Even if he didn't plan to kill them, he had to at least come up with a plan to suppress their points for the next part of the exam. After all, the current point ranking was too much of an eyesore!
Looking at Lin Yi and the others chatting casually, Meng Jueguang pinched his chin and smiled coldly. "I'll let you guys be happy for a while. I didn't have time to deal with you guys before, so I let you guys take advantage of the loophole. Now, you guys will be crying!"
Putting aside the troublesome Lin Yi, if it was just Xiao Ran and Qiao Hongcai, these two newbies, Meng Jueguang didn't even care about them. In his eyes, it was a piece of cake to deal with these two!
According to the usual practice, after all the newbies from the three pavilions had gathered, the head of the pavilion, Hu Yunfeng, would appear and announce the rules of the next part of the exam. Just like the first pressure resistance exam, the location of the third part of the exam wasn't the Welcome Pavilion, but the Hall of Elixirs.
But more accurately speaking, the third part wasn't in the Hall of Elixirs. The head of the pavilion, Hu Yunfeng, brought all the newbies to the Hall of Elixirs as a formality, allowing everyone to pick some elixir seeds and bring them back to cultivate.
As everyone knew, any practitioner in the world of practitioners had to deal with all sorts of elixirs. The only difference was how many elixirs they had.
Some people had a good background and could eat all sorts of elixirs like food. Some people didn't, and could only save up resources, exchanging them for elixirs at critical moments. Some people were like Lin Yi, an elixir refiner, and could make all sorts of elixirs by themselves.
In short, no matter what kind of person they were, they would need all sorts of elixirs in their long life of practitioning. Otherwise, in this day and age where the qi was getting thinner and thinner, it was unrealistic to rely on one's own hard work to break through. Even if they succeeded, that was only for the extremely talented few. Ninety-nine percent of the people couldn't do without elixirs.
But in order to make elixirs, other than a specialized elixir refiner, the most important thing was all sorts of common and uncommon elixirs. If they didn't have all sorts of elixirs as elixirs, even a elixir god like Zhang Liju wouldn't be able to do it.
However … Any spiritual herb was a heavenly treasure. Even the most common and low-grade spiritual herb was only relative to other spiritual herbs. Compared to other plants, it was still an extremely rare and precious item. It was impossible to collect a large amount of them. Not to mention other rare items like the Heart-Devouring Exquisite Grass.
Naturally, the artificial method of planting spirit herbs came into being.
However, although spiritual medicine was also a plant, it had harsh requirements for the environment it grew in. It was far more difficult to compare with ordinary plants and flowers. Even if there were cultivators who spent a lot of effort to take care of it, its survival rate would always remain at an extremely low level. Moreover, its growth cycle was generally very long. Often, after working hard for dozens of years, the slightest carelessness would cause them to wither and die, and all their efforts would go down the drain.
However, after tens of thousands of years of experience, the current cultivation world of Heavenly Island had concluded a set of very mature cultivation methods for spiritual herbs.
Not only was the survival rate much higher than before, but with the addition of artificial ripening methods, even the growth cycle was greatly shortened. Therefore, many common spiritual herbs could be cultivated on a large scale to ensure their supply.
Of course, this was only limited to some common spiritual herbs. Most of the special spiritual herbs were extremely rare, and there was no experience in cultivation. Therefore, their survival rate was still at an extremely low level. Otherwise, if they could be cultivated on a large scale, they would have been widely planted. They would not be called rare spiritual herbs.
Looking at the entire north island of Heavenly Island, the most authoritative place in the cultivation of spiritual herbs was naturally the Alchemy Hall.
This time, Hu Yunfeng brought the newcomers from the Three Pavilions here to let them collect the seeds of various spiritual herbs. Then, they would be brought back to their respective caves for cultivation. This was the third round of the newcomer assessment, the spiritual herb trial.
Like the Law Enforcement Hall, the Alchemy Hall was the most famous independent department besides the Three Pavilions on the north island. It was one of the few independent departments that could be heard by everyone.
Compared to the cold but extremely intimidating Law Enforcement Hall, the Alchemy Hall was built against the mountain and welcomed everyone. Whether it was the architectural layout or the flow of people, it was obviously much more friendly and easy-going than the Law Enforcement Hall. At least, it would not make people feel uncomfortable.
After all, strictly speaking, other than being the independent department of the Three Pavilions and responsible for the supply of elixirs to the Three Pavilions, the Alchemy Hall was also a large business organization similar to the Hong Chamber of Commerce.
Don't forget, Senior Brother Ku Bi was still wondering if he should gather two hundred pieces of spiritual jade and come to the Alchemist Hall to help him refine the Foundation Establishment Barrier Breaking Pill.
Every year, just by collecting fees for refining elixirs for others, the Alchemy Hall could earn an astronomical amount of wealth. In addition, the Alchemy Hall also cooperated with large businesses like the Hong Chamber of Commerce to sell all kinds of elixirs in bulk. This was another astronomical amount of wealth.
Adding the two together, the Alchemy Hall was definitely one of the wealthiest departments of the Three Pavilions. Even the Spirit Jade Hall, which was responsible for mining spiritual jade, was at most on par with it.
It was also because of such a huge amount of wealth that the Alchemy Hall could support the collection of all kinds of rare spiritual herbs and the recruitment of many alchemists. Otherwise, if it could not do these two things, the Alchemy Hall would only exist in name.
Under Hu Yunfeng's lead, the group of newcomers from the Three Pavilions followed the mountain's terrain and climbed up the stairs. After passing through layers of antique buildings, what appeared in front of the newcomers was a stretch of enchanting lush greenery.
Even from hundreds of feet away, they could smell the refreshing fragrance of spiritual herbs. This was the most important source of spiritual herbs for the Alchemy Hall, the Spirit Medicine Nursery that it had organized and developed.
It covered an area of tens of acres and expended a large amount of manpower and resources. The Alchemy Hall had cultivated over a hundred types of spiritual herbs here. In order to ensure an adequate supply of spiritual energy, there were even piles of high-grade spiritual jade full of spiritual energy on the ground.
In a natural environment, there was no need to deliberately do so for normal spiritual herbs to grow. The Spirit Medicine Nursery clearly did so to increase its output. If it was left to grow naturally, there would not be many spiritual herbs growing in this small area of tens of acres.
As far as the eye could see, not only were there all kinds of priceless spiritual herbs, there were also spiritual jade everywhere. It was a soul-stirring sight. The newcomers from the Three Pavilions, who had never seen such a scene, could not help but swallow their saliva in unison.
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