A few days passed since Raven gifted his father , the Scorching Heaven Art . Naturally he would not miss his girlfriend either . So he repeated the same process with Daisy and found that she also possessed affinity to Fire Element . Actually it was not surprising because both of her parents had fire type Bloodlines . The Vermillion Family which her mother belonged to were the descendants of a powerful cultivator who lived more than ten thousand years ago and was said to be in the possession of Phoenix . Naturally Raven did not believe this rumor but he guessed that the Ancestor must have been a powerful Fire Type Expert .
Ten thousand years ago the first war with the Demon Race occurred as they invaded this World but were forced back after earth shattering war . Countless powerful cultivators perished in the war while the Demon Race also lost all their kings . The Ancient Tombs are said to be the product from the ear of more than ten thousand years in past as that was recorded to be the most dazzling era of cultivation . Now the heritage was lost but still many cultivators managed to cultivate the Arts from the Ancient Tombs and won 2 more wars with the Demon Race and a few with Demon Beasts .
It is said that ten thousand years ago before the War , the Northern Area was not declined. After the war suddenly a huge barrier was formed isolating the Northern Region from other regions . The concentration of energy also declined as it became much lower than other regions . No one knows the secret of the barrier which prohibits the entry of cultivators reaching further than Martial Peak Realm . It is said that a powerful Demon was sealed somewhere in the Northern Region and the barrier was formed due to him . Nobody knows the answer to this question but it was the truth that Northern Region is now a backward region because of this Barrier . But it was also the most peaceful region due to the strenght limitation of beasts and humans equally . Raven wanted to research this phenomena in future but now he was taking the test of Alchemy or Pill Hall in the Sect .
Daisy and Mark entered closed door cultivation to recultivate according to the Scorching Heaven Art and Raven spent two days with Sam , managing the mansion affairs because Mark declared that he would not be available for a few months as he was affected by a strong ppsion and it would take time to deal with it . Sam was worried but he believed in his Master so became the temporary Head Elder Of Inner Court . Well this excuse managed to pass so Raven could only praise Mark for having so much trust in the hearts of Sect Authorities.
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Raven was surrounded by few other disciples who also came to take the test but he was reluctantly here because of two reasons .
He did not have a cauldron and sect points to buy herbs and the cauldron . Otherwise his knowledge far surpassed the Elders so he only needed practice to master the Art of Alchemy . According to Wulong , his talent was heaven defying and Raven did not doubt his master despite not having practiced alchemy ever before .
The test was simple as one just needed to show good amount of soul power and successfully convert their qi into fire . They had to maintain the fire constantly for one hour to pass the test . Raven had been sitting here nearly four hours now but his face had no traces of exhaustion despite maintaining the qi fire for an hour .
The Elders were naturally curious about this combat genius who unexpectedly showed interest in Alchemy . So they decided to pay attention to his performance as they had to give face to Mark who was Raven's new father .
But the Elders now had excitement filled in their eyes as if looking at a rare treasure . Simply because Raven actually had more qi fire control than even the Hall Master and his qi reserves seemed endless . They immediately wanted to groom this heaven defying genius but from somewhere the Elders of the Forging Hall also managed to get the news . So now both Halll Elders were keeping each other in check because they wanted Raven to choose one Hall himself . The test of both halls were same and if Raven could not pass then even the Hall Elders could not .
Actually Raven had almost perfect control on his qi so he just struggled at first to transforming his qi into fire but in the end it was his own qi so Raven was practically a genius in qi fire control . His soul was already too powerful so there were no problems there.
Now Raven was impatiently waiting for the test time period to end because he wanted to refine a pill as soon as possible. The other struggling disciples were giving him gazed filled with envy , hate or admiration and Raven was getting sick of them . He had also noticed the arrival of Forging Hall Elder with his Divine Sense and honestly Raven did not mind to join the Forging Hall first . Simply because joining both halls would earn him sect points and then Raven would have enough to buy some herbs for practice . He would get a lowest tier cauldron for free so Raven had nothing to loose anyway. But he managed to pass the time by watching the shabby rivalry of the Two Hall Elders and they even insulted each other's mothers like vulgar children . Raven was both ashamed and amused at the fact that such mannerless people could have such good status of Pill and Forging Hall Elders .