Chapter 47: The Medicine Garden Trial

The third floor of the ancient building.

After Lin Xian'er rushed up, she immediately looked toward the center.

An ancient Altar was built there, and under the erosion of long years, the Altar was already covered in fine cracks.

On the Altar, a faint Spirit Light was fading away.

Her expression changed, and she rushed to the edge of the Altar at top speed.

After inspecting it for a moment, her expression sank.

"It really is a Transmission Array."

She looked around the Altar, and several grooves appeared in her line of sight.

The Spirit Stones embedded within had already been drained of their Spirit Qi by the Transmission Array and turned into powder.

She waved her palm, blew the powder out of the grooves, and took out Spirit Stones to embed them inside.

The next moment, the Transmission Array on the Altar lit up again.

But it only lit up for an instant before the Spirit Stones in the grooves suddenly shattered, and the Array patterns hid back into the Altar.

"Is the quality of the Spirit Stones not enough?"

Lin Xian'er's expression changed.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the heaven and earth's Spirit Qi was dense and extremely pure.

At that time, there were extremely many Spirit Stone veins.

According to the strength of the Spiritual Power they contained, Spirit Stones were divided into four grades: Superior Grade, Upper Grade, Middle Grade, and Lower Grade.

But today, the world has undergone great changes, and the cultivation environment is far inferior to the ancient era.

Not only have Spirit Stone veins become extremely rare, but the Spirit Stones produced are also almost all just Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

Clearly, this Altar was left behind from ancient times.

The Array upon it cannot be activated by Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

She did not believe that old fellow would possess high-grade Spirit Stones; the only possibility was that this Altar originally had Spirit Stones embedded in it.

And the remaining Spirit Qi had been exhausted.

Thinking of this, her expression became increasingly ugly.

If Lower Grade Spirit Stones cannot activate the Array, how is she supposed to leave?

In the end, she could not think of a way and could only return to the second floor.

The Spirit Pool on the second floor could help her improve her cultivation, so now she could only take things one step at a time.

It was just that whenever she thought of that old fellow, she couldn't help but grit her teeth.

Lin Xian'er's guess was very accurate.

Wang Jianqiang indeed did not have high-grade Spirit Stones, but rather activated the Array using the Spirit Stones originally on the Altar.

Now, he had already arrived outside a Medicine Garden.

Calling it a Medicine Garden, in reality, the area here was shockingly large, stretching as far as the eye could see.

At a glance, various precious Medicinal Herbs were growing wildly like weeds.

Wang Jianqiang walked into the Medicine Garden, feeling somewhat impatient.

Just after walking into the Medicine Garden, he saw dozens of Xuanyu Ginseng growing in a patch not far ahead.

Xuanyu Ginseng is precisely the core Medicinal Herb for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Wang Jianqiang immediately walked over, about to pick them.

Just as his palm was about to touch a stalk of Xuanyu Ginseng, a burst of Spirit Light suddenly erupted from beside the Xuanyu Ginseng.

Wang Jianqiang immediately felt his palm obstructed, and before he could react, his consciousness blurred, and he immediately discovered he had appeared in an empty space.

Hum~

A mass of Spirit Light appeared in front, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a solid figure.

The person formed by the Spirit Light looked exactly like Wang Jianqiang, and even their cultivation was exactly the same as his.

"Is this... a test for picking Spirit Medicine?"

Wang Jianqiang looked at the figure in front that was exactly like himself, and his heart stirred.

Just at this moment, the Spirit Light figure suddenly attacked him.

Wang Jianqiang moved his intent.

The Perfect Cloud Water Cold Light Sword was summoned, and the Spirit Light figure's attack was instantly shattered by the Cloud Water Cold Light Sword.

The Cloud Water Cold Light Sword paused, then continued to pierce through the air, stabbing through the Spirit Light figure.

The Spirit Light figure shattered.

Wang Jianqiang's vision blurred, and he discovered he had returned to the Medicine Garden.

"It really was a test."

Wang Jianqiang said to himself, and once again reached his palm out toward that stalk of Xuanyu Ginseng.

This time, he did not encounter any obstruction and easily picked this stalk of Xuanyu Ginseng.

Afterward, he picked nine more stalks of Xuanyu Ginseng in succession.

Not until he picked the eleventh stalk of Xuanyu Ginseng did a familiar Spiritual Power appear once again.

Wang Jianqiang raised an eyebrow and did not dodge.

The next moment, he was pulled into the test space again.

As the Spirit Light flashed, a figure exactly like him appeared once more.

The cultivation remained consistent with his own.

After the Spirit Light figure appeared, it pointed a finger, and a Flying Sword radiating a bone-chilling cold shot toward him.

Seeing this familiar Flying Sword, Wang Jianqiang revealed a look of surprise.

Cloud Water Cold Light Sword!

This Spirit Light figure had actually unleashed the Cloud Water Cold Light Sword!

Wang Jianqiang flashed his figure, dodged the Flying Sword's attack, and looked at the Spirit Light figure, lost in thought.

He did not immediately shatter this Spirit Light figure.

Instead, he entangled with it.

A moment later.

