In the end, Yue Wen left Hundred Realms Hall with a huge pile of spirit plant seeds under the saleswoman's admiring gaze.
This shopping trip had certainly been a fruitful one.
To avoid arousing suspicion, he had bought multiples of the quantities Hundred Realms Hall recommended for each kind of seed, lest they realize he possessed some kind of treasure soil that increased survival rates.
For example, Century Hollow Lotus seeds were supposed to be sown three at a time and cost five hundred talisman currency each. He had bought thirty, spending fifteen thousand.
A year later, Immortal Dew Valley would have thirty Century Hollow Lotuses. At market price, they would sell for three hundred thousand talisman currency, earning him a hefty profit and recouping all his costs.
As for the other spirit plant seeds, he intended to keep their produce for his own use.
Seven-Heart Dragon-Returning Eyes were supposed to be sown ten at a time, so Yue Wen had bought ten as recommended. Immortal Dew Valley was particularly suited to their growth, however, so they would probably all grow into mature spirit plants.
That way, Yue Wen could harvest ten Dragon-Returning Eye Fruits every ten years. By the time the plants withered after seventy years, he would have seventy fruits. That would be more than enough to supply everyone in the gang, with probably a few left over to sell.
He had bought six clumps' worth of Sword-Leaf Frostcloud Grass seeds for eighteen thousand talisman currency. Each clump could be refined into eighteen grass-leaf spirit swords, making a hundred and eight in total, essentially the limit of what someone at the Appearance Realm could control.
They would be fully grown in just over a month. Once he found someone to refine them, he would have another highly practical