Chapter 105.
The argument between the two was destined to be fruitless.
The appraisal was still continuing.
Although the many cultivators participating in the examination were a bit disturbed because tan san had planted the Spirit Peach in advance, they quickly focused their minds on their own examinations.
One by one, they continued to make use of the Catalyzing Technique and the Spiritual Rain Technique to promote the growth of the peach tree.
Time passed.
tan san, after planting out the Spirit Peach, let it go to the side while he himself meditated and cultivated on the side.
After two weeks had passed, the spiritual energy recovered as before.
With that, he opened his eyes and then looked above the other cultivators.
At this moment, most of the cultivators’ peach trees had already reached the stage of blossoming and fruiting, with a single spirit bee diligently traveling through them to collect nectar for pollination, and the one that had planted the fastest was still the female cultivator that Gao Mingyi and tan san had noticed earlier.
And tan san found that the two people planted spiritual peaches, in fact, or that female cultivator planted, the growth is better, the condensation of the spiritual peaches, the size is bigger, the spiritual qi is more abundant.
If it continues, she planted the spirit peach, is bound to win over that Gao Mingyi.
However, for some reason, that female cultivator suddenly slowed down the casting of spells, and in the end, she even looked like she had insufficient spiritual energy, and directly sat down on her knees, and began to meditate to recover.
As for the others.
Those three bad luck, picked the dead seed of people, at this time has long been like a mother’s death generally stood aside, no longer do unnecessary struggle.
They also know that they must have picked the dead seed, now half of the time has passed, even if the seed germinates, it is too late, they can only look around, observing other people’s planting situation.
Apart from the three of them, there were a few others, who were busy with their hands and began to get rid of the insects.
At first, they were not able to get rid of the spirit worms, and after the peach trees grew up, all kinds of spirit worms wreaked havoc on the peach trees, especially the ones that were able to burrow into the interior of the peach trees, causing them to break out in a cold sweat, yet they were somewhat helpless.
Soon, two hours passed.
The examination time ended.
There were a full seven of them, who failed to complete the examination and cultivate the Water Spirit Peach to maturity.
This included a cultivator in front of tan san, who had selected a spirit seed.
Spirit seed want to cultivate up, is not so easy, that talent is only the third level of qi cultivation, itself catalytic art is only a small success, two hours past, he also barely cultivated the spirit seed to three feet high, peach blossom did not open out, naturally, was judged a failure, did not pass the examination, unable to become a formal spiritual planting division.
Among the remaining nine, there are actually two, planted out the water spirit peach is extremely small, a look of malnutrition.
But luckily, they barely matured and luckily passed the examination.
“Next, the assessment ranking selection.
In my opinion, the top three should be the three of tan san, Gao Mingyi and Gong Baixue.”
Yang Ping stood up and spoke.
Everyone else nodded their heads.
Even Liu Yuanqing did not speak out to refute.
Although, among the people who participated in the examination, there were actually two more people, Yang Xin and Lu Ming, who had similarly chosen spirit seeds to plant.
It was just that the spirit peach trees that the two people planted out had some problems with their character, and the spirit peaches that they produced were all a bit flat and skinny, and looked a bit green, rather like a kind of crooked melon and jujube.
Although the flavor, only tasted to know.
But character determines everything, as experienced spiritual planters, they are naturally clear that the reason why the two men’s spirit fruits are of poorer character is either that the spirit worms have not been removed, or that when the peach blossoms were pollinated, they failed to attract enough spirit bees so that the spirit peaches were not sufficiently pollinated …….
Regardless of the reason, it could be determined that the spirit peach trees they planted were not in the top three.
Then several people, respectively, took the spirit peaches that tan san and the others had planted out, cut them with a small knife, and tasted them one by one.
Then.
Eyes all glared at each other in a flash, and with a glance at each other, they all had an answer.
“Three years.
Three years after five or six examinations.
Finally, on this occasion, I managed to pass and truly became a Spirit Plant Master.”
In the crowd, some people were happy and some were sad.
Among the Zhao brothers, the eldest, Zhao Jie, also had an excited face at this time.
Just now, after the examiner confirmed, he succeeded in this examination and was truly recognized as a Spiritual Plant Master.
