Zhou Yong took Xu Yang's list and scanned it carefully, then shook his head. "We can supply everything, but with your current standing at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, Master Xu, we can't sell you so many rare medicinal ingredients at once."
Aside from Dragon Whisker Root and tiger-soul scarlet sun fruit, the two spirit herbs needed to refine the Dragon-Tiger Great Golden Pill, the recipe also called for several ingredients as rare as pure yang grass and tigerbone vine.
Though they were not spirit herbs, they were still uncommon.
Xu Yang frowned slightly, but he caught the implication in Zhou Yong's words. "How can I raise my standing?"
"There are plenty of ways!"
Zhou Yong smiled. "Once your total purchases at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion reach fifty thousand taels, Master Xu, you can become an Honored Guest. You'll be free to buy any medicinal ingredients below the spirit herb grade, and even for spirit herbs, you'll have an annual purchase allowance of two."
Xu Yang's heart stirred. Being an Honored Guest of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion actually allowed him to buy spirit herbs here.
Spirit herbs were not something money alone could buy on the market. Most were traded for spiritual treasures of equal value. Those who acquired spirit herbs generally were not foolish enough to exchange them for money.
Yet his brow did not ease. Over several years of shopping at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, he had spent only a little over twenty thousand taels, less than thirty thousand in total. Even if he wanted to spend another twenty thousand at once to raise his standing, he did not have that much silver on him.
"What else?" Xu Yang asked.
"You don't have to spend money, Master Xu. If you become the chosen successor of an elder at the