Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

The president was extremely serious when announcing the rules this time, and even reading the rules was much more formal than usual, making it seem like a completely different kind of exam than the Level 8 assessment.

"No problem," Xu Jiawei replied.

Then, a list of twenty potions appeared before Xu Jiawei's eyes. She scanned it and even saw a pet breakthrough potion that she recognized.

Xu Jiawei knew this was an opportunity, a chance for the association to reveal the formula, and she had to seize it.

Besides choosing a pet breakthrough potion that she was skilled at crafting, she planned to choose the potion recipe that she needed most, regardless of the difficulty of crafting it.

As for choosing a pet breakthrough potion that she could make herself, it was also to save time. After all, she was here to take the exam, and just wanted to learn the recipe on the side.

Xu Jiawei chose a resurrection pill formula. She heard that as long as someone still had a breath left, they could be saved after taking this pill. She wondered if it would work for her when her body had collapsed and no medicine could help.

If it works, this would be another life-saving tool. She already has so many life-saving tools, so choosing another one is probably for the sake of better risking her life in the future... no, I mean taking risks.

After all, opportunities are always accompanied by dangers, and in order to save your life when you take risks, the more life-saving items you have, the better.

If Rainbow had possessed the Resurrection Pill, she might not have had to exhaust herself protecting her body during the previous tempering process.

Now, there isn't much time left for her to develop smoothly, so she has no choice but to take the risk.

She had to become a god within a year, and no matter the cost or danger, she would do anything to improve her strength.

If she encounters danger and dies, it's just bad luck; if she survives, her strength will improve even further.

Her second choice was the Burst Potion, which would allow her to unleash ten times her own strength after drinking it, but would then leave her in a 10-day period of weakness. This was also an extremely powerful life-saving potion.

It's somewhat like a sacrifice of light, but the consequences aren't as severe. The side effect of the burst potion is that it renders a person unable to move for 10 days.

Xu Jiawei thought for a moment, what if she could be resurrected immediately after using the Burst Potion? Would there still be any side effects?

Or is it like the previous case of drinking too much potion, a negative buff? Xu Jiawei needs to figure out whether it affects the body or acts as a buff.

Then she chose percentage-based healing potions and percentage-based mana regeneration potions.

These two are continuous recovery potions, restoring 5% of health and mana per second for 15 seconds.

Xu Jiawei's magic power and health are getting higher and higher, and the amount of recovery from healing potions and mana potions is no longer enough.

It takes several bottles to fully recover, and drinking too much of this stuff can cause poisoning and negative buffs, so this percentage recovery is perfect for future battles.

When the president saw Xu Jiawei's choice, he was stunned. Good heavens, she only chose the difficult ones. Does she still want to pass the exam?

At this point, the president had already given up hope. After all, without any prior practice, choosing the five most difficult potions made it virtually impossible to pass the test. He had already planned to work overtime and wait for Xu Jiawei to take the test again.

In short, he wants Xu Jiawei to pass the Level 9 exam today.

Finally, the president couldn't help but ask again, "Are you sure you want to choose these five options?"

Xu Jiawei immediately replied, "I'm sure."

The president sighed and immediately had the examiners bring in the herbs and crucible.

"Candidates, please check if there are any problems with the crucible and herbs. If there are no problems, then click the timer button to start the exam." The president's voice came through the microphone.

Xu Jiawei immediately checked the crucible, which was the same one she had used before, and there was no problem with it. She also checked each of the herbs, and there were no problems with them either.

Xu Jiawei checked very carefully, without any impatience. The examiners did not urge her, but waited quietly. Half an hour later, Xu Jiawei finished checking and immediately clicked the start button.

After pressing the button, she immediately seized the time to refine the pet breakthrough potion she was familiar with. Half an hour had passed by the time she finished refining it. There were still four recipes she had never seen before, so she had to speed things up.

Choosing such a difficult recipe wasn't because Xu Jiawei was being arrogant. She had learned several level nine recipes from the pharmacist's notes before, and even practiced them a few days ago using herbs from the Leader's Base.

Therefore, she was quite proficient in the method of making level nine potions. Even if she had never seen these recipes, she still had the basic techniques.

However, she was still apprehensive about the unfamiliar recipe and wasn't entirely confident that she could successfully refine it.

She didn't want to embarrass her teacher, and if she really failed the exam, how could she face the teacher's disappointed eyes? She had to succeed; at worst, she could spend some money to retake the exam.

Xu Jiawei focused her energy and, with her outstanding mental strength, quickly analyzed the key points and difficulties.

The improvement in her mental strength greatly enhanced her potion-making skills. Previously, at the Leader Base, she had great difficulty making pet breakthrough potions with the help of Little Pink, but yesterday, in front of Grace, she made them very smoothly, much better than before.

The enhancement of her mental strength made her observation skills more subtle; she could even sense the energy changes in the ingredients of the medicine, allowing her to add herbs at the right time.

So now, although she is slower at refining percentage-based healing potions and percentage-based mana regeneration potions, she is very reliable and succeeds in refining them on the first try. The quality is also not like that of someone refining them for the first time.

The guild leader stared intently at Xu Jiawei's movements. He could understand why she could refine pet breakthrough potions so quickly, since the recipe was provided by Xu Jiawei. However, it was unbelievable that she could refine percentage healing potions and percentage mana recovery potions so quickly as well.

Could it be that she had refined it before? That shouldn't be the case. Grace isn't the type to leak information. Moreover, judging from her behavior, it seems to be her first time refining it. She was thinking and observing the state of the liquid while refining it, constantly adjusting the temperature and trying different methods. It's clear that she's still in the experimental stage.

However, her grasp of the potion was too precise. Although she made many adjustments, the finished product was no different from that of someone who had practiced for a long time. She was very proficient in the pharmacology of the potion.

The president couldn't help but exclaim, "She's a true genius! Perhaps she'll even surpass Grace soon!"

Grace was once a once-in-a-millennium genius, unmatched by anyone. It's terrifying that someone has surpassed her talent so quickly.

The vice president was also secretly amazed. Was this really a human?

It seems that Xu Jiawei has a high chance of passing this time. As long as she successfully refines one more formula, she will pass the test and officially enter the ranks of powerful figures.

They would be treated as honored guests in every place.

Xu Jiawei took out the recipe for the Burst Potion. As for the most difficult Resurrection Pill, she planned to refine it last. Right now, she still needed to pass the assessment first.

With two and a half hours left before the exam ended, Xu Jiawei concentrated and began putting herbs into the crucible.

Everyone saw that Xu Jiawei had two and a half hours left and had already started the fourth item. She was truly the fastest candidate they had seen in recent days.