Chapter 17 Handover of the Medicine Garden

The horizon is the golden morning sun, and the summer grass and trees are more abundant in the warm breeze of the morning sun.

Passing through the morning mist, along the mottled bluestone path, and moving forward in the crisp bird calls.

Soon, with a tip of the toes and a few jumps, Lin Chen came to the foot of a small hill.

At the foot of the mountain is a lush forest, and the dense forests cover the mountain pass, and there is no way forward at all.

The No. 6 medicine garden is located on a small hill, but there are some corresponding restrictions set by the sect around the medicine garden to prevent other disciples from breaking in.

"The sixth tree at the end of the road... one, two... five, six, what the hell, didn't they 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 arrived at the corresponding position, he saw not an ancient tree, but a big pit five meters long and three meters wide!

"What's going on? Could it be that the guard has been dug away?" Just as Lin Chen was in doubt, he suddenly heard a cough.

"Ahem, kid..."

"Who?!" Lin Chen's eyes condensed, and in an instant he took out the defensive spiritual weapon from the storage bag. At the same time, his true energy surged, and countless transparent and imperceptible spiritual threads quickly spread out from his body and spread around.

When encountering unknown situations, immediately prepare means 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 looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a lush tree bathed in the sun not far away, and a brown human face appeared on the tree.

"Old tree?!" Lin Chen immediately recognized the creature in front of him.

It takes ten years to grow a tree, and a hundred years to grow a person. This sentence was a metaphor in the previous life, but it is a reality in the Qingyun Sect of this world.

Under the influence of the Qingyun Sect's formation and the cultivation methods of the cultivators, every spiritual tree that reaches a hundred years old will have a unique spiritual wisdom, and even have the cultivation of the Qi Refining Stage.

A thousand-year-old spiritual tree is comparable to a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and a spiritual tree that reaches more than three thousand years can even fight against a Golden Core!

And these spiritual trees can not only be used to defend the sect, but also guard some key positions in the Qingyun Sect because they cannot be bought by outsiders, such as the medicine garden responsible for supplying cultivation resources to the entire sect.

"Uh... Tree Old Man, how did you get there?" Lin Chen hesitated and asked.

"Oh, it's because there is not much sunlight in that place, so I moved here to bask in the sun. You can understand the need for sunlight for us old people."

Lin Chen's mouth twitched. Of course he understood, but the question is, how did you, a tree, move there by yourself? !

"Tree Old Man, I want to open 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 tree echoed, and the old face on the trunk gradually disappeared.

But the ground under his feet soon trembled. Under Lin Chen's somewhat surprised gaze, all the branches of this talking tree slowly gathered around the trunk.

In the cracked soil on the ground, countless roots drilled out from the ground. The small roots tightly hugged the main root, and emerged from the soil along with the thick main root.

Like an earthquake, Lin Chen, who was standing unsteadily, watched the main root that drilled out of the soil and was thicker than his waist push the whole tree up into the air. The tree was like growing many feet, and it slowly moved on the ground with the tree.

"Huahua!"

Along with the shaking of the leaves on the crown, the speed of the tree held up by the main root was getting faster and faster.

These thick roots, with the crown above, walked into the big pit little by little and sat down directly.

Under the pit is the spiritual vein node of the entire medicine garden. Only when the spiritual tree is located here can it activate or even change the defense formation of the entire medicine garden!

"This... this works?" Lin Chen was stunned. He had accepted that the tree could speak, but it was the first time he saw such a tree running away.

"Token." The old voice of the tree echoed again.

"Hmm? Oh." Lin Chen came back to his senses, took out the token and pressed it on the tree. Suddenly, it was firmly attached to it.

Suddenly, a green spiritual light flashed on it.

"Identity confirmed, correct identification, and authority granted." The old voice of the tree echoed again.

The medicine garden and other places are important places of the sect. It is impossible to give the authority token of the guarding formation to the disciples casually. The guardian must confirm it twice before granting the authority to enter and exit.

"The formation is activated." As soon as the words fell, the surrounding forest scene, like ripples on the water, produced a few ripples, and then the entire forest began to twist. After reaching a certain point, it suddenly stopped and dissipated directly, forming a path leading to the mountain!

Obviously, this endless forest is all a virtual image caused by the illusion. If you enter without a token, you can besiege ordinary Qi Refining cultivators to death!

"Thank you, old tree." Lin Chen bowed and went directly into it.

"Hey, wait..." The face on the tree trunk reappeared, and it was obvious that he wanted to say something, but Lin Chen had already walked away.

"Hey, young people nowadays don't know how to be filial to the elderly. Forget it, forget it, let's continue to bask in the sun..."

Accompanied by a sigh, the 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 did not walk far. He looked up and saw the whole situation in the garden.

Terraces!

Even though he had seen it more than once, Lin Chen could not help but admire it.

In front of him were terraces scattered all over the place, one after another, layer upon layer, in various shapes. In the sun or in the morning light, they were like silver ribbons flashing in the mountains and fields, as if it was heaven on earth!

