Buying Medicine

After Xiao Bai heard his question, he stopped and looked at him with a deep, quiet gaze.

Xiao Yan shrank his neck under that look. He knew that gaze all too well. Back when Xiao Bai was about to beat him up, he would look at him just like this.

"I have a flexible moral bottom line!"

After staring at him for a moment, Xiao Bai threw out a sentence that left Xiao Yan baffled at first, then continued walking out.

"A flexible moral bottom line?"

Xiao Yan muttered for a while before it suddenly hit him. Wasn't Bai Ge just saying he had no shame?

If he could beat them, he would talk morality. If he could not beat them, then what damn morality was there to talk about?

But he did not dare say it out loud. He was afraid of getting beaten.

In his heart, Xiao Yan gave Xiao Bai a thumbs-up. As expected of you, Bai Ge. You can make shamelessness sound so fresh and refined.

Yao Lao, inside the ring, also rolled his eyes. Inwardly, he weighed the difference in strength between himself and Xiao Bai, wondering whether this brat would talk morality with him.

The two of them walked without another word and arrived at Mittel Auction House in the North District.

Mittel Auction House was the largest and most high-end trading venue in the Jia Ma Empire.

It had branches in every city throughout the Jia Ma Empire, and Wutan City was naturally no exception.

Though Mittel Auction House was called an auction house, it actually included auctions, appraisals, purchasing, and retail.

At that moment, people were streaming in and out of Mittel Auction House. It was extremely lively.

Wutan City was a city close to the Demon Beast Mountain Range. Some mercenaries liked to sell the medicinal herbs, magic cores, and other things they obtained from the Demon Beast Mountain Range to Mittel Auction House here.

Because only here, no matter how much stock you had, you could sell it quickly and at a fair price.

If they set up a stall and sold it retail themselves, the price might be higher, but it would take relatively longer. For these people, that amount of time might even be enough for another trip to the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

"Bai Ge, we can just go to our family's market. What are we doing here?"

Seeing Xiao Bai head straight to the entrance of Mittel Auction House, Xiao Yan was very puzzled. All he wanted to buy were a few medicinal herbs and one magic core. He could buy those at the market. Wasn't coming here a little too high-end?

In Xiao Yan's understanding, people generally came here to buy things either for large transactions, or for items so precious they could not be bought at the market. At other times, the market was the choice for most people.

After asking, Xiao Yan sleazily looked around, then leaned toward Xiao Bai and laughed quietly. "Hehe. I heard a particularly seductive female auctioneer came to Mittel Auction House not long ago. Bai Ge, you didn't come here to take a look too, did you?"

Then he showed an expression all men understood and patted Xiao Bai. "Don't worry! Bai Ge, we're good brothers. I absolutely won't tell Cousin Xun Er. Jie jie jie!"

Xiao Bai was speechless!

Yao Lao was speechless!

Right now, both of them had the urge to beat this guy to death. Pah, how embarrassing!

Am I that kind of person?

I am a scholar! (I am an alchemist!)

This is simply an insult to refinement! (An insult to my sect!) Hetui!

Not far away, a maid from the auction house saw the two of them walk in.

One had gray-white hair and a handsome face, with an unrestrained air in every movement.

The other had a youthful face and refined features, his eyes revealing a confident glow.

These maids might be lacking in other areas, but their eye for people was first-rate. At one glance, the two of them looked like big customers, so she hurriedly put on a professional smile and went up to greet them.

"Young masters, welcome to Mittel Auction House. May I ask what the two of you require?"

"I need some medicinal herbs!" Xiao Bai said.

"Very well, please follow me!"

The maid led the two of them to a separate reception room at the side. After serving them tea, she smiled and asked, "May I ask what medicinal herbs this young master needs?"

"Purple Yang Fruit, Blood Coagulation Grass, and Jade Flower, two hundred portions of each!"

After saying that, he turned to look at Xiao Yan. Seeing this, Xiao Yan hurriedly said, "I need three ten-year-old Purple Orchid Grass plants, two Marrow Cleansing Flowers, and one Rank 1 Wood-type Magic Core!"

