Chapter 38: Qi-bo

"Well, I won't doubt you about this, and I won't tell you about it either," Yun Hao said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, the old man surnamed Ye smiled and stroked his beard.

Yun Hao took out a golden blade talisman and a golden shield talisman and handed them to the old man named Ye, saying, "Senior Brother Ye, I will accept this bottle of Qi Gathering Pill without hesitation."

The old man surnamed Ye took the two talismans, narrowed his eyes, and said shamelessly, "Of course."

"Senior Brother Ye hasn't mentioned Senior Brother Ma from Baiyao Garden yet!" Yun Hao said to the old man named Ye with a hint of meaning.

After that, the two of them whispered to each other for a while, and then Yun Hao left Baiji Hall.

After leaving Baijitang, Yun Hao followed the instructions of the old man named Ye and came to Baiyao Garden.

Baiyao Garden is located between two small hills and is actually not far from Baiji Hall, so Yun Hao found it quickly.

Yun Hao stood outside the Hundred Medicinal Garden and saw an area blocked by a formation restriction. The restriction was not complicated. It was just a small injection to prevent outsiders from spying.

Yun Hao stood outside and shouted loudly, "Junior brother, I have something important to discuss with you, Senior Brother Ma. I hope Senior Brother Ma will come and see you."

Soon the sound came from outside, and after a moment, a dry voice came from inside, "Junior brother, come in." As soon as the voice fell, a small path was seen splitting out from the middle of the formation in front of them.

Upon seeing this, Yun Hao hurriedly walked in through the path. As soon as he entered, he saw a courtyard with a plaque with the words "Hundred Medicinal Garden" hanging on the gate. There were a few thatched huts inside, and a medicinal garden of several acres on both sides of the courtyard.

"Brother, what are you doing here?" The dry voice came again, and at the same time, a thin old man walked out of the thatched cottage in the yard.

"Junior brother Yunhao meets senior brother Ma. Junior brother comes here to buy some spiritual medicine seeds and see if you have any foundation-building pills that suit my needs," Yunhao said, looking at senior brother Ma's thin body.

"Come in and sit down first," Senior Brother Ma invited Yun Hao into the hut.

The furnishings in the hut were simple. Apart from an octagonal table, there were only a few chairs on both sides of the table.

"Come, junior brother, have some tea," said Senior Brother Ma as he poured a cup of tea for Yun Hao and himself.

Senior Brother Ma picked up the teacup, took a sip of the tea and asked, "From what you said, Junior Brother, you are also interested in alchemy?"

“Junior brother, you are indeed more interested in alchemy, but you have searched many places but have not found the recipe for the elixir that is suitable for our foundation building. So you have no choice but to ask Senior Brother Ma for help.” Yun Hao also picked up the teacup and took a sip, saying with a helpless look.

"Well, the pill formula is naturally impossible, but it's not impossible for Junior Brother to get the elixir seeds. As for the pills! That depends on Junior Brother's wealth," said Senior Brother Ma as he put down the teacup in his hand.

"Brother Ma, what kind of elixirs do you have? I'll take a look and see if they're suitable for me. If they are, I can grit my teeth and buy some," Yun Hao said calmly after making some guesses.

"Well, it's better to take a look! Don't say that your senior brother killed you later," said Senior Brother Ma with a sinister smile.

“That’s not true, Senior Brother. Even if there is no gain from this trip, it’s only because I’m not wealthy enough. It has nothing to do with you.” Yun Hao had heard that Senior Brother Ma had a weird personality, and it seemed to be true.

"Really? Then let's take a look first, Junior Brother." Senior Brother Ma took out two small porcelain bottles and placed them on the Eight Immortals Table.

"One bottle of Qi Gathering Pill is suitable for the early stage of foundation building; the other bottle is Qi Combining Pill, which is suitable for the middle stage of foundation building," Senior Brother Ma explained.

"Hmm! Qi Gathering Pill?" Yun Hao smiled bitterly when he heard that.

"What's going on, Junior Brother?" Senior Brother Ma asked in confusion.

"It's nothing. It's just that before coming here, I exchanged a bottle of Qi Gathering Pill from Senior Brother Ye in Baiji Hall," Yun Hao explained.

