Chapter 7 Cultivating Spiritual Medicine (Part 1)

  These days, there are too many things at home, all messy. The update time is a bit irregular, sorry! Still need to pull the recommendation ticket, it's Friday, this week will pass soon, thank you!

  A loud scream, and the student flew out for several meters, with a scorched face.

  The crowd was shocked and indeed saw Wēi Huàn's scarred face Chóng Bà, with his hands behind his back, walking slowly over.

  "This is the arrangement of this sect, dare to oppose it, get out of Su Bao Mountain! You are not willing, there are many people at the foot of the mountain who are willing to accept this unfair treatment in your eyes! Did you all understand?"

  Everyone was silent.

  "Get back to class, all of you!" Chong Ba barked coldly.

  The disciples slowly dispersed.

  Lu Da Tong and Jiang Shi Yun walked over to join Sun Li, as they passed by the classroom of Class 3, Jiang Shi Yun took a glance at Su Lan inside, Su Lan waved at him. Jiang Shi Yun smiled in front of him, but after passing by, he curled his lips: "In the future, Su Lan will be farther and farther away from us."

  Lu Datong was slightly incredulous: "Really?"

  Sun Li just looked at Jiang Shiyuan for a moment, but didn't say anything.

  The classroom for the Ding class was the farthest, and all the disciples of the Ding class entered the classroom. They waited for a full incense stick's worth of time before a middle-aged cultivator with a tired face hurried in.

  He entered the classroom and didn't even glance at the disciples below, merely nodding his head: "I am Chong Zhong. I will be lecturing you on alchemy."

  Then he started lecturing and even skipped the part where he got to know his disciples.

  This section is the most basic pharmacological knowledge and herbal identification. Chong Zhong continuously took out various medicinal herbs from his storage space to introduce to everyone, when he was halfway through, Sun Li suddenly had a weak tone in his mind, Luo Huan said: "Don't listen to him, I'll tell you slowly later. This rascal thinks he's all-knowing, but actually gets everything wrong, if you listen to him, you'll definitely be misled."

  Lu Datong suddenly raised his hand: "Lecture, I want to ask..."

  Chong Zhong waved his hand to interrupt him: "Don't ask questions."

  The disciples were stunned.

  Chong Zhong looked very impatient: "The time of the monks is precious, I came to teach you only because I accepted the task within the sect. But the content of the task within the sect is 'teaching new disciples about elixir knowledge', listen clearly, it's just teaching, not answering questions. I won't waste my time for a group of inferior trash like you."

  A surge of indignation swelled in the chest of every disciple of Ding's class, as if they were about to explode.

  Lu Daitong's face turned bright red as he sat down, and Jiang Shiyuan beside Sun Li said: "I've inquired about it, every single class of the Ding level is like this. The previous classes, those teaching brothers were very diligent because they thought those disciples had a future, now they have established good relationships, who knows when they might be useful. Our Ding level class... alas, these brothers can't even be bothered to put on a show. If it weren't for the decent rewards from the sect's mission, I'm afraid no one would be willing to waste their time teaching us."

  Sun Li never thought that among the Su Bao Pai, the cultivators would be so selfish and self-serving! Could it be that his own class of over thirty disciples was simply abandoned!?

  Shang Zhong hurried through his lecture and didn't care that the disciples below hadn't fully understood, finishing this lesson in less than two hours.

  Chong Zhong gave each person an ancient book and a bag of seeds.

  "The book contains diagrams, uses and cultivation methods of the 68 most common medicinal herbs in the Xiuzhen realm. I've already mentioned some key points earlier."

  "There are seeds of Heshouwu in the bag, and this medicinal material is also introduced in books. Your task is to go back and plant Heshouwu, and submit your results one month later."

  "Remember, this achievement is your first test result of the seven entrance exams, and it's also the grade for the Dan medicine course!"

  Having said that, Chong Zhong didn't linger for a moment and quickly walked away.

  Everyone was stunned: This lesson, basically nothing was learned, and yet they had to plant spiritual medicine. Isn't this intentionally making things difficult for everyone? Jiang Shiyu was greatly disappointed: "Sigh, forget it, I'll just go back and study on my own."

  Ding and his fellow disciples were greatly dissatisfied in their hearts, but they had no choice.

  When they came out, the lecturers in other classrooms were still teaching seriously. Even the lecturer from the third-rate class that was only one level higher than them looked like he wouldn't be able to finish his lesson for a while.

  Sun Lisan and the other two returned together, while Lu Datong and Jiang Shiyin hung their heads in shame. Sun Lisan was somewhat puzzled: "Chong Zhong told us to plant Qi Zi Shou Wu, but where can we plant it? We certainly can't do it in our own courtyard, can we?"

  "There are special ceramic pots provided in the sect for disciples to plant herbs, let's go get them together."

  Lu Da Tong is a know-it-all, seemingly omniscient.

  ……

  The person in charge of distributing these things was an old monk who seemed to be near the end of his life and had no great ambitions, nor would he make things difficult for Sun Li and the others.

  In addition to a clay pot, there is also a storage ring.

  Both are the lowest grade of ritual objects.

  The storage ring can only hold things roughly the size of a person, while the earthenware jar seals a special array that allows for faster and more efficient absorption of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, allowing the spirit medicine to mature sooner.

  Sun Li took his things back to the small courtyard, and the three of them parted ways, each going their own way, with that book and Qi Zi Shou Wu.

  Sun Li had just picked up the book when Luo Huan scolded him: "What are you looking at? I've already told you that what's written in there is all wrong, hurry up and practice!"

  "But this involves the seven exams for entering the profession."

