YM778.TV Chapter 238 - 238: Purple Bamboo Pavilion
After glancing at the now tattered Red Blood Grass in his hand, Song Jian threw it away casually.
Broken herbs had no value, they couldn’t be used for alchemy or sold. However, gathering just one allowed Song Jian to comprehend the “Medicine Gathering Skill”, which was a nice little surprise.
Song Jian began to wander around the edge of the woods. This place must have existed for a long time, with plenty of herbs in the forest. He would find one every few steps.
Canaan stood by the window of the bamboo house, watching Song Jian digging in the soil under the trees. He couldn’t help but curl his lips and yawn, before turning and lying down on the cleaned bamboo bed.
Song Jian was a novice herb gatherer and didn’t have a suitable tool for gathering herbs. After gathering more than ten plants, he ended up with nothing but “broken herbs”, which made him feel a little impatient.
“Since being careful doesn’t yield intact herbs and wastes time, it’s better to just use Experience Points instead.” Song Jian thought to himself.
The next moment, Song Jian approached a Red Blood Grass plant, inserted his hands directly into the soil and pulled the herb out.
There was only a small section of the root left in his hand, with a long part of the root remaining in the ground.
System: You have gathered a “broken herb” and gained 1 Gathering Experience point;
“Hehe.” Seeing the system message, Song Jian laughed, threw the herb away casually, and continued towards the next plant.
In this way, Song Jian’s speed in gaining gathering experience greatly increased. If this was in the real world, such gathering would bring no benefit and waste herbs; but now in the game, even the most broken herbs would add a point of gathering experience for Song Jian.
In half an hour, Song Jian gathered more than sixty herbs, several times faster than before. Although he didn’t have a successful gathering attempt, his gathering experience had accumulated to eighty-two points;
“With this gathering method, I don’t believe that 1 will still get broken herbs after the level of Medicine Gathering Skill increases.” Song Jian thought to himself.
After twenty more minutes, Song Jian finally maxed out his gathering experience for his Medicine Gathering Skill.
System: Your Medicine Gathering Skill level has increased to level 2. [Medicine Gathering Skill]: Passive, level 2,10% efficiency increase when gathering herbs, +1 gathering success rate.
Seeing the “+1 gathering success rate” attribute after his Medicine Gathering Skill increased to level 2, Song Jian knew his efforts were in the right direction.
Such gathering was very destructive, but these herbs were not painstakingly cultivated by Song Jian. He wouldn’t feel bad even if he wasted them.
After his Medicine Gathering Skill level increased, Song Jian continued his previous gathering style. The first herb he pulled out was still a “broken herb”, adding one point to his gathering experience.
To advance his level 2 Gathering Skill to level 3, he needed 200 Gathering Experience points. For Song Jian, this just meant pulling out 200 herbs.
After more than two hours, Song Jian’s Gathering Skill reached level 3. He was tired and sore from all the work, and there were broken herbs scattered all over the forest. Surprisingly, he hadn’t managed to gather even a single intact herb during all that time.
[Medicine Gathering Skill]: Passive, level 3,15% efficiency increase when gathering herbs, +2 gathering success rate
After resting for a short time under a big tree, Song Jian walked deeper into the forest. Most of the herbs near the edge of the forest had been uprooted by him, so he had to search further in.
There were many more herbs deep in the forest, but they were all low-level ones: Red Blood Grass for making basic healing potions, Silver Leaf Grass for making basic recovery potions, and Black Thorn Grass for making basic defense potions.
These herbs were not valuable, and most importantly, Song Jian didn’t have the related alchemy recipes. Even if he successfully gathered some intact herbs with great care, it would be useless. It was better to continue gathering quickly like this, at least he could increase his Medicine Gathering Skill level in a short time.
After gathering more than a dozen plants in a row, the gathering experience increased by more than a dozen points. To advance his level 3 Medicine Gathering Skill, he would need three hundred gathering experience points. With Song Jian’s current speed, it would only take him a little more than three hours to level up his Medicine Gathering Skill again, as long as he had enough herbs.
“There are quite a lot of herbs in this area!” After discarding a broken herb, Song Jian began digging out the herb next to it.
The deeper he went into the forest, the more frequently he encountered herbs. Some of them even grew three or four plants under one big tree, saving him a lot of time searching for herbs.
Song Jian inserted his hands into the soil, closed them together, and yanked upwards. His herb gathering movements were incredibly smooth by now. If any other herb gatherer saw this, they would definitely scold him for wasting herbs – but this didn’t matter here.
Just as Song Jian was forcefully pulling upwards, he suddenly felt the herb in his hand getting heavier, as if some force was resisting his gathering.
At this point, Song Jian’s strength attribute had reached 17 points, so with a slight effort, the resisting force was immediately suppressed and a “Blue Rat Grass” with a long root was pulled out.
System: You have gathered a “Blue Rat Grass” and gained 3 Gathering Experience points;
Blue Rat Grass (white), herb, can be used to make Slow Medicine, gathering requirement: Have level 1 Medicine Gathering Skill.
“Huh, I succeeded in gathering?” Holding the Blue Rat Grass in his hand, Song Jian was somewhat surprised. After all, he had gathered more than three hundred herbs and reached level 3 Medicine Gathering Skill before finally managing to gather a single intact herb.
After playing with the Blue Rat Grass for a while, he put it into his backpack. This was a complete herb, which could be sold in the system store for a few Doomsday Coins, so he couldn’t just throw it away.
As he continued gathering along the way, Song Jian went wherever he found herbs. Soon, he arrived at the depths of the forest.
Once again, after failing to gather, he casually threw away a broken herb and looked up.
“Huh, it seems there’s an open space up ahead?”
Through the gaps between several big trees, Song Jian could see an area ahead that seemed to have been artificially flattened into an open space, and he could even vaguely see a row of bamboo fences.
Song Jian walked quickly forward, covering a distance of five or six meters, and suddenly found this place was actually a herb field, about two acres in size. It was divided into more than ten sections, with dense herbs growing in each area.
Next to this herb field, there was a bamboo house as well. This bamboo house was different from the ones they had seen in the village before. Those were made from green bamboo, but the one in front of him was built from purple bamboo.
Song Jian glanced at the thriving herbs in the field and then at the Purple Bamboo Pavilion, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to search the Purple Bamboo Pavilion first.