First Meeting with Xiao Yi Xian (Request Collection, Request Recommendation)

Xiao Xie paid no attention to the clerk's snobbish attitude. He sneered inwardly and casually took the Blood Ginseng that had been deemed a low-grade medicinal herb.

After taking the Blood Ginseng, Xiao Xie asked the clerk, "Do you have any more Blood Ginseng in your store? If so, I'm willing to buy them in bulk."

The clerk was slightly stunned by Xiao Xie's words. Then, upon noticing the storage ring on his finger, he hurriedly put on a fawning smile. "Sir, please wait a moment. I'll fetch them right away."

Not long after the clerk left, he returned at a brisk pace. Setting a small wooden box he was carrying on the counter, he smiled. "Sir, there are two hundred and twenty-seven Blood Ginseng roots here. Will you be purchasing all of them?"

Xiao Xie swept his gaze over the Blood Ginseng in the small wooden box. A moment later, a trace of delight flashed through his eyes as he said, "Wrap them all up for me!"

"Sir, the total comes to forty-five thousand six hundred Gold Coins," the clerk quickly quoted.

Xiao Xie took out a golden card containing fifty thousand Gold Coins and handed it to the clerk. After storing all the Blood Ginseng in his storage ring, he accepted the returned card and turned to leave the medicine shop.

Xiao Xie found an inn and settled in for the night. Sitting on the bed, he took three pieces of Blood Ginseng from his storage ring. These three were different from ordinary Blood Ginseng; they should have been called Blood Jade Ginseng. Blood Ginseng was a first-grade medicinal herb that grew by absorbing blood, and it was generally found near battlefields. However, some Blood Ginseng underwent mutation and became Blood Jade Ginseng. Unlike Blood Ginseng, Blood Jade Ginseng was a fifth-grade medicinal herb and one of the ingredients needed to refine the fifth-grade Body Strengthening Pill. With enough Body Strengthening Pills, a person's body could be strengthened to rival a magical beast of the same rank.

A single Blood Jade Ginseng was worth between five hundred thousand and seven hundred thousand Gold Coins, so Xiao Xie had made nearly one and a half million Gold Coins this time.

"Sure enough, opportunities are everywhere out here!" After putting away the Blood Jade Ginseng, Xiao Xie went to sleep with great satisfaction.

The quiet night slipped by soundlessly. When dawn broke the next day, the sleeping Xiao Xie opened his eyes on time. His recent life in the wilderness had already adjusted his internal clock to an extremely regular rhythm.

"Sleeping in a bed really is more comfortable!" He stretched lazily, listening to the crackling sounds from within his body as a satisfied smile rose on his face.

Jumping down from the bed, Xiao Xie quickly washed up in his room, changed into a fitted blue outfit, and left the inn.

Magical beasts roamed the Monster Beast Mountain Range, where dangers lurked everywhere. Anyone traveling alone was especially likely to be attacked by magical beasts. Therefore, aside from a few highly skilled and bold individuals, most mercenaries entering the mountains traveled in groups.

Just as Xiao Xie was preparing to enter the Monster Beast Mountain Range alone, a commotion suddenly broke out at the town entrance. An excited shout rang out: "Ten Thousand Medicines Hall is heading into the Monster Beast Mountain Range to gather herbs! Xiao Yi Xian will be traveling with us too! There are only fifty slots, and you must be at least a Two Star Dou Zhe! Hurry up, everyone!"

The shout briefly quieted the bustling town entrance. After exchanging looks for a moment, the mercenaries who believed they met the requirements immediately rushed toward the middle-aged man dressed in Ten Thousand Medicines Hall attire, scrambling to get ahead of one another.

Staring blankly at the mercenaries who had suddenly gone mad, Xiao Xie blinked. After pondering for a moment, he too squeezed desperately into the crowd.

