Danfeng has been developing rapidly in the past few days and has recruited many disciples.
They cut down trees, cleared rocks, and built buildings halfway up the Danfeng Mountain to create a new Danfeng Mountain.
The cleared area was paved with bluestone slabs and turned into the Danfeng Assembly Square. New Danfeng disciples usually practiced, refined elixirs, practiced martial arts, and played in this assembly square.
Many new buildings were built around the square to store skills, books, recipes, medicinal materials, pills, etc., or used as dormitories, canteens, or classrooms.
Of course, caves were also built. Some disciples felt that caves were more like people who were practicing cultivation, and would prefer to live in caves.
The top of Danfeng Peak is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round and few people have been there. It is said that it is the residence of the chief of Danfeng Peak and it is extremely vicious and is a forbidden area of Danfeng Peak.
The orthodox Danfeng Peak is located halfway up the mountain.
It was a sunny day today. The sun was shining brightly, scorching the Danfeng disciples at the assembly square like a huge fireball.
In this assembly square, more than sixty chairs were neatly arranged, and on each chair, a young man in his teens sat upright. Each young man was leaning over the table meticulously and seriously answering the test papers on the table, as if the sun above his head did not exist.
Ask them what they are doing
Hey, they are taking an exam.
Today is Danfeng's annual mid-year assessment. They are taking the cultural subjects of Danfeng's mid-year assessment.
The assessment at Danfeng is completely different from that at other peaks and is divided into cultural subjects, practical subjects, and cultivation subjects.
Cultural subjects are cultural knowledge, mainly knowledge related to alchemy, knowledge of medicinal materials, knowledge of the human body, knowledge of alchemy fire and water, etc.
The assessment method for cultural subjects is to answer questions.
The questions are divided into different levels. The basic one includes memorizing the names of herbs, the intermediate one includes memorizing the effects of herbs, the advanced one includes answering the applicable places of magical herbs and medicines, and the abnormal one includes analyzing pill recipes.
Candidates of different ages face questions of different levels.
The practical subjects are alchemy practices, such as controlling the alchemy furnace, extracting medicinal essence, burning impurities, combining pills, and so on.
As for the assessment method, it is naturally practical experiments.
It is also divided into different levels. The elementary level is to clean the alchemy equipment, such as porcelain bottles, alchemy furnaces, beakers, test tubes, and the like. The intermediate level is to try to control the alchemy furnace and identify the spiritual herbs and medicines on the spot. The advanced level is to test the control of the alchemy water and alchemy fire. The abnormal ones can directly make the elixir.
Similarly, different ages face different levels of practical operations.
As for the training subjects... The other peaks were strict, but Danfeng didn't care. Just take a test.
Danfeng usually tests the knowledge first, then the practical work, and finally the cultivation level. That is, the knowledge test today, the practical work tomorrow, and the relaxation the day after tomorrow.
Of course, this semi-annual assessment is extremely important to the Danfeng disciples.
For Danfeng disciples, only if they know the names of herbs can they answer the effects of herbs; only if they know the effects of herbs can they use them; only if they understand herbs can they glue them together to make pills. The same is true for practical subjects, which must be done step by step.
If you fail to complete the assessment of the previous stage, you will never reach the next stage and will never be qualified to make pills.
Assessment is important, so the examination environment is very serious.
There were only about sixty students taking the exam, but there were five invigilators, one standing in front, one standing in the back, and three patrolling in the middle, completely eliminating the students' idea of cheating.
Yan Yi, Danfeng's outer sect elder, is responsible for teaching elementary herbal knowledge and is also one of the invigilators.
He was seen standing at the front of the examination room with a serious face, his hawk-like eyes scanning the room, frightening every disciple who looked into his eyes.
Elder Yan has always been known for his strictness. Any disciple who tries to be slacking off will be punished by being made to copy the Medicine Sutra.
There was once a disciple who copied the Medical Classic ten times in one month and his hands were cramped from copying.
Every Danfeng disciple was terrified of him and secretly called him Old Devil Yan.
With Old Demon Yan supervising the exam, the Danfeng disciples were even more trembling with fear, and no one dared to act recklessly.
Until the end of the exam, everyone dispersed quietly.
The five invigilators collected the test papers according to grade. Zhou Fu walked up to Yan Yi with the fifth-grade students' papers and said jokingly, "Elder Yan, you are so impressive!"
Yan Yi looked around with a serious expression, and only heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that all the disciples had dispersed. He smiled bitterly and said, "These children are very naughty. If you don't act a little fierce, you can't control them at all."
"These disciples are young and talented, so they really can't be controlled." Zhou Fu shook her head and smiled.
Zhisheng Valley is gone, and in the past two years, many talented disciples have joined Daojianmen to learn alchemy.
"The chief always says that they are the future of Danfeng!" Yan Yi sighed, "So being strict and letting them learn more is good for them."
Zhou Fu heard this, pointed to the paper in her hand, and asked Yan Yi, "This is the paper of the fifth-year students. Today's test is about the analysis of the pill formula. So should we mark this paper, or give it to the chief monk for marking?"
"The head monk has already informed us that he wants to take a look personally..." Yan Yi took the test paper and replied, "It is time for this batch of disciples to make pills. The head monk wants to see their level and then arrange for them to get pill fire and pill water. Once they have pill fire, he will teach them to make pills."
Zhou Fu asked, "Will the chief monk personally teach them how to make pills?"
"Not necessarily. It still depends on their performance." Yan Yi said, "There are only four people who can make pills at the Alchemy Summit at the moment, you, Junior Brother Zhang, Senior Sister Long, and Master Qin. So it is also possible that you are the one who taught them how to make pills."
"Me?" Zhou Fu shook her head. "Forget it. Don't mislead the students!"
"Alas!" Yan Yi sighed enviously, "You have a talent for alchemy, and you seized the opportunity to become an alchemist. I don't have a talent for alchemy, and I can't learn it. Until now, I only know some basic knowledge of herbs."
He envied Zhou Fu, but Zhou Fu also looked at him with envy. Nowadays, there are not many people who can freely enter and exit the mountain protection formation on the top of Danfeng, but Yan Yi is one of them. He is the only one who has the trust of the first seat, which is really enviable.
"You often follow the chief monk, so why do you need to refine pills? The chief monk can easily refine a furnace of pills, which is a height that I will never be able to reach in my lifetime." Zhou Fu said, "You don't lack pills at all."
Yan Yi shook his head and said, "I don't know how to make pills after all."
"Okay..." Zhou Fu didn't want to say more, and sighed, "Send the paper to the chief! We will mark the other papers."
"Okay." Yan Yi agreed.
He took the fifth-grade students' papers and walked out along the stone path to the main road. Then he went all the way up, passed through the forest path, and came to the misty top of the mountain.
Looking at the rolling clouds in front of him, his heart was filled with infinite respect. He carefully adjusted his clothes and made sure that there was nothing wrong. Then he solemnly took out the identity token issued to him by the abbot, opened the mountain protection formation, parted the clouds, walked into the cloud road, and walked towards the real Danfeng.