CH 58

Chapter 58: The True Royal Military Academy

The university is the official starting point for everyone's formal education, so the questions in the theoretical exams are not too difficult.

However, the students who can be admitted to the Pharmacist major have backgrounds that should not be underestimated. They have naturally been exposed to knowledge related to potions since childhood. Therefore, these questions are not difficult for them. Many students can achieve high scores, and some even get a perfect score.

Therefore, in the eyes of the teacher, Xiao Qingyang's score of 76 is indeed not worth mentioning.

"Teacher, did I pass this subject?" Xiao Qingyang asked.

"You passed. The passing score is 60," Zhao Guoqi smiled and said, "Next is the Potion Assessment. You are not limited to using spirit plants, nor are you limited to the type of potion you make. As long as you can successfully refine a bottle of potion, it will be considered a pass."

Hearing this, Xiao Qingyang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he was able to refine many potions in his previous life, the refining techniques, equipment, and spirit plants used were different from this world. In order to adapt to the refining methods of this world, he had to re-experiment with the required proportions and the order of adding ingredients for each spirit plant.

Therefore, up until now, he could only refine two types of potions: healing potions and enhancement potions.

If the teacher insisted on specifying the type of potion to be refined, he might truly have no chance of becoming a pharmacist.

Luckily, luckily.

"Teacher, can I use my own equipment?" Xiao Qingyang asked anxiously.

After earning money from his online store, he bought a set of equipment required for potion-making in this world. However, he found that those devices were incompatible with his magical power. Following the steps of potion-making in this world, he couldn't produce complete potions at all.

As a result, he made modifications to the facilities in this world and changed the steps of potion-making, creating his own unique technique for refining potions.

If he had to use these devices for potion-making, he really wasn't confident about passing the assessment.

Fortunately, the teacher did not refuse.

Zhao Guoqi knew that many grandmasters of potions had their own preferred equipment, which they may have modified privately to better suit their own habits of potion-making. So when Xiao Qingyang made this request, not only did he not refuse, but he was also looking forward to it.

Xiao Qingyang took out his refining equipment from the spatial button and also took out some required spirit plants. He began the process of refining.

This time, he planned to refine a healing potion. After all, it was the first formula he developed and the potion he had the most experience with. He could even successfully refine it with his eyes closed.

Sure enough, in about ten minutes, he successfully refined the healing potion. This was the result of his deliberate time constraint.

Xiao Qingyang had seen others refining potions online before. Their techniques were more complicated, and it took them a longer time. In order to avoid drawing too much attention and arousing suspicion, he intentionally extended the time it took for his own refinement.

However, even so, the three teachers present were still stunned. Even the teacher who was always critical looked dumbfounded, completely unable to believe what he was seeing.

If they hadn't witnessed it with their own eyes, supervising every step, they would never believe that this student could produce a potion within ten minutes, and that too, successfully on the first try.

"Teacher, I'm done." Xiao Qingyang handed the bottle of orange-yellow potion to Zhao Guoqi, somewhat shyly.

Zhao Guoqi first inspected the potion. It was indeed a healing potion, although it was a non-tiered one. But for a newly enrolled student to be able to create a non-tiered potion, his talent and potential were not to be underestimated.

The other two teachers also double-checked and confirmed that it was indeed a healing potion.

"Xiao, congratulations on joining our Pharmacist major." Zhao Guoqi personally handed Xiao Qingyang the emblem representing the Pharmacist major students.

Every student who successfully enrolled in the Pharmacist major would receive such an emblem. This emblem also served as their key to entering the real school.

"How... How is this possible? When you were refining, I couldn't perceive any of your spiritual power," the teacher with a furrowed brow murmured in disbelief.

In fact, Zhao Guoqi and the other teacher were also puzzled. Whenever a pharmacist refines a potion, there would be some leakage of spiritual power. The higher the level of the pharmacist, the less spiritual power would leak.

However, as long as there was another pharmacist nearby, they would be able to sense it. But they just couldn't sense Xiao Qingyang's spiritual power just now.

There are generally only two explanations for such a situation. One is that the pharmacist has extremely precise control over their spiritual power, able to prevent any leakage. However, such pharmacists have never appeared in the Empire, let alone among newly enrolled freshmen.

"Another possibility is that this new student simply doesn't have any spiritual power, but that doesn't make sense either. After all, they witnessed Xiao Qingyang's entire process, from handling the spirit plants to refining the potion. How could he have produced the potion without spiritual power?"

