Five Immortals Gate

Just when all the disciples were bowing and obeying their orders, each jade slip drew a stream of pure white light in the air and shot towards everyone accurately.

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

"This is the most basic foundational knowledge. It cannot be achieved by chance. This is a good opportunity to win back a round. You must use your fastest time!"

The six Yan Qingchens also left at the same time. Yan Qingchen's voice appeared in the hearts of the remaining five people. There was no anger or dissatisfaction in his voice, only calmness.

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

Yan Qingchen didn't say much, he just asked them to go as fast as possible to complete this level of assessment and sprint!

After Li Yan entered the stone chamber, the formation opened again with the sound of the door closing. At the same time that the restriction was opened, the small teleportation formation in the corner also shone brightly in an instant.

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

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

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

It contains the names of fifty medicinal herbs, and there are no other annotations, that's all.

After scanning it once, Li Yan had memorized the names of all the herbs and put the jade slip aside.

Li Yan had seen the introduction and names of these herbs in the pharmacopoeia. This is what is in the Danzong Basic Pharmacopoeia.

But the types of medicinal herbs in the Basic Pharmacopoeia are really vast, so the real physical objects of the medicinal herbs appear in it.

Even at the level of an alchemist, being able to contact 20 to 30% of them is extremely astonishing.

Although these fifty herbs are included in the Basic Pharmacopoeia, they are relatively unorthodox and rare. Li Yan has more than half of them in kind and has never come into contact with them.

Generally speaking, many exotic herbs do not appear in alchemists' daily alchemy refining, so Li Yan felt that even others may not have seen them all.

This means that immortal cultivators can have a photographic memory. Otherwise, Li Yan would definitely not be able to remember the information about these unorthodox herbs, let alone identify them.

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

Based on the patterns of herbs you have seen before, their growth environment, functions, properties, textures of roots, leaves and stems, etc., carefully identify and select them one by one.

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

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

“This is not just to clearly distinguish the results, but it should also be a means of final inspection for them.

If the combined number of herbs in the two storage rings cannot reach 3,000, or more than 3,000, then it goes without saying that there will be problems with the other party's assessment.

If the number is less than 3,000, Elder Liu will definitely ask you about the reason for the damage. If the reason you give is different from what they approved, you will definitely be arrested and sent to the law enforcement hall. "

Moreover, after Li Yan's spiritual consciousness swept through the herbs, he felt that there was something vaguely on those herbs that did not belong to the herbs themselves.

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

However, this should be easy to guess. Someone has done some tricks on these herbs, which should be some identification marks.

This is to prevent a monk who happens to have the herbs on the jade slip in his hands this time, and finally replaces it with his own.

These faintly existing logos give people the impression that they are not completely hidden intentionally.

I think Huang Qigu did this deliberately, so that after Li Yan and the others discovered something, everyone would be doubtful. This was also a silent warning.

Li Yan's thoughts were whirling, and his consciousness suddenly touched him. Suddenly, densely packed medicinal herbs of various sizes appeared in the void of the entire stone chamber.

The small one is as slender as a needle, only a few inches in size, while the large one is several feet long, with elegant spiritual energy on the stems...

What made Li Yan dizzy was that after just a sweep of his consciousness, he discovered that there were a large number of almost identical herbs in the air.

Whether it is in terms of shape, smell, or even the size of flowers and leaves, it is almost difficult to tell the difference between the species.

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

Among all the vegetation in the world, there are so many similar-looking ones that when they are put together, most people cannot tell the difference.

This is also a manifestation of natural selection in nature. Because many vegetations are often eaten by birds or beasts, they gradually change into the shape of some highly poisonous things over the years.

But in fact, their essence has not changed, but this has doubled their chances of survival. However, the real utility of similar vegetation may be completely different.

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

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

Among every similar medicinal herb here, only one corresponds to the name in the jade slip. The rest cannot be said to be false, they can only be said to be different types of medicinal herbs.

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

After Li Yan saw these herbs clearly, he gasped. This assessment of "identifying" herbs was different from what he had imagined.

He originally thought that the other party would just give out a densely packed collection of three thousand medicinal herbs, so that everyone would be competing on how fast they could identify them and whether they had really studied the basic pharmacopoeia seriously.

That kind of assessment method only requires a solid foundation in alchemy and a quick and accurate understanding of herbs.

But now this kind of discrimination has clearly told you that those herbs that look almost the same are one of fifty, but you have to distinguish the authenticity...

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

There have been many people who suddenly had a bitter look on their faces after just scanning it a few times.

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

After several quick comparisons, I found that the one I thought was the easiest to identify was not quickly identified.

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

In the stone room where Yan Qingchen was, he moved very quickly and had already begun to identify the herbs.

With the help of his magic power, more than ten almost identical herbs immediately flew out from the large patch of herbs in the void in front of him.

After these herbs arrived in front of him, they were arranged one after another and then floated there quietly, continuously emitting some spiritual energy fluctuations.

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

Then, the remaining ten herbs also disappeared at the same time, and they flew into the previously vacated storage ring again at extremely fast speeds.

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

Ming Qi also moved quickly. In just half a cup of tea, she had already identified three herbs and put them away again!

