After storing the spirit stones into his spatial ring, Lin Xiu followed Liu Yun to the alchemy room in the pavilion.
Smoke lingered in the air and there were all sorts of priceless elixirs on the shelves. To the outer disciples of the sect, every elixir here was a priceless treasure.
In the center of the alchemy room was a simple and unadorned elixir furnace with engravings of insects, fish, birds, and beasts. There was a vague feeling of vastness and one could tell that it was not an ordinary item.
Liu Yun introduced to Lin Xiu, "Orchid Valley is an important place of the Gui Yuan Sect. This is the place that the sect specializes in alchemy. There are many alchemists in our Orchid Valley, but due to some matters in the sect some time ago, all the alchemists, including my master, are not in the valley at this time. I am the only one left here to guard the place. "
As she said this, she lifted her eyelids and swept a glance at Lin Xiu. Although the young lady was young, she already had a charm and under her cold appearance, it added a few points of beauty.
Fortunately, Lin Xiu was still young and did not understand the relationship between a man and a woman. Otherwise, he might have some thoughts about this Senior Sister Liu in front of him.
At this moment, Lin Xiu followed behind Liu Yun obediently and quietly listened to Liu Yun's introduction.
He never expected that this Senior Sister Liu in front of him was already a grade 3 alchemist at such a young age and had a good reputation in the entire sect.
After bringing Lin Xiu around the alchemy room, Liu Yun gently pushed open the door of one of the rooms.
All sorts of herbs that emitted strong spirit energy immediately attracted Lin Xiu's attention.
She took out a book from her storage equipment and threw it to Lin Xiu. Liu Yun spoke indifferently.
"For the next few days, familiarize yourself with the elixirs in the book and come back in three days. Follow my instructions and categorize these elixirs. If I feel that it is okay, I will let you stay."
Lin Xiu took a look at the book in his hand. This was a book called Elixir Treasure Appraiser. After casually flipping through it, she realized that there were more than a thousand types of elixirs recorded in it.
Many of them were things that she had never heard of or seen before. How could it be easy to sort out the medicinal properties of these herbs in three days?
For the sake of Spirit Stones, he would risk it all!
According to Liu Yun, she would pay Lin Xiu 10 low-grade spirit stones every month. In addition to the 10 low-grade spirit stones that the sect distributed to the disciples every month, Lin Xiu would receive a total of 20 spirit stones every month.
Although it could not satisfy Lin Xiu's needs, it was much better than others. One must know that the other new disciples had to do a lot of odd jobs every day, but they only received 10 spirit stones.
In comparison, Lin Xiu was already very satisfied.
After leaving the loft where he refined pills, Lin Xiu returned to his residence and eagerly opened the Treasure Appraisal of Spiritual Medicine.
Looking at the thick pages, Lin Xiu frowned and felt a headache.
However, in order to obtain ten spirit stones, he forced himself to calm down and began to immerse himself in the sea of books.
Fortunately, with Lin Xiu's cultivation level, although he couldn't say that he could read ten lines at a glance, with the support of his powerful mental strength, he could remember most of what he saw.
It was just that there were too many spiritual medicines recorded in the book and it was not an easy task for him to memorize all the contents in three days.
Just like that, for three days, apart from the time he had to eat every day, Lin Xiu was completely immersed in reading and even cultivation was temporarily put aside by him.
After all, there were priorities and three days was not enough for him to have any breakthroughs in his cultivation. If he could obtain Liu Yun's recognition, he would be able to obtain an endless stream of spirit stones and lay the foundation for his future cultivation.
Three days later, the sky was slightly white. Lin Xiu's eyes were bloodshot and there was an indescribable exhaustion in them.
Even though his mental strength was extraordinary, after three days of memorizing without sleep and rest, he gradually could not take it anymore.
He slowly closed the book and the contents on the last page were finally firmly imprinted in his heart.
Seeing that it was still early, Lin Xiu went to his bed, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.
The sound of snoring gradually came. After a strong sense of exhaustion, one would usually sleep very soundly. When she opened her eyes again, it was already late in the morning.
In his anxiety, Lin Xiu did not even bother to wash his face. After locking the room door, he rushed in the direction of the alchemy room.
When Liu Yun saw the anxious Lin Xiu, she did not know whether to laugh or cry.
