The Medicine Delivery (First Update)

Who's going to break the record?

Upon hearing the way the Woman surnamed Wang addressed him, Yi Yun was momentarily speechless. This woman had a truly venomous tongue. All he had done yesterday was ask a few extra questions, and she responded with such a sarcastic tone.

But... well... although he did want to break the record, he didn't say it out loud.

"Little brother Yi Yun, it's you."

Zhao Qingcheng saw Yi Yun, forced a smile, and transmitted her voice, "This woman is a hedgehog, she wants to prick everyone she sees, and she's also a real miser, the kind made of black iron, not giving a single penny! You'll see when you come to deliver the medicine today, she's driven the price of the herbs down really hard for you, many newcomers can't even afford the rent of twenty-five Dragon Scale Rune."

Zhao Qingcheng complained incessantly, still worried about her high-interest loan.

The group of herb-gathering girls were at a loss. For the trial participants, Dragon Scale Rune were too precious to be counted on. They were so frugal that they wished they could split a single Dragon Scale Rune in half.

"Thank you for the advice, Sister Zhao. Why is Sister Wang so bad-tempered?" Yi Yun asked casually.

"Who knows? I heard she was a trial participant in Tai'a Divine City before, and she found someone she liked among the other trial participants and they secretly pledged their lives to each other. I don't know what happened after that. It seems that the person she liked died during the trial. After that, this woman stayed in Tai'a Divine City. She was actually very strong, but she couldn't get along with anyone and was assigned to the menial tasks."

"I see..." Yi Yun hadn't expected such a thing to happen, but listening to this story, he could sense the cruelty of the Tai'a Divine City Trials, where people died at the drop of a hat.

"Sister has to tell you, Dragon Scale Rune extremely precious. Every single one must be used sparingly. They can't be wasted. Earning Dragon Scale Rune is incredibly difficult for newbies. You only earn a dozen or so a day, and there will be countless places where you'll need them later."

Zhao Qingcheng felt this deeply.

Yi Yun nodded, thinking that although Zhao Qingcheng was a bit frivolous, she was actually a decent person.

At this moment, the Woman surnamed Wang had already picked up her small golden scale and said to Yi Yun, "Newcomers gathering herbs are charged the same rate as veterans: twenty-five Dragon Scale Runes, not a penny less! If that's not enough... then we'll have to deduct your Dragon Scale Rune until they're below zero."

The Woman surnamed Wang drawled out her words, toying with the pigeon-egg-sized weight in one hand, tapping it on the table with a "thump-thump" sound.

"Of course, if you don't want to sleep on the streets, you can choose to borrow from Rune Money House like those debtors. The interest rate... is a little lower for newcomers, only 1.2%, but of course, it's compound interest."

Woman surnamed Wang spoke, she glanced at Zhao Qingcheng and the others. The girls blushed at her words; the Woman surnamed Wang's words were too harsh.

Yi Yun didn't react to what the Woman surnamed Wang said; he simply placed the medicine basket on the table.

The Woman surnamed Wang pulled back the cloth covering the medicine basket, reached in and grabbed at random herbs.

However, at that very moment, a strange expression appeared on the Woman surnamed Wang's face.

Having worked in the herb-gathering shacks for so many years, she was extremely sensitive to medicinal herbs. Just by reaching out to touch them, she sensed something was amiss. Peeking into the herb basket, a strange expression appeared on the Woman surnamed Wang's face.

She reached into the medicine basket and rummaged through it, her expression gradually freezing.

"Um?"

Zhao Qingcheng and the others also noticed the change in the Woman surnamed Wang's expression, and for a moment they didn't know what was going on.

"Did you pick all of these?"

The Woman surnamed Wang raised her head and looked Yi Yun up and down with a strange gaze, as if she were seeing Yi Yun for the first time.

Yi Yun nodded. Zhao Qingcheng and the others gradually realized what might have happened. They walked over curiously, peeked into the medicine basket, and were immediately stunned.

"Star-Gleaming Flower, Pan Niu Root, hmm? This is Blood Crow Treasure Fruit... a top-grade Yellow Rank medicinal herb, and... what's this...?"

Zhao Qingcheng took out a fleshy, worm-like object and examined it for a while before recalling a passage from the book <Divine Wilderness>, "This... could it be Meteor Star Grass??"

Zhao Qingcheng has been collecting herbs for so long, and she has only managed to find a few low-grade Xuan-rank spiritual herbs by sheer luck, and those were all relatively common low-grade Xuan-rank spiritual herbs.

Meteor Star Grass is a mid-grade Xuan-level spiritual herb, close to a high-grade Xuan-level spiritual herb.

Mid-grade Xuan-level spiritual herbs, especially those like Meteor Star Grass which are rare, hard to find, and extremely expensive, were something Zhao Qingcheng had never seen in Tai'a Medicine Mountain before, which is why she didn't recognize them immediately.

