"One cycle for one day, pleting a year, with a full set of 730 in total!"

  On the vast open field, thousands of servant disciples turheir gaze toward Zhao Heng.

  Before their eyes, Zhao Heng had recited the pendium of Spirit Herbs, a manual that every servant of the Spirit Medie Garden had access to.

  The pendium of Spirit Herbs tained over ten thousand words, yet Zhao Heng fwlessly recited it without missing a single word. This feat left even many of the Spirit Medie Garden servants feeling ashamed of themselves.

  This se astonished Zhou g and Liu Hong, while a faint gleam appeared in Yun Qingsnow’s eyes.

  Fag the crowd’s surprised gazes, Zhao Heng preteo be bashful and spoke humbly, "Although I’ve been w in the mines, I’ve always been learning about the art of herb cultivation and am fident I take on this responsibility."

  Liu Hong, clearly unprepared for Zhao Heng’s dispy, hesitated for a moment before voig his doubts again.

  "Zhao Heng, cultivating spiritual pnts isn’t just about reg theory. Memorizing the pendium is ohing, but without practical experience, how you ehere won’t be any mistakes?"

  Zhao Heng grinned, as if expeg this challenge.

  "Dea Liu, how do you know I don’t have any experience?"

  Liu Ho out a cold snort. "That’s easy to determine. Let’s call upon a servant disciple from the Spirit Medie Garden to test your knowledge on the spot. That should make things clear."

  Zhou g, the tensioween Liu Hong and Zhao Heng, hesitated briefly before nodding. He then instructed the dea in charge of the Spirit Medie Garden to personally assess Zhao Heng.

  The dea turned out to be an elderly man with graying hair. Hearing that a miner like Zhao Heng cimed to uand the art of spiritual herbs piqued his curiosity. He proceeded to ask a few obscure questions about spiritual herbs, expeg Zhao Heng to perhaps answer one correctly at best.

  To his astonishment, Zhao Heng answered each question fluently and with impeccable accuracy, leaving no room for error.

  This left the elder deeply impressed. His gaze toward Zhao Heng now carried a hint of admiration, as if seeing a "raw gem" waiting to be polished.

  After a brief pause, the elder retrieved a pnt from a pouch at his waist—a vibrant herb with seven distinct types of leaves. With a smile, he looked at Zhao Heng and said:

  "Young man, do yhis herb? If you accurately describe its characteristid determis growth cycle, you’ll pass this assessment."

  Hearing this, Zhao Heng focused his gaze on the herb in the elder’s hand. A strange sense of familiarity welled up inside him, making the ers of his mouth curve into a peculiar smile.

  "Sir, I must admit, I ’t determihe growth cycle of this herb," Zhao Heng replied humbly.

  The elder’s smile widened, as if he had expected this response.

  Liu Hong, oher hand, was overjoyed. If Zhao Heng failed the assessment, he would have no choice but to stay in the mines under Liu Hong's trol.

  However, Zhao Heng tinued, "That’s because this herb doesn’t have a definitive growth cycle. If I’m not mistaken, it’s a hybrid created by grafting seven different spiritual pnts together!"

  The elder’s smile froze, his pupils trag with shock.

  "You… you’ve actually dised my ‘grafting teique’! Grafting… What a fitting name. Why didn’t I think of that?" The elder excimed in amazement. He couldn’t help but ask further, "And you identify the seven spiritual pnts used in this grafting?"

  Zhao Heng assumed a thoughtful expression before hesitantly answering, "If I’m not mistaken, the pnts include Snow Lotus Seeds, Drunken Dragon Grass, Returning Spirit Red Fruit, Tranquil Mind Flower… and possibly Blood Crystal Grass?"

  He listed all seven pnts in an uain tone.

  The elder was already stroking his beard iement, visibly impressed.

  "Excellent, truly excellent! To be able to accurately identify all seven pnts is beyond my expectations. In fact, you’ve already passed the assessment. I merely wao see how much skill you truly have. From what I see, your knowledge of spiritual pnts in the Servants' Peak Spirit Medie Garden is sed only to mine!"

  Hearing the elder’s praise and notig the shocked gazes from the surrounding crowd, Zhao Heng’s lips twitched as he suppressed the urge to curse.

  You old bastard! Passing the test is ohing, but why did you have to give me ara challenge’? And now you’ve made me stand out even more. Are y to get me killed?

  No, I absolutely ot stay on Servants’ Peak any longer!

  Fortunately, Zhao Heng had passed the assessment, rgely thanks to the te Spirit Medie Garden servant, Liu Feng. Using his memory-plundering ability, Zhao Heng had ied Liu Feng’s expertise in spiritual pnts and the Boulder-Splitting Fist teique.

  The earlier recitation of the pendium of Spirit Herbs and the ao the elder’s questions were all thanks to Liu Feng’s knowledge.

  In particur, the hybrid pnt presented by the elder was something Liu Feng had personally teo in the past. It couldn’t have been more familiar to Zhao Heng.

  "Steward Zhou, Dea Liu, do you now believe I am capable of serving as Senior Sister Yun’s assistant in the medie garden?" Zhao Heng asked fidently.

  Zhou g nodded in approval. "To pass Dea He’s assessment is no small feat. You’ve done well. Serve Nephew Yun diligently and bring honor to the Servants’ Peak."

  "Thank you, Steward Zhou. I will do my best!" Zhao Heng replied.

  He cast a g Liu Hong, whose face had turned sour. Yet for the moment, Liu Hong dared not say another word.

