The road is vague

Chapter 50 Plague-Repelling Pill

the next day.

The disciples from the aristocratic families of Lingmu Sect did not go through the screening stage of the Enlightenment Hall and entered the Advanced Training Hall first, so they were all arranged in the northeast corner of the Advanced Training Hall.

Li Mo seldom came here, and the disciples from the aristocratic families passing by couldn't help but look at him twice.

He waited for a long time before finally seeing Lu Cuicui.

"Cui Cui!"

Lu Cuicui was stunned for a moment. When she found out it was Li Mo, she suddenly became nervous and kept looking around. When she saw that there was no familiar person nearby, she ran over in surprise.

"Why are you here?"

"Haven't you always wanted to study the puppetry of the Lu Kingdom's Zaizao Sect?"

Li Mo found Lu Cuicui's timid and cowardly attitude as if she was having an affair somewhat funny. He took out a palm-sized humanoid puppet from the storage bag. Because it had not been activated yet, the puppet remained in its miniature form.

"Humanoid puppet!"

Lu Cuicui was shocked.

She took the humanoid puppet from Li Mo's hand, played with it for a few times, and suddenly her face showed excitement.

"The skin made of jade algae mud and colorless glue is indeed a technique of the Reconstruction Sect. The internal mechanical structure is also completely different from the Lu family puppetry, and it is closer to the real human skeleton. Where did you get it?"

Li Mo briefly recounted his experience of attending the trade fair.

Lu Cuicui nodded frequently, her eyes shining as she looked at the humanoid puppet in her hand.

Li Mo smiled and said, "Okay, I have to go out to carry out the commissioned task. I will lend you this humanoid puppet for research for a while. If you gain anything in the future, you must share it with me."

"Don't worry, hehe, thank you so much!"

Li Mo could see that Lu Cuicui was excited from the bottom of her heart.

Just when she was about to say something else to Li Mo, she raised her head and her face suddenly turned red to her neck. Li Mo also noticed someone behind him, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look, and was stunned.

This is a heavyweight disciple who is half a head shorter than Li Mo but weighs at least twice as much as him.

He held a melon in one hand and dry food in the other, chewing mechanically. His eyes kept scanning back and forth between Li Mo and Lu Cuicui, with a playful smile on his lips.

"Are you on a date?"

When Lu Cuicui heard this, she suddenly became flustered.

"No, no, we are just friends. This, this is Li Mo, I told you before..."

After thinking for a while, Li Mo remembered the true identity of this fat man.

He is Lu Cuicui's brother Lu Shun. When Ye Xunhuan confronted Zhou Zheng and Tao Ran because of Zhao Huaxue, he was also one of the disciples from the aristocratic families that Ye Xunhuan found to help, but he appeared as a background board.

Lu Shun rolled his eyes and looked at Lu Cuicui as if she was an idiot.

"You're actually dating! Every time you lie, you get nervous and stutter. I'll tell Mom in a few days that you have a crush on someone. Oh, by the way, his name is Li Mo, and he's quite handsome."

Say it.

The fat man smiled at Li Mo, looking quite funny, and walked towards the dormitory on his own.

When Lu Cuicui heard this, her hair stood on end.

She hurried after him, waving nervously behind him, signaling Li Mo to hurry up, while holding onto Lu Shun and begging him coquettishly.

"Brother, when we go to the market in a few days, I'll treat you to some Nine-Fragrant Crispy Pork. Just don't tell mom, okay?"

"no!"

After Lü Shun coldly refused, he turned to look at Lü Cuicui and grumbled, "I want to eat wind-cured civet cat."

"Good, good, good..."

Li Mo looked at the brother and sister leaving, and felt a little envious of their relationship.

……

In the blink of an eye, it was October.

After the summer flood season ends, the plum rain season will continue for a period of time, with continuous rain every day.

Over the past month, Li Mo has been working day and night to carry out various commissioned tasks. While he was working hard to improve his efficiency, he actually completed six tasks in a row. During this period, he also found a piece of lightning-struck wood. Unfortunately, it did not produce any spiritual flavor and could only be used as a low-level magic weapon to ward off evil spirits.

So he sold the piece of lightning-struck wood and made some extra money. Combined with the income from the mission, he finally saved up more than sixty spirit stones.

However, to collect all the auxiliary medicines needed for a Qi training level Creation Pill, at least eighty spirit stones are needed.

