?Wang Ming, Bai Lingxi, Shi Yu, Fu Niu, and Fu Jingling made their way toward the Alchemy Hall, the building was massive and various stalls were set up in front of the hall selling all kinds of herbs and pills. Wang Ming saw a stall selling pills that prolonged the youthful appearance of a person which was for obvious reasons crowed by females who are primarily non-cultivators as cultivators have a very long lifespan and do not need such gimmicks but still it is a very efficient way to earn some small amount of spirit stones


    Another stall was selling some pills which increased the physical strength of cultivators and were crowded by both males and females, he even saw a stall that sell pills that could cure impotence in men which was deserted but asionally a few cloaked figures were seen purchasing pills from that stall, people were looking at the cloaked figures with a hint of pity in their eyes


    As Wang Ming was silently observing his surrounding they finally entered the Alchemist Hall, and an even stronger aroma of herbs than when he entered the city invaded his nostrils, he saw many alchemists sitting in front of the cauldron and sweating profusely while trying to concoct a pill


    *BOOM*


    " AHH...NOOO...My PILL...MY CULTIVATION" Wang Ming turned his head towards the source of the explosion and saw a cauldron explode into smithereens, he noticed the man concocting the pill was covered in blood and his dantain got damaged


    " This is quite amon urrence here" Fu Jingling said when she saw the look on Wang Ming''s face as he turned his head towards her for an exnation as she continued


    " You see even the most experienced Alchemist may fail to concoct a pill properly which may lead to forming a pill that is a lower gradepared to the high-grade materials used, sometimes experienced Alchemist may lose focus and end up exploding their pill cauldrons due to wrong execution and as a result they cripple their own Cultivation which happened to the man over there, not to mention he was just a ranked-1 Alchemist who was trying to produce a higher grade pill than he was capable of" Fu Jingling exined as she looked at the man without any form of pity


    " Rank 1, what is that?" Wang Ming asked as he was observing the Alchemist wailing in pain while some people carried him inside for treatment


    " Oh, I keep forgetting that is your first time here but even so normal cultivators who are not cultivators at least have this knowledge which ismon, did you live under a rock or something?" Fu Jingling asked as she looked at Wang Ming weirdy


    " Hmph, he must have been busy sacrificing himself for all the women''s sake, that he even forgot to gain suchmon knowledge, isn''t it right?"  Bai Lingxi asked with a smirk when he saw the pale face of Wang Ming


    Wang Ming almost coughed out blood when he heard those words and stared at Bai Lingxi as if she had grown a second head


    " I recently became a cultivator and was always living in seclusion, so I do not have knowledge of these matters" Wang Ming replied to which Fu Jingling just shrugged her shoulders


    " First of all, you should know that like every other profession Alchemists also have the same method to measure an Alchemists worth and that is the ranking system, the ranking system starts from Ranked-1 and goes all up to Ranked-9 title which only a handful amount of Alchemist has seded in attaining, moreover just concocting a high ranked pill won''t make you advance through the ranks, you have to proper knowledge on herbs and also must gain recognition from a higher ranked Alchemist than yourself and also pass the assessment test that follows" Fu Jingling exined to which Wang Ming nodded his head in understanding


    " What is the purpose of ranking anyway, I mean if you can just produce higher rank pills than your current rank  what is the point of ranking up?" Wang Ming asked in curiosity which caused Fu Jingling to smirk


    " If you do not Rank Up then you won''t be able to purchase the materials required to concoct the pill, neither will you be able to enter the ces where the required materials are found because those ces are guarded by powerful cultivators" Fu Jingling replied<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    " Oh, I see" Wang Ming said


    " Anyway, let''s go towards the reception" Fu Jingling pointed towards the direction of the reception


    A young man who seemed to be in histe thirties was currently sitting in the ce of the receptionist and going through what seemed to be an Alchemist''s book which had information about various herbs and how to concoct pills


    " I swear to myself that within the next 5 years, I will be an Alchemist for sure" the man said while furiously browsing through the book


    " Excuse me, I would like to apply for the Alchemist assessment exam"  a voice momentarily paused his movements before he started reading again


    " How many years has it been that you have been practicing Alchemy?" the man asked without taking his eyes off his book


    " I have never practiced Alchemy in my entire life" the voice replied which caused a frown on paper on the man''s face


    '' Tch, another person who thinks Alchemy is easy, sigh, this job sometimes gets annoying when I want to reject such people so often but am unable to do so due to the damn rules'' the man sneered in his mind


    The man looked up and saw the appearance of the man which caused his mood to sour even more


    '' Fuck, this bastard is really handsome, I hate handsome men, let''s see how you attempt the test, no one will know if I ignore the rules just this once'' he thought in his mind whilepletely ignoring the other women who were beside him as he hatefully looked at the man in front of him


    " Go home, if you never practiced Alchemy you will fail, it is meaningless for you to even try" the man said and tried to shoo him off


    " Oi, how do you know that I will fail?" the voice sound a bit irritated


    " From what I know, you can''t reject someone from attempting to take a test, so why are you trying to hinder his participation" a feminine voice followed after his words


    " I will do whatever I want, just leave, do not annoy m-" before he could finish, the words that were about toe out of his mouth got stuck in his throat when he saw the source of the voice