38: Mo Fan

"Alright, Xu Jing, Lin Yiyi, Mo Fan, come up and receive your rewards!"

As Liu Jian's voice fell, Lin Yiyi frowned, bit her lip, and walked over, somewhat distracted.

She wasn't surprised by her high score of 688.

With her strength, if she had been a bit more serious during the exam, even 700 points wouldn't have been impossible.

What she couldn't understand was her ranking.

She never would have thought...

That with 688 points, she would only be ranked second!

What was the situation with Mo Fan?

A perfect score?!

How could that be possible?!

That guy only answered questions for half an hour!

No! He stopped writing in less than half an hour!

Finished twenty-four pages of questions in less than half an hour?

Even if he finished them!

It was a perfect score too?!

This kind of thing—

It's more outrageous than a novel!

Lin Yiyi was dumbfounded.

Indeed, novels still need basic logic, but reality is full of all sorts of monsters and demons!

This Mo Fan guy—

Isn't he even human?!

"Do you choose a condensing spirit pill or a Spirit Stone?"

Liu Jian's voice pulled Lin Yiyi's thoughts back.

Lin Yiyi was startled, then quickly recovered, a hint of hesitation flashing in her eyes subconsciously, but in the end, she said with a firm expression, "I choose Spirit Stones."

Both condensing spirit pills and Spirit Stones can provide excellent assistance for Cultivation.

And the price of a bottle of condensing spirit pills is similar to that of Spirit Stones.

However, due to differences in Physique, some people might not be able to fully absorb the energy contained within Medicinal Pills.

Or, if too many Medicinal Pills are consumed, drug resistance might develop, greatly reducing their effectiveness.

Furthermore, condensing spirit pills are only suitable for use during the Body Tempering Realm and Innate Realm; once one's cultivation Breakthroughs to the Foundation Establishment Realm, the effect of condensing spirit pills becomes almost negligible.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, people are more willing to absorb Spirit Stones to aid their Cultivation.

Unfortunately, Spirit Stones are too scarce and not as easy to obtain as condensing spirit pills.

Most of the time, cultivators can only use condensing spirit pills to aid their Cultivation.

Of course, when choosing between the two, most people would choose Spirit Stones.

Of course, there are exceptions.

Some people have special Physiques, and their efficiency in absorbing Medicinal Pills is much higher than that of ordinary people.

In such cases, they might choose Medicinal Pills instead of Spirit Stones.

The reason Lin Yiyi hesitated...

Was because she had such a Physique.

Compared to absorbing Spirit Stones to aid her Cultivation...

She preferred to absorb Medicinal Pills.

Of course, in the current situation, she couldn't choose Medicinal Pills.

After receiving the Spirit Stones, Lin Yiyi turned and walked back into the crowd.

Ignoring the envious gazes of others, she silently put away the Spirit Stones, held her breath, and said nothing.

On the other side, Xu Jing and Mo Fan also went up one after another to receive their rewards.

Like Lin Yiyi, Mo Fan and Xu Jing also chose Spirit Stones.

As soon as the Spirit Stones were in hand, a virtual panel flashed before Mo Fan's eyes, and a dialogue box appeared.

"[Found 6 Low-Grade Spirit Stones, can be absorbed and converted into attribute points. Absorb?]"

Mo Fan steadied himself and ignored the prompt.

Absorbing Spirit Stones and such...

Still couldn't be done so openly.

It wouldn't be too late to do it after getting off work.

After all, there was Liu Jian, a Tier 3 Transcendent, here.

If the Spirit Stones suddenly disappeared, the other party might not necessarily fail to notice.

Although due to severe injuries, Liu Jian's current combat power could only be exerted at the Foundation Establishment First Level.

However, Mo Fan felt that the other party's divine sense might not be damaged.

Strong divine sense.

It's easy to perceive some abnormalities.

