Ten Thousand Prosperity Medicine Depot

This was the West City Medicinal Market.

Rows upon rows of depot courtyards stretched as far as the eye could see, their entrances hung with the varied signboards of medicinal merchants. Scattered fragments of dried herbs and withered twigs still littered the ground.

Many courtyard gates stood wide open, revealing vast open-air drying yards where thousands upon thousands of herbs were spread out in the sun. Craftsmen sat beneath the covered walkways with blades in hand, slicing, grinding, and processing medicinal ingredients. The clatter of their work rang out without end.

With his hands clasped behind his back, Lin Fan strolled through the streets and alleys of the medicinal market.

He had decided that from now on, he would only refine high-grade pills used by experts of the Three Qi-Force Realms. Those pills started at ten thousand taels of silver, and refining a single batch was worth more than a dozen batches of pills for the Three Body-Tempering Realms.

The low-grade pills Lin Fan had sold this time had all been refined long ago. Some had even been made before he broke through to the Bright Force Realm.

With ten million taels of silver in hand, he intended to purchase high-grade spiritual materials in bulk, refine them into pills, and rake in a hefty sum.

The medicinal market in Commandery City was far better than those in small towns. Many ingredients that were difficult to find in a town were piled here by the bundle and cartload.

Lin Fan browsed as he walked, his gaze sweeping over the depots on either side. He inspected several small and medium-sized medicinal merchants. The smaller shops had limited selections and scant stocks of high-grade spiritual herbs. Most carried only ordinary medicinal ingredients for everyday use, making it difficult for them to meet his