"Stepping on medicine is a method of inputting spiritual energy into medicinal materials through the soles of the feet for tempering..."

"I would like to state in advance that the task of stepping on the medicine takes a long time and the rewards are small. It is not helpful in improving the realm, but it is effective in refining spiritual energy..."

After Zhao Yu took over the task of stepping on medicine, a dedicated person was responsible for explaining the contents related to stepping on medicine.

"Hello, I would like to ask, what does refining spiritual energy mean?!" This was the first time Zhao Yu heard about stepping on medicine, and he was quite interested.

"The purpose of refining spiritual energy is to accurately control the output and input of spiritual energy..."

"It doesn't have much to do with the improvement of realm, but it can improve combat effectiveness, which will be of some benefit to the path after advancement and foundation building..."

"For many monks, practicing by stepping on medicine is just the icing on the cake, or even useless. Only those children of wealthy families who are sure to be promoted to the foundation building stage will practice..."

The person in charge of the task of stepping on the medicine was quite conscientious. From Zhao Yu's clothes, he could see that he was just an ordinary disciple. After several reminders, he hoped that Zhao Yu could retreat despite the difficulties.

Unexpectedly, after listening to the introduction, Zhao Yu nodded with satisfaction.

When the person in charge saw this, he didn't try to persuade him. He shook his head and said regretfully: "Everyone has his own destiny, and you choose the path yourself. I just hope that many years later, you won't regret it!"

After that, the person in charge handed Zhao Yu a spiritual tablet and said: "The southernmost part of Wangxian Mountain is the Treading Medicine Valley. You go..."

"Thank you!"

Zhao Yu took the spiritual tablet and left happily.

Looking at his back, the person in charge shook his head and sighed: "Another person who has gone astray..."

When he arrived at Treading Medicine Valley, Zhao Yu found that there were more people here than he thought.

The valley is divided into several areas, and each area has various spiritual fields. There are medicinal materials in the fields, and a group of young men and women are standing and stepping on them enthusiastically.

At the gate of the valley, a woman wearing the uniform of an assistant steward took Zhao Yu's token and asked casually: "Junior brother, how is your cultivation?"

"First level of Qi training!"

"layer?!"

The assistant steward was stunned, and looked Zhao Yu up and down, and found that he was only wearing an ordinary outer disciple's clothes, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

However, she had met all kinds of people, so she didn't ask any questions. She pointed to a field not far away and said, "The medicinal materials here are relatively low-level and more suitable for monks like you..."

"Stepping on medicine is very simple. Use the spiritual energy on the soles of your feet to temper the medicinal materials. Each medicinal material needs to be tempered more than nine times. At least one medicinal material must be tempered every day..."

Zhao Yu heard this and walked over. This field is not small. There are many medicinal materials in the field. There are already more than ten people stepping on the medicine here.

What made him a little confused was that in other medicinal fields, there were more women than men, with a ratio of almost seven to one.

But in his medicine field, there are more men than women. Except for two girls who look to be fifteen or sixteen years old, the others are all men, and they are not young either, almost twenty years old.

"Here comes another one..."

As soon as Zhao Yu arrived here, he heard someone whispering and looking at him with eyes filled with hostility.

Zhao Yu looked around and found that the men here were all hostile to him. Only the two girls had some teasing and playfulness in their eyes.

Without understanding the situation, Zhao Yu didn't say much and just started trying to take the medicine.

After trying it several times, he found that it was not difficult to step on the medicine. However, with his level of Qi training, he could only refine a medicinal plant to one-fifth of its size if all his spiritual energy was exhausted.

Including the time to restore spiritual energy, it would take him a whole day to refine a medicinal plant nine times.

For other people, it is obviously inappropriate to spend a whole day without practicing and just waste spiritual energy on such things.

But for Zhao Yu, he doesn't need to practice like ordinary people at all, so naturally he can waste a lot of time.

"Sister Cai'er, if you are tired, take a rest. We are willing to wait for you..."

"Yes, sister Cai'er, your medicinal herbs have been tempered five times, and there is enough time left..."

After a period of observation, Zhao Yu discovered that all the male monks in this medicine field were surrounding one of the two female monks.

Two young female monks, dressed in gold and silver, looked like they were of extraordinary status.

Wearing gold and silver jewelry on them not only does not look tacky, but adds a bit of nobility.

Every time a male monk said something, one of the two female monks, named Cai'er, responded with a smile and said she was not tired, thank you brother.

As for the other female monk, she was speechless and did not respond to other people's words. She only occasionally chatted with Cai'er.

Just when Zhao Yu was confused, the conversation between two people in Yaotian next to him came to his ears.

"A group of people who want toads to eat swan meat..."

"The granddaughter of the inner sect elder has never seen anything in the world, how can she be abducted by them?!"

