[ BOOK 2 ] LMW [191 - 390]

228 : The Test

Chapter 228

The Test
Translated by Yuanyulin

Hearing elder Guan Yong’s voice, You XiaoMo breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he didn’t intend to be too low profile this time, he also didn’t want to get involved with the people from the big four families.

After he composed himself, You XiaoMo focused his attention to the low grade magic herb on his platform; it was a level four copper leaf herb. Copper leaf herb belongs to the level four medium grade magic herb, so it won’t take too much soul power to distill it. Nonetheless, it wasn’t too easy either; Copper Leaf herb’s characteristics were rather stiff, so it was a little difficult to be distilled. But to give a magic herb that’s too easy to distill wouldn’t test the true potential of someone. So giving out a Copper Leaf herb as a test worked just fine.

You XiaoMo himself wasn’t particularly interested in the Copper Leaf herb. He has a field of this herb that he rarely used inside his space, but because he already distilled it a few times, so it came in handy for him.

Aside from the copper leaf herb, there was a cauldron on top of the platform. Its color is black, a medium level cauldron. To be able to took at hundreds in one go, the Mage association title is not just for show.

You XiaoMo first released his energy, then put the magic herb into the cauldron. When the Copper Leaf herb fell into the cauldron, he immediately controlled his soul power and wrapped it around the copper leaf herb.

Every time You XiaoMo does refining or distilling magic herb, he only pays attention to it alone, so he didn’t realize that many people were looking at him, but after a while, everybody began to do theirs as well.

The entire hall became quiet again. Occasionally, there was an ‘eliciting’ sound coming out from inside the cauldron. The huge hourglass that was in front of the platform slowly dwindled down while everyone was concentrating. When the hourglass had dropped to only a third left, You XiaoMo looked at the magic herb inside the cauldron that had been distilled into a powdery form, and he couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.

The powder then became very small. Because he had already distilled it six times, the impurities in the magic herb had been reduced a lot, but he could still tell that there was still impurities left inside the powder, and estimatedly, he still could distill it two more times.

However, increasing the number of distillation mean that the difficulty and time needed would increase, and the soul power consumed also enormous. Not only that, if he couldn’t finish it in the remaining third of the time limit, and stopped halfway, the magic herb would become useless.

You XiaoMo didn’t hesitate for too long, he still has a lot of soul power left, and all that was left was to give it a try to know whether he could do it or not. But he was a little bit surprised, he didn’t expect that he could distill a four level magic herb for so many times. From his past experiences distilling magic herbs, he could never distill it for so many times.

Perhaps it was related to his own high level, because after he became a level four mage, he rarely refined a level three pills, and he basically always use a high grade magic herb. He never really used the low level magic herbs inside his space, and when he refined magic pills sometimes, he never really paid attention to the distillation of magic herb.

When the time in hourglass only has ⅕ left, people were starting to finished theirs one after another. The people who already handed over their distilled magic herbs left the venue and waited on the sideline. Because they were afraid that they would disturb the people who were still distilling the magic herb, the examination would begin after the hourglass had finished leaking out all the sand.