In her eyes, the unkempt Lin Xiu was no different from a beggar outside the mountain gate.
After casually saying the names of a few spiritual medicines and Lin Xiu was able to answer the characteristics and pharmacology of the spiritual medicines fluently, she unknowingly had a higher opinion of this junior brother of hers.
It was not an easy task to memorize the characteristics of so many spiritual medicines in a short period of time. But she did not know if Lin Xiu was just an armchair strategist or if he could really put his understanding of these spiritual medicines into practice. She still had to see his actual actions.
Opening the door of the storeroom, Liu Yun pointed to the small mountain of spiritual medicines in front of her and said, "Looking at you, you have a rough idea of the characteristics of all the spiritual medicines. Next, I will categorize them according to your understanding of the spiritual medicines. I will see your results in an hour."
With that, Liu Yun returned to the alchemy room and began to busy herself.
Lin Xiu, who had slept for the entire morning, had recovered a lot at this moment.
First, he quickly went through the various characteristics of the spiritual medicines in his mind, then his powerful mental strength enveloped the mountain of spiritual medicines in front of him.
Time passed slowly and the small mountain in front of Lin Xiu was gradually divided into five parts, but there were still more than a dozen spiritual medicines in front of him. No matter how he racked his brains, he could not think of an introduction to these spiritual medicines.
Slowly, he began to get a little anxious. There was still a moment until the hour was up, if he took out the Treasure Mirror at this time, it would be too unrealistic.
But if he gave up just like that, it was not in his character. If he made a mistake and lost the opportunity to obtain spirit stones, his efforts these few days would be in vain.
The anxious Lin Xiu began to call for Lord Feng Huo in his heart, hoping to get some help from Lord Feng Huo.
To his disappointment, Lord Feng Huo did not have much knowledge about spiritual medicines. Other than some extremely rare treasures of heaven and earth, Lord Feng Huo's knowledge of spiritual medicines was not comparable to the current Lin Xiu.
Lin Xiu made up his mind and walked in front of these spiritual medicines. He wanted to use his understanding of spiritual medicines to see if he could try to distinguish them.
He placed the spiritual medicines in front of him and looked at them carefully. He looked at the veins around the spiritual medicines and silently deduced their medicinal properties.
In the end, Lin Xiu still classified these spiritual medicines according to his own understanding. But Lin Xiu did not have full confidence in his own judgment and could only wait for Liu Yun to come over later to test it out.
Liu Yun pushed the door open again and looked at the five piles of spiritual medicines in front of her. She nodded at Lin Xiu with satisfaction.
"Junior Brother Lin, practice is the only standard to test the truth. Let me see if your method is right or not."
As soon as she said that, a huge spiritual strength suddenly rushed out from the top of Liu Yun's head. In terms of majesty, this spiritual strength was much stronger than Lin Xiu's and had a faint tendency to materialize.
"Spiritual strength of the Harmonious Spirit Realm!" Lin Xiu could not help but exclaim.
In his opinion, Liu Yun was only talented in alchemy, but in terms of combat strength, she might not be his match. But the scene in front of him toppled Lin Xiu's thinking.
To break through to the Harmonious Spirit Realm, one needed to find a kind of heaven and earth treasure, then nurture the soul in it and finally achieve the goal of becoming one with the heaven and earth.
And if one had not yet completed the integration with the heaven and earth treasure, although they could not be called a true Harmonious Spirit Realm, the breakthrough of the realm had already caused the soul to transform. Experts who reached this stage were called half-step Harmonious Spirit.
As long as one found a kind of heaven and earth treasure and nurtured the soul in it, they would be able to truly step into the heaven and earth in a short time.
Liu Yun, who was in front of him, was a half-step Harmonious Spirit expert. Looking at her age, she was not much older than him. Lin Xiu's conceit from the recent consecutive breakthroughs had completely disappeared.
Instead, there was a hint of seriousness in his eyes. It seemed that the Gui Yuan Sect, which was full of talents, was not lacking in geniuses.
The combat strength test in three months didn't seem to be that easy. All of this increased Lin Xiu's desire for spirit stones.
As long as he broke through to the middle stage of the Bone Tempering Realm, Lin Xiu would dare to compete with everyone in the same realm. He, who had no shortcomings, had an advantage that ordinary people could not reach in the same realm.
