"On the 20th! When can the Qiankun Dew be picked?"
"Report to the teacher, Tatsuki!"
"Be more specific about the time!"
"Between seven-twenty and seven-forty!"
"Very good, passed! No. 32, tell me what the Jade Toad Flower can be used for?"
"Report to the teacher to detoxify and refine the detoxifying pill!"
"You should think it through before answering. I'm asking about Jade Toad Flower, not Jin Dilian. I've already told you this twice in class!"
A person with a weak will would have hesitated long ago after being reminded like this by Su Mu, but No. 32 remained calm and heartless, and said with a firm tone: "It's an antidote, there's nothing wrong with it! "
Su Mu nodded with satisfaction, and then walked towards the next person to be assessed: "Can the spiritual spring water be poured directly on the Jade Toad Flower?"
"Report to the teacher, okay!"
"Um?"
"......Can't?"
Seeing that Su Mu's eyes seemed to be locked on him, the monk's expression immediately turned uglier than crying:
"...Teacher! You didn't talk about this at all in class?"
Without any unnecessary words, Su Mu just glanced at Lu Manshi. The latter couldn't hold it anymore. In a flash, he took the monk who didn't answer out of the team:
"Don't!! Teacher Manshi!!" His pupils shrank in panic, and before he finished speaking, Lu Manshi's fist came into close contact with his abdomen.
The real blows from the fists to the flesh shook this man as if all his organs were about to pop out. He was beaten so hard that he couldn't even say a word for mercy. Lu Manshi flew up and hit him with a knee, hitting him in the face, and his nostrils shot up. Blood, and soon he passed out.
Everyone watched this bloody scene in silence. In fact, this was already the seventeenth day of study for everyone.
Starting from the fourth day, people were beaten one after another every day.
A beautiful person with a kind heart is just the fantasy of some monks about Su Mu. Many people were deceived by her delicate appearance.
In fact, this woman is a complete violent maniac. She speaks at an alarmingly fast rate during the day, just to keep everyone focused at all times. When she introduces the spiritual herbs at night, she also just looks at them. If you don't pay attention, you can overlook the key points. detail.
Once a monk answers a question incorrectly during the evening assessment, what awaits him is a brutal beating. With the first person’s lesson, everyone is afraid of missing any detail. After hundreds of hours of careful study, everyone has already Exhausted.
Reciting medicinal herbs is a basic skill that a pharmacist apprentice must master. Chen Mo has the background of an alchemist. No matter how difficult Su Mu is, he can always answer questions fluently.
But Lin Yuqin was not so lucky. Lu Manshi did not distinguish between men and women when he did it. In addition to avoiding sensitive parts, he was not gentle at all. Lin Yuqin's pig-headed face that had not seen swelling for several days was a living example.
Fortunately, Lu Manshi still had some sense of control. Even if he was beaten violently, he would suffer some physical pain at most, and he would be able to recover in less than half a month.
Compared with the punishments meted out to Lin Yuqin and others, the punishments given to Yan Zun and several platoon leaders seemed a bit unwarranted.
In order to compete for the position of company commander, Yan Zun put in a lot of effort. Before he could reap the benefits, he first experienced what it means to be a leader.
If a team member is unqualified, the team leader, squad leader, and platoon leader must bear joint and several liability. After more than ten days, except for the number tags hung around their waists, several people were beaten by Lu Manshi to the point where they could not even identify who was who. .
But being beaten did not mean that there was no gain. Lu Manshi used a few fixed moves every time. Once he got used to being beaten, he could resist for a few rounds based on his moves.
Although he was beaten into a pig's head in the end, it became a painful and happy thing to compete with the masters of cultivation in the late stage of pill formation.
"Continue the assessment!"
Su Mu interrogated everyone with a cold face. There were no dangers along the way, and a few more people were called out. When dawn broke in the morning, today's trial was over.
At this time, everyone has a three-hour break, then goes to class again, and continues to return to the medicine garden for assessment in the evening, and the cycle repeats.
