Chapter 3754 — Spirit Herb Cultivation
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Of course, this applied only to certain common spirit herbs. The vast majority of special spirit herbs, being exceedingly rare in themselves, had no store of experience to draw upon when it came to cultivation; their survival rates remained at extremely low levels. Otherwise, if they could be cultivated on a large scale, they would long since have been promoted for planting rather than called rare spirit herbs.
Across the whole of Cloud-Tier Island's North Island, the foremost authority in the planting and cultivation of spirit herbs was, naturally, the Pill Hall.
And this time Hu Yunfeng had brought the Three-Tiered Pavilion newcomers here so that they might receive seeds of various spirit herbs and take them back to cultivate in their own cave dwellings. This was the third stage of the newcomer assessment: the Spirit Herb Trial.
The Pill Hall, like the Law Enforcement Hall, was one of the few independent halls outside the Three-Tiered Pavilion of the North Island whose fame was such that it rang in everyone's ears.
Yet compared with the cold, desolate Law Enforcement Hall, heavy with authority, the Pill Hall was built against the mountain and opened wide to all quarters. In both its architectural layout and the bustle and spirit of its people, it was plainly far more genial and easygoing than the Law Enforcement Hall—at the very least, it did not set a person ill at ease.
And do not forget: that long-suffering senior brother had earlier still been pondering whether to scrape together two hundred spirit jades and come to the Pill Hall to ask an alchemist to refine a Foundation-Breaking Barrier Pill for him.
From the fees it collected each year for refining pills on others' behalf alone, the Pill Hall raked in a colossal fortune of astronomical proportions. Beyond that, the Pill Hall also partnered with great merchant houses like the Hong Clan Trading Company, selling all manner of pills in bulk—another fortune of astronomical proportions.
Add the two together, and the Pill Hall could absolutely be called one of the wealthiest halls of the Three-Tiered Pavilion. Even the Spirit Jade Hall, the hall specifically charged with mining spirit jade, could at best be considered its equal.
And it was precisely such vast financial power that enabled the Pill Hall to gather rare spirit herbs far and wide and to bind numerous alchemists to it with lavish pay. Were it unable to do these two things, the Pill Hall would be a hall in name only.
Led by Hu Yunfeng, the assembled newcomers of the Three-Tiered Pavilion climbed the steps that followed the mountain's contours. After winding past layer upon layer of antique buildings, there appeared before their eyes a lush, verdant expanse that made the heart drunk with delight.
Even from several dozen zhang away, one could catch the refreshing, soul-piercing fragrance of the spirit herbs. This was the Pill Hall's most important source of spirit herbs—the spirit herb garden it had organized and developed itself.
Spanning dozens of mu of land and consuming immense manpower and resources, the Pill Hall cultivated here no fewer than a hundred varieties of spirit herbs. And to guarantee an ample supply of spiritual energy, top-grade spirit jades brimming with spiritual energy could be seen piled here and there upon the ground.
Under natural conditions, spirit herbs have no need of such deliberate measures to grow properly. The garden clearly did so to raise its yield; otherwise, left to grow naturally, a patch of land merely dozens of mu across could hardly produce more than a few stalks of spirit herbs.
Gazing out, what lay before them was not only spirit herbs worth cities but spirit jades strewn everywhere—a sight to stir the soul. The newcomers of the Three-Tiered Pavilion, who had never in their lives witnessed such a spectacle, could not help but swallow in unison.
This place—this place was just damn well a paradise on earth! RS