After distributing the rewards, Liu Jian swept his gaze over everyone again and continued:

"This assessment is over. You will rest for half a day this morning, and the second phase of training will officially begin tomorrow."

He paused, then continued:

"Xiao Huohuo, Han Tang, Wang Lin, Tang Shan, Chu Feng, Luo Shanfeng, Lin Yiyi, Xu Jing, and Mo Fan, these nine people have passed this assessment and obtained the qualification for the second phase of training.

"As for Wang Jia and Zhong Ting, unfortunately, you did not pass this assessment."

Composing himself, Liu Jian looked at Wang Jia and Zhong Ting and continued:

"Of course, if you are willing, although you cannot continue to participate in the Alchemy Dao training, you can still stay and work in the Spirit Herb Garden. I can personally arrange for your salaries to be increased.

"Although I cannot decide on the Spirit Stone subsidies, increasing your basic salary by twenty to thirty percent is not a problem."

Hearing Liu Jian's words, some were astonished, some envious, some jealous, and some were lost in thought, feeling unwilling.

After a while, Wang Jia looked up at Steward Liu, biting her red lip, and said somewhat unwillingly:

"Steward Liu, I want to know my specific score. I want to see how far I was from passing..."

In this assessment, only she and Zhong Ting did not pass.

Before, everyone thought she had hidden her strength and was the first place in this assessment.

But they never expected—

Liu Jian looked at her, frowned slightly, and said, "Are you sure you want to know your exact score?"

Wang Jia nodded, saying firmly, "I'm sure."

Even if she died, she wanted to die knowing why.

However, looking at Wang Jia's resolute expression, a hint of unbearable pity flashed in Liu Jian's eyes. He shook his head and said, "Wang Jia, 424 points."

Hearing this, Wang Jia was immediately stunned, her eyes wide, covering her mouth, her eyes full of disbelief.

"F-four hundred and twenty-four? Th-this, why is this happening...?"

"Yes, you were only one point short of passing," Liu Jian said.

It has to be said.

Such a score was a bit regrettable.

Wang Jia usually worked very hard.

But rules are rules.

Liu Jian could do nothing about it.

"Thank you, Steward Liu..." Wang Jia took a deep breath, calmed herself down, thanked Liu Jian, and turned to leave.

Only that figure...

Appeared somewhat desolate.

Everyone felt regret about this but had nothing to say.

Liu Jian shook his head, then looked at Zhong Ting: "Do you need to know your specific score?"

To this, Zhong Ting smiled and said, "I don't want to know my score.

"My talent is inherently poor, and I always felt very strained when studying. Yesterday, during the assessment, I racked my brains but still couldn't answer many questions.

"I know my own level; there should still be a significant gap from passing.

"Since that's the case, I won't humiliate myself."

After speaking, Zhong Ting instead laughed freely.

"Since that's the case, let's end it here. You have half a day off this morning to rest well. This afternoon, continue working in the Spirit Herb Garden. Tomorrow morning, the second phase of training will officially begin. Dismissed!"

After speaking, Liu Jian turned and left.

Everyone was also overjoyed and jumped up happily.

"Yay, a holiday!"

"Let's go, want to go back and lie down like a corpse?" Mo Fan looked at Xu Jing.

Xu Jing was stunned, then nodded slightly.

"Lie down like what? You'll definitely secretly study when you go back, you King of Involution!" Lin Yiyi immediately ran over and glared.

"How can you say that? I'm not that kind of person! I, Mo Fan, never secretly study at home!" Mo Fan quickly waved his hands.

"Only a ghost would believe you!" Lin Yiyi rolled her eyes at Mo Fan and turned to leave.

Mo Fan could only spread his hands helplessly.

He indeed wasn't lying.

He didn't even have enough time to Cultivate at home.

How could he have time to secretly study Alchemy Dao?

"Tang Shan, Tang Shan, male"

"Alchemy Dao, Alchemy Dao, neutral"