Battle Through the Heavens: Purple Heaven Thunder Emperor

Chapter 30 Showing Goodwill

A short while later, the door to the reception room opened.

A maid led in two servants carrying three large bags and several wooden boxes, and greeted them with an even more sincere and enthusiastic attitude than before:

"Gentlemen, these are the medicinal herbs you requested; they've all been packed up!"

"Furthermore, our master specifically instructed that this transaction be rounded down to 20,000 gold coins for you two!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Bai seemed to be deep in thought.

Xiao Yan asked with some curiosity, "Why is your master doing this?"

The maid smiled and said, "Gentlemen, please don't overthink it. The master said he simply wants to establish a good relationship with you two gentlemen!"

Xiao Bai didn't speak. He scanned the medicine in the large bag and box with his soul power. After confirming that the quantity and quality were correct, he waved his hand and put it into his storage ring.

He then took out 23,800 gold coins and said to the maid:

"Please tell your employer that we appreciate the gesture, but we cannot accept such a gift without having done anything for it. Please purchase at the original price!"

They then left the Mittel Auction House together with Xiao Yan.

The top floor of the Mittel auction house is ornately decorated and resplendent, exuding an atmosphere of luxury.

From here, you can see the entire view in front of the Mittel auction house.

At this moment, two figures stood in front of the window, a young woman and an old man with white hair, silently watching Xiao Bai and his companion leave.

"Master Gu Ni, are you sure they bought the medicinal materials for making Blood Clotting Powder?" the young woman asked the old man beside her, her voice charming and alluring.

The woman had a pair of slightly upturned peach blossom eyes, her gaze filled with spring water, clear and bright, her jade lips fragrant and soft, and her beautiful face more charming than flowers.

Her long, flowing, wine-red hair was styled into a bun, giving her a very capable look. She wore a red cheongsam that tightly outlined her mature and graceful figure, and every smile and gesture was captivating.

The sprightly old man beside him ignored this, nodding and replying, "That's right, those are indeed the three medicinal ingredients for refining the first-grade pill, Blood Coagulation Powder!"

The woman gently waved her round fan with her slender hand, pondered for a moment, and said to those behind her:

"Go and call up Little Sixteen, Big Brother, and Third Brother. I have something to ask them!"

The maid behind him responded in a low voice, then went out and returned shortly after, bringing up three people who had just delivered medicinal herbs to Xiao Bai and the others.

"Little Sixteen (Ah Da, Ah San) greet the master!" The three of them bowed together to the charming woman by the window.

"No need for formalities, Little Sixteen. You've lived in Wutan City since you were little. Do you know those two people from earlier?" the woman asked the maid who had just greeted Xiao Bai in a low voice.

"Reporting to the master, Little Sixteen doesn't know, but Big Brother should!" said Little Sixteen, the maid.

"Oh?" The woman's eyes flickered as she looked at one of the two servants.

Ah Da is usually in charge of delivering goods. This job requires him to travel all over Wutan City, so he knows all sorts of gossip and rumors in Wutan City very well, and his information network is naturally excellent.

At this moment, Ah Da saw that the charming and beautiful owner's eyes were fixed on him, and he immediately became a little breathless and blushed.

From the moment he first saw this employer, he was awestruck. Her charming face and alluring figure made him unable to resist her every night.

"Ah Da, Ah Da?" Little Sixteen, seeing Ah Da standing there blankly without responding, quickly reached out and nudged him.

A-Da suddenly snapped out of his daze. Seeing everyone staring at him, his face turned even redder, and he hurriedly stammered, "Replying...Master, those two should...should be from the Xiao Xiao family!"

"Xiao family's youngest son?" The alluring woman murmured, her fingers lightly stroking her seductive red lips, showing no emotion whatsoever at the man's reaction.

Over the years, she had seen too many men give her that look, and she knew the lewd thoughts in their hearts. At first, she was disgusted.

But she later realized that if she cared about every single one of them, she wouldn't be able to live her life. So now she simply ignores them when she encounters them.

"Do you know who they are from the Xiao family?"

"Reporting to the master, I don't recognize the younger one, but the young man with gray hair should be called Xiao Bai!"

I only found out about this a couple of days ago when some members of the Xiao family were talking about Xiao Bai in the market. With his gray hair and youthful face, he knew that Xiao Bai was someone he had only known about for so many years in Wutan City.

"Xiao Baiyao!" The alluring woman seemed to know the name.

Back in the capital, I heard Nalan Yanran mention that the Xiao family had produced two geniuses, but also two good-for-nothings.

It seems the other one is Nalan Yanran's fiancé, Xiao Yan.

Thinking of this, she was immediately disappointed. This trip to Wutan City was something she had gone to great lengths to ask the elders of her family to help her.

It's a test, and also a gamble.

Her family planned to arrange a marriage between her and the Mu family, one of the three great families of the empire. She did not want to accept her fate and asked the elders to send her to this small border town.

To this end, she also signed a bet with her family, stipulating that she must double the profits of the Utan City branch of the Mittel Auction House within two years before her family would recognize her value and not force her into a marriage alliance.

But that's easier said than done. The annual net profit of the Wutan City branch is 300,000 gold coins, which would be 600,000 in two years. She would have to increase the profit to 1.2 million in two years.

To ensure this success, she went to great lengths to invite Gu Ni, a second-grade alchemist, to help her complete the task, but it still seems insufficient.

Despite its apparent prosperity, this city is not wealthy. The people coming and going are mostly mercenaries, who cannot bring any profit.

When she was in the capital, she heard that there was no alchemist guild here, and not even any alchemists. She thought that bringing an alchemist would definitely help her complete the mission.

But after arriving, I learned about the situation here; there's a reason why there are no alchemists here.

Because there are no alchemists here, one profession is very popular – physician. The physician profession does not have the same stringent requirements as the alchemist. As long as you understand medicinal herbs and pharmacology, you can almost become a physician.

They can compile various medicinal materials into prescriptions according to their pharmacology, or combine them into small pills, or prepare the medicine according to the prescription and decoct it in water, which can achieve some of the effects of first-grade or second-grade pills.

However, this method is not as pure as the medicinal properties of elixirs, and contains many impurities, so its effects are not as good as those of elixirs. But it has one advantage that elixirs cannot match.

Cheap!

To understand who the main consumers in Utan City are, they are the mercenaries who enter the Monster Mountain Range. They buy things for one reason only—cheap and effective.

This impacted the price of first-grade pills in Wutan City. They could still be sold, given their effectiveness, but if the price was too high, people wouldn't buy them, resulting in extremely low profit margins for pills.

Of course, you can still make money by selling at a lower price and increasing volume, but she only has one alchemist. Even if she keeps refining alchemy for twelve hours a day, how much can she refine?

So when she heard that someone had bought a large quantity of first-grade pills and medicinal herbs, she thought she had encountered an alchemist and that's why she tried to curry favor with him in hopes of winning him over. But now it seems that this person is not an alchemist at all!

The alluring woman shook her head with a hint of bitterness.

(End of this chapter)