City Lord’s Mansion.

Lu Deshui sat irritably in the head seat.

As a city lord, he wasn’t lacking medicinal materials, but spending several million to buy them for his son’s sake made him more and more angry and stifled the more he thought about it.

Sigh.

City Lord Lu let out a long breath.

Things having reached this point, he could only quickly find out that guy’s identity. If he didn’t have any power, it wouldn’t be too late to think of a way to vent his anger.

“City Lord.”

A subordinate rushed in and said: “A Pill Hall master has come to visit!”

“Oh…” City Lord Lu stood up with a whoosh, shocked, saying: “Who came to visit?”

Because of the vexation in his heart, his thinking had short-circuited a bit.

“A Pill Hall master!”

“Swish!”

City Lord Lu walked out of the hall at top speed. When he saw the black-robed man standing at the door, his irritation and worry were instantly replaced by rich smiles. While advancing, he cupped his hands saying: “With a Pill Hall master’s arrival, this humble abode is filled with brilliance!”

“City Lord Lu.”

The black-robed middle-aged man said coolly: “Your people are a bit impolite.”

He was very displeased now, because as an alchemy master who came from the Pill Hall, going to any city would receive warm welcomes, yet upon coming to Linyuan City he was nearly detained as a criminal.

“What happened?”

City Lord Lu was also someone who’d experienced great storms. From the other party’s expression and words, he realized something must have happened, so he urgently questioned his subordinates. After learning the cause and effect, he hurriedly apologized: “A misunderstanding, a huge misunderstanding!”

Neutral organizations like the Pill Hall, though not necessarily strong in martial arts, had unimaginable connections and relationships because they could refine pills. It was said they even had close dealings with many great immortal sects.

Though Lu Deshui was a city lord, even before Profound-tier sects he had to lower himself, naturally not daring to offend Pill Hall people.

The black-robed middle-aged man wasn’t the petty type either. After being invited into the hall and seated in the lower position, he got to the point: “City Lord Lu, this time I was passing through your territory and smelled quite a special medicinal material scent, so I came specifically to investigate.”

“Special medicinal materials?”

Lu Deshui was a bit confused.

Linyuan City’s marketplace did have many medicinal material shops, but most were common goods without anything special. How did they attract this gentleman?

Regarding Realm Hall masters, his understanding came down to two words—professional.

Therefore, City Lord Lu didn’t think the medicinal materials sold in his city could catch this person’s eye.

“Moreover.”

The black-robed middle-aged man added: “There may even be quite a lot!”

“This…”

Lu Deshui felt even more puzzled.

The black-robed middle-aged man said: “City Lord Lu need not worry. If your city truly has good medicinal materials, Feng will purchase them at prices higher than market rate!”

His surname was Feng…

Lu Deshui nearly fell off his chair, shocked, saying: “Could you be one of the Pill Hall’s eight chief alchemists, Feng Guichen?”

He didn’t know much about the Pill Hall, but naturally had heard of the eight chief alchemists famous throughout the Upper Realm, especially remembering their surnames: Feng, Chen, Chu, Wei, Jiang, Shen, Han, Yang.

Among them, the Feng ranked first referred to Feng Guichen.

It was said this person was born with an ability to discern medicinal materials’ strength and weakness, not even needing to touch them—just looking with his eyes could tell.

As for the other seven chief alchemists, they had even higher attainments in the pill dao. Many Dao and immortal sects fought desperately to hire them as sect alchemists.

“Correct.”

The black-robed middle-aged man acknowledged it.

“So it’s Senior Feng. Lu was impolite!”

City Lord Lu hurriedly stood up to bow again, the reverence in his eyes even richer than before.

One of the Pill Hall’s eight chief alchemists was absolutely a resounding big shot. He, a small Linyuan City lord, absolutely couldn’t afford to offend him.

“City Lord Lu, let’s talk business.” Feng Guichen said.

Revealing his true identity wasn’t to show off, but to make him open his heart and not hide the medicinal materials.

City Lord Lu’s expression was somewhat colorful.

He knew better than anyone what quality his city’s medicinal materials were. If the chief alchemist insisted on looking at the materials and they didn’t catch his eye, wouldn’t that provoke his anger and bring bad luck?

Wait!

Just then, Lu Deshui suddenly remembered the large batch of medicinal materials he’d bought for three million to save his son, so he muttered in his heart: “Could what Senior Feng mentioned be these medicinal materials?”

Seeing him still hesitating, Feng Guichen showed displeasure: “Does City Lord Lu worry that after Feng sees the medicinal materials he won’t pay but will directly take them?”

“No, no, no!”