Not only would Su Mu be able to assess the content of the day, but he would also be in trouble if he forgot the knowledge he had learned before.
"Brother, can the spiritual spring water the flowers?"
Lin Yuqin sent a message to Chen Mo and asked her doubts. Fortunately, Su Mu didn't ask her this question, otherwise she would be punished.
Since the assessment, she has been beaten three times.
"She is deliberately misleading the respondent. No matter how she answers the question, it will be wrong. The spiritual spring is divided into an above-ground spring and a spring below. You have to ask her where the spring water comes from, or tell her both situations in order to pass the exam."
"...I see, she is so bad!" Lin Yuqin hissed.
"So the saying is one foot high and the devil is ten feet high. If you don't want to be beaten by Lu Manshi again, you have to be more cunning than her, so hold on tight."
Sitting in the open air, the area was full of voices reciting. The total number of books Su Mu had distributed these days was as tall as a person. Even if he had a photographic memory, he still had to read each page carefully.
Chen Mo looked around and saw that there were not many people who were as unscathed as himself, even those as powerful as Ye Lantian were dragged down by several pig teammates.
A group of three people must pass two people, and a platoon of thirty people must have more than twenty people pass the test. Such strict conditions require the captain, platoon leader and others to take responsibility.
Logically speaking, as a company commander, Yan Zun was beaten by Lu Manshi every day, so he should hate his teammates, but in reality he didn't even dare to threaten them, for fear that some of them would plan to die with him.
Therefore, even though he memorized it, he still had to supervise a few people who often had problems, and even tried to persuade them. He was completely different from the arrogant person he was in the secret realm.
Meng Qianqiu, like Chen Mo, did not take any position, and his medicinal herb reserves were not inferior to his, so naturally it was not her turn to be punished.
The two of them had not seen each other since they broke up that day, except for Meng Qianqiu's occasional taunts. After finding that Chen Mo didn't even pay attention, this kind of self-destructive behavior stopped.
"It's best to be strangers..."
Chen Mo quietly glanced at Meng Qianqiu, who was alone in the field, and prayed silently in his heart.
Three days later, the pill that Li Zhen promised Chen Mo had arrived, and there was also a message from Mo Yuan who wanted to convey it:
"Besides the enlightenment pill, the best way is to re-cultivate your skills. If you are willing, the island can provide you with 100,000 high-grade spiritual stones to compensate you."
One hundred thousand spirit stones is equivalent to ten million low-grade spirit stones. When Chen Mo was still a casual cultivator, this was an unimaginable huge amount.
He went to the Forgotten Land, risked his life on an adventure, and narrowly escaped death, only to exchange for less than one million low-grade spiritual stones.
Ten million spirit stones can be used to stay in an inn built by monks for more than 2,700 years. They can be used to buy all the magic weapons. They can buy five or six hundred pieces, which is enough to arm a low-level sect.
Even if you buy a Foundation Establishment Pill, the purchasing power of 10 million spirit stones is enough to get one at the auction.
However, Chen Mo still understands the truth that a man is not guilty of having a jade in his possession. If the news leaks out, in the end it will be the result of losing both people and money.
Furthermore, who should buy the Foundation Building Pill?
If Lin Yuqin buys it, they may be robbed before they even leave the auction house. If someone other than her buys it, Chen Mo is also worried that the spirit stone will be swept away and run away.
Even though he knew that San Gong was the best choice, he still couldn't accept Chen Mo losing his current cultivation level.
"There is another way. You can refine a second clone, split your consciousness in half, and use the clone's body to practice elixir formation."
Chen Mo heard what Li Zhen said was like a fantasy, becoming increasingly unreliable. He was silent for a long time and then said: "Is this a robbery?"
"It's safer than taking over a body. If you use your consciousness to occupy an ownerless body, you won't encounter any resistance."
