The pharmacist asks the young man if he's a student at the pill hall. The young man says he is, and the pharmacist tells him to chill out because the exam is coming up soon. The pharmacist says that the exam was written into the law in 1168, so anyone can take it regardless of whether they are students or not. This is because a genius alchemist named Luoheng Hua changed the law so that anyone could take the exam regardless of their status as a student. So, the pharmacist says, if you're a student and you want to take this exam, you can come back and take it. But if you have no student id, you have to go back and get one. He shows him a pill that he refined recently, and asks him to show it to the pill alchemist so that he can show him his own pill. He doesn't know how to make a pill, but he wants to be a pill alchemist.