Chapter 5: Traveling to the Medicine Field

Chapter 5 Traveling to the Medicine Fields
The other side trades such as artifact refining, talismans, and formations might be a bit troublesome for him to learn, but learning alchemy was easy.

This was because the Su family was best at growing spiritual medicines, and had developed over the years in a smooth manner, making progress in both medicine and alchemy.

It had even opened a Dan Pavilion industry in the Immortal Cultivator’s Place town under the Cloud Sword Sect for the sale of spirit medicines and pills.

“However, it’s best to learn alchemy by going to the pill field to become a pill apprentice first, recognizing spirit medicines, and when you’re done learning, you’ll be able to worship your family’s alchemist elders.” Su Yu was a little hesitant.

Leaving the family to go to the pill field, although there were strong family members guarding over there, it would be more or less a security risk.

There were even demonic beasts that attacked the pill field from time to time.

In the dark, one would also have to guard against the Lin family’s bad behavior.

After a slight hesitation, Su Yu gritted his teeth and still decided to head to the medicinal field to become a medicinal apprentice, now was the best time to become a medicinal apprentice, he now had quite a bit of free time every day, he couldn’t waste it.

When he finished his studies, he would be able to learn alchemy, which would be beneficial to his future cultivation.

Compared to that, the few crises of traveling to the pill field was nothing and could still be endured.

Moreover, being a medicine apprentice would allow him to receive another monthly resource.

After thinking clearly, Su Yu looked for the Grand Elder to receive a mission to travel to the medicine field as a medicine apprentice, Grand Elder Su Mengshan smiled, “It just so happens that the medicine field is short of people, you receive this token, I’ll have someone take you to the medicine field to look for your Uncle Changyu, he’s a veteran pharmacist, it’s absolutely right to learn the art by following him.”

Taking the identity token for entering and exiting the pill field array, Su Yu followed an elder of the family at the sixth level of the Qi refining realm to the pill field.

The medicinal field was not far from Jiang Cheng, but it was also several hundred miles away, in the middle of a barren mountain range, with a size of tens of thousands of acres.

Only due to the problem of spiritual qi, this medicine field although able to plant spiritual medicine, but at most only able to plant some not too expensive first-order spiritual medicine, able to let the Su family earn some money to have a foothold in the foundation, but want to make a fortune is not possible.

This medicine field is the Su family’s most important foundation, with layers of large array guard, relying on the identity token to enter the medicine field, the eyes opened up, a number of cloudy shrouded mountains as well as the valley appeared in front of us.

Su Yu’s heart eeped lightly, he found that the aura here in the medicine field was even denser than the Su family residence.

The medicinal field was huge, there were not many people from the Su family here, besides the hundreds of Immortal cultivators, there were hundreds of ordinary clansmen and handymen.

On a half-mountainside, a large manor was built, with hundreds of small houses in a forest.

Su Changyu, an Immortal Cultivator who had stayed in the medicinal field for nearly thirty years, was only barely able to cultivate because his spiritual root talent wasn’t very good, so for decades, his cultivation was still only at the third level of the Qi Refining Realm.

Because of this, he chose to stay in the pill field to be in charge of planting spirit medicines, as well as training pill masters and apprentices for the family.

When he met him, Su Changyu was busy working in the pill field with three pill apprentices.

“Changyu, brought you a newcomer, his name is Su Yu, he will be working as a pill apprentice with you from now on.” Handing Su Yu over to Su Changyu, that elder who brought Su Yu here did not stay and then left the medicine field.

Su Changyu looked like a crop farmer, his body was not tall, around seven feet, wearing an ordinary lab coat singlet, his skin was dark, and his body was stout with a simple appearance.

Looking at Su Yu’s clean brocade clothes, Su Changyu laughed and said, “It’s good to come, young people have to learn some crafts, can’t rely on the family to support their whole life, not to mention wanting to raise a wife and children, it’s all the more important to work hard.”

He was surrounded by three medicine apprentices, all older than Su Yu, the youngest of which was already in his twenties, and had been here in the medicine field for five or six years.

The oldest was already in his thirties.

If this age stayed any longer, it would be enough to take on the role of a Pill Master in the Pill Field.

There were only two places for pill apprentices in the pill field to go, one was to stay in the pill field and wait for the day when they could become pill masters on their own.

One is to leave and find the opportunity to learn from an alchemist as an apprentice alchemist, and perhaps one day become a full-fledged alchemist.

Only, there were not many such opportunities.

The three apprentices who were busy nearby just glanced at Su Yu, smiled and nodded gently as a greeting, and then continued to be busy.

Su Yu bent down and bowed, saying rather respectfully, “Teacher.”