"Hmph! With your limited knowledge, you dare to go and gather herbs? You wouldn't even recognize them if they were placed right in front of you! What's the point of gathering them!"

The Woman surnamed Wang was mocking Zhao Qingcheng. Indeed, herbs are already hard to find in the Divine Wilderness, and it would be a great injustice to be lucky enough to find one but not recognize it.

However, this situation actually occurs quite often among those who participate in the trials.

Unless you're an alchemist, who has ever seen so many different kinds of spiritual herbs? Moreover, the spiritual herbs in the Divine Wilderness are different from those in the Central Plains. Alchemists who don't have enough experience will have to learn to identify herbs on their own when they come here.

Ordinary trial participants can only distinguish between various medicines based on the records in the book "Divine Wilderness".

However, books are just books after all. Relying on some illustrations and text descriptions, it is difficult to perfectly describe the properties of different herbs. It is normal not to recognize them!

Novice herb gatherers often have meager harvests, missing out on many herbs they encounter right under their noses.

Actually, this is perfectly reasonable. Those who can find these medicinal herbs among thousands of plants in the medicinal mountain based on the records in a book are the abnormal ones!

Now, it's clear that in Zhao Qingcheng's mind, Yi Yun belongs to the non-human level.

The medicinal mountain in Tai'a Divine City is filled with all sorts of tall grasses, shrubs, and forests. Many plants look similar to medicinal herbs, making it extremely difficult to distinguish them!

Many newcomers make the mistake of picking the wrong herbs, especially since some spiritual plants can gather a small amount of Spiritual Qi and really look too much like medicinal herbs.

Furthermore, many medicinal herbs can hide themselves, making them even harder to find.

Yi Yun actually collected so many herbs on his first trip up the mountain! That's incredible!

"How did you find this Star-Gleaming Flower?"

The Star-Gleaming Flower use its roots to transform into the shape of a large tree to hide itself, and Zhao Qingcheng has not been able to pick Star-Gleaming Flower for several months.

"Hmm... It's recorded in the book <Divine Wilderness>... Although the Star-Gleaming Flower can use its roots to simulate the shapes of various large trees, the trees it simulates have Stars patterns, just like the mercury left in the air after the clouds have dispersed and the rain has stopped. That's how the Star-Gleaming Flower got its name."

After hearing Yi Yun's explanation, Zhao Qingcheng looked at Yi Yun as if he were a monster.

Zhao Qingcheng certainly knew where the name "Star-Gleaming Flower" came from, and she also knew how to distinguish the large tree that Star-Gleaming Flower imitated from other plants.

However!

That's Mercury left in the sky after the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped. How small is it?

In the Medicine Mountain of Tai'a Divine City, the trees stretch as far as the eye can see, covering the sky. If a martial artist were to travel through the jungle for a day, they would have seen more than 100,000 trees, their eyes would be dazzled. Who would notice a tiny spot, like a mercury star, on the trunk of a particular tree? It's barely bigger than a pinhole!

How did Yi Yun grow his eyes like that?!

Zhao Qingcheng simply couldn't believe it.

Four girls surrounded Yi Yun, Yi Yun seemed a little overwhelmed. "Uh... why are you all surrounding me like this... uh, why are you drooling?"

Yi Yun saw that next to Zhao Qingcheng was a little girl about the same age as Yi Yun, staring longingly at the Meteor Star Grass in Zhao Qingcheng's hand, her lips slightly glistening.

"Eh?" The thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl quickly wiped her mouth and smiled shyly.

This Meteor Star Grass is worth over eighty Dragon Scale Rune; it's incredibly precious. They're all desperate for it, so of course they want it.

Moreover, standing next to the Meteor Star Grass, you can smell its milky fragrance, which really whets your appetite.

"Um... Brother Yi Yun, how did you find this Meteor Star Grass?"

The girl's Lineage and Zhao Qingcheng's family have been friends for generations. She had just arrived in Tai'a Divine City and was following Zhao Qingcheng, receiving some care from her.

However, it was clear that Zhao Qingcheng wasn't doing very well in Tai'a Divine City, and the care she could give this young girl was very limited; at most, she could introduce some rules and show her the way.

The little girl's question made everyone look at Yi Yun. Although the Star-Gleaming Flower was hard to find, it at least had some distinguishing features. Yi Yun's observation skills were truly extraordinary, so it wasn't surprising that he found the Star-Gleaming Flower.

But this Meteor Star Grass is hidden inside rocks; you can't see it from the outside unless you cut the rock open. However, the rocks on Medicine Mountain in Tai'a Divine City are more numerous than trees! They're everywhere! How can you cut them open?

...(To be continued~^~)