Alchemy Examination

The steps to becoming an alchemist were extremely complicated.

There were no fixed standards or procedures for any examination.

Perhaps the previous examination had tested the refinement of a Tier 2 Yangluo Pill, while the next might test the refinement of a Tier 2 Ice Heart Pill. What exactly would be tested largely depended on the Chief Examiner's wishes. Unless one learned the information in advance, targeted training was simply impossible.

As for leaking examination content, it was both common and uncommon. In small places such as the Gama Empire Alchemist Association, some Chief Examiners who had master-disciple or family ties with examinees would reveal parts of the examination in advance. This often allowed alchemists whose true standard was only Tier 2 to advance to Tier 3 through targeted training.

Of course, whether they could truly be considered Tier 3 Alchemists was a matter of opinion. After all, by Yao Chen's standards, even Gu He likely could not be called a Sixth-Rank Alchemist.

The Central Plains cultivators' classifications for the standards of various professions could be called meticulous to the extreme. If every cultivator were judged by such standards, quite a few of them would lose their livelihoods.

Some alchemists who had only just entered Tier 1 would likely be sent back to being alchemy apprentices.

Therefore, situations like leaked questions generally could not happen in Danta. Danta was not only the holy land in every alchemist's heart; it presided over the examinations for Central Plains alchemists and also handled the Pill Gathering held once every thirty years, a grand event open to the entire Dou Qi Continent.

Fairness was merely the most basic foundation.

Of course.

For Lu Yuan, the process was even more complicated.

He was different from many Fifth-Rank Alchemists.

Many Fifth-Rank Alchemists advanced from the fourth