Next, he only needed to wait for the Spiritual Plant Hall to issue the Spiritual Plant Master token, and he would be a real Spiritual Plant Master, no longer just a Spiritual Farmer as before.
Higher status, more can rely on this identity, join a force, enjoy higher treatment, earn more spirit stones.
Spirit plant master.
Equivalent to an entrance ticket.
One can join various forces.
For example, the Bai family, the Chen family, actually have their own spiritual fields, medicinal gardens.
Especially the medicine garden.
Only Spiritual Plantsmiths are qualified to enter, and it is said that a month to start is fifty lower grade spirit stones.
In a year, it would be five or six hundred.
In contrast to a Spirit Farmer, it could be considered a world of difference.
Just like their previous spiritual field at the foot of Changling Mountain, although there was a small medicinal garden where they could grow spiritual medicines, after five years of hard work, harvesting all the spiritual materials within the medicinal field would only result in an income of two or three thousand lower-grade spirit stones.
And also need to bear many unknown risks.
What’s more, even if you don’t join a side force and just rent a spiritual field to cultivate on your own, with your identity as a spiritual planter, you will be able to occupy a better spiritual field and plant better quality spiritual herbs and medicinal materials.
The income would also be much higher than before, at the foot of Changling Mountain.
The benefits could be considered huge.
Zhao Qiang, who was on the side, was also happy for his big brother.
Although he had failed the test this time, with his big brother leading the way, his days would be better as well.
The two of them were only in their thirties and forties, so they might not have any hope of building a foundation, but it wasn’t difficult to break through to the seventh level of Qi Practicing and become a high-ranking cultivator in their lifetimes.
At that time, it would not be impossible to support a small Immortal Cultivation Family.
“But this time, this time, Fellow Daoist Zhou’s performance is truly astonishing.”
The two were surprised, then quickly looked at tan san, his eyes full of unbelief.
“Indeed, before when I really didn’t expect it, Fellow Daoist Zhou’s spiritual planting methods were so brilliant.
I reckon that even if you don’t win first place, you can definitely enter the top three.
Now that I think about it, what we said before seems a bit ridiculous.”
Zhao Qiang said, thinking about his previous words of comfort, his heart was truly embarrassed to the extreme.
“Two fellow Daoists.
It really isn’t that I intended to conceal …… myself from them I can’t just bluntly state that my own spiritual planting means are, well, pretty good, right?”
tan san helplessly arched his hand and explained.
“This ……”
The two of them were speechless relative to each other, thinking back carefully, it was true.
As soon as they saw tan san, they had a preconceived notion that the other party’s spiritual planting means were not too different from their own two, or even inferior, and naturally, their words were dominated by exhortation and comfort.
And tan san, also really did not mention their own spiritual planting means how, in that environment, the other party can not be high-profile that their own spiritual planting means is very clever, right?
“As for the ranking, I don’t know.
It has to be judged by the several examiners.”
tan san was not overly concerned about this.
Although that Qing Yuan Order was good, he already had the Water Cloud Order, so this additional token was just one more option, and he would not suffer from it.
“But I do think that it should be Fellow Daoist Zhou who comes first.
After all, it’s only been half an hour since fellow Daoist Zhou completed the test, and the advantage over the others is too great.
I’ll be the first to be unconvinced if I’m not allowed to be first.”
Zhou Jie, however, muttered.
When the others heard this, they gave a sideways glance, but after seeing tan san, they all showed a solemn look in their eyes.
Indeed, tan san’s previous performance, despite being unwilling to admit it, most people, in their hearts, were convinced.
There were even people who could not help but move their steps and come forward to make friendship.
Only to see a person walked over, gaze straight to tan san, arched his hand and said: ”Under Gong Baixue, I have seen you.
Fellow Daoist’s spiritual plant means, makes my daughter very admirable, I wonder if I can get to know some.
I also hope that in the future, I will be able to discuss some spiritual planting methods with you.”
The person who came was the female cultivator that tan san had noticed before.
Her spiritual planting methods, in tan san’s opinion, were even better than that Gao Mingyi.
“Fellow Daoist Gong is polite.
My name is tan san, and I only know a little bit about spiritual plants.”
With these words, tan san was indeed not speaking in a self-effacing manner.
Although all three of his Spirit Planting techniques had been cultivated by him to the point of perfection.
