The one who wanted to break the record?
Hearing the way Wang addressed him, Yi Yun choked. This woman's mouth was really vicious. He had only asked a few more questions yesterday, but she had used such a sarcastic tone.
But … alright … although he did want to break the record, he did not say it out loud.
"Little brother Yi Yun, it's you."
Zhao Qingcheng looked at Yi Yun and forced a smile. She transmitted her voice, "This woman is a hedgehog. She wants to stab anyone she sees. She's also a miser, the kind that's made of black iron. She's stingy! You will know when you come to hand in your herbs today. You have suppressed the prices of the herbs. Many rookies do not even have enough to pay 25 dragon scale runes rent. "
Zhao Qingcheng grumbled. She was still worried about her loan sharks.
The few herb-gathering girls were at their wits' end. To cultivators, dragon scale runes were too precious. If they had to rely on their fingers for a living, they would rather split a dragon scale rune in half.
"Thank you Sister Zhao for your advice. Why is Sister Wang's temper so bad?" Yi Yun casually asked.
"Who knows. I heard that she was a cultivator in the Tai Ah Divine City. She found someone she liked among the other cultivators and committed herself to him. I don't know what happened after that. It seems that the person she liked died in the trial. Later on, this Wang stayed in the Tai Ah Divine City. She was actually very strong, but she did not get along with anyone. She was assigned to the miscellaneous chores department."
"I see …" Yi Yun did not expect such a thing to happen. But hearing this story, he could feel the cruelty of the Tai Ah Divine City's trials. It was not uncommon for people to die.
"Sister has to tell you that dragon scale runes are too precious. Every dragon scale rune has to be spent sparingly. You can't waste them. It's too difficult for rookies to earn dragon scale runes. You can only earn about ten a day, and there will be many uses for it in the future. "
Zhao Qingcheng was deeply moved by this.
Yi Yun nodded. He felt that although Zhao Qingcheng was not serious with her words, she was a good person.
At this moment, Wang had already raised her small golden scale. She said to Yi Yun, "Rookies picking herbs are the same as the old. You have to pay 25 dragon scale runes rent, not a single cent less! If it's not enough … then I'll deduct your dragon scale runes to below zero. "
The woman surnamed Wang dragged her words as she played with the pigeon egg-sized weight in one hand. Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
"Of course, if you don't want to sleep on the streets, you can also choose to be like those debtors and borrow money from the bank. As for the interest … it's a little less for a newcomer, just two percent. Of course, it's a compounded interest."
As the woman surnamed Wang spoke … She even shot a glance at Zhao Qingcheng and the others. The few girls' faces turned red from her words. This woman surnamed Wang's words were too unpleasant to hear.
Yi Yun did not react to Wang's words. He placed the herb basket on the table.
The woman surnamed Wang tore open the cloth covering the medicine basket. She reached into the medicine basket and casually grabbed at the medicinal herbs, preparing to take them out.
However … It was this one grab. The woman surnamed Wang had a strange expression on her face.
She had been a herb-picking odd-job worker for so many years that she was extremely sensitive to medicinal herbs. Just as she reached out to try, she felt something was wrong. She looked into the medicine basket and for a moment, a strange expression appeared on the face of the woman surnamed Wang.
She reached out and rummaged through the herb basket. Her expression gradually froze.
"Oh?"
Zhao Qingcheng and company also noticed the change in Wang's expression, but they did not know what was going on.
"These … were all picked by you?"
The woman surnamed Wang looked up and sized up Yi Yun with a strange expression. From head to toe, it was as if she was seeing Yi Yun for the first time.
Yi Yun nodded. Zhao Qingcheng and company gradually realized what had happened. They walked over curiously and stretched their heads into the herb basket to take a look. They were immediately stunned.
"Void Star Flower, Crouching Ox Root, oh? This is a Blood Crow Treasure Fruit … A top-grade Yellow-ranked herb, and … what's this … "
Zhao Qingcheng took out something that looked like a fleshy bug. After looking at it for a while, she recalled the records in the 'Divine wilderness' book, "This … Could this be Meteorite Grass??"
Zhao Qingcheng had been picking herbs for so long, but she had only managed to pick low-grade Mystic-ranked herbs a few times. And they were all relatively common low-grade Mystic-ranked herbs.
As for Meteorite Grass, it was a mid-grade Mystic-ranked herb. It was close to a high-grade Mystic-ranked herb.
