The first assessment task for Puppet Number Two was to identify the differing medicinal properties of one hundred herbs.
Holding a strange jade slip, he silently began recording the medicinal properties of every herb before him.
Puppet Number Two studied them with great seriousness. Over the years, Li Qing had already used the control core to let him learn about all manner of things in the True Realm through normal means.
The purpose was to create the impression that Puppet Number Two had been born with powerful learning abilities, able to draw inferences from one instance and apply them to all things.
Now, it finally came in handy. He gradually analyzed the various herbs he had never seen before and quickly reached all kinds of conclusions.
He easily passed the first round of assessments and even ranked among the top ten.
The second assessment tested one's ability to learn herb cultivation.
Different herbs possessed different medicinal properties, and planting them all within a single garden was exceedingly difficult.
These herbs naturally carried all kinds of powers. Their innate powers had to be brought into balance within the garden, restraining one another without hindering growth, or even promoting one another's growth.
This cultivation ability had even spawned the Spirit Plant Lineage. Its twists and turns were an extreme test of one's perception and adjustment abilities.
What Mysterious Spirit Mountain wanted were all-round talents proficient in cultivation, gathering, alchemy, and research at the same time.
For the second trial, Puppet Number Two also completed it smoothly under Li Qing's influence through the control core.
Puppet Number Two planted more than a hundred herbs with differing attributes and characteristics within an extremely small area.
Not only did they grow in balance with one another, they even increased each other's growth rates and greatly