Su Changyu smiled and nodded, taking out a booklet and handing it to him, saying, “Here are the records of the spirit medicines planted in the medicinal field, including the medicinal properties, growth habits, and so on, as well as a couple of spells that need to be used to plant the spirit medicines.”

“By the way, what kind of techniques did you practice?”

Su Yu said, “Sycamore Greenwood Skill, currently the second layer.”

Su Changyu’s eyes sparkled and said, “This gong method is good, you have learned the Spirit Nurturing Technique, right?”

Su Yu nodded, “Yes.”

Su Changyu happily said, “Then give you half a month’s time to memorize this booklet, and then I will bring you to plant spirit medicine.” The booklet was a good thing, after Su Yu thanked Su Changyu, then under Su Changyu’s arrangement, he checked into an empty house in the Pill Field Manor, temporarily settling down here.

Every day, apart from cultivating the gongfu technique as well as the body refining technique, he was familiarizing himself with the knowledge of that booklet about the habits of various spirit medicines.

This was the foundation of a Pill Master, and it was also the foundation of becoming an Alchemist.

In addition to the knowledge of spiritual medicines, there were also several spells recorded at the back, including the water attribute’s Spiritual Rain Technique, the earth attribute’s Earth Spirit Technique, the wood attribute’s Spirit Nurturing Technique, and so on, and there was another spell for the wood attribute, called the Embracing Spirit Technique.

The function is that the divine sense contains the wood spirit, expanding the sensitivity of the divine sense as well as the range of perception, practiced to a high depth, a thought can perceive the growth of the nearby spiritual herbs.

The wood spirit cultivated by this spell can not only be used to grow medicinal herbs, it can also be used as a guard or to explore medicinal herbs in the wild, its role should not be underestimated.

In addition, this spell is also very helpful for practicing alchemy to become an alchemist, with many benefits.

It’s just that it’s harder to practice.

Of course, this was for other people, for Su Yu it was just a matter of how long it took to accumulate proficiency.

The moment he saw this spell, Su Yu decided to practice the Spirit Embracing Art next.

The surprise was that the spiritual qi here in the medicinal field was denser than over at the mansion, and Su Yu’s cultivation speed slightly increased.

On the third night of Su Yu’s arrival at the medicinal field, suddenly a few cries of alarm came from outside: “Demonic beast, quick, stop it, it’s here to steal the spirit medicine again!”

After a while of noise, the commotion only subsided, it seemed that two demonic beasts were killed, but there were also demonic beasts that escaped.

Originally, Su Yu thought that it was just the demonic beasts outside that were attracted to the medicinal field and unintentionally intruded into it.

But after a few days, the medicine field once again showed traces of demonic beasts.

This time, he then heard the murmurs of several senior brothers outside.

“It’s here again, why do demonic beasts appear so often these days?”

“I’ve heard that this demonic beast is called the Earth Rock Beast, it’s a swarming demonic beast that lives under the ground, and”

“It is said that most of the Earth Rock Beast demonic beast swarms will be perched on top of spirit veins.”

“It can’t be? Is it hard to believe that what was rumored before is true?”

“Eight or nine is not far from the truth, didn’t Master say before that he wouldn’t even allow this matter to be discussed.”

“That’s great, it’s right not to let it be discussed, if that’s really the case, then my Su family might be able to soar to the heavens and surpass the Lin family in one fell swoop.”

Su Yu in the room listened as her heart thumped.

Earth Rock Beast?
This kind of small demonic beast he was familiar with ah, shaped like a mouse and the size of a cat or dog.

It was good at digging holes, whether it was dirt or rock.

It is a kind of swarming demonic beast that he often cleaned up in the pre-cultivation game in his previous life, and its living habit is to use the spiritual vein as a habitat, and feed on the spiritual stones or the nearby rocks.

So for the sake of the safety of the spirit veins, the Earth Rock Beasts need to be cleared frequently to be able to do so.

Judging from the current situation of the medicinal field, the Earth Rock Beast should have just appeared here, and that would indicate.

There was a high possibility that there was a first rank spirit vein hidden underneath the pill field, or near the pill field.

That is, the worst spirit vein.

But even if it was the worst spirit vein, it was still a spirit vein.

Whether it was the Su Family or the Lin Family, neither of them had a spirit vein as the foundation for their own legacy.

If this news got out, would the Lin Family stand by and watch the Su Family monopolize the Spirit Vein?

There were also nearby Immortal Cultivation forces or clans that would probably catch wind of this.

Then at that time, the medicinal field, would be in danger.

At the thought of this, Su Yu was instantly fidgety.

(End of chapter)