Mystic-ranked herbs, especially Meteorite Grass, were rare and difficult to find. They were extremely expensive, so Zhao Qingcheng had never seen them in the Tai Ah Herb Mountain. Hence, she could not recognize them immediately.
"Hmph! With your knowledge, you still want to pick herbs? If you can't even recognize the herb placed in front of you, what's the point of picking!? "
The woman surnamed Wang mocked Zhao Qingcheng. Indeed, herbs in the Divine wilderness were hard to find. If one was lucky enough to see one, but could not recognize it, it would be a shame.
But, this kind of situation often happened to cultivators.
Unless one was an alchemist, who would have seen so many different herbs? And the herbs in the Divine wilderness were different from those in the heartlands. Alchemists who were not knowledgeable would have to learn how to identify the herbs.
A typical cultivator could only rely on the records in the 'Divine wilderness' to identify the herbs.
But a book was after all a book. It was difficult to perfectly describe the properties of different herbs with drawings and words. It was normal to not be able to recognize them!
Rookies picking herbs often had poor harvests. Many herbs that they encountered would be missed by them under their noses.
In fact, this was reasonable. Those who were able to find the thousands upon thousands of plants on Herb Mountain based on the records in a book were the ones who were abnormal!
And now, clearly, in Zhao Qingcheng's heart, Yi Yun was on the inhuman level.
In the Tai Ah Divine City's herb mountain, there were all sorts of tall grasses, shrubs and jungles. Many of the plants looked similar to herbs, so it was easier said than done to identify them!
Many rookies would pick the wrong herbs, especially since some herbs could gather a small amount of spiritual Qi. They really looked like herbs.
Furthermore, many herbs could hide themselves, making them even harder to find.
It was too ridiculous for Yi Yun to pick so many herbs on his first trip up the mountain!
"This Void Star Flower … How did you find it?"
The Void Star Flower could use its roots to transform into the shape of a large tree to hide itself. Zhao Qingcheng had never picked a Void Star Flower in the past few months.
"Yes … Isn't it recorded in the 'Divine wilderness' book … Although the Void Star Flower can use its roots to imitate the shape of various large trees, the large trees that it imitates will have starry veins. It is just like the mercury that is left in the air after the clouds and rain have dispersed. This is also how the Void Star Flower got its name."
After hearing Yi Yun's explanation, Zhao Qingcheng looked at Yi Yun as if she was looking at a monster.
Of course, Zhao Qingcheng knew how the Void Star Flower got its name. She also knew how to distinguish the difference between the Void Star Flower and other plants.
But!
That was Mercury left in the sky after the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped. How small was it?
The Tai Ah Divine City herb mountain was filled with trees that blotted out the sky. After a day of walking through the forest, with a warrior's leg strength, they would have seen more than 100,000 trees. Who would notice that a particular tree's trunk had a dot that looked like a Mercury? It was not much bigger than a pinhole!
How did Yi Yun's eyes grow!?
Zhao Qingcheng could not believe it.
With the four girls surrounding Yi Yun, Yi Yun could not stand it, "Uh … Why are you surrounding me … Uh, why are you drooling?"
Yi Yun saw a girl about the same age as Yi Yun beside Zhao Qingcheng. She was staring at the Meteorite Grass in Zhao Qingcheng's hand with her mouth shining.
"Eh?" The thirteen-year-old girl quickly wiped the corners of her mouth and smiled embarrassedly.
This Meteorite Grass was worth more than 80 dragon scale runes. It was a treasure. The few of them were crazy poor, so of course they wanted it.
And standing beside the Meteorite Grass, they could smell its milky fragrance. It really whetted their appetite.
"That … Brother Yi Yun, how did you find this Meteorite Grass?"
This girl's family was friends with Zhao Qingcheng's family. She had just come to the Tai Ah Divine City, so she followed Zhao Qingcheng and received some care.
But clearly, Zhao Qingcheng was not doing well in the Tai Ah Divine City. The care she could give this girl was very limited. At most, she could introduce some rules and lead the way.
When the girl asked this question, everyone looked at Yi Yun. Although the Void Star Flower was hard to find, it had some characteristics. If Yi Yun's observation skills were abnormal, then it was not surprising that he found the Void Star Flower.
But this Meteorite Grass was hidden in a rock. It could not be seen from the outside. Only by cutting the rock could one see it. But the Tai Ah Divine City herb mountain had more rocks than trees! It covered the entire mountain, so how was one to cut it?
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