Shopkeeper Liang and Yu Zhenghuan looked at each other after hearing her childish words and smiled knowingly. The little girl's words seemed childish and naive, but they contained profound truths. Perhaps, this determined and persistent child could really realize her dream and become an alchemist that all sects would flock to!
Shopkeeper Liang had people find the spirit herb seeds that had been abandoned for a long time in the corner of the warehouse and piled them all in front of Ling 'er. He also personally selected a few pill formulas that were suitable for beginners to refine and placed them together with the seeds. He looked at Ling' er and said,"Little Fellow Daoist, do you plan to settle the bill with spirit stones or gold and silver? As for spirit stones, he would need 30. As for gold and silver, one spirit stone was worth 100 taels of gold, which was exactly 3,000 taels of gold!”
Ling 'er was stunned when she heard that. Heavens! Not to mention that he hadn't sold his 500 grams of wormgrass yet, even if he successfully sold it, it would only be around 300 taels of silver. Three thousand taels of gold, even if she sold it, it wouldn't be worth that much! No wonder it was said that being an alchemist was a profession that burned money. He had not even started refining medicine and had already started burning money. This was only the pill formula and the seed. Who knew how much the furnace would cost! Needless to say, it was definitely dozens or hundreds of times more than these things! Money! Where could he get so much money?
After all, Yu Zhenghuan was a veteran of the martial world. When he saw Ling 'er's expression, he knew that she was short of money. He opened the Qiankun Bag that he had just put away and counted 30 spirit stones. He placed them on the counter and said,"Little girl, you are Hai Bo's friend. This is the first time we've met. Take these pill formulas and seeds as my gift to you.”
F * ck! A gift of three thousand gold taels, and it was for a stranger who was meeting him for the first time. Wasn't that a little too generous? Ling 'er hated taking advantage of others the most. It was better to be self-reliant!
Ling 'er smiled at Yu Zhenhuan but didn't say anything. She took out the Universe Bag contributed by the little mouse Jin Zi (the name Ling' er gave him) and rummaged through it. There were only five or six low-grade spirit stones inside. She only knew that those sparkling and beautiful stones were spirit stones that could replenish spiritual energy and be used as the currency of the cultivation world when she saw Yu Zhenghuan give Shopkeeper Liang 100,000 spirit stones.
The spirit herb seeds and the pill formula cost thirty low-grade spirit stones. She could only fork out six spirit stones, and the rest could only be offset by items. He flipped left and right, except for the thumb-sized pearl and the hundred-year-old ginseng.
In the eyes of Shopkeeper Liang and Yu Zhenghuan, the Qiankun Bag in Ling 'er's hand was nothing special. After all, such a Qiankun Bag was very common in the hands of self-cultivators. They were just curious about what good things she could take out from her Universe Bag.
Ling 'er raised her head again and smiled embarrassedly under their gazes."Grandpa Yu, thank you for your kindness, but I can't accept such an expensive thing. Shopkeeper Liang, take a look at these two items. How much can they be discounted?”
The round pearl with a soft luster appeared in her small hand. Shopkeeper Liang took it and looked at it carefully. He smiled faintly and said,""Although this pearl is of high quality, it is still a worldly item. It can only be converted into a hundred taels of gold at most.”
One tael of gold was equivalent to ten taels of silver. A pearl that could be sold for a thousand taels of silver was already not a small amount. Ling 'er nodded silently. After hesitating for a moment, she took out the hundred-year-old ginseng. In her previous life, she had dealt with Chinese medicinal herbs. For a rare medicinal herb like a hundred-year-old ginseng, if she didn't really need it urgently, she really wouldn't be willing to sell it! Even a hundred-year-old ginseng might not be able to match the price difference between those seeds and the pill formula.
Unexpectedly, when Shopkeeper Liang saw the old ginseng in her hand, his eyes emitted a strong light. It was like an old wolf that had been hungry for three days seeing a lamb in front of him. The heat in his eyes could melt everything.
"Purple red sage root? 500-year-old purple red sage root!" Shopkeeper Liang snatched the old ginseng from Ling 'er's hand and looked at it as if he was admiring a rare treasure. He couldn't put it down.