"Huh, that old man Ye is good at doing business." Senior Brother Ma's beard blew up in anger. "Hmm? What did Senior Brother Ma mean?" Yun Hao was a little puzzled.

"It's nothing, it's just that the Qi Gathering Pill from Old Man Ye was also made by me," Senior Brother Ma said calmly.

"Oh! So that's how it is. Then junior brother bought another kind of Qi-combining pill," Yun Hao said as if he had suddenly realized something.

Senior Brother Ma glanced at Yun Hao with his eyes slanted. "Junior Brother, have you made up your mind?"

"Is there something wrong?" Yun Hao asked Senior Brother Ma.

"That's not the case. I'm just wondering why you, my junior brother, didn't buy the suitable elixir, but instead bought this elixir that you can't use now!" Senior Brother Ma said indifferently.

Yun Hao's eyes rolled when he heard that, and he replied calmly, "Junior brother, I am just being prepared. Besides, I can't be so extravagant in my daily practice. I bought these pills for use in breaking through bottlenecks in the future."

Senior Brother Ma did not doubt it either, because the fact was just as Yun Hao said, except for those disciples who had families and backgrounds, it was impossible for other cultivators to have an endless supply of elixirs during their daily practice!

"There are ten Qi-combining pills in this bottle, each of which costs thirty spirit stones. A total of three hundred low-grade spirit stones are needed. I hope you have no objection, junior brother?" Senior Brother Ma continued.

"Well, it's in line with the market price. I have no objection, brother." Yun Hao said with a smile, staring at Brother Ma.

"Junior brother, you still need those seeds. If they are ordinary ones, I will not accept your spirit stones," asked Senior Brother Ma.

"Junior brother, you are also very interested in alchemy. I want to buy some of the elixir seeds you have and plant them at home. This way, if you find the elixir formula one day, you won't have to grope around in the dark," Yun Hao said to Senior Brother Ma with a smile.

"Is that so? That's not that simple. Although there are basically no too precious spiritual medicines in my Hundred Medicine Garden, there are quite a few rare species. How about this! Junior brother, if you give me an extra 500 spirit stones, I will give you a favor." Senior Brother Ma felt a headache when he heard this.

Because these herbal seeds are precious, but they are of little use. It will take hundreds of years to cultivate them before they are needed. But if you don’t cherish them, it will be difficult to find them in a short time. I was in a dilemma for a while, so I mentioned a price that was neither too high nor too low.

"Brother, isn't this a bit too expensive?" Yun Hao was overjoyed when he heard this, but in order to avoid raising suspicion in Brother Ma's mind, he pretended to be hesitant.

“This is still expensive! It took me decades of hard work to collect these elixirs.” Senior Brother Ma felt uncomfortable upon hearing this.

"Brother, don't be angry. It's not necessary. I just feel a little pain when I heard the price of 500 spirit stones. Since Brother Ma said so, I will not bargain anymore. Just as you said, the spiritual medicine seeds are priced at 500 spirit stones." Yun Hao saw that Brother Ma was about to lose his temper, so he quickly comforted him. After all, he didn't want to make things worse.

Seeing this, the skinny Senior Brother Ma calmed down his emotions which were about to go out of control.

Yun Hao hurriedly took out eight hundred spirit stones from the storage bag on his waist and placed them on the Eight Immortals Table. He pretended to smile bitterly and said, "Senior Brother Ma, you have emptied out all of my wealth this time."

Seeing this, Senior Brother Ma did not hesitate. He took the spirit stone and took out a cloth bag from the storage bag on his waist and said, "Junior brother, all the spiritual medicine seeds are in this cloth bag. You can check it yourself."

Yun Hao took the cloth bag and weighed it in his hand first, then scanned the bag with his spiritual sense, and saw more than eighty kinds of spiritual medicine seeds lying quietly in the bag.

Yun Hao put away the cloth bag, and took the small porcelain bottle containing the He Qi Pill from the Eight Immortals Table and put them into the storage bag.

Upon seeing this, Senior Brother Ma said, "I have something else to do, so I won't let you stay here any longer."

Yun Hao knew that the man had a strange personality, and he also wanted to leave, so he followed the pole and said, "Then I would like to thank Brother Ma. I'm taking my leave."

After saying that, Yun Hao left the Hundred Medicinal Garden and flew towards the Huangfeng Valley Market.

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(End of this chapter)