"But this shell is difficult to find. Even the real people in the Nascent Soul stage dream of it. Even if you find it, whether you can keep it is still a question."
"Understood, what the real person means is to let the juniors first use the enlightenment pill to improve their realm, practice until they can no longer practice, and then ride on the donkey to find a horse. Even if they still have to practice again in the end, the practice in the later stage of foundation building will be better than the practice now. Recover faster after surgery.”
As for the matter of finding a second clone, Chen Mo didn't even mention it. Why should he take the impossible opportunity seriously?
"You understand well. The real person still has selfish motives. He wants you to show off your talents in the next war. Whether you say it is for use or for the purpose, the choice is now in your hands. The Kaiqiao Pill will follow your instructions. Two hundred thousand pieces of merit are sold, tell me, what are you going to do?"
...
To no one's surprise, Chen Mo bought the first enlightenment pill. In the next few days, he adjusted his body to the best condition. After finishing the assessment early one day, Chen Mo returned to his residence for retreat.
Before refining the enlightenment pill, he explained to Lin Yuqin that after all, he didn't know how long this practice would take. If he still didn't come out after more than one day, he would ask her to ask for leave from Teacher Su Mu.
Even if you miss the course for a few days, you can still keep up with it if you work hard.
With the help of the weak candlelight, Chen Mo took out the Qingqiao Pill. This was his first detailed observation. The pill was as big as a winter apricot fruit, and it seemed to be covered with a layer of gold powder. He poked it lightly with his finger, and the pill instantly healed. It deflated in, but quickly popped back up again.
Chen Mo twirled the gold powder in his hand. It was extremely smooth. He was sure it was not something he could understand thoroughly. He swallowed it decisively.
Immediately afterwards, a surprising scene appeared.
The moment the elixir came into contact with his saliva, it exploded automatically in his mouth. It was like drinking a small sip of clear water. The cold feeling poured into his body along his esophagus, and he felt a biting chill in his stomach, like a lingering The constant ice and snow slapped my cheeks.
As if being ripped out by a sharp ice knife, Chen Mo was sweating profusely in pain. He quickly used the spiritual power in his body to relieve it. But at this moment, the cold air was absorbed by his abdomen without a trace. When Chen Mo When he used his spiritual sense to detect them, he found that they had followed the direction and flow of the spiritual veins, and the pure cold current gathered in his palm.
The feeling of being paralyzed by the cold came over, and the spiritual energy kept rotating at the two points in the palm of the hand, starting to decompose bit by bit in a vortex shape, and purify the vitality and spiritual power existing in the body.
"This should be the reason why the Kaiqiao Pill stimulated the Laogong point..."
Chen Mo felt the changes in his body. The spiritual energy in his Dantian became violent under the influence of two small whirlpools. Allowing the spiritual liquid to rush through his spiritual veins, naturally there were dozens of hidden injuries.
Chen Mo was concentrating on three things. While using his spiritual power to repair his spiritual veins, he also controlled the absorption of the vortex. His consciousness also had to stabilize the abnormal movements of his dantian to prevent it from resisting too much.
This process lasted for a long time, until the two vortices in Chen Mo's palm became as big as an egg, and the Daoji in the Dantian became smoother, and a stable body finally calmed down.
The Daoji is still there, but it looks like a deserted island. The black stones and the aura containing half of the Soul-Destroying Finger are still there.
The so-called vitality lived in the vortex in the palms of both hands. Chen Mo was not in a hurry to end it. He used the newly condensed spiritual power to activate a short-term water mirror technique in the air. This time, he was surprised to find that it was different from the previous one. different.
Due to the change in the position of mobilizing spiritual energy, the speed of mobilizing spiritual energy from the palm of his hand was faster. With just a thought, a bright mirror appeared in front of his eyes.
Looking at his disheveled self in the mirror, Chen Mo suddenly realized that a long time had passed since he had been in seclusion. When he looked back, he saw that the room was covered with a thick layer of dust, and he couldn't help but feel stunned.
