Shi Lang had just arrived at the steps of the Alchemy Hall, when a guardian disciple looked at him and quickly rushed away. The Terran did not notice this, he simply climbed the stairs and stepped through the gates. He found a lady sitting behind the counter where last time he came to take a test.
He approached the counter and said, "Senior Sister, I am here to accept pill refining tasks. Could you please help me?"
The lady behind the counter appeared to be in her thirties but she was a Dao Lord. Hearing his polite tone, she smiled faintly and said, "Junior Brother, you would need to bring out your alchemy hall token before I can help you."
Shi Lang nodded and took out the golden token and placed it on the counter. The lady paused for a moment, she did not expect to come across someone with such a token. She was about to touch the token when a calm voice sounded, "Here you are, I was wondering when would you show up kid."
Everyone froze, the aura inside the hall just became heavy. The lady behind the counter said, "Master, can you hide away your spiritual aura? The disciples are all scared."
The old man was stunned and then he restrained his aura before he said, "Xiao Yue, what are you doing behind the counter? Sneaking out to have fun again?"
The lady shrugged her shoulders and said, "It is boring to research all the time. This is the guy you have been praising this days?"
The old man was none other than the chief elder of the Alchemy Pavilion, Yang Bingshan. The disciples bowed to him and the old man waved his hands as he approached Shi Lang with steady steps and a big smile.
He patted Shi Lang on the shoulder and said, "Young man, you have gotten stronger."
Shi Lang bowed his head humbly but his expression did not change. The old man also did not mind it because he had already talked to Cao Ming and knew the situation with the former. He said, "Collect your token, and come with me. I will tutor you on advanced alchemy."
Shi Lang nodded and took his token from the counter before he thanked the lady and followed the old man. He did not even ask why did the lady call Yang Bingshan master. She raised her brows and looked at the scholar beside her and said, "Xiao Yan, hold the fort, I am leaving."
The young man hurriedly dashes over and said, "Yes, Eldest Senior Sister."
This lady was the first disciple of the Chief. She was the strongest alchemist and her realm cultivation realm was not known to anyone apart from Yang Bingshan.
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The clones were also controlled to channel spiritual energy inside the scrolls, and the moment the text appeared, the scrolls were photographed by the probes and the data was seamlessly transmitted to Shi Lang's brain with a nano brain node.
The Terran closed his eyes, as the knowledge began to register in his brain and he began to comprehend it. The pace was akin to that of a sponge absorbing knowledge. There were at least ten thousand scrolls on these shelves and none of them seemed to be sorted. The best an alchemist could do was to read as much as they could and then they would sort the knowledge in their heads.
Shi Lang thought about this and instructed his clones to sort the scrolls in different categories and levels. After that, the clones handled everything, they all had basic intelligence and could be seen as biological robots.
Days seemed to have grown wings, and it took Shi Lang twenty days to finish reading and memorizing the knowledge inside the archive hall. When he was done, he dissolved the clones and absorbed the blood again, thus it made the knowledge in his mind even deeper.
He rubbed the center of his brows before he checked the labels on the shelves. He then nodded and left the archive room. There were not many people who would visit the archive hall. Apart from the elders, only their disciples would come here, but these people would make copies of these scrolls and spend years reading them and memorizing them.
Shi Lang did not understand why their spiritual energy did not develop their brain. How come an entire body covered in Dao Laws and spiritual energy circuits running through it would have such an average intelligence.
After thinking he decided to consult Hou Bing on this. He walked out of the room and then channeled spiritual energy in the token. After he was done with it, he waited for a few minutes, before Yang Bingshan would come.
Shi Lang turned his head around to look at the architecture and found that their was a big wall which was covered with glowing words. He walked over out of curiosity and began to read.
'What happens when the fallen star cotton rose root is mixed with rising wind grass essence?'
There were many such questions but apart from Shi Lang no one was there. He could not figure out why, and then he thought, since he had nothing better to do, he would just answer the questions. Then he found instructions on the corner. One could use their spiritual energy to cast words in the void and then post them over the questions. If the answer was correct the question would vanish.
Shi Lang understood that this was a challenge wall. He shrugged and began to write the words in the void, and they all flew over to the questions. At this point, a disciple noticed him and exclaimed, "Someone is taking on the hundred question wall..!!"
Immediately, all the disciples stopped doing what they were doing and gathered around Shi Lang. At this moment, Yang Bingshan appeared and said, "Can you all have some decorum of an alchemist?"
The disciples were scared off, Shi Lang stopped and turned around but Yang Bingshan smiled at him and said, "Child, go on, take up as many questions as you can."
Shi Lang thought of something and nodded before he turned back to the wall and began to write. Yang Bingshan looked at the lady beside him and said, "Xiao Yue, go and call those old bastards. They need to see it. The Alchemy Hall has found a gem."