The pharmacist's assessment was quite flexible, usually having two methods. One was to go to a division set by the Medicine God Alliance for an on-site assessment, and the other was to conduct a virtual assessment in the Medicine King Valley.
Guding, however, did not participate in either. He became an F-level pharmacist because Pama sent his video to the Medicine God Alliance. After the upper echelon of the Medicine God Alliance verified the authenticity of the video, he was directly rated. In fact, becoming an F-level pharmacist was not difficult; anyone who could normally refine a potion of qualified quality at the F-level could achieve it. The so-called normal refinement did not include those who made it by sheer luck or accident.
Although F-level potions were the most basic, very few F-level pharmacists could refine them to extreme quality. Refining to perfect quality was something unheard of. Even though the F-level potion was simple, not even Pama, a B-level pharmacist, dared to claim a hundred percent success rate in refining a potion of perfect quality at the F-level. This was why she wanted to recruit Guding into the Medicine God Alliance as soon as she saw him. Pama's teacher, Madico, after watching Guding's refining video, praised him as having a "monster talent rarely seen in tens of thousands of years." Such an evaluation was remarkably high.
The Medicine God Alliance actually did have its share of talented pharmacists. Like Pama, who passed the B-level pharmacist assessment at twenty-two, was obviously a genius. But she felt her talent was incomparable to Guding's. She was well aware that he only needed enough understanding of the pharmaceutical properties and time to practice, and he could surely surpass her.
At this moment, standing in the Combat Arena surrounded by onlookers was Sazer, also a genius. He was only sixteen this year, and like Guding, just an F-level pharmacist. However, he was already able to refine F-level potions to extreme quality. Although the success rate was only about twenty percent, it already indicated he had reached an extremely profound level in refining F-level potions.
Once he was on stage, other F-level pharmacists in the Combat Arena seemed somewhat overshadowed. Sazer's refining speed was too fast; each potion took less than ten minutes to refine, and all the potions were of high-quality or above. He even refined a potion of extreme quality.
His presence also attracted Guding's attention. The potion he refined was an F-level Genetic Enhancer, a true genetic potion. Genetic potions were usually the most challenging to refine among all types of potions of the same level, as they involved the separation and extraction of gene chains, which had to be done under microscopic conditions.
Guding's interest stemmed partly from the high difficulty of genetic potion refinement; he liked such challenges that he had never tried before. On the other hand, he had never operated microscopic instruments and was curious about how to use them. Moreover, in his view, Sazer's refining skill was indeed high. His steady posture made it hard to imagine they were the same age, possessing the demeanor of a master.
"Master Menz's disciple is indeed something else," people around were discussing.
Guding had naturally heard of Master Menz. Like Madico, he was an A-level genetic pharmacist. Though he wasn't from the Tianhe Star Domain, his reputation was not at all weak.
When he was young, he wasn't particularly a pharmacist prodigy, but he enjoyed going to other star domains' Medicine King Valleys to challenge potion refinement. Initially, he didn't always win; he often lost more than he won because there were many geniuses in various star domains. But each failure led to progress. Later, his challenges were almost invincible. His name became widely known in many other star domains. His current achievements had much to do with the benefits gained from the challenges back then.
His disciple, it seemed, also received his tutelage, going to different star domains' Medicine King Valleys for challenges and training. But the difference was this disciple was born a pharmacist prodigy who had challenged the Medicine King Valleys in more than twenty star domains and remained undefeated to this day.
Feeling Guding's heart racing, Sea Emperor knew the young man named Sazer in front of him had already sparked Guding's desire to challenge. "Your adrenaline secretion has increased, your heart rate is rapid, your body is in a rather excited state. Do you want to challenge him?"
"Yeah, help me prepare the materials for the F-level Genetic Enhancer." Guding, so far, had only refined one type of potion, which was the Cell Enhancer. But Cell Enhancer was a basic potion, while the Genetic Enhancer was a true genetic potion, with difficulties in refinement that were entirely on another level. Although Guding knew this, he wanted to find out how well he could do. He always felt that challenging matters drove him to do things well. The pressure Sazer brought might even help him advance further in potion refinement.
A moment later, all kinds of materials related to the F-level Genetic Enhancer were transmitted by Sea Emperor into Guding's mind. Guding carefully read through each item in his memory, not daring to overlook anything.
Comparing the refining methods in his memory with the methods he just saw Sazer use, Guding quickly identified the refining key. Sazer's formula had defects, which was the main reason he couldn't refine potions of perfect quality. Another reason was his handling of the distillation temperature of two pharmaceutical materials and the potion mixture had errors.
Of course, the errors in distillation temperature and potion mixture might still be due to the defects in the formula. But the fact that the other could create potions of extreme quality with such a flawed formula amazed Guding immensely.
On the challenge platform, Sazer continued calmly handling his potion refinement, seemingly unaffected by the surrounding onlookers. His psychological quality was indeed remarkable.
Here in the Tianhe Star Domain, more than a dozen pharmacists went up one after another, all of them defeated, causing the onlookers to buzz with chatter.
"Why are there no higher-level pharmacists going up?" A young man asked with some resentment. He couldn't stand it, after all. Being a member of the Tianhe Star Domain, he felt uneasy seeing the pharmacists from his star domain lose one after another, like defeated roosters.
"How would that be okay? This is an F-level pharmacist competition. If higher-level pharmacists go up, people from other star domains might say our Tianhe Star Domain has no sense of proportion." An old man shook his head nearby.
"That's not entirely the case," a middle-aged pharmacist spoke with a serious expression. He was a C-level pharmacist. "Although Sazer is just an F-level genetic pharmacist, the Genetic Enhancer he refines is called the White Rhinoceros Enhancer, the most challenging to refine among F-level Genetic Enhancers. Even ordinary B-level genetic pharmacists wouldn't dare to claim a hundred percent success in refining to extreme quality, because the formula itself has certain flaws. Sazer chose this formula not just to challenge us, but to challenge himself, trying to improve the refinement rate of extreme quality potions through challenges."
At this time, Guding finally digested all the information in his mind.
He grinned and walked toward the challenge platform.