Chapter 1730 All Roads Lead To

When seven hours had passed, there were still only Elder Liu and Deacon Li in the stone chamber hall, and no disciples appeared here.

In the stone chamber where Li Yan was, he was staring at the more than 20 herbs in the air. More than a day had passed, and he had only identified and collected 23 herbs.

As for whether the herbs he identified were correct or not, it would take Elder Liu and his team to confirm it after he finally went out.

However, from Li Yan's point of view, since he was able to put some herbs into the storage ring, he was basically about 80% sure.

After looking at the more than 20 herbs in the air in front of him for a while, Li Yan closed his eyes again.

"My limit is only 23 herbs. The probability of successfully identifying the following herbs is no more than 40% for three of them.

The rest are probably 10% to 20%, and some of them even have to rely on guessing. My real level can only reach this level..."

Li Yan thought in his heart. He originally wanted to check his real level. Now it seems that he has not identified more than half of the 50 herbs.

Even among the twenty-three plants collected, there may be errors, which will reduce his real ability again.

Then in the next period of time, he must use some other means...

Li Yan can basically be sure that even after using other means, his chance of success can only be increased to 60% or 70%.

However, such a change is actually very likely.

In order to assess the level of spiritual medicine, he not only studied the basic pharmacist pharmacopoeia, but also read a lot of various herbal books.

When reading these books, Li Yan memorized and integrated them according to previous experience, and then identified and distinguished them through different medicinal effects, leaves and stems.

This is also the most common method used by Danzong cultivators. Otherwise, where can these experiences be obtained?

In this process, Li Yan will of course look for some real herbs and monster bones to identify.

Sometimes, he will even go to the spiritual field in front of the inner valley.

There, he often stays for several days, the purpose is to make his cognition of some real objects clearer and more solid.

During this period of observation, Li Yan would not only use his spiritual sense, but also often pour his mana into his eyes to observe some places that his spiritual sense overlooked.

And on one occasion, after Li Yan poured his Guishui mana into his eyes, the things in his eyes immediately became clearer.

At the same time, the spiritual energy emitted by the spiritual plants in the spiritual field also floated in his sight...

At first, Li Yan did not pay too much attention to these as usual, because it was normal for this situation to occur here.

His attention was all on the spiritual plants, looking at the different textures on the flowers, leaves, and stems of those spiritual plants, constantly confirming the contents described in the classics.

And until his eyes began to feel sore, he stopped observing and planned to rest and recover for a while.

But suddenly, his eyes stopped there, and his whole person's reaction seemed a little sluggish.

Because at that time, after Li Yan's eyes left the herbs, he did not retract the mana in his eyes in time because of his constant thoughts.

Unintentionally, he noticed the surrounding environment of the herbs. Every time he paid attention to the herbs. But this time he suddenly made a new discovery.

But this was not what he saw, but he felt some different changes in the rules of heaven and earth when he stood next to the spiritual field.

Those were the changes in the laws of the earth and gold systems. The earth system was more concentrated, but some gold system laws would appear in it.

It was just that the gold system power was circulating around the earth system law in a certain pattern, and there were more five elements rules around it, and they operated in different ways.

The reason why the difference between the two systems of laws was highlighted was because this law fluctuation was caused by the herb.

Just like a living being, the body has a small cycle of heaven and earth.

The herb has the attributes of the earth and gold systems, and the earth attribute is the main one. It is a material often used to refine body-building pills.

When Li Yan discovered this, he had been immersed in the way of alchemy, and all kinds of thoughts came to him at that moment.

The properties, shapes, and functions of various herbs and animal bones can be easily remembered in the mind with the strong memory of the cultivator.

But if you need to identify these things at a glance, you need to have rich experience, which cannot be achieved overnight.

This requires a cultivator to constantly contact various raw materials and constantly refine pills. The more contact and application, the more practice makes perfect.

Getting the right raw materials is also the most headache for cultivators when they go to the market to select refining materials.

Not only do you have to identify the authenticity of the raw materials, but you also have to judge the relevant years and so on.

In this world, there are not only very similar raw materials, but also too many bad vendors who like to make huge profits by cheating.

Since Li Yan wants to refine pills, he naturally has to identify the authenticity of the raw materials, which is also his difficulty.

"This... This is the induction of the five elements of heaven and earth. If it is a normal cultivator, it may not be the case in front of him.

