After making a full circuit of Tianhe Marketplace's building district, Li Qing finally understood what it meant for money to flow away like water.
Along the way, he had visited three shops selling pills. The more than two thousand Spirit Stones he had originally possessed had shrunk to fourteen hundred in an instant.
Such lavish spending made his heart bleed.
This was the family fortune he had painstakingly accumulated by mining Spirit Stone ore for over a year!
"Fortunately, if I use these pills sparingly, they should be more than enough to last me about a year!"
"The Spirit Stones haven't truly been spent. They're merely staying by my side in another form!"
Li Qing comforted himself with such thoughts, constantly persuading himself that misers came to no good end. They were all possessions outside the body; only the growth of his own strength was real.
However, after browsing around today and comparing prices, the Pill Shop opened by the Shi Family of Medicine King Ridge in Tianhe Marketplace was relatively cheap.
Meanwhile, the Tianhe Sect's Pill Cauldron Pavilion was the most expensive. A single Peiyuan Pill cost fifty-five Spirit Stones at Pill Cauldron Pavilion, while the Shi Family of Medicine King Ridge Only Need To charge forty-five.
A single pill was a full ten Spirit Stones cheaper. Over the years, that was no small sum.
Of course, the Tianhe Sect's Pill Cauldron Pavilion had a good reputation, backed by a major sect. There was reason for its higher prices.
Even so, Pill Cauldron Pavilion's business was still quite good.
Moreover, to the Tianhe Sect, they likely did not even care about the little income from Pill Cauldron Pavilion. Put another way, the entire Tianhe Marketplace belonged to them. The annual cut of Spirit Stones they earned alone was an