Chen Xuan could only think about the idea of winning the top few rankings.
There are more than 2,000 disciples in the Qi Refining Stage, and about 600 disciples in the Foundation Establishment Stage. Most of them are trained within the sect, or recruited from the immortal cultivation families who work for the Qingyang Sect and are protected by the Qingyang Sect in the southwest cities. Only a small part of the random cultivators with relatively poor foundation qualifications account for only a small part.
Most of these 600 Foundation Establishment disciples have exceeded the age of taking the exam, and there are about fifty or sixty people who are eligible to take the exam every year.
Among these fifty or sixty people, there are many talented people.
If Chen Xuan exposed his strength too much and won the top few places among these fifty or sixty people, it would be a bit shocking.
Therefore, Chen Xuan could only put the idea of earning spirit stones on performing tasks for the sect.
Of course, it is not possible to perform certain difficult tasks to attract the attention of the sect.
"I remember that in the Palace of Inspiration, there seemed to be a task to go to Liyun Valley to collect herbs. It seems that this task is more suitable for me. It just takes one month to go back and forth in Liyun Valley and collect herbs, so we have to make a choice."
Chen Xuan didn't think about it for long and quickly made up his mind.
There are still two months left before the disciple's exam. Although Liao Xun has requirements for him, he will be able to satisfy Liao Xun by practicing "Liuhe Lie Gang Jin" well in the past two months and improve his cultivation to a small success in the foundation-building stage.
So Chen Xuan decided to take over the task of collecting herbs and go to Liyun Valley.
There are hundreds of outer disciples who take on tasks in the Inspiration Hall every day. Chen Xuan finally squeezed to the front and signed up for tasks with the deacon disciples. The deacon disciples were stunned for a while before they reacted.
"Junior Brother Chen, you are already an inner disciple, why do you still take on such a task?"
"Haha, I'm short of money, I hope my senior brother understands."
Chen Xuan's words made the deacon disciple speech speechless.
Who doesn’t know that your junior brother Chen is the most generous. He exchanged for "Yuan Yan Jue" as soon as he entered the door, and then exchanged for "Ningyuan Dan Recipe". It must be a good medicine garden to manage it well, and he was a member of the Xia tribe, so he received a generous reward from Liao Xianchang.
As for Chen Xuan's ability to break through the foundation building in a short period of time, the Qingyang Sect disciples also believed that it was Liao Xianchang's care.
When Liao Xianchang was still a low-level cultivator, he once walked through the martial arts path. This matter is not a secret in the Qingyang Sect.
Yang Chao, who was taken as a disciple by a certain immortal chief, originally did not believe in the news that Chen Xuan had broken through the foundation building, but many disciples in the sect said that Chen Xuan was taken care of by Liao Xun, so he no longer cared about it.
After all, Liao Xun himself gave up the path of martial arts cultivation. Even if Chen Xuan breaks through the foundation, his future cultivation will be far from comparable to his.
Seeing that Chen Xuan really wanted to take on the task of collecting medicine, the deacon disciple could only register for Chen Xuan.
Half a day later, the number of people who collected herbs was fully reported. Chen Xuan and a group of outer disciples who were envious, jealous and hated him set out to Lieyun Valley to collect herbs.
Several of the outer disciples who took over the task of collecting medicine were casual cultivators who came in with Chen Xuan.
On the way, Chen Xuan's eyes were calm.
One month later.
Chen Xuan returned home with a lot of money, and his wealth was so unimaginable that the disciples of the Qingyang Sect’s outer sect could not imagine.
He went to Liyungu to help the sect collect herbs, and his real purpose was to pick three ordinary herbs to exchange for spirit stones.
On the way back, the senior brothers led them to go to Cliff City to exchange for spirit stones and materials for cultivation, so Chen Xuan exchanged more than a thousand ordinary herbs he collected into a total of 143 low-grade spirit stones in Cliff City.
As for the herbs collected by the sect, the rewards in exchange for far fewer tasks than the spirit stones he exchanged for, only sixty-six. This is when Chen Xuan found more herbs than other disciples needed to find the sect.
