146: Chapter 146 The Three Masters Display Their Unique Abilities

"Begin."

After the Materials of each participating Martial Artist had been checked by the soldiers and officers of the Prefecture Office without issue, Official Wu Tian announced the start of the Crafting Assessment.

Ye Yisong sat on a meditation cushion, not in a hurry to start, but instead observing the movements of the surrounding Martial Artists.

Ten days was more than enough time for a Talisman Maker.

The first to start were some Martial Artists who had mastered Tier 1 crafting techniques; they knew clearly in their hearts that with the dozen or so Tier 2 and Tier 3 Crafting Masters present, they absolutely could not advance to the top ten of the Prefecture Examination. As long as they weren't in the bottom three, the point results would be the same.

Several Tier 2 Crafting Masters mentioned in the intelligence were all adjusting their own states, sprinting towards the top ten of the Prefecture Examination's Crafting Assessment.

As for the few Tier 3 Crafting Masters, after observing for a while, Young Master Qi and Wang Xianliang were already processing medicinal Materials for Alchemy; Fu Yihang was casting the Spirit Rain Spell and combining it with other rare Materials, attempting to Cultivate Tier 3 Low Grade spirit soil into Tier 3 Medium Grade spirit soil—this kid had quite the ambition.

As for Ye Yisong, he was still like an outsider, having nothing to do, looking around left and right.

This amused the crowd below.

"Why hasn't this kid Ye Yisong started yet? What is he waiting for?"

"He's so young, could it be that he hasn't mastered any crafting skills and is just up there to make up the numbers?"

"Idiot, Ye Yisong already displayed the strength of a Tier 2 Talisman Maker during the Shuinan County Exam."

"Look, Young Master Qi and Wang Xianliang have started Alchemy."

"What's strange about that? Alchemists are already at a disadvantage in the assessment. If they don't start early, if they fail repeatedly later, they won't even have a place to cry."

...

"Official Wu, this is my work." Only an hour after the assessment began, the first Martial Artist to submit their work appeared, submitting a Tier 1 High Grade Talisman.

Ye Jiemao was confident that with this Talisman, he would definitely be able to advance to the top fifty, so he didn't want to waste time on the stage.

Even if given more time, Ye Jiemao couldn't draw a Tier 2 Talisman; he wasn't like some people who held onto luck, thinking they could make a final desperate struggle on the stage, hoping to break through their own crafting level.

"Hmm, go down."

After Official Wu Tian checked it and found no errors, he waved his hand, signaling that Ye Jiemao could go back.

"Thank you, Official Wu." Ye Jiemao bowed, took his admission ticket stamped with the Prefecture Governor's seal, and happily returned to the Ye Family resting area.

Ye Jiemao had participated in this Prefecture Martial Examination, advancing to the top fifty in the martial arts stage, and he should also be able to advance to the top fifty in the Crafting Assessment, obtaining a total of sixty points, exceeding his task requirements.

With this merit, the Family should reward him with a Tier 3 Low Grade barrier-breaking pill; it was time to break through to the Late Stage of the Martial Master realm.

Breaking through to the Late Stage of the Martial Master realm, working diligently, accumulating resources for Cultivate, and then polishing for another twenty or thirty years, it wasn't impossible to have hope of breaking through to the Martial Ancestor realm.

People should have self-knowledge; being able to break through to the Martial Ancestor realm was Ye Jiemao's greatest expectation for himself in this life.

Following Ye Jiemao's departure from the stage, other Tier 1 Crafting Masters, especially Talisman Makers, also stopped struggling and began submitting their works one after another, waiting for Official Wu Tian's review.

Seeing Martial Artists leaving the stage one after another, Ye Yisong stopped waiting, picked up a piece of Tier 3 Withered Vine, and began carving a Talisman board for a Tier 3 Explosive Flame Talisman.

Ye Yisong planned to first carve a batch of Tier 3 Low Grade, Medium Grade, and High Grade Talisman boards, and finally, depending on the situation, charge them with energy. As long as he didn't charge them, no one could tell what Rank of Talisman board he had carved.

