Divine Pill Hall Test

This is a competition to join the Divine Pill Hall. When Long San participates, he takes 1st place. The top 3 winners are:
#Long San
#Zhang Yao
#Yu Sijie
== Rules ==
If anyone cheated, they would immediately be expelled. In fact, they would be directly kicked out of Pill Valley. Pill Valley's test was one hundred percent fair and did not allow any cheating.
They had 2 hours to answer questions.
The top 1000 disciples within PV could participate in the test.
The top 3 scorers would advance to the Divine Pill Hall while the three lowest ranking members of the Divine Pill Hall would be kicked out. Disciples that were kicked out of the Divine Pill Hall weren't simply allowed to try again. They would be forced out of Pill Valley and sent to the Pill Towers.
If you weren't strong enough, then even once you entered the Divine Pill Hall, you would only get two months. If you didn't advance enough in that time and were ranked in the bottom three, then you would only ever get those two months in the Divine Pill Hall.
It was precisely because of this high difficulty that all of Pill Valley's disciples went all-out cultivating their alchemy arts. Even the Divine Pill Hall's disciples were in danger.
== Description ==
The competition had two parts, theory and practice. He didn't just need to know how to refine pills, but he also needed to be able to discuss the theory behind the refinement as well.
And yet, these things were all personal viewpoints and theories of different people, all based on their own lives and experiences. Yes, it was true that their alchemy arts and theories were novel and innovative.
But these things were only suited to themselves. It was like everyone was learning how to paint, and he was trying to paint an image of a landscape. Did showing him paintings of beautiful women help him at all?
The most irritating thing was that he needed to know this, and he had to be able to write out his impression and what he learned from reading them. Otherwise, they wouldn't let him pass.
Just because he wanted to cook a chicken, did he need to know how a chicken existed? Did they really care about which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Unfortunately there was no way around this. The competition would be testing on this. If he didn't pass the theory aspect, he wouldn't even get to go to the refining portion.
Furthermore, some of these theories were fundamentally flawed, but he still had to memorize them. He had to be wrong with them.
That was because the competition would test this, and he had to reply within the scope of these texts to get his answer marked correct. This was Long Chen's first time having to study such irritating alchemy ‘knowledge'.
For most cultivators, memorizing all these theories in two months would be impressive. But LC memorizes them in ten days.
== Test ==
Beast hides were quickly distributed. It was 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.
So Long San uses a booger as a mirror to see how many formulae others wrote to get an idea. For example one person wrote 27, so LC wrote 53.
== Outside lounge ==
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.
== Refining Soul Gathering Heart Tempering Pill ==
According to normal standards, a ninth tier pill could only be refined by a Jade Core expert. But in Pill Valley, those standards were overthrown. 
Pill Valley always changed the difficulty of the pill to be refined. Sometimes it would be easy, sometimes it would be difficult. But this trial was held every two months, so failing this time wasn't terrible. As long as their ranking didn't fall out of the top thousand, they could try again.
Those people who had given up could only blame their bad luck and prepare to test their luck next time. They knew that just refining ninth tier medicinal ingredients into powders was their limit. As for refining a true ninth tier pill, it was a joke. Their Spiritual Strength couldn't handle such exhaustion.
For almost half the contestants to leave at once didn't surprise the Soul Transformation experts at all. They were indifferent to this, clearly having long since expected such a thing.
== Participants ==
There were seventy to eighty Jade Core alchemists amongst the people being tested. But they felt even more panicked than the Foundation Forging disciples. Their higher cultivation bases also signified their ages far surpassed these people.
==References==
Category:Pill Valley
Category:Event