Nine Star Hegemon Body Art

“Long San?”    

Long Chen was startled . Someone actually recognized him here? Turning toward the voice, he saw a young man amongst this crowd of close to a thousand disciples . Each one of them had a small table in front of them, like they were scholars about to take a test .     

“Sorry, you are…?” Long Chen didn’t recognize him .     

“Shut up! Who said you could speak so loudly here?!”    

A Jade Core disciple sternly shouted at him . This disciple was already quite old, so his temper wasn’t good .     

Long Chen frowned . The Jade Core disciple glared at Long Chen, and Long Chen almost couldn’t help but slap him in the face .     

He had an urge to curse this disciple, but he didn’t say anything . Now wasn’t the time to start being arrogant . Silently walking around that disciple, he walked toward the person who knew him .     

“Long San, sit . Sorry, I made you get scolded,” apologized that person quietly .     

Zhao Xiang just happened to see the sight of Long Chen quietly turn away from the disciple who had scolded him so sternly . Seeing that he didn’t dare to reply, he shook his head .     

“This Long San’s character is too timid . It’s not good for us . I’ll have to report it to Protector Zhuo,” thought Zhao Xiang to himself as he left .     

Long Chen didn’t recognize this man at all, so he couldn’t help but find it strange .     

“Long San, after winning the championship in the Eastern Wasteland, you probably forgot this little one . ” The disciple bitterly smiled .     

“I think I remember . You were in the competition too…” said Long Chen, coming to a sudden comprehension .     

In truth, this comprehension was just guesswork . He still didn’t recognize this person at all . He put his answer in a questioning tone to avoid things becoming awkward if he was wrong .     

“Yes! I’m Li Kang! Do you remember me now?” That person was happy that Long Chen recognized him . He didn’t even know he had just fallen for Long Chen’s trick .     

Long Chen had no idea who Li Kang was . Supposedly, he had been in the Eastern Wasteland’s competition as well . Li Kang recognized Long Chen, but Long Chen didn’t recognize him .     

“Long San, why did it take you so long to come? It’s been many years . ”    

“Don’t even mention it . It’s depressing . How have the other people from the Eastern Wasteland been doing here? Did anyone manage to get some strong support?” Long Chen changed the subject .     

“Only after coming did we realize that our so-called talent was nothing here . We were just green leaves coming to show off before the flowers of the Central Plains . ” Li Kang bitterly smiled . “The disciples who came from the Eastern Wasteland are mostly outer disciples . They probably won’t get promoted in their lifetimes . As for me, I’m not doing too bad . After three years, I’ve finally managed to get the qualifications for the Divine Pill Hall trial .     

“Amongst these people, I rank 987th . In other words, there’s pretty much no hope of me passing . But even just taking the test will improve my standing amongst the inner disciples . If I didn’t take the test, the others would look down on me all day . ”    

“Really, it’s this bad? What about that female disciple? What’s her name again?” Long Chen thought of a certain person .     

“Duan Tianqiao . Her talent is very good, and she managed to get into the Divine Pill Hall . In truth, she helped me out quite a bit to be promoted into an inner disciple . But after getting in the Divine Pill Hall, she has become distant from me . Perhaps our statuses are no longer similar,” sighed Li Kang .     

People strove for the top, while water always flowed to the bottom . Those who stood at different heights ran in different circles . This was understandable .     

“You two flies, stop buzzing . It’s annoying . If you don’t want to take the test, you can scram . Stop disturbing others . ”    

As Long Chen and Li Kang quietly whispered, another disciple to the side who had had his eyes closed suddenly glared at them .     

Long Chen looked at him and saw that he was glaring at him disdainfully . It seemed that his ranking amongst inner disciples was very high . Perhaps he had a high chance of getting promoted .     

Long Chen cursed . If this was inside the Xuantian Dao Sect, he’d have long since slapped such a person to death .     

But he had nothing to say now . It seemed wherever he went, he would encounter countless idiots . Even if he didn’t cause trouble, others would find trouble for him .     

“Silence!”    

Just at this moment, a cold shout rang out, and eight elders walked in, all Soul Transformation experts .     

The eight elders were all wearing stern expressions, as though everyone here owed them money .     

These people were in charge of the trial, and they were here to prevent cheating . Their eyes were all as sharp as an eagle’s .     

Long Chen shut his mouth and found his position .     

“Who is Long San?” asked one of the elders .     

“Disciple is present . ” Long Chen hastily stood .     

