Chapter 71 Behind every naughty child in black gold clothes is a naughty parent...

At the critical moment, Shen Jiang urgently stopped Priest: "Stop! Don't hurt anyone."

A contractual relationship existed between Priest and Shen Jiang. The simpler the command, the stronger the binding force of the contract. Priest's originally unrestrained attack was suddenly stopped by his contract master. He stumbled and almost fell into the arms of the middle-aged man.

Priest's speed was so fast that the middle-aged man couldn't react at all. Priest had already completed the three consecutive actions of clawing out, staggering, and slapping the man out.

The middle-aged man trembled on the ground and raised his hands: "Help..."

The butchers who were originally gathered together to slaughter sick cows immediately turned around after hearing this. The knives in their hands were thick and sharp, flashing with cold light.

Shen Jiang walked up to the man and said softly, "Sorry, my friend just likes to joke around."

The middle-aged man jumped up from the ground, his anger skyrocketing: "Are you kidding me? Look at what you've done to me!!"

The butchers standing behind him all had strong muscles and fierce faces, and looked very difficult to deal with.

Shen Jiang was in a headache... How could a good business turn into such a tense situation? It was too outrageous that people were calling for war and killing over such a small matter.

Priest was even angrier than him. "I'm not kidding. Why don't you let me kill him?"

This was the outskirts of the city, nestled between Duogang City and the Iron Forest. If Priest wanted to, even if all these ordinary people were combined, they wouldn't be his match. After all, he was the son of a vampire who had single-handedly slaughtered the entire Samantha family of the Rose Empire.

Shen Jiang's face turned cold and he took a deep breath. "Priest, as my disciple, I will not allow you to take the life of an ordinary person at will."

Priest wanted to sneer and ask her: What makes you think you can do that?

But she not only held the formula for the potion he desired most, but was also his bonded master. He had to obey her orders unconditionally. Her words were her bond, and Priest had no room for protest.

His cold gaze was like a venomous snake snaking through the man's body. He said unwillingly, "You're lucky this time, you ungrateful, despicable human."

The middle-aged man's body shuddered inexplicably, the anger on his face turning into shock and suspicion. He realized then that the guy across from him wasn't the ordinary guy he'd encountered before. His actions had undoubtedly triggered the man's murderous intent. The question welled up in his mind: Who exactly were these guys?

Not only him, but even the butchers who had been slaughtering cattle and sheep for more than ten years were all shocked when they saw Priest's sudden murderous aura.

"Boss, how much is your ox gall?" Shen Jiang's voice broke the silence.

The middle-aged man didn't have the intention to take advantage of others this time. He just wanted to get these people to leave quickly, so he said, "If you only want ox gall, one copper coin will do."

Beatrice heard this and took out a copper coin from her pocket and handed it to the other party.

The butcher picked out the bile from a pile of discarded blood. Before Beatrice took it, she formed a water ball in her palm and rinsed the bile from the butcher's hand, then took it.

This action shocked all the butchers and men present.

You know, magicians have a much higher status than commoners like them. If they really killed someone just now, no one would hold them accountable...

The person who can make the magicians follow him must be a big shot whom they cannot afford to offend.

Thinking of this, the middle-aged man suddenly felt his knees go weak.

Shen Jiang returned to the carriage, took out a knife from her bag, cut open the bile membrane, and the yellow-black bile inside poured out.

Priest, who was standing aside, covered his nose in annoyance. What was that? It was so fishy and smelly.

He didn't expect that the master of the contract would actually take out a fist-sized oval foreign object from the gallbladder. The foreign object was black and covered with bile, and Priest almost vomited when he saw it.

But Shen Jiang's eyes sparkled, and she kept muttering, "Is this the black gold dress? It's so beautiful."

Priest's eyes met Beatrice's, and for the first time, he saw a hint of incredible confusion in her eyes. This made Priest almost laugh out loud. Look, she couldn't understand the train of thought of this dark witch.

What Shen Jiang took out from the cow's gallbladder was a top-quality natural bezoar.

The formation of natural bezoar is very special. It is essentially gallstones that grow in the gallbladder of a cow after it develops a bile disease. This condition causes the cow to gradually lose weight and wail in pain at night. This is why Shen Jiang had an idea after hearing the middle-aged man's complaints in the car.

But not all cows with gallbladder diseases will develop gallstones. Only older cows, which have eaten a variety of grasses and whose bodies are rich in the essence of heaven and earth, can produce gallstones with extraordinary medicinal value.

Natural bezoar is extremely precious because it is difficult to mass-produce. As early as over a hundred years ago, in 2024, the price of one kilogram of natural bezoar was as high as 1.6 million... The piece in her hand was even more valuable than the musk she had obtained before...

This was the first time in Shen Jiang's life that he had touched real and valuable natural bezoar. It was all thanks to the fact that people in the other world did not know the value of bezoar.

After Shen Jiang had simply processed the bile, he put it away and said to Beatrice, "Go and tell those butchers to keep this kind of bile for me in the future."

Beatrice had no objection and came to the butchers again.

The middle-aged man was the most flustered, because he thought the magicians had regretted their actions and wanted to come and teach him a lesson. He quickly said, "Respected Magician, I have no intention of offending you. Please forgive my mistake."

Beatrice looked puzzled and ignored him.

She turned to the butchers and asked which village they lived in, then said, "My master has ordered that she wants all the ox gallbladders from now on. This is the deposit. If the quality satisfies her, there will be additional payment."

