's me, Shen!

I told you I was

gifted in alchemy!

Quiet.

Wei Shen.

Thanks.

Zhao Lingshan.

Li Qingfeng.

Wang Qiming.

Wang An.

Thank you heavens,

for letting me pass the examination!

This Wang An didn't become

an apprentice until in his thirties.

He took this test

every year for the last thirty years.

Guess he had done this a hundred times.

But he still didn't make it.

Those who passed,

please get ready and come in with me.

Hold on.

Why am I not on the list?

It means you didn't pass the examination.

This is impossible for me.

Impossible?

Qin Chen, who do you think you are?

Alright,

if your name wasn't called, you didn't pass the examination.

If you still keep badgering me,

forgive me for not being polite.

Qin Chen,

do you think the test for Alchemists

is that easy to pass?

Ridiculous.

We're going in now.

Masters.

Who's Qin Chen?

I am.

Are you Qin Chen?

Master Liu Guang,

Mr. Chen Mu signed him in.

He didn't piss you off, did he?

You're indeed a young genius!

Good!

Great!

Seems like

the future of our Dan Pavilion of the Xuan is secured.

Good!

You seven follow me in

for the second round.

Everyone, please.

Chen, you're so good at hiding yourself.

Well…

How did Qin Chen pass?

Wait.

Wait, why did I fail again?

[Alchemy Examination Hall] Round two is a random test of

one of the ten alchemy operations.

This round will test

your fire control abilities.

Fire control abilities? How?

Didn't it use to be medicine discrimination?

Fire control is the least possible one to test.

The ten alchemy operations include

medicine discrimination, medicine extraction,

heating up the cauldron, medicine control, fire control, Dan condensation, etc.

Medicine discrimination is the most well-known one to the public.

It's also the most basic skill

an Alchemist must have.

Tests in the past usually were this one.

I didn't expect that Master Liu Guang would choose fire control for the test.

As is known to all,

the ability to control fire

is the premise for an Alchemist to make

high-quality Dan medicine.

If you can't even do a good job in this detail,

how can you call yourself an authentic Alchemist?

First one, Wei Zhen.

Show us your fire control ability.

There are many types of Dan fire,

including array fire, true fire, demonic fire,

earth fire, heaven fire, etc.

Array fire and demonic fire are acquired postnatally.

They are external fire.

But the fire formed by the vital energy of the Alchemist

is true fire.

It belongs to internal fire.

Alchemist apprentices who haven't specially cultivated

fire methods

won't be able to form true fire.

Mastery of array fire is the most basic requirement for an Alchemist.

Is this your fire control ability?

Split the fire in front of you into three

and display them in a pyramid shape.

You came for the test without the most basic

fire control ability.

Next.

As we know,

fire control seems to be testing

the Alchemist's ability to control fire,

but actually, it's testing how strong

the Alchemist's spiritual power is and how careful he can be.

This is a

very complex and tedious process.

It has high requirements for spiritual power.

You guys can forget about it.

Just let me be the one

to show you how it's done.

What's going on?

Come on, burn!

Wait…

You failed.

Next, Wang Qiming.

You can leave now.

Looks like saber suits me better.

Isn't Master Liu Guang too strict?

If this goes on,

who can possibly pass?

Next,

Zhao Lingshan.

Split!

Not bad.

Good.

Someone finally did it.

Not bad. You passed.

Thank you, Masters.

Next, Li Qingfeng.

Fire splitting is the most basic skill of fire control ability.

It's what an Alchemist must have.

Master Liu Guang's test is actually straightforward.

As long as you understand the properties of fire

and how the fire-gathering array works,

plus a little control of spiritual power,

you'll be able to finish the test.

Three fireballs forming a triangle is the

most basic one in fire structures.

It's not hard

for a true Alchemist

with Grade One spiritual power

to create five fireballs.

Five?

He's literally a genius.

Splitting the fire into five

and controlling them with such ease,

he's got excellent ability.

Not bad for you.

You passed.

Thanks, Master Liu Guang.

[He's able to do that]

[not because of strong spiritual power.]

[What he awakened should be a fire bloodline]

[that's naturally sensitive to fire.]

[Also, he cultivated fire methods.]

[His internal vital energy features fire.]

[That's why fire control]

[is much easier for him than other Alchemists.]

[No wonder he can pass.]

Next, Wang An.

Wang An,

you passed.

[Three actually passed!]

I thought the second round would be quite challenging.

But three out of six actually passed.

This is unexpected.

Next,

Qin Chen.

Qin Chen,

let me see

how capable you are.

You only activated half of the array?

How can you pass the test

without activating the fire-gathering array?

Qin Chen, you're not an alchemy apprentice,

so activating half of it is already good enough.

You may need it for cooking when you go home.

Now you know

who the real genius here is?

Qin Chen, you can leave now.

You can't split the fire into three

with only half of the array activated.

So…

[Dan Pavilion is an organization formed by all Alchemists on the Tianwu Continent.]

[Martial artists can buy Dan medicine in it to improve power or cure illnesses.]

[Highly respected, It's based in the Martial Domain and has branches in all kingdoms.]

♪Listening to heavenly music while drinking wine♪

♪Swinging the sword in a white robe♪

♪A palace covered with gold songs ringing in the ears♪

♪And poems written in ink♪

♪Breathtakingly handsome is the man♪

♪The scenery stays the same a carefree life ahead♪

♪When boredom strikes♪

♪He indulges in pleasures♪

♪Another good story in the making♪

♪Drinking the strongest wine sleeping in off in Chang'an's tallest building♪

♪He is the most carefree person in the world♪

♪Breathtakingly handsome is the man♪

♪The scenery stays the same a carefree life ahead♪

♪When boredom strikes♪

♪He indulges in pleasures♪

♪Another good story in the making♪

♪Drinking the strongest wine♪

♪Sleeping in off in Chang'an's tallest building♪

♪He is the most carefree person in the world♪

♪When boredom strikes♪

♪He indulges in pleasures♪

♪Another good story in the making♪

♪Drinking the strongest wine♪

♪Sleeping in off in Chang'an's tallest building♪

♪He is the most carefree person in the world♪