Cultivation begins with the Druid panel

The next day, Lu Lin woke up with a start at his desk. Looking at the books he had been lying on, he realized he had been too focused on the day before and had fallen asleep from exhaustion. Lu Lin rubbed his temples, stood up, tidied up the few books scattered on his desk, and put them back on the bookshelf.

After doing all this, Lu Lin went to the window and looked outside.

With the morning glow stretching across the horizon, Lu Lin estimated that it was past 5:30 AM, and there was only half an hour left before the assessment. He had to hurry.

With that in mind, Lu Lin took out some dry food from his storage bag to eat quickly, and then set off for the main hall where he had received the flowerpot yesterday.

The cultivators participating in the assessment attached great importance to it. Although the assessment was not yet scheduled, the area outside the main hall was already packed with people, many of whom Lu Lin had seen yesterday.

At that moment, they were all engrossed in reading a book, completely unaware of Lu Lin's arrival. Lu Lin also took out a book from his storage bag and began reading. Half an hour later, the main hall doors opened, and the previously quiet crowd instantly erupted into chaos.

The scholar smiled at the crowd, stepped aside, and gestured for them to come in: "Everyone, please come in. You can choose any seat you like."

The moment the scholar finished speaking, the people outside the main hall swarmed forward. Lu Lin was pushed into the main hall. The main hall was no different from yesterday. Lu Lin looked around, then found a quiet corner to sit down and took out yesterday's flower pot and placed it on the table.

People noticed Lu Lin's choice and immediately showed strange expressions.

The scholar stood on the high platform in the center of the hall and looked at Lu Lin with a strange expression when he saw that Lu Lin had chosen the corner seat. It seemed that this was his first time proctoring an exam and he had forgotten to explain some things to the candidates.

He cleared his throat and said, "You will need to choose the seeds for the assessment yourselves, in the order of first to last. Each person will have ten breaths to choose."

Upon hearing this, Lu Lin immediately understood why everyone was looking at him with strange expressions. His position was in the corner, so he was the last in the order of choosing seeds. By the time it was his turn, all the good seeds for the assessment would have been chosen, leaving only the low-quality seeds.

If the seeds are of low quality, how can the resulting spiritual plants be of high quality?

What a bad start... Lu Lin stroked his chin and looked around, but by then, all the good spots had already been taken by other cultivators, so changing positions was pointless.

"Oh well, I guess I'll just take it as a lesson learned." Lu Lin felt a little annoyed with himself.

Meanwhile, the cultivators sitting in the front seats had already begun selecting seeds. Each person had ten breaths to choose. With so many people present, and Lu Lin being at the back, wouldn't he be half an hour behind the others before the test even started?

Lu Lin sighed helplessly.

The wait was very long. Half an hour later, the scholar arrived in front of Lu Lin with two ordinary disciples from the Cliff Academy. The two disciples from the Cliff Academy were holding fans with several seeds on them.

These seeds were the ones that were left after people had picked and chosen, and they weren't of very good quality.

Although they were still active, Lu Lin could clearly sense the diseased state of these seeds.

"Choose," the scholar said to Lu Lin.

Before him were two fan blades, on which were twelve seeds. Lu Lin's gaze swept over the twelve seeds.

There are twelve seeds, nine of which are earth-type seeds and three of which are water-type seeds.

Earth-attribute spiritual plants, needless to say, are characterized by their slow growth and difficulty in being accelerated. As for water-attribute spiritual plants... Lu Lin glanced at the flowerpot in front of him and the surrounding environment. Growing water-attribute spiritual plants without water was extremely difficult.

After hesitating for a moment, Lu Lin chose a spiritual plant seed with the earth attribute. The seed was yellowish-brown and felt warm in his hand, undoubtedly of the yang earth attribute.

After Lu Lin finished making his selection, the scholar waved to the two disciples from the Cliff Academy: "You may leave now."

The two disciples from the cliff academy were very respectful to the scholar. Upon hearing this, they quickly put away their fans, bowed, and took small, quick steps to silently take their leave.

The assessment had officially begun, and the scholar wouldn't break the rules just to appease Lu Lin. He turned around and returned to the high platform in the center of the hall, saying:

"If you need to go to the library during the assessment, please explain to me, but the flowerpot must not leave the examination area."

The fact that flowerpots cannot leave the examination room is probably to prevent cheating.

While listening to the scholar's words, Lu Lin planted the seeds he had just chosen in the flowerpot.

The quality of this seed is worrying; it showed no reaction after being planted in the flowerpot. Logically, soil-type seeds should have their activity immediately activated after being planted in a flowerpot, and even if they don't germinate on the spot, they should show some changes.

At this moment, Lu Lin did not notice any change, as if the seed was dead.

"But this seed is indeed active..." Lu Lin murmured, not knowing why for a moment, and could only bite the bullet and use the power of nature to infuse it into the flowerpot.

The natural energy within the hall was drawn in by Lu Lin, slowly merging into the soil of the flowerpots. The scholar sitting on the high platform immediately looked at Lu Lin, his face showing surprise:

"As expected of someone with an innate wood spiritual root, he possesses such a natural affinity... But why... does Young Master Lu's spiritual energy aura feel so familiar to me?"

He spoke very softly, and no one could hear him.

After saying this, the scholar stopped paying attention to the matter. As for that familiar feeling, he couldn't recall it for the time being, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

Lu Lin frowned in front of the flowerpot, completely at a loss. Looking at the seeds in the flowerpot that were still motionless, Lu Lin's confidence was severely shaken.

He even suspected that the Cliff Academy had used a trick to make the seed appear to be still active, when in fact it was a seed that had long since lost its activity.

"Even if it's an illusion, it absolutely can't hide from a druid's senses." Lu Lin quickly dismissed this idea; if it were an illusion, the druid's senses would have detected it long ago.

It seems that the Cliff Academy tampered with the seeds; this must be a test from the Cliff Academy for those being assessed.

As Lu Lin pondered, he observed his surroundings and noticed that some of the older cultivators, who were clearly not first-time test takers, had already planted the seeds.

This further confirmed Lu Lin's thoughts. He rubbed his hands together, took a deep breath, and felt the pressure, but this pressure also made him take the matter more seriously.