The first and most important thing Xia Nan did after returning to River Valley Town...
Was, naturally, go to White Tit Tavern and drink a steaming, fragrant bowl of Cream Mushroom Soup.
Only when the fresh, sweet, velvety soup carried the clean aroma of minced mushrooms over his tongue and slid all the way down his throat, warmth rippling through his whole body...
Did Xia Nan finally feel that the mission was truly over.
He did not waste much time. After sitting in the tavern for only about twenty minutes, he got up again and headed to the town's various general stores and herbal shops to deal with the spoils and materials he had collected on this brief journey.
The most precious Petrification Gland from the back of the lizard's skull had to be saved for "Rock Hammer" Barn to use in reforging the Beheading Longsword, so naturally, he could not possibly sell it for money.
As for the Petrification Lizard's heart and stomach sac, thanks to Xia Nan's clean and decisive method of killing it, they had suffered no additional damage that might affect their value, and he had removed them whole.
He had originally intended to sell them to the Association. After all, he had only just checked before leaving town a few days ago, and the Association was in urgent need of this type of material, offering a very high buyback price.
What he had not expected, however, was that after carefully comparing multiple shops, the prices offered by the town's merchants were much higher than the Association's.
A sale was a sale, and the Association would not provide any additional Points exchange quota. So after shopping around, Xia Nan naturally chose the side offering the higher price.
In the end, he sold the Petrification Lizard's heart