Master Mingzong looked at Zheng Qiu and found that the apprentice's face did not have that look of sudden realization, but was a little confused.

So he let go of his hand and drank two glasses to calm down. Master Mingzong narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the clouds floating in the sky and said slowly: "That's right, you are young, and you have never been exposed to cultivation, so it's normal to not understand it for a while. In this case, let's take it step by step, starting from the basics. ”

"You come with me. Master Ming Zong stood up and beckoned Zheng Qiu to return to the building.

Stepping on the Qianyun Ladder, this time Zheng Qiu followed the master to the 40th floor, and the master told him that there were a total of 55 floors in Fangcao Building, and from the 40th floor upwards, all of them were books and materials accumulated by the master to study the herbs.

Master Ming Zong rummaged through the bookshelves for a while and pulled out a booklet. He walked to the nearest table, swept the things on it aside, put down the booklet and asked Zheng Qiu to come over.

"Apprentice, this booklet is written about the twenty most common herbs," Master Ming Zong said as he took a pen and paper and stuffed it to Zheng Qiu, "Most of these herbs you know. For these herbs that you know, you write down the methods of cultivation on a piece of paper, and I will test these methods. ”

Zheng Qiu opened the booklet and read it carefully, holding the pen and writing quickly on the paper. Finding that the apprentice was writing quickly, Master Ming Zong put down the idea of doing other things, and walked to the table to watch Zheng Qiu write.

In less than half an hour, the booklet was turned to the last page by Zheng Qiu, he stopped his pen and handed the paper full of words to the master: "Master, I have finished writing, I know all these twenty kinds." ”

"Well, yes, your foundation is better than I thought. Master Ming Zong took the paper and repeatedly read the method of planting medicine written by Zheng Qiu, and the more he looked at it, the tighter his brows wrinkled: "Apprentice, these methods are completely different from what I usually use. ”

"Ah, master, is my method wrong? But what I have tried to plant, I can grow. ”

Master Mingzong put down the paper and shook his head: "I didn't say that these methods are wrong, since you can grow live, it must be usable." But I still have to test this effect. ”

Master Ming Zong picked up the paper again and studied it carefully, and after a long while, he suddenly asked out loud: "Apprentice, was the place where you used to learn to grow medicine not in good conditions?"

"What is a bad condition?"

"You see, the methods of these herbs do not involve any precious soil, mountain springs, and do not effectively imitate the blessed land environment where the essence of heaven and earth gathers. It's all about the cooperation of medicinal herbs and the planting techniques. ”

Master Mingzong pinched his inch-long beard and thoughtfully said: "With my years of experience, this method of detour planting should not be as good as the normal planting method." Well...... But it's hard to say, you still have to give it a try to find out. ”

Master Ming Zong returned to the bookshelf, rummaged through the cabinets and found a box of dusty books, he blew the dust on it, and poured it on the table.

"These are the lists of basic medicinal herbs. Apprentice, in the past two days, you have to go through all these books, as long as you know them and know how to plant them, write them down on paper. I'm going to have to figure out your basics completely. ”

Master Ming Zong's books piled up on the table are large and small, new and old, and there are very many of them. Zheng Qiu only knew a small part of the medicinal materials in the book, and he originally planned to memorize them while flipping through them, but the master stopped him when he found out.

The master emphasized that there is no need to memorize these books, there is a systematic list of medicinal materials in the building to learn, and messy memorization will confuse people. For the planting methods written by Zheng Qiu, Master Ming Zong has tested everything, and as for the results of the tests, it will take ten days and a half to know.

After five days like this, Zheng Qiu finished reading all the books on the table, and it was in the afternoon that Master Ming Zong began to give him his first lesson.

The place where classes are held is on the 45th floor of the Yerba Cao Building, which is different from other floors where books and materials are placed, and it is quite tidy here. Along the wall of Fangcao Building, there are two circles of bookshelves neatly arranged, the bookshelves are as bright as new, and the books on them are also neatly stacked.

Master Mingzong and Zheng Qiu sat down face to face, and the master took out a book and threw it on the table. The book is not thick, Zheng Qiu picked it up and found that it read "Cloud Sleeve Medicine Record". The master poured a glass of water to moisten his throat and motioned to the apprentice to listen to his explanation while reading the book.

Medicinal materials are divided into two types: dead and alive, with dead objects referring to immovable medicinal herbs and living creatures on the contrary.

Dead things can be divided into five categories: grass, wood, water, air, and minerals, while living things can be divided into four categories: insects, beasts, birds, and monsters. Since the two major categories of medicinal materials are grass and wood are used the most, the usual planting medicine is mainly grass and wood.

Subsequently, Master Ming Zong explained these categories one by one, and kept giving examples for Zheng Qiu to understand. Zheng Qiu followed the content of the master's lecture to flip through the book, and from time to time took notes on the paper.

He talked until the sun went down and the sky was dark, and the master reached out and gently stroked the lampstand on the table, and the lampstone held on the lampstand lit up with a warm yellow light.

One, two, three...... Seventh, eighth, the master talked about a total of eight categories, five dead things, four living things, it should be nine categories, right, why is there one missing? Zheng Qiu flipped through the "Cloud Sleeve Medicine Record" back and forth, and counted the categories with his fingers, and he found that there was no such category in the whole book.

He hurriedly asked the master: "Master, you just said that living creatures are divided into four categories: insects, beasts, birds, and monsters. ”

Master Mingzong pondered for a moment, and the tone of his answer revealed uncertainty.

"Strange, this classification, how to say it, I haven't seen it before, master. However, the three thousand-year-old sects of Cloud Sleeve all have records of this, and the annals of the wandering history also have relevant content, so I counted them. ”

"Master, let's talk about it, I want to listen, I want to listen!" Zheng Qiu's curiosity was aroused, and he looked at the master with blank eyes.

"Ahem," Master Mingzong cleared his throat, "Okay, I'll talk about this classification." ”

According to the records of the three thousand-year-old sects of Cloud Sleeve, strange, unlike beasts, birds, and insects, is a kind of monster that people have never seen. It rarely happens, but every time it does, it's a disaster.

The monster is huge, as big as a mountain, and as small as a cow or horse, and the span is staggering. Everywhere the monster goes, the mountains and wilderness are deserted, and the lives are ruined, except for destruction or destruction.

According to the account, monsters have no intelligence, they cannot understand human speech, and they do not know how to hide from people's attacks. However, all accounts mention that these monsters have a special power, not a physical strange power, nor a strong energy, but an erosive force.

Wherever monsters stay for a long time, their environments and landforms will slowly transform into something similar to the monster's body surface, and those creatures killed by monsters will eventually become new monsters with similar powers to monsters.

However, for the major sects of Cloud Sleeve, strange is a good thing, because the corrosive power on its body has the effect of assimilating the elixir and assimilating the essence of heaven and earth. As long as his body is refined with a special technique to reduce the damage of the erosion force to the cultivator's body, he can make a magical pill that can quickly rise to the realm.

Master Mingzong lifted the kettle and found that the water in it had been emptied, he sighed and said: "Some records mention that there are many other magical uses of monsters, but unfortunately I don't have this fate, and I haven't seen one." ”