Gou Zai Xianwu Chaos World, Physical Sainthood

"Three hundred sets?"

Lu Cheng was greatly surprised to see the room full of packages:

"Yunshan County alone collected three hundred copies?"

Old Pi shook his head:

"It wasn't just Yunshan County; they collected these three hundred scrolls solely from the Zhang family of Yunshan!"

"The Zhang family of Yunshan County is one of the top medicinal herb cultivation families in the surrounding counties."

"Its scale is much larger than that of the Chen, Xu, and Huang families combined."

"Many alchemists and forces without medicinal fields in the surrounding area will go to the Zhang family to buy them."

Cultivating medicinal herbs is quite difficult and requires a lot of manpower, but outsiders are unreliable.

Therefore, only families and major sects have the capacity for large-scale cultivation.

For example, the Xu and Huang families in Yangcheng also have medicinal herb fields, but they can't even grow all the types of herbs needed for the blood-activating powder.

Lu Cheng didn't doubt that he couldn't collect that many.

On the contrary, receiving so much at once would attract too much attention.

"Old Pi, isn't this a bit too risky?"

Old Pi nodded:

"Under normal circumstances, buying so many at once is indeed not appropriate."

"But this time it's different. We're lucky, hehehehe."

At this point, Old Pi couldn't help but laugh out loud:

"Originally, I only planned to collect thirty to fifty sets."

"But when I arrived in Yunshan County, the Zhang family was in a complete mess."

"It turns out the Zhang family had a large quantity of medicinal herbs, but the buyer who was supposed to buy them changed his mind."

Lu Cheng frowned: "You want to lower the price?"

"On credit!" Old Pi shrugged. "I don't know why, but the buyer paid the deposit, but when the delivery date came, they couldn't come up with the money."

"The Zhang family got angry and beat them up, and didn't refund the deposit."

"The medicinal herbs used in martial arts are different from others; if they are not properly preserved, their medicinal properties will be lost very quickly."

"But the ingredients for the blood-activating powder aren't that valuable, so it's not worth the effort to preserve them."

"As the medicine's effectiveness decreased day by day, the Zhang family was extremely anxious."

"Before I even asked, they were begging me to buy more."

"Therefore, the price was reduced by half a percent, and a dose of medicine now costs only four and a half qian of silver!"

Hearing what Lao Yang said, Lu Cheng suddenly asked:

"So... what was the initial quantity of the medicine the Zhang family received?"

Without even thinking, Old Pi replied:

"A thousand copies; they had already sold them before I arrived..."

Halfway through their conversation, the two exchanged a glance.

One thousand doses of medicine cost exactly five hundred taels.

……

Regardless of whether Zhang Rensheng ordered these thousand doses of medicine.

Let's set aside whether the five hundred taels were for buying medicinal herbs.

In short, the arrival of three hundred doses of medicinal herbs allowed Lu Cheng to take a big step forward from the very beginning of his plan.

"Will this work?"

Inside Lu Cheng's stone house, a chubby boy wearing a monkey mask asked in a muffled voice.

Sitting to the side were Liu Chang'an, Liu Wan'er, and the three Hu brothers, all wearing masks of other animals.

"Of course it will work."

Lu Cheng picked up a contract issued by the black market, "With the black market's contract as proof, our credibility will not be in question."

Seeing this, the others nodded in agreement. With a contract, things would be much easier.

The contract from the Black Market is somewhat similar to the security deposit Lu Cheng made in his previous life.

The difference is that this one comes in a set for each person.

The contract that Lu Cheng has in his hand is one that he and Lao Pi just obtained from the Black Market.

The contract states that the buyer offers 1.6 taels of silver to purchase a dose of blood-activating powder five days later.

Of this, eight qian of silver was given to Lu Cheng, and the other eight qian was placed with the black market as a security deposit.

Five days later, the two parties exchanged the blood-activating powder in one hand and the contract in the other.

Lu Cheng could then take the contract to the black market to collect the remaining eight qian of silver.

If Lu Cheng fails to deliver the Blood-Activating Powder within five days, the Black Shop will compensate Old Pi for the 1.6 taels of silver.

The rest is a matter between Hei Fang and Lu Cheng.

It's quite a magical thing, actually.

Although the black market cannot be brought into the open, contracts endorsed by the black market will be believed by everyone.

"But what's the point of all this?"

Hu Er asked in confusion:

"Why wait five days when we could sell it directly for 1.8 taels? It's not like we don't have the medicinal herbs."

"Moreover, we also have to give half a cent of silver to the Black Market for free."

The contract from the black market wasn't free; Lu Cheng had to pay eight cents of silver as a price.

Lu Cheng held the contract and smiled:

"If it's just a matter of delaying the delivery of the pills by five days, then it's naturally not worth having the Black Market draw up a contract."

"But what if we could borrow another tael and five mace of silver using this contract?"

"With the contract, you can get a blood-activating powder worth three taels from me, or get a refund of one tael and six mace of silver from the black market."

"With this contract, borrowing one and a half taels of silver from the pawnshop shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"With the borrowed 1.5 taels of silver, we can buy three sets of medicinal herbs and exchange them for three more contracts."

The chubby boy and his friends were completely dumbfounded when they heard this.

Only Old Pi suddenly stood up:

"Good lad, you've really got it!"

"One dose of medicine plus five days of treatment, and you've managed to turn eight qian into two liang and three qian."

"Two ounces and three mace are more than three portions of medicinal herbs; in a case like the Zhang family's, that's five portions!"

"One begets five, five begets twenty-five, twenty-five begets... begets..."

Lu Cheng smiled and calculated it for Old Pi:

"Twenty-five gives birth to one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and twenty-five gives birth to six hundred and twenty-five."

Upon hearing this, Old Pi's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets:

"A thousand doses of medicine, and you can exchange them for... exchange them for..."

Old Pi calculated for a long time, and finally muttered:

"We got nearly 300,000 taels of silver in return!"

"No wonder, no wonder you said you could earn enough money for ten lifetimes!"

"Three hundred thousand taels of silver, even if we're hunted down by the Black Market, it's worth it!"

Lu Cheng looked at Lao Pi with a strange expression.

Putting aside the fact that this guy's calculations are completely wrong, the direction he's even come up with is truly speechless.

That's real torture.

Lu Cheng interrupted Old Pi with a smile:

"Six hundred and twenty-five portions aren't enough, shouldn't we make another 'five'?"

Old Pi was completely stunned:

"Five more...?"

Lu Cheng shook his head:

"First of all, there aren't that many people in Yangcheng who buy the Blood-Activating Powder, and it's impossible for us to buy that many medicinal herbs. You should give up on this idea as soon as possible."

"Besides, I never intended to cheat anyone out of their money."

"For every contract, I will eventually take out the blood-activating powder."

"Huh?" Old Pi was completely bewildered and asked the same question as Hu Er:

"So what are you trying to achieve by doing this?"

Lu Cheng took a breath and said with a serious expression:

"First of all, our plan is absolutely not some kind of scam or fraud, but a perfectly legitimate way to make money."

"The last people I'll have to deal with are those who already harbored ill intentions towards me."

"Secondly, this matter will involve significant interests and also pose considerable risks as it progresses."

"I don't want to become enemies with anyone here, nor do I want anything to happen to any of you."

"If anyone wants to quit now, they can leave. They'll still be my brothers."

"But those who haven't left will have to listen to me after tonight."

"The only thing I can guarantee everyone is that after this is over, no one will need to worry about the resources needed for their future martial arts training!"

"..."

After a long time, no one chose to quit.