Ye Chen left the bookstore and walked to his residence with two shabby books and an ancient painting scroll. "The herbs I bought a while ago have been used up. It's time to buy some new herbs to take back."
On the way, he passed by a herbal medicine shop in the academy and remembered that he had no herbs.
"Boss Zhang, do you have any fresh herbs?"
Ye Chen touched the remaining eight taels of silver in his pocket and entered the herbal medicine shop.
"A batch of goods just came in this morning. The fresh herbs picked from the mountains are fresh and juicy. They are on the shelf, pick your own!"
Boss Zhang of the herbal medicine shop is settling accounts at the counter.
Ye Chen came to the shelves.
There are a lot of herbal medicines on the shelves of the small shop. There are bamboo labels on them indicating the price, grade and use. Herbal medicines for body tempering and healing herbs. The grades are between the first and third grades. They are suitable for the early stage of body training.
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"The first grade costs ten coppers, the second grade costs hundreds of coppers, and the third grade herbal medicine actually costs one tael of silver per plant. These third grade herbal medicines are really expensive!"
Ye Qin muttered.
"This is not expensive! There are no fourth to sixth grade herbal medicines in our shop, otherwise the price would be at least dozens of taels or hundreds of taels of silver. Herbs of this grade are all purchased by wealthy families and large chambers of commerce with strong financial resources.
Go, at least we don't sell them in this small shop. As for rare herbs of grade seven and above, it is difficult to buy them with gold. Such rare herbs are supplied to the treasury of Wu State, princes and ministers, and are not available on the market.
Has the young man been selected?"
Boss Zhang smiled.
"Oh, let me take a look again."
Ye Chen clicked his tongue when he heard this and continued to think about which herbs to buy.
He had no money in his pocket before, and he had been practicing in the academy for ten years. He had always used the cheapest first- and second-grade herbs to temper his physique, and had never used third-grade herbs. Now he is in the middle stage of physical training, and he is cleaning the library and doing chores.
After making a fortune, I have a lot of money in my pocket, which I can use to buy third-grade herbal medicines to temper my physique.
"Boss Zhang, I only have eight taels of silver, can you help me choose some third-grade herbal medicines!?"
Ye Chen licked his lips.
"Okay! This is 30-year-old Sophora flavescens, which strengthens the body, strengthens Qi and blood, opens up the meridians, and is taken internally. This is 20-year-old Red Blood Vine, which heals internal injuries and clears congestion. This is 10-year-old Snake Gall Fruit, which is used as medicine for external use.
Bath, treat skin and flesh wounds. These are third-grade herbs, and one of them has slightly weaker potency. I will sell it to you cheaper and charge you eight taels of silver."
The owner of the medicine shop packed three bags of herbs with both hands and said with a smile, "Three pairs of herbs are used together, and the body tempering effect is excellent."
"Thanks!"
Ye Chen paid eight taels of silver and happily took three packages of herbal medicines to open a herbal medicine shop. Taking old books and paintings and three sets of medicinal herbs for practice, he came to a wooden house in a remote student residence in the academy.
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Ye Qin opened the scroll of the ancient painting called "Immortal Mansion", looked at it for a while, and placed it on the table with satisfaction. This was the first time in ten years that he spent money to buy such a luxurious ancient painting, which greatly satisfied his dream.
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Then, he placed three pairs of herbs on the table and opened one of the packets.
"It's time to temper your body and practice!"
Ye Chen started busy, heating hot water in a pot under the eaves, preparing to cook herbs for internal use and external bathing.
"Hey, why is there a sophora flavescens missing?!"
Ye Qin boiled hot water and went back to the house to get the herbs. He glanced at the herbs on the table and suddenly showed a look of surprise.
The package of herbal medicines opened on the table clearly contained three herbal medicines, but now one plant, Sophora flavescens, was missing.
"Where's my Sophora flavescens! Who stole my medicine in such a short time?"
