Chapter 88- Becoming a Minor Celebrity
The Alchemy Pavilion Mountain at the moment was devoid of disciples walking around with crazed looks.
Today was the day of the monthly exams for every disciple, both in the Inner Mountain and in the Outer Mountain.
Currently, inside a large hall somewhere in the Inner Mountain, a sea of disciples could be seen taking the Alchemy Pavilion’s monthly exam.
Despite the number of disciples here, this was only one of the five exam locations in the Inner Mountain.
The layout of the exam was rather relaxed compared to the importance of the exam itself.
Disciples were seated in rows of desks while projections of plants and herbs they should name and describe were shown to them. Along with that, they had to list the ingredients, and the concoction methods of various pills.
Meanwhile, each desk has a Formation that blurred prevented one from seeing the desk next to them. Even though disciples were taking the exam three feet apart, they were unable to see each other clearly to cheat.
However, they wouldn’t dare to even if they could. They were too scared of being kicked out of the Alchemy Pavilion and potentially the Academy itself. So, the disciples’ fear of cheating was a major part of why the exam was so relaxed.
Among one of the rows of disciples, Sol was sitting at his table scratching his head. He was looking at a plant that he couldn’t identify.
The exam had a point system where for each answer he got right, he would receive one point. The maximum points that he could get as someone from the Inner Mountain was fifteen thousand for the pill formula section, and thirty thousand for the plants and herbs section.
However, the academy at least acknowledged the difficulty of the exam. As not only did the exam force disciples to memorize thirty thousand Tier 1 and Tier 2 plants as well as fifteen thousand Tier 1 and Tier 2 pill formulas every month! They also didn’t specify which plants or pill formula they should memorize. So, one could understand why the disciples looked so crazed and suffered from Alchemic Formula Disease.