Lu Deshui urgently said: “Lu doesn’t mean that, it’s just…”

He paused, saying carefully: “My Linyuan City isn’t a city primarily engaged in medicinal materials business. I’m just afraid the medicinal materials I produce will be hard for you to appreciate.”

He didn’t dare confirm whether what he’d just bought was the special medicinal materials the other mentioned, so he declared this in advance to avoid offending him.

“No matter.”

Feng Guichen said: “Feng isn’t an unreasonable person.”

Lu Deshui felt relieved and only then took out the spatial ring he’d bought from Jun Changxiao’s hands, selecting several types of medicinal materials to place on the table, saying: “Senior Feng, the medicinal materials sold in our city are all very ordinary. If we must speak of special ones, I’m afraid it’s only…”

“Swish!”

Before he finished speaking, several medicinal plants had already flown over.

Just that one move of retrieving objects across space without any true energy fluctuation made City Lord Lu certain that this chief alchemist not only had strong pill dao attainments but his martial cultivation must also be extraordinary!

Several medicinal plants were arranged on Feng Guichen’s table. He didn’t touch them but focused his gaze on them. His facial expression first froze, then gradually transformed into wild joy as he said: “The extremely common Celestial Emperor Grass on the market actually contains such strong heaven and earth attributes—truly inconceivable!”

What shocked him even more were the Jade Cloud Armor Mushroom, Nine Cauldron Spirit Fish Fruit, and other medicinal materials.

The energy contained in each of these materials far exceeded the most common varieties on the market by dozens of times. If defined as heavenly treasures and earthly treasures, they absolutely belonged to the Profound-tier!

As a chief alchemist, Feng Guichen had definitely seen higher quality ones. The reason he was so excited was that ordinary medicinal materials having heavenly treasure standards meant that if used for alchemy, they would absolutely play unimaginably great effects!

Seeing him display such joy, Lu Deshui couldn’t help muttering in his heart: “Is it really that exaggerated?”

City Lord Lu, who didn’t understand pills, naturally didn’t understand what tremendous alchemical value these materials Jun Changxiao had cultivated using the Nourishing Soil truly contained.

No problem!

Feng Guichen understood!

He urgently inquired: “City Lord Lu, how did you grow these medicinal materials?”

The Celestial Emperor Grass and other materials arranged on the table all belonged to common goods. Even if there were wild ones, they couldn’t possibly contain so much energy, so there was only one possibility—these were definitely artificially cultivated using some unknown special method!

“Uh…”

Lu Deshui said rather awkwardly: “To tell Senior Feng the truth, these medicinal materials weren’t grown by Lu. They were bought from someone else.”

“Who!”

Feng Guichen asked urgently.

Being able to grow ordinary medicinal materials into heavenly treasures and earthly treasures—this was absolutely a top master proficient in cultivation!

“The ones who sold the medicinal materials were a young couple. As for their identity, Lu doesn’t know either and is currently actively investigating.” Lu Deshui said truthfully.

“A young couple?”

Feng Guichen asked: “Do they have any obvious characteristics?”

Since they could grow this kind of heavenly treasure and earthly treasure grade medicinal materials, they might be reclusive experts living in the wilderness. If he found them, he definitely had to visit.

Lu Deshui considered briefly and said: “That man is about twenty or thirty years old, looks weak and frail, that woman is stunningly beautiful… Oh yes! In terms of clothing, they wore black robes extremely similar to Senior’s!”

Feng Guichen committed these characteristics to memory and said: “City Lord Lu, how many medicinal materials did you buy?”

Lu Deshui hurriedly placed several spatial rings on his table, saying: “They’re all inside, roughly forty to fifty thousand plants.”

Feng Guichen released his spiritual sense to merge into each one. After confirming the medicinal materials inside were all heavenly treasure grade, he thought in shock: “There are actually so many. Could this special cultivation technique already achieve mass production?”

“City Lord Lu, how much money did you spend?”

“Three million profound stones.”

Hearing this, Feng Guichen frowned.

City Lord Lu wailed internally: “He must be thinking I’m stupid with too much money!”

“From a professional perspective, selling these medicinal materials for only three million profound stones is truly a bit cheap.” Feng Guichen said.

“Ah?”

City Lord Lu was stunned.

“How about this.” Feng Guichen took out several spatial rings and placed them on the table, saying: “Feng is willing to buy these medicinal materials for five million profound stones. Does City Lord Lu agree?”

“A… agree!”

…

My name is Lu Deshui.

My son was abused by a detestable guy who forced me to spend three million buying a large batch of medicinal materials, making me so angry I nearly vomited blood on the spot. But in the end, reselling them to the Realm Hall’s chief alchemist, I actually earned two million!

Young friend.

No matter where you are, I must find you!