Even if there are cultivators with earth and gold spiritual roots here, they can sense the fluctuations of earth and gold attributes emanating from this piece of medicinal herbs.

But they cannot sense these two attributes at all, which is different from the differences in the five elements laws around them.

The two attributes of earth and gold that appear here are different from the surrounding earth and gold spiritual energy. They circulate separately and exist outside of an independent state, but are integrated into the five elements of this piece of heaven and earth..."

Li Yan quickly figured this out. To put it bluntly, he has all the five elements of spiritual roots and has practiced the five elements law, so he has something that others cannot see.

He then took out several medicinal herbs and several animal bones and sat cross-legged on the ground.

After finding that no one was paying attention to him, he simply used the five elements chaotic cloak, which allowed him to better sense the fluctuations of different five elements laws in that piece of heaven and earth...

After a careful test, Li Yan was surprised to find that as long as the description of a certain medicinal herb or animal bone in the classics was more detailed, especially the more detailed the functional attributes were.

He could use By comparing the descriptions in the classics, we can quickly distinguish their authenticity, but it is much more difficult for the bones of monsters.

This has a lot to do with the time, method, and place of death of the opponent, and the symptoms of the monster bones will be strange.

But Li Yan's use of the power of the five elements to identify herbs can indeed improve his accuracy in distinguishing the authenticity of raw materials.

After all, I don't know how long the alchemy technique has been passed down in the world of immortal cultivation, and it should be traced back to ancient times.

Therefore, the records of various herbs are simply countless.

And with the accumulation of time, the description of a herb often reaches thousands of words.

It even extends to the various performances of a certain herb in different pills, etc. Etc., with that description, there will be more words.

As a top sect of the alchemy path, Huangqi Valley has gathered the strengths of various schools for these records that consolidate the foundation, and continuously strengthened its sect strength.

Often, the description of the properties of a herb will even be detailed to its different cycles, the graded influence of the surrounding environment on the strength of the medicinal effect, and so on.

Therefore, as long as a herb appears in front of Li Yan, and he has seen it in the herb book.

Then he only needs to compare the image in his memory and those detailed descriptions, and Li Yan can use the five elements rules to assist in identifying the herb in the shortest time.

Even Li Yan himself did not expect that the five elements rules of cultivation could be used in such a scene. It is the immortal path that is all connected, and the same thing happens in different ways.

Li Yan felt that the second uncle must also know This method is just a tricky way. It is not good for consolidating the foundation. It is more harmful than beneficial, so I didn't tell myself!

Now, Li Yan has only 23 herbs identified by his own strength. Of course, he doesn't think that relying on such a number alone can make him enter the top ten of the second level.

Since he was the first in the first level, Li Yan felt that he should be ranked in a more appropriate position after reaching this level.

This will prevent him from taking the lead in every level, so that although he has entered the core elite disciples, he may also attract the attention of some interested people.

Li Yan's consciousness cannot see the light curtain in the hall outside.

But as long as someone enters the hall, he can listen to the other party's assessment results, and after roughly understanding the opponent's strength, he will give his own results in the end.

So, now he just wants to identify as many herbs as possible.

In the end, if he finds that he has identified too many, he only needs a moment to move some herbs back to the storage ring with thousands of herbs when he leaves the stone room.

At the same time, move back some fake herbs, so that he can achieve his goal.

Details determine success or failure, and Li Yan has always been extremely cautious. He would think before making any decision in any place.

The stone chamber was monitored by Elder Liu and his team. Although he didn't know whether the other party would keep watching him, his performance in the first round was very good, and there was a great chance that he would be noticed by Elder Liu and his team.

Therefore, when he put in the identified herbs, the other party might have seen it.

Therefore, the substitution of herbs cannot be done here, but on the way to the hall, and the exchange must be equal.

Otherwise, once he came out later, the number of herbs he took out was not equal to the number collected in the other party's memory, and he would immediately doubt himself.

After Li Yan decided on the plan, he quietly used the power of the Five Elements Law, and then looked at the more than 20 herbs in front of him again.

He had not picked out the real herb from here before. The herb he wanted to identify was mainly wood attribute, and there were very few earth and water attributes.

Soon, Li Yan discovered that among these herbs, twelve of them had five-element fluctuations around them, none of which were wood, wood, and water.

After quickly confirming again, he directly eliminated these twelve herbs.

