Chapter 1729 The Ability to Identify Medicines

Just as the disciples bowed and responded to the order, jade slips drew white rays in the air, accurately shooting at everyone.

After Li Yan grabbed the jade slip, he turned around and walked quickly towards the stone chamber where he had been before.

"This is the most basic foundation study, and there is no chance or coincidence. This is a good opportunity to win back a game. You must use your fastest time!"

Yan Qingchen and the other six also left at the same time. The voice of Yan Qingchen appeared in the minds of the other five people. There was no anger or dissatisfaction in his voice, only calmness.

But the other five people knew that the last level was really too embarrassing, especially the three people who failed to enter the top ten, and their faces were burning.

Yan Qingchen didn't say much, just asked them to take the fastest speed to complete the assessment and sprint of this level!

After Li Yan entered the stone chamber, the formation was opened again with the sound of the door closing. At the same time as the ban was opened here, the small teleportation formation in the corner also instantly shone brightly.

When Li Yan looked over, he saw two storage rings appear inside. Li Yan raised his hand while walking towards the middle of the stone chamber.

The two storage rings on the teleportation array flew over quickly, and soon, Li Yan was standing in the middle of the stone chamber.

A ray of consciousness sank into the jade slip in his hand before, and after just a glance, he found that the content of the jade slip was very concise.

It only recorded the names of fifty medicinal herbs, and there were no other annotations. That's all.

After a glance, Li Yan had memorized all the names of the herbs and put the jade slip aside.

Li Yan had seen the introduction and names of these herbs in the pharmacopoeia, which was the stuff in the basic pharmacopoeia of Danzong.

But the types of herbs in the basic pharmacopoeia were really vast, so the real herbs appeared in it.

Even with the level of alchemists, it was amazing to be able to touch two or three percent.

Although these fifty herbs are already included in the basic pharmacopoeia, they are relatively rare and uncommon. Li Yan has never come into contact with more than half of them.

Generally speaking, many uncommon herbs do not appear in the daily alchemy of alchemists, so Li Yan thinks that even other people may not have seen all of them.

This is because immortal cultivators can remember everything they see, otherwise, Li Yan would definitely not be able to remember the information of these uncommon herbs, let alone identify them.

Therefore, in order to distinguish these herbs in this assessment, they mainly have to rely on their own memory to compare.

According to the graphics, growth environment, functions, properties, roots, leaves and stems of herbs that have been seen before, carefully identify and select them one by one.

Li Yan's consciousness then scanned the two storage rings and found that one was empty, while the other was filled with a large number of herbs.

And the rules mentioned by Elder Liu require that the identified herbs be placed in the empty storage ring.

"This is not just to distinguish the results clearly, it should also be a means of their final inspection.

If the total number of herbs in the two storage rings does not reach 3,000 plants, or is more than 3,000 plants, then it goes without saying that the other party's assessment will be problematic.

If it is less than 3,000 plants, Elder Liu will definitely ask you the reason for the damage. If the reason you give is different from the result they approved, you will definitely be arrested and taken to the Law Enforcement Hall."

And after Li Yan's spiritual sense swept through the herbs, he felt that there seemed to be something on the herbs that did not belong to the herbs themselves.

But he couldn't really find out what those things were?

However, this should be easy to guess. These herbs have been tampered with by someone, and they should be some identification marks.

This is to prevent a cultivator from having the herbs on the jade slip in his hand and replacing them with his own.

These vaguely existing marks give people the feeling that they are not deliberately hidden completely.

I think this is what Huang Qigu did deliberately, so that everyone would be suspicious after Li Yan and his friends made some discoveries. This is also a silent warning.

As Li Yan's thoughts raced, his spiritual sense was already pulled, and suddenly in the entire stone room, there appeared densely packed herbs of all sizes.

The small ones were as thin as needles, only a few inches in size, and the large ones were several feet long, with spiritual energy flowing on the stems...

What made Li Yan dizzy was that after just a sweep of his spiritual sense, he found that there were a lot of almost identical herbs in the air.

Whether it was from the shape, smell, or even the size of the flowers and leaves, it was almost difficult to see any difference in the species.

But Li Yan knew that those herbs were actually not the same at all, they were just too similar.

Among all the vegetation in the world, there are too many plants that look similar. When they are put together, most people can't tell the different species at all.