However, Spirit Plant cultivation could never be just these three spells.
In particular, what a mid-grade or above Spirit Plant Master valued more was actually a spell called the ‘Wheel of the Year Spell’.
This spell, mainly worked on the category of spirit materials, spirit medicines.
Most spirit medicines, often needed a certain number of years before they could be used as alchemy materials, a hundred years was not too little, a thousand years was not too much.
If you only use the catalytic technique to ripen them, how long will it take to become a material?
Therefore, there will be this year wheel art, a spell down, the year of the medicinal herbs will be followed by rapid growth, although the same need for massive amounts of spiritual qi to help the birth, but also many other conditions to cooperate, but it is a door can be real fast cultivation of spiritual medicine spells.
“But if it’s an exchange, it’s naturally possible.
I can usually have many questions and think hard to no avail, so if I have a mentor to help solve my problems, I guess it will save me a lot of effort.”
tan san spoke immediately afterward.
After all, he is a spiritual farmer origin, before within the Spiritual Plant Hall, is also a savage growth, at that time with that spiritual plant teacher, can not have the heart to teach him anything, only as a drudgery, let him take care of the spiritual field within the spiritual grain and other things ……
For the knowledge of spiritual plants, it is mostly self-taught.
It was simply no better than Gao Mingyi and this Gong Baixue, who had a master to guide them.
“Fellow Daoist Zhou is polite.
With Fellow Daoist Zhou’s strength in Spiritual Plants, it should be me who needs to ask for more guidance.”
The two were humbling themselves, when suddenly they heard that Gao Mingyi snorted coldly and said, “The results are not out yet, this is boasting on each other?
This time, the first place can only be me, and only me.”
“You?
Is it too much to think a little too highly of yourself?”
Gong Baixue sneered and said.
tan san, however, did not say anything.
What the outcome would be was not something that could be arrived at by a few of them arguing, and he naturally did not have the luxury of getting angry about it.
“If not me, could it be you?”
Gao Mingyi mockingly smiled, but his eyes skimmed towards tan san.
Previously, tan san’s performance had indeed surprised him.
However, this time, he had the certainty of victory.
In particular, the first reward this time, the ‘Qing Yuan Order’, was originally begged for him by his master, Gu Qianhe.
It was originally a show for him to grow his prestige and reputation.
For this reason.
Before the examination began, his master had also specially brought him and visited several examination examiners one after another.
In the same situation, even if he planted the spirit peach is slightly inferior, the examiner is bound to choose him as the first.
This is, the human condition. Immortal cultivation.
Can never be clear mind, no desire.
People have fellowship, wealth can be immortal!
It was also at this time, only to see on the high stage, the four examiners suddenly withdrew their soundproofing techniques, and then saw Yang Ping take a step forward, look at the crowd, and let out a low gulp, saying, “Silence!”
“Next, I announce this examination, the results are out.
Ranked first, is tan san, second place is Gao Mingyi, third place Gong Baixue ……”
The words just fell.
Everyone was in an uproar.
The Zhao brothers, even more so, patted tan san’s shoulder with an eager face and followed a burst of excitement.
With having honor.
As Spirit Farmers who also came from the foot of Changling Mountain.
Although it wasn’t them per se, the fact that someone they knew well had won first place naturally made them excited and thrilled.
tan san also revealed a smile when he heard this.
Although he was quite confident in his heart, before the results were out, he was actually a little apprehensive in his heart.
It was only now that he was able to put his heart down and relax.
“Congratulations to Fellow Daoist Zhou.”
Gong Baixue, who was beside him, then said with joy.
“Same joy!”
tan san followed suit.
Third place could never be said to be poor.
A second-grade spirit seed was worth at least hundreds of lower-grade spirit stones.
“Impossible!”
Gao Mingyi, who had been full of confidence, suddenly opened his mouth and said sharply, “How is it possible? Did you guys make a mistake?
How could he be the first?
The first should clearly be me.”
Saying that, he hurriedly stepped forward as if he wanted to forcefully change the ranking.
“Nonsense!”
“Are you questioning our impartiality?”
Two voices spoke in succession.
The second voice in particular, was spoken by Yang Ping, his eyes glaring, his powerful aura, instantly emanating out, immediately pressuring Gao Mingyi’s face to turn pale.