As for the remaining nine herbs, they all had the three-attribute cycle of wood, earth, and water, but there were four herbs that did not have the strongest wood attribute.

Li Yan once again rolled the four herbs aside without hesitation.

As for the remaining five herbs, the strength of the three attributes and the cycle of the rules of heaven and earth were very similar.

But Li Yan still saw two of them. When the soil and water attributes were re-inhaled by the herbs into the branches and leaves, there would be more or less a lag at the moment they entered the branches and leaves.

It should be that during grafting and cultivation, complete integration had not yet been achieved, so Li Yan also immediately removed the two herbs.

To Li Yan, the remaining three herbs were closer to each other despite the rules of the Five Elements.

But Li Yan didn't think so. He didn't want to compare the complete differences between the three strains, but just find the one that was closest to the description of the herb in his memory...

In the stone chamber hall, Elder Liu looked away from the light curtain in front of him.

"The ranking changes at this level are already quite significant!"

She just couldn't tell from the light screen which of these disciples had a more accurate identification result.

But she could tell from the expressions of these disciples and the herbs they had collected that only a small half of the top ten disciples in the first level would remain in this level.

As for some disciples who have not shown their prowess before, their foundation in alchemy should be more solid and sufficient, but it is possible that latecomers will catch up.

"Well, that Li Yan fell into a long period of stagnation after collecting only twenty-three plants. This may be related to his origin, and the overall foundation is still weak.

Yan Shichen and Ming Qi looked normal and had already collected more than thirty plants.

The ranking changes after these three people were even greater, and the speed of several Nascent Soul disciples had already caught up. "

Deacon Li also nodded in agreement, but he only focused on the top three people from the previous level. These were also the people he focused on observing.

This level tests one's personal foundation, so several Nascent Soul disciples also attracted their attention.

It's just that these are superficial observations. Just because a person collects a large number of herbal strains does not necessarily mean that he or she is more accurate.

When the time reached the tenth hour, people finally began to leave the stone rooms on both sides. Two of the six people from Mingyu and Yan Qingchen were the first to appear in the hall.

Seven other disciples walked out, including the Transformation God and Nascent Soul disciples.

Among them, the person with the highest number of medicinal herbs identified was one of the people on Yan Qingchen's side. That person was not among the top ten in the previous level.

But in this level, that person was temporarily at the front of the queue, identifying fifty herbs and getting thirty-five correctly.

And Mingyu identified fifty herbs, and correctly identified thirty-four, which was slightly inferior to that monk...

As these people came out, more and more people appeared behind them, and the speed became faster and faster.

Including Liu Siyu also came out, and she finally surpassed the number one at the time by correctly identifying 37 plants.

This made Mingyu look at her with helplessness in his eyes. This woman was really strong, and both levels were weighing on her head.

At this time, there were only three people left in all the stone chambers, and they were the top three people in the first level.

After about half a cup of tea, Mingqi walked out!

After Elder Liu's identification, Mingqi identified fifty herbs, forty of which were correct!

This made Liu Siyu, who was standing not far away, frown immediately.

"She is still stronger than me at this level. Where did these two sisters come from?

Since such people have such attainments in alchemy, they should be somewhat famous among casual cultivators. Why have I never heard of them? Could it be that they come from a very far away place..."

Liu Siyu is also very confident in her alchemy skills.

Before she came, she had investigated all the disciples who participated this time. No one else noticed Li Yan, but she had some information about Li Yan.

In her opinion, she should only lose to Yan Qingchen in this assessment, and the others would not be able to compete with her.

Unexpectedly, from the first level, some people like these sisters appeared, as if they suddenly appeared, which was not consistent with the information they investigated.

In other words, these people deliberately kept a low profile in the sect and hid it perfectly.

All of them had great ambitions, which is why they did it so deliberately. This made them lose their manpower at the first pass and disrupted their plans...

Elder Liu, who was sitting at the top, glanced at the light curtain in the sky. At this time, the temporary top ten list for the second level had been listed.

There were only two people left in the stone chambers on both sides.

"It seems that the top three in the second level should still be these three!"

She said in a voice message.

Deacon Li on the other side did not follow, but his eyes kept wandering back and forth on the two stone rooms on the light screen.

At this time, the disciples in the hall also looked at the light curtain in the sky. What were they thinking in their minds?

Elder Liu and the other two did not stop this.