Chapter 2515 — Straying into the Medicinal Garden
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Yet after walking a while longer, Wei Zhao was stunned by the sight before his eyes! Across the whole mountainside, every slope and hollow, rare medicinal herbs of every kind had been planted! Though they could not be called heaven-and-earth treasures, they were all first-rate ingredients for pill refinement!
At the very least, the materials for refining many second-grade pills could all be found here! The discovery both startled and delighted Wei Zhao. If he brought some back for Han Jingyi to refine pills with, wouldn't that neatly solve the problem of pill-refining materials?
But Wei Zhao quickly calmed himself. These medicinal herbs were all valuable things; they could not possibly grow wild on this mountain. And this was the very place where the Cultivators' Trade Association held its marketplace—so the herbs planted here almost certainly belonged to the Cultivators' Trade Association.
Sure enough, Wei Zhao had not been there more than a few minutes when two men came racing toward him, shouting as they ran, "Who goes there?"
A glance told Wei Zhao they were two cultivators at the peak of the late Earth Rank, and the robes they wore were identical to those of the law enforcement hall of the Cultivators' Trade Association. That fact alone confirmed Wei Zhao's earlier guess—this really was the territory of the Cultivators' Trade Association!
"Are you from the Cultivators' Trade Association?" Wei Zhao asked, just to be sure of his guess.
"That's right—but don't bother trying to get friendly. This is a forbidden zone of the Cultivators' Trade Association; none may enter save the association's president, vice presidents, and elders!" One of the law enforcement cultivators eyed Wei Zhao warily. "Who are you? Trespassing in the forbidden zone is a capital offense. If you can't explain yourself clearly, we'll have no choice but to take you down the mountain to see the vice president!"
"Oh? Your vice president and I are good friends," Wei Zhao said with a smile. "As for trespassing—I wouldn't call it that. You might say I strayed in by mistake."
"Strayed in? This place is so out of the way, and the road so hard to travel, running in the exact opposite direction from the marketplace—who are you trying to fool, claiming you strayed in?" The law enforcement cultivator clearly did not believe him. "And as for knowing the vice president—we've heard that one plenty of times!"
"You don't believe me? I even have a card he gave me." Wei Zhao had no wish to come to blows with these two law enforcement cultivators. Those two gatekeepers earlier had been deliberately making trouble, after all, while these two were merely doing their duty—and he had, in truth, strayed into their medicinal garden.
"A card?" The law enforcement cultivator watched Wei Zhao reach into his pocket without stopping him. They were cultivators at the peak of the late Earth Rank; naturally they had no fear that Wei Zhao might draw some weapon. If Wei Zhao were a cultivator stronger than they, he could kill them without any weapon at all; if he were weaker, a weapon would do him no good.
Wei Zhao fished out the card wrought of pure gold and held it up before the eyes of the two law enforcement cultivators.
"Eh? It really is the vice president's card—and a top-grade pure gold one at that!" The two law enforcement cultivators clearly knew their valuables, and they knew that the vice president would never give out such a card unless to an important guest. Ordinarily, a platinum-plated card was generous enough; most were plain steel!