Chapter 1173: Pill Origin Certification
Being certified by the Pill Origin is a great honor for an Emperor Pill Master.
Even if he is just a Fifth or Sixth Grade Emperor Pill Master, he would outshine other Emperor Pill Masters of the same level and earn admiring gazes when he steps out.
The reason is simple: very few people can achieve this.
Or rather, very few dare to let the Pill Origin certify them.
The consequences of failing the test against the Pill Origin are extremely severe.
The Heavenly Dao will punish based on the performance during failure, such as timing out, failing steps, or midway errors, with varying degrees of severity.
If the performance is outrageously bad, a complete amateur, the Heavenly Dao might even directly erase them.
Who would be willing to endure such a price?
Take Bi Ying, for example. He has concocted thousands of furnaces of Sixth-grade Emperor Pills over the years and excels at dozens of categories of Sixth-grade Emperor Pills.
This is unmistakably a Sixth-grade Emperor Pill Master, universally acknowledged, without any falsehood.
Yet, to have him enter this Immortal Furnace and participate in the Sixth-grade Emperor Pill Master’s test, he would surely shake his head and refuse; let those who wish to go, go.
There are tens of thousands of varieties of Sixth-grade Emperor Pills, and the Pill Origin’s assessment is random.
Who dares to guarantee that the condition tested would fall within their range of expertise?
If an unfamiliar task is drawn, failure can be declared in advance.
Moreover, failing in regular alchemy is quite common, and the success rate for Sixth-grade Emperor Pills is usually only thirty percent.
During the test, there’s just one chance to redo after a failure.
Due to these reasons, even seasoned Sixth-grade Emperor Pill Masters dare not participate in the Immortal Furnace test.
And once the test is passed and the grade is certified by the Origin, one will naturally earn respect from other alchemists.
After all, this not only signifies extremely high alchemical accomplishment but also extraordinary courage far beyond normal!
Such individuals must be unconditionally granted the position of Pill Master by the Celestial Pill Department, without any obstruction.
However, at this moment, Jiang Cheng is unaware of these backgrounds and details.
If he knew, he might be more serious.
If someone else were to enter here, they’d surely rush against time, busy to the point of blur, fearing a timeout failure.
While this brother, with great interest, watched the immortal medicine and spiritual materials fly into the Pill Furnace automatically, clicking his tongue.
"This is really freaking wonderful!"
"Every step is perfectly aligned, just like machine operation, kind of interesting."
After watching for a full five minutes, he finally felt a bit bored.
Only then did he open the system and collect all the materials in front of him into the System Space.
He didn’t want to toil away for decades.
No matter how powerful the Heavenly Dao, it couldn’t lock away his system.
Then, he opened the system’s alchemy interface.
He selected the Sixth-grade Emperor Pill and chose the Six Yang Golden Marrow Pill, then clicked to start concocting.
Swoosh, swoosh!
The progress bar flashed twice, and two furnaces of Sixth-grade Emperor Pills were thus completed.
Looking at the nine bottles of Six Yang Golden Marrow Pills lying in the system warehouse, this brother felt a touch of loneliness.
It was the loneliness belonging to an expert.
He took out more than two hundred finished Six Yang Golden Marrow Pills from the System Space and displayed them outside.
The ’unmanned alchemy’ operation opposite abruptly stopped.
Because the assessment came to an end here.
Jiang Cheng, using materials provided by the Heavenly Dao, successfully ’crafted’ the Sixth-grade Emperor Pill prescribed by the test, and even faster than the Pill Origin.
So he won.
Even though he hadn’t initiated the Pill Array, nor used the Pill Furnace, completely bypassing any normal alchemical steps... it was essentially cheating.
But the Heavenly Dao wouldn’t care about these.
With the storage ring already sealed off by the Heavenly Dao, isolating contact with the outside, cutting off all other origin rules, it’s virtually impossible to cheat.
Under such circumstances, Jiang Cheng could still produce the required Six Yang Golden Marrow Pills; thus, he succeeded.
"Alas, too easy."
Despite no one being around, this brother’s desire to boast didn’t stop.
He actually began to mock the Pill Origin opposite.
"Pill Origin, you’re so useless to the point of being sketchy, I let you have a few minutes, and yet you’re still ineffective."
Meanwhile, outside, the crowd was still in a buzz.
Taiheng and Qing Huan were anxiously circling.
If Sect Leader Jiang really was an amateur, he might very well be erased.
"No matter how powerful he is, it’s tough to endure against the Heavenly Dao, right?"
Venerable Qing Ling rubbed his chin, suddenly recalling a detail.
"Well, not necessarily, don’t you remember? Immortal Mother couldn’t kill him back then; maybe this time..."
Compared to them, Liuyuan was perhaps the only one confident in Brother Cheng.
He also thought of a detail.
Back in the Middle Immortal Realm, after entering the Enlightenment Immortal Tree, he couldn’t advance beyond the third stage once.
Later, as Jiyun and Xiao Kun stated, they encountered a stage involving alchemy, where Sect Leader Jiang crafted an Eighth-grade Immortal Pill, amazingly skilled!
And that was within the Middle Immortal Realm, where the ceiling was only to the Immortal King level.
Liuyuan himself then was still just a Seventh-grade Immortal Alchemist.
"Sect Leader Jiang was a hidden Immortal Pill Master in the Ancient Immortal Realm, very high-grade... This time he can certainly create miracles again!"
He looked intently at the sixth entrance, his eyes full of anticipation.
But his words, once heard by others, led to a burst of laughter.
"Hahaha, a hidden Immortal Pill Master, are you trying to kill me with laughter?"
Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable laughed gleefully.
"An Immortal Pill Master is an Immortal Pill Master, hiding?"
Jin Pi and Zhengxu likewise snickered.
"If the grade were really high, he’d be renowned far and wide, impossible to hide!"
"Not to mention, this isn’t just the small patch of Ancient Immortal Realm anymore; now it’s the Emperor Pill era!"
"An Immortal Pill Master is nothing!"
Fan Lei Daoist Venerable from the Divine Thunder Bureau sighed.
"Pity, it’ll take a few hundred years to hear of his death news again."
Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable gloated, "Well, not necessarily."
"If he performed poorly and failed early twice, then the Heavenly Dao would determine the result early."
Upon hearing this, Fan Lei Daoist Venerable beamed with joy.
"Haha, then we’ll be on tenterhooks waiting!"
They completely disregarded the feelings of Taiheng, Liuyuan, and others, openly hoping for Jiang Cheng to fail.
While King Shi and Prince Yi, along with other Divine Monarchs, remained silent, also awaiting Jiang Cheng’s moment of failure.
Just then, the sixth entrance above suddenly lit up with golden light.
A figure suddenly appeared outside the entrance.
"It’s over?"
"It ended so quickly?" Fan Lei Daoist Venerable was surprised.
Many Immortal Officials who followed from the Divine Thunder Bureau joined in the raucous mockery.
"Hahaha, this brat failed even faster than we expected!"
"In such a short time? How could the Pill Array even have started?"
"But why is he still alive?"
"Failed so quickly, could say it’s a total mess, yet the Heavenly Dao didn’t erase him?"
"This is so unfair, why is he still living?"
Yet this time, their ’allies,’ the alchemists from Yidan Stream, remained silent.