The Attack of the Wastrel

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The Alchemy Tower was different from the Training Tower in which it consisted of individual rooms for students to train in. Whenever a student stepped into the Alchemy Tower, they would immediately be transported into separate rooms to train. This helped students focus on themselves and not get interrupted by others.

As it was still early, Gu Lingzhi did not want to return to her dorm with Qin Xinran still following her, though it was highly possible that Tianfeng Jin would be more than happy to fight with Qin Xinran.

A few days earlier, when Qin Xinran followed Gu Lingzhi back to her dorm, they had unfortunately bumped into Tianfeng Jin. Tianfeng Jin then reacted with her usual enthusiasm for a fight and forced Qin Xinran to exchange blows with her.

The consequence of the fight between two girls with violent tendencies was having to buy new granite flooring from the store and repairing the floor in front of the main door.

Once Gu Lingzhi got to the Alchemy Tower, she felt a sense of familiarity as she walked in and she successfully managed to get rid of Qin Xinran.

Since it was called the Alchemy Tower, what was tested was naturally related to Alchemy. The entire building was split into four sections, namely Heaven, Earth, Black and Yellow Levels. According to their own abilities, students will then choose which level to be tested in.

Gu Lingzhi stayed on the first level which was the Yellow Level.

The moment she stepped into the first level, she was transported into a room about the size of ten square meters. In the middle of the room stood a furnace that was about as big as a human and on the lid of the furnace, lay a green-coloured gem the size of a fist.

There were five stages to the Yellow Level tests in the Alchemy Tower. The first stage tests the proficiency of the Alchemist with regard to medicinal ingredients. In order to pass, students needed to identify a certain number of medicinal ingredients before the time ran out.

As it was not her first time here, Gu Lingzhi intuitively placed her hand on the green coloured gem. She closed her eyes and focused on sending out a small amount of Spiritual Energy as a white space appeared in her mind. A medicinal ingredient then appeared in the white space.

“Perturbation Herb,” Gu Lingzhi spewed out the name of the medicinal ingredient speedily and the medicinal ingredient in the space in her mind flashed, a new herb taking its place. Without hesitation, Gu Lingzhi read the name of the new medicinal ingredient.

While it may seem like Gu Lingzhi passed this stage with ease, this was not her first attempt. On her first attempt, she could barely identify more than 50 medicinal ingredients and failed which resulted in her getting kicked out of the Alchemy Tower.

She then spent a lot of effort studying the medicinal ingredients used by Yellow-Level Alchemists.

After resting for a while, Gu Lingzhi placed her hand on the green-coloured gem once again, starting her second test.

The second stage tests the familiarity of students to the medicinal ingredients.

The third stage then tests the purity of medicinal ingredients.

To Gu Lingzhi, who had the Heavenly Book of Medicinal Ingredients in her possession, this stage was hardly a challenge.

The fourth stage tested medicine cultivation.

In order to make it difficult for students to pass, the creator of the tests was certainly quite adventurous with what he tested.

Upon reading the use of the Spiritual Medicine she was tasked to create, Gu Lingzhi could not help but roll her eyes. She had no choice but to start choosing appropriate ingredients provided by the ingredient cabinet to start cultivating the medicine.

With this, she faced the fifth and last stage, which was to independently cultivate a Spiritual Medicine.

In the white space in her head, the uses of the final pill would be displayed and Gu Lingzhi will then have to create a pill that could produce the desired effects.

The majority of students that attempted the Alchemy Tower failed at this stage and Gu Lingzhi was no exception.

“A Spiritual Medicine that will cause someone to fart when they smell it…” As she muttered the assignment to herself, frown lines appeared on her forehead.

“These questions are simply perverted!” Silently cursing, Gu Lingzhi sat cross-legged on the floor as she wrecked her brains to think of possible ways to combine medicinal ingredients.

“The Ascension Herb opens up the intestines and increases digestion, helping increase the effectiveness of pills. I can try this. The Tailless Rat emits out an incredibly foul smell in order to make its enemies retreat, maybe I can use the Demon Pill made from it…”

After running through several possible medicinal ingredients in her mind, a total of 4 hours passed as Gu Lingzhi thought through the cultivation process. She then proceeded to search for the ingredients she needed in the medicine cabinet.

An hour later…

The next second, she appeared at the main door of the Alchemy Tower.

Slightly disheartened, Gu Lingzhi was walking out of the tower as she saw several students fervently discussing the stone tablet outside the Alchemy tower with looks of admiration. “I think the difference in standards between Feng An and Senior Beicheng is too big. When Senior Beicheng was just a Yellow-Level Alchemist, she was ranked first for a whole year. If Senior Beicheng did not breakthrough to become a Black-Level Alchemist, Feng An would never have been able to rank first.”

Just as the first student finish talking, another one quickly replied, “That’s right, Senior Beicheng is an extremely rare talent. How can Feng An be compared to her?”

Gu Lingzhi could not help but stop in her tracks as she heard the name Beicheng Haoyue. From what she overheard, Gu Lingzhi felt it somewhat funny that the one Beicheng Haoyue has been preventing from reaching first place, Feng An, could only become first only after Beicheng Haoyue became a Black-Level Alchemist. Feng An loved to brag about his rank on the Stone Tablet to everyone else, it was no wonder he was despised by a large majority of people.

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