My health recovery is incredibly fast.

At 9 a.m., the clouds in the sky dispersed, and the sun shone brightly on the snow.

After finishing breakfast at home and tidying up the kitchen, Xia Zuo took his alchemy pouch and used Windwalk to head to Poseidon's makeshift airport.

The airport is for both military and civilian use, located five or six kilometers west of Poseidon, next to a military camp.

Xia Zuo, about a kilometer away from the airport, deactivated his Windwalk spell, transformed into human form, and joined the passengers' queue, heading towards the airport terminal. Otherwise, he would have been able to see the layout of the military camp from above, violating federal law.

For civilians, spying on military restricted areas can result in detention and investigation, and in serious cases, fines or imprisonment.

For both apprentice monks and fully ordained monks, the punishment for breaking the law and committing crimes is not so simple.

They will have certain spellcasting licenses revoked, such as the Windwalker license worth 300 citizen points, and will also be restricted from learning spells or deep meditation.

In short, in the Silvermoon Federation, the greater one's abilities, the greater the level of oversight one must bear.

This was even more true on the airship.

Because the airship's gasbags are filled with a relatively light alchemical gas.

It is non-flammable.

But it's expensive.

If the airbag is punctured by a bird or magic, not only will the lives of the passengers be endangered, but tons of alchemical gas will also be lost.

To minimize the risk of accidents while in the air, each passenger undergoes rigorous screening.

Although Xia Zuo had Lady Xingye's help and his own citizenship level was very high, he still could not avoid this procedure.

His two alchemy pouches were thoroughly searched by airport security personnel, and when he boarded the intercontinental airship, he was also found to have a spell-casting alarm bracelet on his wrist.

No matter how small the power or how subtle the spell, it will trigger the bracelet's alarm, emitting a sharp beeping sound and attracting the flight attendants.

The Windwalker license he obtained was only the basic version, valid only within the city limits and not usable in the suburbs.

Referring to the federal map, you can use Wind Walk or Flight to travel between cities and states. You need to exchange for an advanced license, which costs 700 citizen points.

It takes an investment of 300 points + 700 points, totaling 1000 points, to gain the right to use Windwalker more freely within the Federation.

Xia Zuo sat on a soft chair inside the gondola, holding an alchemy textbook in his hands, making the most of the last moments before the exam to check if he had missed anything.

This airship goes directly to Silvermoon City without any transfers or stops along the way.

We depart at 9 a.m. and arrive at our destination before evening.

Silvermoon City is larger than Poseidon City, and is surrounded by six satellite cities connected by wide, smooth roads lined with green belts.

Looking down on Silvermoon City from above, it has the feel of a garden city.

The city is filled with high-rise buildings, with 20-story buildings being a common sight.

In the central urban area stand two crescent-shaped 30-story buildings, one on the left and one on the right, flanking a cluster of 10-story buildings. Together, they resemble a giant waning crescent moon.

According to a travel magazine on the airship, this building is a famous landmark in Silvermoon City.

That cluster of 10-story buildings is the Civic Center.

The crescent-shaped building located to the west of the Civic Center is the teaching building of Boying College, while the crescent-shaped building to the east is the office building of the local Category 3 Disaster Response Department.

After Xia Zuo disembarked from the airship, his destination was the building of Boying Academy.

He had heard of the name Boying before.

Thinking back carefully, I first learned about the existence of Boying Academy in the Warriors' Guild of Sprill City in the Starry Night Kingdom.

At the time, he was tracking down a traitor among the researchers from the Eastern Continent. He learned from a herbalist named Emily that the researchers who came to the Western Continent were all graduates of Boying Academy.

Three or four years have passed since then, and these researchers should have returned to the Silvermoon Federation by now.

Xia Zuo wandered around the Mage Guild Hall of Boying Academy and saw a recruitment notice for Starry Night Island researchers on a bulletin board.

A thought began to form in his mind.

Could we arrange for a blood element servant to attach itself to a researcher who has passed the job interview and travel with them on a transoceanic airship to the Western Continent?

There are two highly uncertain aspects to this matter.

One of them is the extreme storm.

As a black storm that dwells in the depths of the ocean and separates the eastern and western continents, it can prevent Kualuoqi, who is located on the western continent, from sensing the inheritor of the eastern continent. Could it also prevent Xiazuo from controlling the blood servants located on the western continent?

That's a possibility.

In this world, besides the Dark Chamber controlled by the Church of the Otherworld, the only other thing that could disable the Blood Element Servant's "Disband" button is likely the Extreme Storm.

The job posting clearly states one piece of information:

[Any researcher applying for this position must undergo a detection spell cast by a temple mage.]

If Xia Zuo's deduction is correct, he should be detected once before setting off for the Western Continent and once after arriving there.

The reconnaissance before departure was carried out by the temple mages within the Federation.

Upon arrival at the Western Continent, it should be Chief Beatrice who carries out the orders.

This is the second uncertainty—Xia Zuo isn't confident he can guarantee the Blood Elemental servants will pass the Temple Mage's detection, and if Queen Beatrice discovers the connection between the Blood Elemental servants and him... the situation could become quite awkward.

