Chapter 9 Two days after the loophole was discovered, the recruitment officially began...
Two days later, the recruitment officially began. Xu Hui appeared in front of Chaoyun Secret Realm early. At this time, the place was crowded with people. It can be seen that no matter which world they arrived in, everyone had the same desire to go ashore.
She found a seat in a corner and waited quietly. Many people came one after another, including groups of children from aristocratic families. This time, the ten major families jointly recruited new members, which was an unprecedented event. The families that had obtained the token were unwilling to miss it.
Besides, they were going to send the family's prodigy to participate in the competition, so it would be nice to let the new disciples try their luck at the same time.
Although the family can support them, there is still a big difference between eating at home and eating at the court.
Some noble families have close relations with the main family and have obtained more tokens. Xu Hui even saw a family with more than a thousand people participating. She couldn't help but be amazed. How fertile must they be to have so many family members?
Of course, the majority are children from ordinary families and independent cultivators.
As the sun rose, the area in front of the secret realm was densely packed with people. Finally, a majestic voice rang out, "Show us your tokens. The assessment will take three days. After three days, show us your tokens at the same time. We will take you to the various clan headquarters to complete your tasks."
Xu Hui breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this. Since there were no people from other families, she could be bolder and take out... medicinal plants of 70% to 80% quality.
The system said that no one in this world could achieve perfect picking. For safety, she should keep a low profile. She was probably 70% to 80% sure that being a menial disciple was more than enough.
Once she enters the Wei family, she will work hard to accumulate points and learn how to refine pills. The perfectly picked herbs will then be put to good use, and she can refine more effective pills that can be sold for more money, while also keeping this huge secret.
At this time, Xu Hui was thinking about how to keep a low profile, but she didn't know that she had already been exposed.
Her only hope now is that the cannon fodder attribute will not pit her against her and that she will be grouped with the heroines and heroes. She can tolerate everything else!
Thinking of this, she took out the Wei family token. A flash of light appeared on it. The next second, she felt dizzy and appeared in a new place in an instant.
She was not used to this simple and crude method of transmission, and she staggered and almost fell.
When the dizziness passed, she looked up and was surprised to find that she had been teleported to a medicinal field.
The Chaoyun Secret Realm is blessed with unique natural conditions and is a very suitable place for the growth of medicinal plants. Most of the low-level medicinal plants can be found here. After being mastered by the ten major families, some of them are used for trials for newcomers, and some are developed into medicinal fields. Regularly, menial disciples will come in to carry out tasks to collect medicinal plants.
However, the token for entering the medicine field is not the same as the talent-recruiting token. The talent-recruiting token can only appear in the secret forest. It is almost impossible to directly teleport to the spiritual field like this one.
There is a one in ten thousand chance of having such luck.
But I don’t know whether she is lucky or unlucky.
The medicine field has a barrier, and no one can enter or leave without a special token, which means that it is very safe here. There will be no other cultivators killing people and stealing treasures, and there will be no ferocious beasts or spiritual beasts chasing after you.
But the problem is, this is the territory of the first-level medicinal plant Purple Spark. Purple Spark is quite domineering, and only this kind of medicinal plant can grow in the place where it is.
In other words, Xu Hui could not go out, and the medicinal plants he could collect were only of the first grade. Even if the number was large, it would be difficult to compare with those cultivators in the dense forest who collected second and third grade medicinal plants.
If it were anyone else, they would not be able to complete the assessment after staying here for three days.
Xu Hui planned to retain 70% to 80% of the medicinal properties of the purple sparks, and use a flattering way to tell the Wei family that she is a talented person with great potential. This way, they should be able to get special treatment, right?
After figuring this out, I immediately entered the learning space and used the remaining 2 points to purchase the collection of purple sparks.
After a few seconds, she opened her eyes and her hands began to move. It took her no more than a quarter of an hour to go from unfamiliar to proficient.
There is no way. The learning space is entered by consciousness. Learning in it does not mean that the body will also learn it. Fortunately, there are purple sparks everywhere here, so just practice a few more times.
After spending a whole morning collecting enough purple sparks of perfect quality, Xu Hui began to think about how to lower the quality.
This set of formulas is smooth and clear, and each step is necessary. If successful, the quality will be perfect, and if unsuccessful, the efficacy will be lost. There is no middle value, so to achieve 70% of the medicinal properties is actually more difficult than perfection.
Xu Hui tried several times but failed every time. She felt depressed and wondered what to do.
The method she initially adopted was to leave a hole to allow some of the medicinal properties to flow out.
But once the opening is made, the medicinal properties dissipate extremely quickly, almost in the blink of an eye, and it is too late to remedy the situation.
Obviously this method didn't work, so I started using the second method, using less spiritual power when performing the spell.
But this is even less feasible. With less spiritual power, the medicinal plants cannot be harvested and will simply rot in the ground.
In addition, she also tried the way of collecting medicinal herbs in this world. After pulling them out or digging them out, she would immediately perform hand gestures to preserve the medicinal properties.
But the effect is surprisingly poor. It is good enough if one tenth or one twelfth of the drug's performance is preserved, which is far from expectations.
If it was just this quality, then even if she collected a bunch of them, they would just be eliminated.
After an afternoon of experimentation, nothing was found.
If she didn't have a lot of low-grade Qi-replenishing pills, she would have collapsed long ago with the amount of spiritual energy she had.
Not only was his spiritual energy depleted, but his head also started to hurt. After concentrating for too long, his brain would become tired and needed rest.