Cold sweat fell straight down.
It was only at this time that he remembered that these few people in front of him were all elders within the Spirit Plant Hall, two First Grade Middle Rank Spirit Plant Masters and two First Grade High Rank Spirit Plant Masters.
Especially this Yang Ping. Not only was he a first grade high rank Spiritual Plant Master, he was also a resident elder of the Spiritual Plant Hall, his strength had reached the eighth level of Qi cultivation long ago, and his status was even higher than that of his master.
To openly question the other party’s impartiality in front of the other party, even his master could not afford to do so.
“This result was unanimously agreed upon by the four of us, there is no way to change it.
The reason why tan san was judged as the first is because this Spirit Peach he planted is a mid-grade Spirit Fruit with a sweet flavor and abundant Spirit Qi.
This first place is well deserved.”
Fortunately, at this time, Liu Yuanqing opened his mouth, relieving him of the siege, but also similarly recognizing tan san’s Spirit Plant strength as a solid first place that could not be disputed.
“Medium grade spirit fruit?”
“This, how is this possible ……”
Gao Mingyi’s face turned white, muttering, but no longer dared to say more.
He also knew that the first place in the examination was truly not related to him.
As a master teacher’s senior apprentice, he certainly knew how difficult it was to grow a mid-grade spirit fruit with an ordinary first-order lower-grade spirit seed.
Not to mention him, even if it was his master’s hand, it wouldn’t necessarily be possible.
This was because the grade of the spirit seed limited the upper limit of the fruits that could be grown out of it.
And the one who could break through this limitation, relying on, could not be luck, must be real strength.
“Hmph!
It’s just a clown.
If it weren’t for the fact that I don’t see the reward for second place.
Would I have given the second place to him?”
At this exact moment, Gong Baixue also opened her mouth in a low voice and said with a cold snort.
These words, although her voice was low, but the surrounding were all cultivators, those who heard them were quite a few, and they could not help but all look at her, and in their hearts, they also had their own judgments.
There were those who believed, and those who did not.
However, tan san was a believer.
Because he was able to see that after the other party had cultivated the spirit fruit to maturity, she did not cast any more spells and acted as if she did not have enough spirit power.
However, her cultivation level was at the fifth level of Qi cultivation, comparable to Gao Mingyi’s. Since Gao Mingyi was able to persist in casting spells until the end of the day, she was bound to be able to do the same.
To say that she gave up the second place to Gao Mingyi was also reasonable.
However, it is also true that the second place reward, is optional to worship a high-level spiritual plant teacher as a teacher …… This Gong Baixue look at the birth is not extraordinary, can have such spiritual plant means, naturally there is no shortage of famous teachers, do not see this reward, is also a very normal thing.
So.
The result is declared.
Whether one accepts it or not, it’s all the same.
The many cultivators, after receiving their corresponding Spirit Plant Master identity tokens and inscribing their names on them, also retreated in twos and threes.
Only the top three remained, being left behind by a few examiners to receive the corresponding test rewards.
However, Gao Mingyi didn’t stay and directly left.
His second place reward was to worship a master.
He himself had worshipped a high-level Spirit Plant Master as his teacher, so naturally, he did not need this reward, plus after that mess just now, he did not have the face to continue staying here, so he could only leave.
Thus, tan san and Gong Baixue were left at the scene.
“tan san, this is your first place reward, the Qingyuan Token.
With this token, when next year’s spring begins, that is, half a year later, you will be able to directly participate in the Qingyuan Sect’s entrance examination.
Inner disciples are not guaranteed, but at least you can obtain an outer disciple status.
Don’t look at just the outer disciple, but we are after all a spiritual planter, have a skill, Qingyuan Sect is a spiritual plant sect, as long as you complete the sect’s tasks on time, stay up for three to five years, you will certainly be able to enter the inner door.
A whole lot of cultivation can be much more convenient.”
Yang Ping looked at tan san and said in a kind manner.
“Thank you, Elder Yang for your guidance!”
tan san reached out to receive this token, into his hand slightly heavy, on it was written the word ‘Qingyuan’, there was also a special legal prohibition, prohibition, the material was comparable to the Water Cloud Order that he had previously obtained, all of them were a clan credentials.
