Chapter 833 - 441: The Prince’s Rank and Bai Mo’s Cultivation Progress (2)

Chapter 833: Chapter 441: The Prince’s Rank and Bai Mo’s Cultivation Progress (2)

"Even an immortal of Sequence Four like me was bewildered by it.

"My Sequence Four, my millennia of cultivation, what do they count for?

"In front of the Prince, I am nothing?"

...

In the office.

Fang Xiaoyu finished reading an email, checked a few spreadsheets, thought for a moment, and placed her hand on the keyboard, ready to type a reply email.

Before her fingers could press down, she felt her arm being restrained.

She looked down to see a furry fox paw stopping her from typing.

"Huh?"

Then she saw the Night Cat’s Eye standing on her desk, turning around and waving its paw, pointing to Bai Mo who was lying on the office chair with his eyes closed not far away... The typing noise is too loud and might disturb the master’s sleep, not recommended!

Fang Xiaoyu gave an awkward smile, took out a membrane keyboard from the drawer, connected it to the computer, gently tapped it a few times to let the Night Cat’s Eye test the noise, and only then did the fox leave with confidence.

On the other side, Wu Qingyun was doubting life while faced with advanced math homework, typing rapidly on her phone, seeking help from the teacher.

Suddenly, a fox paw appeared on her screen, gently waving.

She looked up at the Night Cat’s Eye, then followed the fox paw to see Bai Mo sleeping, awkwardly opened her phone’s input settings, turned off the typing sound and key vibration, pressed a few buttons for the Night Cat’s Eye to hear. Only then did the fox leave with confidence.

The little red chubby fox deftly jumped onto Bai Mo’s desk, then lightly leaped into Bai Mo’s arms, found a comfortable position, hugged its tail, laid its head on Bai Mo’s chest, and happily closed its eyes for a nap.

Fang Xiaoyu turned back to her screen and continued editing her email using the membrane keyboard.

As she edited, she thought to herself.

"What’s up with Expert Bai Mo?

"Didn’t sleep well last night?

"He doesn’t usually nap in the office."

Unbeknownst to her, Bai Mo wasn’t actually asleep. He was just lying there, eyes closed, yet very awake, calculating matters about the Water Image Pill in his mind...

"To refine one Water Image Pill, it consumes three dou of Purple Earth Dragon Immortal Qi, one liter of Fish Leg Grass Immortal Qi, half a liter of Ghost Cry Tree Immortal Qi, and a wisp of Seven Emotions Straw Immortal Qi.

"What if I substitute other types of Immortal Qi?

"Looking at the Qi consumption, it’s actually much greater than the traditional Water Image Pill.

"But, the requirements for types of Immortal Grass have been greatly reduced!

"Traditional Water Image Pills require tens of thousands of types of Immortal Grass throughout the whole industry chain.

"This Chai Bai School Water Image Pill only needs a few thousand types of Immortal Grass, that’s sufficient."

As far as Bai Mo is concerned, this is entirely acceptable!

Fox Mountain isn’t really lacking in Primordial Immortal Qi.

But there really aren’t that many kinds of Immortal Grass!

"With this Water Image Pill, I have a second kind of Pill Flesh after the Snow Warm Pill, to study."

Within the composition of a pill, there are four major parts: Pill Flesh, Danpi, Pill Device, and Dan Heart.

After studying both the Water Image Pill and the Snow Warm Pill, the "Pill Flesh" part can be basically tackled!

Although the "Flint Fire Pill" needed for promotion is still unknown, Bai Mo is steadily moving towards it!

"The cultivation progress of Sequence Five is already complete, a quarter."

Thus, Bai Mo lay on the office chair, hugging his disciple Night Cat’s Eye, closing his eyes, starting to review the refining process of the Water Image Pill, attempting to deepen his understanding of "Immortal Qi Entanglement," and finishing the final analysis and research of the Water Image Pill’s Pill Flesh.

Unknowingly, the sun climbed higher outside the window, the noon off-duty time arrived, and outside below the building, workers, researchers, and administrative personnel left their posts, chatting and laughing, heading to the cafeteria.

Bai Mo sat up, rubbed his eyes, and rubbed the chubby belly of Night Cat’s Eye.

"We should go eat too."

...

In the cafeteria, Bai Mo sat around with Night Cat’s Eye, Wu Qingyun, and Fang Xiaoyu, looking at their phones, listening to Fang Xiaoyu talk about work.

"The Immortal Examination, has it already started registration?"

