Tang Lan and the others first entered a pharmacy and purchased many medicinal ingredients listed in the Tang Sect Secret Medicine Compendium.
Watching Team One of patrolling soldiers pass outside, Tang Lan asked the shop owner, "I heard that the Heaven Dou Empire is conducting a nationwide manhunt for Princess Vina. It's been so many days already—have they still not found her?"
The shop owner was a middle-aged man. Hearing Tang Lan's question, he sighed softly. "Princess Vina has done many good deeds over the years and often visited impoverished prefecture cities. Who would have thought she would end up like this?"
"How could insignificant people like us know anything about affairs of the royal palace? Ah, forget it. Better not speak of it."
The pharmacy owner sighed, then did not mention the matter again.
Fortunately, this place was far from the imperial capital. Otherwise, ordinary citizens would not have dared to discuss such things.
Next, Tang Lan and the others went to the most famous blacksmith shop in Flying Swallow City.
The owner of the blacksmith shop was a middle-aged man. Hearing that major customers had arrived, he put down his forging hammer and walked out of the smithy bare-chested, his upper body covered in sweat.
"What? You want three thousand jin of iron ore, three hundred jin of Red Gold Ore, three hundred jin of Azure Serene Ore, and three hundred jin of Flame Cotton Ore!"
"That's no small order, especially the last three. Altogether, they'll cost at least ten thousand Heaven Soul Coins!"
However, when Tang Ya presented the list of ores she wanted, the middle-aged man found it hard to believe.
After all, no matter how he looked at them, Tang Ya and the others appeared to be around eighteen or nineteen on average, with the