"It seems like my spiritual power has mutated," Xiao Qingyang rubbed his head, feeling somewhat awkward.

This was the reason he had come up with from the beginning. Spiritual power mutation could result in unpredictable changes, and even if he used magic to refine potions at school, others would simply assume it was a mutated spiritual power and wouldn't raise suspicions.

Of course, this explanation came with certain risks. After all, cases of spiritual power mutation in the Empire were rare, and he could easily become the target of certain forces or families.

However, he was now a student of the Royal Military Academy. At least during his time at school, he wasn't worried about his personal safety.

All he needed to do was work hard during these years at school to make himself stronger. Then he wouldn't fear those who coveted him.

Rather than hiding his abilities and living in secrecy to avoid attracting attention, Xiao Qingyang, who had crossed over from a world where strength was respected, preferred to live openly and honestly.

If powerful individuals set their sights on him, he would become even stronger and make them hesitate to make a move against him.

"Mutation?" Zhao Guoqi repeated in a low voice. When he looked at Xiao Qingyang again, his expression had returned to normal, and he smiled, saying, "I understand. Li, take Xiao to the school."

"Okay," Li, the teacher who had always been friendly to Xiao Qingyang, responded.

Xiao Qingyang followed Li with the emblem in his hand, and the other teacher who was left behind looked like he wanted to say something but was immediately interrupted by Zhao Guoqi.

"Liu, you know the rules of the academy. I don't need to repeat them. Don't meddle in things you shouldn't," Zhao Guoqi warned.

"I understand," Liu lowered his head and responded.

Li led Xiao Qingyang to the teaching building of the Pharmacist major, entered a classroom on the ground floor nearest to the entrance, and then pointed to the wall, saying to Xiao Qingyang, "Go ahead."

Xiao Qingyang: ?

Li was accustomed to the bewildered look of new students and smiled, saying, "Just walk towards it."

Xiao Qingyang obediently walked towards the wall and stopped when he was only ten centimeters away from it, but he didn't hear any further instructions from Li.

He looked curiously at the wall in front of him. It appeared no different from an ordinary wall, but when he reached out to touch it, he found that the wall seemed like a projection. He couldn't touch anything solid, and his hand that reached into the wall seemed to be swallowed by it.

Xiao Qingyang's eyes widened slightly, not because of the unusual appearance of the wall, but because he sensed a familiar fluctuation.

It was the fluctuation produced when a formation was activated!

This wall turned out to be a formation!

This was the first time Xiao Qingyang had felt something familiar in this world. Before he could fully process it, Li, the teacher, gave him a push from behind.

When he snapped out of his thoughts, he found himself in a completely different environment.

There were numerous buildings in front of him, but none of them were very tall. The tallest one was only a dozen stories high. Compared to the towering buildings that soared into the clouds in the imperial capital, these structures looked like dwarfs.

The first thing that caught his eye was a large open square, bustling with many young people walking around. Judging by the clothes they were wearing, they were all students.

This was the true Royal Military Academy!

The teleportation formation from earlier turned out to be a teleportation array!

No wonder people in the empire were so curious about the Royal Military Academy. No wonder it seemed so mysterious. No wonder so many people wanted to explore it but couldn't uncover any secrets.

The academy on the imperial capital planet was just a decoy. The real Royal Military Academy was here!

Xiao Qingyang didn't know which planet they were on at the moment, how far it was from the imperial capital planet, or how large the actual Royal Military Academy was. All of this was extremely shocking to a new student. However, for Xiao Qingyang, all of these discoveries paled in comparison to another revelation that excited and thrilled him.

Spiritual energy!

There was actually spiritual energy here!

Although the concentration of spiritual power here couldn't compare to his original world, after experiencing the fact that both Yalan Star and the imperial capital planet had no spiritual energy, suddenly discovering its existence, even if it was sparse, was still better than having none at all!

Xiao Qingyang felt that coming to the Royal Military Academy was undoubtedly the best decision he had made in his life!

"The emblem the principal gave you represents our academy and is the key to enter here. Each student only has one, unique emblem. It must not be lost or lent to others. If it is discovered that you lent it to an outsider or lost it, you will be immediately expelled, and the emblem will lose its function as well," Li solemnly warned Xiao Qingyang.

The emblem was the only key to enter the Royal Military Academy. Each academy had a different emblem and entry location. Once it was lost, it wouldn't be reissued. Therefore, students had to be extremely careful in safeguarding their emblems.

A student who couldn't even properly preserve their emblem indicated carelessness and was not the type of student the academy desired.