Another Half Month

Lin Fan looked around and counted every medicine chest once more. Everything matched. No medicinal ingredients had been left behind.

The abundant Inner Qi within Lin Fan surged. Hazy, pale-white Inner Qi spread like flowing water, wrapping layer after layer around more than a dozen heavy, black-lacquered medicine chests.

Lin Fan held the massive chests steadily in midair with his powerful Inner Qi. They did not sway or jolt in the slightest, so the precious ingredients inside would suffer no bumps or knocks.

Once he was sure everything was settled, energy swirled around Lin Fan. He pushed lightly off the ground.

"Let's go."

As the words left his mouth, he shot into the distance. His Inner Qi held the chests firmly behind him as they sped down the road together.

The wind howled. The earth, houses, riverbank, and docks rushed backward. Carrying a full haul of High-Grade Spiritual Materials, he became a blur and left the Azure Wave Medicine Market, racing toward the Commandery City some five or six hundred li away.

Only the faint clamor from the distant medicine docks and a fleeting wisp of white vapor remained over the open fields.

The Azure Wave Medicine Market did have one advantage over the Commandery City: its prices were more than ten percent lower than those at the city's major medicinal-ingredient markets.

But it lay a full five or six hundred li from the Commandery City. No merchant firm was willing to haul a large shipment that far directly to his residence. Delivery over such a distance was extremely risky. Bandits roamed the roads, and an ambush could cost them not only the entire shipment but their lives.

None of the local medicine depots accepted long-distance delivery jobs like that.

Besides, he needed too many High-Grade Spiritual Materials for any