Ye Chen was so anxious that he rushed to the table and picked up the herbs on the table.
Then, he saw something even more shocking.
I saw that in the bare acre of medicine garden where the ancient painting scroll was, there was a three-inch-long Sophora flavescens that had been used for thirty years. The branches and leaves of this Sophora flavescens were still fresh and green, and they were growing happily. It was clearly him.
The sophora flavescens I bought.
"How did my Sophora flavescens enter the ancient painting? This Sophora flavescens was bought for one or two silver coins. How do I take it out?!"
Ye Chen's eyes froze and his breathing became rapid.
"It seems... growing!"
Ye Chen picked up the ancient painting scroll, rubbed his eyes, and looked at it carefully.
The Sophora flavescens plant in the painting is indeed getting bigger.
Ye Qin shook the ancient painting vigorously, and a thicker Sophora flavescens fell out from the scroll of the ancient painting. It was more than twice as big as before.
"This Sophora flavescens has grown to six inches. It has at least sixty years of medicinal power. It is completely a sixth-grade herb! Such high-grade herbs are not sold in herbal shops. Even if they are sold, the price is at least tens of dollars.
, hundreds of taels of silver."
Ye Chen compared the length of Sophora flavescens and swallowed.
He immediately realized something more important.
This Sophora flavescens is nothing.
The truly shocking item is this ancient painting scroll. The one acre of medicinal garden inside it can actually make a three-inch-long Sophora flavescens grow into a six-inch-long Sophora flavescens.
"What exactly is this ancient painting scroll?... The word "immortal mansion" is written on the scroll. Is this really a magic weapon used by people who cultivate immortality?"
Ye Chen could not hide the shock in his heart.
If this is really an immortal magical weapon, if word spreads about it, it will probably cause a sensation in the entire Wu Kingdom. Countless swordsmen, swordsmen, and masters at the ninth level of the body refining stage will swarm to Beilu Academy and madly snatch this treasure. Once the warriors break through
After reaching the ninth level of body refining, you can enter the Yuanshen stage and become an immortal cultivator. Who doesn’t want to own a magic weapon used by immortals?
"I'll try it again and see the effect!"
Ye Chen thought for a moment and tried to place a red blood vine on the ancient painting scroll.
"call!"
A twenty-year-old red-blooded vine disappeared out of thin air.
In the scroll of the ancient painting, a red vine grew out of an acre of medicine garden. It was so wonderful and beautiful that it looked almost like the real thing.
Ye Chen's eyes widened and he held his breath.
This red blood vine began to grow rapidly at a speed that Ye Chen could see with the naked eye, becoming stronger and stronger.
After a while, the red blood vine fell out from the ancient painting scroll with a "plop!"
"That's really how it works!"
Ye Chen was so happy that he tried all three sets of herbal medicines he had.
After trying it many times, he gradually figured out the trick of using this ancient painting scroll. Every time he put the herbs in, they would automatically fall out after they grew to a certain extent.
"This ancient painting scroll is much darker than before. The original picture quality was still somewhat bright, but it has begun to become dull and lackluster."
After Ye Chen used it many times, he noticed changes in the ancient paintings.
When he put in the last herb "Ten Years Snake Gall Fruit", it barely grew in the medicine garden. The Snake Gall Fruit only grew for less than a year and then fell out.
"Why are the ancient paintings so bad?"
After Ye Chen discovered this, he was frightened and did not dare to use it again.
"Could it be that the fields in this ancient painting are just like the plowed fields outside, which consumes the power of the fields?"
He was born into a common farmer's family in the Wu Kingdom, and he knew that the field power would become weak if grain was grown all year round. The more rice was grown, the worse it would be. It would take a year and a half of fallow farming to restore the field power.
According to his understanding, the medicinal fields in this painting are probably out of field capacity and need to be left fallow for a period of time.
"Let the ancient paintings rest first and recover Tian Li!"