bantayden Chapter 308: The Grand Final Exam
Chapter 308: The Grand Final Exam
After mastering the method for concocting the Fire Source Secret Medicine in his dreams, Li Wei went straight to the Alchemy Room within the Hall of Truth to produce the potion.
Li Wei’s own Sunshine Research Room had the best Alchemy Rooms.
Now, no one would say a thing about him using the Alchemy Room for personal reasons.
Everyone just assumed Li Wei was conducting some kind of research.
Li Wei used the various advanced Magic Instruments in the Alchemy Room to concoct the Fire Source Secret Medicine.
The difference was immediately palpable.
These tools were countless times better than the Entry Level Alchemy Tools he owned.
There was even a Magic Instrument that automatically extracted the essence from the liquid ingredients.
After placing the materials inside, the Magic Instrument would automatically separate out the liquid essence Li Wei required.
This saved Li Wei a significant amount of time that would have been spent processing the materials.
’I still need one Tier Four Fire Element Magical Beast Core. Good thing I didn’t sell it.’
Li Wei tossed the Demon Core into the Melting Furnace to extract its essence.
He then tossed the Earth Flowing Crystal into the Melting Furnace to extract the Earth Flowing Lava.
He didn’t use pure Earth Flowing Lava because the recipe Fang Lide had given him specifically called for Earth Flowing Crystal from a Fire Fish.
Li Wei planned to first concoct a few batches of the Fire Source Secret Medicine strictly according to the recipe.
He would improve the recipe on his own later.
An hour later, Li Wei had a bottle of thick, red solution.
The Fire Source Secret Medicine was complete.
The cost to produce one bottle of Fire Source Secret Medicine was eighty Gold Coins.
This didn’t even include the value of the Tier Four Demon Core and the Earth Flowing Crystal.
The other materials alone cost eighty Gold Coins.
Including the Tier Four Demon Core and the Earth Flowing Crystal, the cost was likely eight or nine hundred Gold Coins.
The cheapest Tier Four Demon Core went for four to five hundred.
The value of an Earth Flowing Crystal depended on its size. A small one was worth three to four hundred Gold Coins.
A large one could be worth over a thousand.
Crucially, the amount of Earth Flowing Lava that could be extracted from an Earth Flowing Crystal was minuscule.
Li Wei realized the two full jars of pure Earth Flowing Lava in his possession were worth at least a hundred thousand Gold Coins.
The number was staggering once he actually calculated it.
Li Wei himself was stunned by the value of the two jars of Earth Flowing Lava.
He found some Fire Source Secret Medicine for sale within the Elemental Tower.
The source was an Alchemist from the Hall of Truth.
A single bottle of Fire Source Secret Medicine was priced at five hundred Gold Coins.
The Fire Source Secret Medicine Li Wei concocted could be divided up into his small vials.
A single batch could fill at least four or five of them.
If an Alchemist had a high success rate, the profit margin would be at least two hundred percent.
The key was that there was no shortage of customers for Fire Source Secret Medicine.
Grand Mages loved using Fire Source Secret Medicine for their Cultivation to increase their Mana.
The effects of High Level Cultivation Magic Potions were much weaker for Grand Mages.
The Fire Source Secret Medicine was just right.
Li Wei saw a new business opportunity.
The Fire Source Secret Medicine would sell better and be more profitable than the Energy Secret Medicine.
’Is it a bad idea to steal business from the Hall of Truth?’
Li Wei wondered.
’Whatever. I’ll just make a batch of Fire Source Secret Medicine first and figure it out later.’
Spending a full day, Li Wei concocted seven large bottles of Fire Source Secret Medicine.
When divided into smaller vials, this amounted to about thirty-five portions.
For his own use, Li Wei drank the Fire Source Secret Medicine directly from the large bottle.
This wasn’t the Energy Secret Medicine, after all.
One gulp, and just like a High Level Cultivation Magic Potion, its effects were long-lasting.
It required a relatively long period of Cultivation to absorb the potion’s power.
Humans, unlike Magic Beasts, couldn’t directly absorb Earth Flowing Lava.