Therefore, we need to carefully plan the matter of sending Blood Element servants to the Western Continent.

Xia Zuo reached over and took a recruitment document from the notice board where the job posting was displayed, intending to study it when he had the chance.

The job posting indicates that there is still more than a year left before the open recruitment process ends.

To ensure fairness and impartiality, Boying Academy will publish the list of selected participants before the research team officially departs.

If, by then, Xia Zuo finds a way to overcome the Extreme Storm and the detection spell, he can select a lucky researcher to serve as the vessel for the Blood Element Servant, according to the information on the list.

Hmm... thinking about it this way, before leaving Silvermoon City, I should place a Blood Elemental Servant with 5 points of Spirit attribute here, just in case.

Xia Zuo put the recruitment documents in his briefcase, went to the counter in the lobby and exchanged his qualification certificate for an admission ticket and a single dormitory access card.

He used the [Bloodline Connection] to leave a message in his mind for Anruer, who was meditating, telling her that he had arrived in Silvermoon City, had just exchanged his examination admission ticket at Boying Academy, and had also obtained the recruitment documents for researchers in the Western Continent.

Chapter 22 Support

On the back of the promotion assessment admission ticket, there is a brief examination schedule.

Xia Zuo will face the first test tomorrow.

This section of the test is divided into two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

It started at 8 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m. that day.

Lunch is eaten in the examination room, and elemental servants will bring it to you. If you need to use the restroom, you can do so in the private washroom attached to the classroom.

Xia Zuo must provide answers to all the questions within the allotted time, before 6 p.m.

Before entering the examination room, he had to leave all his alchemy tools in the dormitory, including the alchemy pouch, alchemy stone, and two enchanted brooches.

He could only participate in the test wearing ordinary clothes, and he had to wear a spell alarm device on his wrist.

The examination room had been modified using alchemy and enchanting techniques. It had no windows, and the four walls were covered with many faintly lit magical runes.

These magic arrays placed on the walls can block all spells that have cheating functions such as "remote communication" or "memory rewind".

When Xia Zuo sat down in the examination room, he was surrounded by more than ten transparent glass spheres, each containing a poison master as a watchful guard.

Under such close surveillance and with spellcasting prevented...

Xia Zuo boldly attempted to shift the perspective to that of the hemolymph servant…

The spell-casting alarm on the wrist didn't sound, the shielding spell array on the classroom wall didn't react, and even the nearby surveillance guards didn't notice anything amiss.

Sitting in the exam room, Xia Zuo found that he could still smoothly control his Blood Element servants without disturbing the alchemical tools, enchanting materials, and proctors around him.

Pureblood magic... is far more amazing than he had imagined.

How exactly did he connect with his bloodline servants?

This question popped into Xia Zuo's mind.

But he knew now was not a good time to explore this issue.

Under the watchful eyes of more than a dozen people, Xia Zuo picked up the water glass on the table, took a sip, and put aside thoughts unrelated to the exam, waiting patiently for the exam to begin.

The question format for this exam is slightly different from previous written exams.

The proctoring professors set the questions on the spot; they are both proctors and question setters.

Due to this unique characteristic, Xia Zuo cannot skip questions; he must answer them before moving on to the next one.

Exam papers are no longer the medium for carrying exam questions.

Instead, Xia Zuo will use the silver sand that he is very familiar with, which the professors will use to set questions.

The silver sand piled up on the podium began to float.

The first glass sphere directly in front of Xia Zuo shot out a beam of light, which fell on the silver sand and manipulated the sand to transform into dozens of characters and a "poisonous weed" made of silver sand.

The professor, whose name and identity were unknown, asked Xia Zuo to first identify the basic toxins that this "poisonous plant" might contain.

This seems to be a relatively simple quiz on toxicology.

Xia Zuo read through the words formed by the silver sand, glanced at the "poisonous grass" again, and quietly released his detection spell, his narrowed eyes revealing a thoughtful expression.

I remember when I was taking the general education exam at Starry Night Academy, the professors, in order to make the exam a little easier, put samples of herbs and minerals mentioned in the exam questions in the suitcase containing the exam papers.

Back then, if Xia Zuo couldn't immediately recall the answer, he could still get some ideas by releasing a detection spell on the sample.

Now...

Casting a detection spell on the "poisonous herb" will only yield the detection result of silver sand—silver sand... and will not provide any specific information about the "poisonous herb".

Xia Zuo had to refer to the "poisonous herb" template and search for the corresponding knowledge points in the [Knowledge Reserve] before he could answer the question.

This question format has inadvertently increased the difficulty of this round of exams.

Xia Zuo cleared his mind of distractions and focused on carefully examining the details of the poisonous plant, gradually discovering the difficulty in this problem.

In the field of poison alchemy, there is a unique definition for "poisonous grass": it specifically refers to poisonous plants that grow naturally in grasslands and have a negative impact on human health.

There are three factors in this statement, and none of them can be omitted.

These are [natural growth], [human health], and [negative impacts].