Chapter 268
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Chapter 268: The Beginning of the Grand Competition
Elder Han’s final words were like a huge rock hitting the hearts of all the disciples of the Grand Medicine Sect, immediately igniting their inner defiance.
The disciples of the Grand Medicine Sect numbered over thirty thousand.
Although the majority were only medicine apprentices, nearly every one of them took pride in being part of the Grand Medicine Sect.
If it were said that their cultivation was inferior to those from other sects, they might admit it.
However, if it were said that their knowledge in medicine was inferior to other sects, especially by someone who is not a medicine cultivator from another sect, they absolutely would not agree!
Therefore, these Grand Medicine Sect disciples, each with a look of indignation, began to discuss and belittle Jiang Yun.
“I don’t believe it! In the world of medicine, nine out of ten pharmacists come from our Grand Medicine Sect. Disciples from other sects, even those who specialize in medicine, cannot compare to us!”
“That’s right! In the world of medicine, everyone respects our Grand Medicine Sect. No pharmacist has ever dared to act recklessly in our sect, especially since Jiang Yun is not even a pharmacist!”
“His talent is decent, but only when compared to disciples from other sects.”
“Within our Grand Medicine Sect, talented individuals are as common as carp in a river. There are numerous outstanding disciples like Martial Brother Guan, Xiao Zheng, and Li Changlin, all possessing remarkable talent!”
“Even if Jiang Yun has some talent, if he were to join our Grand Medicine Sect, he would just be an ordinary presence. I doubt he could even pass the first round of tests!”
“Brothers and sisters, let’s support each other and show Jiang Yun what a true pharmacist is!”
Watching the angry disciples, especially the local pharmacists and celestial pharmacists who were equally displeased, Elder Han wore a meaningful smile on his face.
Obviously, he was deliberately elevating Jiang Yun’s status to provoke dissatisfaction among the disciples, making Jiang Yun a target and an enemy of the Grand Medicine Sect.
By doing so, even if Jiang Yun managed to pass three or even four rounds of the competition, when it came time to ask for help in refining medicine, no one would sincerely assist him.
In this way, only through him, could Gu Bulao be lured out!
However, among all the pharmacists, only Mei Bugu’s face showed no expression.
He even closed his eyes at some point, showing no interest in the big competition at all.
Jiang Yun, of course, had no idea what was happening outside. After scanning the various herbs scattered on the ground, he looked around.
Due to the formation, he couldn’t see how others were doing.
At the same time, he heard Elder Han’s old voice in his ear, “The first round of the competition will test your ability to identify herbs!”
“Each of you now has a thousand kinds of herbs around you, forming a Thousand Medicine Formation.”
“By infusing spirit qi into the herbs, you can write down the names and uses inside them. If you answer correctly, the herb will disappear!”
“Answer a hundred correctly, and the path out of the formation will be revealed! Once you successfully leave this formation, you will pass the first round of the competition.”
“Time, like a stick of incense!”
Whether in the sky above or in front of each disciple in the Land of Inheritance, a lit incense appeared.
Jiang Yun naturally understood Elder Han’s words, which made him admire the Grand Medicine Sect’s unique research on medicine even more.
He originally thought that in this first round of the competition, a senior pharmacist would simply present various medicinal herbs for all participants to identify one by one.
But unexpectedly, the disciples were tested on their ability to identify medicinal herbs by arranging them in a specific formation rather than identifying them one by one.
To pass this test, one must identify the names and uses of one hundred types of medicinal herbs within the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn!
In fact, this first round of the competition is not difficult. It simply tests whether the disciples have put effort into identifying medicinal herbs.
In short, it tests the foundation of medicine.
Just as Xiao Zheng once said to the Luo family, studying medicine does not require any special talent, it’s just a matter of rote memorization and understanding the characteristics of various medicinal herbs.
No matter if you’re a great healer or just a helper, if you work hard, anyone can succeed.
However, only when we see who truly puts in the effort during this first round of the big competition, will we know the answer.
“Begin!”
With Elder Han’s command once again, the Grand Medicine Sect’s five-year Drug Competition finally starts!
Many disciples of the competition immediately bow their heads and carefully identify the medicinal herbs in front of them.
Some move quickly and even grab a certain herb, starting to infuse it with spirit qi.
Although the spectators couldn’t see what kind of spirit qi they were putting into the herbs, it was clear that after some infused spirit qi, the herbs would disappear into thin air.
Because each competition disciple had a thousand types of herbs around them, at the beginning, the differences between each other were not noticeable.
But as one third of the time passed, the gaps began to show.
Most of the disciples were still surrounded by various herbs, but some of them had empty spaces in front of them.
Especially Guan Yiming, a path had appeared in front of him.
This path continued to spread outward at a visible speed.
“Haha, that Jiang Yun is standing there like a fool, unable to even recognize a herb, pretending to be mysterious with his eyes closed!”
After watching the performance of their fellow disciples, some disciples turned their attention to Jiang Yun, and upon seeing him, burst into laughter.
Although at the beginning, Jiang Yun, like others, grabbed a herb.
However, a third of the time had passed, Jiang Yun still held the herb, squatting there with his eyes closed, motionless.
The thousands of herbs around him had not decreased at all.
“Maybe he knows nothing about herbs at all?”
“Since I don’t understand anything about it, why did I choose to challenge the Five Barriers of the Medicine Path?”
Not only did many disciples not understand this question, but even Elder Han and others who were also paying attention to Jiang Yun had a look of confusion on their faces.
It’s important to know that the time to burn one incense stick is not long, and when they set up this formation, they all had the pharmacist personally test it.
Even with the pharmacist’s speed, it would still take at least one-third of an incense stick’s time to break through this formation.
Therefore, for these disciples, in order to break through this formation, they had to race against time and couldn’t afford to waste even a second.
But Jiang Yun had already wasted one-third of the time. Even though there was still a chance to break the formation if he acted quickly, the probability had significantly decreased.
“Look, Martial Brother Guan actually broke the formation!”
When half of the time had passed, a complete path had appeared in front of Guan Yiming.
With his hands behind his back, amidst a crowd of onlookers, he stepped onto this path and walked out.
I have to say, even Elder Han and others nodded secretly at this speed.
This Guan Yiming truly deserves the title of a genius in medicine!
Although the time is still not as fast as the Heavenly Pharmacist, it is quite close now.
Unexpectedly, just as Guan Yiming had barely stepped out of the formation, another figure also stepped out of the Thousand Medicine Formation in an instant!
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