Chapter 660: 【Final Chapter 142】Self-taught to Success!

A clown who curries favor with the crowd.

Fang Ming's face was thick with mockery.

He could finish answering all the questions in an hour, thanks to his proficiency in herbs and trees.

Could Ye Chen also answer within an hour?

He thought it was pure guesswork!

The many disciples in the arena erupted in an uproar.

Is this white-robed youth trying to show off?

The other disciples of the Spirit Void Pill Sect haven't finished yet—can he do it?

I originally thought that the white-robed deity behind him knew the Ancient River Old Ancestor, and his proficiency in herbs and trees was strong, but now it seems he's just a jumping clown.

Fang Mu also shook his head and continued answering.

Faced with everyone's reaction, Ye Chen's face showed no ripple.

Fang Yan clenched his fists in anger, 'I really want to punch these people to pieces!'

Soon.

The Ancient River Old Ancestor flicked his sleeve, and two divine radiance shot out.

The illusory pages in front of Ye Chen and Fang Ming flew away directly.

The two began to check Fang Ming's answers.

This one is correct.

Correct.

All correct!

The Ancient River Old Ancestor looked at Yun Qianji with an excited expression, 'No wonder he's my disciple.'

Yun Qianji also showed an appreciative look, 'Old Gu, you've taught your disciple well! It seems first place is secured. This herb and tree proficiency exam covers a great variety of herbs and trees, and we've set many traps. To get all answers correct is extremely difficult, extremely difficult, extremely difficult.'

The Ancient River Old Ancestor wore a look of pride.

Yun Qianji's face wore a gentle smile, but inside he sneered.

A few days earlier, he had, under the pretense of discussing alchemy with Fang Ming, inadvertently revealed many questions about spiritual herbs.

In fact, those were exactly the questions for this exam.

But he did it seamlessly, and Fang Ming didn't notice.

Otherwise, no alchemist in the entire Taichu Star Domain could answer all of his questions correctly.

Yun Qianji's gaze swept over Fang Ming, seeing his arrogant look and disdainful eyes, and he inwardly sneered.

What a foolish frog-in-a-well!

After a moment, the Ancient River Old Ancestor said, 'Let's look at Ye Chen's answer sheet and see what level this disciple of the brilliant Lu Xuan has reached.'

Yun Qianji smiled, 'Sure.'

Question one, correct.

Question two, correct.

Question three, correct...

Question ten, correct.

Question one hundred, correct.

The Ancient River Old Ancestor showed a shocked expression, 'The first hundred questions are all correct?'

You know, every twenty questions there is a difficult one.

Ye Chen's proficiency in herbs and trees is actually this high?

Yun Qianji was also somewhat shocked.

After all, he never told Ye Chen the exam questions in advance.

Seeing Lu Xuan still asleep, this careless attitude—how could he possibly teach a disciple well?

What is going on?

Yun Qianji said, 'This grand exam actually has eight hundred questions.'

The Ancient River Old Ancestor said, 'Keep looking down.'

Question two hundred, correct.

Question five hundred, correct.

Question seven hundred ninety-nine, correct.

Yun Qianji and the Ancient River Old Ancestor glanced at each other, both somewhat shocked.

This already far exceeded their expectations!

Ye Chen's proficiency in herbs and trees is actually this terrifying!

The two looked toward the final question.

This one is correct too!

Shocking!

In their eyes, there was only deep shock.

They themselves know just how difficult this exam is!

The Ancient River Old Ancestor glanced at Ye Chen, who was meditating with closed eyes, while Lu Xuan was snoring loudly asleep.

He's trying too hard!

With a master like Daoist Lu Xuan, I'd say he knows nothing about alchemy. Ye Chen probably taught himself!

Yun Qianji nodded, and even his heart felt a slight loosening, actually giving rise to a hint of taking on a disciple.

But soon he shook his head.

He had reached the age of lying flat.

What's the point of taking on more disciples?