Even a Fire Fish had a high probability of dying if it absorbed Earth Flowing Lava directly.
Humans could only use the Alchemy Skill to process it, allowing the energy of the Earth Flowing Lava to be released slowly.
This also greatly enhanced the effects of Cultivation.
After drinking the Fire Source Secret Medicine, Li Wei felt his Cultivation speed was much faster than when he used High Level Cultivation Magic Potions.
Every time he cultivated, his entire body felt hot, and his Mana increased at a rapid pace.
His Cultivation speed increased two- to threefold.
Li Wei glanced at the time and saw that there were only seven days left until the final exams.
’Forget it. There’s not enough time. I won’t go to the Cultivation Secret Realm.’
’I’ll just use the Fire Source Secret Medicine for the next few days.’
「Seven days later.」
[Crystal Meditation Method (Tier Three)] 4978/10000
His progress over these past few days was remarkable.
His Cultivation speed was much faster than before.
Of course, it couldn’t compare to secluded Cultivation within the Cultivation Secret Realm.
A lot had happened in those few days.
Li Wei learned that the four people who had been trapped in the Fire Elemental Plane had returned.
All of them were safe and sound.
At least, they appeared safe on the surface. As for what kind of deal they had secretly struck with the lord of the Fire Elemental Plane...
...no one knew.
Another piece of bombshell news was that the Undead had attacked Storm City.
A Legendary Witch Lich, leading Mephit and millions of Undead, had descended upon Storm City in a surprise attack.
Storm City scrambled to respond, and its gates were nearly breached by the Undead Army.
The nobles of the Human Empire, who hid behind Storm City, were terrified.
If Storm City were to fall, the Undead would have a straight path into the Central Earth.
The land was all flat plains, offering no defensible terrain or natural barriers.
Sensing the crisis, the Human Empire hurriedly mobilized forces from all quarters to reinforce Storm City.
Even the Light Divine Sect sent troops as reinforcements.
Li Wei worried that such a major event might cause the final exams to be postponed.
The final exams were held during the last three days of every year.
After the exams, students would be reassigned to different classes based on their scores.
This was the annual moment for underperforming students to stage a comeback.
It was also the time when top students could fall from grace.
Every year, some people leaped up in standing, while others were forced to quietly leave their original Magic Class.
It was worth mentioning that students in the Purple Level Class were exempt from the final exams.
This was because admission to the Purple Level Class was not based solely on scores.
Even placing first in the final exams did not guarantee entry into the Purple Level Class.
The Purple Level Class had its own set of selection criteria.
Typically, a student’s potential to enter the Purple Level Class was determined the moment they entered the Elemental Tower.
Very few students managed to stage a comeback through the final exams and enter the Purple Level Class.
Over the past century, only a handful of people had managed it.
You could count them on one hand.
The goal for the vast majority of students was simply to get into the Blue Level Class or the Cyan Level Class.
Even moving up just one level was considered a success.
They didn’t dare to dream of having a chance to enter the Purple Level Class.
Li Wei’s goal was the Purple Level Class.
Fang Lide had told him he needed to place first in his year’s final exams.
Only then would he have a chance to be considered for the Purple Level Class.
If he passed the review, he would have a chance to enter the Purple Level Class.
First place in the year’s final exams.
The Mage Class had only three years: the first year for Tier One Mages, the second year for Tier Two Mages, and the third year for Tier Three Mages.
In other words, only three people each year had the chance to be reviewed for admission to the Purple Level Class.
Although Li Wei was currently a second-year student.
But because he was already a Tier Three Mage.
Therefore, his competition was all the Tier Three Mages in the third year.
Fang Lide was optimistic about Li Wei’s talent, but he wasn’t very confident in his actual strength.
It couldn’t be helped. After all, Li Wei had only just become a Tier Three Mage.
Now he had to face senior third-year students who had been Tier Three Mages for years.
This was extremely unfair to him.
But then again, there was no such thing as fairness in the world.
If Fang Lide had met Li Wei earlier, he would have advised him to hold off on his breakthrough and wait until after the final exams to advance to Tier Three.