Chapter 33

"Master, the Fire-Yan Qilin Ginseng has fierce medicinal nature, you don't intend to take it, do you?" Liu Liu Qiaolian saw Xia Daoming full of happy smiles after being far away from Green Cypress City, as if he had picked up a huge bargain, but she looked a bit worried.

"Don't worry, don't worry, I'll keep this medicine for future use," Xia Daoming smiled.

This medicine has a fierce nature, so Xia Daoming naturally wants to keep it until he reaches the sixth-rank realm before taking it.

It just so happens that strengthening meridians in the sixth-rank realm definitely requires better and fiercer medicinal herbs.

It's not easy to find a three-hundred-year-old Fire-Yan Qilin Ginseng like this.

"That's good, this servant was really a bit worried!" Liu Liu Qiaolian breathed a long sigh of relief upon hearing this.

"Are you so worried about me?" Xia Daoming asked with a smile.

"That goes without saying, Master is this servant's heaven. If something really happened to you, this servant wouldn't be able to live either," Liu Liu Qiaolian said without hesitation.

Xia Daoming was stunned for a long time upon hearing this, and only then said: "Silly Xing Lian'er, everyone has their own life. In the future, no matter whether I live or die, you should be strong..."

"No, without Master, there would be no this servant!" Liu Liu Qiaolian interrupted firmly.

Xia Daoming looked at Liu Liu Qiaolian for a long time before smiling: "Then for the sake of our Xing Lian'er, Master must live well no matter what."

"Good people have good luck, Master will definitely live to be a hundred!" Liu Liu Qiaolian said.

"Live to be a hundred?" Xia Daoming smiled noncommittally.

There are Grandmasters in this world, who are said to live at least a hundred years.

Not only that, it is said that there are also cultivators in this world, so I think their lifespan must be longer.

Reborn once, Xia Daoming's small goal now is to be a Grandmaster, and his big goal is to become a cultivator, pursuing immortality. How can he be satisfied with living only a hundred years?

Of course, he is only a fifth-rank Great Wu Shi now, so it is too advanced to talk about these things with Liu Liu Qiaolian.

Evening.

The two arrived at a small city.

The two stayed in the small city that night.

Xia Daoming took the Thousand-Treasures Elixir to practice.

Although the medicinal effect of this elixir is not as good as the Three-Origin Returning-Blood Pill, because Xia Daoming took it for the first time, the effect was a bit beyond his expectations.

That night, Xia Daoming used up six Thousand-Treasures Elixirs, but by the sixth one, the medicinal effect had dropped significantly.

In the following days, Xia Daoming continued to travel with Liu Liu Qiaolian during the day and find a place to stay at night.

Sometimes the mountain ridges were dense and undulating, and they couldn't find a market town or city to stay for two or three days in a row, so the two had to sleep in the wilderness.

For this reason, Liu Liu Qiaolian would inevitably blame herself for not being able to plan the route in advance, implicating Xia Daoming in suffering in the wilderness, but Xia Daoming found the different fun of playing cards in the wilderness and didn't feel it was suffering at all.

Walking and stopping like this, every time they passed a city, they would first go to the pharmacy to buy medicine.

Inspired by the Fire-Yan Qilin Ginseng of Thousand-Treasures Hall, Xia Daoming would specifically ask about precious medicinal herbs that were not convenient for pharmacies to sell every time.

If it was a larger city, the two would stay for a few more days.

Sometimes, the two would also get lost in the mountain ridges, turning around, and it would take several days to get out of the mountains.

Sometimes when they saw places with strange and beautiful scenery, the two were young people after all, so they would stay and play specifically.

They walked like this for a month.

Xia Daoming found that the cities they passed along the way, whether small or large, did not sell elixirs that had medicinal effects on seventh-rank Great Martial Masters and above.

Those elixirs are probably very rare and require special channels; or they need to be customized and will not be sold directly; or the cities he passed through were not of a high enough level.

It was the fierce medicinal herbs like Fire-Yan Qilin Ginseng that, under Xia Daoming's intentional search and inquiry, actually allowed him to buy another one.

