There was a dicinal 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 dicinal shop.
In the shop, there were all sorts of dicinal herbs Ye Lingyue couldn't na. 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 Elental herb." Ye Lingyue went forward. She lowered down her voice on purpose so no one would suspect how old she was.
Since the Gathering Elental herb could gather the elentary force from the sky and earth, they were especially good for martial arts practitioners under the third level of body tempering.
So better-off families in Autumn Maple town would plant several Gathering Elental herbs in their courtyards or rooms.
Ye Lingyue took out her Gathering Elental 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 Elental 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 Elental herbs were not that simple?
The worst out of the batch of Gathering Elental herb Ye Lingyue harvested from Hongng Sanctuary was at least three years of age. There were even so that were five years old.
With decades of experience the manager had in managing a dicinal shop in Autumn Maple town, he beca 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 Elental 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 Elental 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 Elental 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 Elental 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 Elental 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 Elental herbs would that take? It flabbergasted Ye Lingyue.
From what Ye Lingyue knew, the Ye family's annual inco was not over ten thousand golden taels either. Besides, the road to the county city from Autumn Maple town was extrely 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 Elental 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 Elental 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 beco a first-grade spirit potion or even a spirit pill. When that happens, the price is at least ten tis its original."
The manager hurriedly ordered his staff to send the Gathering Elental herbs to the county city.
After Ye Lingyue had taken her money, she spent so ti walking around the market. She wanted to buy so 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 Elental potion she made earlier.
The Gathering Elental herb could gather the elentary force in the sky and the earth. After extraction, one could use the Gathering Elental 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 Elental potion, she would be able to help her body absorb the elentary force in the sky and earth much better.
The green liquid slowly perated into Ye Lingyue's body. Countless invisible elentary forces sward into her body.
Her bones and muscles pleasantly humd while her nervous system also grew a lot stronger.
Ye Lingyue only got up when her body had absorbed all the Gathering Elental 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 Elental 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 beco 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 Elental potion as per usual.
In the last few weeks, the amount of Gathering Elental potion Ye Lingyue used varied each ti. She even had to use a full bottle of Gathering Elental potion in recent days.
There were pros and cons to such usage.
The pro was that Ye Lingyue's elentary force had grown trendously.
The con was that the Gathering Elental herb growing in Hongng Sanctuary was decreasing in her inventory, not to ntion that she had to sell them to the dicinal store.
Ye Lingyue closed her eyes, and her heart ached from pouring a full bottle of Gathering Elental potion into the bathtub.
With a large amount of Gathering Elental 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 excitent filled her black eyes. She broke through once again.
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