This could effectively hide Ye Yisong's true strength; unless absolutely necessary, Ye Yisong didn't want to expose his identity as a Tier 3 High-grade Talisman Master.

Thinking of the experiences of old man Ye Jiexin when he was young, Ye Yisong shuddered; a Martial King expert had personally moved to kill him, and he didn't want that kind of honor.

At his age, once his identity as a Tier 3 High-grade Talisman Master was exposed, Ye Yisong estimated that he wouldn't be able to leave the Family's territory alone until he broke through to the Martial King realm.

He could hide, but Young Master Qi and Wang Xianliang couldn't. The moment they opened their furnaces, based on the medicinal fragrance, one could basically judge what Rank of Medicinal Pill the two were refining.

In a blink of an eye, five days passed.

On the stage, besides the four Tier 3 Crafting Masters, only three Tier 2 Low Grade Crafting Masters remained, still struggling hard.

They were thinking of pushing further, for themselves and for their Families, to fight for that sliver of hope of advancing to the top ten of the Prefecture Examination's Crafting Assessment.

Especially Wang Xianda, who was originally just a Tier 2 Low Grade Alchemist, had successfully refined a furnace of five Tier 2 Low Grade Qi Gathering pills in the first three days, having high hopes of advancing to the top ten of the Prefecture Examination's Crafting Assessment.

Because before this, there were only five works by Tier 2 Crafting Masters that reached Tier 2 Medium Grade or higher.

Unexpectedly, just when Wang Xianda was about to submit his work, a Tier 2 Low Grade Spirit Planter, perhaps having a stroke of luck while selecting and cultivating seeds, accidentally grew a mutated strain of spirit rice, with a quality as high as Tier 2 Medium Grade, forcibly squeezing out one of the spots in the top ten.

Under the current situation, if Wang Xianda couldn't refine a Tier 2 Medium Grade Medicinal Pill, the top ten would be a pipe dream for him.

"Explode."

Wang Xianda's Pill Furnace shattered; in the space where he was, fragments of the Pill Furnace splattered everywhere, and even Wang Xianda's body was pierced by some fine fragments, but this didn't stop Wang Xianda's steps.

Simply cleaning up the broken hair and stains on his head, he took out another Tier 2 Pill Furnace and began the next round of Alchemy.

Seeing this scene, Ye Yisong couldn't help but admire the unyielding spirit in Wang Xianda; he was worthy of being the successor carefully cultivated by the Wang Family.

As long as this spirit didn't dissipate, Wang Xianda's future achievements would definitely not be low!

Just at the moment when Wang Xianda's furnace exploded, Young Master Qi refined his first furnace of Medicinal Pills. He nodded with satisfaction; after five days of refining, it was finally a success.

Young Master Qi opened the lid of the Pill Furnace, and a burst of medicinal fragrance wafted out from the Pill Furnace. Ye Yisong sniffed gently, and understood in his heart: Tier 3 Low Grade Medicinal Pill.

"Young Master Qi has really broken through to a Tier 3 Low Grade Alchemist."

"The first Tier 3 Crafting Master has emerged."

"The Wei Family is still as strong as ever."

"He seems to be only thirty-something, right?"

"What's strange about that? The Wei Family has three Tier 4 Alchemists; it's not very strange for them to teach a thirty-something Alchemist."

"That's right, a bona fide Tier 4 Alchemist seed."

The corners of Wang Xianliang's mouth curled into an imperceptible smile. With a light flick of his finger, a stream of Spiritual Qi shot out and hit the Pill Furnace. The lid couldn't withstand the pressure and sprayed upwards, and another rich medicinal fragrance drifted around the stage.

"Tier 3 Medium Grade Medicinal Pill."

"That rumor turned out to be true; Wang Xianliang has actually become a Tier 3 Medium Grade Alchemist."

"Another Tier 4 Alchemist seed."

"Look over there, Fu Yihang's spirit rice has grown too."