A hundred-year-old Cold Ice Purple Purple Shouwu, which was traded for five thousand taels after bargaining.

Xia Daoming paid three thousand taels of silver, and two thousand taels were offset by elixirs from Changchun Hall.

Along the way, Xia Daoming had already offset many elixirs from Changchun Hall that were backlogged in his hands, and the price was slightly higher than the local market price in Li Cheng.

This day was the thirty-second day since leaving Li Cheng.

Xia Daoming, by taking different new elixirs along the way and practicing hard, finally completely completed the reinforcement of the nine-level meridians, and then broke through the sixth meridian like a bamboo, becoming a sixth-rank Great Wu Shi.

After becoming a sixth-rank Great Wu Shi, Xia Daoming didn't rush to take fierce medicinal herbs like Fire-Yan Qilin Ginseng, but first continued to take the new elixirs purchased along the way to consolidate and gradually improve his cultivation.

One is to be conservative, after all, the merchant's words cannot be fully trusted. The medicinal nature of Fire-Yan Qilin Ginseng is likely to be fiercer than what the merchant said. It is always safer to take it after the meridians of the sixth-rank realm are strengthened by one or two levels.

Second, medicinal herbs like Fire-Yan Qilin Ginseng are not only expensive but also difficult to find, so they must be used at critical moments. Now the new elixirs purchased have a significant medicinal effect on strengthening the meridians of the sixth-rank realm, so he naturally takes them while searching and continuing to take them.

In the blink of an eye, another month passed.

Xia Daoming found two more fierce medicines.

One is a Fire-Yan Qilin Ginseng over three hundred and sixty years old, and the other is a three-hundred-year-old Red Flame Ganoderma.

These two medicinal herbs were not cheap, costing Xia Daoming twenty thousand taels of silver.

Coupled with the elixirs purchased along the way, in just two months, Xia Daoming had spent fifty-five thousand taels of silver.

Among them, Xia Daoming used elixirs from Changchun Hall to offset the price.

Even so, in two months, Xia Daoming spent forty-five thousand taels of silver, leaving only about eight thousand taels of cash flow on hand.

And the elixirs from Changchun Hall backlogged in his hands were also running out, estimated to be worth four or five thousand taels.

Of course, there is a harvest for every effort.

Xia Daoming has now completed two levels of meridian reinforcement, and the progress of the third level of meridian reinforcement has reached twenty percent.

Not only that, he also has some new elixirs and four fierce medicines that can be taken directly for nourishment on hand.

It's just that the requirements for meridian reinforcement become higher as you go further.

With the new elixirs and four fierce medicines on hand, Xia Daoming believes that it is definitely not enough to support him to complete the nine-level meridian reinforcement of the sixth-rank realm.

Therefore, Xia Daoming decided to continue moving forward, wanting to walk all the way to the state capital to see the situation there.

As for the lack of money, Xia Daoming is preparing to find a suitable place to sell the Wu Clan Fortress's Cloud Technique and Spirit Diagram.

Now Xia Daoming is far away from Li Cheng, so he is not worried at all about being traced by Li Cheng.

The only thing to worry about is how to find a suitable buyer and sell it at a suitable price.

However, this doesn't stump Xia Daoming.

The customers for high-end medicinal herbs and elixirs of medicinal merchants are basically local wealthy families or gang forces, and these people are also potential buyers of cultivation techniques and spirit diagrams.

As long as Xia Daoming goes through local medicinal merchants, he is not worried about not finding a suitable buyer, nor is he worried about not finding out the market price of the internal strength spirit diagram.

And after two months, he already had rich experience in dealing with medicinal merchants.

Cuiling City.

A small mountain city in the southeast region of Mangzhou.

Xia Daoming found the largest medicinal merchant in the area. After trading, and after both sides became familiar, Xia Daoming began to inquire about the situation in Cuiling City.

After inquiring, Xia Daoming learned that this mountain city was divided and controlled by five major forces.