Of course, Xiao Xie was not afraid of encountering magical beasts. He acted this way because he had heard Xiao Yi Xian's name. He was no stranger to that name. Xiao Yi Xian was one of the female supporting characters in Battle Through the Heavens, a girl Xiao Yan met while training in the Monster Beast Mountain Range. Their relationship had been extremely ambiguous. Later, she cultivated the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture. She possessed the Woeful Poison Body, cultivated by consuming poison, was immune to all poisons, and her entire body was filled with poisonous aura.

There was a saying: "The Woeful Poison Body is born of calamity and dies of calamity." Her hair was silver. Later, she founded the Poison Sect in the Chu Yun Empire, where the people of Chu Yun called her the Heavenly Poison Woman. After absorbing the poisonous aura released by the eruption of her Woeful Poison Body, she had advanced to a four-star Dou Zong.

Xiao Yi Xian was hunted because of her Woeful Poison Body, but Xiao Yan later rescued her and helped her form a Poison Pill, resolving the problem of her Woeful Poison Body. Before going to the Ancient Clan, Yao Lao sent Xiao Yi Xian to an ancient tomb, where she found a method to completely control the Woeful Poison Body. She thus succeeded in her cultivation, reached the level of a Seven Star Dou Zun, and became the first person in history to truly control the Woeful Poison Body. With the aid of pills, Xiao Yi Xian then reached the One-Star Dou Sheng level.

"Now that I've encountered someone with such potential, I'd be struck by lightning if I didn't take her under my wing," Xiao Xie thought to himself.

Xiao Xie squeezed through the crowd and finally saw Xiao Yi Xian clearly. She wore a pale white dress. Though her appearance could not be called peerless, she was still a rare beauty. Her calmly smiling face carried a fresh, ethereal air, and that distinctive temperament instantly enhanced her charm considerably.

Xiao Xie's gaze wandered over Xiao Yi Xian before finally settling on her Willow Waist, bound by a green sash. As he looked at that slender waist, too delicate to fill even one hand, a flash of amazement passed through his eyes.

Whether it was Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Mei, or even Ya Fei, among all the women Xiao Xie had seen, Xiao Yi Xian had the slimmest and most delicate waist.

Xiao Yi Xian's name was practically more useful than anything else in Green Mountain Town. The fifty slots had nearly driven everyone mad with competition, but relying on his agile movements, Xiao Xie still managed to rush to the front.

"There's only one slot left!" The middle-aged man smiled as he raised the parchment scroll in his hand toward the packed crowd.

"Me!" Xiao Xie called out.

"Hm?" The middle-aged man was taken aback as he looked at the handsome youth before him, who appeared to be no more than sixteen or seventeen. Then he smiled. "Little brother, our requirement is a Two Star Dou Zhe!" He emphasized the last four words, clearly not believing that this teenage boy met the requirement.

"Brat, quit causing trouble!"

"Kid, get lost! Don't waste our time!"

Seeing the final slot snatched away by a mere youth, the burly mercenaries on the outskirts immediately began cursing.

"Art is explosion!" Hearing the curses around him, Xiao Xie frowned and instantly detonated the air before the mercenaries who had been cursing the most fiercely.

Bang! Bang! Bang! The mercenaries who had cursed the loudest were instantly blasted away. Although the air explosions were not particularly powerful, putting them in bed for half a month would be easy enough.

"Should that be enough now?" Xiao Xie asked the middle-aged man with a smile.

The middle-aged man looked at the Dou Zhe-level mercenaries who had been blasted unconscious, and the corner of his mouth twitched. "Of course. The final spot is yours. The mercenary payment is five hundred Gold Coins. You'll escort our Ten Thousand Medicines Hall herb-gathering team there and back. Half the payment will be given to you shortly, while the other half will be paid upon our return."

Naturally, Xiao Xie did not care about five hundred Gold Coins. His goal was to get close to Xiao Yi Xian. Now that he had joined the guard team, approaching her would be much easier.

Seeing the final slot taken by this kid who had appeared out of nowhere, the surrounding mercenaries could only leave resentfully.

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