  The Seven Exams of Entry are a series of tests to verify the results of new disciples' cultivation, held once every month for seven times.

  Each assessment result will be awarded a "Merit Award" based on the score. This merit award is calculated using scores, with first place being 10 points, second place being 9 points, and so on, only rewarding the top ten places.

  The points from the Excellent Identification Reward can be used to exchange with the sect for things that one needs, such as high-level magic tools, spirit stones, and elixirs.

  To put it simply, the Yu Shi reward is similar to the sect task, exchanging rewards based on "contribution points". The only difference is that new disciples can't do sect tasks.

  Wu Yao said impatiently: "Luo Huan, stop hiding and come out with it, alchemy is your strong suit."

  Luohuan sighed helplessly: "Alright. Sun Li, focus on your cultivation, we'll handle these miscellaneous things for you."

  "Now, take out that vase of yours and let's have a look."

  Sun Li was somewhat puzzled by what the two meant, but still took out the vase and carefully examined it.

  This thing is dull and rough, with a somewhat coarse surface, but it's much more delicate than those flower pots in the secular world. The inner wall has some faint lines carved on it, which seems to be a simple hand of the seal formation method, not completely wrapped around the vase body, revealing some of them.

  "What a piece of junk! Are you trying to fool these newbies? This thing..."

  Sun Li saw him starting to criticize and struggle again, and quickly stopped him: "Time is pressing, hurry up and deal with it, still need to cultivate."

  Actually, Sun Li also saw that the things taught in the school now are not necessarily as bad as Wu Yao and Luo Huan said, they are all "wrong", but compared to Wu Yao and Luo Huan's level, these things are too low-level, so with their personalities, such low-level things must be wrong, and must be very wrong!

  Luohuan sighed, paused for a moment: "Kid, consider yourself lucky to have met me, the greatest alchemist of all time. If it were anyone else, they wouldn't be able to help you..."

  Sun Licheng rolled his eyes: "Are you going to help or take this opportunity to brag about yourself?"

  Wu Yao also laughed: "Luo Huan you idiot, are you done yet?"

  Luohuan smiled slightly: "Alright, alright, I won't say anything more. Now, Sun Li, you follow my instructions and change this formation..."

  Sun Li was overjoyed: "Set up the formation? I can set up the formation now?!"

  "Of course not!" Luo Huan was somewhat irritable: "What can you do with that little spiritual energy now? If you could set up an array, would I have to go through so much trouble? I said it's modification, do you understand?"

  "Alright, please go ahead and speak."

  Sun Li's attitude made Luo Huan's anger dissipate somewhat: "You follow what I said, condense the spiritual energy at your fingertips..."

  "Now, do you see the convergence point of that three-and-a-half-pronged formation? Point your finger at it and draw towards the lower right triangular formation's convergence point, the straighter the better. Imagine in your mind that your spiritual element is penetrating into the body of the cauldron, connecting with those formation lines..."

  Sun Li followed his instructions and made a move with his hand, the limited Lingyuan in his body surged out like a river bursting its banks!

  Yintang acupoint was like being hooked by a red-hot iron hook, desperately pulling outward, extremely painful!

  Luohuan and the other two did not speak, but Sun Li himself gritted his teeth and endured it. Not only did he endure it, but his fingers were as steady as a rock, without any deviation.

  Although his fingers moved at an extremely slow speed, he steadily and unswervingly drew out the first formation of his Cultivation career.

  "Huh?"

  He spat out a mouthful of turbid air, and Sun Li immediately fainted, falling to the ground with a thud. He gasped for a long time before slowly coming back to himself, his entire body feeling as if it had been drained of all energy, unable to muster up any strength.

  After a while, Wu Yao spoke up with a faint word: "Good!"

  Sun Li smiled, and Luo Huan immediately said: "Hurry up and meditate to recover the lost spiritual yuan as soon as possible. Your current state is still a bit overdrawn when it comes to drawing this talisman."

  Sun Li's words and actions were in harmony, it was daytime now, the heavenly method of the mundane world would slowly absorb the true fire spirit power of the great sun into his body, after being refined and nourished by the meridians inside his body, it was injected into the almost dry Yintang acupoint.

  The power of Taiyin Huo is essentially the same as that of Zhou Tian Xing Li, but after processing, it has a better effect on the Shen Hua of Yintang Hole than Zhou Tian Xing Li.

  After experiencing a spiritual yuan overdraft, it seems that the potential has also been squeezed out. After Sun Li replenished the spiritual yuan in Yintang Hole, he found that it had actually improved slightly compared to before, which is considered a small gain!

  "Alright?" Luo Huan urged immediately: "Then let's prepare to draw the second array pattern."

  Luohuan's modified method of drawing the array was already the simplest, but it still required drawing six lines. Sun Li clenched his teeth and drew one line, then rested for a while to meditate, persisting from day to night, and finally completed the six lines of the array. As a result, Sun Li's own cultivation had increased by half!

  Everything he did was actually for cultivation. The assessment seven months later is now the most direct goal, and if you can't reach the third level of Mortal Realm, you will be expelled from Su Bao Mountain!

  The Six Paths Array method is complete, Sun Li asked: "Is this all right?"

  "Of course not! Do you think formations are so simple?"

  "Now bring out those stones we had you pick up earlier." Luohuan's voice was somewhat helpless. Wu Yao burst into a fit of laughter: "Haha, Luohuan, I think this is also a test for you, let's see how it goes!"

  Sun Li was confused, and Luo Huan explained irritably: "Nowadays, the resources that can be mobilized are really too few, and your cultivation is not good. To achieve a good effect, I have to rack my brains."