According to the pill recipe, the quality of the Creation Pill mainly depends on the level of the Piaomiao Demon Pill.

If it is a Piaomiao Yaodan of the Qi training level, the auxiliary medicines needed to refine the pill are naturally not worth mentioning. It only requires nine spiritual medicines that are more than 30 years old as auxiliary medicines. Moreover, these spiritual medicines are not unfamiliar, and are even cheaper than the auxiliary medicines needed to refine the Qi Gathering Pill.

But if you refine the Fortune Pill for the Golden Core Stage, or even the Fortune Pill for the Nascent Soul Stage, even the so-called auxiliary elixir will be a priceless treasure.

Besides.

Another thing that worries Li Mo is that he has reached the bottleneck of the seventh level of Qi training and has been unable to break through, which makes him feel very anxious.

“It’s worthy of being called a major bottleneck.”

Li Mo sighed inwardly, hoping that this mission would bring him some opportunities to break through to the seventh level of Qi training, or to make a lot of spirit stones to gather the auxiliary spiritual medicines needed to refine the elixir.

The flying boat passed through the sea of ​​clouds and headed towards the county seat of Shangfeng County.

After resting for a while, as the flying boat slowly descended, Li Mo came to the Tianming Division in the county city with ease. Using his identity as a disciple of Lingmu Sect, he rented a fast horse and drove towards Zizhu Town, Longtan County.

He noticed something unusual along the way.

During the afternoon feeding break, he dismounted and went to a roadside shop.

"Boss, give me a bowl of plain noodles and four steamed buns to take away."

"Come on!"

There are similar roadside mom-and-pop shops on both sides of the main roads in each county, with one at regular intervals. These small shops are very well-informed.

"Boss, when I came here, I saw a lot of funerals on the road. Is there a plague here?"

"Yes."

The old man brought a bowl of hot noodles and sighed helplessly.

"Alas, the flood season is almost over, but Longyang County was still flooded, and many people died. Then there was a plague. The court sent many doctors to rescue, but they still couldn't control it. These days, it has spread to our Longtan County. I heard that people have died even near the county town."

Li Mo chatted with the old man for a few more words, looking thoughtful.

After eating and drinking, Li Mo continued on his way.

Sudden.

Li Mo on horseback was stunned for a moment, interrupted his practice of the Small Zhoutian, and opened his eyes.

"Plague-avoiding pills!"

The plague-avoiding pill can only prevent the plague for a period of time if it is taken before contracting the plague.

The doctor's decoctions can only be used to treat the plague after the patient is infected. The two belong to different systems.

Now, there are deaths even near the county town of Shangfeng County, and the plague-preventing pills must be in short supply. After completing this mission, I can go to the county town to try my luck.

After riding his horse all the way to Zizhu Town, Li Mo found a mansion of the Xiang family in the town.

It can be seen that this is a wealthy family in the town.

In the large courtyard with tall gates, two lions were guarding the gate. When the gatekeeper learned the purpose of Li Mo's visit, he hurried in and called the master.

After a while.

An old man in a long silk robe, leaning on a cane inlaid with emerald gems, walked out tremblingly with the support of several people and looked at Li Mo.

"I am here on the orders of Sister Wang from the Lingmu Sect to bring you this jade bottle. Please examine it."

The jade bottle is sealed with wax to ensure that it will not be replaced by anyone.

After the old man took the jade bottle and examined it, he excitedly said to the person beside him, "Your cousin finally sent the plague-preventing pill. It's worth a thousand gold, worth a thousand gold!"

Li Mo was stunned when he heard this.

But he still did not forget to take out the letter of receipt and asked the other party to leave his name.

This mission has a clear time requirement and must be delivered within five days, so he has to ask the other party to sign as a witness, so that he can receive the mission reward after returning to his master.

"All right."

The old man handed the signed letter to Li Mo.

After Li Mo confirmed that everything was correct, he put away the envelope with a smile. He considered this mission completed. As for returning to collect the mission reward, there was no rush for the time being.

Li Mo stepped forward and asked tentatively, "It seems that quite a few people have died from this plague. I wonder how much a plague-repelling pill costs on the market now?"

The Plague-Repellent Pill is a mortal-level pill. Normally, one bottle can be purchased for thirty or forty taels of silver. He now has four bottles. One of them was given to him by his master during the alchemist assessment, along with an alchemy furnace and a pill recipe. It has not been sold yet.

