Volume 1 [Initial Cultivation] Chapter 5 Miscellaneous Service Assessment
The assessment content of the miscellaneous disciples is to collect medicinal materials, and the top few who collect the most medicinal materials and have the most value within the specified time will pass the assessment.
In addition to talent and perseverance, cultivation also needs to look at opportunity, that is, luck, and the trial of collecting medicinal materials also needs to rely on luck.
Those who are lucky can easily collect valuable medicinal materials, but those who are unlucky can only collect worthless medicinal materials or cannot collect them at all.
There are a lot of medicinal herbs in the back mountains of the Xuanyuan Sect, and of course, there are many beasts, after all, if you want to get good things, you naturally need to take risks to get them.
However, it is divided into two areas, the inner and outer areas, and the place where Zhao Dong and them tried is the outer area, and there are no powerful beasts in this area.
After arriving at the outer area of the back mountain of the sect, the rugged man handed out a basket to everyone and said, "Next, you will go into the mountain to collect medicinal materials, gather here before dark, and then make statistics, the most collected medicinal materials and the most valuable ones can become miscellaneous disciples." ”
After hearing the rough man's words, everyone poured into the mountains, looking for medicinal herbs in the mountains.
However, a few people did not act, but slowly rested on the side, and the rough man naturally understood their thoughts.
Isn't he going to rob them when they come back from collecting the herbs? These are the leftovers of what they had left, but he won't do anything to stop them.
Because this itself is a world of the jungle, it's not that what you get is yours, it's one thing for you to get it, and it's another thing for whoever you get in the end.
After Zhao Dong entered the back mountain, he went to some damp and high places, and Zhao Dong followed his father to hunt since he was a child, so he knew where most medicinal herbs liked to grow.
In addition to dealing with people, those beasts also know how to take medicinal herbs, so it is easier to gather wild beasts in the place where medicinal herbs grow, so you need to be careful.
Although the beasts do not use medicinal herbs in conjunction with other medicines like humans, they only swallow dates, but they also know that eating medicinal herbs when injured can make their injuries recover faster.
Zhao Dong found some broken bamboo, and after processing, he had a simple medicine collection tool, which means that Zhao Dong knew what to do only after some knowledge of medicine collection.
After others joined Houshan, some people also collected medicinal herbs one after another, but most of them were worthless.
However, there are also people who are lucky enough to collect valuable medicinal materials, and of course, only one or two people who are lucky enough to collect them.
At this time, Zhao Dong also collected the first medicinal herb, a crane grass, which can only be regarded as average in terms of value.
Although this medicinal herb is not particularly valuable, it is also a good start, which also gives Zhao Dong a lot of confidence in the next collection.
It didn't take long for a medicinal herb to appear in front of Zhao Dong, although he didn't know what kind of medicinal herb this herb was, but Zhao Dong knew that the value of this medicinal herb was definitely very high.
Because there was a wounded tiger staring at him on the other side, this tiger was probably ready to come and swallow this herb to heal his wounds.
Zhao Dong actually didn't know that this medicinal herb was a heavenly and earthly treasure, and the reason why this tiger was injured was also because of what he suffered in order to protect this heavenly material.
Heavenly materials and earth treasures are a general term, and elixir and spiritual materials can be called heavenly materials and earth treasures.
Elixir is a medicinal herb as the name suggests, but this medicinal material is completely different from the medicinal herb in the ordinary population.
Elixirs are divided into grades according to the different auras contained in the spirits, and there is no clear grade distinction like those ordinary medicinal materials.
Spiritual materials, on the other hand, are their own mineral materials, and like elixirs, they are divided into grades based on factors such as spiritual power.
The elixir and spiritual materials are divided into nine grades, which are just the opposite of the grade of the spiritual root.
And aura is what cultivators need, so cultivators have a lot of needs for heaven and earth treasures.
Beasts don't use medicinal herbs to make pills like humans, most of them wait until the elixir is ripe and swallow it directly.
This tiger is also unlucky, he has just solved a powerful beast and is about to swallow the elixir but meets Zhao Dong.
If it is in its heyday now, it is very simple to deal with a little guy like Zhao Dong, but now it is seriously injured, and it is not completely sure that it will not dare to shoot casually.
It was worried that Zhao Dong didn't come alone, and if his movements were too big, it would not be fun to recruit Zhao Dong's companions.
Zhao Dong has been hunting with his father and knows a lot about wild beasts, and when he saw that the tiger did not make a move, he immediately understood the wound on its body, and it was seriously injured.
Zhao Dong, who was originally about to leave, suddenly had a bold idea to snatch this elixir from the tiger's mouth.
There is no way to suppress this idea as soon as it arises, after all, the temptation is too great to resist it.
Zhao Dong didn't have anything in his hand except for the thing made of bamboo to collect medicinal herbs, but this thing didn't have any lethality at all.
Although he has hunting experience, it is all when he has a weapon in hand, and now this situation Zhao Dong has really not encountered.
However, Zhao Dong knew that he didn't need to be in a hurry, because the wound on the tiger's body had not stopped bleeding and the blood was still flowing, which showed that this guy was more anxious than himself.
If it didn't take this medicinal herb, it would probably not be far from fainting or even dying, which was a particularly favorable situation for Zhao Dong.
The tiger also seemed to see that Zhao Dong had such an idea, and he couldn't care so much, so he forcibly raised his strength to attack him.
It is not good for it to continue to drag on, but it is very good for Zhao Dong, it must be resolved quickly, otherwise it will end badly.
In the face of the tiger's attack, Zhao Dong dodged to the side, but he was still a little unable to dodge, and some skin was cut on his face by his sharp claws.