This is also a manifestation of natural selection. Many plants are often eaten by birds or beasts. Over the years, they slowly become poisonous.

But in fact, their essence has not changed, but this has doubled their chances of survival. However, the real effects of similar plants may be very different.

Li Yan saw too many herbs with almost the same appearance and smell in the void ahead. Li Yan knew that only some of the spiritual plants here really existed in the outside world.

And more similar herbs must have been cultivated by Huang Qigu himself, which makes them look even more similar in all aspects.

Among each similar herb here, only one corresponds to the name in the jade slip, and the rest cannot be said to be false, but can only be said to be different types of herbs.

"Fortunately, I took the first place in the first level. Compared with these disciples who are truly immersed in the way of alchemy, I don't seem to have any chance of winning this level..."

After seeing these herbs clearly, Li Yan took a breath of cold air. This kind of "identification" of herbs is different from what he imagined.

He thought that the other party would just give out three thousand densely packed herbs, so that everyone would compete on the speed of identification and whether they had really studied the basic pharmacopoeia seriously.

That kind of assessment method only requires a solid foundation in the way of alchemy and the ability to quickly and accurately identify herbs to distinguish them.

But now this kind of identification has clearly told you that those herbs that look almost the same, you have to identify one of the fifty, but you have to distinguish the true from the false...

Just as Li Yan began to prepare, the disciples in other stone chambers also saw the densely packed herbs.

Many people had a bitter look on their faces after just a few glances.

Because after determining the names of the fifty herbs, they have tried to start with the one they think is easiest to identify and the one they are best at.

After several quick comparisons, they found that the one they thought was easiest to identify was not quickly determined and found.

For them, this can completely predict what will happen next, and what the difficulty will be for those herbs that they are not familiar with...

In the stone chamber where Yan Qingchen is, he moved quickly and started to identify the herbs.

With a pull of his magic power, more than ten almost identical herbs flew out from the large area of ​​herbs in the void in front of him.

After these herbs arrived in front of him, they were arranged in order, and then quietly suspended there, constantly emitting some spiritual fluctuations.

Yan Qingchen just glanced at them a few times, and took out one of them without hesitation and threw it directly into the empty storage ring.

Then, the remaining ten or so herbs also disappeared at the same time, and they flew into the previously vacated storage ring again at a very fast speed.

Then, Yan Qingchen raised his hand again, and another seven or eight herbs that looked very similar flew in front of him...

Mingqi also acted quickly. In just half a cup of tea, she had identified three herbs and collected them all again!

There were many similar situations like the two in other stone chambers, and some people were even faster.

But this speed would not last long. When they selected the herbs that they were most confident of, the rest would only be slower and slower...

When more than an hour had passed, Li Yan looked at the twelve identical herbs in front of him, and his brows could not help but frowned.

He had identified ten herbs at this time, and was 60% to 70% sure of the correctness.

The other party gave him a day and a night, and he had collected so many in just one hour. This speed was already very fast.

But at this time, he looked at the twelve herbs in the air in front of him, his eyes full of thought.

The twelve herbs had purple flowers the size of fingernails, and their shapes were like long poles.

Li Yan did not move for a while. At this time, he kept hesitating between four of them, and his consciousness was also looking at these four.

He was observing the differences between the flowers of the four herbs. He wanted to see some differences on the tiny flower core from the center of the stamen.

He remembered that this herb called Yang Suyun was just similar to a herb called Ziding Yang. They could be distinguished by a circle of velvet powder on the flower core.

One grew in parallel, and the other grew out and tilted downward. Even with such different conclusions, it was not easy to distinguish them accurately.

However, Li Yan still eliminated eight of them based on the different ways of flower core growth, but the remaining four herbs had velvet powder at the flower core that grew completely parallel.

After careful observation from different angles, Li Yan still could not see any difference in the velvet powder at the flower core.

Then, he placed his consciousness on the four herbs, those thin leaves like willow leaves.

He wanted to judge the thickness of the possible years by the different textures of the leaf stems, or even by the large leaf stems of Yang Suyun.

Unfortunately, Li Yan still couldn't tell...

Time passed quickly, and after another half cup of tea, Li Yan finally raised his hand gently.

Suddenly, four extremely thin needles condensed by magic power appeared in the air, and the next moment they were directly pierced on the four herbs.