There are many situations like these two in other stone chambers, and some people are even faster.

It's just that this speed won't last long. After they select the most reliable herbs, the speed will only get slower and slower...

When more than an hour passed, Li Yan frowned as he looked at the twelve identical herbs in front of him.

At this time, he has identified ten medicinal herbs, and he is 60 to 70% sure of their accuracy.

The other party gave them a day and a night, and they had already collected so much in just one hour. This speed was already very fast.

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

Twelve herbs have purple flowers the size of fingernails, shaped like long poles.

Li Yan didn't move for a while. At this time, he kept hesitating between four of them, and his spiritual consciousness was also looking at these four plants.

He was observing the differences between the four medicinal herb flowers. He wanted to see some differences in the tiny flower cores from the center of the stamens.

He remembered that the herb named Yangsuyun was similar to the herb named Zidingyang. They could be distinguished by a ring of velvet powder on the flower core.

One grows in parallel, and the other grows at a downward slope. Even with such different conclusions, it is not easy to distinguish accurately.

However, Li Yan still used this different flower core growth method to eliminate eight of them, but the velvet powder at the flower cores of the remaining four herbs grew completely parallel.

After careful observation from different angles, Li Yan still couldn't see the difference in the velvet powder at the core of the flower.

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

He wanted to use the different textures of the leaf stems, or even the thickness of the leaf stems of such a large Su Yun, to judge its possible age.

It's a pity that Li Yan still can't tell the difference...

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

Suddenly, four extremely thin needles made of condensed mana appeared in the air, and the next moment they stabbed directly on the four medicinal herbs.

Then, four drops of milky white juice seeped out from the branches. As soon as Li Yan thought, four drops of milky white juice immediately flew in front of him.

Li Yan knew the function of Yangsu Yun. If the juice comes into contact with the skin, it will paralyze that area of ​​skin.

He immediately stretched out an arm, and the sleeve of the robe automatically slid back to the elbow. Four drops of milky white juice, guided by his consciousness, lined up in an instant and fell on the arm.

At this moment, Li Yan had completely dissipated the magic power in his hand, allowing four drops of juice to seep into his pores.

After counting his breaths, he felt numbness in the four droplets of juice on his arm, but the order was slightly different.

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

Until this moment, he closed his eyes. After about fifty breaths, Li Yan reopened his eyes.

"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 the differences may not be reflected until a certain age or after the elixir is refined.

This method of testing based on the most common characteristics is only suitable for some herbs, but not for many more..."

Li Yan's thoughts turned rapidly.

As expected, it is impossible for you to pass the internal selection assessment easily. The fifty herbs selected are very special to begin with, but the other party has actually cultivated similar herbs.

This is simply not easy for a super alchemy sect like Huang Qi Gu. They have been studying various medicinal herbs for countless years!

It's just that these newly emerged herbs do not appear in the basic pharmacopoeia, and they have more identical attributes that are indistinguishable.

Although the herbs can be distinguished more accurately once the elixir is refined, there are as many as three thousand.

It would be good to be able to refine more than a dozen plants in a day and night, and there is no corresponding elixir recipe here. Especially not many people know about the elixir recipes of these unorthodox herbs.

And just when Li Yan began to stagnate, many disciples in other stone chambers who were originally very fast also slowed down, and the speed was 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 medicinal herbs has six leaves. These six leaves grow symmetrically in pairs, are thick and green-black in color.

Yan Qingchen's expression was solemn. He had collected twenty-one medicinal herbs, but now he was stuck here. It was already half a stick of incense time.

He carefully sprinkled the yellow powder on the same side of the nine herbs, where there were three leaves sticking out from one side.

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

His consciousness was on the herb, and after scanning it carefully several times, he waved his hand and put the herb away.

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

Then he looked at another group of herbs, where there were more than twenty fiery red herbs with the same appearance.

Yan Qingchen took a deep breath. He also didn't have much confidence in the herbs he would identify later, and he could only study and identify them bit by bit.

As for Ming Qi in another stone room, five medicinal herbs appeared in front of her at this moment. She stood there and performed spells, and the magic power in her body was like a trickle, pouring into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Suddenly, two strange light white lights appeared in his eyes. After the two light white lights appeared, they kept sweeping back and forth on the five herbs...

In another stone room, dense herbs were still suspended in the void, but a monk was still making alchemy.

At a certain moment, a soft drink was heard from his mouth.

"open!"

Immediately, the top cover of the alchemy furnace slowly flew up, and a piece of yellow glow flew out of it, and hundreds of drops of medicinal liquid poured out from the glow.

The monk's spiritual consciousness swept the liquid, and his face showed joy. Then with a wave of his sleeve, he put hundreds of drops of the liquid into the elixir bottle.

He didn't need to condense the liquid into elixir, so the time it took to start the elixir 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 waste any more time, and more than ten drops of medicinal liquid from the elixir bottle flew out directly and landed on the more than ten medicinal herbs.

After just three breaths, the monk couldn't help but smile. He stretched out his hand and collected one of the herbs...

In every stone room, everyone shows off their own special abilities!

But Li Yan didn't know that the number of herbs he had identified at this time, apart from the accuracy, had dropped to twenty-one.