Chapter 9: Cultivating Spiritual Medicines (above)
I've had so many things going on at home these past few days, it's been a mess. Sorry for the somewhat irregular update schedule! (Still need to pull some recommendations, it's Friday, this week will be over soon, thanks!)
With a scream, the student flew out several feet, his face covered in charcoal.
The crowd was horrified, and they saw the centipede scarred face Chong Ba, with his hands behind his back, slowly walking over.
"This is the arrangement of this sect, if you dare to object, get the hell out of Su Hug Mountain! If you are not willing, there are people under the mountain who are willing to accept this unfair treatment in your eyes! Do you all hear me?"
The crowd was silent.
Chong Ba snorted coldly, "All of you get the hell out of here and go back to class!"
The disciples slowly dispersed.
Lu Datong and Jiang Shiyu walked over to accompany Sun Li, and when they passed by the classroom of Class C, Jiang Shiyu glanced at Su Lan inside, who waved at him. Jiang Shiyu smiled to his face, but after walking past, but a mouth: "In the future, Su Lan will have to go farther and farther away from us."
Lu Datong was a bit unconvinced, "It can't be?"
Sun Li just glanced at Jiang Shiyu, but did not say anything.
The classroom of the D class was the furthest away, and all the disciples of the D class entered the classroom and waited for an incense stick of time before a middle-aged cultivator with a tired face walked in quickly.
When he entered the classroom, he didn't even look at the disciples below and merely nodded his head, "I am Chong Zhong. I will give you a lecture on pills."
Then he began lecturing, even skipping the section on recognizing the disciples.
This section was the most basic pharmacological knowledge and herb identification. Chong Zhong continuously released various herbs from his storage space to introduce them to everyone, and halfway through, in Sun Li's mind, Luo Huan said in a breathless tone, "Don't listen to it, I'll slowly tell you about it later. This bastard kid, thinks he's right, but is actually wrong about everything, you're definitely misguided if you listen."
Lu Datong suddenly raised his hand, "Exercise, I want to ask ...... about it."
Chong Zhong interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "Don't ask questions."
The disciples froze.
Chong Zhong looked impatient, "Cultivators' time is precious, I came to give you a lesson just because I took a mission within the sect. But the content of the task within the sect is 'teaching new disciples knowledge of elixir', listen clearly, it's just teaching, it doesn't say that I'm going to answer questions for you guys. I'm not going to waste my time for a bunch of you d-class trash."
A wave of indignation swelled in the chest of every D class disciple, suffocating everyone as if they were about to explode.
Lu Datong sat down with a reddened face, and Jiang Shiyu, who was beside Sun Li, said, "I've inquired about it, and it's the same for every D class. In the first few classes, those senior brothers who teach are very dedicated, because in their opinion those disciples have a future, and if they make good karma now, they might be useful in the future. Our Ding class ...... alas, these senior brothers are even lazy to do face work. If it wasn't for the good rewards of the sect quests, I'm afraid that no one would even be willing to waste their time coming to give us lessons."
Sun Li had never thought that amongst the Sole Embrace Sect, the cultivators would be so selfish and self-interested! Could it be that this one class of his, with over thirty disciples, was just abandoned!
Above Chong Zhong but spoke fast, and did not care that the disciples below and did not hear clearly, less than two hours, this class was finished.
Chong Zhong gave everyone an ancient book and a bag of seeds.
"Inside the book are diagrams, utilities, and cultivation methods for the sixty-eight most common herbs in the cultivation world. Some of the main points I've just covered."
"Inside the bag are the seeds of the Seven Seed Shouwu, an herb that is also described in the book. Your task is to go back and plant the Seven Seed Shouwu, and submit your results a month later."
"Remember, this result, as your grade in the first of the seven exams of initiation, the subject of elixir!"
After saying that, Chong Zhong did not stop for a moment and flew away.
