Li Yu had become famous!
In front of a hundred thousand medicine apprentices, his feat of identifying every herb in the Purple Luck Immortal Soil was simply too brilliant.
The "Hundred Thousand Herbs" of Pill Dao parlance was actually a general term; it did not mean there were only one hundred thousand types of medicinal herbs. In truth, the varieties of herbs were countless, practically infinite.
This "Hundred Thousand Herbs" meant that once one had mastered the properties of one hundred thousand common herbs, one qualified to advance to pill master.
There were at least several million, perhaps even tens of millions, of medicinal herb varieties cultivated within the Purple Luck Immortal Soil.
A mere medicine apprentice had actually identified every herb in the entire Purple Luck Immortal Soil? What heaven-defying talent was that?
Li Yu's name shook the entire Purple Cloud Alchemy lineage.
"Failure to gather the medicinal herbs as required. Assessment failed."
Li Yu's final result was actually a "fail." Li Yu did not care in the slightest, and neither did anyone else.
Would a medicine apprentice who had identified every herb in the Purple Luck Immortal Soil care about a mere "fail"? His promotion to pill master was already inevitable. No number of failing marks could conceal his radiant brilliance, like the rising sun.
"Li, what you did is too heartbreaking! My first place really has no status at all!"
Meng Hao had taken first place in this test. Having gathered and identified one hundred thousand commonly used herbs, he had unquestionably become first in the Purple Luck Immortal Soil assessment.
But... no one remembered his first place at all! Everyone was focused on Li Yu. Who cared about him being first?
Of course, Meng Hao was not so shallow as to harbor any resentment over such