On the table was a large pot of mutton cooked until mushy, Wu Qingyun and Night Cat’s Eye were eating with oil all over their faces, thoroughly enjoying themselves.

Bai Mo and Fang Xiaoyu were looking at their phones, checking the registration forum.

"Is it really happening?

"Are we really getting blackened on this side?"

Bai Mo always thought the pharmaceutical factory would be a hot topic for the Immortal Examination.

But judging from the forum’s tone, the factory seemed a bit unlucky?

[A huge pit, Bai Mo Pharmaceutical Factory definitely a huge pit]

[It’s widely known that Expert Bai Mo hasn’t published a paper in ages]

[And quite a few researchers in his factory are assigned extremely boring experiments, making it impossible to achieve results]

[Joining Bai Mo Pharmaceutical Factory equates to the end of one’s academic career]

Huh?

Bai Mo and Fang Xiaoyu exchanged a glance.

"Expert Bai Mo, it seems like it’s been a long time since you last published an article?"

Bai Mo thought for a moment.

"Uh... I’ve hardly ever published."

His accomplishments in the current world were either classified and couldn’t be published, or were about specific production lines or medicines. Such publicly published articles were indeed not many.

"Our researchers here, really don’t have any articles.

"But the salary is high!"

Fang Xiaoyu gave an awkward smile.

"This, the income... is confidential."

Bai Mo felt quite embarrassed and continued to browse the Immortal Discussion Forum.

[Moreover, Bai Mo has few R&D positions, many workshop positions]

[You study hard for ten to twenty years to work in a workshop, is it really worth it?]

[Even R&D positions don’t require much brainwork, only need to act as executors, helping Expert Bai Mo to operate]

[Such positions completely betray academic ideals, what’s the point?]

[Only salted fish would want to go there!]

Crucially, this post surprisingly had a huge number of likes!

The replies under the post were all in strong agreement.

[Makes sense! I want to be a scientist, I want to have my own research, can’t go be a robot for completing experiments for Bai Mo]

[Forget it, friends, there are many positions in the Immortal Examination, no need to focus on Expert Bai Mo’s side]

[West State house prices are too high, no need to apply to West State, go to Zhongwu, go to Chunshan, aren’t those fine too?]

Bai Mo felt slightly depressed.

"According to this public opinion trend, won’t we not be able to recruit anyone?"

The development of the Immortal Committee certainly needs fresh blood, certainly needs high-quality talent!

He took out his phone and sent a message to the high-level group in West State.

[Has everyone been following the Immortal Exam issue?]

Mo Lanyou replied in seconds.

[Haven’t seen it yet, hasn’t the registration just started?]

Professor Zhang appeared as well.

[This morning I was just discussing this with the president]

[This year’s number of applicants is very high, exceeding expectations]

[The pressure of Immortal involvement review work is overwhelming]

[Additionally, the interviewing work of various units can also start to prepare early]

Bai Mo frowned slightly.

Mo Lanyou and Professor Zhang, didn’t they check the Immortal Discussion Forum?

Bai Mo immediately went to the forum, took screenshots of the most heated posts advising against it, and sent them to the group.

[The situation seems a bit odd]

[Could someone be meddling?]

[Or what’s this about?]

Mo Lanyou replied with a laughing head-off emoji.

[Hahaha, this group of scammers, trying to deceive other candidates, I wonder if they succeeded]

[But they managed to fool Expert Bai Mo first]

Huh?

Bai Mo frowned.

Then Professor Zhang also sent a screenshot to the big group.

It was a list of the current ranking of the number of applicants for the Jiuzhou Immortal Examination’s various units.

Upon clicking open the clear image, the first-ranked unit showed over thirteen thousand applicants, more than doubling the second place.

And the name of the first-ranked unit was surprisingly, [West State Ninth Pharmaceutical Factory]

"Huh?

"Weren’t they all saying not to apply here on the forum, advising against it?"

Bai Mo instantly understood the depth of human deceit!

This group of scoundrels, harmoniously cooperating on the Immortal Discussion Forum, advising against applying to the factory for those intending to.

Advising others to quit, and then applying themselves, equates to advising against the competitors!

"Is there even such harmony? Such tactics?"

He then looked at the second most applied unit.

The name was surprisingly, [West State Immortal Committee Traitor’s Wine Factory]

This factory had little research work left, mainly hiring technical workers.

But Bai Mo looked closely, and among the applicants, doctors accounted for sixty percent.

"Uh... what about your academic ideals?"