Chương 69: Official Alchemy Master Status

A little over six hours of concoction process later.' Done... only 10% potency loss, not much and not little. Enough to pass this exam without any problems.' Opening the cauldron's lid, masses of aroma very reminiscent of a rich rose scent began to spread around An and the examiner, who, at the moment before he opened the lid, was already standing right before him.

Not removing the scent clouds this time, while acting with her whole demeanor as if she was not enjoying this unique rose scent, she took the pill and placed it on the artifact and raised it slightly above her head. At this moment, An couldn't help himself and raised his gaze to briefly glance over her body.

Her form-fitting clothes under the unbuttoned outer robe were so tight and thin that one glance was enough for him to understand that she was standing right in front of him without any underwear, and even the color of the twin peaks of her jade mountains. Stunned by all this absurdity, he quickly raised his gaze to her face level, without showing any sign that he had seen anything." Hmm, excellent… Excellent! Only 10% potency loss.

Rarely does anyone achieve such precision in concoction, especially a disciple who hasn't reached Foundation Establishment realm and lacks any background or master to oversee his training..." Lowering her eyes, she looked at him with a broad smirk. She leaned slightly closer, and taking the pill between her index finger and thumb, she brought it to her mouth. Slowly opening her mouth and sticking out her tongue, she placed the pill on her tongue and with her index finger slowly pushed it into her mouth.

At the end, with a smack she licked her finger along its length. Standing opposite her, An watched all of this and tried to keep himself in check, not giving her any reason, not really understanding what was even happening right now and what would happen next. He never could have imagined that such absurdity could actually occur. Standing with a stone face, he constantly wondered, if he showed any reaction, what would happen to him, just disqualification from the exam, or something worse.

What if he did not show any reaction, how would she behave then? Would she hold a grudge and do everything to take revenge, or something else? After all, before him, at arm's length, stood a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and they were not equal, neither in strength nor in status. An constantly tried to maneuver by reading her emotions, always trying to stay within the range of low rage or anger, and trying to avoid the moments when her excitement and arousal spiked, overshadowing all other emotions."

Hmm~" Holding a pause, not taking her eyes off his, she continued speaking.

"I should congratulate you, little An. You have now officially become a Master of Alchemy... This is the first time I've seen such a modest and talented disciple… Ah, little An, you have no idea what a rarity this is…" Lowering her hand between her breasts, she slowly took out his personal plaque. Snapping her fingers, she changed Practitioner to Master, and extended it to him.' Damned woman!'

Seeing her gaze and the gleam in her eyes, he extended his hand and carefully took the plaque and tried to take it from her, but he quickly realized he could not; she was still holding it and smiling wider.

"You know, I never thought I'd personally see a Qi Condensation disciple with Master status. Such an event is so rare... Oh, have I finally met the so-called real genius?" Still holding the plaque, she moved slightly closer to him, to a distance of less than half a meter. Standing like that for a few seconds, looking into each other's eyes, he continued to keep himself in check, looking at her with an emotionless face. Even though inside at that moment, he was becoming more and more uneasy.

"You know what. You absolutely must meet my master! Exactly! A genius like you shouldn't be wasted in some obscure corner of the Sect, especially without a proper backer!" Smiling, her eyes lit up at the mere thought that her master would take this boy under his wing. Throwing a glance at the brand on his neck, she slightly bit her lower lip and extended her free hand and lightly touched his neck.

Standing with a calm face, trying not to react to the touch in any way, An slowly began to increase the force with which he was pulling the plaque. Inside him, everything was beginning to boil. Even his strange calm state was no longer coping." Ah … poor thing… It must have hurt a lot." Continuing to stroke his neck, she slowly lowered her hand to An's chest, to his heart.

"Your heart… its rhythm is so slow and calm, like a morning lake…" Pressing her hand to An's chest, she took one step closer. She could feel his chest vibrating from the impact of his heart with huge intervals, creating something like rhythmic shockwaves spreading through his body. Bzzz! She suddenly froze in place. Her chest suddenly began to vibrate. With an effort, removing her hand from his chest, she pulled her own plaque from her cleavage and read the information on it before immediately putting it back.

"Stay here! I'm going to my master. As soon as I tell him about you, I'll come back for you! Understood?" Adjusting her chest, she stared intently into his eyes. An just nodded and continued to stand calmly.

"I'll be quick. Don't miss me too much, little An." Walking past him, she ran her palm along his cheek and darted out the door. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. Standing like that for a few seconds, staring intently at the closed door, he finally exhaled, and turning around he approached Baldi, who with wide eyes and his head tilted had been watching everything.

"It's too early for you to know what that was... Even I'm not one hundred percent sure…" Picking him up and tucking him under his arm, he quickly headed for the exit of the auditorium. Using his Qi, he tried to see what was behind the door, whether it was safe or not. Understanding that she had definitely left, without any caution he pushed the door and flew out. Stepping into the corridor, he saw many disciples with emblems on their chests. Most of them were Apprentices, and only a few with Practitioner emblems.

Lowering his head, he walked along the wall toward the stairs, toward the exit.' I was lucky, very lucky! Before her plaque vibrated, her desires were overflowing... If not for that message, she definitely would have attacked me, and worse, I wouldn't have been able to do a thing to stop her... Damn nymphomaniac! She even ate the most valuable pill…' Quickly descending and trying to avoid people, he reached the first floor.'

