In the West Chi Ban Market, the air was filled with a dense herbal aroma.
In this area, all medicine stores had pharmacies set up in the backyards, and many pharmacists directly started their medicine making in the pharmacies. Every time the medicine stove was turned on, dense puffs of smoke would come out, and the dense herbal aroma would spread out like a hurricane.
All kinds of herbal fragrances mixed together and formed a layer of sticky, greasy mist. The mist seeped into the clothes and hair of the passersby on the street, adding a layer of turbid herbal fragrance to each and every one of them.
Geng led Ji Hao and Man Man to walk slowly on the main street of the West Chi Ban Market. While introducing those shops to Ji Hao, he greedily inhaled the herbal aroma.
To Senior Magi like Ji Hao, this herbal aroma was just useless waste. However, to lowly slaves like Geng, this herbal aroma could nourish their fragile bodies, strengthen their spirit blood, heal wounds and prolong their lives.
Normally, if there were no customers, Geng and his people were never allowed to enter the Chi Ban Market. Being able to enjoy the thin herbal power that leaked out when the medicine stove was turned on in the West Chi Ban Market was also the biggest dream of Geng and most of the low-class slaves in the Chi Ban Market.
"My lady, this is the Cang Lan House, mainly selling all kinds of water-based herbal medicines. The most famous one from the Cang Lan House is their 'Blue Wave Pill'. With one pill, you can freely move around under the water for three months. This pill is an indispensable magical medicine for exploring dangerous places in the abyss, or fighting on the water. "
"Here, this is the 'Life Returning Pavilion', mainly selling all kinds of medicines for sword wounds. When many magic tools are forged, their swords and blades are infected with metal poison. The medicines sold in the 'Life Returning Pavilion' are good at removing metal poison from swords and blades, which can save lives on battlefields. "
"As for this Hundred Herbs Hall, we mainly sell all kinds of medicines that can nourish spirit blood and recover life-force. My lady, you are a smart person. Senior Magi have strong life-force, as long as their life-force is not exhausted, they will not die even if they are chopped by swords or axes. However, on battlefields, no matter how strong your life-force is, it will run out eventually. That is why we need the medicines from the Hundred Herbs Hall to save lives. Even a peak-level Senior Magus can quickly recover over thirty percent of his life-force with a single dose of medicine! "
Obviously, Geng had a good understanding of the various shops in Xi City. He knew about the main business of all the medicine shops and the specialty of the pills they refined.
While they were walking, in front of a wide medicine hall that was built with silver striped boulders and decorated with gold and silver, a low and hoarse voice came out, "That's it, there's nothing else. That's all I've brought. I need the Xiao Marrow Pill to save my friend. He was poisoned and couldn't make it. I only need one Xiao Marrow Pill, just one. "
"I don't have any jade coins. There was nothing more. Can't I default on it? But I don't have any. "
"I need the Xiao Marrow Pill to save my friend! He's the only friend I have. "
Vaguely, the voice repeated the same thing over and over again. He didn't have any jade coins left, but he needed to buy Xiao Marrow Pills to save his friend.
Ji Hao narrowed his eyes. Xiao marrow pill? He had seen the recipe of the Xiao Marrow Pill in a medicine book in the Magi Palace. However, in order to concoct the Xiao Marrow Pill, one Xiao Marrow Pill needed the marrow of nine ghost face Hou. Ghost face Hou were mainly produced in the north of Chi Ban Mountain. Due to the climate and environment in the south of Chi Ban Mountain, it was extremely hard for ghost face Hou to reproduce.
Therefore, although the Magi Palace had the recipe of the Xiao Marrow Pill, they could only produce around a thousand Xiao Marrow Pills every year. Compared to the great number of Magi Palace people and human beings in Pu Ban City, this amount of Xiao Marrow Pills couldn't even be counted as a drop in the bucket.
However, the Xiao Marrow Pill was powerful and mild. Only the Xiao Marrow Pill could be used as the antidote for quite a few kinds of highly poisonous creatures.
"The Xiao Marrow Pill is expensive, isn't it?" Ji Hao looked at Geng.
"I vaguely remember that in Xi City, a Xiao Marrow Pill costs around three-million jade coins." Geng knitted his eyebrows and said a bit hesitantly, "My dear friend, you're a wise man. Evil creatures like ghost face Hou can only be raised in the north. The cost of raising them is extremely high, and if they are transported to Chi Ban Market to be sold, the price would surely increase by a couple of times. "
"If you want to detoxify, you can find all kinds of other antidotes, and you don't have to use the Xiao Marrow Pill. Therefore, this pill has never been selling well. However, once you are forced to use the Xiao Marrow Pill to save your life, that means you have been poisoned by those few kinds of poisonous creatures, and only the Xiao Marrow Pill can save you. "
"Eh? Incurable? Then you're dead! "Man Man popped her eyes out, looking at Geng in shock.
"That's right, you're dead." Geng sighed slightly, pointed at that luxurious medicine hall and said, "That 'Red Wood Palace' is the property of a large family in the north. Normally, they rarely sell a Xiao Marrow Pill, and it's rare for someone to ask for it to save his life. It's already good enough that they didn't raise the price on purpose. If you don't pay a single jade coin less, they won't sell it to you. "
Ji Hao held Man Man's hand, walked to the gate of the Red Wood Palace and looked inside.
Quite a few people had already gathered in front of the gate of the Red Wood Palace, watching what was happening. Some of them were even whispering.
"This cyan-eyed dragon leech is mature enough, it's worth it to exchange it for three-million jade coins."
"Ah, who asked this old wood to be so stupid? If he brings something to the Red Wood Palace, the price will definitely be lowered. "
"This old wood is going to be unlucky. If he asks for help from the Red Wood Palace, he won't be able to get out of this without losing a layer of skin."
In the especially spacious hall of the Red Wood Palace, a hundreds of zhang tall old tree man stood in the middle of the hall, seeming to be in a daze. A few flexible branches were steadily holding a winged leopard, whose entire body was covered in a black mist and had a pair of wings on its back.
On the tree trunk of the old tree man, large drops of green tears had been ceaselessly flowing out of his two eye sockets, which were burning with green flames.
"Three-million, that's all I have. You said that this cyan-eyed dragon leech is only worth two-million jade coins? But people said that it's worth at least three-million jade coins! "
"I don't have any more jade coins. Not even one. I only have one friend. Give me a Xiao Marrow Pill to save him, and I'll pay you back, I'll pay you back! "
A Yu Clan's man stood in front of the old tree man and said something in a low voice.
The old tree let out a great roar, furiously waving his branches.
"I'm not selling it … I'll go to another place. Another place also has Xiao Marrow Pills! I need to save my friend, I won't sell it to you. "
The old tree man swaggered towards the gate and said, "I'll go somewhere else, I'll always be able to buy it. Xiao Marrow Pill, I can save your friend. "
Ji Hao looked at the old tree man, looked at the sticky green tears in his eye sockets, and couldn't help but curve his mouth corners. These spirit creatures were all simple and honest. Being forced to shed tears in front of everyone, he was indeed worried about that winged leopard.
He had only taken two steps forward when a cold and harsh shout abruptly came out.
"No one dares to steal our Red Wood Palace's business, no matter where you go. This Xiao Marrow Pill, you can only buy it from our Red Wood Palace! "
"You don't have enough jade coins? You can sell yourself! You're not bad, why don't you sell yourself to our Red Wood Palace as a slave for a million jade coins? Can't you save your friend? "
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