After saying that, the man led a few people toward the south side of town, while Dantai Ming and the dozen or so others returned to the main residence.
The woman from the tea stall came over to refill Lin Taichu's tea and said in a low voice, "That man is the patriarch of the Dantai Family, Dantai Hong."
Lin Taichu nodded. "Thank you."
After finishing his tea, Lin Taichu tossed down a few Spirit Stones, rose, and left the tea stall. He did not return to the inn, but instead made a circuit around the town. Dantai Town was much larger than Luofeng City. Its main streets alone numbered three, with more than a dozen cross streets.
The shops in town came in all kinds, selling everything under the sun, and their prices were much cheaper than those in Luofeng City.
Lin Taichu stopped outside a shop that sold pills and walked in. The shop was not large, but its shelves were filled with all sorts of pills, from the lowest-grade Qi-Returning Pills to high-tier Breakthrough Pills. It had everything one could ask for.
The shopkeeper was an old man in his sixties, with cultivation at the first level of the Half-Saint Realm. Seeing Lin Taichu enter, he greeted him with a beaming smile.
"What does our honored customer need?"
"Just looking around."
Lin Taichu made a circuit before the shelves, his gaze falling on a bottle of Breakthrough Pills.
"How much is this bottle of Breakthrough Pills?"
"Five hundred Spirit Stones per pill."
"Not expensive."
The shopkeeper said with a chuckle, "Pills in Dantai Town are all cheaper than outside, because we have our own alchemists and don't need to bring goods in from elsewhere."
Lin Taichu nodded, then looked over the other pills and asked casually, "Business