On the horizon is the golden sunrise, and the midsummer vegetation is even more abundant in the warm breeze of the morning sun.
Passing through the lingering mist in the early morning, along the mottled bluestone path, we kept moving forward amidst the crisp chirping of birds.
Soon, with a little tiptoe and a few jumps, Lin Chen arrived at the foot of a hill.
There is a lush forest at the bottom of the mountain. The dense forest is all over the mountain pass, and there is no way forward.
No. 6 Medicine Garden is located on a hill, but there are corresponding restrictions set up by some sects around the medicine garden to prevent other disciples from intruding.
"The sixth tree at the end of the road...one, two...five, six, what the hell, didn't it say there would be a tree man here?!"
Lin Chen followed the instructions of the old man on duty and looked for the guardian of the formation, but he never expected that when he came to the corresponding location, what he saw was not an ancient tree in the sky, but a large pit five meters long and three meters wide!
"What's going on? Could it be that the caretaker was poached?" Just when Lin Chen was wondering, a cough suddenly came from his ears.
"Ahem, kid..."
"Who?!" Lin Chen's eyes narrowed, and he took out the defensive spiritual weapon from the storage bag in an instant. At the same time, his body's true energy surged, and countless transparent and imperceptible spiritual threads quickly spread out from his body and spread around him.
When encountering an unknown situation, immediately take measures to protect yourself. This is the caution that Lin Chen must have to survive in this world!
"Ahem, little friend, don't be nervous, it's me."
Lin Chen immediately followed the sound and saw not far away, a lush tree bathed in the sun, with a brown human face protruding from the tree.
"Shu Lao?!" Lin Chen immediately recognized the creature in front of him.
It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. This sentence was a metaphor in the previous life, but in the Qingyun Sect in this world, it is a reality.
Under the influence of the Qingyun Sect's formation and the cultivators' cultivation techniques, every spiritual tree that has reached a century old will be born with unique spiritual wisdom, and even have the cultivation level of the Qi refining period.
A thousand-year-old spiritual tree is comparable to a monk in the foundation-building stage, and a spiritual tree that is more than three thousand years old can even compete with a golden elixir!
And these spiritual trees can not only be used to defend the sect, but because they cannot be bribed by outsiders, they also guard some key positions of the Qingyun Sect, such as the medicine garden responsible for supplying the entire sect's cultivation resources.
"Uh...Shu Lao, how did you get there?" Lin Chen hesitated and asked.
"Oh, it's not that the sun doesn't get much sunlight in that place, so I moved here to bask in it. You can understand the need for sunshine like us old people."
Lin Chen's mouth twitched. Of course he understood, but the question is, how did you move a tree to where it was? !
"Shu Lao, I want to activate the formation and enter the medicine garden." Lin Chen did not dwell too much on this issue, but directly explained his purpose.
"Okay." The old voice of the big tree echoed, and the old faces on the trunk gradually disappeared.
But the ground beneath his feet soon began to tremble. Under Lin Chen's somewhat surprised gaze, all the branches of this big talking tree slowly gathered back to its trunk.
In the cracked soil on the ground, countless roots emerged from the ground. The small roots hugged the main root tightly and emerged from the soil together with the thick main root.
Like an earthquake, Lin Chen, who was unsteady on his feet, watched as a taproot that was thicker than his waist lifted the entire tree up into the air. The tree seemed to have grown many soles of feet, following the tree. Move slowly on the ground.
"Whoosh!"
Along with the swaying of the leaves on the tree crown, the big tree supported by the main root moved faster and faster.
These thick roots carried the canopy above them little by little into the pit and sat down directly.
Under the big pit is the spiritual node of the entire medicinal garden. Only if the spiritual tree is located here can the defensive formation of the entire medicinal garden be activated or even changed!
"Is this... is this okay?" Lin Chen stood aside and stared blankly. He had already accepted that the tree could talk, but this was the first time he had seen such a tree running away.
"Token." Dashu's old voice echoed again.
"Huh? Oh." Lin Chen came to his senses, quickly took out the token, and pressed it against the tree. Immediately, it was firmly attached to it.
Suddenly, an emerald green light flashed on it.
"Confirm the identity, identify it correctly, and grant authority." The old voice of the big tree echoed around again.
Medicine garden and other places are important places of the sect. It is impossible to give the permission token of the guardian array to the disciples casually. The guardian must confirm it twice before granting access permission.
"The formation is activated." As soon as he finished speaking, the scene of the surrounding forest was like ripples on the water, producing ripples. Then, the entire forest began to distort. After reaching a certain point, there was a sudden pause and it dissipated directly. , forming a trail leading into the mountain!
Obviously, this long and boundless forest sea is all a virtual image caused by illusion. If there is no token to enter, it can besiege ordinary monks in the Qi Refining Stage to death!
"Thank you, Old Tree." Lin Chen bowed and entered directly.
"Oh, wait..." The face on the tree trunk reappeared, obviously he wanted to say something more, but Lin Chen was already gone.
"Hey, young people today don't know how to be filial and filial to their elders. That's all, that's all. Let's continue to bask in the sun..."
With a sigh, the big tree shrank again. Apparently, it was going to move back to its original place and continue to bask in the sun.
And in the medicine garden.
Lin Chen didn't go far. He looked up and saw the entire scene in the garden.
Terraces!
Even after seeing it more than once, Lin Chen couldn't help but admire it.
In front of you are dotted terraced fields, one after another, layer upon layer, with different shapes. In the sun or in the morning light, they are like silver ribbons shining in the mountains and fields, as if they are in heaven and on earth!