After stuffing a Bigu Pill into his mouth, Xu Hui fell to the ground, staring blankly at the sky, muttering, "What went wrong?"
Perhaps the more tired you are, the more excited your brain becomes, and you can't fall asleep. Your mind runs wild, and all kinds of strange ideas pop up one after another.
Suddenly, an idea hit her and woke her up immediately!
What is the purpose of planting so many purple sparks?
The effect of purple sparks is very limited. They are added as seasoning when refining pills.
Yes, it's for flavoring, it has no medicinal value.
Some pills have a variety of flavors such as sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty due to the ingredients used. In addition, after being refined into pills, the most essential part is retained, the taste will be stronger, making it difficult to swallow.
At this time, the role of purple sparks is reflected. Adding a little bit can neutralize these smells. Although they are still there, they will not be so irritating.
In addition, some medicinal foods are bitter, and adding some purple sparks can reduce the bitterness.
This is all the function of purple sparks. In fact, it is not a big problem if you don’t add it, so the value of purple sparks is not high. Usually only restaurants will grow some as seasoning.
On the contrary, the alchemist thinks that the stronger the taste, the better it shows his alchemy level and the better the effect, so he will not add that damn purple spark.
In that case, there is no need to grow this medicinal plant in the Chaoyun Secret Realm, right?
If necessary, you can find a place to survive. Why go through so much trouble? Setting up a formation in such a secret realm will cost a lot of spirit stones.
Moreover, these purple sparks all over the mountains must require a large magic formation, which will consume a thousand high-grade spirit stones every year, which is an astronomical figure.
One high-grade spirit stone is equivalent to one hundred medium-grade spirit stones, or ten thousand low-grade spirit stones. Spending ten million spirit stones a year just to plant the useless purple spark that can be planted anywhere?
This person is either being taken advantage of or has other motives!
As if he thought of something, he suddenly got up, closed his eyes, and felt it carefully.
The spiritual energy in the entire medicinal field is almost the same, no, there are a few places where it is more concentrated.
Following my feeling, I came to a place with rich spiritual energy and found another purple spark. It was no different from the ones next to it. The only difference was that it had more spiritual energy.
After thinking about it, she took a qi-replenishing pill, clasped her hands together, and injected her energy into the purple sparks. When she was about to succeed, she suddenly felt something in her heart and injected all the remaining spiritual energy into it.
Surprisingly, the purple sparks transformed from their original purple-red color to a bright red, and their flame-shaped petals grew double.
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed that after the purple fire flower advanced to a second-level spiritual plant, it actually turned into a butterfly taro flower.
In Quxian City, Xu Hui spent money to buy a more detailed encyclopedia of medicinal plants, which included an introduction to the butterfly taro flower.
This spiritual plant, which is only a second-level medicinal plant, has a rather miraculous function, which is to harmonize the medicinal properties of spiritual medicines.
The medicinal ingredients in many pill recipes are mutually reinforcing or mutually exclusive. If the alchemist wants to combine them together, he needs to spend a lot of time and energy and be very careful when operating.
But even so, the success rate of making pills is still not ideal, often only one out of ten furnaces can succeed.
After adding the talus flowers, the situation is completely different. There is no need to worry about the problem of incompatibility, and the success rate of pill making instantly increases several times.
It can be said that although the butterfly taro flower is not the main ingredient of the elixir, it is the guarantee of the success rate of the elixir and is the medicinal plant that every alchemist dreams of.
But the talus flower is extremely rare, and almost no one knows where it grows, so many people treat it as a fun thing and just look at it, and don't take it seriously.
Who would have thought that the talus flower is the advanced version of the purple spark, but the advancement is quite difficult. In such a large area, there are no more than a thousand purple sparks with abnormal spiritual energy.
And more importantly, to advance to the second level, not only must the fruit be picked perfectly, but spiritual energy must also be injected into it to help it evolve.
Plants can’t do it on their own!
This is why talisman flowers are hard to come by. It’s not that they don’t exist, but most people don’t know how to pick them.
For a moment, Xu Hui felt that she had made it!
After selling these thousand butterfly-catching taro flowers, she could earn a thousand high-grade spirit stones. If she submitted them to the Wei family, she wouldn't have to worry about her points.
Not only can you obtain the cultivation techniques, alchemy techniques, magic tools, and elixirs, you can also live a wealthy life before building your foundation!
Her eyes lit up with excitement. She swallowed a nourishing pill and fell asleep.
For the next two days, he was busy taking elixirs and collecting taro flowers. He only breathed a sigh of relief after picking all the taro flowers he could sense.
There was only one hour left before the test. At this moment, she felt both tired and excited, as if she had stayed up for two nights and felt the satisfaction of finishing a whole set of papers.
She sat down and gasped for breath, her eyes accidentally caught sight of a purple spark. She reflexively sent out a hand gesture, but then she realized that it was unnecessary. She had almost gotten used to the continuous behavior of the past two days and two nights. It was still an immature purple spark.
But since the spell was already performed, I just threw it away without any concern. Who knew that this time the medicinal properties were not perfectly retained, only 70%!
An inexplicable idea squeezed into her chaotic mind: Oh, so if you want to retain 70% of the medicinal properties, you just need to pick the immature medicinal plants.
Um?
Her whole body trembled, and a huge ecstasy came over her heart. The next second, her eyes went black, and she appeared in a hall dizzy.
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