70th Pharmaceutical Trade Fair

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  The next day, the long-awaited Pharmaceutical Conference of the Medicine King Gang was finally held in Zhujici County, and the entire county entered its busiest trading period. This pharmaceutical conference will be held for dozens of times, lasting for half a month, and the large quantities of medicines and medicinal materials accumulated by the Medicine King Gang over the past decade will be sold out in batches through transactions.

  Depending on the seller, the specifications and grades of pharmaceuticals and medicinal materials traded in the market also vary.

  The top-level pharmaceutical transaction meeting was held at the most luxurious Yongfu Building in the county, a venue specially selected by Huang Changlao, the elder of the Golden Tiger of the Treasure Gang. Recently, Elder Huang has successfully held several small-scale treasure trading meetings here.

  The top trading conference of Yongfu Wine House, only the leaders, deputy leaders and chief elders of Pingzhou's top ten gangs, as well as a few top-notch master guests, are eligible to participate. The items for sale are all the most precious and rare medicinal materials.

  A slightly lower-level pharmaceutical transaction fair is held at the trading market in the northwest of the county town, mainly facing high-level figures of medium-sized gangs. Among hundreds of gangs, it can also be held in a spacious place like the market to sell high-quality medicines and medicinal materials.

  Ordinary medicinal materials trading fairs are held for thousands of small associations and individual buyers within Pingzhou Prefecture. Due to the large number of participants, they can only be held in a vast empty area outside Zhujici County, where a large area of tens of hectares is marked out, stages are set up, and transactions take place. The majority of the medicinal materials sold are medium- and low-grade products.

  An ordinary trading day had already begun early in the morning.

  The top-grade medicine trading conference of Yongfu Wine House, co-hosted by Medicine King Gang and Treasure Gang, takes place at night.

  The Yongfu Wine House was still being decorated during the day, and the guests of the top ten gangs had not yet arrived. Only dozens of Jin Yi Zhai disciples from the Medicine Hall, as well as dozens of strong men from the Treasure Gang, were stationed inside and outside the wine house to patrol.

  In the early evening, the lights were just turned on.

  The streets and alleys of Zhujia County, the inns and shops, and the gateways of every household's courtyard were almost all hung with a large red lantern distributed by the Medicine King, illuminating the entire county like daylight, which even more set off the thick festive atmosphere.

  In front of Yongfu Wine House, ten majestic flags of Pingzhou's top ten gangs were inserted.

  Within a radius of several hundred feet, the main street has been cleared out. All idle people are not allowed to approach. The Medicine King Gang's Herbal Hall, led by Xie Yun, with dozens of Jin Yi law enforcement disciples, dressed in bright armor, carrying sharp swords, standing proudly with their hands behind their backs, guarding the front of the building.

  The owner of the medicine hall, Li Daxinren, Ma Fudong and Ji Fudong, as the local Dongdao master of the Medicine King Gang, stood at the door to welcome the arrival of the top leaders of Pingzhou's ten major gangs and specially invited guests.

  "Haha, Li younger brother, long time no see, your inner breath seems quite pure!"

  "It's nothing, it can't compare to Zheng Lao Ge's internal skill being pure and refined. The 'Tai Xuan Gong' has already reached the level of perfection! Our Medicine King Sect's leader is already waiting upstairs to welcome the Nine Pastures Sect's Zheng leader and all the elder brothers. Please go upstairs!"

  "Please!"

  The leader of the Jiupu Gang, Zheng, and three elders, who ranked last among the top ten gangs in Pingzhou, arrived at the trading venue first by luxury horse-drawn carriage. After exchanging a casual greeting with Li Daxin, they swaggered into the third floor of Yongfu Building.

  Half an hour later, the top leaders of Pingzhou's ten major gangs, including the gang masters, deputy gang masters, and high-ranking elders, arrived at Yongfu Wine House under the escort of burly men from various gangs.

  Huoyun Gang, Caohe Gang, Dongyang Salt Gang, Wutie Gang...... Zhenbao Gang, Jiupu Gang. Each of the top ten gangs in Pingzhou has about four or five of its highest-ranking members attending. In the spacious trading hall on the third floor of Yongfu, at least forty to fifty of the strongest high-ranking members of the top ten gangs in Pingzhou have gathered. This is not a large number, but each and every one of them is a major figure who can shake the Jianghu of Pingzhou with just a stomp of their foot.

  In addition, each of the helpers brought at least hundreds of top-notch masters as their entourage, stationed within a one-mile radius around Yongfu Building, with a total number of top-notch masters reaching over a thousand.

  In Pingzhou, the number of top-notch masters can be counted on one hand. The top masters are mostly high-ranking members of various gangs, and their numbers are extremely limited. Even a large gang having a dozen or so top masters is considered many.

  The backbone of the gang is a first-rate master. The number of first-rate masters truly represents the strength of a gang. It can be said that at this time, the thousands of top-notch masters gathered in Yongfu Building are enough to wipe out any large gang in Pingzhou overnight.

  ......

  At dusk.

  The southeastern part of the county town, a private residence with a small courtyard.

  A faint, smoky figure darted swiftly across the forty wooden stakes in the small courtyard, the tip of his foot lightly touching each stake as he effortlessly sprang out three zhang away before landing on the next one. In what seemed like a single breath, this wisp of smoke had circled the entire courtyard. Such rapid movement continued for as long as it takes to drink several cups of tea. If someone with poor eyesight caught a glimpse without being careful, they might think it was a ghostly shadow floating around. This person was precisely Ye Qin.

  Suddenly, Ye Qin stopped and stood still on a wooden stake. He spread out his right hand, with an odd expression, staring at the yellow spiritual stone clutched in his palm.

  The Ling Stone was emitting a faint coolness, along his palm, into the meridians of his arm, flowing into the meridians of his body. His body's meridians were like parched fields getting nourished by rainwater, having a refreshing and comfortable feeling.

  After more than two months of practice, Ye Qin was quite familiar with the Wind Control Technique. However, he was not practicing the Wind Control Technique at this moment, but rather experimenting with a phenomenon he had unexpectedly discovered - that the Spirit Stone could actually replenish the spiritual energy he consumed when casting spells.

  He has always used the spiritual stone as a fertilizer to cultivate and plant the dew-collecting grass in the Purple Mansion, then use the alchemy furnace to refine the dew-collecting grass into dew-collecting pills, which are converted into yuanqi after consumption, strengthening his yuan-shen cultivation.

  But yesterday, when he was practicing magic with a piece of spiritual stone in his arms, he unexpectedly found that the spiritual stone was automatically replenishing the magical power he had consumed.

  This discovery left him astonished.

  Does Lingzhi also have the effect of replenishing Fa power?

  This afternoon, when he had some free time, he carefully tested the replenishment speed of the spiritual stone in his hand and found that it was very slow but was indeed constantly replenishing. In about an hour, he could recover the spiritual power that would normally take five or six hours to recover from meditation.

  He grasped the spirit stone and cast the Wind Shield Technique, almost able to replenish his depleted magic at any time. As long as he had enough spirit stones, he believed he could continue casting the Wind Shield Technique indefinitely, even running for a month without issue.

  The discovery of this new use for Ling Shi was a surprising delight for Ye Qin.