Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
There was a medicinal shop in front of her, and it was the largest shop in town.
Ye Lingyue first entered a grocery shop to buy a bamboo hat. She wore it before she entered the medicinal shop.
In the shop, there were all sorts of medicinal herbs Ye Lingyue couldn’t name. Nevertheless, it still dazzled her eyes and as expected, the prices weren’t cheap.
Seeing that the person who had entered the shop was wearing a hat and looked mysterious, the shop staff didn’t bother to approach her.
“I want to sell Gathering Elemental herb.” Ye Lingyue went forward. She lowered down her voice on purpose so no one would suspect how old she was.
Since the Gathering Elemental herb could gather the elementary force from the sky and earth, they were especially good for martial arts practitioners under the third level of body tempering.
Some better-off families in Autumn Maple town would plant several Gathering Elemental herbs in their courtyards or rooms.
Ye Lingyue took out her Gathering Elemental herbs. There were about ten of them, and she had just plucked them before she left the house that morning.
“We don’t take unknown herbs here,” replied the staff grumpily. He didn’t even glance at the herb.
Ye Lingyue could see his despise for her as well. She retracted her hand. She would never sell the herb to people who didn’t see the value of it.
“Miss, hold on!” The manager of the shop rushed over and took Ye Lingyue’s Gathering Elemental herbs to look at it carefully.
The branches were tall and firm. Its leaves were full and dense and there were no bug holes on them at all.
The more the manager looked at it, the happier he got. That damned staff! He almost chased a valuable guest away!
With the manager’s experience, how could he not tell that those Gathering Elemental herbs were not that simple?
The worst out of the batch of Gathering Elemental herb Ye Lingyue harvested from Hongmeng Sanctuary was at least three years of age. There were even some that were five years old.
With decades of experience the manager had in managing a medicinal shop in Autumn Maple town, he became rather intelligent and learned how to read people well. He checked Ye Lingyue out silently. Seeing that she had worn a hat, he knew that she wanted to hide her identity. Hence, he didn’t ask much about her.
“Miss, sorry for the inconvenience earlier. We would like these Gathering Elemental herbs. The three-year-old ones are a hundred taels each while the five-year-old ones are two hundred taels each. The ten-year-old ones are five hundred taels each and anything above fifteen years old would be eight hundred taels. If Miss has more Gathering Elemental herbs in the future, we will buy them at this price. The older they are, the higher the selling prices are.” The manager looked absolutely sincere.
With a rough calculation, the batch of Gathering Elemental herb she brought should be able to sell for a thousand taels. If she changed it to silver taels, it was about one silver tael. The northern estate’s monthly allowance was only ten silver taels.
When she took the silver taels, Ye Lingyue was silently happy. Her space’s Gathering Elemental herbs can grow into a large patch once every few days. Apart from extracting them into a concentrated potion, she would be able to sell at least a hundred Gathering Elemental herbs in a month. This was a very ludicrous transaction.
“Manager, I want to ask one more thing. Do you sell any fifth-grade pills here?” Ye Lingyue asked.
“Fifth-grade pills? Miss, you must be joking. Why would such a small place like this have a fifth-grade pill? Even the county city doesn’t sell that type of pill, and each pill would cost countless thousands of gold taels.” The manager shook his head.
‘Countless thousands of gold taels?’
A gold tael was ten silver taels. One silver tael was a thousand copper taels. Oh my god, how many Gathering Elemental herbs would that take? It flabbergasted Ye Lingyue.
From what Ye Lingyue knew, the Ye family’s annual income was not over ten thousand golden taels either. Besides, the road to the county city from Autumn Maple town was extremely far. Ye Lingyue could only put down her intention to buy a fifth-grade pill for now. She sighed before she left the shop.
“Manager, isn’t that just Gathering Elemental herb? Why are we buying them at such a high price?” The staff couldn’t help but ask.
“You brat, what do you know?” The manager hit the staff’s head. “Normal Gathering Elemental herb can only be planted in a backyard, but those that are three years old or more are different. Once we send them to the hands of the people in the county city, they can cultivate the herb to become a first-grade spirit potion or even a spirit pill. When that happens, the price is at least ten times its original.”
The manager hurriedly ordered his staff to send the Gathering Elemental herbs to the county city.
After Ye Lingyue had taken her money, she spent some time walking around the market. She wanted to buy some new spirit herb seeds but to no avail.
After returning to the northern estate, Ye Lingyue got Aunt Liu to prepare a bucket of hot water.
She had sweated a lot at the martial arts hall, so she wanted to take a shower. After taking off her clothes, Ye Lingyue took out a bottle that contained the Gathering Elemental potion she made earlier.
The Gathering Elemental herb could gather the elementary force in the sky and the earth. After extraction, one could use the Gathering Elemental potion to train the body.
The green liquid had a unique fragrant. After pouring a drop into the bathtub, countless green runes appeared on the water surface. Sitting in the water, Ye Lingyue closed her eyes.
The effect of the pill in her body had more or less diminished. In the last few days, there was a minimal increase in her dantian.
But with the concentrated Gathering Elemental potion, she would be able to help her body absorb the elementary force in the sky and earth much better.
The green liquid slowly permeated into Ye Lingyue’s body. Countless invisible elementary forces swarmed into her body.
Her bones and muscles pleasantly hummed while her nervous system also grew a lot stronger.
Ye Lingyue only got up when her body had absorbed all the Gathering Elemental potion in the tub.
In a flash, two weeks passed by. Within those two weeks, Ye Lingyue persevered in her training and after every training, she would bathe in Gathering Elemental potion.
In the short two weeks, her body drastically changed. Her originally thin and weak body had grown a lot taller, like a willow growing in spring.
Her skin had also become as smooth and fair as an unshelled egg, making her look completely different from the foolish girl that everyone bullied.
This day, Ye Lingyue bathed in the Gathering Elemental potion as per usual.
In the last few weeks, the amount of Gathering Elemental potion Ye Lingyue used varied each time. She even had to use a full bottle of Gathering Elemental potion in recent days.
There were pros and cons to such usage.
The pro was that Ye Lingyue’s elementary force had grown tremendously.
The con was that the Gathering Elemental herb growing in Hongmeng Sanctuary was decreasing in her inventory, not to mention that she had to sell them to the medicinal store.
Ye Lingyue closed her eyes, and her heart ached from pouring a full bottle of Gathering Elemental potion into the bathtub.
With a large amount of Gathering Elemental potion entering her body, her dantian fierily pulsed.
Fire surged out of her dantian and spread to the rest of her body. Suddenly, Ye Lingyue opened her eyes.
“Third level of body tempering!” Ye Lingyue jumped out as excitement filled her black eyes. She broke through once again.