After getting the information from Yang Guo, Wei He collected his share of striped greenfish meat the next day, then headed for nearby Xuanjing City.
Xuanjing City neighbored the Heavenly Seal Sect, and the two had many connections.
Thus, the local government office was easy to deal with. The moment they heard Wei He was an Inner Court disciple, their attitude changed completely, and they swiftly assigned him a patrol duty.
They were already short on manpower. Disorder within the city had begun to rise, and the growing influx of outsiders had made their original staff utterly insufficient.
Numerous serious crimes had broken out in the city, yet there were no hands to deal with them. The wealthy households and great lineages of the city had all posted bounty notices beside the government office gates.
There were cases large and small, all waiting for capable hands to handle them.
Wei He smoothly took on a long-term patrol job: every evening at dusk, he would patrol Xiongshan Town, one of Xuanjing City's nine districts.
This job also guaranteed him one hundred jin of Water Bear Meat every month.
This kind of meat was cheaper than striped greenfish, even cheaper than most other exotic beast meat on the market.
But its strength lay in sheer quantity. The government had many Water Bear meat farms, and supplies were plentiful. There was enough to eat one's fill.
Wei He got a small piece to try and found that Water Bear Meat was not weak at increasing qi and blood.
But according to Yang Guo, Water Bear Meat was impure, with too many impurities. It was unsuitable for any martial artist past Three-Blood to use alongside cultivation. Furthermore, Water Bears had strong regenerative abilities, large populations, and numerous meat farms.
Its price naturally could not