If this were my first world and a woman with that appearance, I'd be all for it, even though I can't imagine such nonsense actually happening... But this isn't my first world... Here, she could do whatever she wanted with me, and no one would object…' At this moment, he suddenly remembered novels with situations where female cultivators absorbed men's essence in the act. Just imagining it, a shiver ran through his entire body. Quickening his pace, he continued straight to a free window.

"Here's my plaque. I just successfully passed the exam for Master status. I would like to officially certify it." He extended his plaque closer to the doll behind the window. Taking the plaque and beginning to read the information from it, the doll took out a scroll and using Qi wrote something onto it.

"Inner Disciple An. Examiner, Shine Scarlet. Result: exam successfully passed. Approval for awarding Alchemy Master status. Official confirmation. Done. Official awarding. Done." Rolling up the scroll, the doll raised its hand, and it began to hover, moving upward toward the shelves on the open second floor, which was located at the level of the branches of the huge tree in the center of the hall.

"One-time reward: four hundred spirit stones, fifteen sets of three second-rank spirit plant seeds each. Also, the mandatory emblem." Placing the plaque on the table, the doll began to summon items from one of the rings on its fingers, placing three simple chests before An. The largest, 40 by 70 centimeters, inside which lay the spirit stones, and two small chests with seed sets.

Putting everything into his pouch, he saw the doll place an emblem made of white metal, in the shape of a cauldron and a single pill, on the table. Throwing a glance at it, he quickly put it into his pocket. He was just about to leave, when he suddenly stopped.

"What first and second-rank spirit plants do you have in stock that I can buy with spirit stones?" Without a word, the doll simply handed over a booklet of several pages with names and prices. After a few minutes of examining the booklet, he chose what he liked.' A full 350 spirit stones just vanished… Eh, I hope all these supplies will last for a long time.' Leaving the Alchemy Hall, he headed toward the path leading to the Inner Disciple Abodes. ….

"I have excellent news, my little An! Hmm? Where is he?!" Entering the auditorium, examiner Shine Scarlet, seeing the empty room immediately realized that he had already managed to slip away. Her face immediately turned red. Taking out a sphere-shaped artifact, she activated it.

"What do you mean, I can't access his files?! Ha! Damn it, does that mean he already officially registered downstairs, in the hall?!" BOOM! In anger, she crushed the sphere, and its fragments scattered throughout the auditorium, leaving deep holes everywhere. With a furious face, she turned around and headed to the first floor to the reception windows. Descending, and approaching the first window, behind which sat a doll, she slammed the table.

"I need information on a disciple! Name, An, no surname, has Alchemy Master status... Here's my plaque! Faster!" Hitting the table again, she threw her plaque at the doll. The passing disciples, and even inner reserves with Foundation Establishment cultivation, realizing exactly who was causing trouble at the counter, quickly turned away and began to walk around her as far as possible, avoiding her like the plague, terrified of even catching her eye.

"Your status does not meet the conditions under which obtaining information on an Alchemy Master would be approved by the rules established by the Sect. Wha—" BOOM! Before it could finish, the upper half of the doll's body was completely incinerated, turning to ash." AGH!" Screaming at the top of her lungs from the boiling rage inside her, she raised her head.

"Fine... Fine! I'll find you anyway, and when I do!" Standing still and not restricting herself in any way from releasing the pressure of her cultivation, even the floor beneath her began to crack and fissures spread to the sides. People began to run even farther away, especially disciples at Qi Condensation realm, whose faces turned white and sometimes blue within an instant. Thinking for a moment, she bit her lower lip and disappeared in an instant, leaving behind a huge mess. ….

While people were watching the raging red-haired woman in the Alchemy Hall, inside the Abodes, fresh news was already boiling. Especially among the core disciple support groups. The moment An officially changed his status, the news immediately began to spread at incredible speed.

As soon as the core disciple groups learned the news about the new Alchemy Master, especially his cultivation and that he was only a disciple just like them, they immediately began to stir trying to gather as much information as possible about this new Master, and to recruit him as fast as possible.

"Well, what did you find out?" Sitting on a throne upholstered in the fur of dozens of beasts, a bald-headed guy with a bare torso stared intently at three disciples who lowered their heads, afraid to even look at him.

"Reporting to the Mighty Horn! Just a few minutes ago, our contact relayed the news that a disciple who arrived on our island only a few days ago has already successfully passed the exam for Alchemy Master!" One of the three raised his hands slightly higher, holding them in a lock of respect, and shouted loudly, keeping his head as low as he could.

"Only a disciple, and already a Master of Alchemy... That's a rarity, like seeing a snow leopard drinking saltwater from the ocean." Sitting on the throne, leaning his hand on his chin, the Mighty Horn's eyes lit up. Just the thought of having his own Alchemy Master stirred his blood.

"Where is he now? Why haven't you dragged him by the scruff of his neck to my feet?" Frowning slightly, the Mighty Horn activated his Qi and directed pressure at the three before him.

"W-we only know his name! Only information from before he officially became an inner disciple! Everything else is hidden! Y-you know very well the standard protection protocols!" All three, under the unbearable pressure, fell to their knees and began to bow. The first of the three told everything he knew, afraid of hiding anything from this madman.

"Useless! Worthless! Find him! And bring him to me! It's his honor to be the personal alchemist of the Mighty Horn himself!" Standing up from the throne, he sent a wave of Qi, throwing the three straight into the wall. Falling to the ground, all three, without getting up, began to crawl toward the exit, constantly assuring him that everything would be done perfectly.