After finding an excuse to separate from Xun Er in the family, Xiao Yan quietly slipped out of the family and hesitated for a moment before heading towards the nearest small market town of the Gai Lei family.
Although he had no interest in helping the elders, he wanted to help his father within his power. To want to help is to know where to start, so Xiao Yan needed to go to the Gongsun Family's market to probe for information.
The small market of the Jiaolong family was slightly remote, with very few people passing by on ordinary days. However, when Xiao Yan walked into the market, the crowded streets and the deafening noise made him pause for a moment.
On the spacious street, people surged forward, some burly men with bare arms, shouting loudly while desperately squeezing into the crowd. From the faint smell of blood emanating from these men, they should be mostly mercenaries who have tasted blood on their blades. These men, who often wrestled with death, had an almost obsessive love for healing medicine. After all, when venturing deep into dangerous territories, a small amount of healing medicine might just save a comrade's life.
Standing at the entrance of the market, Xiao Yan could see some mercenaries holding small wooden boxes, squeezing out from the crowd and then rushing out of the market with joy on their faces.
"That box should be the 'Rejuvenating Powder', right?" He muttered to himself, Xiao Yan also slipped into the street and squeezed through the crowd to a stall selling "Rejuvenating Powder", where he spent 100 gold coins to buy a box.
Hugging the box, Xiao Yan squeezed out of the crowd again with great difficulty. Only then did he let out a long sigh of relief. Thinking back to the face of the medicine seller earlier, who was full of self-satisfaction and impatience, he couldn't help but sneer coldly in his heart. A thing that relies on others for its power.
Holding the box as he walked out of the market, Xiao Yan lifted the lid, revealing the ten small bottles inside. The material of the bottles was rough and clearly made from the lowest grade jade stone. Using such containers to hold medicine would make it extremely difficult to preserve the medicinal properties.
Open the bottle cap, revealing a pale green liquid inside, and a faint medicinal smell wafts out.
"Teacher, is this also a healing medicine?" Xiao Yan couldn't help but ask in his heart, somewhat astonished by the thinness of the medicinal power contained in the liquid.
"Ah, I suppose it's the lowest level of healing medicine. It can have some healing effect. This simple healing medicine is not difficult to refine, but since healing medicines are not rare and are also very cheap, only a few first-rate alchemists would bother refining them."
"It's indeed very cheap, one hundred gold coins for ten bottles, which works out to be only ten gold coins per bottle. This is somewhat embarrassing for an alchemist." He nodded slightly and hesitated for a moment before asking: "Master, do you have any better healing medicine recipes?"
"There are many, but those elixirs are too low-level, I rarely refine them." Yao Lao paused and said casually: "You want to refine some for the Xiao family? That's fine, after all you've become a fighter, it's time for you to try your hand at refining some medicine."
"Huh? I'm coming to refine?" Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan was somewhat taken aback.
"Are you telling me to do this thing myself?" He replied irritably, and Medicine Old instructed: "First go to the auction house to find a slightly better medicine cauldron, also, you need to buy a large quantity of primary medicinal materials. A novice alchemist relies on burning medicine to gain experience."
Xiao Yan licked his lips, and his face also showed some eagerness to try. He casually threw the box in his hand into a nearby ditch, then strode quickly towards the Maitre Auction House located in the central area of the city.
Just before arriving at the auction, Xiao Yan changed into a bloated black cloak in a secluded place, and then slowly approached the auction venue.
Xiao Yan's attire had already been familiarized by all the internal staff of the Maitreya Auction House, so when they saw the black-cloaked figure slowly approaching from afar, someone quickly entered the auction house to inform Ya Fei and Gu Ni.
Listening to the report from her subordinates, Ya Fei and Gu Ni simultaneously dropped what they were doing and quickly appeared at the entrance of the auction hall, finally smiling as they led Xiao Yan into the waiting room.
"This time I've come, is to ask for your help in getting a slightly better medicine cauldron." He picked up the teacup beside him and took a light sip, his aged voice coming from under his black robes.
Yafei, who knew the other person's identity, didn't show any surprise at this request. She smiled and nodded, beckoned a maid over, whispered a few words in her ear, then waved her hand to dismiss her.
"Hehe, old sir, you've come at just the right time. This morning's auction has just received a medicine cauldron made by Yanhuo Jing, which was cast by the famous Master Holer of the Gama Empire. Not only does it have a certain amplification effect on Dou Qi flames, but also some rare metals mixed in can improve the success rate of alchemy. Recently, this kind of medicine cauldron has been very popular among Gama Empire's alchemists." Yafei said with a smile, her eyes fluttering and captivating people's hearts.
"Hmm." The old voice had a few points of satisfaction, and after a slight hesitation, he said again: "Prepare another low-grade 'Nà Jiè' for me, also, 500 stems of Congxuecao, 600 blossoms of Shengguhua, 500 blossoms of Lüsuohua, 500 grains of Huoqi Guo..."
Listening to these requirements, Guni's eyelid twitched slightly. "Nah ring", even the lowest level requires 700,000 to 800,000 per piece. The medicinal materials behind may not be rare, but in such large quantities, it would still require at least 1 million gold coins to settle. Moreover, the Flame Fire Essence Cauldron that Yafei mentioned earlier, if taken to auction, could sell for at least 1.5 million gold coins. Adding up these things, without 3 million gold coins, it's definitely impossible to accomplish.
Yafei was also stunned by these materials. After all, the current auction house is not hers alone, and most of the profits need to be handed over to headquarters. Privately manipulating an amount of 300,000, although not impossible, will definitely be discovered by the higher-ups.
Her teeth lightly biting her red lips, after weighing the benefits that a fourth-grade alchemist could bring, Ya Fei smiled and said: "Old sir, one hour, everything can be prepared."
"Heh heh, good..." A faintly aged voice, for the first time in front of Ya Fei, revealed a satisfied smile.
Under the black robe, a white palm emerged from his bosom and produced a blue jade card, which he placed on the table. Yao Lao smiled and said, "I know that the money in here is not enough to buy those things earlier... but later, when you're gathering medicinal materials, add one more set of Qi Gathering Powder ingredients."
At these words, Guni's face changed slightly. Add another set of gathering and dispersing materials? Wouldn't that cost more than 500,000 gold coins again?
Her small mouth slightly opened, and Ya Fei's forehead was also slightly annoyed. Although the other party was a fourth-grade alchemist, it was still somewhat overbearing to always be like this, wasn't it?
However, with some anger in her heart, Ya Fei's charming and beautiful face still had a smile on it. After a moment of contemplation, she sighed inwardly and muttered to herself "can't put the wolf in the sheepskin" before reluctantly nodding her head.
"Heh heh, it seems the two of you have misunderstood. This material doesn't belong to me, I just wanted to lend a hand and help you refine an 'Air Gathering Powder'. Letting you two only pay for the materials shouldn't be excessive, right?" The old man's voice was calm, with a hint of a smile.
The lovely face was slightly stunned, and then suddenly surged with joy, being shocked by this sudden surprise, a little dizzy. After a moment, Ya Fei finally calmed down with a rosy complexion, and exchanged a glance with Guni, who also had a joyful face, and said in a slightly tense low voice: "Then thank you, sir."
Sorry, it stopped for about two or three hours and now I'm finally able to send this out, ^_^
