Chapter 179: A Hundred Years of Living in vain (1)
Translator: 549690339
Zhen Ji didn’t really care about the fact that Zhu Wuyang was almost out of surveillance. After all, in his opinion, Zhu Wuyang’s cultivation foundation was definitely crippled and her future was bleak.
However, what made Zhen Ji rather annoyed was that before he could take revenge on Zhu Wuyang and avenge his past humiliation, Zhu Wuyang had already hidden in Huoyuan Peak.
Zhu Wuan could stay in the small stone building for three months, let alone in the vast Huoyuan Peak. This little bastard was really patient. Didn’t he feel bored staying in the same place every day? He couldn’t even cultivate.
Before he left, Zhen Ji ordered two early-stage Qi Refining cultivators to keep an eye on Zhu Wuan around Huoyuan Peak before returning to report to Zhen Zuonian.
Fortunately, after a few months of observation, Zhen Zuonian also felt that the possibility of Zhu Wuyan’s foundation not being destroyed was not very high. After all, he had received news from the Zhu Clan’s spies that Zhu Wuyan was indeed hopeless. For this reason, a few elders of the Zhu Clan had even gathered together to discuss whether they could solve the problem with Zhu Wuyan.
Regrettably, they didn’t succeed. Even the few elders of the Zhu Clan had given up, let alone the others.
As for the possibility that Zhu Wuan deliberately hid it from the higher-ups of the family, unless Zhu Wuan was out of her mind and wasted such a good opportunity for the family’s resources, she would not be stupid enough to do such a thing.
On the path of immortal cultivation, wealth was the most important. One could imagine the importance of resources.
If Zhu Wuan chose to hide it from everyone just to avoid being targeted by the Zhen Clan, Zhen Zuonian could only say that he was a big idiot.
What Zhen Zuonian didn’t know was that although wealth was the most important resource in the path of immortal cultivation, Zhu Wuan had the Breakthrough Stone in his hands, so he didn’t lack it. On the contrary, it was overflowing.
“Congratulations to the host for stepping into Huoyuan Peak for the first time in his life. You have obtained a breakthrough stone…”
” Congratulations to the host for joining Huoyuan Peak for the first time in your life. You have obtained two Breakthrough Stones…”
With Zhu Wanzi as a guarantor, Zhu Wuyan successfully became a member of Huoyuan Peak…A small errand boy, or perhaps a preparatory apprentice alchemist. That might sound better.
Because Zhu Wanzi was old, she could no longer refine pills. Therefore, her daily job was to sort and process all kinds of medicinal herbs, and then send them to the various alchemy apprentices and alchemists for use.
In order to test Zhu Wanwan, Zhu Wanzi brought him to a huge medicinal herb warehouse and let Zhu Wanwan start by sorting the medicinal herbs.
Looking at the warehouse full of medicinal herbs, a smile flashed across Zhu Wuwan’s face. This was the treasure trove that he had dreamed of.
Not to mention, as long as he kept three pieces of each medicinal herb, he would be able to bring a lot of breakthrough stones to Zhu Wuwan.
Although the medicinal herbs here were all common medicinal herbs, there were a lot of them. Together, it was not a small number.
After this period of experimentation, Zhu Wuyang had discovered that he could obtain a breakthrough stone after tasting every medicinal herb for the first three times. He had to eat at least an apricot sized piece each time, but there were exceptions for some smaller medicinal herbs.
Therefore, Zhu Wuwan only needed to keep three pieces of each medicinal herb the size of an apricot, and that was enough. Just the warehouse in front of him alone had more than a thousand medicinal herbs. As long as he tasted each of them three times, the breakthrough stones he earned would definitely be enough for him to advance to a higher level.
Zhu Wuyan could also absorb some of the medicinal power of these herbs appropriately. It could also increase his strength.
To others, the extremely boring task of sorting medicinal herbs was a lucrative job for Zhu Wuyang. freēwebnovel.com
Under Zhu Wanzi’s guidance, Zhu Wuwan began to sort out the various medicinal herbs in the medicinal herb warehouse. Information about the various medicinal herbs came flooding into his mind. According to this information, Zhu Wuwan sorted them out methodically without missing anything.
After all, Zhu Wuyang’s theoretical strength had completely surpassed Zhu Wanzi’s.
Zhu Wanzi’s jaw dropped as she looked at Zhu Wuyang who was sorting out the items at a faster and faster speed without any mistakes. She could hardly believe her eyes.
“Nephew…Grandnephew, you…Your speed is too scary. Don’t make any mistakes, or we’ll be reprimanded again.”
“This ??Grandnephew, how did you do it? With such speed in sorting the medicinal herbs, even grandaunt would make a lot of mistakes. You actually did it. ”
” Sigh, I’m getting old. I’ve been sorting medicinal herbs for so many years, but I can’t even compare to you, who did this on the first day. I’ve lived my life like a dog. ”
” You’re worthy of being my grandaunt’s good grandnephew. I didn’t expect you to be so good at identifying medicinal herbs. I’m afraid that there are not many alchemy apprentices in the entire Huoyuan Peak who can catch up with you. You’ve finished the work that usually takes two days in just two hours. You’re really amazing. ”
From the initial suspicion to the shock of prostrating himself on the ground, it only took Zhu Wuwan two hours to completely subdue Zhu Wanzi. He even secretly hid a few medicinal herbs. Even Zhu Wanzi, who had been watching him, did not notice it. It could be seen how wonderful Zhu Wuwan’s technique was and how fast it was.
After witnessing Zhu Wanwan’s strength, Zhu Wanzi no longer had any doubts about whether Zhu Wanwan could sort the medicinal herbs. After completing the work of sorting the medicinal herbs for several days, she brought Zhu Wanwan to the place where the medicinal herbs were processed.
“I’m fine. Regarding how to handle medicinal ingredients, you should have read about it in the ancient records of the stone tower, right?” Zhu Wanzi asked.
Zhu Wuan nodded. ” Indeed, I’ve seen them all. I should be able to master them if you teach me a little. ”
“This is not the time to brag.” Zhu Wanzi smiled and said, ” You only need to remember the characteristics and appearance of the herbs to sort them out. However, it’s much more complicated to deal with them. Not only do you need to know the medicinal properties of these herbs, but you also need to know how to deal with them. It’s ten times or a hundred times more difficult than sorting them out. ”
” Even I, your great-aunt, spent a full fifty years or so before I could skillfully handle most of the medicinal ingredients. I can’t even be considered an expert in handling medicinal ingredients. I can barely be ranked in the top three among the apprentices. ”
Although he said that, Zhu Wanzi was still quite proud of his ability to process medicinal herbs. His old face was full of pride.
“Then please teach me more, Grandaunt. I’ll master the method of handling medicinal herbs as soon as possible and share the burden with Grandaunt,” Zhu Wuwan said with a smile.
“Good child, you’re much more sensible than my boy. I’ve been persuading him for decades, but he still doesn’t want to learn alchemy from me. Looks like I’ll have to pass the mantle that I’m so proud of to you.” Zhu Wanzi’s old face bloomed with a smile as she focused on teaching Zhu Wuwan the art of handling medicinal herbs.