Forced to become a pure and innocent female pharmacist in order to cultivate immortality.

This book will mostly lean towards a fun and quirky style, but it will definitely still be serious when it comes to serious content.

Perhaps I've gotten a bit tired of writing serious body-change stories over the years, and this kind of theme isn't popular anymore, so I tried writing a lighthearted, less serious body-change story. I hope you all like it.

If you encounter content you don't like later on, please don't take it too seriously as long as it doesn't have any major flaws.

Since the platform currently does not support content modification for VIP chapters, some minor plot flaws will need to be selectively ignored by readers.

If it's something I forgot, I'll usually explain and fill in the gaps later.

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Chapter 66 The Road to Heaven

At dawn, as the sun rose over the mountain, its rays shone brightly. Floating Cloud Mountain was shrouded in a thick mist, and the sunlight pierced through the mist, creating colorful rainbows across the mountain. The scenery today was exceptionally enchanting.

Climbing a mountain for assessment during such a beautiful time of year can certainly be a pleasant experience.

"The promotion assessment for intermediate disciples of the four sects is now officially beginning," Yun Hui announced loudly.

At Yun Hui's command, the disciples of the four major sects immediately ran towards the mountain steps. The disciples of the other three major sects were the first to act, while the disciples of Yunxia Sect were more composed and did not rush up the steps with the main group.

They had climbed this place once before and knew that the steps were not easy to climb. Moreover, the elders of the sect had warned them that the gravity of the steps would be several times stronger than when they first entered the sect.

The disciples of the three major sects knew the mystery of the steps the moment they stepped onto them. Their bodies became noticeably heavier as they stepped onto the steps, but this slight increase in weight did not affect their movements.

The four sects have a total of about a thousand junior outer disciples, so the number of people going up the mountain is not that many compared to when Yunxia Sect took its entrance exam.

Only after the disciples of the three sects disappeared from their sight did Ye Liuyun and his group begin to climb.

However, the disciples were stunned for a moment when they stepped onto the steps, because they did not feel the weight of the steps. The weight seemed to be less than the weight when they entered the sect.

"Strange? Why can't I feel gravity? Didn't the Yuncheng deacon say that gravity has been amplified several times?" The disciples muttered in bewilderment.

Ye Liuyun also felt very relaxed. The steps did not feel like they had gravity at all, let alone gravity.

"Fellow senior brothers and sisters, do you think these steps have gravity? Could it be that the sect is giving us special treatment?" Ye Liuyun greeted his fellow disciples with a smile.

"Oh, it's Junior Sister Ye. It's strange, I also feel that these steps have no gravity. What about you guys?" A young man responded to Ye Liuyun, then looked at the other fellow disciples.

But almost all of his fellow disciples shook their heads, feeling that the steps had almost no weight.

“I think we should keep going. Perhaps it’s because our cultivation has improved over the years. After all, we were just ordinary people when we climbed the mountain back then,” one of the disciples said.

"Well then, let's go." The disciples strolled forward, appearing quite relaxed and at a steady pace, without speeding up.

In reality, given their cultivation level, they would only feel the pressure when they reached at least halfway up the mountain, which is more than 4,000 meters away.

The disciples of the three major sects had already disappeared from sight; they were practically sprinting upwards, afraid of being overtaken.

After all, they represent their respective sects. Although they only need to reach the end on time, they want to outshine the other three sects.

The disciples of the Yunxia Sect who have climbed this mountain know that speeding up the ascent is pointless. There are still nearly ten hours left before the end, so what's the rush?

If you exhaust your physical strength here, it will be difficult to continue. Later on, you will only be able to rely on willpower and spiritual power.

These disciples were mostly talking to Ye Liuyun.

"Junior Sister Ye, I heard you're an alchemist, right? Hey, if I ever need more pills, could you sell me some at a price lower than the sect's?" a young man at the peak of the Spirit Stream Realm asked with a smile.

"Pills? No problem, no problem. Senior brothers and sisters, if you need any pills, you can contact me privately after this assessment. As for the price, I guarantee it will be cheaper than the pill shops in the sect," Ye Liuyun promised.