“tan san ah, I see that all three of your Spirit Planting techniques are very subtle and highly skillful.
I wonder, did you worship any famous master?”
Immediately afterward, Yang Ping opened his mouth again and inquired.
“Indeed, there is a master.”
tan san’s heart was flabbergasted, then he said without moving.
He knew that his performance had already attracted the attention of this high-level Spiritual Plant Master, which was actually expected before he participated in the examination.
His three Spirit Plant techniques had all been cultivated to the consummate stage, and even if they were hidden when he performed them, he would eventually reveal some of them.
Especially if he won first place, he would naturally gather many gazes.
That was why he had already prepared for it.
“Then I wonder who your master is? I wonder if I can recognize it and if I can pay my respects?”
When Yang Ping heard this, he could not help but feel a little lost, secretly saying that it was a pity, and then hurriedly asked after him.
“My master is an old Spirit Farmer who wandered into the marketplace, but unfortunately, his old man has passed away some time ago.”
tan san slightly bowed his head and said.
These words, naturally, were a pretext.
Feng Ming Dock Market, is an old market that has existed for hundreds of years, there is a lot of traffic, some people come, some people go.
No one knows what the identity of the people who come and go was originally.
tan san made up such a character, of course there will not be any problem.
“This ……”
Yang Ping sniffed, his heart was happy, but when he saw tan san’s expression, he still slightly concealed it and said with a sigh, “To be able to teach your spells this skillfully, he should be more than just an old spiritual farmer.
It’s just a pity that I don’t have the chance to see it.”
Immediately afterward, he hurriedly opened his mouth and said, “However, Changwang, your spiritual plant talent is extraordinary, and if you don’t have a good teacher to guide you in the future, it is inevitable that you will make mistakes and omissions when it comes to spiritual plant cultivation.
Since your master has already passed away, although this is a pity, your spiritual plant cultivation needs to continue.
Rather, why don’t you worship under me first, and I will teach you the art of spirit plant cultivation next, how about that?”
“Thank you, Elder Yang, for your kind words.
It’s just that, for the time being, I don’t want to worship someone as a teacher.”
Hearing this, tan san hastily shook his head and said.
There were far too many secrets in his body.
After worshipping his master, it was inevitable that he would come into contact with them, whether it was the Thunder Spirit Rice Tree or the mysteries of his attribute panel, all of them were his top secrets, and it was impossible for them to be exposed in front of onlookers.
Therefore, he refused without hesitation.
“You might as well reconsider.
The Three Arts of Spiritual Plants is, after all, only the foundation of Spiritual Plants.
In terms of Spirit Planting, there is still a lot of knowledge that will be much more difficult without a teacher to teach you.”
Yang Ping said, after all, he still had some love for talent, and spoke again, “Of course, even if you don’t worship me as your teacher for the time being, if there are any problems with Spirit Planting in the future, you can still come and find me, and as long as I have the time, I’ll answer them all for you.”
“Many thanks to Elder Yang for his regard.
If there are any questions, the brat will definitely come to chime in.”
When tan san heard this, he could only bow and said.
Immediately afterward, tan san offered his farewell.
Not being able to accept tan san as his disciple, Yang Ping was also a little disappointed and would not stay longer since.
On the other hand, Gong Baixue had only received a second grade spirit seed and had already left, so tan san followed suit and stepped out of the examination place.
Just as he was about to walk out of the Spirit Plant Hall, he saw that Gong Baixue was standing on the side, and remotely waved to tan san.
“Fellow Daoist Gong, I wonder what else is going on?”
Seeing this, tan san could only walk forward and asked.
“This is a Red Leaf Tea seed, this kind of spiritual plant, I have planted several of them at home, and there is also one that is over a hundred years old.
I’m holding it useless, so I’ll give it to you.”
With that, Gong Baixue handed over a wooden box and said.
“Fellow Daoist Gong is too polite.
This should be your reward, right?
You’d better keep it for yourself.”
tan san waved his hand repeatedly and said.
“When I said before that I wanted to communicate with you mutually, I wasn’t being polite.
If you don’t keep this Spirit Seed, how will I have the honor of logging on in the future?
By the way, tell me your current address, so I can go over and pay a visit at that time.”
Gong Baixue sniffed, but she hardened her heart and said.