And the most powerful person among the five major forces was only a seventh-rank Great Wu Shi, and there was no eighth-rank Great Wu Shi sitting in town.

After inquiring clearly, Xia Daoming decided to sell the Wu Clan's cultivation technique and spirit diagram in Cuiling City.

With his current cultivation, as long as it is not an eighth-rank Great Wu Shi, or several seventh-rank Great Martial Masters joining forces, it is impossible to keep him.

Therefore, selling the cultivation technique and spirit diagram in Cuiling City, Xia Daoming is not afraid of someone buying by force or even robbing directly.

And before this, he had already inquired about the general market price of the internal strength spirit diagram from the medicinal merchants in the previous large cities, so he was not afraid of being a sucker.

As a result, what was beyond Xia Daoming's expectation was that when the medicinal merchant heard that he had cultivation techniques and internal strength spirit diagrams for sale, he immediately expressed that his family wanted to buy them, and the price offered was even higher than the market price Xia Daoming had inquired about, reaching fifty-eight thousand taels.

As a result, when Xia Daoming left Cuiling City, his cash flow reached sixty-three thousand taels, which was more than when he just left Li Cheng.

On the way, Liu Liu Qiaolian would steal glances at Xia Daoming from time to time.

"Why are you looking at me like that, are there flowers on my face?" Xia Daoming soon discovered Liu Liu Qiaolian's abnormality and teased with a smile.

"No, no." Liu Liu Qiaolian hurriedly shook her head and denied it.

But after a while, Liu Liu Qiaolian started to steal glances at Xia Daoming curiously again, and even opened her red lips several times, wanting to speak but stopping.

"Are you trying to ask me how I have the Wu Clan Fortress's cultivation technique and spirit diagram?" Xia Daoming saw Liu Liu Qiaolian stealing glances at him again, and knowing she had developed a gossiping heart, asked with a smile.

"This servant doesn't dare!" Liu Liu Qiaolian was flustered when she saw her thoughts being broken by Xia Daoming.

"Remember the masked old man who broke into our house that night? That was Jing Jing Xuanying, the steward of the Wu Clan Fortress, sent by the fortress master Wu Wu Yueli to kill me."

"So after I figured out the situation, under the guidance of Jing Jing Xuanying, I sneaked into the Wu Clan Fortress, assassinated Wu Wu Yueli, and by the way, pried open his private treasury," Xia Daoming said very casually.

Before Xia Daoming and Liu Liu Qiaolian left Li Cheng, the news of Wu Wu Yueli being killed was only spreading in some small circles. Liu Liu Qiaolian lived deep in the Xia residence and didn't know about this.

So when she heard that Xia Daoming had actually sneaked into the Wu Clan Fortress and assassinated Wu Wu Yueli, she was so shocked that she almost screamed, her eyes wide open.

Her plump chest heaved violently uncontrollably.

Wu Wu Yueli was a sixth-rank Great Wu Shi and a fortress master, with many clansmen and retainers under his command. For an ordinary Wu Shi like Liu Liu Qiaolian, he was definitely a big shot who could only be looked up to and could not be contended with at all.

As a result, now Xia Daoming told her that he had sneaked into the Wu Clan Fortress and assassinated Wu Wu Yueli. How could this not shock Liu Liu Qiaolian?

"After this trip to the southeast is over, you can tell me about the destruction of Liu Family Village. If the other party is not too powerful, I will find a time to help you avenge your blood feud," Xia Daoming looked at Liu Liu Qiaolian's shocked appearance, thought for a while, and said.

Ever since he played cards with Liu Liu Qiaolian that time, causing her to bleed, Xia Daoming actually had the idea of helping her avenge her feud one day.

But at that time, he was like duckweed without roots, his future was uncertain, and his strength was very limited, so he naturally didn't dare to open his mouth easily.

Now his strength and financial resources were far from what they used to be, and he was full of hope for his future. Since they were talking about assassinating Wu Wu Yueli, Xia Daoming thought it was time to talk to Liu Liu Qiaolian about revenge, giving her a promise and a hope.