Yu Zhenghuan looked at the unremarkable little girl in front of him in shock. A 500-year-old spirit herb was definitely not something an ordinary cultivation family could take out. Could it be that she came from some great cultivation sect and hid her identity because she didn't want others to recognize her?
Shopkeeper Liang's fanatical gaze was fixed on the Purple Red Ginseng that Ling 'er regarded as an ordinary old ginseng for a long time. One had to know that in the current era where spiritual energy was getting thinner and thinner, a hundred-year-old spiritual medicine was regarded as a treasure by alchemists, let alone a five-hundred-year-old Purple Red Ginseng.
When Shopkeeper Liang was young, his ambition was also aimed at the profession of alchemists. Unfortunately, because spiritual medicines were difficult to find, he could only give up. However, he had memorized quite a number of pill formulas. In his memory, the Inspiration Pill that could be used to advance a level to the Foundation Establishment stage required 500-year-old Purple Red Sage. There was also the Spiritual Martial Pill, which was used to advance from a Martial Master to a Xiantian Master. There was also a 500-year-old Purple Red Sage in the pill formula…
Shopkeeper Liang took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. He tried his best to shift his gaze away from the purple red sage. When he turned to look at Ling 'er, his gaze was still burning.
"Our Treasure Trove Pavilion will take this Purple Danshen. Little girl, name your price!”As he spoke, his hand tightly protected the spirit herb, afraid that Ling 'er would change her mind and not sell it.
So it wasn't ginseng, but a low-grade spirit herb, the Purple Red Sage! Ling 'er looked at the purple red sage in Shopkeeper Liang's hand with some reluctance. However, just as Shopkeeper Liang had said, there was still a long way to go to become an Alchemist. The price of money needed to be paid would only increase. Although the Purple Red Sage was a good thing, without the ability to refine medicine, it could only be a dead object. He might as well exchange it for some spirit stones to prepare for learning how to refine medicine.
She retracted her gaze and looked at Shopkeeper Liang with trust.""Shopkeeper Liang, name your price!"
Shopkeeper Liang's heart was on tenterhooks when she looked at the spirit herb with a reluctant gaze, afraid that she would say that she was not selling it. After hearing her words, his heart was completely relieved. His gaze turned to the spiritual medicine in his hand. After pondering for a moment, he said,"Two thousand low-grade spirit stones! What do you think?"
How could Ling 'er know the value of the spirit herb? She looked up at Yu Zhenhuan and saw that he nodded in satisfaction after hearing the price. She smiled and said,"Treasure Trove Pavilion has always been honest, so the price Shopkeeper Liang offered is naturally fair.”
Shopkeeper Liang finally revealed a relaxed smile after obtaining the spirit herbs. He skillfully took out a small pile of spiritual stones from the 100,000 spiritual stones that Yu Zhenhuan had returned. He didn't count them and said,"Here are 2,000 low-grade spirit stones.”
Ling 'er looked at him in surprise and asked,""If you didn't count, how did you know there were two thousand spirit stones in this pile?”
" You don't know, little girl," Yu Zhenghuan laughed." Cultivators at the high level of the Refinement Stage can quickly determine the number of items with their spiritual sense. Shopkeeper Liang was already at the peak of the ninth level of the Refinement Stage, so he naturally did not need to count the number of spirit stones one by one.”
Ling 'er looked enlightened. She counted out 30 spirit stones from the 2,000 spirit stones and handed them over."This is the money for the pill formula and the spirit herb seeds. Shopkeeper Liang forgot to deduct it.”
Shopkeeper Liang did not reach out to take the spirit stones from her hand. He shook his head and said,"It's not that this old man forgot to deduct, but these thirty low grade spirit stones are this old man's thanks to you for giving our Treasure Trove Pavilion such a precious spirit herb. In the future, if you still have spirit medicines that are more than a hundred years old, please sell them to our Treasure Gathering Pavilion first, okay?”
Hey! Was there such a good thing? In the future, if the spirit herbs grown were not used up, they would naturally have to be sold. Selling to anyone was not selling, not to mention that the price given by Treasure Trove Pavilion was fair, and the service attitude was good, so why not? Just like that, he was exempted from thirty low-grade spirit stones. The people of the cultivation world were really generous. That was three thousand taels of gold!
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