The grand bronze bells of the Abyssal Lotus Pavilion boomed with an ominous, echoing toll, signaling the official commencement of Stage 2: The Identification of Herbs and Uses. The translucent silver light barriers of the anti-cheating defensive arrays violently hummed to life once more, encasing each of the qualified candidates within their individual testing stations.
Upon each floating marble table sat a massive, sealed wooden tray containing exactly one hundred rare, high-tier spiritual plants and volatile elemental herbs. The stems and leaves were tightly wrapped in thick layers of jade-attribute concealment mist, designed specifically to block standard physical senses. To pass this phase, the examinees had to manually inject a precise thread of their internal energy to pierce the mist, decode the plant's cellular framework, and calculate its exact molecular core weight and medicinal combinations under a brutal, rapid time limit.
