Primordial Qi

Most of the disciples of Lingmu Sect came here for the first time. A few old guys who were familiar with the place also came along. It is extremely rare to enter the secret realm twice in one's lifetime. As Li Tianxuan had come here three times and this was his fourth time, he had absolute leadership.

"Everyone, assemble."

After a while, the few hundred people who had arrived at the beginning gathered together. The spies in the front and the people who blocked the road in the back gathered together. It was obvious that there were a lot more people than at the beginning, and it seemed that there were also disciples who saw the mark and came here.

Li Tianxuan looked at everyone, gave a speech, and then issued tasks. One hundred people formed a team, and the rest formed a mobile team to fill in wherever there was a shortage of people. There were four teams in total, including the herb-collecting team, the herb-exploring team, the maintenance team, and the mobile team. As the name suggests, the herb-collecting team is responsible for collecting herbs. Many herbs must maintain their integrity. Many herbs that are transplanted to the outside world must survive. The sixty-year heritage must be used for sixty years. The herb-exploring team is responsible for going deep into the mountains and marking all the precious spiritual herbs in the secret realm. The experts of the herb-collecting team will come to collect them to ensure the integrity of the spiritual herbs. The maintenance team is responsible for more things. Their task is to collect the herbs they see, and to collect the herbs that are not marked directly, even with the soil.

Each team first sent out ten people to plant the hundreds of flags thrown by Li Tianxuan in a circle around the place and mark them with the Lingmu Sect's logo to prevent some ignorant people from breaking in.

The mountain is very high. Just picking herbs at the foot of the mountain has yielded a great harvest. I can’t imagine how many rare treasures there are up there. After so many years, they should have become spirits.

Gu Chenyu was very careful. He took out the elixir carefully without damaging the roots. It took him an incense stick of time to take out an intact elixir.

"Senior, isn't it too slow to collect herbs in this way?" asked Gu Chenyu.

"There is no other way. This spiritual medicine has a very high growth value. It would be a shame not to pick it and plant it."

Li Tianxuan was also picking spiritual herbs on the side. This kind of spiritual herbs was different from ordinary medicines and needed to be dug more carefully.

"This kind of spiritual medicine cannot be harvested at will like other spiritual medicines. If you are not careful, it will be damaged. In this secret realm, it can only grow into a spiritual medicine at most. Heavenly medicines are very rare. Only by going to the inner circle can you have the opportunity to compete for heavenly medicines. The mountain we are on only has spiritual medicines that have the chance to be promoted to heavenly medicines. If we take them to the outside world and cultivate them for a period of time, they may become heavenly medicines. Medicinal materials of this level need to absorb the power of laws and be personally nurtured by ancestors at the level of celestial beings. The Three Mysterious Star Leaf Grass in your hand has the potential to be promoted to heavenly medicine."

"So, the opportunity in the Lingmu Secret Realm is actually a heavenly medicine?" asked Gu Chenyu.

"I don't know. The greatest function of the Heavenly Medicine is to refine the sixth-grade elixir, which can be taken by warriors in the Heavenly Realm."

Li Tianxuan finally dug out a magical medicine and carefully put it into a wooden box, fearing that it would be damaged.

“I don’t know if we can pack all the wooden boxes we have prepared. I don’t know why the brothers in the Herb Picking Hall are working so hard. I think I’m very fast, but they are even faster. I don’t usually see them so active.” Gu Chenyu said. He saw that the brothers in the Herb Picking Hall saw the elixirs as if they were their own mothers, and they all served them carefully.

"When one person enters the secret realm, his descendants will enjoy a peaceful life. There are so many people in Lingmu City. As long as one of their descendants goes to the secret realm, his descendants can live in Lingmu City, or live in a town within the influence of Lingmu Sect, and enjoy the protection of Lingmu Sect forever. Those wooden boxes are specially made by the sect. Each wooden box has a mark on it. Who has collected the spiritual medicine is clearly divided, and rewards are given according to merit after going out. It is useless for mortals to eat the spiritual medicine. If they hand it over to the sect, they will be protected by the sect. There is no need to worry about their descendants. They can even obtain spiritual roots and step into the martial arts, or seek elixirs that prolong their life, which are enough for them to live for many more years. Do you think they can not fight?"

