Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
MTI 013 - Exams

To deepen his understanding of alchemy, Yao Han not only learned in theory from books, but also learned to recognize magic plants directly.

He was stunned for a long time when Meirong told almost all the plants on the Star Moon Island were magic plants. In other words the Feng Xian island residence was a magical plant paradise garden.

Because it was filled with resources, Star Moon Island was among the most valuable regions and sought the target of many cultivators, both those belonging to the sect and not.

But because on the island there were also many high-level demons, making cultivators think twice. The existence of Feng Xian was also a major factor that made them not dare to go any further to take control of Star Moon Island.

Studying directly made Yao Han know that many magic plants there were hundreds of years old. This age does not depend on physical age alone but rather on the quality of Qi contained in magic plants.

If it grew in a Qi-rich place, even a magic plant that was a few months or years old could have the Qi quality of a physical hundreds of years old magic plant.

According to Hong Meirong, Blue Moon Island is widely known to be divided into three zones, based on the level of stealth practices that live in it.

The first zone is called the safe zone, inhabited by demons with the power of the Basic Realm up to the Mortal Foundation, there are some equivalent of the Earth Foundation. In this zone also grew magic plants under three hundred years old.

The second zone is called the watch zone, inhabited by stealth powered Earth Foundation to the Core Realm. The plants that grow here are about three hundred to five hundred years old.

The third zone is called the danger zone, inhabited by hundreds of Demon Core Realm and Soul Realm. Plants grown in this zone are rare and are more than five hundred years old to almost a thousand years old.

The mountain where Feng Xian's residence was located was at the border of the first and second zones.

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"Hmmm..."

Yao Han smelled the scent of honey grass before him. This plant includes low levels and the harvest time is short, which is about one month. Conditions on the Island of the Moon Star make this type of plant within one month has a quality of one year.

The honey grass before Yao Han was fifty years old. Intrigued by the taste, Yao Han whipped out the honey grass and ate it.

"Enak..."

Yao Han took it again and again. Meirong and Yutian were stunned by his actions until they forgot to reprimand.

"You treat magic plants like snacks."

Yao Han almost choked when Feng Xian appeared beside him.

"Uncle, do you want to kill me? I can choke to death because of Uncle's actions," Yao Han lamented as he stroked his chest. Feng Xian's facial features look ordinary.

"You should get used to this for staying together with one of the Soul realm cultivators..."

Meirong and Yutian looked at Feng Xian strangely while thinking, 'What is that empty tooth? That there is a Senior showing off ability on a boy.'

"Seeing you make magic plants like regular snacks reminds me of Old Man Dragon..."

Feng Xian conveyed that Chen Long the Southern Dragon had a habit of eating directly magic plants and treating them like a snack. All he knew, this habit of Chen Long had already started since entering the Core Realm. Unmitigated, the plants he ate were at least two hundred years old.

"I didn't expect Senior Chen to have such a strange habit," She Yutian commented.

"For me he's a crazy guy with a crazy habit. Turns out there's a little boy who's mimicking his behavior." Feng Xian looked at Yao Han. His words were full of insinuations, making the boy slightly misbehaved.

Meirong and Yutian reacted another way, they coughed softly and felt awkward hearing the scolding aimed at Chen Long.

"I'm just curious about the taste, Uncle. After all it is safe to eat because it is not a poisonous plant and is less than a hundred years old."

"With your current condition and level of practice, it's fine to eat even two hundred-year-old honey grass. But don't you do the same to other plants or you'll have unnecessary trouble. I won't help you."

"I understand, Uncle." Yao Han grinned widely.

Before returning home, Feng Xian said one thing that made Yao Han very grateful to him.

"You can learn directly from my private garden, but remember one thing. Don't you dare take anything else to eat the magic plant there."

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Yao Han's learning development was very rapid. Within three months, he had already studied over half of the basic alchemy books. This shocked Meirong and Yutian.

Meirong felt a little embarrassed for having doubted Yao Han who was given a short time by Feng Xian. Then he concluded Yao Han was extremely talented in alchemy because sometimes the few questions Yao Han asked were quite difficult to answer.

"Rongrong, it looks like Han'er will become a better alchemist than you."

"I don't think you're right, I've ever known of anyone who learned the basics of alchemy that it should take five to ten years to understand..."

Six months passed, Feng Xian went to Yao Han to test the boy.

"You look very prepared and confident, boy." Feng Xian commented looking at Yao Han who was smiling broadly at him. His face also looks bright.

Next Feng Xian asked questions after questions about magic plants. Ranging from simple to high level, from most common to rarest.

Yao Han could answer easily and smoothly most of the questions and was a little stammered when explaining about high-level magic plants.

In about an hour, Yao Han was showered with about a hundred questions. After he finished, Feng Xian looked at Yao Han for quite a while then shook his head.

"I'm sure Xiao Rong can't possibly teach you so that you can grasp the basis of alchemy quickly. Have you studied this before or do you have a memory of seeing it once?"

Yao Han shook his head, saying he had only started studying alchemy on Star Moon Island and also did not have the ability to remember once a look.

"Maybe it's because I practice meditation a lot, so the mind is clearer and easier to memorize things."

Feng Xian, Meirong, and Yutian had a hard time accepting this. There was still a possibility that because Yao Han was a Cultivator of the Core Realm and Soul Realm that focused on forging the mind and soul, but he was currently still in the third level of the Basic Realm.

"Can I be considered to pass the exam, Uncle?"

Feng Xian sighed softly and smiled faintly, "Yes, you escaped."

Yao Han leaped in excitement and only stopped after realizing Feng Xian was giving a strange look at him.

"Ehem..." Yao Han cleared his throat for a moment, looking misbehaved.

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