Feng Xing returned to his room to cultivate. Tomorrow he would go and ask when and where the test will be held this week, as he didn't know the details yet.
1 day later.
Feng Xing opened his eyes, and stood up. He was going to go to the room next to his... Rou Xue's room.
"Time to ask her the details."
Feng Xing knocked three times, after that he heard a reply.
"Who is it?" Rou Xue asked, she was currently memorising a book.
"It's your Master." Feng Xing opened the door and went it. Rou Xue didn't seem to mind that though.
"What are you reading?" Feng Xing asked.
"I'm memorising the first 10.000 ingredients... don't you know the test is today?" Rou Xue stared at him with weird eyes...
"....Is that so? Well then, that's good for me." Feng Xing awkwardly smiled. He didn't know it was today, but that didn't mean it was necessarily bad for him. He looked at Rou Xue memorising the book.
"Lead me to the test later." Feng Xing demanded, as her Master, this was absolutely tolerable. Right?
"Oh... sure. Ofcourse I will.... Master" Rou Xue smiled innocently, seemingly happy to serve Feng Xing. She couldn't wait to see Feng Xing fail. How could she let a chance like this slip away?
Feng Xing simply smiled back.
"Hehehe, this time... for sure" Rou Xue thought inwardly, while maintaining her innocent smile.
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Currently in a different place, one youth was talking with two others who were reporting something. This youth was Mong Gu, he seemed to know a few details now.
"Are you sure that they stayed in the same room for hours!?" Mong Gu seemed to be enraged, nobody can take away what he covets!
"Yes this is true, we definitely saw her walk into his room. A few hours later she came out with a red face! We don't know what happened inside, but it surely..." One of the two youths reported.
"I've heard enough. You two may leave now..." Mong Gu's expression immediately became cold, this terrified the two youths so they left in a hurry.
"Feng Xing....."
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Feng Xing and Rou Xue were currently heading over to the location where the test was held at.
"You really don't know any of the details... do you really think you will pass?" Rou Xue asked.
"Still asking your Master such things? If I say I shall pass then, pass I shall." Feng Xing sternly replied. His usual smile gone, replaced by a casual expression.
"Alright then."
Rou Xue proceeded to head over towards the Black Gods Sect Main Mountain. When they arrived.they saw hundreds of people sitting on the ground at a plaza, they were waiting for an Elder to come to give the test. Just as Rou Xue and Feng Xing wanted to sit down, an Elder flew down from the top of the mountain. He stared at everyone and said : "At this plaza, the Pill Concocting Hall test will be given. If you want to join the other Halls, you may come back at a later time."
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Nobody left, apparently everyone here was for the Pill Concocting Hall test...
The Elder's eyes squinted at the sight of this. Passing this test wasn't so easy at all, memorising the first 10.000 ingredients could take someone years! After passing this test you could finally learn how to make pills, but who said that this wasn't hard? The Elder thought that most people here were trying out their luck, but didn't care anymore.
Every youth wanted to try atleast, maybe they had a talent to recognize every single ingredient? Thus they came to take the test anyways.
The Elder sent an imprint towards all the participants. The imprint disappeared in their foreheads. The test was being held in the minds of the participants.
Feng Xing currently saw an ingredient appear, he only needed to know the characteristics, name and usage of the ingredient. In easier words. One needed to know every detail about the ingredient to proceed further.
In Feng Xing's mind countless ingredients appeared and disappeared straightaway, he remembered all of these ingredients and every single detail. Just like that one minute passed by... He was finished.
Feng Xing opened his eyes, this would indicate that he was done and passed the test. The test had a time limit, if one couldn't pass the test in an hour, then they would have failed.
The Elder seemed to notice Feng Xing and stared at him in shock. Feng Xing casually stared. Their eyes met, The Elder seemed to be unable to believe it. Finishing the test in one minute? Just like that? Even he himself couldn't do that! He would definitely tell this to the Grand Elder who supervised the Pill Concocting Hall.
The rest seemed to struggle as the expressions on their faces kept changing. Feng Xing looked over to Rou Xue. She seemed to be still calmly proceeding in her head. After 10 minutes. A few people were opening their eyes. Rou Xue also opened her eyes. Her eyes seemed to be a bit exhausted, a lot of mental energy was consumed after all. She looked over towards Feng Xing....
"..." Rou Xue's tired eyes suddenly sprung open at disbelief. Feng Xing actually passed the test earlier than her!? And he didn't even seem to be tired! Every other person would be tired after trying to recall thousands of ingredients!
"How!?" Rou Xue thought, wasn't this guy a country bumpkin that didn't know anything about ingredients? Don't tell me he already memorised the first 10.000 ingredients perfectly.
Feng Xing seemed to enjoy Rou Xue's expression and smiled at her. After that Rou Xue immediately closed her eyes to recover... she had no energy left for this...
Similarly a lot of people who passed also closed their eyes to recover. Only Feng Xing had eyes that remained open. Suddenly a voice transmitted into his head directly.
"Boy, do you wish to learn Pill Concocting from me personally?"
The voice seemed to be from the Elder who was currently staring at Feng Xing.
Feng Xing smiled back and shook his head.
Only in the Martial Path realm could one transmit messages to others directly in their minds. Feng Xing couldn't do that yet.
The Elder sighed, but didn't persuade Feng Xing any further. It was Feng Xing's own choice, he couldn't force someone after all.
An hour quickly passed, the ones who failed opened their eyes... the test disappeared from their minds... It was over. The ones who did pass were now currently standing, earlier the Elder asked the people who passed to stand up. So he could see who failed and who passed. Currently he saw that only a few people passed including Feng Xing and Rou Xue.
The ones that didn't pass left the scene. They had no intentions to stay.. if they didn't pass.
Rou Xue currently looked at Feng Xing with a face that longed for answers. Feng Xing didn't pay any heed to this.
"You guys will now be a part of the Pill Concocting Hall. You can read about the details after joining in these books." The Elder suddenly sent books over to each person.
"It's thick..." Everyone thought except for Feng Xing. It was normal after all, every single thing was in the book and most importantly the rules and ingredient distribution.
Feng Xing decided to read it later in his room.
"You may come to the Pill Concocting Hall, after reading everything." After saying that the Elder flew off.
People envied the ability to fly, but only after stepping into the Martial Path realm was it possible to fly.
Feng Xing went towards Rou Xue, but was immediately met with questions longing for answers...
"How did you pass!"
"Now now... didn't I already tell you that? If I say I shall pass...th-" Rou Xue immediately interrupted him.
"No! I want to hear a genuine answer!"
Feng Xing looked into Rou Xue's longing eyes...
"Sigh..."
"It's simple... I memorised the first 10.000 ingredients." This was the truth, although it wasn't really what Rou Xue was looking for. Rou Xue couldn't say anything in reply to that.
"Not happy that your Master passed?" Feng Xing said while looking at Rou Xue.
"...Very happy.." Rou Xue said without any emotion in her voice.
"Hmm, not very enthusiastic... as punishment, clean up my room for me." Feng Xing smiled. He knew that Rou Xue couldn't refuse anyways.
"......Why me... sigh.." Rou Xue thought, but couldn't refuse it... she was his maid after all.
They slowly went towards Feng Xing's room, but on the way they met Xiao Ling. Xiao Ling seemed to be a little bit disturbed after seeing the two of them together, but paid it no heed and proceeded further, walking past them.
"That expression..." Feng Xing smiled, and proceeded to his room with Rou Xue.