Most of the disciples who took on the mission with him only exchanged for twenty or thirty low-grade spirit stones, so they were very envious of Chen Xuan. There were also a few who asked Chen Xuan how to quickly search for herbs, so Chen Xuan could only give a little advice.
He relied on his strong vision and unique skills to collect herbs. How could these outer disciples learn it?
If these disciples knew that he was in Liyun Valley, in addition to collecting herbs for the sect, he would also collect more than a thousand ordinary herbs, and he would probably be shocked.
Chen Xuan did not let these disciples know that he also acted alone when exchanging spirit stones in the Cliff City.
In addition, he also exchanged several spiritual herb seeds that were not available in the Qingyangmen Spiritual Hall in the market, and his spirituality was slightly better than that of Cold Moon Grass and Silver Osmanthus.
The first time he returned to the sect, Chen Xuan immediately went to the Inspiration Hall to exchange for Lengyue Grass and Silver Osmanthus seeds, "The First Explanation of Weapon Refining" and Weapon Refining Materials.
After redeeming all the things needed, Chen Xuan's storage bag was just 150 low-grade spirit stones left.
After returning to the medicine garden, an outer disciple in his twenties came up and asked nervously: "Senior Brother Chen, please ask me to take care of the medicine garden for a month. You only need to water it as you ordered every day. Why have the leaves of some spiritual herbs turned yellow in the past few days?"
This outer disciple was found by Chen Xuan to help him take care of the medicine garden. Of course, he did not pay the price of ten low-grade spirit stones. This outer disciple would never dare to agree.
"It's okay, here are ten low-grade spirit stones. You can leave after accepting them." Chen Xuan smiled and handed the ten spirit stones to the young disciple.
The young disciple felt relieved, took the spirit stone with joy, and thanked Chen Xuan repeatedly: "Thank you Senior Brother Chen! Thank you Senior Brother Chen!"
After the young disciple left, Chen Xuan quickly dealt with the problem of yellowing of herb leaves. After understanding the characteristics of these herbs in the past few months, Chen Xuan was not worried about this little trouble at all.
After taking a little time to finish the processing, Chen Xuan began to plant his own herbs and then transformed the spiritual liquid to ripen.
He could only ripen three herbs in a day, and the speed was relatively slow, but Chen Xuan was not in a hurry at all.
It takes more than enough time to ripen all herbs within one month.
The exam is approaching, and Chen Xuan is devoted to cultivation, both physically and mentally, in addition to ripening herbs.
First, you can practice "Liuhe Lie Gangjin" from the first glance to entering the hall, and you can steadily burst out twice the strength.
Then your cultivation level is improved to a small success in the foundation-building stage, and your magic power is slightly increased, and you can ripen four herbs in a day.
Chen Xuan also learned the basic techniques of the Qingyang Gate Foundation Establishment Period and quickly mastered three of them, "Breath-restraining Technique", "Light-minded Technique" and "Flame-making Technique".
In addition, more than 30 Yuan Condensation Pills were refined, and dozens of seeds exchanged for Cliff City were cultivated in cultivation. Before obtaining the pill recipe for refining these spiritual herbs, Chen Xuan could only keep the spiritual herbs he cultivated, and it would not be useful for exchange for spiritual stones.
As for the refining of weapons, Chen Xuan also tried it and successfully refined an ordinary long sword magic weapon with the supreme immortal energy to transform true fire. Then he used the method in "The First Explanation of Refining Weapons" to sacrifice and refine a level of Earth Evil ban for the long sword.
The method of sacrifice and refining in this book "The First Interpretation of Weapon Refining" is only the first nine levels of the seventy-two Earthly Demons, and every nine levels of magic weapon level is prohibited to the first level, which means that Chen Xuan can only sacrifice and refine one first-level magic weapon using this book "The First Interpretation of Weapon Refining".
But Chen Xuan was already very satisfied with this. His Ge Hong Yin Needle, Shenmu King Ding, and the long sword rewarded by the sect also had only one ban.
He used the Heaven-Defiant Transformation Skill to quickly sacrifice the long sword weapon he refined to the ninth level of the Earthly Evil Forbidden.
Just the day before the sect disciples' examination, Chen Xuan finished his sacrifice and obtained his first first-level magic weapon since he entered the Shanhai Realm.