Ye Liuyun's words won over the disciples present. After all, it was essential for cultivators to consume pills, and if they could get a cheaper price, they could buy more pills, which would further improve their cultivation speed.

Ye Liuyun was already a goddess in the eyes of many male disciples because of her good looks. Now that she was willing to sell them pills at a low price, how could this not increase their goodwill towards her?

"Then thank you very much, Junior Sister Ye. Our contributions are far from enough each month. If we could get a discount, we could save some contributions. Sigh! Most importantly, after being promoted to intermediate disciple this time, we will be going on a mission. I don't know if we will be able to make it to the end." The young man sighed.

These words left everyone present with mixed feelings.

Looking back at the main hall of the Cloud Mist Sect, cultivators from all four sects were using the Mystic Light Technique to observe the situation on the mountain path.

"Sect Master Yun, what's wrong with your Yunxia Sect disciples? They all seem so listless, like old men taking a stroll. Could it be that they haven't been cultivating enough and their physical strength isn't strong enough?" Zi Lan mocked.

Because the disciples of the Zixia Sect were the fastest runners, they had already covered a distance of one thousand meters.

"Hehe, Sect Master Zilan, the Cloud Mist Staircase of our Cloud Mist Sect is not as simple as you imagine. With their cultivation level, they haven't reached the point of feeling pressure yet. Just keep watching," Yun Yun said calmly.

The cultivators from the Yunxia Sect present had all climbed these steps before and understood that such a pointless expenditure of energy was of little use. They would realize how precious the energy they had wasted was when they needed to expend strength and energy later.

An hour passed, and the advance team had reached an altitude of 4,000 meters. However, upon reaching this altitude, they clearly felt their bodies suddenly become very heavy.

"This? Your body feels a bit heavy," a disciple of the Zixia Sect said, frowning.

The gravity here only made them feel a little uncomfortable, not to the point that it made them unable to move, so they continued forward.

But from here on, with each step they climbed, the pressure on their bodies increased, and their spiritual energy was forced to circulate to resist the pressure.

Another hour has passed.

In that hour, the cultivators from the three sects had only climbed about 7,000 meters, and they all looked extremely tired, their feet feeling as if they were bound with lead.

"Damn it, we miscalculated. No wonder the Yunxia Sect didn't speed up their climb from the start. We've wasted our energy up there, and we feel terrible," one of the disciples from the three sects said, feeling unwell.

But just then, Ye Liuyun and the others caught up.

"Oh? Aren't these fellow Daoists from the three sects? What's wrong with you all? We're still more than two thousand meters away from the mountain gate. Are you all planning to fail even the first test?" The Yunxia Sect disciple mocked the panting cultivators from the three sects.

Moreover, while mocking them, he easily overtook them and quickly left them behind.

"Impossible? How could the disciples of the Yunxia Sect have surpassed them so easily? There must be something fishy going on. Is the Yunxia Sect giving preferential treatment to its own disciples? We're not having it." The disciples from the three sects were dumbfounded as they watched Ye Liuyun and his group easily surpass them.

Even the high-ranking members of the three sects in the main hall of the Yunxia Sect were stunned on the spot.

"This? Sect Master Yun? Didn't you say that the pressure would increase exponentially after reaching half the height? But why don't the disciples of your Yunxia Sect feel any pressure at all?" The three sect masters' expressions turned grim.

They believed that the Yunxia Sect must have secretly pulled something, giving their own disciples special treatment and embarrassing the three sects.

In fact, Yun Yun and the others were also confused at this moment. This time, the pressure had increased several times, but why were none of the disciples of Yunxia Sect reacting?

"Do you think I would make exceptions for such a trivial matter? I think we should wait and see; it's too early to draw conclusions," Yun Yun said.

Since Yun Yun had already said so, the higher-ups of the three sects could only remain calm and continue to observe.

Sure enough, when the disciples of the Yunxia Sect arrived at a distance of less than two thousand meters from the sect's entrance, they also began to feel the pressure.

