At the dicine Hall’s assessnt area.
Yang Chan wore a strange expression. Of the Pharmacist’s Assistant candidates participating in the assessnt this ti, more than half were won—four won and two n.
This reminded Yang Chan of Zhao Yi’s words, and he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It turned out that among these candidates, the won had indeed perford better in the assessnt.
Regarding the 1,253 commonly used dicinal ingredients, they mostly had no issues. Although there were minor errors in so of the details, it didn’t disqualify them from becoming a Pharmacist’s Assistant.
Yang Chan also questioned them in great detail on other related knowledge, such as pharmacology, judging dicinal Properties, analyzing dicinal effects, determining the age of ingredients, and classifying them by school. Although the questions weren’t as difficult as the ones he had been asked, he was now completely at ease conducting the assessnt.
As he listened to the candidates’ answers, his expression remained unchanged. He didn’t comnt on whether they were right or wrong, simply letting them finish explaining according to their own understanding before he recorded his notes.
The entire assessnt took more than four hours because he was very thorough, and also because the candidates had all basically t the requirents.
Yang Chan had the candidates’ information in his hand. Four were Noble Family Disciples, while the remaining two were ordinary Official Disciples.
’It seems this position is still very attractive.’
Yang Chan thought to himself.
After dicine Hall Master Gu An returned to the Cyan Yuan Sect and t with him, it signaled that Yang Chan had beco one of Gu An’s people. Furthermore, he was clearly valued by Gu An. Because of this, many people had tried to get on his good side recently, and their attitudes were all very friendly.
He naturally understood the implications. Therefore, he needed to be extra thoughtful when selecting his Pharmacist’s Assistants, or else it could lead to trouble. The one thing he disliked most was trouble, so he naturally wanted to avoid it beforehand.
For his Pharmacist’s Assistants, he directly chose two ordinary Official Disciples, one man and one woman. He didn’t pick a single one of the Noble Family Disciples. This demonstrated his stance: he had no intention of getting involved in the struggles between the Noble Families.
With four Noble Family Descendants, he either had to choose three of them or none at all. Even though one of them was fair-skinned, beautiful, and had a curvaceous figure, Yang Chan had to let her go.
Otherwise, he would beco the "vulgar person" Zhao Yi had spoken of, which was not a good thing.
Besides, the female disciple among the ordinary Official Disciples, though she wore no makeup, was still quite striking overall.
Her bone structure was even more outstanding than her skin, and her answers had been the most satisfactory to Yang Chan. She had given the best responses among all the candidates, so naturally, she beca his priority choice.
The remaining candidates were all more or less the sa. However, to avoid any potential trouble, Yang Chan directly chose the male disciple. As for the last Pharmacist’s Assistant, he could just pick one later.
Entrusting these two to Han Bingyu would be enough to keep her busy for quite so ti. If he had picked all of them at once, it would have added to Han Bingyu’s workload.
Yang Chan was just that considerate of others.
After announcing the assessnt results, he told the two of them to report to the dicine Hall and Pharmacy the next day, which happened to be when he was on duty.
He didn’t have many tasks on his end, which would give these two plenty of ti to learn the skills a Pharmacist’s Assistant needed to master. This was a much better situation than when he had started, where he was imdiately put to work preparing dicine packets.
These two would have ti to study. Back then, Yang Chan had to learn on the job, which was far busier. He had to constantly record all sorts of knowledge, the locations of dicinal ingredients, and a pile of other things he needed to master, all while not making any mistakes. It naturally required much greater ability.
And Yang Chan had overco it all.
Now, these two new Pharmacist’s Assistants would have a more relaxed schedule, which was the normal process for most assistants.
Previously, Yang Chan had directly beco an Interdiate Pharmacist’s assistant, so what was required of him naturally surpassed that of an assistant to a Basic Level Pharmacist. The knowledge he needed to master was greater, and the tasks were naturally more difficult.
After assessing the two, Yang Chan didn’t return directly to his residence. Instead, he headed to the dicine Hall Collection Pavilion. He had already finished reading the *Pharmacopoeia* he had, as well as most of the other books related to a Pharmacist’s advancent, so he naturally needed to exchange them for a new batch.
As the saying goes, learning is a lifelong process. Even he had to keep studying and mastering more knowledge to continuously improve—aside from allocating points, of course.
Right now, most of his energy was focused on improving his Martial Arts Cultivation, so he could only spend a portion of his ti on his Pharmacist skills. After all, the First Revolution Nourishing Viscera Pill was very tempting, as it could save him a great deal of ti.
To successfully refine the First Revolution Nourishing Viscera Pill, besides relying on his own feel for Alchemy, he needed to use these books to study records and insights on the dicinal effects of various ingredient combinations.
The insights from Refining elixirs, in particular, could provide a great deal of inspiration.
Yang Chan understood this, so he went straight to the dicine Hall Collection Pavilion. He went directly to the second floor, which was the highest he could go to borrow books. The third floor required the rank of Interdiate Pharmacist to enter.
However, the second floor contained information on the First Revolution Nourishing Viscera Pill that Yang Chan needed. Because this elixir was a stepping stone to becoming an Interdiate Pharmacist, many people had recorded their experiences Refining it, and these records were kept on the second floor of the dicine Hall Collection Pavilion.
Yang Chan had already read so of these records and found them beneficial. Now, after having personally attempted Alchemy, he was going to read the remaining books.
Reading these books again after gaining practical experience gave him a much stronger sense of connection to the material.
Previously when he read the records, he had simply morized the process: the refining duration, when to add water as the dicinal Qi changed, when to place the ingredients, and other related knowledge. He morized the changes, but when it ca to actually refining the elixir, the situations that arose were far more nurous than what was written in the books.
Take the most direct problem: the changes in the heat of the Earth Fire. The books only ntioned it in a few sentences, stating that heat control relied on personal feel and didn’t go into detail—because it was impossible to detail.
Yang Chan had gained a profound understanding of this point even before he began Refining.
There were plenty of other variations and problems as well.
These problems only appeared during the actual process of Refining an elixir. Yang Chan himself had encountered many situations not recorded in the books. If he were to write them down, he could add many scenarios not currently docunted in the Library Pavilion. This was perfectly normal.
After all, even the slightest deviation could lead to a multitude of problems.
It was like there was only one path to success, but countless paths to failure. A person had to make all the right choices to reach the end. The other paths would either lead one astray midway, send one backward, or even lead to utter and complete ruin. All were possible.
Of course, these paths of failure also served as warnings. By studying the accounts of both failed and successful attempts at Refining the First Revolution Nourishing Viscera Pill, he could gain many insights and thus refine it successfully much faster. This was precisely why Yang Chan had co.
It was also a way to reduce the number of failures. After all, the materials for Refining the First Revolution Nourishing Viscera Pill were rather expensive. He couldn’t afford to fail repeatedly. It might even affect the daily dosage of dicine he took, and that was not a result Yang Chan wanted.
His daily inco of Potential Points could not be allowed to decrease.
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