"Stop, stop, stop..."
Zhao Ling'er called an immediate halt to the others digging up bamboo shoots.
"What's wrong, Senior Sister?" Tian Xiaoqing asked. "Are we stopping?"
"Look!" Zhao Ling'er turned and pointed.
Everyone turned around and discovered that the immortal bamboo shoots behind them had already formed an enormous pile.
Zhao Ling'er continued, "We each have only two Treasure Bags. We can't use them all to hold immortal bamboo shoots, can we?"
Everyone's faces darkened.
She was right!
They had all come to hunt for treasure. Bringing back two bags of immortal bamboo shoots would hardly do; truthfully, even a whole bag wouldn't sell for fifty spirit stones.
Immortal bamboo shoots were a rather unusual kind of spirit herb.
When refining [Qi-Gathering Pills], they didn't need an entire immortal bamboo shoot.
Put it this way: one immortal bamboo shoot was enough for dozens of batches of [Qi-Gathering Pills].
If all four of them brought back two bags of immortal bamboo shoots each, wouldn't their master scold them to death?
"All right..." Zhao Ling'er said. "This is enough. We'll divide these up and leave the rest!"
The four of them then began dividing the bamboo shoots.
Each received ten.
Ten immortal bamboo shoots filled half a Treasure Bag once tossed inside.
"Let's go!" After they finished dividing the immortal bamboo shoots, Zhao Ling'er said, "If we come across first-grade spirit herbs again, don't gather so many. Just take a few!"
"What matters are second-grade spirit herbs!"
"Those are what fetch real money!"
He Pingsheng nodded.
That was how spirit herbs worked. A difference of one grade could send their value soaring into the heavens.
For example, ordinary Qi-Gathering Pill ingredients were first-grade materials, so even ten sets sold for only seven spirit stones.
That was the value of first-grade spirit herbs.