In the final stage of herb identification, although only ten herbs needed to be identified,
these ten herbs were exceptionally special and rare.
Yet their specialness and rarity were merely secondary factors.
In this stage, not only did one have to identify the names and medicinal properties of these ten herbs, one even had to state their uses based on those properties.
For instance, was a certain herb poisonous or nonpoisonous?
If it was poisonous, what poison pills could it refine? And aside from refining poison pills, did it have any other uses?
If it was nonpoisonous, what pills could it refine? Could it refine pills that raised cultivation realms, increased Law Pills, detoxified poison, or enhanced divine sense?
This whole series of identifications required each contestant to dig out every possible use of a single herb.
The difficulty of such a task was tremendous.
After stating a medicinal effect, it had to be feasible. If one said something wrong, points would be deducted from the final overall evaluation, affecting the final results.
This herb identification competition followed the rules of the Third Stage. The final results were determined by who named the most medicinal properties and uses for the herbs, provided they were all correct.
This was also extremely advantageous for Qin Shaofeng.
Of these ten herbs, seven or eight had been mentioned in the knowledge imparted to him by his master, Elder Bai.
Any herb appearing in the knowledge Elder Bai had taught him was basically one that Elder Bai understood inside and out, one whose uses had been pushed to their limits.
Therefore, from the very start of this Third Stage competition, Qin Shaofeng was already seventy to eighty percent confident of taking first place.
As for the remaining two herbs, although they were not among the