“Show me your badge . I have to check it . ”    

This surprised Long Chen . It seemed that this test was very stringent . Although his identity had already been confirmed when he had walked in, they checked him again .     

The elder examined his badge closely and then nodded . “You were added to this trial late, so you have to be checked stringently . You don’t need to feel any pressure . ”    

Long Chen’s eyes brightened . He knew that this elder was ‘on his side’ . Zhao Xiang had said everything should go smoothly .     

It was easy to tell who was on his side . The others all looked like saying an extra word was too much work, so the ones speaking to Long Chen were on his side .     

But these elders were only in charge of overseeing the test, and they couldn’t help him . If he cheated, he would immediately be expelled . In fact, he would be directly kicked out of Pill Valley . Pill Valley’s test was one hundred percent fair and did not allow any cheating .     

Beast hides were quickly distributed . Long Chen couldn’t help but bitterly smile . Wasn’t this just like the secular world’s imperial exams?    

Long Chen looked at it, and as expected, it was about the things he had studied during these days . It was actually very simple .     

But the final question was a bit difficult . The question was to list the various medicinal pills that could be refined based on the given medicinal ingredients . The more they could list, the more points they would get .     

Long Chen couldn’t help but feel a struggle with this question . With these many medicinal ingredients, he had over a thousand pill formulas that could be written from his Pill Sovereign memories .     

But many of those pill formulas no longer existed in this world . He didn’t dare to randomly write them .     

He had an urge to use his Spiritual Strength to investigate how many pill formulas others wrote, but those eight elders were like hawks watching their every move . He truly didn’t dare to do so .     

“What to do? Too many is no good, and too few might get me eliminated . Fuck . ”    

Long Chen suddenly had a thought . He stealthily picked out a booger and wiped the mucus along the edge of the beast hide . He used it as a mirror to look around silently . Turning that corner, he managed to see what the person who had scoffed at him had written .     

“One, two… twenty-seven in total . Alright, that’s not bad . ”    

Long Chen managed to see what that fellow had written barely through the mucus . He couldn’t see the exact pill formulas, but he was able to see how many lines he had written .     

“Achoo!”    

Long Chen suddenly sneezed, and his mucus ended up all over his beast hide . He hastily began to wipe it off .     

“You, what are you doing!” One of the elders suddenly appeared behind Long Chen like a ghost .     

“Sorry, disciple had to fly over the sea for three years, facing the constant sea winds . Pill Valley’s spiritual qi is too dense, and my nose is sensitive . I’m sorry!” Long Chen apologized as his sneeze had disturbed the disciples around him .     

He had no way around this . He had noticed those old fellows were getting suspicious and getting close behind him . That was why he had sneezed, to wipe away the proof .     

The elder stared at him coldly, but Long Chen looked back at him without the slightest fear . Seeing his expression without the slightest fear or panic, he didn’t say anything else . He had only been a bit suspicious in any case .     

“Hmph, you want to play mental warfare with me?” Long Chen sneered inside and continued answering the questions . That fellow beside him had seemed so confident before, so his ranking should be near the top .     

But he was still cautious . He only wrote fifty-three pill formulas, just double of that fellow .     

They had two hours to answer their questions . Long Chen had long since finished, but he continued until the very end to hand in his scrolls with everyone else .     

“What?!”    

When the elder saw Long Chen’s scroll, when he saw the answer to his last question, he was absolutely stunned .     

“Haha, excellent!” The elder on his side laughed . Long Chen knew he was indicating that he had probably gotten first on this test .     

But the results were not immediately announced . Instead, they switched locations into a lounge where over a thousand refining platforms had been provided .     

Each platform was ten meters wide . The furnaces and cauldrons had already been arranged, and the pill formula was under the furnace .     

The disciples who had come here were mostly ones that had taken this test many, many times . They were already used to this scene .     

But when they arrived at their spots and saw the pill formula in front of them, all their expressions changed .     

“Impossible!”    

Long Chen looked at the pill formula and also couldn’t help being stunned . A ninth tier medicinal pill - the Soul Gathering Heart Tempering Pill .     

This was a must-have pill for Jade Core cultivators . It made their mental realms clear and expelled any foreign influences .     

“Damnit, I only trained in the methods to refine eighth tier medicinal pills before this . I didn’t refine a ninth tier pill for them to see!” Long Chen felt quite a bit of pressure .     

“Let the refinement begin!”    

Just as all the disciples despaired, an elder announced the start of the trial .     

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