The crowd was dumbfounded: this lesson, basically nothing was learned, but also planting spiritual medicine, isn't this intentionally making things difficult for everyone? Jiang Shiyu was greatly disappointed: "Alas, forget it, go back and read the book yourself."
The Ding class disciples were greatly upset in their hearts, but there was nothing they could do.
When they came out, the lectures in the other classrooms were still lecturing seriously, even the one from class C who was only one class above them looked like he wouldn't be able to finish his lecture for a while.
Sun Li and the three of them went back together, Lu Datong and Jiang Shiyu were downcast. Sun Li did not understand: "Chongzhong asked us to plant the Seven Seeds Shouwu, where do we plant? It can't be in our own yard, right?"
"The sect provides specialized clay pots for disciples to use for planting herbs, let's go collect them together."
Lu Datong was a bagman and seemed to know everything.
......
The one in charge of distributing these things was a pale cultivator, who seemed to be approaching the end of his days and had little ambition left, and wouldn't make things difficult for Sun Li and the others.
In addition to a tile jar, there was also a storage ring.
Both were the lowest grade of magical artifacts.
The storage ring could only hold in things roughly equal to the size of a person, whereas in that tile jar, a specialized formation was sealed, allowing for more and faster absorption of heaven and earth's spiritual qi to allow for the early maturation of the elixir.
Sun Li brought the things back to the small courtyard, and the three of them parted to go back to fight with that book and the Seven Seeded Shouwu.
Sun Li had just taken out the book when he was reprimanded by Luo Huan: "What are you looking at? I've already told you that what it says is all wrong, don't seize the time to cultivate!"
Sun Li was helpless, "But this is related to the Seven Examinations of Initiation."
The Entry Seven Examinations are a series of tests that Su Huo Mountain uses to examine the cultivation achievements of new disciples. It was conducted every other month, seven times in total.
The results of each examination will be based on the results of a "superior knowledge reward". This kind of superiority reward is calculated by using points, the first place ten points, the second place nine points, and so on, only reward the top ten.
The points of the excellent knowledge reward can be used to exchange with the sect for some of the things they need, such as high-grade magic weapons, spirit stones and elixirs, and so on.
To put it simply, the honor reward is somewhat similar to a sect quest, where prizes are exchanged based on "contribution". It's just that new disciples don't have the means to do sect missions.
Wu Yao said impatiently, "Luo Huan, don't hide it, the dan dao is your specialty."
Luo Huan was a bit helpless and sighed, "Alright. Sun Li, you focus on your cultivation, we'll help you with this mess."
"Now, take out that tile jar of yours and take a look."
Sun Li was a bit confused as to what the two meant, but he still took the tile jar out and looked at it carefully.
It was gray and somewhat rough on the surface, but it was much more delicate than those flower pots in the secular world. There were some faint lines carved on the inner wall, and it seemed that the sealing formation was done in a very shallow way, not completely wrapped within the body of the tile jar, revealing some of it.
Luo Huan was dissatisfied, ''What kind of shitty thing? It's fooling you newbie rookies! This thing ......"
Sun Li looked at him and started criticizing again and hurriedly stopped, "Time is short, hurry up and deal with it but also cultivate."
In fact, Sun Li also saw, now the sect in the teaching of things may not really like Wu Yao Luo Huan two said so bad, all are "wrong", but certainly relative to the level of Wu Yao and Luo Huan, these things are too low level, so to the character of the two, so low level things, must be wrong ah, and must be wrong great! !
Luo Huan dismayed to stop, pondered for a moment, "Kid, count yourself lucky, met me this ancient first dan dao master, if you change any other person, there is no way to help you ......"
Sun Li straight away rolled his eyes, "Is your old man actually going to help or are you planning to take the opportunity to brag about yourself?"
Wu Yao also laughed: "Luo Huan you fool, are you finished?"
Luo Huan smiled sarcastically, "Fine, let's not talk about it. Now, Sun Li, do as I say and change this formation ......"