The other three bottles were used to warm up before he refined the Qi Gathering Pill to ensure that everything would go smoothly.

"Alas, there are no plague-preventing pills on the market."

The old man sighed and shook his head.

"After all, the plague-repellent pill is a magical elixir. Normally, it would cost at least four or five taels of silver per pill. How could ordinary people get their hands on it? When there were no diseases or disasters, who would use it? Now that the plague is rampant and people are dying in every village and town, they are starting to worry. The plague-repellent pills on the market have long been sold out, and the elixirs that Lingmumen transferred have been given to court officials and military soldiers."

Li Mo thanked him and rode away on horseback.

He wanted to go to the county town to inquire about the market price of the plague-preventing pill.

Just as the old man said, although this kind of elixir is sold on the market, it is definitely not accessible to ordinary people.

All ordinary people can rely on is fate and pray that they don’t get sick. If they unfortunately get sick, they can only seek medical treatment and medicine everywhere to see if they can survive.

Those dignitaries obviously did not want to leave everything to fate, so it was naturally better for them to take the plague-avoiding pills.

Two days later.

Li Mo returned to the county seat of Shangfeng County.

There are small markets in the city for individual monks, family monks, and monks stationed abroad. Not only monks come to the markets, but occasionally some dignitaries also come to join in the fun.

After asking around a bit, Li Mo came to a shop that was still selling pills and found that it was already crowded with people who were looking to buy plague-avoiding pills.

"Everyone, everyone!"

The shopkeeper looked helpless.

"Our store has been trying to gather elixirs from other places, but we are out of stock right now. We are powerless. Our two alchemists haven't slept for two days and can't take it any longer."

"There are only seven or eight in a furnace. Who can eat them all? We have dozens of people in our house!"

"My master said he has plenty of money and must buy the plague-repellent pills today!"

"If I can't buy the plague-repellent pill today, I won't leave..."

After standing in the crowd for a while, Li Mo finally understood the current market price of the plague-avoiding pill. It had almost skyrocketed more than ten times compared to usual. Qi Gathering Pill, which once cost only forty or fifty taels of silver to buy a bottle, was now being hyped up to five hundred taels of silver per bottle, or fifty taels of silver per pill, but it was still priceless.

"It's worthy of being the capital of Shangfeng County. An average family in the countryside can only earn thirty or forty taels of silver a year, barely enough to make ends meet. They have almost no ability to resist risks. And here, a mere plague-avoiding pill costs fifty taels of silver. Big cities are different. There are so many tycoons and wealthy businessmen."

This way.

He thought of the silver earned by the robbers in the Eighteen Mountains in the past, who risked all kinds of risks and fought each other desperately, which might not be as much as the money that the local tycoons gave to the actors for their cheers. He couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness in his heart.

Maybe Muzhou is not poor, it’s just the countryside that is poor.

The wealthy and powerful people in the county town who are afraid of death are going crazy looking for plague-preventing pills.

For the imperial court, plague-preventing pills are not strategic materials. Doctors and herbs needed to save lives and cure diseases are the strategic materials that need to be regulated. The life and death of the rich is determined by the cultivation world's own survival rules.

"Huh, I'm really lucky this time."

Thinking this in his mind, Li Mo raised a jade bottle to indicate.

"I have a bottle of plague-repellent pills here. Selling the whole bottle for six hundred taels!"

This kind of opportunity is unlikely to appear for decades. Generally, the plague will spread between a few small towns at most, and at most cause panic in a county.

Plagues like this that cause panic in county towns are rare in the Daqian Kingdom.

After being stunned for a moment, everyone burst into laughter, as if they did not believe that Li Mo had a plague-avoiding pill.

However, with a loud thunder, Li Mo showed his palm thunder to others and took out his Lingmu Sect disciple badge.

"Here is the Lingmu Sect disciple's badge!"

The crowd was immediately excited and came forward to ask questions, and some tried to bargain.

Six hundred taels of silver is not a small amount.

The truly wealthy don't count.

For some small wealthy businessmen in the county town, six hundred taels is already a considerable expense. The annual expenses of many mansions, including various miscellaneous servants, is about eight hundred to one thousand taels. Zhou Zheng and Lu Tianyou's families should be at this level, but the expenses in Anle City are higher.

As for ordinary wealthy families in the county town, their annual expenses are only about one hundred taels, and it will be even lower in the county town.

