Spirit Medicine Garden

Biodata

Location and Layout

• Extensive medicinal fields: The fields stretch widely, with numerous medicinal herbs growing around their edges 3.
• Central planting area: Bright red Nine-Leaf Flowers, also called heartbreak grass, occupy the center 3.
• Central pavilion: A simple pavilion serves as the place Jiang Hao heads to while overseeing the garden 3 4.
• Guarded entrance: Two disciples are shown stationed at the entrance when Jiang Hao arrives 3.

Management and Daily Work

Oversight and Staffing

Jiang Hao’s principal responsibility is checking whether the medicinal herbs are growing normally. He manages almost everything in the garden and also assists with tending and processing the plants 3 4 22.

• Ordinary workers: Most people tending the garden are ordinary people. Earlier overseers could kill them for minor mistakes; this danger ends after Jiang Hao takes charge 4.
• Night watch: Jiang Hao is not required to remain overnight. Senior brothers and sisters occasionally keep watch at night 3.
• Absence arrangements: Before his Demon Grotto assignment, Jiang Hao instructs outer sect disciples to maintain the garden. Visiting inner sect disciples are expected to provide oversight rather than perform the routine tending 26.
• Later security: Following the sabotage attempt, the garden excludes outside helpers and strengthens its guard. Rabbit and a stationed Foundation Establishment cultivator provide additional protection 47 49.

Distribution and Supplies

• Herb purchases: The garden usually receives few visitors, most of whom come to purchase medicinal herbs. Heartbreak grass accounts for the bulk of these purchases 17.
• Snow Lotus Pavilion orders: Some herbs sold by the sect’s largest spirit-herb merchant come from Heartbreak Cliff, and Jiang Hao has previously received its orders 23.
• True disciple access: Han Ming can take substantial quantities of spirit herbs after registering them, as part of his privileges as a true disciple 38.
• Wartime demand: Fighting against Azure Heaven Mountain creates a need for large quantities of healing herbs to support the sect’s forces 46.

Medicinal Herbs

Heartbreak Grass

Heartbreak grass is a bright red, nine-leaf flower rich in spiritual energy. Its fragrance normally remains dormant, spreading only when its petals fall. The released scent can draw people into illusions and leave them trapped by love 3.

It serves as the main ingredient for three pills:

Separate Cultivation Sites

• Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower: Jiang Hao plants this flower in his private courtyard, not in the Spirit Medicine Garden 13.
• Snow Lotus and Blue Lotus: These are also grown at his residence 24.
• Pure Yang Flowers: Jiang Hao tends these through a separate assignment at White Moon Lake 9 11.

Significance to Jiang Hao’s Cultivation

Panel Bubbles

Helping plant and process the garden’s herbs allows Jiang Hao to collect bubbles that merge into his body as he passes. Neglecting this work greatly reduces the following day’s drops 3 4.

• Typical yield: Most bubbles in the garden are white or green; blue bubbles appear less consistently 11 17.
• Cumulative benefits: The small attribute increases accumulate daily. Jiang Hao considers leaving the garden costly despite other disciples seeing little benefit in working there 23.
• Herb quality: Jiang Hao observes that better spirit herbs make valuable bubbles easier to obtain 4.
• Financial limitation: The bubbles do not supply spirit stones. Selling too many of the inexpensive swords and pills would also attract suspicion 8.

Breakthrough Support

• A blue bubble supplies Jiang Hao’s final point of blood essence before he begins the breakthrough that takes him to late-stage Foundation Establishment 26 27.
• Another supplies the last point of Qi-Blood he needs before attempting Golden Core advancement. He immediately leaves without tending the garden so he can advance before the expected danger arrives 38.

History

Visits and Undercover Threats

Yun Ruo collects medicinal herbs from the garden and repeatedly visits Jiang Hao there. During an early visit, she raises the possibility of joining a renowned immortal sect, prompting his suspicion that she may be an undercover recruiter 3 4.

After Jiang Hao receives the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower seed, unfamiliar steward elders and inner sect disciples begin appearing in the garden. Mingyi repeatedly asks him about herbs before using an appraisal request as a pretext to investigate his courtyard 15.

Ku Wuchang later asks Jiang Hao to show the newly arrived Han Ming around the garden. Han Ming questions whether tending it wastes cultivation time, unaware of Jiang Hao’s bubble rewards 22 23.

Jiang Hao subsequently detects a hostile observer among visiting herb gatherers. Daily Appraisal identifies Jin Zhouheng as a Sunset Glow Sect infiltrator seeking revenge for Yun Ruo’s death. Jiang Hao reports the suspicious visitors to Liu Xingchen and temporarily stops attending the garden 37 38.

Rabbit’s Discovery

Jiang Hao subdues a fast, aggressive spirit beast in the fields and reassures the startled workers. Appraisal reveals that Rabbit is an Azure Heaven Mountain agent carrying a treasure designed to locate the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower 41.

He removes Rabbit from the garden and tells its watcher to direct anyone seeking the beast to him. Rabbit later returns as Jiang Hao’s spirit pet, becomes familiar with the workers, and learns to speak 42 46 47.

Wartime Sabotage

During the war with Azure Heaven Mountain, staff shortages lead Snow Lotus Pavilion to send helpers. Jiang Hao notices one apparently burying something in the central spirit field and confronts him with his blade 46.

He kills three attackers and subdues a fourth. Appraisal identifies Puppet Armor as a puppet planted by Yan Hua of the Heavenly Saint Church to sabotage the medicine fields in support of Azure Heaven Mountain. Mu Qi takes the captive away and credits Jiang Hao with saving Heartbreak Cliff’s garden 47.

Other Spirit Medicine Gardens suffer considerable damage, leaving Heartbreak Cliff responsible for increased medicinal supplies. Jiang Hao works from morning until night for three weeks, until the damaged gardens recover. Outside helpers are barred, and no further surprise attacks occur during this period 47.

Mining Grounds Reassignment

After Mu Qi is injured at the Mining Grounds, he waits for Jiang Hao at the garden entrance and asks him to serve as his replacement. Mu Qi promises to help look after the Spirit Medicine Garden during Jiang Hao’s absence 49 50.