"Huh? Why has the pressure suddenly increased?" The speed of the Yunxia Sect disciples also began to decline.

At this time, it was already around three o'clock in the afternoon, which is also the hottest time of day.

Ye Liuyun followed quietly behind the group. She felt no pressure at all because she specialized in physical strength, which gave her an advantage at this time.

He just didn't want to be the first to stick his neck out, so he followed the crowd at a leisurely pace.

Chapter 67 A Clever Move Backfires

In fact, Ye Liuyun was also a little puzzled at this moment, wondering why the physical strength of the disciples of their Yunxia Sect was on average much stronger than that of the other three major sects.

"Master, do you know why? Their physical strength seems quite good." Ye Liuyun asked in his heart as he looked at his fellow disciples around him.

Lin Qingyou naturally knew the reason.

"Nonsense, you don't think that the strange phenomena you've created over the years have had no effect on them, do you? First of all, the ice and fire rain you created the first time strengthened their bones and muscles. The heavenly lightning tempering you created the second time strengthened their physical bodies. Then, the long-term lightning interference improved their willpower. Naturally, they are incomparable to the other three sects." Lin Qingyou explained with a wry smile.

Upon hearing this, Ye Liuyun thought to himself, "So it turns out I unintentionally helped these fellow disciples?"

"So that's how it is? Then I'll have to refine more Thunder-Summoning Pills in the future. If they find out later that I improved their physical strength while refining the pills, they'll be thanking me to death." Ye Liuyun grinned mischievously.

"Forget it, this kind of lightning tempering shouldn't be done too frequently, it won't do any good," Lin Qingyou said with a smile.

As for the main hall of the Yunxia Sect, no one suspected that the Yunxia Sect had secretly sabotaged things, because it was obvious that the Yunxia Sect disciples were physically stronger on average than the disciples of the three sects.

"Interesting. I didn't expect that the disciples of your Cloud Mist Sect would still have time to cultivate their physical bodies. It seems that this hurdle won't be too difficult for them," said the Sunset Sect Master, stroking his beard.

They were indeed too arbitrary just now; now it's clear what happened.

Yun Yun and the others exchanged bewildered glances. They certainly hadn't taught their disciples to cultivate their physical strength, but the strange phenomena that had occurred in the sect over the past few years seemed to have intentionally or unintentionally increased the physical strength of the sect's disciples, especially the time they were tempered by heavenly lightning.

Of course, Yun Yun would never say such a thing in public, since the things that happened to their Yunxia Sect were too strange to be discussed with the other three sects.

The disciples of Yunxia Sect quickly left the disciples of the other three sects far behind, which gave them a great sense of accomplishment, and their previous worries gradually disappeared.

Around four o'clock in the afternoon, the disciples of Yunxia Sect were less than five hundred meters away from the sect gate. However, those last five hundred meters felt like an insurmountable distance, making it difficult for them to get close.

This was already too much for many disciples to handle; the intensity of the last 500 meters was several times that of the previous 7,000 meters.

Even the disciples of the Yunxia Sect had to start taking pills to fight back, because their physical strength was being depleted and their own spiritual power was no longer sufficient to give them more motivation.

"I can't take it anymore, I'm so tired." Someone plopped down on the steps, drenched in sweat.

In the last two thousand meters or so, they had almost used up all the pills they had to restore their spiritual energy.

The reason why taking pills is not prohibited in this assessment is that pills can only replenish spiritual energy and then use that energy to unleash potential. If you run out of pills and still haven't reached the end, then you can only rely on willpower.

In fact, the disciples of the other three sects were almost too tired to walk, and it was inevitable that a group of disciples would fail the test.

They were helpless; it was already quite remarkable that the disciples of the Yunxia Sect had managed to maintain this pace until now.

"Fellow disciples, please hang in there a little longer. Don't sit down. If you sit down, you won't want to get up. Keep moving forward." Ye Liuyun said, trying to dissuade his fellow disciples who had sat down and didn't want to leave.

