Chapter 17 Handover of the Medicine Garden
The horizon is the golden morning sun, and the plants and trees in midsummer are more abundant in the warm breeze of the morning sun.
Through the mist that has not dispersed in the early morning, along the mottled bluestone path, in the crisp birdsong keeps moving forward.
Soon, after a few jumps on tiptoe, Lin Chen came to the bottom of a hill.
At the bottom of the mountain is a lush forest, and the dense forests are all over the mountain pass, and there is no way forward.
The No. 6 Medicine Garden is located on a hill, but there are some corresponding prohibitions set by the sect around the medicine garden to prevent other disciples from breaking in.
"The sixth tree at the end of the road...... 1.2...... Five, six, what the hell, didn't you say there would be a tree man here?! ”
Lin Chen followed the instructions of the old man on duty to find the guardian of the formation, but he didn't expect that when he came to the corresponding position, what he saw was not a heavenly ancient tree, but a big pit five meters long and three meters wide!
"What's the situation? Could it be that the caretaker has been poached? Just as Lin Chen was in doubt, a cough suddenly sounded in his ears.
"Ahem, boy......"
"Who?!" Lin Chen's eyes froze, and he took out the defensive spirit weapon from the storage bag in an instant, and at the same time, the true qi on his body surged, and countless transparent and imperceptible spirit threads quickly spread out from his body and spread all around.
When encountering unknown situations, immediately do a good job of protecting 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 followed the prestige, only to see that not far away, a lush tree was bathed in sunlight, and a brown human face stood out from the tree.
"Tree Old?!" Lin Chen immediately recognized the creature in front of him.
Ten years of trees, 100 years of people. This sentence was a metaphor in the previous life, but in this world, the Qingyun Sect is a reality.
Under the influence of the Qingyun Sect's Great Array and the cultivators' cultivation exercises, every spirit tree that has reached a hundred years will give birth to a unique spiritual wisdom, and even have a Qi refining period of cultivation.
A thousand-year-old spirit tree is enough to be comparable to a monk in the foundation building period, and a spirit tree that has reached more than three thousand years can even fight with Jindan!
Moreover, these spirit trees can not only be used to defend the sect, but even because they cannot be bought by outsiders, they also guard some key positions in the Qingyun Sect, such as the medicine garden that is responsible for supplying the cultivation resources of the entire sect.
"Uh...... Tree Boss, how did you get there? Lin Chen hesitated for a moment and asked out loud.
"Oh, it's not that the sun doesn't shine much in that place, so I moved here to bask in the sun, you can understand the need for sunlight for us old people."
The corners of Lin Chen's mouth twitched, of course he understood, but the question is, how did you move a tree by yourself?!
"Elder Shu, I'm going to open the formation and enter the medicine garden." Lin Chen didn't dwell too much on this issue, but directly explained his intentions.
"Okay." The old voice of the big tree echoed, and the old face on the trunk gradually disappeared.
But the ground under his feet soon trembled, and under Lin Chen's somewhat surprised gaze, all the branches of this talking tree slowly converged to the main trunk.
In the cracked soil on the ground, countless roots came out of the ground, and the tiny roots clung to the taproot, and along with the thick taproot, they emerged from the soil.
As if it was an earthquake, Lin Chen, who was unstable, watched as he drilled out of the soil, and the taproot, which was thicker than his waist, lifted the entire tree into the air, and the tree slowly moved on the ground with the big tree as if it had grown many soles.
"Whoa!"
As the leaves on the canopy sway, the taproot moves faster.
These thick roots, with the canopy above, walked little by little into the big pit and sat down directly.
Underneath the pit is the spiritual vein node of the entire medicine garden, and only when the spirit tree is located here can it activate or even change the defensive array of the entire medicine garden!
"This ...... Is that okay? Lin Chen was stunned when he picked it up, the tree could speak, and he had accepted it, but this kind of tree could run away, and it was the first time he had seen him.
"Tokens." The old voice of the tree echoed again.
"Huh? Oh. Lin Chen came back to his senses, hurriedly took out the token, and pressed it on the tree, and suddenly, it was firmly attached to it.
Suddenly, an emerald green aura flickered on it.
"Identity, identification, and empowerment." The old voice of the tree echoed around again.
Medicine Garden and other places are important places for the sect, and it is impossible to casually give the permission token of the guardian formation to the disciples, and the guardian must confirm it twice before giving the permission to enter and exit.
"The formation is on." As soon as the words fell, the scene of the surrounding forest, like ripples on the surface of the water, produced silky ripples, and then, the entire forest began to distort, and after a certain point, it suddenly dissipated directly, forming a path leading to the mountain!
Obviously, this long and boundless forest sea is all an illusion created by the illusion, and if there is no token to enter, it can besiege ordinary Qi refining stage cultivators to death!
"Thank you for getting old." Lin Chen saluted and entered it directly.
"Alas, wait......" The face on the trunk resurfaced, obviously wanting to say something, but Lin Chen had already walked away.
"Alas, today's young people don't know filial piety and filial piety to the elderly, that's it, it's okay, let's continue to bask in the sun......"
With a sigh of emotion, the tree shrank again, and obviously, it was going to move back to its original place and continue to bask in the sun.
And inside the medicine garden.
Lin Chen didn't go far, and when he looked up, the whole situation in the park came into view.
Terrace!
Even if he saw it more than once, Lin Chen couldn't help but be amazed.
