The three girls worked up a storm in Huo Ling's room, sorting and selecting medicinal herbs while complaining the whole time.
They complained about the harvesting methods, processing techniques, and so on.
Huo Ling had nothing to do now. He brewed a pot of tea and sat quietly nearby, watching the three of them bustle about.
After most of the day, the herbs were finally sorted into categories.
The senior sister took out a notebook and recorded every herb. All told, there were seventy or eighty types.
"Most of these are ordinary medicinal herbs. There are fourteen magical herbs. The most plentiful is snake-pattern grass... this is one of the ingredients needed for mana-restoration potions, and it's the most expensive!"
"If you buy them, how much are they worth altogether?" Huo Ling asked the question that concerned him most.
"All together, they're worth 536 magic stones... I've listed the prices in this table. Take a look." The senior sister handed the notebook to Huo Ling.
Looking at the weight, quality, and purchase price listed after each herb, Huo Ling nodded in satisfaction.
The price list was detailed and professional. Though he did not understand it, it did not look like they were trying to pull one over on him.
He had previously thought that selling these herbs for two or three hundred magic stones would already have been enough to satisfy him. He had not expected them to be his biggest haul.
"Oh, right. Do you need these alchemy vessels too?"
Huo Ling pointed at the vessels tossed to one side, once the treasured possessions of the goblin shaman Malo.
Covering her nose, the senior sister inspected them before tossing them down as though they were trash. "No! These things are ruined... and they're covered in medicinal residue. They'd be