"Junior Sister Ye, we really have no strength left," the disciples said painfully.

Ye Liuyun pondered for a moment, and then, as he passed by them, he suddenly slipped them a pill.

This startled the weak disciples. They quickly glanced at the pills in their hands; these were recovery pills.

Watching Ye Liuyun's thin figure disappear into the distance, the disciples pondered for a moment before swallowing the pill. As soon as the pill entered their bodies, their spiritual energy was quickly replenished, and it was full in no time.

"What? What kind of pill is this? It actually restored my spiritual power to full in an instant!" The disciples were very surprised after taking the pill.

This gave them renewed strength. They took a deep breath and began climbing again.

Of course, Ye Liuyun's actions puzzled the audience in the main hall.

"This little girl, why is she giving pills to her fellow disciples? Hey, Sect Master Yun, isn't this against the rules?" Sect Master Xi Ri questioned.

Upon seeing that the person secretly giving the pills to his fellow disciples was Ye Liuyun, Yun Yun immediately understood what was going on.

"The competition doesn't prohibit fellow disciples from helping each other; your disciples can too," Yun Yun replied.

That answer is perfectly correct. When they set the rules, they did not prohibit the use of pills to restore strength, so naturally they did not prohibit fellow disciples from helping each other.

He's just a beginner outer disciple, how many pills could he possibly have? How come he has extra pills to help others?

"She's such a kind little sister, and quite cute too," some returning disciples of the Cloud Mist Sect said with smiles as they looked at Ye Liuyun.

The last 500 meters took almost an hour and a half. With less than three hours left before sunset, the disciples of the Yunxia Sect had already reached the end of the steps one after another.

"Ah! We've finally arrived. I'm exhausted. I don't want to go through this kind of ordeal again." The disciples who had climbed to the top collapsed onto the platform, completely exhausted.

Yunhui was quite satisfied to see his disciples leading the way to the finish line.

Even those disciples who wanted to give up on climbing persevered after taking Ye Liuyun's pills. In the end, not a single disciple of the Yunxia Sect failed the test; all of them passed.

Of course, there were more than a dozen people who survived only because they took Ye Liuyun's pills.

Ye Liuyun wasn't actually tired at all; he just didn't want to be noticed, so he leaned against the wall and pretended to be panting.

"Junior Sister Ye, thank you for your help." The disciples who had received Ye Liuyun's kindness were almost exhausted, but they still forced themselves to come to Ye Liuyun's side to express their gratitude.

Without Ye Liuyun's elixir, they would probably have truly failed.

"It's alright, it's only right for fellow disciples to help each other." Ye Liuyun smiled slightly.

"We are deeply grateful and will do our utmost to help you if you ever encounter any difficulties or troubles, Junior Sister Ye." The disciples promised.

Ye Liuyun smiled slightly and didn't say anything more.

They waited for the disciples from other sects to come up, and another hour passed before some disciples from the three major sects finally climbed up.

After they came up, they felt very dissatisfied and aggrieved, but they were too tired to question the disciples of Yunxia Sect. Yunhui kept watching the sunset until it completely disappeared before he spoke and made his announcement.

"Time's up. The first test, the Path to Heaven, is over. Anyone who hasn't reached the end by now has failed." Yun Hui waved his hand, and the pressure on the steps disappeared. At least seventy or eighty junior disciples from the three sects failed the test.

The Yunxia Sect members all passed the resolution. In the main hall, everyone from the Yunxia Sect looked very happy, while Zilan and the others looked quite grim.

This illustrates a problem: the average quality of disciples from the three sects is not as high as that of the Yunxia Sect, and they even lack mutual assistance among fellow disciples.

However, there weren't many people in the Yunxia Sect helping each other. Only Ye Liuyun was helping those people; otherwise, more than a dozen of them would have failed the assessment.

"Hehe, that's all for today. As for the disciples from your three families who failed the assessment, you can decide how to deal with them yourselves. We'll continue tomorrow." Yun Yun smiled slightly and then put away her Xuan Guang Technique.

Chapter 68 Helplessness