Chapter 2551 — Taking Her as a Disciple
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"Indeed, I was overthinking it. You brat, you're sharper than a little fox—you've got Right Panhu spinning in circles, coaxing all the finest treasures out of the Hidden Right Family in exchange!" White Collar Leader laughed, reassured.
"Exactly. So I plan to use this data to trade Right Panhu for some materials for refining third-grade pills," Wei Zhao said.
"That will do." This time White Collar Leader nodded firmly. "This data is of no use to me anyway—this is all the support I can give you. I don't have materials for third-grade pills, but I can find you some for second-grade pills..."
"Oh? Teacher Bai, you have materials for refining second-grade pills?" Wei Zhao suddenly felt as though he had worn out iron shoes searching, only to find it without any effort at all. Why had it never occurred to him before that White Collar Leader might have materials for refining second-grade pills?
Had he known earlier, Wei Zhao would have gotten some materials from White Collar Leader—why go to the trouble of trading with Right Panhu?
"I do have some... but you know these materials are far from cheap. It's not that I, White Collar Leader, am stingy—it's simply that I'm not well off. I still have a disciple at home, so I must economize..." White Collar Leader looked at Wei Zhao with a trace of apology.
"These materials can be bought?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback.
"Naturally they can be bought." White Collar Leader nodded. "The Mystic Pill Sect sells these common materials, and I grow some myself, though not in great quantity. And teaching a disciple is a wasteful business where materials are concerned..."
"Hmm, then how about I pay you money for them?" Wei Zhao asked. The cultivators' guild had still not given Wei Zhao any definite word, so he and Han Jingyi had essentially been at a standstill these days, with no materials to refine pills.
"That can be done, but not for now. It will have to wait until the next cultivators' trade fair is held—that is when the Mystic Pill Sect sells its medicinal ingredients," White Collar Leader said.
"The cultivators' trade fair?" Hearing this somewhat familiar name, Wei Zhao thought of something. "Could it be held by the cultivators' guild?"
"Precisely, held by the cultivators' guild." White Collar Leader nodded. "The cultivators' guild also sells these herbs, but their herbs are of better quality and higher price, so generally the Mystic Pill Sect's herbs are more popular."
"Other families have no alchemists—what do they buy these materials for?" Wei Zhao found it strange. If White Collar Leader bought materials from the Mystic Pill Sect rather than the cultivators' guild, that was easy enough to understand—they were only for his disciple to practice on, so quality hardly mattered, and the price gap between fine-quality and ordinary-quality refined pills was not great. But what did everyone else buy these materials for?
"Heh heh, these materials are not in fact used solely for refining pills—they can also be compounded into medicine!" White Collar Leader said. "Xiaoyi, you're too close to the matter to see it clearly. In truth, even without refining them into pills, these herbs mixed together and made into ordinary remedies will for the most part produce the corresponding effects, only much weakened. Take the Divine Healer Kang's wound medicine on the market—think carefully, and see how very similar its ingredients are to the Lesser Restoration Pill! At least seven or eight of its ingredients are components of the Lesser Restoration Pill, wouldn't you say?"