Baiqiu Mountain is located in the west of Nanyi Town, a small hill of more than 100 zhang high, with a radius of dozens of miles, composed of hundreds of small hills of large and small, uneven heights, so it is called Baiqiu Mountain.

The dawn of the night hung high in the air, and the gray outside showed that there was still a long time before dawn, and the teenagers who were sleeping were awakened from their sleep by a deafening shout.

Gathering at the gate of a large courtyard for a formal entrance ceremony, a total of twenty-five outer disciples dressed in gray coarse linen clothes and six inner disciples wearing blue and gray coarse cotton clothes lined up in several rows on the flat ground, standing there with extremely nervous expressions.

Wang Hong was no exception, his heart was irritable, and a different emotion rose slightly in his heart.

Raising his eyes, Wang Hong found that there were two big people in Jirentang standing in the compound, one of them was not tall, but short and concise, with a serious expression, with his hands behind his back, looking at everyone expressionlessly. The other person was dressed in a brocade blue robe, with a thin body, and he also carried his hands behind his back, with an indifferent expression, eagle eyes and wolf eyes, and his eyes were like electricity, and no one in the field dared to look at him.

Deacon Yu, the four major deacons, as well as the medicine collectors, alchemists, martial artists, etc. of each hall, were very restrained in front of the two of them, and they didn't dare to say much.

Deacon Yu introduced to the disciples, the short and sturdy man was the deputy hall master sent to Jiren Hall by the Pingzhou Mansion General Hall, named Lin Xuanqing, who was a collateral descendant of the Lin family of the three major families of the Medicine Gang, and the thin man was named Huang Shidao, who was a collateral descendant of one of the three major families, and was also the deputy hall master who was delegated to Jiren Hall.

And the well-known Li Houdao Li Tang Master did not appear here, the so-called where there are rivers and lakes there is a fight, the original medicine gang is not very peaceful, after hundreds of years of development, the internal forces of the medicine gang are complicated, among these forces, the Li, Lin, and Huang families are particularly powerful, among which the Li family, as the founder of the medicine gang, is the leader.

In order to confront the Li family and obtain more benefits, other forces gradually formed an alliance of interests led by the Huanglin family to fight against the Li family.

In this way, a system of dividing the interests of the Yao Gang in various places has also been formed, with the family as the main hall master and the Lin and Huang families as the deputy hall masters.

Deacon Yu, as the deacon of the Alchemy Hall, in addition to managing the Alchemy Hall, also manages many sundries in the Jiren Hall, and his power should not be underestimated, otherwise he would not be able to insert the fat boy Zhao Fuhai into it.

After Deacon Yu finished introducing the characters present, the entrance ceremony officially began, and all the disciples stepped forward, dripping blood in a huge wooden basin one by one, and kneeling under the banner of a medicine gang with their legs bent on their knees, performing the most common blood oath in the rivers and lakes. swore that he would never betray the medicine gang, and signed a lifelong contract to die for the medicine gang for the rest of his life, if he violated this oath, he would be pierced by ten thousand swords and died.

This blood-dripping ritual made Wang Hong's heart excited, which made his young heart feel that he had become a man in the rivers and lakes for the first time.

After the ceremony, Deputy Hall Master Lin and Deputy Hall Master Huang did not stay here for long, after telling everyone, don't leave in a hurry, and several pharmacists who looked like followers also left, and there were only Deacon Yu and a few pharmacists in the field, officially teaching the little boys the skills of Jirentang.

Deacon Yu left directly with the fat boy Zhao Fuhai, and the combination of an alchemist and a medicine picker each left with an inner disciple and four outer disciples.

Manyakubein is located on a hill of forty or fifty zhang high in Baiqiu Mountain, the top of the hill is flat, the trees are dense, and the buildings made of bluestone stand on it. The Wanyao Courtyard is the real core of Jirentang in Nanyi Town, which is an important place for Jirentang to store rare drugs and precious pills, and it is also the treasury of Jirentang in Nanyi Town, and most of the money obtained by Jirentang is transported here for storage every year.

And Wang Hong will spend the next three years in the Hewan Medicine Academy and Baiqiu Mountain, where he will learn the true skills of becoming an alchemist.

In the medicine gang, the alchemist is a master of alchemy and medicine collection, and if you want to become an alchemist, you must go through several stages, first of all, the pharmacist apprentice, who is required to master the medicinal effect of hundreds of medicinal materials and picking methods, and at the same time, good medicine can refine three low-grade finished pills, followed by the alchemist, the requirement is to master the specific information and medicinal information of thousands of Chinese medicinal materials, and can refine hundreds of low-grade pills, and at least three kinds of intermediate medicines, and the alchemist is required to master at least 3,000 kinds of medicinal materials, and can refine sixty kinds of intermediate pills and at least three kinds of high-grade pills.

