After twenty-one days of martial law in Kongfang City, it was finally lifted and the four city gates were opened.
The streets are still busy with cars and people, as if nothing had happened. After all, it was not their own family members who died, and life had to go on.
Even the competition for the top rankings of the Fengyun Club was held in the city square as usual, but with fewer participants.
Disciples from various sects and independent cultivators were leaving one after another. The checks at the four city gates were extremely strict. Jiang Yuebai heard that several evil cultivators who were on the bounty list were captured and killed on the spot by the high-level cultivators stationed at the city gates.
The Tianyan Sect was led by True Lord Fuyi, and they had decided to go to the ancient teleportation array outside Kongfang City in three days and teleport directly back to Fengxian Realm.
During these three days, Jiang Yuebai was dealing with his own affairs.
"I have already obtained the tokens of the talisman maker, array master, and puppet master. The only thing left is the alchemist's. This way, I can sell the talismans, array plates, and puppets I made through formal channels in the future."
Jiang Yuebai, wearing a veil, came alone to a magnificent courtyard in the west of the city. The area was sparsely populated and very quiet, and the air was filled with the bitter smell of various medicinal herbs.
"Alchemy Guild."
Jiang Yuebai confirmed the words on the plaque and walked into the courtyard.
All guilds in the Earth Spirit Realm are jointly built and managed by the Three Alliances. The quality tokens issued by the guilds are authoritative and can allow monks to sell their homemade items at a better price.
Moreover, there are many high-value commission tasks within the guild. Every three months, the latest commission task list will be sent to guild members through Hongyan Building for selection.
The guild also charges less fees than outside shops, and if anything goes wrong, the guild can guarantee full compensation.
The assessment for talisman makers is to draw talismans, the assessment for formation masters is to set up and break formations, and the assessment for puppeteers is to identify mechanisms, and disassemble and assemble puppet parts.
Jiang Yuebai guessed that the assessment for alchemists was probably about identifying elixirs and refining pills, which was not difficult at all for her.
She has obtained three seventh-grade tokens, which shocked everyone in and outside the guild, because most seventh-grade cultivators are at the Jindan level.
"Fellow Daoist, are you going to take part in the alchemist qualification test?"
In the courtyard, Jiang Yuebai met someone from the Alchemist Guild. Before she could speak, the other party asked her first.
Jiang Yuebai nodded, "Yes."
The middle-aged male cultivator in the foundation-building stage looked at her casually and said, "You came at the right time. Today, the medicine identification stage has just started. Identity token."
Jiang Yuebai handed over the token. The middle-aged male cultivator took one look and asked in surprise, "Are you Jiang Yuebai? The Jiang Yuebai from Tianyan Sect?"
Jiang Yuebai remained as calm as ever, just as he had been in other guilds before.
The middle-aged male cultivator immediately changed his expression, and said with a careful and flattering smile, "Please come in, I will take you to the assessment site right now. Just rest assured about the assessment, and leave the other procedures to me."
Jiang Yuebai nodded and followed. She knew that these people feared her because of her master, True Lord Fuyi and True Lord Canghuo. Everyone in Kongfang City knew this. No matter who you offend, don't offend her, otherwise the three True Lords would come to her together.
In fact, this feeling of having power to rely on was quite good, allowing her to order products very smoothly in the first few times without encountering any obstacles or contempt.
After passing through the cave gate, Jiang Yuebai was brought to a courtyard with strict security. As soon as she stepped into the courtyard, an hourglass in the corner began to count down.
There is a lotus pond in the courtyard, and in the center of the pond there is an extremely strange spiritual tree. Jiang Yuebai was attracted to it as soon as he saw it.
The spiritual tree, which is more than three meters high, has dense branches and leaves, and is covered with all kinds of different leaves, flowers and fruits.
This completely overturned Jiang Yuebai's cognition. She thought that there was no way that spiritual plants that were forcibly pieced together like this could survive. However, the tree was full of vitality and really survived before her eyes.
Jiang Yuebai recognized the bone flower on the tree at a glance. That was a flower that grew on the ground, so how could it bloom on a tree
Moreover, it is recorded in the book that even if the bone flower blooms for a thousand years, it will only be the size of a child's palm. At this moment, the flower on the tree is already as big as a child's head.
At this time, there were three people, two men and one woman, standing by the lotus pond. They stretched their heads to observe the tree carefully and took notes on paper with brushes from time to time.
The middle-aged male cultivator said to Jiang Yuebai, "This spiritual tree was cultivated by our president for a hundred years. It contains many spiritual plant species. You must identify at least ten species within a quarter of an hour to pass the rapid medicine identification stage. You cannot use the image jade to record, and you cannot talk to others. Remember."