Wang Qi had calculated this account for Li Mo as early as when Li Mo was in Hua'an Town.

After a while.

Some people couldn't hold back and agreed to Li Mo's conditions, taking out six hundred taels of silver notes first.

Li Mo didn't waste any words and immediately handed over the money and the goods.

"I also want!"

"Everyone, don't rush, there are still some..."

After making a fortune, Li Mo immediately revealed an expression of joy that was difficult to conceal. It was a bit like an unexpected success. He never dreamed that the plague-avoiding pills he used for practicing would be sold at a sky-high price.

"Shopkeeper."

Li Mo naturally did not want to miss such an opportunity. He immediately stepped forward and reported the various elixirs needed to refine the plague-avoiding pill.

"Get me one."

Because the thunder refining method would also cause some damage to himself, he did not want to damage his cultivation, so he only asked for a furnace of spiritual medicine.
"this?"

After hesitating for a moment, the shopkeeper seemed to be afraid of Li Moling's identity as a disciple of the Mumen Sect, and looked helpless.

"If it's just a set of spiritual medicine, then of course it's fine. However, the price of these spiritual medicines has increased a lot nowadays. I hope Master Immortal will forgive me."

The shopkeeper quoted a price that was high but not too outrageous.

Li Mo nodded in agreement and paid the silver.

A few hours later.

Li Mo looked a little weak and tired. He came to the store again and sold a bottle of plague-proof pills at the same price of 10 pills for 600 silver. He also took one pill himself.

But this time he waited for a long time before selling the bottle of plague-preventing pill.

The shop owner seemed to be afraid that Li Mo would continue to compete for business here, so he launched more than a dozen bottles of plague-preventing pills at once, and directly lowered the price of each bottle to more than three hundred taels of silver, which seemed to be a warning to Li Mo.

Li Mo knew that his action of cutting off someone's source of income was a big taboo, so he didn't dare to stay any longer to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Li Mo, carrying three thousand taels of silver notes, came to a cheap tea stall in front of the county town gate and sat down for a while.

While the boss was not paying attention, he mixed the few remaining plague-preventing pills he had into the tea.

He didn't know how effective the plague-avoiding pill would be after he did this, but it was a magic pill after all, and it should be able to exert some medicinal properties to resist the plague, and perhaps save a life.

At this time, a notice was issued in the city that in order to prevent the spread of the plague, the movement of people would be prohibited from tomorrow.

Seeing this, Li Mo relied on his identity as a disciple of Lingmu Sect and got the last chance to leave the county city.

a few days later.

After Li Mo returned to his master's sect on a flying boat, he came to the weapon refining hall, intending to exchange the silver notes for spirit stones.

"Bank notes?"

The senior brother in charge of the silver and spirit stone exchange business in the Equipment Refining Hall shook his head.

"Junior Brother, our Weapon Refining Hall only provides the exchange of silver and spirit stones. You should first go to the Shanxia Chamber of Commerce to exchange this Daohua Commercial Bank's silver note for silver."

Li Mo was stunned when he heard this.

He thought that this kind of silver note could be circulated throughout the country.

The disciple in the Equipment Refining Hall seemed to see Li Mo's confusion and began to explain.

"The reason why we provide exchange services in the Weapon Refining Hall is, firstly, to facilitate transactions among our disciples, and secondly, to facilitate the disciples of the Weapon Refining Hall to refine silver essence. But we can't use this silver note to refine silver essence, right?"

Silver essence has a wide range of uses and is not limited to refining tools, so its value is very stable.

Perhaps it is for this reason that countless mortals and cultivators choose to use silver as the anchor of the value of spirit stones. It also makes it convenient for the court to promote weights and measures and unify the laws and regulations of the dynasty.

"Junior brother, you must remember that this kind of thing is only for the convenience of merchants outside. We cultivators have storage bags, so we only recognize spirit stones. Silver is just a commodity in our eyes. In the eyes of mortals, silver is currency, and spirit stones are luxury goods. As for this kind of silver note... after receiving it, you must exchange it for cash as soon as possible. Otherwise, if it is accidentally burned or destroyed, it will really be a piece of paper."

After Li Mo expressed his gratitude, he struggled for another half a day and finally exchanged all the proceeds from this trip into spirit stones.

With three hundred and seventy-seven spirit stones on him, he looked very satisfied.

(End of this chapter)