Chapter 308: The Final Exam

Chapter 308 The Final Examination

After mastering the method of refining Fire Source Secret Medicine within his dreams.

He directly used the alchemy room inside the Hall of Truth to refine the Fire Source Secret Medicine.

The Solar Research Laboratory where Li Wei was stationed possessed the finest alchemy rooms.

Now, using the alchemy room in his personal name, no one would say anything against it.

They all assumed Li Wei was researching something else entirely.

Li Wei utilized various high-grade instruments within the alchemy room to refine the Fire Source Secret Medicine.

The feeling was instantly different.

These items were incomparably better than the entry-level alchemy tools Li Wei had on hand.

There were even magical instruments capable of automatically extracting medicinal liquid essence.

Once materials were placed inside, the magical instrument could automatically separate the medicinal essence Li Wei required.

This saved Li Wei considerable time processing materials.

"I still need a fourth-rank fire-type beast core, luckily I didn't sell it."

Li Wei tossed the core into the smelting furnace to extract its essence.

He then threw the Earth Flow Slime Crystals into the smelting furnace to extract the Earth Flow Slime.

He did not use pure Earth Flow Slime directly because the formula given by Fionrides specified Fire Fish Earth Flow Slime Crystals.

Li Wei planned to first refine several portions of Fire Source Secret Medicine according to the formula.

He would improve the formula himself later on.

One hour later, Li Wei obtained a bottle of thick red solution.

The Fire Source Secret Medicine refinement was complete.

The cost for one bottle of Fire Source Secret Medicine was eighty gold coins.

This did not even account for the value of the fourth-rank core and the Earth Flow Slime Crystals.

Just the other materials alone cost eighty gold coins.

Counting the fourth-rank core and Earth Flow Slime Crystals, the cost might reach eight or nine hundred gold coins.

Even the cheapest fourth-rank core costs four or five hundred.

Earth Flow Slime Crystals vary by size; small ones are worth three or four hundred gold coins.

Large ones could potentially exceed a thousand.

Crucially, the amount of Earth Flow Slime extracted from the crystals was merely a tiny bit.

Li Wei felt that the two full jars of pure Earth Flow Slime in his possession were worth at least ten thousand gold coins.

Without calculation, one remains unaware, but calculation brings a fright.

Li Wei was also startled by the value of the two jars of Earth Flow Slime.

He found Fire Source Secret Medicine being sold within the Elemental Tower.

The source was alchemists from the Hall of Truth.

One bottle of Fire Source Secret Medicine was priced at five hundred gold coins.

Li Wei decanted the Fire Source Secret Medicine he refined into his small medicine bottles.

It could fill at least four or five small bottles.

If the alchemist's yield rate was high, the profit margin started at two hundred percent.

The key point was that there was no shortage of customers for Fire Source Secret Medicine.

Grand Mages loved using Fire Source Secret Medicine to cultivate and enhance their mana.

For Grand Mages, the effects of high-grade cultivation potions were much weaker.

Fire Source Secret Medicine was just right.

Li Wei saw a new business opportunity.

Fire Source Secret Medicine would sell better and make more money than Vitality Secret Medicine.

"Would it be improper to steal business from the Hall of Truth?"

Li Wei pondered.

"Never mind, let's refine a batch of Fire Source Secret Medicine first."

Spending one day, Li Wei refined seven large bottles of Fire Source Secret Medicine.

Divided into small bottles, there were roughly thirty-five bottles.

When Li Wei used it himself, he drank the large bottle of Fire Source Secret Medicine directly.

This was not Vitality Secret Medicine.

Swallowing it in one gulp, it was like a high-grade cultivation potion, effective long-term.

It required a relatively long time cultivating to absorb the medicinal power of the Fire Source Secret Medicine.

Humans after all are not beasts, unable to absorb Earth Flow Slime directly.

Even Fire Fish absorbing Earth Flow Slime directly had a high probability of death.

Humans could only rely on alchemy arts to release the energy of Earth Flow Slime slowly.

This could also significantly enhance cultivation effects.

After drinking the Fire Source Secret Medicine, Li Wei felt cultivation progressed much faster than with high-grade cultivation potions.

Each cultivation session felt burning hot throughout his body, mana rising swiftly. Cultivation speed increased two to threefold.

Li Wei glanced at the time and found only seven days remained until the final examination.

"Forget it, there isn't enough time, won't go to the cultivation secret realm first."

"For these few days, just use the Fire Source Secret Medicine."

Seven days later.

[Crystal Meditation Technique (Third Rank)] 4978/10000

Progress during these days began to become very obvious.

Cultivation speed was much faster than before.

Naturally, it could not compare to secluding oneself within the cultivation secret realm.

During these few days, many things happened.

Li Wei learned that the four people trapped in the Fire Element Plane had returned.

All were safe and sound.

At least they appeared safe and sound on the surface, secretly they had reached some deal with the lord of the Fire Element Plane.

No one knew.

Another bombshell piece of news was that the undead had assaulted Storm City.

A legendary lich led Morpheus, sweeping millions of undead down upon Storm City to launch a surprise attack.

Storm City scrambled to respond, nearly having its gates breached by the undead horde.

The nobles of the Human Empire, cowering behind Storm City, trembled in sheer terror.

Should Storm City fall, the undead would march unimpeded into the Central Lands.

It was all flat terrain, lacking any defensible positions or natural fortifications.

Sensing the crisis, the Human Empire hastily mobilized forces from all directions to reinforce Storm City.

Even the Church of the Light God dispatched troops to aid them.

Levi still worried that such a monumental event might delay the final examinations.

The final exams were scheduled for the last three days of each year.

Once the exams concluded, students would be reclassified according to their scores.

This was the annual moment for underdogs to turn the tables.

It was also the time when top students could meet their downfall.

Every year, some achieved class transcendence, while others quietly departed their original magic classes.

Notably, students in the Purple Class were exempt from the final examinations.

Because entry into the Purple Class relied not entirely on scores.

Even securing first place in the finals did not guarantee admission to the Purple Class.

The Purple Class maintained its own set of selection criteria.

Typically, those destined for the Purple Class were marked as soon as they entered the Element Tower.

Few students could reverse their fate through the finals to enter the Purple Class.

Over a century, there were very few who possessed this opportunity.

They could be counted on one hand.

For the vast majority, the goal was merely to enter the Blue or Green Classes.

Even advancing just one step further would suffice.

They dared not hope for a chance to enter the Purple Class.

Levi's target was the Purple Class.

Fionrides had told him he needed to secure first place in the year-end grade examination.

Only then would he have a chance to obtain qualification for the Purple Class review.

Passing the review, only then would he have a chance to enter the Purple Class.

First place in the year-end grade examination.

The Mage Class consisted of only three grades: first-year Mages of Rank One, second-year Mages of Rank Two, third-year Mages of Rank Three.

That meant only three individuals each year had the chance to qualify for the Purple Class review.

Although Levi was currently in his second year.

But because he was already a Third-Rank Mage.

Therefore, his competitors were all the Third-Rank Mages in the third year.

Fionrides held high hopes for Levi's talent, yet doubted his actual strength.

There was no help for it; after all, Levi had only just advanced to Third-Rank Mage.

He would face senior third-year students who had been Third-Rank Mages for several years.

This was extremely unfair to him.

However, there never was such a thing as fairness in the world.

Had he met Levi sooner, Fionrides would have advised him not to breakthrough yet, waiting until after the finals before advancing to Third Rank.

(End of Chapter)