Without any urging, Jiang Yuebai had already rushed to the edge of the lotus pond, leaned out and stood on tiptoe to carefully examine the spiritual tree.
Her eyes lit up and she was eager to cut down the tree and take it home to study it slowly. But a quarter of an hour would not be enough.
"It turns out that spiritual plants can be grafted and grown like this. No wonder I..."
The little Ganoderma lucidum above her head was trembling with excitement, her heart was surging. This spiritual tree touched the foundation of her understanding of the Way of Plants and made her see a new Way of Plants that was 'embracing all rivers and seas'.
She wanted to learn it, learn everything that this spiritual tree contained.
The people nearby had sad faces, racking their brains to find the familiar appearance of the elixir among the mutated flowers and leaves, writing and erasing on the paper.
After finally collecting more than ten kinds, I breathed a sigh of relief, submitted the answers in advance and waited on the side.
Only Jiang Yuebai had a bright look in his eyes and wrote furiously. He tried to cross the border of the lotus pond several times, but was pushed back by the barrier protecting the spiritual tree every time.
If she doesn't finish, the others will have to wait until everyone has finished before they can know their own scores and move on to the next level together.
"Does she recognize those spiritual medicines? It shouldn't take her that long to identify ten of them, right?"
"That's right. I see he's been writing all the time, pretending."
"These elixirs are all different from their original appearances. Some similar species are indeed hard to identify. She is probably writing down all the possible answers and then eliminating them."
The people around were getting impatient waiting, and Jiang Yuebai was anxious. He turned around and asked the middle-aged male cultivator who was timing him.
"Can you let me observe for a while longer? Just... half an hour longer."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of sneers.
"If you can't recognize it, give up and go back to memorize the Herbal Sutra before trying again."
The middle-aged male cultivator smiled politely but firmly, and glanced at the hourglass in the corner of the courtyard, "There is still half a quarter of an hour."
Jiang Yuebai wiped the sweat from her head. This tree had a profound impact on her. It made her vaguely find her direction in witchcraft, so she had to observe it as much as possible to understand it.
Don't be impatient. The more impatient you are, the more confused you will become.
Jiang Yuebai swallowed, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and silently recited the two words on the Taihe umbrella.
"Being in silence, he has a subtle mind; drinking in harmony, he is like a solitary crane flying."
Recently, in the process of taming the Crane Spirit and refining the Taihe Umbrella, Jiang Yuebai discovered that communicating with the Crane Spirit and appreciating the artistic conception of these two sentences could quickly calm her mind and gradually reach a state of 'subtlety'.
The sound of the crane's cry resounded throughout the sea of consciousness, shaking the soul and dispelling distracting thoughts.
Jiang Yuebai forgot himself, his mind gradually relaxed, his thoughts were released naturally, becoming sensitive, delicate, and flexible.
She tilted her head slightly, and her spiritual thoughts were like a gust of wind, brushing across the leaves, and like a stream of water, accommodating all things. Slowly, in the depths of the dark sea of consciousness, she deduced the process of the entire tree from seedling to growth.
She 'saw' the most subtle differences in color and veins between the leaves, captured the different blooming rhythms of the two flowers, and in extreme slowness, 'watched' the spirit tree grow very quickly in her sea of consciousness.
The subtle mechanism is subtle, and all the subtle changes in the world are naturally perceived by her in her silent state of mind at this moment.
Jiang Yuebai was immersed in this comfortable and natural state, gradually forgetting even to observe, and slowly breathing in the warm and gentle air between heaven and earth.
With one breath, the spirit tree trembled slightly, and the vitality of the plants in it seemed as if a thread was pulled out, pulled by Jiang Yuebai's breath, and entered her body like peeling silk threads from a cocoon, nourishing her internal organs.
With an exhale, the pure air in the body is released and fed back to the spirit tree, nourishing its body, and the spirit tree dances with joy.
As Jiang Yuebai inhaled and exhaled, the rhythm of his breathing secretly matched the rhythm of the swaying of the spirit tree. Even the heaven and earth gradually pulled out strands of silk threads, which were pulled by Jiang Yuebai and absorbed into his body.
Ripples appeared in the lotus pond, and koi fish in the pond began to poke their heads out, breathing in and out in the direction of Jiang Yuebai.
Birds flew over from the wall, landed on Jiang Yuebai's shoulders, flapped their wings and chirped in joy.
Movement and stillness are natural, blending into heaven and earth.
(End of this chapter)