Chronicles of Celestial Origins

The old tree behind the mountain is an ordinary plant, so it has grown for sixty-two years.

Qinglu grass is a low-level medicinal herb with very little spiritual energy, so after five years of growth, one-third of the spiritual energy in the body is consumed. According to this inference, it can grow for fifteen years.

Dragon fruit is a higher-level medicinal herb than Qinglu grass, so only a seedling grew.

Tang Ning sat cross-legged on the bamboo bed to replenish the spiritual energy consumed in her body.

Three days later, the dragon fruit tree grew one foot tall. Tang Ning left the bamboo house, set up the purple gourd and headed towards Laogu Peak. Today was the day when Wu Datong opened a shop selling medicine.

Laogufeng is as busy as before, with people coming and going.

A wide variety of "goods" were placed in front of each stall, and he walked straight to Wu Datong's stall.

At this moment, there were five or six men in front of his stall talking about business. Tang Ning waited for his stall to be empty and then quietly approached.

"Junior Brother Tang, long time no see. Congratulations! I finally broke through the third level bottleneck. What a joy to congratulate me. How many Qi Condensing Pills are needed this time are all freshly baked." Wu Datong greeted warmly.

"I want two bottles of Qi Condensing Pills, but I don't have spirit stones with me. Do you think I can exchange these herbs for them?" Tang Ning took out the herbs she bought from Chang Jian.

Wu Datong hesitated for a while: "This... Junior Brother Tang, you are really making things difficult for me. This is a small business for me, just to earn some spiritual stones. I don't understand the market prices of your medicinal herbs at all!"

Tang Ning glanced around and saw no one beside her and whispered, "Senior Brother Wu, actually I'm not here today to buy elixirs, but I have a big deal to discuss with you."

Seeing his serious look, Wu Datong couldn't help lowering his voice and asked: "Big deal? What big deal?"

"It's not convenient to go into details here, but Senior Brother Wu, could you please take a step to speak."

"Okay then!" Wu Datong followed him forward without much hesitation.

The two of them came to a cliff. There was nothing all around except for the lone eagle circling in the sky. Tang Ning stood on the edge of the cliff and looked at the steep peaks below. The mountain wind made her clothes whistle.

"If there is something that is the cheapest among various departments and departments in various academies, the Herbology Department is second, and no department dares to say it is first. Take the Qi Condensation Pill, for example, there are four spiritual stones on the market, and our sect It’s also sold privately for four pieces of spiritual stone, and what about the medicinal herbs!”

Tang Ning took out the dragon fruit and bumped it in her hand. Most of the fruit was red, with only a small piece of it green. This was because it was not fully ripe.

"The dragon fruit will grow into a tree ten years after the seeds are planted, bloom ten years after the tree grows, bear fruit ten years after flowering, and mature ten years after the fruit. A tree can grow up to thirty fruits, which are the most important and important foundation-building elixir. An irreplaceable main medicine is sold on the market for one hundred spirit stones, but the disciples of the Alchemy Department within the sect privately purchase it for only twenty spirit stones. Senior Brother Wu, don't you think this is too much? "

Wu Datong was confused: "Junior brother Tang, what do you mean?"

"Let's cooperate. I have made an agreement with the other senior brothers in the Herbal Medicine Department. You are a disciple of the Hushan Department. All the disciples in the sect who are going to go out to perform tasks must make notes with you. Which disciple will leave the sect when? It's the clearest. We give the herbs to you, you give them to the disciples who leave the sect, and let them sell them outside. We get 60% of the profit. You manage the staff and get 20%. The disciple who works harder gets 20%. How about that? ?”

Wu Datong was silent for a long time after hearing this: "The risk is very high. If you sell it privately to fellow disciples, the sect will turn a blind eye and not take care of it. But if you sell it privately to outsiders, there is no guarantee that the higher ups will not hold you accountable."

"How can there be no risk in doing business? The nature of private sales fellows and private sales monks is actually the same. Senior Brother Wu, I think you are a man of trust and promise, so I came to you. If you are willing to cooperate, please tell me frankly. If you are not willing, It’s okay, I just hope you don’t reveal it, I believe there will be many people in the Hushan Department who are interested in this.”

"I want to think about it. In three days, we will meet here and I will give you an answer."

"Okay, I'll come back in three days and say goodbye." Tangning took off on the purple gold gourd and flew away.

Watching his retreating figure, Wu Datong fell into deep thought.

Tang Ning returned to the bamboo house. He had this idea since he learned the actual price of the medicinal herbs from Mu Pingbo that day. After all, he had stayed in the caravan for so many years and often imported horses from Wu to Chu for sale, so he was very sensitive to the trade gap in goods.

He believed that he was not the first disciple to think of using this method to earn spiritual stones. There must have been disciples who went out to use this method to earn the price difference, but they were all small-scale personal troubles, seeking small profits, and did not form a large scale. And he wanted to What we do is to create a stable herbal sales channel.

As for whether you will be held accountable, never mind! At most, he would be kicked out of the sect, but would he still risk his life? It was a good time to kick him out of the sect, but he was worried about not being able to get out! After leaving the sect, you can rely on the green spiritual power in your body to perform whatever you want. Most importantly, after leaving the sect, you can go to Liu Ruhan.