"Haha, you don't even know the true meaning of stepping on medicine, so you come here to waste time. You are really stupid!"

There is no doubt that these words were spoken to their medicinal field.

Zhao Yu could hear it, and naturally the people next to him could also hear it. Hearing this, he suddenly became furious.

But no one dared to refute anything, they just immersed themselves in taking medicine, even Cai'er's voice became less flattering.

Zhao Yu did not rush to understand the situation, but observed the situation in the medicine field.

I found that throughout the Medicine Valley and in the medicine fields, the medicine-trapping monks were all wearing outer-style clothing, but they had various gold and silver trimmings and jewelry, which made them look much more advanced.

Zhao Yu has also met the second young lady. Even the second young lady of their Zhao family does not wear such high-profile clothes. At most, she wears a pair of earrings and some bracelets on her hands.

This shows that the status of each of these people is no worse than that of the second lady.

The only exception is the dozen or so male monks in their medicine field.

Judging from the ease with which they stepped on the medicine, their cultivation level was at least the sixth level of Qi training.

As for Cai'er and the girl next to her, judging from their cultivation level, they should be similar to him, they are just practicing Qi at the first level.

"Brothers, what do you think of this medicinal plant I stepped on?!"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Just when the dozen or so male monks were feeling uncomfortable, Cai'er took the initiative to speak out.

Immediately, the dozen or so male monks were all beaming, and they all cheered and praised Cai'er for her good performance.

After all, Zhao Yu has experienced several lives and has a lot of experience. He figured out the situation in just the blink of an eye.

This step on medicine, as the person in charge said, does not make much sense to ordinary people.

Even for many monks in the foundation building stage, the effect of stepping on medicine is better than nothing, which is equivalent to adding 1 point to 100 points.

After all, depleting your spiritual energy will not increase your spiritual energy. Only by practicing normally and following the exercises can you increase your spiritual energy and ultimately achieve the goal of improving your realm.

Therefore, cultivating with medicine is of no benefit to monks in the ordinary Qi training period. Instead, it will only be a waste of time.

But for those children of wealthy families who have no shortage of resources and are sure to be able to practice to the foundation-building stage, practicing medicine is exactly the point of comparison.

In the secular world, the biggest comparison is naturally money.

In the world of immortality, besides money, the biggest comparison is time, talent, and qualifications.

It's like medicine cultivation, it has all the elements. People who don't have money, leisure, qualifications, talent and time simply don't dare to come.

This is like a luxury item. The more useless it is, the more precious it is, the more luxurious it is, and the more worth showing off.

Of course, Zhao Yu knew this because it was actually related to Huniu's letter.

In the past three years, Huniu has told many things about Shushan.

The most important point among them is to be firm in Taoism and pursue cultivation of immortality wholeheartedly.

From her letters, Zhao Yu knew that the various arts of cultivating immortality did exist, but he should not indulge in them, otherwise he would waste his time and cut off his path to immortality.

Especially for children from poor families like them, there is only one path to take on the road to immortality, and that is to focus on realm.

As for other alchemy, weapon refining, talisman seals, formations, etc., they are like wild beasts that cannot be touched.

I don’t know how many allusions and examples there are about those young geniuses who were arrogant about their talents, compared with the children of rich families, and indulged in cultivating immortality and various arts in their early years. In the end, they failed to achieve greatness and disappeared from everyone.

Stepping on medicine can be said to be the foundation of cultivating immortals and hundreds of arts. The purpose is to better control the input and output of spiritual energy and perform precise and refined operations.

However, these have nothing to do with Zhao Yu. The purpose of his coming here is to obtain energy.

Seeing the lively chat among the people, Zhao Yu also joined in at the right time.

"I'm just practicing Qi at one level, but I still dream of reaching the sky in one step..."

Some people were disdainful, thinking that Zhao Yu was only at the first level of Qi training, so they wanted to take shortcuts like everyone else.

"Haha, Junior Sister Cai'er is not a fuel-efficient lamp..."

Some people who knew Cai'er sneered in a low voice from a distance, feeling that these people really had the wrong target.

"They think that Junior Sister Cai'er is only fifteen years old and that she is at the first level of Qi training and is easy to fool..."

"But who would have known that Junior Sister Cai'er also has the nickname Little Witch..."

"Shh, keep your voice down, her sister is a protector..."

People in other medicine fields in the distance suddenly became quiet, just watching the excitement and no longer meddling in other people's business.

Here, Zhao Yu chatted with everyone for a long time, but there was still no movement. Not to mention a lot of energy, not even a little energy was received.

This made him frown, and he looked at Cai'er and the girl next to her, full of confusion.

A moment later, amid a burst of compliments, Zhao Yu suddenly realized.
To be continued...