After the maid recorded everything, she calculated it and said, "Young masters, the total price for these medicinal herbs is twenty-three thousand eight hundred Gold Coins!"

Xiao Bai nodded after hearing this and said, "Go prepare the medicinal herbs."

After hearing that, the maid's smile became a little more sincere as she said, "Please wait here for a moment, you two!"

After saying that, she turned and left.

"Bai Ge, what do you need so many Rank 1 medicinal herbs for?" Xiao Yan asked in confusion.

"Kid Xiao Bai, you're not really going to refine pills, are you? Can someone with your Lightning attribute refine pills?" Yao Lao was also very puzzled. If it were anyone else, Yao Lao would definitely think he had gone mad.

But this kid was sharper than a monkey once fur was stuck on him. How could he possibly be a madman?

This fellow had come to him last night for a copy of the basics of alchemy and two first-grade pill formulas. At the time, he had not thought too much about it and had given them to him directly, assuming he was just interested and wanted to have a look.

But the medicinal herbs this fellow had just bought were precisely the ingredients needed for the first-grade pill formula he had given him—Blood Coagulation Powder—and he had bought two hundred portions at once. That made him somewhat unable to figure it out.

Thinking back to that little cauldron that looked like an incense burner, he had initially thought it was an incense burner the kid had forged. But now, for a moment, Yao Lao began to wonder if it might actually be a Medicine Cauldron Xiao Bai had made.

"Mm, not bad. I do want to give it a try," Xiao Bai said with an air of calm confidence.

Today, he really had to thank the Jia Lie Family for their generous contribution. Only because of them could he buy so many medicinal ingredients in one go. Otherwise, he would have had to pinch pennies and buy only a few portions to take back and test first—how could he be this lavish now?

He could have asked Xun Er to borrow some money, but he had never once opened his mouth to this little girl before, so he felt a little conflicted for a while.

"Teacher, didn't you say only those with Fire and Wood Attributes can refine pills? What's going on?" Seeing that Xiao Bai did not seem to be joking, Xiao Yan hurriedly asked Yao Lao in his heart.

Inside the ring, Yao Lao was also somewhat doubtful and uncertain at this moment. He had watched Xiao Bai grow up since childhood and knew he was not the unreliable sort. Yet judging by his current appearance, he seemed rather confident.

But according to the pill-refining principles Yao Lao had established since childhood, on the Dou Qi Continent, no one had ever successfully become an alchemist using any attributes other than Fire and Wood.

At this moment, Yao Lao was eighty percent disbelieving and twenty percent suspicious.

—This kid is definitely bullshitting. With this old man's experience as a Rank 8 Alchemist, how could anyone use Thunder Method Pill Refining? If you said light or fire methods, that would still be more believable than this.

—What if he has some special method?

—Impossible. Absolutely impossible.

Yao Lao shook his head, still refusing to believe in any Thunder Method Pill Refining. Perhaps this kid had gone mad from wanting to become an alchemist.

With a sigh, Yao Lao privately said to Xiao Yan, "What Thunder Method Pill Refining? Maybe your Bai Ge wants to become an alchemist too badly!"

Hearing his teacher's sighing tone, Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Bai with a little pity and comforted him:

"Bai Ge, don't worry. I'll work hard to become a high-rank alchemist. In the future, whatever pill you want refined, just tell your little brother anytime, and I guarantee I'll handle it perfectly for you!"

Xiao Bai rolled his eyes. Seeing Xiao Yan's expression as if he pitied him, he knew this teacher-and-disciple pair must have secretly said something, and he was too lazy to bother with them.

As for refining pills, he himself was not one hundred percent confident either. Anything he said now would be empty talk. He would wait until he succeeded before speaking. As for failure—if he failed, then he failed. What else could he do?

His purpose in refining pills was not pure to begin with. Becoming an alchemist was only incidental; his greatest goal was pill lightning. That thing should be able to help him break through quickly.

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