Cultivation begins with the Druid panel

After the scholar left, Lu Lin found a quiet place, tore open the clothes on his chest, and saw that the blood-red mark on his chest had become much lighter. It seemed that the scholar was right, and he could remove the blood mark directly after the blood cultivator died.

He sat down cross-legged and mobilized the spiritual power in his dantian to his chest. Without the blood cultivator's support, the remaining power of the blood pattern crumbled under Lu Lin's power and was quickly drawn to his fingertips by Lu Lin along the meridians.

There was some pain during the removal process, but compared to when the blood patterns were activated by the blood cultivator, this pain was insignificant. Lu Lin raised his hand and saw that the five fingers of his left hand had become bruised, and even turned somewhat purple.

Lu Lin took out the Kunlun sword and made a cut on the tip of his five fingers. A large amount of dark purple blood immediately flowed out of the cut. The blood flowed onto the ground, and the flowers and plants on the ground quickly began to wither. After Lu Lin released all the blood clots, the lawn in front of him, which was half a zhang in diameter, turned yellowish-brown.

"The power of this blood mark is really considerable." Lu Lin breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the wound on his fingertip again. The wound had completely healed.

This is the Druid's unique characteristics coming into play.

Lu Lin glanced at the withered grass on the ground again, remained silent for a moment, then formed a hand seal and released the power of nature, turning the withered grass green again.

At the same time, the experience points for the Heart of Nature and the Divine Enlightenment also increased accordingly.

After doing all this, Lu Lin finally breathed a sigh of relief, closed the clothes in front of his chest again, stood up, and headed towards the main hall.

Shortly after Lu Lin left, on the side where Xue Xiu had died, the female scholar walked over with an abacus in her hand, followed by two disciples from the Cliff Academy.

"How did this Blood Cultivator die? I was planning to use him to negotiate with the black market. Isn't this a huge loss?" The female scholar manipulated the abacus in her hand and calculated the loss of the Cliff Academy in a short while.

"First, there was that batch of seeds, then there were the old seeds used in this assessment..."

He had originally planned to take the evidence and seek reimbursement from the black market for this extra loss, but now that the 'evidence' was gone, the black market would definitely not acknowledge the debt...

The female scholar was in a dilemma. He was considering whether to just forcibly seize it, but after thinking about how it would affect the reputation of the Cliff Academy, he decisively abandoned the idea.

"How much assets does this Blood Cultivator Kirito Escort Agency have?" the female scholar asked, putting away her abacus.

"Reporting to my senior uncle, the Kirito Escort Agency was just an empty shell that conducted human trafficking; it didn't have many assets. Now the Kirito Escort Agency has disbanded, and the Lieyang Carriage has been driven away by those rogue cultivators. It's as if nothing was left behind."

Upon hearing this, the female scholar felt a toothache.

Since the Blazing Sun Chariot has already fallen into the hands of a rogue cultivator, there's even less reason to snatch it from the Cliff Academy, as it would be far too beneath them.

"It seems I'm still not very good at accounting." The female scholar sighed somewhat discouragedly, then turned and left with her entourage.

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When Lu Lin returned to the main hall, he found that almost everyone was asleep. The air was filled with a messy smell, much stronger than the smell during the day. The smell was not pleasant, but it was not unpleasant either.

Lu Lin took the opportunity to look around and discovered that a considerable number of the examinees' seeds had not yet sprouted.

A whole day has passed, and there are still so many people who can't get past the first hurdle?

The difficulty of the spiritual plant master assessment at the Cliff Academy is really high.

Thinking to himself, Lu Lin returned to his seat. Gu Ji transformed back into vines, wrapping around the chair and turning it into a recliner, allowing Lu Lin to lie down and fall asleep.

Time passed second by second.

The next day, before dawn, everyone woke up and began to work on cultivating the spiritual plants in the flowerpots in front of them. In just one night, the spiritual plants of those who were planting wood-attribute or fire-metal-attribute spiritual plants had grown several inches taller.

It seems that the spiritual plant is not far from entering the second stage.

The examinees all wore smiles, but in contrast, those whose seeds hadn't even sprouted yet looked dejected. They had found the relevant books, but no matter how many methods they tried to accelerate growth, the seeds in the flowerpots showed no improvement. Helpless, they could only sigh and voluntarily end their examinations, then go to the library of the Cliff Academy to prepare for the next Spirit Plant Master examination.

There were originally more than 300 examinees in the main hall, but after yesterday night, less than half of them remained.

Most of those who were eliminated were from the group seated towards the back.

The other examinees around Lu Lin had either been eliminated or voluntarily withdrawn. His area suddenly became empty.

The scholar witnessed everything that happened in the examination hall, but his gaze toward Lu Lin held a hint of curiosity.

All the other examinees who chose the aged seed were eliminated, and only Lu Lin successfully planted the 'aged seed'.

This shows that the 'aged seeds' are not the problem; the problem lies with Lu Lin himself.

"Even a natural wood spirit root shouldn't have this effect..." The scholar frowned slightly. There were many natural wood spirit roots among the spirit plant masters at the Cliff Academy, but they were also unable to make the "old seed" sprout in a day.

"Therefore, his spiritual root attribute is superior to that of an ordinary innate wood spiritual root. Moreover, his cultivation technique should also be extremely compatible with a wood spiritual root." The scholar thought a lot at this moment.

"The path of nature, the path of stars, plus a cultivation technique that suits one's spiritual root... all these things appearing in one person at the same time, there must be a senior cultivator behind him, but I can't see his path. Could it be that I haven't read enough books?" The scholar became curious about Lu Lin's identity.

Although he often humbly said that he hadn't read enough books, in fact, among all the cultivators in the world, those with more extensive knowledge than him were extremely rare.

Logically speaking, even if it's a rogue cultivator, once they make a move, he should be able to guess their lineage, even if he can't determine it at a glance. But he can't see where Lu Lin's lineage is now.

"Could it be that he created his own path behind closed doors?" the scholar wondered.

"Impossible." The scholar immediately rejected the idea.

There are cultivators in this world who have created their own paths to enlightenment, and he knows a few of them, but... even if they create their own paths to enlightenment, they cannot be made up out of thin air, and inevitably there will be traces of the former.

The scholar stared at Lu Lin, but couldn't figure it out. He simply looked away and decided that after the assessment, he would return to the main campus of the Cliff Academy and study in the library there, hoping to make some new discoveries.

Lu Lin remained oblivious to the scholar's gaze, as he was focused on nurturing the spiritual plant before him. Watching it flourish filled him with a sense of accomplishment.