Exotic Beast Meat, Pills, Banknotes... A Full Harvest, Dragon Tiger Great Pill!

Time had been tight earlier.

After Shi Wen fled Fuxing Wharf, he had rushed to Treasure Medicine Pavilion to buy medicine for his injuries.

Now, back home and with a full stomach, he finally relaxed his taut nerves to inspect the spoils of war he had just acquired.

The pile of items looked like a small mound, reaching nearly to his knees.

It contained all sorts of things.

Shi Wen sorted the items one by one, his eyes shimmering with an uncontrollable light.

There was a lot of exotic beast meat!

Most of the miscellaneous items were bags of pre-cut exotic beast jerky, each piece about the length of a finger.

Although he couldn't discern their specific effects, they couldn't be cheap if this group of routed soldiers carried them around!

He observed the jerky in the bags from the surface.

The texture was dense and bright red, and when held to his nose, he could smell a rich, sweet aroma.

Just by smelling this fragrance, the circulation of blood and qi within his body seemed to accelerate by a few notches!

"The quality of this jerky is extremely high, far better than the Fu Bird meat sold by the shopkeeper at Treasure Medicine Pavilion!"

"It's a good thing I didn't buy too much exotic beast meat earlier."

"Hiss... fifteen bags of jerky, each estimated to weigh ten jin, adding up to about one hundred and seventy jin."

Shi Wen weighed the fifteen bags.

Don't let the fact that this exotic beast meat was packed in waterproof bags no larger than a palm fool you.

The density of the meat was incredibly high; a single piece likely weighed four or five liang. This meat totaled over a hundred jin, enough to nourish his body for a very long time.

At the very least, it could restore his depleted physique.

And sustain his martial arts training for a period!

"I wonder where this group of people got such high-grade exotic beast meat; it's much better than Fu Bird meat."

"Would a few hundred guan per jin be an exaggeration?"

Shi Wen did the math.

With 170 jin of exotic beast meat, even at 400 to 500 guan per jin, the pile of goods in his hands was likely worth two thousand taels of silver on the market!

At the thought of two thousand taels of silver lying at his feet, Shi Wen couldn't help but gasp, his eyes turning slightly green!

Two thousand taels of silver—in the past, that would have been enough to buy his life hundreds of times over.

Even if his entire family didn't pay the clerks and the Boat Gang, and saved 5 guan a month, they would have to work for about 1,000 years to earn these 2,000 taels!

And this was only a portion of the haul!

"Whew... what exactly is the background of these people? Why do they possess such staggering wealth?"

Shi Wen calmed his breathing.

He opened the window and whistled. A plump black cat dashed over from the alley, leaped through the window, and began rolling at Shi Wen's feet, acting spoiled.

For the past few days, the black cat had come over from time to time to beg for food.

Every time, Shi Wen would feed it a sliver of exotic beast meat, raising the cat until it was round and chubby.

"You're in for a treat tonight."

Shi Wen picked a few pieces of jerky from each bag, tore off a small strip, and fed it to the black cat.

The cat ate extremely fast, finishing it in a few bites, then looked as if it wanted more, running over to rub against Shi Wen's pant leg.

"Looks like there's no issue; it's all edible."

Shi Wen immediately put the exotic beast meat away and lined up the dozen or so porcelain bottles, which were thoughtfully labeled.

"Nine bottles of Blood-Nourishing Pill, three bottles of Inedia Pill, four bottles of Rejuvenation Pill, and... Bone-Melting Powder?"

He took the small bottle labeled "Bone-Melting Powder" out separately in surprise.

Inside was a liquid that looked like mercury.

He dripped a single drop onto the floor, and it emitted a thick, greenish-black smoke, instantly corroding a palm-sized hole into the ground.

The strength of its corrosiveness was evident!

"This is definitely a must-have for killing and looting; I should get more of this stuff if I have the chance."

Shi Wen tested each bottle of pills on the cat and, finding no toxicity, finally felt at ease storing them away.

A sense of emotion stirred within him.

The breathing technique required one year to evolve.

If he could master that breathing technique, the single ability of being immune to all poisons would allow him to ignore the vast majority of toxins while wandering the world, letting him toss any pill into his mouth just to taste whether it was salty or sweet.