Then, four drops of milky white juice oozed out from the branches, and when Li Yan moved his mind, four drops of milky white juice immediately flew in front of him.

Li Yan knew the function of Yang Suyun. If these juices came into contact with the skin, the skin would be paralyzed.

He immediately stretched out one arm, and the sleeve of his robe automatically slid back to the elbow. Four drops of milky white juice were drawn by his consciousness and instantly lined up and fell on his arm.

At this moment, Li Yan had completely dispersed the magic power in his hand, allowing the four drops of juice to penetrate through the pores.

After a few breaths, he felt that the four small drops of juice on his arm had all become numb, but the order was slightly different.

Li Yan looked at his arm, still motionless, and slowly watched the four drops of juice completely penetrate into his skin.

It was not until this time that he closed his eyes. After about fifty breaths, Li Yan opened his eyes again.

"The fifty kinds of herbs to be selected are carefully selected. They have cultivated many almost identical herbs.

There may be some differences in these herbs, but that may not be reflected until they reach a certain age or after refining pills.

This method of testing according to the most common characteristics is only suitable for some herbs, and more are not applicable..."

Li Yan's thoughts turned quickly.

It is indeed impossible for you to pass the internal selection assessment easily. The fifty herbs selected are originally very unconventional, and the other party has cultivated similar herbs.

This is too easy for a super pill sect like Huangqi Valley. They don't know how many years they have been studying various herbs!

It's just that these new herbs will not appear in the basic pharmacopoeia, so there are more indistinguishable identical properties.

Although the herbs can be distinguished more accurately after refining the pills, there are more than 3,000 of them.

In one day and one night, it is good to refine more than a dozen of them, and there is no corresponding pill recipe here, especially for the recipes of these unconventional herbs, not many people know it.

Just when Li Yan began to stagnate, many disciples in other stone chambers who were originally very fast also slowed down, and they were several times slower.

More than an hour later, Yan Qingchen was holding a yellow pill in his hand. He crushed the yellow pill into powder and sprinkled it evenly on the nine herbs in the air in front of him.

Each of these nine herbs has six leaves, which grow symmetrically in pairs, thick and blue-black.

Yan Qingchen looked solemn. He has collected 21 herbs now, but now he is stuck here, and it has been half an incense stick of time.

He carefully sprinkled the yellow powder on the same side of the nine herbs, where there are three leaves extending on one side.

Then he observed carefully again, and this time it was not until a quarter of an hour later that his eyes suddenly lit up and he immediately looked at one of the herbs.

His spiritual sense carefully scanned this herb several times, and then he waved his hand and put it away.

The other eight herbs were also sent into another storage ring by him. Only then did he let out a long breath.

Then his eyes looked at another group of herbs, where there were more than twenty fiery red herbs that looked the same.

Yan Qingchen took a deep breath. He also began to be unsure about the herbs to be identified later, and could only judge and identify them bit by bit.

Mingqi in another stone chamber had five herbs in front of her at this moment. She stood there and cast a spell, and the mana in her body flowed into her beautiful eyes like a trickle.

Suddenly, two strange light white lights appeared in his eyes. After the two light white lights appeared, they kept sweeping over the five herbs...

In another stone room, dense herbs were still suspended in the air, but a cultivator was still refining the elixir.

At a certain moment, he only heard a light shout from his mouth.

"Open!"

Suddenly, the top cover of the elixir furnace slowly flew up, and a yellow glow flew out from it in an instant, and hundreds of drops of liquid medicine also flowed out in the glow.

The cultivator's spiritual sense swept the liquid medicine, and a look of joy appeared on his face. Then he waved his sleeves and put hundreds of drops of liquid medicine into the elixir bottle.

He didn't need to condense the liquid into elixir, so the time it took to refine the elixir in this furnace was not very long.

Then he kept moving, and with just a wave of his hand, more than ten herbs flew in front of him.

He didn't delay any more, and more than ten drops of liquid medicine in the elixir bottle flew out directly and landed on the more than ten herbs.

After only three breaths, the cultivator couldn't help but chuckle. He stretched out his hand and collected one of the herbs...

In each stone chamber, everyone showed their magical powers!

Li Yan didn't know that the number of herbs he had identified at this time, if only the accuracy rate was left aside, had dropped to 21.