After saying that, she handed a silver coin in her hand to the leading butcher and left gracefully.

The butcher took a bite of the silver coin curiously. Looking at the tooth marks on it, he was shocked and said, "The magician's thoughts are really mysterious. They are willing to buy this kind of cow gall that no one wants with silver coins."

The middle-aged man standing by had already regretted it, but he didn't have the courage to argue with the people in the carriage, so he had to swallow the bitterness silently.

How could these stupid butchers understand what it means to have a good relationship with those magicians.

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After this little episode, Shen Jiang felt refreshed and even looked at Priest with favor.

Seeing the witch so happy, Beatrice kept the foreign object she had just taken out of the ox gall in mind. She would definitely find many such foreign objects for the witch.

The metal trees and swamps of the Iron Forest were still full of dangers, but with their previous experience, the few of them entered the heart of the forest that Baihu had led them into very smoothly.

Shen Jiang's magic was very useful. She used magic to cut through the obstructing thorn bushes to create a new path, and several people walked forward smoothly along the path she had opened.

Priest looked at the Black Witch with a complicated expression. This was the first time he saw the Black Witch use magic. After 23 days, the Black Witch's magical talent had already been revealed. Compared with the orc girl, the Black Witch's magic level was obviously much better.

You know, controlling the vines accurately and for a long time is not easy. If she continues like this, she really has the potential to become an excellent light magician.

What Priest didn't know was that Shen Jiang had only practiced for half a day.

After walking all the way to the place where Baihu had taken them last time, the forest was silent and Baihu had not appeared. After searching for a while, they still could not find any trace of Baihu. Shen Jiang simply said, "Let's go on our own."

Because the names of species in the modern world and the other world are very different, Shen Jiang had already shown them the picture album in the carriage: the little flying squirrel with big eyes and white fur, the little rabbit with red eyes and long ears, the cicadas that are tireless in the trees, and the colorful deer with horns on its head.

As Shen Jiang walked, he was also watching to see if there were any Chinese herbal medicines in the steel forest. Unfortunately, not only were there no Chinese herbal medicines here, there were almost no animals either.

Shen Jiang sighed. It seemed that if she wanted to collect medicinal herbs, she could only return to Longshan.

But it's impossible for the hills of Godwin to grow every kind of medicinal herb, so her clinic still lacks many herbs. Her clinic doesn't have many patients right now, so she can barely use the herbs her grandmother had stockpiled. But after seeing the herbs from the other world, Shen Jiang felt that the herbs from her original world pale in comparison.

Outside the valley of the Golden Dragon Kailan, there are many herbs that are completely different from those in Godwin's Dragon Mountain. Shen Jiang plans to wait until things here are over. She has to think of another way and follow the Black Dragon Godwin to check out the dragon mountains of other dragons.

The steel forest is unusually quiet today.

After half a day, no one got anything.

Finally, Shen Jiang saw a furry animal flying past her. She quickly said, "Let's go over there and take a look."

"Be careful!" Beatrice grabbed Shen Jiang.

At this moment, an ice arrow with a sound of breaking through the air attacked Shen Jiang and others in the face.

Everyone who had become a magician could see the changes in the magic elements in the air, so the trajectory of the ice arrow was like slow motion. The magic elements in the air were like the thorns under Shen Jiang's hands, breaking a path, and in the middle was the ice arrow emitting cold air.

Shen Jiang stood there in shock, and turned to look in the direction of the attack on them. There stood a little girl dressed up in a formal dress, with reddish-brown curly hair tied into two ponytails, and in her hands were several ice arrows that had been generated again.

With a provocative look on his face, he said, "You guys are getting in the way."

Obviously, she had just deliberately treated them as moving targets.

Shen Jiang and the others' expressions changed instantly and they reacted immediately.

The little girl was obviously a magician of about the same level as Beatrice and the others. Her movements were clumsy, so it was not difficult for her to dodge her ice arrows.

Shen Jiang breathed a sigh of relief. He had encountered a naughty kid, but fortunately the kid's lethality was not that strong.

Seeing that her second attack failed again, the red-haired girl with twin ponytails showed an extremely unhappy look on her face. "Harrison, someone is bullying me! Go tie them all to the tree."

Catherine was furious. She had never expected that she would always meet such a shameless guy when she went out, so she didn't hesitate any more and threw a fireball directly at the red-haired girl's face.

Perhaps due to her excessive anger, Catherine's accuracy was unprecedentedly high, and the fireball almost hit the little girl's hair. Unfortunately, a wind blade appeared out of nowhere and blew her fireball into fireworks in front of the little girl, without hurting her at all.

Shen Jiang then realized that Wind Blade had a chance of defeating Fireball. The Red Dragon was completely outmatched by Godwin, and was instantly defeated.

But the current situation is not a good thing. There is a naughty kid on the opposite side, and a naughty parent who makes the naughty kid very arrogant. It seems that today will not be easy.

Harrison, a tall man, walked out from behind the red-haired girl and said in a cold tone, "How dare you attack her? You don't want to live anymore."

Of course Shen Jiang could hear the murderous intent in the other party's tone.

She said, "She was the one who attacked us first."

"Oh? Is that so? Since she wants you to die, then go ahead and die." As he spoke, Harrison unexpectedly condensed his magic, and the people who were still standing were restrained by the invisible hurricane.

"Miss, you can now shoot ice arrows at them as much as you want." Harrison spoke to the red-haired girl in a very respectful tone.