He was very confident in persuading the Herbal Department, so he was not in a hurry to discuss the matter with them. He would rather wait for news from Wu Datong first.

The reason why he wanted to rope in everyone from the Herbal Medicine Department was to protect his green spiritual power. Otherwise, there would be so many herbs for Wu Datong to sell.

Wu Datong was the partner he decided on after thinking for a long time. There were three main factors in finding him.

First, he is a disciple of the Hushan Branch. He can know who is leaving the sect and needs to contact the disciples who are leaving the sect.

Second, he is greedy for money, so he will not refuse this matter.

Thirdly, he has ability. Isn't it enough that a Hushanke disciple can obtain and sell various elixirs for a long time to show his ability?

Tang Ning's prediction was not bad. It was only two days later and before the three-day appointment, Wu Datong took the initiative to find him and asked, "When will it start?"

"In half a year, I will deliver the first batch of goods to you."

"Okay, I also need some time to prepare. See you at the cliff of Laogu Peak in half a year."

"Senior Brother Wu, those who achieve great success don't seek to be public. Only you and I know about this matter. The Herbal Medicine Department doesn't know that you are shipping the goods, and you also hope to keep it a secret for me."

"I know. After all, it is a risky business. Of course, the fewer people who know about it, the better."

The two chatted some more, and Wu Datong said goodbye and left. Before leaving, he gave him two bottles of Qi Condensing Pill to show his sincerity.

Tang Ning returned to the bamboo house and continued to catalyze the dragon fruit tree to defeat Wu Datong. He was not in a hurry to discuss with everyone in the herb garden. There was still half a year before the delivery date. It would not be a good thing to expose the plan prematurely.

In the days that followed, he never left the bamboo house. He catalyzed the dragon fruit tree every day. When the spiritual energy was exhausted, he took a Qi Condensing Pill. After replenishing it, he continued to catalyze, watching the dragon fruit tree grow taller and branchier. It sprouts leaves one by one until it grows stamens, blooms slowly, and then forms small green and round fruits. The fruits grow up day by day, losing their green skin and turning into red mature pitayas.

Tang Ning was so excited when she looked at the red and sparkling dragon fruit on the tree, as if she were looking at her own child. After nearly five months of catalysis, the dragon fruit tree finally blossomed and matured, with a total of thirty fruits, no more and no less.

He carefully picked the fruits one by one and put them into the storage bag.

The dragon fruit tree was not very tall, only about five feet tall. Tangning stroked its branches and leaves and sighed. She formed a seal with her hands and used a golden spear technique to cut down the fruit tree. Then she used a fireball technique to burn the fruit tree to ashes. .

Even if the corpse is destroyed, the dragon fruit tree only bears fruit once in its life, so there is no use keeping it.

There were still five days before the half-year period. After picking the dragon fruit, Tang Ning destroyed the dragon fruit tree and left the bamboo house. He drove the purple gold gourd towards Qingluan Peak. The first person he wanted to deal with was Chang Jian. Because the herb gardens they manage are the most valuable.

Standing outside the herb garden that was restricted by the formation, Tang Ning handed a yellow talisman inside. Soon the blue light curtain melted to create a gap. When he walked in, the gap closed again, and the herb garden came into view.

Chang Jian was watering and fertilizing the herb garden when he saw him coming in from the outside and said in a low voice: "Junior Brother Tang, you are here again."

"Senior Brother Chang, I am here to discuss a deal with you."

"Business? What kind of business are you looking for me? At most, I just sell some medicinal herbs privately."

"Senior Brother Chang, you have been in the Herbal Medicine Department for so many years and you know the value of medicinal herbs, but you are bought at a low price by those evil-minded disciples of the Medicinal Medicine Department. Why should our medicinal herbs be sold cheaply? Those medicinal herbs, magic weapons, talismans, etc. Whatever they have sold to us at a low price, they are already making huge profits, and they are here to exploit us. Junior brother, I have found a way. From now on, I will pay twice as much as the people in the Alchemy Department to buy your medicinal herbs. How about giving the number of herbs to Bu Keli and giving the rest to me?”

Chang Jian asked: "Who are you going to sell to?"

"I have a fellow countryman who is a good friend who went to the mountain to practice in the same group as me. He reported his work at Qingxuan Hall. He had a way to take the medicinal herbs outside to sell them. I gave the medicinal herbs to him, and he found someone else to sell them privately outside the sect. I If he gets 50% of the profit, he gets 30%, and the person who sells it gets 20%.”

"If senior brother feels it's inappropriate, let's change the cooperation method. You will get 40%, he will get 30%, and the person selling it will get 20%. I will be the middleman to earn errands, and I can only take 10%."

Chang Jian frowned, and after a while he said, "If we do this, will the sect be held accountable?"

"Is there any difference for us between selling privately to outsiders and selling privately to the disciples of the Alchemy Department? Does the sect allow us to privately sell herbs to the disciples of the Alchemy Department? Senior Brother Chang, you and I both know that the sect will not care about this. , it only charges its share.”

"If you are worried about being held accountable by the sect, we will follow the first method of cooperation. You can just sell it to me at double the price and do not participate in anything else. When the higher ups come to hold you accountable, you can just push it to me."

"I have already negotiated with the other senior brothers in Corey, and they all agreed. You are the only one left."