"What we are fighting for is not only our own lifespan, but also the blessings of our descendants, so we must fight hard."

Gu Chenyu suddenly realized. He didn't expect that there were so many tricks in it. The offer was too good. Even if his descendants did nothing, they could still be protected. It was simply a matter of his own generation fighting for their lives while his descendants could enjoy a peaceful life.

"Every time there is a team round, everyone has a chance to collect spiritual herbs. It's also because I, the old man, command them properly, otherwise they would have gone crazy a long time ago."

The people in the herbal medicine hall were really like locusts passing through a border. They picked up all kinds of herbs without any regard for the quality. They put the marked ones in wooden boxes and dug out the unmarked ones with soil on them.

If it is a fruit-based elixir, you can pick the fruit directly. But you definitely can't pull it away from the spiritual tree. If you dig it out, it might die. It's better to leave it here to grow fruit.

Gu Chenyu touched his storage bag, which contained more than ten items, and a lot of food. Being a coward, he prepared enough supplies for half a year. In this secret realm, he could live a comfortable life without hunting monsters.

Lingmu Sect gave three storage bags to the disciples of the Herb Collection Hall, one for storing dry food, water and other supplies, and two storage bags filled with wooden boxes, which were used to store spiritual medicine. After clearing out the wooden box, one could be used to store spiritual medicine. Gu Chenyu took more than ten storage bags and put a lot of supplies in them, including things that Li Tianxuan asked him to prepare, and many things that he secretly put in. It can be said that the things prepared by the disciples of Lingmu Sect are much more sufficient than those of the disciples of the other three sects.

"I really envy them for having a purpose in life." said Gu Chenyu.

"What? You have no goal in life?" Li Tianxuan said with a smile.

"I don't know, I just want to live a good life." Gu Chenyu was also a little confused, feeling that there was no faith in life.

"Living well is also a goal." Li Tianxuan said meaningfully.

Three full days passed before Gu Chenyu dug up hundreds of spiritual herbs, which were enough for the descendants of a disciple in the herb-collecting hall to enjoy.

Gu Chenyu saw that Li Tianxuan was so busy with the spiritual medicine that he seemed to have forgotten about the ancient city, so he asked tentatively, "Which ancient city?"

"There's no rush. If we go now, we'll only see yellow sand all over the sky. It's better to contribute to the sect with all our heart and soul." Li Tianxuan wiped the dirt off his hands. Not only did he pick the spiritual herbs in great pristine condition himself, he also had to arrange matters for other disciples. He was much busier than when he was in Lingmu Sect.

"Then when do we set off?"

"In the last month or so, we can go explore the ancient city." Li Tianxuan shook off the water stains on his hands and said, "I don't know much about that place, but it's obviously not the right time for us now. However, I saw such a strange phenomenon in the last month twice, so we might as well wait patiently."

"I'm not in a hurry to go. I'm worried that you'll run in alone. You'll know at a glance that you're trying to sneak in."

"How can you think so badly of others, kid?" Li Tianxuan said unhappily, but he did plan to go alone. When the time comes, he can just find a reason to trick Gu Chenyu away. He is easy to fool anyway.

Everyone is full of energy and enthusiasm. The disciples of the Medicine Refining Hall are worthy of being alchemists. Their knowledge of spiritual medicines is even higher than that of Gu Chenyu. The spiritual medicines they mark are all rare and have the potential to become heavenly-grade medicinal materials.

A whole month had passed since they had been collecting spiritual herbs every day. Most of the spiritual herbs at the foot of the mountain had been collected, and Gu Chenyu's speed in collecting herbs had also increased rapidly.

This time, they are going to send a hundred people to go deep into the cave to look for opportunities. Half of these disciples are from the Herb Picking Hall, and the other half are from the other three halls. The Transformation Realm warriors from the Herb Picking Hall have to protect the others, so half of them will go.

These people worked hard for a month and performed well, so they had the opportunity to be the first batch to go to the inner circle. The selected people cheered with joy and went directly to the inner circle under the leadership of Zhao Xudong.