Joining a Martial Hall

The spirit creature's hide and flesh sold for a total of eight taels of silver.

Based on the going monthly wage of three qian of silver for a shop clerk in this era, eight taels of silver had purchasing power equivalent to roughly eighty thousand yuan.

It sounded like a lot, but merely joining a martial hall cost five taels of silver. And it was not as though joining a martial hall meant one could keep training there indefinitely.

Three months.

If, after three months, you had failed to make anything of yourself—failed to reach the threshold and truly enter the gate—you would be dismissed.

During those three months, the martial hall supplied one special medicinal meal each day to replenish the depletion caused by martial training.

If you wanted to speed up your progress, you could only spend your own money on additional medicinal decoctions. You could buy them directly within the martial hall, but if you felt the hall's decoctions were too expensive, you could also purchase nourishing remedies from an apothecary.

However, while the apothecary's decoctions were much cheaper, their effects were worse by far more than a little.

If the medicinal decoctions from the five halls rated ten in effectiveness, then those sold by apothecaries only rated three. Yet they still cost half as much as the martial hall's remedies. Even so, quite a few people still bought from apothecaries.

Because many of them could only afford a single dose of medicinal decoction. One dose cost four taels of silver, and that was already the apothecary price.

It could no longer be described merely as expensive.

There were three martial halls in the city: Black Tiger, Rock Mountain, and White Snake.

Among them, Black Tiger Martial Hall was notorious for its ruthless methods. The Black Tiger