Each piece of land in the terraces was lush and green, with many herbs that Lin Chen was familiar or unfamiliar with, and some plants that looked strange. In the faint spiritual mist in the early morning, there was an indescribable aura.

If mortals lived in such a place, it would be no problem to prolong their lives and live a hundred years. Even if immortals lived here, it would be of great benefit.

And the most eye-catching one was the towering 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 lush and green, and the whole body exudes a strong vitality.

In Lin Chen's perception, the giant tree in front of him and the array restrictions in the medicine garden, the spiritual energy of the earth veins blend with each other, as if they have life, and continuously infuse the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the vitality of the earth veins into the spiritual medicine in the medicine garden!

This is a must-have array for every medicine garden in Qingyun Sect-[Jiamu Yunsheng Array]!

It can not only speed up the growth of spiritual medicines in the medicine garden, but also connect with the Qingyun Sect's protective array [Jiamu Qingtian Array] at critical moments to resist the invading enemy!

Even though he has seen it more than once, Lin Chen couldn't help but be shocked by the size of the medicine garden in front of him.

Before entering the medicine garden, he always thought that the so-called medicine garden was just a few plots of land next to a house, and no matter how big it was, it was at most a field.

But he 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 understandable.

After all, Qingyun Sect had to supply tens of thousands of disciples with the elixirs they needed for cultivation, and the refining of each elixir consumed countless medicinal materials. If we calculate it this way, how could the medicine garden be just a few fields?

"Hmm?" Just as Lin Chen was sighing, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared on the token.

"Is this, communicating with the disciples stationed here?"

Sure enough, after a while, an outer disciple who was also wearing a white robe hurried over. This man was about 30 years old, tall and white-skinned, and looked a little shrewd, just like a businessman, and his cultivation had reached the cyclone realm.

"My surname is Li Mingyuan. It's not time to hand over the miscellaneous tasks in the medicine garden yet. Junior brother is too impatient and came too early, isn't it?"

Hmm? Lin Chen frowned slightly, and he heard obvious misgivings in his tone.

After thinking about it, Lin Chen soon understood that this position was quite lucrative, and the other party must not be willing to hand it over.

"Brother, I just came here in advance to understand the position and will not disturb your work." Lin Chen thought about it and replied.

"I know that you have a strong sense of responsibility, but the sect stipulates that any position cannot be held continuously. I hope you can understand." Lin Chen first stated that he would not affect his behavior of making money, and then stated that this was the sect's rule and could not be violated.

Li Yuan's face was ugly. He knew that what Lin Chen said made sense.

In order to prevent the lower disciples from turning the lucrative positions into their own, the sect specially formulated a rule that the position is not allowed to be re-elected, and it must be handed over every six months. Otherwise, he would have already turned this position into his pocket.

'Well! '

Li Yuan's face was uncertain, and he finally sighed.

"Come with me!" He shook his sleeves, motioned Lin Chen to follow, and turned and walked away.

Lin Chen's eyes moved slightly, and he followed him inside.

Li Yuan led Lin Chen forward. At this moment, many cultivators on the hill have already stayed in the medicine garden to work, 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 I don't need to say more, right?" Li Yuan glanced at Lin Chen.

Lin Chen nodded.

His current position is the contact person between the medicine garden and the Dan Hall, responsible for transporting the medicinal materials to the Dan Hall and counting the number of medicinal materials consumed by the Dan Hall.

Originally, counting the consumption of medicinal materials was the responsibility of the disciples in the Dan Hall.

But thirty years ago, there was an only son of a foundation-building cultivator who occupied a position and status. During his tenure, he embezzled nearly half of the medicinal materials in the Dan Hall and resold them for spiritual stones for his own consumption.

After the incident was exposed, the Jindan ancestor in the sect was furious. He ignored the desperate pleas of the foundation-building cultivator and killed a group of people headed by his only son, in order to rectify the sect's style.

And afterwards, he ordered that the consumption of medicinal materials in the Dantang should be counted by the disciples in the medicine garden, hoping to avoid corruption among the subordinates in this way.

But ideals are ideals, and reality is that there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. Such things will still happen, but they are still restrained and dare not do too much.

"You can enter and exit the medicine garden at will, but every time you go out, you must leave the token with the guard to avoid losing it when you go out."

"Every time the medicinal materials are transported, the sect will specially send a specific pugongcao to come... Also, keep an eye on those menial disciples and don't let them do anything. You must know that there are requirements for the quantity of medicinal materials."

"Finally, and most importantly, you should stop at the right time each time, and don't be too greedy." At the end of the instructions, Li Yuan said something meaningful.

"I will follow your instructions, senior brother." Lin Chen replied.

After the handover, Li Yuan absentmindedly exchanged a few polite words with Lin Chen, then bowed and said goodbye.

Looking at his back in the distance, Lin Chen's eyes moved.

As long as you act cautiously and restrain your greed, and only take a dozen or dozens of medicinal herbs, it will not be noticeable at all among the tens of thousands of consumption in the Dan Hall.

And these medicinal herbs, plus tens of thousands of spirit stones, are enough to continue my research on the 3.0 version of the Soul Nourishing Incense...