Sun Li was overjoyed, "Arrange a formation? I can set up a formation now?!"
"Of course you can't!" Luo Huan was a bit grumpy, "What can you do with that little bit of spirit energy right now? If you could set up formations, would I still need to go through so much trouble! I said modify, modify understand?"
Sun Li shrunk his neck, "Alright, you old man please speak."
This attitude of Sun Li made Luo Huan's fire subside a bit, "You follow what I say and condense your spirit energy on your fingertips ......"
"Good, now see that three and a half bifurcated points of intersection of the formations? Point your finger on it and draw towards that triangular shaped formation intersection point at the bottom right, the straighter the better. Imagine in your mind that your spirit energy is deep within the tile jar's body, connecting with those formation engraved lines ......"
Sun Li followed what he pointed out, and with a single movement of his fingers, that limited amount of spirit energy in his body seemed to be madly surging outwards like a great river breaking its banks!
The Yin Tang point in the center of the eyebrow, immediately seemed to be hooked by a red-hot iron hook, desperately pulling it outwards, the pain was incomparable!
Luo Huan and the two of them didn't even open their mouths, but Sun Li himself clenched his teeth fiercely and endured it. Not only did he endure, his finger was as steady as a rock, not deviating at all.
Even though his fingers were moving very slowly, they were steadfastly drawing out the first formation engraved line of his cultivation career bit by bit.
"Whew..."
Exhaling a mouthful of turbid air, Sun Li's eyes went black as soon as he closed his hand, swaying and collapsing to the ground. It took a while for him to catch his breath before he was able to slow down, and it was as if his entire body was deflated, unable to lift a single bit of strength.
A while later, Wu Yao opened his mouth, a faint word: "Good!"
Sun Li smiled a bit, and Luo Huan immediately said, "Quickly meditate and run the Mortal One World Heavenly Technique to make up for the lost spiritual energy as soon as possible. Your current realm is still a bit overdrawn from inscribing this array engraved line."
Sun Li followed his words and performed his work, it was the middle of the day, and the Mortal One World Sky's gong method slowly absorbed the roiling Great Sun True Flame's spiritual energy into his body, and after the internal meridians had been quenched and warmed, it was injected into the nearly parched Yintang acupoint.
The power of the Great Sun True Flame was indeed essentially the same as the Heavenly Astral Force, and after processing, the divinization effect on the Hall of Indigo Points was surprisingly even better than the Heavenly Astral Force.
And after experiencing an overdraft of spiritual energy, it seemed to have squeezed out the potential as well, Sun Li found that after replenishing the spiritual energy in the Hall of Seals acupuncture point that it was actually slightly higher than before, which was considered a small gain!
"Alright?" Luo Huan immediately urged, "That's good, next prepare to carve the second formation engraved line."
The method Luo Huan had designed to modify the formation was already the simplest, but it also required the engraving of six formation engraved lines. Sun Li gritted his teeth and carved out a line, he had to rest and meditate for an hour, and after sticking to it from the day until the night, the six formation engraved lines were finally completed, and Sun Li's own cultivation had actually doubled!
Everything he did was actually for cultivation as well. The examination seven months later was the most immediate goal right now, and if he couldn't reach the third level of the Mortal Realm, he would be expelled from the Sukhumvit Mountain!
The six array engraved lines were completed, and Sun Li asked, "That's it?"
Luo Huan didn't have the heart to say, "Of course not! You think formations are so simple!"
"Now take out those stones we asked you to pick up earlier." Luo Huan sounded somewhat helpless. Wu Yao gloated and laughed out loud, "Hahaha, Luo Huan, I actually think this is a test for you as well, I'm waiting to see how effective it is!"
Sun Li was baffled, Luo Huan explained in no uncertain terms, "Nowadays, the resources at hand that can be utilized are just too little, and your cultivation is not working, to achieve a decent effect, old me is racking my brain."