The pain on his face also calmed down Zhao Dong, the hundred-legged insect died but did not stiffen, not to mention that this was still a tiger?
Zhao Dong only realized how stupid his idea was just now, but now that the tiger had begun to attack him, there was no way to escape.
In the case of a shot, the tiger's blood stays faster, but Zhao Dong may not be able to hold on until the tiger falls.
Seeing that the tiger flew over and frightened Zhao Dong directly climbed up, and the crane grass in the basket also fell.
Just before Zhao Dong could react, the tiger pounced on the Crane Grass, and then Zhao Dong realized that the tiger's target this time was the Crane Grass instead of him.
Zhao Dong hurriedly collected the elixir and fled, and at this time, the tiger had already swallowed the crane grass to temporarily stop the bleeding.
After finding out that no one else had appeared, the tiger also knew that Zhao Dong had only come here alone, so he didn't need to worry too much.
It found that Zhao Dong had taken the elixir away, and angrily chased it in the direction where Zhao Dong had fled, but because it was in the woods, although its speed was faster than Zhao Dong, because it was injured enough, Zhao Dong was not flexible enough and couldn't catch up with Zhao Dong for a while.
Zhao Dong looked at the elixir in his arms and felt a little unreal, he never thought that he really snatched this elixir from this tiger's mouth.
Soon Zhao Dong was pulled back to reality by the angry howl of the tiger behind him, after all, there was an angry tiger chasing him behind him.
Zhao Dong's situation here is not very good, and the situation of the others is not much better, basically they have encountered wild beasts.
After all, these beasts also understand the benefits of medicinal materials, so there will be beasts guarding them next to valuable medicinal materials.
It's just that they either don't encounter such a ferocious beast as a tiger, or they are all self-aware to go to the next location, so compared to others, Zhao Dong is still the worst.
Zhao Dong wanted to lure the tiger to the gathering point and let the rough man solve it, but he was forced by the tiger and didn't even have time to distinguish the direction, let alone go to the gathering point.
And as time passed, those who collected medicinal materials also returned to the vicinity of the gathering point, and those who were ready to grab the medicinal materials were also smart to grab them farther away from the gathering point.
"What do you want to do?" a thin man looked at the strong men in front of him and nervously hugged his basket.
"We don't want to do anything, we just need you to give us half of the medicinal materials in your basket. "I have to say that these people are very smart.
If you want all the medicinal materials, maybe the other party will jump over the wall in a hurry, but it's not too much to ask for half of them, because even if you fail the assessment, those medicinal materials can be exchanged for silver taels and taken away.
"How can you do this? It's rare not to be afraid of being disqualified?" the thin man's words startled them, but they recovered quickly.
After all, this place is not too far from the gathering point, and if the rugged man wanted to stop them, he should have already made a move.
"Hurry up and give us half of your medicinal materials, or if we wait for our own action, we won't want half but all of them at that time." The men said viciously to the thin man.
Although the thin men were unwilling, they had no choice but to obediently give half of the medicinal materials in their baskets.
Although it was some distance from the gathering point, everything was seen by the rugged man, who did not stop it, but acquiesced.
And he is very satisfied with the behavior of these people as long as half of them, because only by being a man can he live longer.
The thin man came over and was about to tell the rugged man what those people had just done, but the rugged man spoke first, "You don't have to say it, I know. ”
"You got it, but you didn't keep it, that means that the thing is not yours, only what you keep can be yours. The rugged man said so, and the thin man didn't say anything more.
As more and more people came back, there were more and more medicinal materials in the baskets of those people.
Of course, it can't always be successful, and there are ten people who come back at the same time, and they know that they can't make a move, so they just let them go.
However, if they are left alone or only two or three people come back, they will shoot, so that each of them has a basket that cannot fit a little.
Suddenly, they saw a man running in front of them, and they were about to make a move when they were startled by the tiger behind the guy.
This person is Zhao Dong, who finally found his way back to the gathering point after running around.
If it weren't for the tiger's wound cracking open again to look for herbs because of the medicinal effect of the crane grass in the past and running too much, Zhao Dong might have been buried in the tiger's belly.
The fellows didn't even have time to grab their baskets before they ran to the gathering point, and the rugged men came over to them.
The rough man came to the tiger and punched him away, and after the tiger landed, he looked at the rough man and left a little unwillingly.
Although the rugged man could have killed the tiger, he didn't, after all, it was a pity for a tiger to kill like this.
"Boy, you'd better give me an explanation. The rugged man was naturally unhappy with such a situation, so he didn't have a good face for Zhao Dong.
"Senior brother, the reason why this tiger is chasing me is because I picked a medicinal herb. I don't know what kind of medicine this herb is" Zhao Dong took out the herb from his arms and handed it to the rugged man, Zhao Dong was in a very nervous mood now.
He didn't know what his medicinal herb was, if it wasn't of high value, then he would not only fail the assessment, but also might offend this rugged man.
The rugged man who took the medicinal herbs handed over by Zhao Dong couldn't help but exclaim, "Tiger Extension Grass", although Zhao Dong didn't know what this Tiger Extension Grass was for, but Zhao Dong knew from the rough man's tone that the value of this medicinal herb was good.
"Very good, I am very satisfied with this explanation. The value of your medicinal herbs is very high, and you can directly pass the assessment of the miscellaneous disciples. The rugged man took Hu Yancao and patted Zhao Dong on the shoulder.
Hearing that he had passed the assessment, Zhao Dong breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "Thank you, senior brother." ”
Since Zhao Dong passed the assessment, he also had time to see how other people had gained, but when he looked at it, he found that there were a lot of medicinal materials in other people's baskets.
This is also because Zhao Dong has been chased by tigers and has no time to collect, otherwise Zhao Dong should have collected about the same amount.