Lan Moqi looked at Su Jinyue in surprise, "You want to buy spiritual herbs?"
"Yeah!" Su Jinyue smiled and nodded.
Lan Moqi thought for a moment. "There's a spiritual herb market here, but the prices aren't cheap. A single first-grade spiritual herb costs ten lower-grade spirit stones." Dancheng isn't rich in spiritual herbs, but in alchemists. Many cultivators come to Dancheng to find alchemists to make their own elixirs. However, the cost of finding an alchemist to make their own elixirs is beyond the reach of ordinary people. This time, he came to Dancheng specifically to find an alchemist to make his own elixirs.
"So expensive?!" Su Jinyue exclaimed in shock. At the same time, she remembered something she had overlooked. This was the Tianyue Continent, the world of cultivation, where transactions were not conducted with money, but with spirit stones. With the spirit stones she had, she couldn't even afford a few low-level spiritual herbs, let alone high-level ones.
Although she had been in Tianyue Continent for more than half a month, she had been in the desert all these days and had no chance to use money. Therefore, she didn't know that Tianyue Continent used spirit stones.
Lan Moqi smiled slightly, "Want to go take a look?"
Su Jinyue hesitated for a moment, then nodded. She was now filled with curiosity about everything in the world of cultivation.
"Xiao Qi, let's go to the spiritual herb trading market." Lan Moqi instructed Xiao Qi who was driving outside.
"Okay, young master." Xiao Qi responded and drove the carriage towards the spiritual herb trading market.
The Spiritual Herb Market was crowded. Although the spiritual herbs here were expensive, they were very diverse. Many cultivators came to Dancheng to find alchemists to make elixirs, and if they were short of one or two spiritual herbs, they would come here to buy them all.
As Su Jinyue walked along, she saw that all the spiritual herbs were very expensive. With the spiritual stones she had, she couldn't even afford a fourth-level spiritual herb.
When she walked to a stall, Su Jinyue stopped and squatted in front of it to look at it. This stall was different from the other stalls. It sold seeds of some spiritual herbs.
"Boss, what kind of seed is this?" Su Jinyue asked, pointing to a black seed the size of a peach pit. Her Golden Leaf Realm was perfectly suited for growing spiritual herbs, and they grew very quickly. The spiritual herbs she'd planted in the Medical Valley last time were already reaching their third batch. She wondered if the seeds would germinate just as quickly.
"These are the seeds of the white guava." said the stall owner with a smile.
"How many spirit stones?" Su Jinyue asked. The White Orchid Fruit was a fourth-level spirit herb, and could be used to refine the fourth-level spirit elixir, the Yuan-replenishing Pill. The Yuan-replenishing Pill was extremely beneficial for repairing a cultivator's spirit.
"Ten top-grade spirit stones." said the stall owner.
Su Jinyue picked up the white orchid fruit seeds and looked at them. She had seen that at other stalls, a white orchid fruit plant cost a thousand high-grade spirit stones, but ten high-grade spirit stones for a white orchid fruit seed was not expensive.
Looking at the other three seeds on the stall, he asked, "Boss, how much does it cost for me to buy all these seeds?"
The stall owner looked at the seeds on his stall and said, "Just one hundred high-grade spirit stones." These seeds are actually not of much use after purchase. Even if they can be made to germinate, it will take hundreds of years for them to fully mature.
"Thirty high-grade spirit stones. If you're willing to sell them, we'll buy them." Lan Moqi said calmly. Was she stupid? Why would she buy these useless things?
"Sir, these seeds of mine are all level three or four spiritual herb seeds, and they are worth at least eighty high-grade spirit stones." said the stall owner.
"Let's go." Lan Moqi said to Su Jinyue.
"Okay." Su Jinyue nodded, put down the seeds in her hand, and stood up. Lan Moqi was from the cultivation world, so he naturally understood the local market better than she did. The stall owner was clearly taking advantage of her.
Seeing that Su Jinyue and Lan Moqi had truly left, the boss stopped them and said, "Okay, okay, I'll sell it to you." People who came to the Spiritual Herb Market were there to trade spiritual herbs, rarely seeds. He had been setting up shop there for quite a while, so he knew how hard it was to find spiritual herb seeds. Rather than leaving them there, he might as well sell them to the other party for thirty high-grade spirit stones. He wouldn't lose out anyway.
Su Jinyue took out thirty high-grade spirit stones and handed them to the other party. If she hadn't gotten some spirit stones from the person sent by Dugu Yanyun, she wouldn't even be able to afford the seeds. She must find a way to earn more spirit stones.
The stall owner took the spirit stone and handed Su Jinyue the seeds she liked. "My friend has some spirit grass seeds. If you want them, you can come find me in a couple of days."
"Okay." Su Jinyue put away the seeds and continued walking forward with Lan Moqi. They had visited the entire spiritual herb trading market but didn't find anything unexpected.
"Let's find an inn to stay in," Lan Moqi said. It was too late today, so he would go find Elder Wei Moyu, one of the ten great elders of Dan City, to help him refine the elixir tomorrow.
Su Jinyue nodded. She still had some pills in her storage bag, and wondered if she could exchange them for spirit stones. She'd just bought a few seeds and needed thirty high-grade spirit stones, so staying at the inn wouldn't be cheap.
Some of those elixirs were obtained from the person Dugu Yanyun sent, while others she had refined herself. The person Dugu Yanyun sent also had some level five or six spiritual herbs, but they were of mixed varieties, making it impossible to create a complete elixir recipe. So she planted those spiritual herbs in the Golden Leaf Realm and had Xiao Jin and the others tend them. They were now growing well.
"Lan Moqi, I have some pills on me that I want to exchange for some spirit stones. Is there a place in Dancheng where I can exchange them?" Su Jinyue asked.
"What level of elixir?" Lan Moqi looked at Su Jinyue in surprise. He had never thought that Su Jinyue had elixirs on her.
"I have a Level 4 Xuanling Pill, a Level 4 Jinwu Pill, and a Level 3 Xisui Pill," Su Jinyue said. She also had a bottle of Level 5 Qingshuang Pill, but she didn't want to sell it right now.
"Sell me the Xuanling Pill and the Jinwu Pill. I'll give you one hundred high-grade spirit stones for each pill," Lan Moqi said. In Dan City, a fourth-level spirit pill cost around eighty high-grade spirit stones each, and he didn't want to take advantage of Su Jinyue.
"Okay." Su Jinyue took out two bottles of pills and handed them to Lan Moqi.
Lan Moqi took the jade bottle, opened it and took out the corresponding spirit stone and gave it to Su Jinyue.
Su Jinyue took the spirit stone and put it into her storage bag.
Su Jinyue, Lan Moqi, and Xiao Qi arrived at an inn called Yue Lai. As soon as they walked in, a waiter greeted them enthusiastically, "Are you three going to stay at the inn?"
Lan Moqi nodded slightly, "Give me a room upstairs."
"I want the cheapest room," Su Jinyue said. She looked at the room prices displayed on the wall display screen at the counter. Even the cheapest room cost five high-grade spirit stones a night. She was short on spirit stones right now, so she had to save a bit.
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