Everyone's Immortal Cultivation: Starting from a Junior Talisman Maker

Chapter 20 Passing the Assessment
Shiyun Immortal City, as a third-tier immortal city, has more than one million resident cultivators.

Talisman Maker is a relatively popular profession, and the Talisman Maker Association only holds two talisman maker examinations a year, so there are quite a few talisman makers who signed up for the examination this time.

Yang Feng looked at the other candidates in the same examination room as him and found that most of them had higher cultivation levels than him, and some were even in the late Qi training stage. Only a few of them had cultivation levels comparable to his.

Yang Feng withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes for a moment. When the bell for the start of the exam rang outside the examination room, Yang Feng opened his eyes and tried hard to keep a calm mind.

Then he arranged all the talisman-making tools according to his usual talisman-making habits, and then he picked up the pen to start drawing the talisman.

Because he was very familiar with his talisman-making skills, Yang Feng first chose to draw the fire bomb talisman with the highest experience value.

"Shhhh..."

As the talisman pen continued to draw on the talisman paper, runes soon appeared on the paper one after another.

And because a first-grade mid-grade talisman is composed of at least a dozen basic runes connected in series.

It is much more difficult to draw than a first-grade low-grade talisman, so it takes longer.

According to Yang Feng's previous experience in drawing fire bomb talismans, it usually takes about half an hour to successfully draw a fire bomb talisman.

The three invigilators in charge of supervising Yang Feng's examination room would occasionally glance at Yang Feng and others, wanting to see who could be the first to successfully draw a first-grade mid-grade talisman.

Time passes slowly.

After half an hour.

As a fiery red light lit up in front of one of the talisman-making tables, it immediately attracted the attention of the three invigilators.

"Candidate Yang Feng."

The three invigilators looked at the candidate and quickly learned the information of the first candidate in the examination room who successfully drew a first-level medium-grade talisman through the list of candidates posted in the examination room.

"Not bad."

“I didn’t expect that I could draw it successfully in one try.”

As the last stroke was made, Yang Feng saw a fiery red light emerging from the talisman paper in front of him.

At the same time, a line of prompts appeared in front of him: 'You successfully drew a Fire Bullet Talisman, Fire Bullet Talisman Experience Points +5', and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

In order to be in a better state to start drawing the second talisman, Yang Feng closed his eyes and rested for a while, until he felt calm and refreshed.

Yang Feng then picked up the pen again and began to draw another kind of talisman, a protective amulet.

"Shhhh..."

As the talisman pen continued to draw on the talisman paper, this time it was not as smooth as drawing the fire bomb talisman just now.

After outlining more than ten runes in succession, with only the last three runes left, Yang Feng made a mistake, causing the talisman paper to emit a puff of smoke and spontaneously combust and be destroyed.

"What a pity, it's just the last little bit."

When Yang Feng saw the talisman paper spontaneously combusting, a message appeared in front of him: "You failed to draw the amulet, amulet experience +2", and he felt a little regretful.

But soon, Yang Feng adjusted his mentality.

After all, with his current success rate in drawing amulets, failure is common.

Yang Feng thought about how he had just started learning to draw amulets and had used up hundreds of pieces of paper, but he had managed to survive. So what was this small mistake like?
After about ten minutes, Yang Feng meditated to adjust his mentality, then picked up the pen again to continue painting.

In this way, time passed slowly without anyone noticing.

After Yang Feng finished drawing all ten pieces of talisman paper in his hand, he glanced at the time and found that there was still one hour left before the end of the assessment.

However, in order not to affect the mentality of others in the examination room, the examination rules prohibit candidates from leaving the examination room early. "Not bad, I successfully drew four talismans out of ten pieces of talisman paper."

Yang Feng put away the talisman pen and looked at the four first-grade medium-quality talismans on the talisman-making table in front of him. He murmured in his heart and smiled with satisfaction.

Afterwards, Yang Feng sat in front of the talisman-making table and waited quietly for an hour until the bell rang to signal the end of the assessment.

The three invigilators then began to check the talisman-making status of the candidates in the examination room one by one.

At the same time, the entire verification process was videotaped and audiotaped to ensure the fairness of the assessment.

"Candidate Yin Yuan, admission ticket number: ..., only successfully drew two different types of first-grade, mid-grade talismans. Therefore, he failed the assessment."

"..."

"Candidate Li Jinghang, admission ticket number: ..., only successfully drew two different types of first-grade, mid-grade talismans. He has failed the assessment."

"Candidate Zhang Minghao, admission ticket number: ..., successfully drew three different types of first-grade, mid-grade talismans and passed the assessment."

"..."

There are three invigilators, one of whom holds a video camera, one is responsible for checking the specific circumstances of the candidates' drawing of talismans, and one is responsible for registration and maintaining order in the examination room.

Soon, three invigilators came to the talisman-making table where Yang Feng was.

"Candidate Yang Feng, admission ticket number: ..., successfully drew four first-grade, mid-grade talismans, three of which were of different types. Passed the assessment."

"Candidates who have not passed the assessment are requested to leave the venue with their own talismans and talisman-making tools."

"Candidates who have passed the assessment, please bring your drawn talismans and talisman-making tools and follow me to the talisman-making certificate hall."

The three invigilators checked the talisman-making status of all the candidates in the examination room, and then announced to everyone.

Upon hearing this, Yang Feng immediately stood up and followed the three invigilators with several other candidates who had passed the examination.

Soon, Yang Feng and several other candidates who passed the examination in the same examination room followed the three invigilators to the talisman maker's certificate collection hall.

"Huh... I didn't expect this guy to pass the test."

Arriving at the certificate receiving hall, Chen Minghua saw Yang Feng at a glance because the number of candidates who passed the first-level intermediate-grade talisman master assessment had dropped sharply.

When he saw Yang Feng for the first time, he was a little surprised. He never expected that Yang Feng could pass the assessment this time.

After all, according to his understanding, it only took Yang Feng a few months to learn how to draw first-grade mid-grade talismans.

He never thought that the other party could successfully pass the assessment of a first-level intermediate talisman maker in such a short time.

Especially when he thought about how he had worked hard for more than two years to learn how to draw first-grade mid-quality talismans before he finally passed this assessment.

This made him feel even worse.

However, no matter how unhappy he felt, when he saw Yang Feng entering the certificate-receiving hall and also spotted him, he had to put on a smile, walked towards Yang Feng, and congratulated him, "Master Yang Fu, congratulations."

"Master Chen Fu, congratulations."

Seeing that Chen Minghua had also passed the assessment this time and was walking towards him, Yang Feng also smiled and bowed to congratulate him.

"Yang Feng, it's really you."

"Congratulations! I didn't expect that after not seeing you for a few years, you have quietly been promoted to a first-class mid-grade talisman master."

At this moment, a young man who looked younger than Yang Feng fell on Yang Feng not far away. After looking at Yang Feng carefully for a few times, he also walked towards Yang Feng and spoke in a surprised tone as if he was re-examining Yang Feng.

(End of this chapter)