Chapter 101 - Chapter 101: Chapter 96 Miaodan Pavilion_i (2/2)

“Here!”

Qin Niu had no intention of making idle chat. When she reached out to take the money, her hands full of scars and yellow dirt under the scabs on her nails still made Qin Niu’s heart of stone throb with a twinge of pain.

The little girl wasn’t lying, she must have gone up the mountain by herself and harvested these herbs.

Perhaps because the child had little strength and was worried about damaging the roots with a hoe, she chose to dig with her hands, which led to the injuries on her nails.

It was quite distressing to see.

After purchasing the Black Leaf Sunflowers, Qin Niu didn’t linger and went straight into the largest Elixir Pharmacy in the market street—Miaodan Pavilion.

Inside, various elixirs were sold—dazzlingly arrayed.

It was said that Miaodan Pavilion not only retained a group of their own Pharmacists and Alchemists but also specifically bought land in certain locations to cultivate medicinal materials and had special channels for purchasing herbs, beast blood, and other alchemy materials.

Managing an elixir business to this scale, from growing herbs to alchemy and selling elixirs, creating a full industrial chain, was no easy feat.

“Honorable Insect Master, may I inquire what you need?”

A young pharmacy assistant ran over to greet him.

There were several types of people going into the pharmacy to buy elixirs: some purchased them for cultivating, others to seek medicine for illnesses or injuries; the rest either bought elixirs as gifts or aimed to learn about elixir knowledge at this place.

Some were also seeking employment or apprenticeship.

All sorts of people came here for all sorts of reasons.

The customer traffic inside Miaodan Pavilion was bustling and business was booming.

“Give me four Tempering Elixirs!”

Qin Niu, who was flush with cash, directly asked for four Tempering Elixirs.

Wang Wanyan only asked him to buy three, but he bought one extra.

“Alright! Please take a seat, I’ll get them for you immediately! Would you like them packaged separately or together?”

The assistant couldn’t close his grinning mouth when he heard that Qin Niu wanted to buy four Tempering Elixirs, becoming even more attentive.

“Three in one bottle, the other one packaged separately.”

“Very well, please wait a moment!”

The assistant dashed off to fetch the elixirs.

Meanwhile, Qin Niu casually surveyed the arrangements inside the Elixir Pharmacy and the elixirs within the counter.

Almost all of the elixirs were sealed with wax to preserve them.

Some special elixirs might employ even more complicated preservation methods.

Qin Niu had no immediate thoughts of buying elixirs to break through his cultivation.

Living in the countryside, with his current level of cultivation, he could handle the vast majority of dangers.

He planned to use his Silver Money to buy weapon techniques first.

As for cultivation techniques, for the time being, cultivating the Everlasting Spring Technique was completely sufficient.

Later on, there would be opportunities to collect the missing scrolls, or to switch to cultivating other more profound techniques.

However, every slightly advanced technique had a frightfully high price. For example, the Dragon Chant technique purchased by that noble young master was not expensive, just five thousand taels.

Selling himself wouldn’t even make up for the difference.

“Honored customer, here are your Tempering Elixirs, along with the elixir certification from Miaodan Pavilion. Should there be any quality issue, you may contact us anytime. They are three taels of silver each, totaling twelve taels of silver.”

The assistant was very efficient, having already brought over the elixirs.

“Where do I pay?”

“Right this way, please!”

The assistant led Qin Niu to a green channel.

Those who were entitled to check out at this counter were either esteemed clients like Insect Masters and Beast Tamers, or powerful experts and high-ranking officials.

All of them were considered prestigious guests by Miaodan Pavilion.

As he was paying, Qin Niu’s gaze fell upon a prominent store notice that offered high prices for the purchase of all sorts of herbs and alchemy materials.

Each kind of herb was listed with an accompanying image illustrating it.

“Glow Grass, twenty-three taels of silver for one plant. Baby Ginseng, five hundred taels of silver for one root aged a hundred years. Three thousand taels for one root aged over a thousand years…”

Seeing this made Qin Niu click his tongue in wonder.

Elixirs were expensive, and naturally, there were good reasons for that.

The raw materials were seriously not cheap.

However, herbs more than a thousand years old, especially something as extremely rare as Baby Ginseng, were practically impossible to find.

“Assistant, what does this Glow Grass look like? Do you have a real sample?”

Looking at its shape, why did it seem somewhat similar to that Dogtail Grass next to the well in his backyard?