Zhao Liu was stunned and said, "I want a thousand spirit stones too? I am your employer. It is only natural to protect my employer!"
Chen Dabing said with a straight face: "No, you are not my employer. The one who hired me just now was the owner of Xian'an City and Qiaomu City."
"Yes, yes, yes." The shopkeeper of Xian'an City said repeatedly, "The shopkeeper of Qiaomu City and I have discussed it and decided to give all the aged medicinal herbs in Baicao Valley to the city lord free of charge as a reward for taking back Baicao Valley."
Zhao Liu said, "Lord City Lord, have you forgotten that they were the ones who mocked you before? With your strength, you should have killed them long ago. Why are you helping them? Are you afraid that my conditions are inferior to yours? No, I can give them everything they can, and even more. The aged herbs in Baicao Valley still only account for a small part. I just need to report to headquarters that all the herbs in Baicao Valley have been destroyed by monsters, and then all the herbs will be yours."
Chen Dabao shook his head and said, "A gentleman loves money but earns it in a proper way. I only take what I deserve. The prices offered by the two shopkeepers are very reasonable."
Zhao Liu was speechless and could only say, "Then I'll do the same as everyone else and pay a thousand spirit stones."
Chen Dabing was very satisfied. He collected more than 10,000 spirit stones in this wave. He also obtained a medium-grade demon pill and more than a dozen low-grade demon pills from Nan Huanuo. The next step was to wait for the shopkeeper of Xian'an City to recover his sight and then give him all the aged red-blood ginseng in Baicao Valley.
"Sir," Nan Huanuo said, "I feel like I'm very lucky. Every time you take me out, I can make a lot of money."
Chen Dadan said, "I know what you mean. From now on, I will take you, the little god of wealth, with me every time I go out."
After a while, the shopkeepers and foundation-building masters gradually recovered their vision, and their spiritual power returned to normal. The foundation-building masters who paid spirit stones or wrote IOUs left first. Zhao Liu looked at Chen Dabing with resentment and left as well, leaving a few branch shopkeepers to dig out the aged red-blood ginseng from the planting area of Baicao Valley.
Chen Dadan watched them digging for Red Blood Ginseng and asked, "Are these the only low-grade herbs you can grow in Baicao Valley? Do you have Blood Spirit Ginseng and Jade Ganoderma?"
Zhao Er from Xian'an City said, "Yes, there are, but the Blood Spirit Ginseng needs too long to be used as medicine. It needs to be a hundred years old before it can be used as medicine. Those that are not old enough cannot be used by you."
The blood spirit ginseng used to refine the foundation-building pill needs to be one hundred years old. Even one year less will result in failure. This also makes the blood spirit ginseng of sufficient age very expensive, with one plant costing 300 spirit stones.
Chen Dadan said, "Zhao's Treasure Pavilion is known for having the most comprehensive variety of goods. I want to order a large quantity of Blood Spirit Ginseng. Spiritual stones are not a problem."
Zhao Er said, "If the City Lord needs three or five Blood Spirit Ginsengs, we can gather them for you. If you need more, we'll need to go to the County City or the Imperial City."
Zhao Si said, "Even if you buy out all the businesses in the Imperial Capital, you'll probably only be able to buy a few dozen. I've heard that Tianya Haijiao City, which borders the Abyssal Forest Sea, has a lot of aged Blood Spirit Ginseng."
Zhao Er said, "There are many aged medicinal herbs in the Abyssal Forest, but they are occupied by demons, so humans dare not go deep into them. Occasionally, a desperate herbalist sneaks in and makes a fortune by picking just one."
Chen Dabing was very interested and asked a few more questions about Tianya Haijiao City. That place was not far from Piaomiao City and was also a remote city. It was considered the dividing line between humans and demons. It was not the territory of Zhao State, but a city of Qi State, the most powerful country.
The Abyssal Forest is the territory of the demon race and is seldom visited by humans. Since the demon race's cultivation method is different from that of humans and they never take elixirs, low-level medicinal herbs such as red blood ginseng can be found everywhere. Precious medicinal herbs such as blood spirit ginseng and jade fungus are also easy to find, and there are even rarer medicinal herbs.
Therefore, there are more and more herbalists who venture into the abyss forest. If they are lucky, they can pick a few aged blood ginseng and become rich. If they are unlucky, they will stay in the forest and be fed by monsters.
The city of Tianya Haijiao, which borders the Abyss Forest, has become a place where herbalists sell medicinal materials, so Zhao Si's statement is very accurate. There are many businesses there that sell blood ginseng. Unfortunately, Zhao Ji Treasure Pavilion does not have a branch in that city.
"Tianya Haijiao City." Chen Dadan said, "It seems that we will soon leave the Novice Village and go to this place."
Now that we have obtained enough red blood ginseng from Baicao Valley and refined enough Qi-refining pills, Ting'er and other disciples of the Red Clothes Sect will be able to quickly reach the Foundation Establishment Stage, and Nan Huanuo will also be able to reach the peak of the Qi-refining Stage. The next step is to refine enough Foundation Establishment Pills and feed them to Fairy Nishang first, so that she can reach the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage as soon as possible.
"It seems like this is a cultivation game. The task is to cultivate thirteen beauties of the Red Clothes Sect. The requirement is that at least one of them reaches the Golden Core stage. The more the better. The reward after completing the task is to help me embark on the path of cultivation. The more people who complete the task, the richer the reward."
The task doesn't seem difficult, but the most important thing is time. If nothing is done, Fairy Nishang may be able to break through to the Golden Elixir stage after practicing on her own for decades, but by that time, Chen Dadan will be in his seventies or eighties, buried in the earth up to his neck, and he will still be able to practice to become a Hammer Fairy.
Therefore, Chen Dabing needs to work very hard, just like this time when he obtained a large amount of red blood ginseng from Baicao Valley, which shortened the training time of Ting'er and others.
Soon, Zhao Er, Zhao Si and others dug out all the aged red-blood ginseng planted in Baicao Valley. There were a total of 4,321 plants, worth more than 40,000 spirit stones.
This is the reward Chen Dadan received for helping Zhaoji Treasure Pavilion take back Baicao Valley.
After receiving the money, Zhao Er said goodbye to the shopkeepers and said, "My Lord City Lord, you must be more careful about Zhao Liu. He is really a treacherous old man, insidious and vindictive."
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