Chapter 356

"Bai Bingbing, do you want to compete with me for the Medicine King's Book?"

Hu Xifeng narrowed her eyes slightly, staring at Bai Bingbing with a pair of eyes like black holes.

She got to the top by stepping on Bai Bingbing's mother, so she naturally had no good feelings for the daughter of this love rival.

She even regretted not getting rid of Bai Bingbing at the beginning. As a person with a strong desire for power and a quick mind, she had a premonition that Bai Bingbing might become her strongest opponent.

Seeing Hu Xifeng's sinister and cold eyes, Bai Bingbing couldn't help but tremble. Maybe she now had the courage to face Bai Meili, but she was still quite afraid of Hu Xifeng, a vicious woman.

"So what? Hu Xifeng, the rule set by Grandpa is that anyone who can pass the test can get the Medicine King Treasure Book. As the daughter of the Valley Master, can't I compete with you?"

Bai Bingbing said with a stiff upper lip. Although she was very flustered at the moment, she had to compete with Hu Xifeng for her mother's death.

"Hu Xifeng, Bingbing is right. Logically speaking, Bingbing is more qualified than you to get the Medicine King Treasure Book, so don't waste your efforts to intimidate her. I agree that Bingbing will participate in this assessment."

Qu Changkong made the decision.

Since Bai Bingbing has the courage to come to challenge, although the outcome is doomed, he might as well let Bai Bingbing try it and accumulate some experience.

"Hmph!" Hu Xifeng smiled grimly, "Well, Bai Bingbing, let me see how far you have grown!"

After saying that, Hu Xifeng withdrew her gaze from Bai Bingbing. She had already made up her mind that if Bai Bingbing performed well this time, she would never spare her life.

On the other side, Qu Changkong winked at the eldest disciple beside him, who immediately understood and went to prepare the equipment needed for the test.

Soon, a clerk from Changkong Hall moved a screen, rows of medicine cabinets and decoction tools to the courtyard.

After everything was ready, Qu Changkong stood with his hands behind his back and said loudly: "The old valley master has set the rules. If the descendants of the Medicine King Valley want to take back the Medicine King Treasure Book, they must pass the three tests he set."

"The first test is to identify the medicine. I will boil a bowl of medicine soup on the spot. Whoever can identify more than 80% of the medicinal materials in it will pass this test."

Identify the medicinal materials? Isn't this too simple?

Li Yiyun, who was watching the excitement, whispered that it was difficult for ordinary people to identify Chinese herbal medicine, but for Chinese medicine practitioners, they could probably identify most of it after taking a sip!

However, Ye Xiao was not in a hurry to draw a conclusion. According to Yu Huaixian, Hu Xifeng failed at the first level. If it was just a simple identification of medicinal materials, Hu Xifeng would probably not pass it!

Su Jianxin once said that Hu Xifeng was also very good at medicine. That was why she was chosen as the daughter-in-law by the old master of Yaowang Valley and was personally taught medicine. In the end, Hu Xifeng was ambitious and coveted the power of Yaowang Valley. This is all later.

At this time, Qu Changkong's voice continued to come, "For the medicinal soup I boiled, you can't taste it. You can only identify it by smell at a distance of one meter."

Identify at a distance of one meter!

Li Yiyun finally understood the difficulty. Although she was not good at medicine, she had been to university and knew that the smell of plants would change after being heated and boiled. Moreover, many kinds of herbs were boiled together, which would inevitably cause the smells to mix with each other.

Ordinary people could only smell the pungent smell of Chinese medicine, and it was impossible for them to identify the herbs one by one. Even for ordinary Chinese medicine practitioners, this was probably a hell-level difficulty!

No wonder this was the test left by the old master of Yaowang Valley. It was indeed extraordinary.

After hearing Qu Changkong's explanation of the test rules, Hu Xifeng's face was calm and did not change at all. Obviously, she had known about this first test for a long time and even made some preparations.

Bai Bingbing's eyebrows were slightly twisted. Although she believed that she could identify all the Chinese medicinal herbs, she was not confident in her heart after boiling them.

Ye Xiao was not nervous at all, but looked relaxed. The old man had tested him like this when he was in Qingyun Mountain.

He even had some doubts whether the old man had exchanged experiences with the old master of Medicine King Valley.

Besides, as a warrior, his sense of smell is far superior to that of ordinary people. Not to mention a distance of one meter, he can easily smell the smell even at a distance of ten meters.

Next, Qu Changkong did not say anything more. He went straight behind the screen and began to take the medicine and boil it one by one.

Of course, everyone could not see the process of taking the medicine clearly, but the smell emitted by Qu Changkong when boiling the medicine could allow everyone to make some judgments.

But this also has a meaningNot much, because Qu Changkong added several kinds of medicine into the furnace for decoction at the same time. Often, the smell of one kind of medicine has not yet been fully released, and the smell of another kind of medicine has covered it.

About ten minutes later, Qu Changkong brought out a bowl of steaming hot medicine.

"Who will come first?" Qu Changkong looked at Ye Xiao, Hu Xifeng and Bai Bingbing and said.

"I will come first!" Hu Xifeng said and took the lead.

She knew that the temperature of the medicine was high and the smell was strong. If the medicine cooled down later, it would be more difficult to identify.

Bai Bingbing and Ye Xiao naturally understood this, but neither of them competed with Hu Xifeng for the first move. Bai Bingbing was afraid, while Ye Xiao felt that it was completely unnecessary.

Because he could identify it even if he was standing there, so why bother about who came first and who came later.

Hu Xifeng walked to a distance of one meter and stood still. She closed her eyes, twitched her nose slightly and began to smell the medicine carefully.

After the test three years ago, Hu Xifeng returned to Yaowang Valley and often used the same method to train her sense of smell. Now she has reached a very high level of recognition of the smell of all Chinese medicinal materials.

Therefore, she is very confident about this test. Not to say that she can guess all of them, but there is absolutely no problem in guessing 80%.

While Hu Xifeng was making her judgment, the Changkong Hall disciples who were watching on the side whispered to each other.

"Master, the smell of this medicine should contain Codonopsis, Atractylodes, Poria, and Licorice. I guess that Master is boiling Liujunzi Decoction!"

"No, I also smell Chuanxiong and Eucommia in it. These two herbs are not in Liujunzi Decoction at all!"

"Do you think that Master did not boil the medicine according to the original prescription, but randomly picked some herbs to boil. In this way, wouldn't it be more recognizable?"

"I think it is very likely that the Master must not follow the prescription."

Of course, Ye Xiao heard the words of the Changkong Hall disciples one by one. He just sneered and didn't say anything. He knew that these people were deliberately disturbing Hu Xifeng.

But when he saw that Hu Xifeng had no reaction and was only focusing on her sense of smell, he knew that their plan had failed.

Three minutes later, Hu Xifeng picked up the paper and pen prepared by the side and wrote down the herbs she had identified.

After finishing, Hu Xifeng handed it to Qu Changkong with great pride, "Uncle Qu, this time, I will definitely wash away the shame of three years ago!"

Qu Changkong did not respond to Hu Xifeng, but just looked at Bai Bingbing and Ye Xiao.

"Next!"