Volume 1: The Decline of the Yue Family Chapter 5: Building Foundation Dan Seeking Collection Recommendation
"Xin'er, how did you know I was here? I wanted to go take a look at the store." Looking at Su Xin'er in front of him, Yue Cheng couldn't help but think that this little girl would definitely be a disaster for the country in a few years.
"I went to your room to look for you, but I didn't see you there. The servants said you were here, so I came looking for you. You never used to go to the store before, why did you suddenly want to go today?" Su Xiner looked at Yue Cheng with a puzzled expression, as her brother-in-law had always been uninterested in store affairs before.
"I'll go find something." Yue Cheng replied, and in his memory, he also knew that he used to never care about the store's affairs.
"Then I'll go with you, it seems like you don't even know where the store is." Su Xiner smiled slightly at Yue Cheng, her brother seemed to have never been to the Yue family's store before.
"That's it, okay." Yue Cheng was stunned, and he himself didn't even know where the Yue family's shops were located, so he could only let Su Xiner follow him.
The two of them left the Yue family's mansion and, under Su Xiner's lead, walked through several small streets to arrive at a bustling main street in Lijing Town. Along the way, Yue Cheng also told Su Xiner that he wanted to go take a look at some shops selling arms and medicine.
"Yue's Military Store" was a store specializing in the sale of military equipment and medicine, but business had been getting worse and worse. Many people in town preferred to go to a place called "Huang's Military Store" across the street to buy things.
Inside the Yue Family's military equipment shop, they mainly sold some low-grade weapons and medicinal pellets that practitioners couldn't do without. Of course, these medicinal pellets weren't anything impressive either. They were all made by a second-rate pellet master who had been hired at a high price by the Yue Family. A second-rate pellet master was already an unmatchable grand figure in this small town, with a status that even a great Dou Shi or third-grade mage couldn't compare to.
The lower ranks of the alchemist are from first to ninth, and the conditions for becoming an alchemist are too harsh. Advancement is also very difficult. Moreover, whether it's a magician or a martial artist, they can't do without elixirs, so this has resulted in the lofty status of the alchemist.
When the two arrived at Yue's family shop, the people inside also recognized Yue Cheng and Su Xiner, and they hurriedly greeted the two.
Yue Cheng slightly sized up the Yue family's military equipment shop, which was not small in scale and had a lot of things inside. There were five or six people busy inside.
"Uncle Peak." A middle-aged man in a blue long gown appeared beside Yue Cheng, who slightly bowed and called out. This person was Yue Cheng's uncle, Yue Zifeng, who was responsible for this store. This military equipment shop was also the largest one among all of the Yue family's current shops.
"Hey, kid, how come you have time to visit me today? Usually, I have to drag you out and now you're here on your own. It's good for you to get out and take a break, it'll improve your mood. From now on, why don't you follow me and learn the business?" Yue Zifeng said with a slight smile, it was clear that he liked Yue Cheng too.
"Uncle Feng, I'll also follow you and learn how to do business, okay?" Su Xiner said with bright eyes looking slyly at Yue Zifeng.
"You, you little girl are getting prettier and prettier. In a year or two, when your sister comes back, I'll find a good husband for both of you to marry." Every time Yue Zifeng looked at Su Xiner, he couldn't help but think of his own daughter, Jiao'er, who was just a few months older than her.
"Uncle Feng is so annoying, he always teases me. I'm ignoring him." Su Xiner's face quickly flushed with a hint of redness, as she was often teased by Uncle Feng whenever they met, and hastily ran inside to play, to avoid being teased again.
Looking at Su Xiner's appearance, Yue Zifeng also smiled slightly. This girl is getting prettier and prettier, I wonder how Jiao'er is doing now.
"Uncle Peak, may I take a look at the weapons and medicinal materials?" Yue Cheng asked Yue Zifeng in a soft voice. This was Yue Zifeng's domain, so naturally he had to agree.
"It's all inside, go take a look yourself." Yue Zifeng looked at Yue Cheng with confusion, as he didn't cultivate internal energy or magic, and wondered what he wanted to do with these things. Despite his confusion, he still allowed Yue Cheng to enter.
"Thank you, Uncle Feng." Yue Cheng slightly thanked Yue Zifeng and then walked into the store. He had been looking at things inside while he was outside.
"Refined iron forged, mysterious iron forged." Yue Cheng carefully examined each of the weapons on the rack, a thread of excited smile appearing on his face. The materials of these weapons were similar to those of Huaxia and could be refined into magical artifacts.
"Blood Spirit Grass, Five-Leafed Fruit." Immediately, Yue Cheng arrived at another shelf, where there were some dan medicines. Yue Cheng picked one up and examined it carefully, feeling great joy in his heart once again. It turned out that the so-called dan medicine was almost the same as the dan medicine he had refined before, using the same medicinal materials, only with different names.
"Yue Cheng, you still understand Dan medicine?" Yue Zifeng looked at Yue Cheng's excited expression and walked to his side to ask.
"I understand a bit, Uncle Feng. Do you have any scattered medicinal materials? I need to find some useful ones." Yue Cheng asked Yue Zifeng quietly. Since it's the same, he should also try to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill as soon as possible. After taking the Foundation Establishment Pill, his cultivation would stabilize and have unexpected benefits for future cultivation. Fortunately, the Foundation Establishment Pill is not a high-level elixir, with his current early Foundation Establishment cultivation and his own realm, he should have a chance to successfully refine it.
"It's inside, come with me." Looking at Yue Cheng's expression, Yue Zifeng was puzzled and immediately took Yue Cheng to a secret room inside.
Followed by Yuezi Peak, he arrived at the secret room. This was a room built with bluestone, not very large in size, and stored many medicinal materials inside. Yue Cheng smelled a strong smell of medicine from afar, and on the central shelf of the secret room were placed many medicinal materials that had not yet been refined into Dan medicine.
Looking at the medicinal materials in the secret room, Yue Cheng slightly furrowed his brow. The level of these medicinal materials was really not up to his standards. This was no wonder, considering his previous super cultivation, all the medicinal materials he used were rare and precious treasures from heaven and earth, so naturally these ordinary medicinal materials couldn't compare.
Yue Cheng stood in front of the medicine rack and carefully searched for it. Fortunately, refining the Foundation Establishment Pill didn't require any heavenly treasures or earthly gems, just some ordinary medicinal materials would do. However, among the medicinal materials required to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, the most important one, 'Jing Qi Shi', was also somewhat precious.
"Uncle Feng, do you have any Jing Qi Shi?" Yue Cheng searched through the shelves of medicine and found all the other ingredients needed to refine the Zhu Ji Dan, but couldn't find the most crucial one - Jing Qi Shi. Without this ingredient, it would be impossible to refine the Zhu Ji Dan.
"What do you want to do with the spiritual energy, there are only a few spiritual energies in the Yue family now." Yue Zifeng asked doubtfully, looking at Yue Cheng's appearance, as if he was going to refine some kind of elixir. It seemed that he had never heard of him refining elixirs before. If this kid really knew how to refine elixirs and was a alchemist, the Yue family wouldn't be in such a state.