After bringing Fang Ming back to the Ancient Flame Realm, he could retire in the Flame God Sect.

Every day ten cauldrons would kneel and lick to serve him, from then on he'd live in drunken dreams, unmoved by worldly affairs.

Old Ancestor Gu He said excitedly, "This Ye Chen is a promising talent, with tenfold Alchemy Dao aptitude, compatible with my Alchemy Dao, and his flora proficiency is heaven-defying; I will take him as my closed-door disciple."

"I see that Daoist Friend Lu Xuan also wants to use Ye Chen as a credential to cooperate with my Spirit Void Pill Sect. After all, the heavenly dao of the star domain's borderlands hasn't grown yet, it's not very reliable."

Saying that, he glanced at the sleeping Lu Xuan and momentarily felt Lu Xuan's features had become more refined.

Old Ancestor Gu He looked at Yun Qianji and said, "Brother Yun, after this alchemy competition, you take Fang Ming away; I will personally cultivate Ye Chen."

Yun Qianji showed no change in expression, but his heart actually stirred again.

"I don't know if Ye Chen can trigger the Red Pearl's resonance."

"After a while, once it's over, I'll test it."

One hour later.

Mu Qi also finished.

Two hours later.

Disciples finished one after another.

For this flora proficiency exam, dragging out time is useless.

The more they tested, the angrier they got!

As everyone knows, when people are extremely angry they can do anything, but flora proficiency…… simply won't happen if it won't.

Half a day later.

Old Ancestor Gu He flicked his sleeve, and nearly a hundred thousand rays of divine radiance shot up into the sky.

The illusory script pages before the many disciples all flew up.

Many disciples became dispirited.

"Too hard!"

"To make it into the top ten thousand is really too hard!"

"This flora proficiency exam is simply not something humans can do!"

Besides Fang Ming and Ye Chen, no one could walk out of the exam smiling.

Above the Void, Old Ancestor Gu He and Old Ancestor Yun Qianji stirred their vast divine sense, splitting it into tens of thousands of strands, and began examining these illusory script pages.

"Too poor!"

"This batch of alchemy masters' flora proficiency is too poor."

Old Ancestor Gu He kept complaining.

Upon hearing Old Ancestor Gu He's voice, the faces of many disciples on the ground turned somewhat strange.

Soon, someone recalled that Ye Chen had almost turned in his paper at the same time as Fang Ming.

They looked toward Ye Chen.

Ye Chen sat cross-legged cultivating, refining a treasure that boosts soul power.

"Yo, what are you pretending? At this point, you're still cultivating?"

"Ye Chen is just a natural-born drama queen."

"I also don't know how Ye Chen did in the big exam."

"Eh! One look and he's just an embarrassment; you didn't see Ye Chen's master snoring away?"

"If the master is like that, how could the disciple be any good?"

Many disciples all showed looks of contempt.

After an incense stick's time.

Old Ancestor Gu He flicked his sleeve, and endless brilliant divine radiance blazed fiercely above the Void, looking extremely splendid.

"Quiet!"

"We have finished examining the answer sheets of nearly a hundred thousand disciples."

"This time, the top ten thousand have been determined!"

The voice fell!

Everyone grew tense.

We're going to eliminate ninety percent of the disciples!

This is too cruel!

They are the hope of the forces behind them!

We must definitely get into the top ten thousand first!

Continuously, disciples unable to bear the pressure would faint outright on the ground.

Old Ancestor Gu He continued, "Now we announce the top ten thousand list!"

He waved his sleeve, and instantly a huge illusory list appeared between heaven and earth, like a giant curtain descending from the sky.

On it were densely packed ten thousand names.

Many disciples immediately looked for their names on it.

Some were excited, some were dispirited, some were so grief-stricken they pinched their own philtrum to keep from fainting.

And then, at that moment, someone suddenly cried out.

What's going on? Ye Chen is actually tied for first place with Fang Ming!

……