Battle Through the Heavens: Purple Heaven Thunder Emperor

Chapter 29 Buying Medicine

Upon hearing his question, Xiao Bai stopped and looked at him with a deep gaze.

Xiao Yan looked into his eyes and couldn't help but shrink back. He recognized that look; Xiao Bai used to look at him like that when he was about to get beaten up.

"I have flexible moral boundaries!"

After staring at him for a moment, Xiao Bai uttered a sentence that initially puzzled Xiao Yan, and then continued walking out.

"A flexible moral bottom line?"

After muttering to himself for a while, Xiao Yan suddenly realized that Brother Bai was just shameless!

If you can beat them, then talk about morality; if you can't beat them, then what's the point of talking about morality!

But he dared not say it, for fear of getting beaten up!

He mentally gave Xiao Bai a thumbs up. As expected of you, Brother Bai, you even made shamelessness sound so refreshing and unconventional.

The old apothecary inside the ring rolled his eyes, weighing his own strength against Xiao Bai's, and wondering if this kid would be ethical with him.

The two remained silent on the way to the Mittel Auction House in the North District.

The Mittel Auction House is the largest and most prestigious trading venue in the Gama Empire.

Branches were located in various cities of the Gama Empire, and Utan City was no exception.

Although Mittel Auction House is called an auction house, it includes auctions, appraisals, acquisitions, and retail.

The Mittel auction house was bustling with people coming and going.

Utan City is a city near the Monster Mountain Range. Some mercenaries like to sell the medicinal herbs and magic cores they obtain from the Monster Mountain Range to the Mittel Auction House here.

Because only here can you sell your goods quickly and at a fair price, no matter how much you have.

If they set up a stall to sell their wares, the prices might be higher, but the process would be relatively slower. In that time, these people could probably make another trip to the Monster Mountain Range.

"Brother Bai, we can just go to our local market. What are we doing here?"

Seeing Xiao Bai arrive directly at the entrance of the Mittel Auction House, Xiao Yan was quite puzzled. All he wanted to buy were a few medicinal herbs and a magic core, which he could buy in the market. Wasn't it a bit too high-end to come here?

In Xiao Yan's understanding, people usually come here to buy things either for large-scale transactions or for extremely rare items that cannot be bought in the market. Otherwise, the market is the choice of most people.

After asking his question, Xiao Yan glanced around lewdly, then leaned closer to Xiao Bai and whispered with a chuckle, "Hehe. I heard that a particularly alluring female auctioneer came to the Mittel Auction House not long ago. Brother Bai, you wouldn't like to come and see her too, would you?"

Then, with a knowing look on his face, he patted Xiao Bai and said, "Don't worry, Brother Bai. We're good brothers, I definitely won't tell Cousin Xun'er, hehehe!"

Xiao Bai was speechless!

The old doctor was speechless!

Both of them now had the urge to beat this guy to death. Ugh, what a disgrace!

Am I that kind of person?

I am a scholar! (I am an alchemist!)

This is utterly disgraceful to our school! Hetui!

A maid from the auction house nearby saw the two of them walk in.

He had gray hair, a handsome face, and an air of freedom and ease in his every move.

A child with a youthful face, delicate features, and a confident look in his eyes.

Putting aside everything else, these maids had an excellent eye for people. As soon as they saw that the two of them were big customers, they quickly put on professional smiles and went to greet them.

"Welcome to the Mittel Auction House, gentlemen. What are your needs?"

"I need some medicinal herbs!" Xiao Bai said.

"Okay, please follow me!"

The maid led the two to a private reception room, served them tea, and then asked with a smile:

"What kind of medicinal herbs does this young master require?"

"Two hundred portions of each of Purple Sun Fruit, Blood Clotting Grass, and Jade Flower!"

After speaking, he turned to look at Xiao Yan, who, upon seeing this, hurriedly said, "I need three ten-year-old Purple Orchid Grasses, two Marrow Cleansing Flowers, and one first-tier wood-type magic core!"

After the maid wrote everything down and did some calculations, she said:

"Young masters, the total price of these medicinal herbs is 23,800 gold coins!"

Xiao Bai nodded after hearing this and said, "Go and prepare the medicinal herbs!"

The maid's smile became even more genuine upon hearing this, and she said with a smile, "Please wait here for a moment, gentlemen!"

After saying that, he turned and left.

"Brother Bai, what do you need so many first-tier medicinal herbs for?" Xiao Yan asked, puzzled.

"Xiao Bai, you're not really going to refine pills, are you? Can someone with your lightning attribute really refine pills?" The old doctor was also very puzzled. If it were anyone else, the old doctor would definitely think he was crazy.

But this kid is smarter than a monkey when he's got hair on him, how could he possibly be crazy?

This guy came to him last night and got a basic alchemy manual and two first-grade pill formulas. He didn't think much of it at the time and just gave them to him, assuming he was just interested in taking a look.

But the herbs this guy just bought were the same herbs needed for the first-grade pill formula he had given him—the Blood Clotting Powder—and he bought two hundred portions at once, which puzzled him.

Thinking back to the small cauldron that looked like an incense burner, he initially thought it was an incense burner made by this kid, but now Yao Lao was starting to doubt whether it was a medicine-refining cauldron made by Xiao Bai.

"Hmm, not bad, I'd like to give it a try," Xiao Bai said calmly.

He also wants to thank the Jia family for their generous donation today, which allowed him to buy so many medicinal herbs at once. Otherwise, he would have had to be frugal and buy only a few portions to try first, instead of being so extravagant.

He could ask Xun'er for the money, but he had never asked the girl before, so he was a little conflicted.

"Teacher, didn't you say that only those with fire and wood attributes can refine pills? What's going on?" Seeing that Xiao Bai didn't seem to be joking, Xiao Yan hurriedly asked Yao Lao in his mind.

The old apothecary inside the ring was also a little surprised and uncertain. He had watched Xiao Bai grow up since he was a child and knew that he was not the kind of unreliable person, but he seemed to be very confident now.

However, based on the alchemy philosophy that Yao Lao established from childhood, no one on the Dou Qi Continent has ever successfully become an alchemist using attributes other than fire and wood.

At this moment, the old doctor was eight parts disbelieving and two parts doubtful.

—This kid is definitely bragging. With my knowledge as an eighth-grade alchemist, how could anyone use lightning magic to refine pills? Even fire magic is more reliable than this.

—What if he has some special methods?

—Impossible, absolutely impossible.

The old alchemist shook his head, still not believing in any thunder magic alchemy. Perhaps this kid was obsessed with becoming an alchemist.

With a sigh, Yao Lao said privately to Xiao Yan, "There's no such thing as alchemy using lightning techniques. Maybe you, Brother Bai, are just too eager to become an alchemist!"

Hearing his teacher's sigh, Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Bai with a hint of pity and comforted him:

"Brother Bai, don't worry, I will work hard to become a high-level alchemist. If you want to refine any kind of pill in the future, just tell me anytime, and I promise I'll take care of it perfectly!"

Xiao Bai rolled his eyes. Seeing Xiao Yan's pitying expression, he knew that the two master and disciple had talked about something in secret, so he didn't bother with them.

It wasn't 100% confident in refining the pills, so anything it said now was just empty talk. It would wait until it succeeded before making any decisions. As for failure, well, so be it. What else could it do?

His purpose in refining pills was not pure to begin with; becoming an alchemist was merely a side effect. His primary goal was the Pill Lightning, which should allow him to break through to the next level quickly.

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