Night Pearls embedded in the stone walls illuminated the cave, leaving the interior far from dark. Jiang Hao swept his gaze around. The entire space was roughly five or six hundred square meters and divided into several orderly sections.
Rows of wooden crates were stacked against the walls on both sides of the outermost area. Hu Xinyue introduced them as gold. Jiang Hao gave them a cursory look. Judging by volume alone, there were probably forty or fifty tons of gold here.
Old Fox had been in business for nearly a thousand years, so such savings were hardly surprising.
Further inside, rows of shelves lined both sides, filled with boxes of all sizes. Each box bore an inscription. Hu Xinyue took Jiang Hao's hand and led him over.
"Two five-hundred-year-old ginseng roots are in here. Are they useful for pill refinement?"
Jiang Hao smiled and nodded.
"Good stuff. Very useful!"
"There's a seven-hundred-year-old lingzhi mushroom in here. Is it useful?"
"Extremely useful."
"There are several demon beast inner cores in here. Don't get any strange ideas—they were bought by my father."
Jiang Hao opened the box and picked them up, probing each with spiritual power. The inner cores possessed several different attributes. The oldest was around five hundred years old, while the youngest was only one or two hundred years old. Jiang Hao thought they would be perfect for experiments.
"With these inner cores, the pills refined from them will be greatly beneficial to you," Jiang Hao said.
Hu Xinyue was delighted and directly handed him the box. Jiang Hao accepted it without ceremony and stored it in his space.
"This is a thousand-year snow lotus."
"This is hundred-year polygonatum."
"This is musk purchased from a musk deer that had become a demon."
"These are deer antler slices cut from