Chapter 283 (1/2)

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If you say that Esteemed Huai Yu was serious about teaching, then running his mouth dry to impart so much knowledge could be considered serious. But if you say that he wasn’t serious about teaching, which ordinary person could memorize so many things in one go?

However, Yan Tianhen could.

Yan Tianhen cleared his throat and confidently said, “This flower has twelve petals and eighty-eight pieces of spiritual gra.s.s named White Snow Orchid. It favors Yang energy and expels Yin energy, and it belongs to the dual nature of water and soil. It’s a Level Three native spiritual plant and its effects are clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving the toxicity of pills, and neutralizing the strong fire nature of spiritual plants. It can also be used to refine antidote pills such as fire-breaking pills, and can be used alone in the process of refining pills to improve the success rate. As for planting precautions… “

Yan Tianhen looked at the blooming spiritual plant, “Although they like water, they can’t be watered too often. Otherwise, their roots will fester and weeds will easily appear around to compete for nutrients. So, I don’t have to pay too much attention to weeding. However, these White Snow Orchids can’t get too close to each other, or they will devour each other. All in all, this kind of spiritual plant is easy to keep, but its growth period is slow. It takes ten years to blossom and use, depending on whether the spiritual Qi is sufficient.”

Esteemed Huai Yu nodded, “Not bad, not too bad.”

Although Yan Tianhen had just been here for two days, these two days had given him a first taste of Esteemed Huai Yu’s temperament. He knew that it wasn’t easy to hear a single word of praise from Esteemed Huai Yu’s mouth, so he knew that Esteemed Huai Yu was satisfied with his answer.

Esteemed Huai Yu also pointed to several other spiritual plants with small amounts of cultivation and slightly higher ones, hearing Yan Tianhen distinguish them. Yan Tianhen answered one by one, which was no different from what Esteemed Huai Yu explained to him.

Although on the surface Esteemed Huai Yu didn’t reveal anything, inwardly he was very surprised. He explained all these spiritual plants to Yan Tianhen and didn’t give him any time to digest and absorb them, only because he wanted to test Yan Tianhen’s level.

The result was beyond his expectations.

After Yan Tianhen recited the basic knowledge of the 10th spiritual plant exactly, Esteemed Huai Yu did not waste any more time testing.

Esteemed Huai Yu stared at this very special-looking teenager and asked, “Do you have the talent to never forget anything?”

Yan Tianhen scratched his head, “Maybe? I remember clearly all of the books my dad used to let me read and it wasn’t easy to forget.”

Esteemed Huai Yu said, “Even if you have this talent, you shouldn’t be too self-righteous. Most people with high cultivations in the world will never forget anything. You’re nothing special.”

Yan Tianhen nodded dismissively, “Master is right. This disciple will not be arrogant and self-righteous.”

“As long as you understand.” Esteemed Huai Yu nodded with satisfaction, then added, “In front of your master, it is good to have self-awareness. However, when you go out, if you dare to be so humble, don’t come back to see me.”

Yan Tianhen, “…Ah?”

“Ah? What ‘Ah’?” Esteemed Huai Yu clicked his tongue, “Go think it over yourself. Is this Venerbale’s level something you can understand right now?”

Yan Tianhen was deeply ashamed and nodded repeatedly.

He didn’t discover much, but Yan Tianhen did personally experience Esteemed Huai Yu’s narcissistic and conceited nature.

Esteemed Huai Yu didn’t know what the boy was thinking and suddenly asked, “What techniques did you use when you practiced alchemy?”

Yan Tianhen paused for a moment and said with some embarra.s.sment, “It’s not very easy for me to say. If the cultivation manual was mine, I’d tell you what it is without another word, but it was given to me by someone else, and they didn’t say I could tell people… Master, as an esteemed elder, you’re very tolerant, so please don’t ask.”

Esteemed Huai Yu squinted at him, “If you don’t want me to ask then I won’t ask. You little rabbit, I didn’t realize you were very righteous.”

“But….” Yan Tianhen was indeed a little anxious, “There’s no relations.h.i.+p between planting spiritual herbs and alchemy. Alchemy is alchemy, and planting is planting. When I was at the Lin family’s house, there were people specially a.s.signed to handle the spiritual plants. The alchemist would never plant it himself.”

Esteemed Huai Yu just shrugged off his words, “Brat, what do you know? The knowledge about planting is great and profound. Open your eyes for me and have a good look!”

After that, Esteemed Huai Yu came to a Level One spiritual plant field and there were many weeds that hadn’t been taken care of for a long time. His lazy eyes opened and with a broad wave of his sleeves, he used a secret technique that suddenly enveloped the spiritual plant field with a warm but powerful Qi. A moment later, Esteemed Huai Yu lifted his hands and Yan Tianhen saw more than a hundred weeds were all incredibly uprooted while the spiritual plants unexpectedly stayed motionless, as if not affected by the effects of the spiritual Qi!

Yan Tianhen looked so stunned that his entire person seemed unable to speak.

He couldn’t help but rub his eyes, doubting reality. He must be dreaming.

“Boy, what’s the matter? Have you seen it clearly?” Esteemed Huai Yu folded his hands, “Don’t think that I asked you to pull weeds for this Master because I was trying to embarra.s.s you on purpose. You’re not good enough for me to embarra.s.s.”

Yan Tianhen ran over and squatted on the field of the spiritual plants, reaching out to test the roots of one of them.

Flawless and perfect.

He tried it again.

It was still intact.

“How is this possible?” Yan Tianhen murmured incredulously.

“How is this impossible?” Esteemed Huai Yu asked, “If it’s impossible, it only shows that your efforts are not enough and your cultivation isn’t enough. In the aristocratic families of the Upper Realm, disciples have learned to use this method of weeding since they were your age. It’s nothing rare.”

Yan Tianhen came back to himself and repeated, “Upper Realm?”

Esteemed Huai Yu pursed his lips, “It’s also known as the Nine Lands.”

Yan Tianhen stood up, “Are all those elites in the Nine Lands really so powerful?”