Each piece of land in the terraced fields is even more lush, with many herbs that are familiar or unfamiliar to Lin Chen, and some strange-looking plants. In the light mist of the morning, there is an indescribable aura.
If ordinary people live in such a place, it will not matter if they live longer and live longer. Even if they are immortal cultivators, it will be of great benefit to live here.
The most eye-catching thing is the giant tree on the top of the mountain. It is more than ten feet high and covers a wide area. The green leaves on it are dripping green, and the whole body exudes a strong vitality.
In Lin Chen's perception, the giant tree in front of him, the formation restrictions in the medicine garden, and the earth's aura blended with each other, as if they were alive, continuously infusing the heaven and earth's aura and the earth's vitality into the elixir of the medicine garden!
This is a must-have formation for every medicine garden of Qingyun Sect - [Jiamu Yunsheng Formation]!
Not only can it speed up the growth of elixirs in the medicine garden, but at critical moments, it can also be connected to the Qingyun Sect's sect-protecting formation [Jiamu Qingtian Formation] to defend against invading enemies!
Even though he saw it more than once, Lin Chen couldn't help but be shocked by the scale of the medicine garden in front of him.
Before entering the medicine garden, he had always thought that the so-called medicine garden was just a few pieces of land next to a house, and no matter how big it was, it could only be a field.
But I never thought that Qingyun Sect would directly designate a mountain as a medicine garden!
Such a large scale really shocked Lin Chen, but after thinking about it carefully, it was not incomprehensible.
After all, the Qingyun Sect has to supply the elixirs needed for the training of tens of thousands of disciples, and the refining of each elixir consumes an unknown amount of medicinal materials. If based on this calculation, how could the medicine garden be just a few fields?
"Huh?" Just when Lin Chen sighed, a sudden inspiration flashed on the token.
"Is this communicating with the disciples stationed here?"
Sure enough, after a while, an outer disciple, also wearing a white robe, hurried over. This man was about thirty years old, tall and fair-skinned. His face looked a bit shrewd, just like a businessman, and his cultivation level was even higher. Into the cyclone realm.
"My surname is Li Mingyuan. It's not yet time to hand over the chores in the medicine garden. Junior brother is too impatient and came too early, right?"
Um? Lin Chen frowned slightly, and he could hear the obvious concern in his tone.
After thinking about it, Lin Chen quickly understood that this position was quite lucrative, and the other party must not be very willing to hand over this position.
"Senior brother, I just came here in advance to learn about my duties and will not disturb my work." Lin Chen thought for a while and replied.
"I know that senior brother has a heavy sense of responsibility, but the sect stipulates that any position cannot be held consecutively. Please understand, senior brother." Lin Chen first stated that he would not affect his behavior of making money, and secondly stated that this was the sect's responsibility. stipulations cannot be violated.
Li Yuan's face turned ugly for a while. He knew what Lin Chen said was reasonable.
In order to prevent the disciples below from taking the lucrative position as their own, the sect has specially formulated regulations that do not allow the position to be re-elected, and it must be handed over every six months. Otherwise, he would have already pocketed this position.
'No matter! '
Li Yuan's face was uncertain, but he finally sighed.
"Come with me!" He waved his sleeves, motioned for Lin Chen to follow, and turned around.
Lin Chen's eyes moved slightly and he followed him inside.
Li Yuan led Lin Chen forward. At this moment, there are already many monks on the hill working in the medicine garden, either watering spiritual plants or picking spiritual medicines.
Arriving at the corresponding labor place, Li Yuan turned around.
"You should be clear about the tasks of this position, so you don't need me to say more, right?" Li Yuan glanced at Lin Chen.
Lin Chen nodded.
The position he currently holds is the interface between the medicine garden and the Alchemy Hall. He is responsible for transporting medicinal materials to the Alchemy Hall and counting the amount of medicinal materials consumed by the Alchemy Hall.
Originally, counting the consumption of medicinal materials was the responsibility of the disciples serving in the alchemy hall.
But thirty years ago, there was a high-status only son of a monk in the foundation-building period. During his tenure, he embezzled nearly half of the medicinal materials in the alchemy hall and resold them into spiritual stones for his own consumption.
After the incident was revealed, the Jindan Patriarch in the sect was furious. Regardless of the pleading of the foundation-building monk, he killed a group of people headed by his only son, in line with the true sect style.
And afterwards, he ordered that the consumption of medicinal materials in the alchemy hall be counted by the disciples of the medicine garden, hoping that in this way, the people below would be prevented from corruption.
But ideals are ideals. In reality, we can only say that there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. This kind of thing will still happen, but we are still restrained a lot and we dare not go too far.
"You can come and go in the medicine garden at will, but every time you go out, you must leave the token with the caretaker to avoid losing it when you go out."
"Every time the medicinal materials are transported, the sect will specially send specific dandelions... Also, watch out for the handyman disciples and don't let them do anything. You must know that the quantity of medicinal materials is required."
"Finally, and most importantly, just do it in moderation. Don't be too greedy." At the end of the instruction, Li Yuan said something meaningful.
"I obey your senior brother's instructions." Lin Chen responded.
After the handover was completed, Li Yuan absent-mindedly exchanged a few words with Lin Chen, then bowed his hands and said goodbye.
Looking at his back in the distance, Lin Chen's eyes moved.
As long as you act cautiously, restrain your greed, and only take a dozen or dozens of medicinal herbs, they will be inconspicuous among the tens of thousands consumed in the alchemy hall.
And these medicinal materials, plus tens of thousands of spiritual stones, are enough to continue my research on the 3.0 version of Soul Nourishing Incense...