  At this time, Yun Qingsnow spoke up. "Very good. Since you’re skilled in cultivating spiritual pnts, it seems I made the right choice. Pack your things a to Qingxia Peak today."

  With that, Yun Qingsnow left behind a token and turo leave.

  Zhao Heng accepted the token, feeling as though he had grown wings and could fly straight to Qingxia Peak.

  Uhe envious and jealous gazes of the other servant disciples, he bid farewell aed.

  As he left, Dea He from the Spirit Medie Garden sighed wistfully.

  "What a fine seedling. If only he could’ve joined my Spirit Medie Garden. Such a pity that my top disciple, Liu Feng, died mysteriously in the assessment area. Who will take care of my precious herbs now?"

  Cough, cough.

  Hearing this, Zhao Heng gave the elder a sympathetic look and said, "Please take care of yourself, sir. My dolences."

  "Thank you, young man!" The elder replied kindly, watg Zhao Heng leave.

  Meanwhile, Liu Hong’s face was so dark it looked like it might drip water.

  Zhou g g him and said meaningfully, "I don’t care what grievances you have with Zhao Heng, but I strongly advise you not to provoke Yun Qingsnow. If you cross her, no one will be able to protect you."

  Liu Hong’s heart trembled.

  "Steward Zhou, isn’t Yun Qingsnow just an outer disciple? Even if her cultivation is impressive, she’s still no match for yht?"

  Zhou g sneered. "You clearly don’t uand. Yun Qingsnow breaking into the Innate Realm is only a matter of time. Additionally, she has already been accepted as a formal disciple by ‘that person.’ Right now, I ’t afford to offend her. Iure… I’ll be even less able to."

  Hearing this, Liu Hong’s mood became even more plicated. He lowered his head, cealing the mali his eyes.

  After leaving the assessment area, Zhao Heuro Servants’ Peak, quickly packed his belongings, and headed straight for Qingxia Peak.

  The Nine Peaks of the Yuhua Sect were vast and interected mountain ranges, each with numerous subsidiary peaks, stretg far and wide.

  Qingxia Peak, located in the southeast of the sect, was majestid ri spiritual energy, standing as an equal to the ht peaks.

  pared to it, Servants’ Peak was nothing more than a small hill.

  With the token Yun Qingsnow had given him, Zhao Heng easily entered Qingxia Peak’s territory as a servant disciple.

  As he stepped into Qingxia Peak, Zhao He as though he were Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden—a pletely new and dazzling world opened before his eyes.

  Pavilions, paces, and temples dotted the mountain. Glowing formatioed radiant barriers of five cuarding the structures.

  In the void above, auspicious lights shimmered, es soared, and disciples in outer-sect robes traversed the mountain paths.

  Everyone carried themselves with pride and strength, exuding an air of extraordinary capability.

  What shocked Zhao Heng the most was a beam of white light shooting skyward from he mountain's peak, breaking through the sect’s grand formation and asding into the heavens. Within the light, Zhao Heng could faintly dis a figure.

  "Flying through the air!"

  Even though it was just a fleeting sight, Zhao Heng was overwhelmed with excitement. The restrictive formations around the Nine Peaks had alrevented him from witnessing such a spectacle.

  Without experieng it firsthand, it was hard to imagihe impact this se had on a former youth of the 21st tury.

  At that moment, Zhao Heng gained a deeper uanding of the extraordinary nature of this world.

  Simultaneously, a thought naturally arose in his mind:

  "If one day I also fly through the skies and step into the Innate Realm, how incredible would that be? At that point, anyone who wants to harm me—I’ll deal with them first. Just the thought of it feels amazing!"

  Although his heart harbored such lofty aspirations, Zhao Heng maintained his usual cautious demeanor.

  Keeping his head down, he walked along the edge of the mountain path, careful not to draw any trouble.

  Eventually, he arrived at the western slope of the mountain, where a hidden cave estate stood led within a dense forest—this was Yun Qingsnow’s residence.

  The Yuhua Sect had a rule that all formal outer disciples were entitled to their own cave estate.

  However, the location and scale of Yun Qingsnow’s residence made it stand out, even among the outer disciples.

  "You’ve arrived."

  The cave’s door opened, and Yun Qingsnow gracefully stepped out, a flowing white dress with her hair styled in a high bun.

  Even though it wasn’t the first time Zhao Heng had seen Yun Qingsnow, he was still struck by her beauty. She seemed as though she had stepped right out of a painting, so ethereal it felt unreal.

  "Senior Sister Yun, thank you for your assistaoday!" Zhao Heng said, bowing respectfully with hands csped.

  Zhao Heng knew Yun Qingsnow’s as at the assessment weren’t by ce. She had deliberately chosen to recruit him as her servant disciple, a favor he felt obliged to aowledge.

  Yun Qingsnow, however, waved her hand.

  "There’s o thank me. sider this as me repaying the favor I owe you. Besides, you earhe position through your own abilities. Now that you’re here, let me take you to see the medie garden and familiarize yourself with your new work enviro."

  With that, Yun Qingsnow walked past Zhao Heng.

  As a fragrant breeze drifted by, Yun Qingsnow’s elegant figure quickly disappeared far ahead.

  Startled, Zhao Heng hurried to keep up. Now in the eighth stage of the Body Tempering Realm, his vitality was abundant, and his speed wasn’t slow.

  However, Yun Qingsnow’s pace was even more astonishing. Without seeming to exert much effort, her figure moved faster and faster until she was nearly out of sight.

  Afraid of losing her, Zhao Heng adjusted his footwork. His movements suddenly became ghostly and elusive, his speed increasing sharply as he chased after her…

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