"Nearly 200 Blood-Nourishing Pills, 45 Inedia Pills, and 73 Rejuvenation Pills."

"This time, though it was dangerous, the harvest is truly immense."

Shi Wen swallowed a plump, crimson Blood-Nourishing Pill, slightly larger than a mung bean, and immediately felt his internal blood and qi circulation accelerate.

Once the pill hit his stomach, his entire body felt warm and comfortable.

"The quality is much better than the pills sold at the Treasure Medicine Pavilion; these deserters certainly eat well."

"If I had to spend money to buy these, I'm afraid even if I sold Zhang Sheng, I wouldn't be able to scrape together enough to buy this many."

He chuckled and began sorting through the rest of the miscellaneous items.

There were some banknotes and bits of broken silver.

A few low-grade, bottom-tier martial arts manuals, short blades, daggers, and other worthless trinkets.

The silver from all these people added up to about a hundred taels, which wasn't much.

As for the bottom-tier martial arts.

They were manuals like Black Tiger Fist and Black Tiger Long Fist—low-grade and incomplete, likely the military drills practiced by frontier foot soldiers.

"The items don't look like much, but added all together, they're probably worth several thousand taels."

"Did these deserters loot everything along the way while they were running? They really have quite a lot of good stuff!"

Shi Wen didn't understand that these frontier soldiers were no ordinary men.

He took out a piece of exotic beast meat and began to chew.

He sorted the items on the floor into their corresponding bags and tucked them away in a hidden corner of his home.

Only then did he take the bag that had belonged to Ning Da.

He emptied it onto the bed.

Compared to the pile on the floor, the contents of this bag were few.

Yet, every single item that tumbled out challenged Shi Wen's understanding.

"Dragon-Tiger True Blood Pill?"

Shi Wen reached first for the most eye-catching wooden box.

The packaging of this box was plain.

Engraved on the lid were six flowing, dragon-like characters: "Dragon-Tiger True Blood Pill." He opened the box, and a single pill lay silently inside!

The pill was the size of a quail egg, deep blood-red, and inscribed with swirling patterns.

A thick, pungent scent of blood wafted out.

Yet, it was precisely this scent that caused the blood and qi within his body to surge like a ravenous wolf; it was as if a lecher had encountered a peerless beauty, triggering an urge to swallow it in one gulp!

"Dragon-Tiger True Blood Pill?"

Shi Wen picked up the pill to examine it, his face full of astonishment.

The pill was as dense as a lead ball.

Though it looked only the size of a quail egg, he estimated it weighed nearly a pound!

The rich, bloody fragrance assaulted his senses, causing every cell in his body to erupt with intense, greedy longing, making him desperate to swallow it whole.

Bang.

He closed the wooden box, his expression filled with doubt and suspicion. "I have never seen a pill capable of seducing a person's will. What level of pill is this exactly?"

"Just smelling it once has an effect nearly equal to eating half a bottle of Blood-Nourishing Pills."

"If I were to actually swallow one of these pills, wouldn't I explode and die on the spot?"

"Hiss... This man was definitely not as simple as the ordinary Origin Blood realm he appeared to be. If he hadn't been careless, I would have been the one to die."

Shi Wen resisted the urge to swallow the Dragon-Tiger True Blood Pill.

The pill was a fine medicine.

But he was too weak right now.

Swallowing one wouldn't grant him a decade of power.

It was far more likely to cause him to explode!

"And this exotic beast meat... it certainly won't be cheap!"

"There are only three strips, each about the thickness of an adult's forearm, looking like lifelike, living snakes. Their entire bodies are covered in mysterious black scales, yet the meat is fresh and delicate. Each strip weighs about 10 pounds, but their effect is more than ten times stronger than the previous exotic beast meat."

"It seems I really robbed someone extraordinary this time!"

Shi Wen tore off a tiny piece of the exotic beast meat to taste, his eyes filled with shock.

From a sliver of meat no larger than a hair, his blood and qi surged by one percent in a short time, and the speed of his circulation was five times faster than before. There was even a drop of blood-qi beginning to form within his dantian!

This was truly divine meat.

It was even more potent than the pills bought at the Treasure Medicine Pavilion!!