The Assessment Begins: Shock Caused by the Green Lotus Core Flame

"Can you only start with the First-Rank Alchemist assessment? Don't tell me you plan to take the second- and third-grade assessments too?"

After his expression stiffened, Liu Quan looked at Bai Ge and continued to mock him.

He did not believe in the slightest that Bai Ge could go on to take the Second-grade Alchemist assessment. The threshold for becoming an alchemist was extremely high.

Although one could begin learning the relevant knowledge of alchemy from childhood, alchemists placed greater emphasis on practice. Without personally refining pills, no amount of theoretical knowledge would be of any use!

To refine pills personally, one had to wait until reaching the Dou Practitioner stage. Yet even the most gifted Dou Qi cultivators generally only became Dou Practitioners after coming of age.

The silver-haired young man before him did not even look like an adult. No matter how talented he was, he had probably only advanced to the Dou Practitioner stage one or two years ago at most.

But in one or two years, successfully passing the First-Rank Alchemist assessment would already be the absolute limit. He still wanted to take the Second-grade Alchemist assessment?

He was dreaming!

"Of course. Why do you think I would only take the First-Rank Alchemist assessment?"

Bai Ge smiled.

"You? Do you really intend to take the second- and third-grade alchemist assessments? Aren't you afraid the wind will make you bite your tongue?"

Hearing Bai Ge continue to boast, Liu Quan sneered.

"This is merely a matter of ability. I said it before: you're taking the Second-grade Alchemist assessment because your alchemy skills are only at the second grade. As for me, since I've never taken an assessment before, I can only start from the first rank. But the small goal I've set for myself is... the fourth