It is extremely difficult to become an alchemist in Yaobang, and there are extremely few alchemists in Yaobang, while there are relatively many medicine pickers, because as long as the medicine pickers have the corresponding medicine collection skills, they can generally become medicine pickers after a long period of training.

After arriving at the Ten Thousand Medicine Courtyard, the two masters that Wang Hong followed, the alchemist surnamed Zhao and the herb picker surnamed Hu, began to teach them a qualified alchemist and a qualified herb picker, the content that needs to be trained, and some things that need to be paid attention to.

After explanation, Wang Hong learned that it is not as easy as imagined to become a qualified pharmacist, but it is even more difficult to become an alchemist, Hu surnamed Pharmacist, joined the medicine gang at the age of fourteen, and after nearly 20 years of hard work, he became a qualified pharmacist, while the alchemist surnamed Zhao joined Jirentang at the age of ten and became a qualified alchemist at the age of nearly forty, which shows how difficult it is to become a qualified alchemist.

There are surprisingly many skills to be learned by beginner disciples, such as literacy, arithmetic, medicine discrimination, medicine collection, geography, alchemy, dispensing, fire control, wilderness survival skills, martial arts, and so on. After learning so many things, how many people can cultivate martial arts to a high level.

You must know that ordinary rural medicine pickers, at most, can debate medicine, collect medicine, and collect medicine in some non-dangerous wilderness, Wang Hong did not enter the medicine collection is from a country medicine picker, plus the other party is more familiar with the terrain of dozens of miles, in order to enter the inner door of Jiren Hall.

But Jirentang is different, it is a hall of the medicine gang, and the gang is one of the five major gangs of the Southern Wei State, with strong power, the main hall is in Yanjing Yanjing, and there are branches in various places, the disciples of such a big gang will inevitably be involved in some vicious fights in the rivers and lakes, and it is completely impossible for the disciples in the gang to not know martial arts.

Moreover, many precious medicinal materials are mostly grown in the deep mountains and canyons, these places are extremely dangerous, and there are often birds of prey and beasts infested, if you want to pick these rare medicinal materials, you will naturally have a lot of skills to learn.

Literacy and arithmetic are to memorize the type information of medicinal materials, because the medicinal recipes of herbs are recorded in written classification, and if you don't know how to count words, you can't master a large number of medicinal materials.

Distinguishing medicine is the need to identify a large number of medicinal materials, because many medicinal materials are similar in appearance but have diametrically opposite surnames, two medicinal materials, one is highly poisonous, one is a healing medicine, how to distinguish this requires the identification of medicine, in addition, regardless of poisonous medicinal materials, non-toxic medicinal materials, cherished medicinal materials...... All are picked. Distinguishing medicine is to identify the name, type, and surname of a medicinal herb.

The technique of collecting herbs is to ensure that the maximum medicinal power of the picked herbs is not lost, and it requires special skills, because some new apprentices, because they are not experienced enough when collecting medicines, often damage the efficacy of some medicinal materials.

Geography is something that must be mastered, because some extremely precious medicinal materials have their fixed growth environment, if you don't know the geographical environment, you will go to the opposite place to collect medicine, and you will be at a loss.

Alchemy and fire control are things that Wang Hong must master, because he is an inner disciple, and several other people want to learn it, but it is estimated that there is no one to teach him.

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Fortunately, there are some things that Wang Hong is still relatively familiar with, and it is estimated that he can learn it relatively quickly, listening to the explanations of the two masters, Wang Hong does not have these things that he feels needs to learn is unacceptable to himself.

The entire training period will last for three years, during which time these apprentices will not have any vacations, and the inner disciples will have two taels of silver per month, while the outer disciples will only receive five taels of silver per year, and the outer disciples who perform well can be promoted to the inner disciples, and the inner disciples will be demoted to the outer disciples.

During this time, the apprentices can also take on some tasks issued by Jirentang to obtain contribution points, which are of great use in the Medicine Gang's contribution points, not only in exchange for their favorite martial arts cheats, but also in exchange for various levels of elixir secret recipes in the gang as long as the contribution value is enough, which is why the number of medicine refiners in the Medicine Gang is small, because if you don't have enough contribution points, you don't have enough pill recipes, so naturally you can't refine pills and promote alchemy.

At the same time, if during this period, if the performance is extremely good, it may also be sent to the main hall of Pingzhou Mansion to study.

After hearing these things, the teenagers who were a little depressed because they didn't enter the inner door suddenly became emotional, and their big eyes stared at Wang Hong fiercely like hungry wolves looking for prey.

Feeling the not-so-evil eyes of a few people, Wang Hong's sense of superiority as an inner disciple suddenly disappeared, and a sense of oppression rose leisurely in his heart.

I secretly reminded myself in my heart, "I must work harder than them, in order for my parents, brothers and sisters to live a good life, I must not be surpassed by them," At this time, the seeds of ambition gradually absorbed nutrients in the depths of Wang Hong's young heart, waiting to take root and sprout