Five days later.
At the bottom of the cliff wall, in Pill Treasure Pavilion's small storeroom.
Chen Mu handed over two hundred jin of Yellow Sprout Rice and received sixty White Jade Coins.
Thirty were payment for his work as an Alchemy Apprentice, while the other thirty were compensation for two hundred jin of Essence of Five Grains.
Chen Mu returned twenty White Jade Coins and exchanged them for a wooden token.
The token was two fingers wide and palm-length. One side bore an engraving of mountains, while the other read: Two Thousand Jin of Yellow Sprout Rice.
With this wooden token, he could collect two thousand jin of Yellow Sprout Rice from the Affairs Office's main storeroom.
The Affairs Office's main storeroom was not far away, likewise built by hollowing out the mountain's interior.
Compared to Pill Treasure Pavilion's small storeroom, which was only about the size of a basketball court, the main storeroom was vastly more spacious.
Its ceiling was seven or eight stories high.
Standing at the entrance and looking inside, Chen Mu could not see the far end at a glance, perhaps because of the dim light.
The longer he looked, the more a strange sense of disconnection rose in his heart.
It was as though the inside and outside of the doorway belonged to two separate worlds.
After thinking for a while, Chen Mu finally found the inconsistency.
The lowest Cave Dwellings of Pill Treasure Pavilion were only five or six meters above the main storeroom.
Yet this main storeroom was over ten meters tall.
This...
"Never seen it before?" The Short Fat Storekeeper handling his business gave Chen Mu a sidelong glance.
"This is the miniature realm technique within the Thousand Mile Household Bag."
"The original cave wasn't nearly this large."
"Something like