With the intervention of Liu Yun's spiritual force, all kinds of spirit herbs slowly floated under the support of her powerful spiritual force. Not long after, all the spirit herbs returned to their original positions.
Liu Yun, who retracted her spiritual force, chuckled and waved her hand at the five piles of spirit herbs. A dozen stalks of spirit herbs fell steadily into her hands. These were the spirit herbs that Lin Xiu had been searching for but had no memory of.
Liu Yun, who was holding the elixir, looked at Lin Xiu suspiciously with her snow-white wrist glowing with a little crystal.
"Why, Junior Brother Lin, do you recognize these dozen stalks of spirit herbs?" After saying that, she waited for Lin Xiu to say the medicinal properties of these spirit herbs.
Lin Xiu scratched his head in embarrassment and replied softly, "Reporting to Senior Sister, to be honest, I really don't remember these spirit herbs in your hands."
Seeing Lin Xiu admit it so naturally, Liu Yun became even more curious.
"Then how did you distinguish their medicinal properties?"
"These few days, I have been memorizing the things in the Treasure Mirror of Spirit Herbs day and night, but no matter what, I can't remember anything about these dozen stalks of spirit herbs. In the end, I categorized them according to my own ideas. Did I do anything wrong? "Lin Xiu cupped his hands at Liu Yun.
"I was a little careless. The Spiritual Medicine Treasure Manual that I gave you didn't have any of these Spiritual Medicines. Your classification isn't wrong either. It seems like you have some talent in the field of Spiritual Medicines." Liu Yun praised.
Without waiting for Lin Xiu to continue speaking, Liu Yun threw a cloth bag at Lin Xiu. There were 10 low-grade spirit stones in it.
"This is your reward for this month. From tomorrow onwards, come here every afternoon and help me pick out some spirit herbs." Liu Yun looked at Lin Xiu with a smile.
Lin Xiu, who was full of joy, kept the spirit stones in his space ring. He gradually had a good impression of this senior sister who was cold on the surface but warm on the inside.
Through the scene just now, how could he not see that with Liu Yun's cultivation, she would probably be able to do all these things in an orderly manner, but she still helped him.
"Alright, these things will only start tomorrow. Look at you, you probably haven't slept for a few days. Quickly go back to your residence and rest. You can only work properly after you're refreshed." After saying all these to Lin Xiu, Liu Yun waved her sleeves and returned to the alchemy room without looking at Lin Xiu.
In the following days, other than persistently cultivating, Lin Xiu would go to the alchemy room to help Liu Yun pick out spirit herbs.
As time passed, the two of them became more familiar with each other.
In their free time, the two of them would occasionally sit down and chat. Lin Xiu also understood from Liu Yun's words that this senior sister in front of him had lived in Orchid Valley since she was young and didn't have much contact with outsiders, so it was inevitable that her personality was somewhat cold.
In addition, she had become a Third Tier Alchemist at such a young age. Normally, some of the disciples would be very respectful to her, not daring to slight her in the slightest. As a result, she, who was extremely beautiful, did not have many friends in the Gui Yuan Sect.
He couldn't help but feel some sympathy for this senior sister. When Lin Xiu was young, although he didn't have a comfortable life, he still had Lin Feng and the others by his side, so he wasn't really lonely.
Therefore, he often told Liu Yun about the things that happened after he met Lord Phoenix Huo.
When he talked about encountering the horse bandits in the mountains, Liu Yun's phoenix eyes were filled with killing intent and she couldn't wait to tear the horse bandits in half.
Next, Lin Xiu talked about some of his experiences, such as the few youths he met in the Black Wind Mountains. When he talked about the few blood refinement realm youths who actually wanted to hunt the bone tempering realm beasts, Liu Yun broke out in cold sweat for them.
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Soon, a month passed. In this month, with the spirit stones and the occasional elixirs given by Liu Yun, Lin Xiu's cultivation realm could be said to be advancing at a rapid pace. Compared to when he had just broken through to the bone tempering realm, it was simply incomparable.
During this period, he also saw Lin Feng and the others a few times, but the others weren't as lucky as him. After removing the time spent doing chores, there wasn't much time to cultivate. After a month, the few of them had just stabilized their bone tempering realm cultivation.
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