In front of you is a dotted terraced rice field, one after another, layer upon layer, different shapes, in the sun or in the morning light, like silver ribbons flickering in the mountains, just like heaven and earth!
Each piece of land in the terraced fields is even more lush, planted with many herbs that Lin Chen is familiar with or unfamiliar with, and some plants that look strange, in the light spiritual mist in the early morning, there is an indescribable aura.
If mortals live in such a place to prolong their lives and live a long life, even if immortal cultivators live here, it will be of great benefit.
And the most striking of them all is the giant tree at the top of the mountain. It is as high as more than ten zhang, covering a wide area, the green leaves on it are verdant and dripping, and the whole body exudes a strong vitality aura.
And in Lin Chen's induction, the giant tree in front of him and the formation in the medicine garden were forbidden, and the leyline aura blended with each other, as if there was life, and the heaven and earth aura and the leyline vitality were continuously infused into the medicine garden's elixir!
This is the necessary formation for every medicine garden in Qingyun Sect - [Jiamu Yunsheng Great Array]!
Not only can it speed up the growth of the elixir in the medicine garden, but at a critical moment, it can also be connected to the Qingyun Sect Protector Array [Jiamu Qingtian Great Array] to resist the incoming enemy!
Even though he had seen it more than once, Lin Chen couldn't help but be shocked by the scale of the medicine garden in front of him.
Before he entered the medicine garden, he always thought that the so-called medicine garden was just a few pieces of land next to a house, no matter how big it was, it was no more than a field.
But I never thought that Qingyun Sect would directly designate a mountain as a medicine garden!
Such a large scale really shocked Lin Chen, but if he thought about it carefully, he was not incomprehensible.
After all, Qingyun Sect has to supply tens of thousands of disciples with the pills they need for cultivation, and the refining of each pill doesn't know how many medicinal materials it takes, if it is calculated like this, how can the medicine garden be just a few fields?
"Huh?" Just as Lin Chen sighed, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed 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 hurriedly walked over, this person was about thirty years old, tall and tall, with fair skin, and his face looked a little shrewd, just like a businessman, and his cultivation had even reached the cyclone realm.
"Under the surname Li Mingyuan, it is not yet the handover time for the miscellaneous chores of the medicine garden, the junior brother is too anxious, he came too early, right?"
Well? Lin Chen's brows furrowed slightly, and he could hear the obvious implication from his tone.
After thinking about it, Lin Chen quickly understood, this position is quite oily, and the other party must not be very willing to hand over this position.
"Senior brother, junior brother just came to learn about the position in advance, and it won't disturb senior brother's work." Lin Chen thought for a moment and replied.
"I know that the senior brother has a heavy sense of responsibility, but the sect stipulates that any position cannot be held consecutively, and the senior brother can understand." Lin Chen first stated that he would not affect his behavior of fishing for oil and water, and then stated that this was a rule of the sect and could not be violated.
Li Yuan's face was ugly for a while. He knew that what Lin Chen said was reasonable.
In order to prevent the disciples below from turning the position of oil and water 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 turned this position into a bag a long time ago.
'That's it! ’
Li Yuan's face was cloudy, and he finally sighed.
"Come with me!" He flicked his sleeves, motioned for Lin Chen to follow, and turned to leave.
Lin Chen's eyes moved slightly, and he followed him inside.
Li Yuan walked forward with Lin Chen. At this moment, there were already many monks on the hill who were already working in the medicine garden, or watering the spiritual plants, or picking spiritual medicines.
Coming to the corresponding labor place, Li Yuan turned around.
"You should know the mission of this position, so I don't need to say more, right?" Li Yuan glanced at Lin Chen.
Lin Chen nodded.
The position he now holds is the liaison between the Medicine Garden and the Dantang, responsible for transporting the medicinal materials to the Dantang and counting the number of medicinal materials consumed by the Dantang.
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 monk in the foundation building period, who occupied a position of status, and during his tenure, he coveted nearly half of the medicinal materials in the Dantang and resold them for spirit stones for his own expenses.
After the matter was revealed, the Jindan ancestor in the gate was furious, and regardless of the bitter pleas of the monk in the foundation building period, he slaughtered a group of people led by his only son, with the authentic sect style.
And afterwards ordered that the consumption of medicinal materials in the Dantang was counted by the disciples of the Medicine Garden, hoping to avoid corruption among the subordinates in this way.
But the ideal is the ideal, the reality, it can only be said that there are policies and countermeasures, and this kind of thing will still happen, but it is still a lot more restrained, and I dare not do too much.
"You can come and go as you like in the medicine garden, but every time you go out, you must leave the token with the caretaker to avoid losing it when you go out."
"Every time the medicinal materials are transported, the sect will specially send a specific dangong grass to come...... Also, be optimistic about those miscellaneous disciples, don't let them do anything, you must know that the number of medicinal materials is required. ”
"Finally, and most importantly, it's okay to do it in moderation every time, don't be too greedy." At the end of the order, Li Yuan said a meaningful word.
"Obey my brother's orders." Lin Chen responded.
After the handover, Li Yuan absentmindedly exchanged a few polite words with Lin Chen, and then arched his hand 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, you only take a dozen or dozens of medicinal herbs, and in the consumption of thousands of Dantang, it is not conspicuous at all.
And these medicinal materials, coupled with tens of thousands of spirit stones, are enough to continue my research on version 3.0 of the soul nourishing incense......