He unleashed the Perfect Profound Water Ring, used the power of the Perfect Profound Water Ring to bolster the Perfect Cloud Water Cold Light Sword, and shattered this Spiritual Power light figure with one strike.

A blur passed before his eyes.

After returning to the Medicine Garden, Wang Jianqiang continued to pick Xuanyu Ginseng.

One stalk after another.

Until he picked the twenty-first stalk, a Spirit Light appeared once more.

"As expected, every ten Spirit Medicine is a threshold; exceeding this threshold will activate a trial."

Wang Jianqiang's heart stirred.

When he came to his senses, he had already been pulled back into the familiar empty space.

Spirit Light flashed, and a Spirit Light figure condensed and emerged.

This time, the Spirit Light figure still began attacking as soon as it appeared.

A Flying Sword radiating a bone-chilling cold shot over.

A light flashed on Wang Jianqiang's body, and the Perfect Water Moon Skirt appeared on him.

Moonlight reflected outward.

Clang!

The Flying Sword landed on the moonlight, and the moonlight immediately shook violently.

Wang Jianqiang's expression tightened, and he further activated the Perfect Profound Water Ring to bolster the Perfect Water Moon Skirt.

The reflected moonlight flared brightly.

Only then did he barely block this sword strike from the Spirit Light figure.

His gaze was like lightning as he looked at the Spirit Light figure's fingers, and he was shocked to discover a familiar ring on its finger as well.

Perfect Profound Water Ring!

Sure enough, the difficulty of this trial is increasing step by step.

As long as he reveals more methods, the Spirit Light figure's methods will increase during the next trial, thereby increasing the difficulty of the trial.

If this continues, the Spirit Light figure will eventually learn all his methods, making it impossible for him to pass the trial ever again.

After figuring out the routine of the Medicine Garden's trials.

Wang Jianqiang stopped wasting time and, relying on the coordination of the three Perfect Magic Tools—the Perfect Cloud Water Cold Light Sword, the Perfect Profound Water Ring, and the Perfect Water Moon Skirt—quickly slew this third Spirit Light figure.

After returning to the Medicine Garden, Wang Jianqiang picked all the remaining six stalks of Xuanyu Ginseng at his feet, looked at the other types of Medicinal Herb not far away, thought for a moment, and did not pick them.

Instead, he walked toward a place further away where Medicinal Herb were clustered together.

What grew there was also Xuanyu Ginseng.

According to the Medicine Garden trial rules.

The quantity of Medicinal Herb that everyone can pick is definitely limited, but the quantity picked will vary based on each person's number of methods.

Xuanyu Ginseng is the main ingredient for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, and it is also the rarest one in the medicinal formula.

Other supplementary medicines can be bought in the outside world.

And he does not know how many Perfect Foundation Establishment Pill he needs for his Foundation Establishment.

In any case, the number is not small.

To be safe, he decided to only collect Xuanyu Ginseng.

Although there must be many more precious Medicinal Herb in the Medicine Garden, if one cannot achieve Foundation Establishment, then even the most precious Medicinal Herb are wasted.

When he picked the forty-first stalk of Xuanyu Ginseng, he was pulled into the trial space for the fourth time.

This time, he originally wanted not to use more Magic Tool and only rely on combat awareness to fight the Spirit Light figure.

To lower the difficulty of the fifth trial.

Unfortunately, he overestimated himself.

Although the Spirit Light figure has no intelligence.

Its combat experience exceeded his imagination, and it beat him into a frantic retreat after only a few exchanges.

Helpless, Wang Jianqiang could only unleash the Perfect Small Thousand Mountain Seal again and smash it directly to pieces.

Returning to the Medicine Garden, he continued to pick Xuanyu Ginseng.

After picking the fifty-first stalk, he underwent the fifth trial.

After a bout of fighting, he relied on the Perfect Wind Chasing Boots to suddenly burst with speed and defeated the Spirit Light figure.

Not long after.

The sixth trial began.

After a bitter battle, he unleashed the Perfect Profound Light Seal and won with difficulty.

The seventh trial.

He finally used his trump card... the Small Five Elements Sword Array.

With the triple sword array superimposed, he broke through the Spirit Light figure's Magic Tool defense and blasted it to pieces.

The eighth trial is underway.

He stacked four layers of the sword array and, after a long period of exhaustion, finally managed to defeat the Spirit Light figure with great difficulty.

The ninth trial.

He finally exhausted everything, stacking five layers of the sword array and unleashing the complete Small Five Elements Sword Array to slay the Spirit Light figure.

After returning to the Medicine Garden, Wang Jianqiang plucked another ten stalks of Xuanyu Ginseng.

When he looked at the next stalk of Xuanyu Ginseng, he hesitated.

Once he plucked this stalk of Xuanyu Ginseng, he would inevitably be pulled into the trial space.

The Spirit Light figure of the tenth trial already possessed all of his methods, and its combat experience was even stronger than his own.

If he were to enter it again, there would be almost no hope of passing.

Just as he was prepared to give up on continuing to pluck Medicinal Herb, a flash of lightning seemed to streak through his mind, and a thought surfaced in his heart.

It seemed he still had one trump card he had not yet used!