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Li Qinghou and Elder Sun exchanged a glance, then Li Qinghou said, "Very well. It's ti to reveal which spiritual plants you've identified. Du Lingfei, you go first."
Du Lingfei clenched her teeth, then pulled out her jade slip and began to speak.
"I saw eight plants, including waterheaven rhubarb, coldsole root, earthdragon fruit, dawnfog lichen..." She continued until she reached the final dicinal plant. "Sealwort flower!" Afterward, Du Lingfei looked at Yan Xiaobao, confident he could never surpass her. Of course, although eight may not seem like a lot, identifying various elents of a fully grafted dicinal plant is an extrely difficult task. Eight is actually quite a lot.
"Hmph. If Yan Xiaobao shalessly says the sa eight plants," she said coldly, "then we can check the jade slip as proof!"
Yan Xiaobao cleared his throat, looked around, then flicked his sleeve and took out the jade slip with his notes attached.
"Let's forget the eight plants Sister Du ntioned. In addition, I saw 67 dicinal plants. Unfortunately, there are 31 I couldn't identify. That ans, in the end, I identified 36." His words imdiately caused an uproar among the surrounding disciples.
"36? How is that possible!"
"7 or 8 should be the limit. How could he find dozens?!"
Du Lingfei glared coldly at Yan Xiaobao. She did not believe his words at all and assud he was rely guessing the types of plants.
"Little Brother Bai," she said sarcastically, "why don't you say there are only 30,000 plants? That would cover everything in the third volu of plants and vegetation, so at least you'd certainly guess so right."
In response to what Du Lingfei had just said, all the outer sect disciples in the audience snickered. None of them believed Yan Xiaobao's skills in plants and vegetation could match hers.
Especially after hearing the last thing he said, which seed utterly unbelievable. Clearly, Yan Xiaobao was just blindly guessing at grafted plants.
"If Yan Xiaobao really could identify all those types of plants, his skills in the first three volus of plants and vegetation would place him on the sa level as Sister Zhou Xinqi! How is that possible!?"
"Ah, he's just mysterious and confuses everyone. This guy is so annoying! At least he'll be exposed as a fraud sooner or later!"
Everyone laughed and mocked Yan Xiaobao, who stood there with a slight frown on his face.
"Are you all finished?" he said, his expression cold, genuine anger finally burning in his heart. If this were a battle situation, he wouldn't act this way. But considering his grand ambition to beco a primary Pharmacist, doubting his ability with plants and vegetation was a great insult.
"You can say I'm lucky, you can say I won because of my magical items. But when it cos to the Dao of plants and vegetation, don't think your superficial knowledge can see the heavens and the earth's breadth and width!"
As his voice echoed, solemn and grave, his slight fra suddenly seed more like a towering peak. He coldly looked at the outer sect disciples, their laughter turning into shocked expressions.
Even Du Lingfei was taken aback. Yan Xiaobao before her now looked completely different from before.
Yan Xiaobao coldly snorted, then flicked his sleeve. Abandoning his usual charming yet burdenso deanor, he stood with his hands clasped behind his back, coldly surveying the surroundings, then began to speak, exuding an odd, indescribable energy. "This spiritual plant, I temporarily call it the black-and-white Orchid, contains gold and silver root, heavenly leaves, water grass, Nine Immortal Fruit, Spiral Blade, edge flowers, wind-exploring stems, Yang Fruit..."
As he continued speaking, the energy grew stronger, causing strange expressions to appear on the audience's faces.
Especially for Du Lingfei, as she looked at the spiritual plant, her frown deepened. She was familiar with all the dicinal plants Yan Xiaobao ntioned, which indeed ca from the first three volus of plants and vegetation, but she saw no evidence they existed within the grafted plant.
Du Lingfei snorted, still not believing that Yan Xiaobao was actually identifying the grafted plant. "It's like you're really reciting a bunch of random plants from the first three volus of plants and vegetation. If you really can recite all these plants from mory, then I suppose I'd lose, or rather, I'd admit defeat."
Everyone started laughing and mocking Yan Xiaobao again.
"Yeah, right. If you're that good, then why don't you recite the first three volus of plants and vegetation!? Then you'd definitely win!"
"Trying to look mysterious, right? Superficial knowledge? Breadth and width of the heavens and the earth? You're the one with superficial knowledge. If you don't know the plants, just say so. No need to try and pull a fast one. How despicable!"
Yan Xiaobao looked coldly at Du Lingfei, then returned to the crowd. Then he laughed, glanced back at the plants, and continued, "Grow Hundred Herbs Root for thirty years until it becos a full Hundred Herbs. Remove the stems and veins, roast, then soak in spirited water. After that, transplant them onto skybleak leaves, and you eventually get this unique mottled pattern." Yan Xiaobao waved his hand, causing a breeze that lifted a leaf on the plant, revealing a distinctive mottled pattern.
"Nine heavenly grass leaves have rged into one leaf, then fed with white thorn flowers as they grow. You can see it here!
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