After leaving Immortal Grass Hall, Xue Yi walked with Xiao Ye on the street for a while.
Xiao Ye asked, "Why did you go to Immortal Grass Hall? If you lack medicinal materials, you can get them from the warehouse. As Young Miss, you can get anything you want."
Xue Yi said, "I'm looking for a rare herb called Ice Beard Grass that can only be taken when fresh. The manor doesn't have it, so I went out."
"I see... then go take a look at the street stalls, they are more reliable than those medicine shops." Xiao Ye nodded and led him to turn a corner, walking towards the street stall area.
East Market also had a street area with stalls, very lively.
Herbs like this, they are everywhere in the world. Maybe a little plant would sprout from the cracks in the street corners, and it could be used as medicine.
Cultivators who go adventuring outside often encounter some good quality medicinal materials.
As long as the medicinal materials reach a certain grade, they could be sold for over a hundred coins each. For grade two, even the cheapest would cost thirty or forty taels of silver per plant. More expensive ones are worth tens of taels.
Grade three medicinal materials are usually between one hundred and one thousand taels. Millennium Red Blood Ginseng and Heavenly Silkworm Dragon Claw Grass are considered the best among grade three, with a market price of at least several thousand taels.
As for grade four medicinal materials, they basically have no market price, very rarely seen on the market. As soon as there were any, the big families and powerful forces would directly buy them, worth tens of thousands of taels of silver per plant.
Thousand-Year Cinnabar is considered the best among grade four, rare and precious, only people with status like the Sixth Prince could casually gift them.
Adventuring cultivators who go out all have dreams of encountering supreme spiritual herbs and getting rich instantly.
But dreams coming true is after all the minority. Most people selling herbs on stalls only sell grade one herbs, rarely even having grade two.
Arriving at the street with stalls, there were hundreds of stalls along the street at a glance, with shouting voices everywhere.
Xiao Ye rubbed his temples with a pained expression, “You go take a look yourself, my head hurts just seeing these stalls.”
“Alright, thanks for bringing me here,” Xue Yi said.
Xiao Ye waved his hand, “We’re family, no need to be so polite.” Then he turned around and left.
Xue Yi walked into the street with stalls.
"Brother from Holy Might Manor, want to buy something?"
Someone recognized his attire and took the initiative to ask.
Xue Yi didn't put on airs, "Buying some herbs. Brother, do you have Ice Beard Grass?"
"Ice Beard Grass? That's not common. I don't have any, go take a look further back."
"Alright, I'll go take a look around."
Since this concerned his own cultivation and strength, Xue Yi was very serious about it.
That feeling of burning internal organs this morning was too painful. He really didn't want to experience that again.
"Come take a look look look~"
"Just picked this morning, grade two good medicine Green Snake Fruit, eating one can substitute half a month of bitter cultivation~"
"A whole Giant Desolate Tiger, do you need any parts? Including fur, claws, bones, whips, all top grade for making medicinal soup~"
There were so many stalls on both sides of the street. Some were very quiet while some warmly called out to passing people to ask if they wanted to buy anything.
After walking through half the street, Xue Yi still hadn't seen Ice Beard Grass, and couldn't help but feel a headache.
Would he have to experience that burning sensation again tomorrow?
"Ice Beard Grass, Ice Beard Grass about to rot, someone quickly buy them away, or I'll take a big loss~"
Just as he felt dejected, a voice suddenly caught his attention.
"Oh? What a coincidence I ran into some?" Xue Yi was instantly delighted.
He hurried over.
But he deliberately controlled his expression to not look too expectant.
Arriving near the shouting stall, he took a look. The stall had a bag of pale, tassel-like herbs.
These herbs emitted a cold air, but possibly because they were picked too long ago, the cold air was very faint. The surroundings were damp, looking like about-to-rot leek stems.
"What is this thing, you're still trying to sell it when it's about to rot?" Xue Yi looked at it with distaste.
The skinny young man selling Ice Beard Grass had a grieved expression, "Brother, I don't want to either. But the main thing is this stuff doesn't sell well, and rots too quickly. I just picked it from an ancient tomb two nights ago, and it's already wilted like this in one day and night. I'm really helpless."
"What effects does it have?" Xue Yi pretended not to know.
The stall owner replied, "This Ice Beard Grass is a grade two cold-attribute herb. I asked the shop owner of a medicine shop, it can retail for over ten taels of silver per plant. There's over two hundred plants here, over three pounds, worth over two thousand taels. But... sigh, it's about to rot. Brother, if you want it, I'll sell it to you for one thousand five hundred taels!"
"Ha, one thousand five hundred taels to buy three pounds of rotting leek stems, are you stupid or am I stupid?" Xue Yi shook his head, ignoring the Ice Beard Grass and looking at the stall owner's other goods instead.
"How much are these purple fruits?" He casually asked.
"These are Detox Fruits, grade one medicine, can be dried and preserved. Very effective for detox, five hundred coins each," the stall owner replied.
Xue Yi saw there were twenty Detox Fruits total, with one tael of silver in Ancient Divine Dynasty being one thousand coins, so twenty fruits would be ten taels of silver.
"Don't have change on me, can you break one of these?"
He took out a stack of silver notes from his body, exactly ten notes worth one hundred taels each, and handed one of them to the stall owner.
Seeing he had so much money, the stall owner's eyes immediately lit up.
"I don't have that much silver on me to give you change, how about brother, you buy my whole stall for one thousand taels?" He grinned and said.
Xue Yi decisively shook his head, "What are you thinking? Just this bag of rotten leeks and some fruits, selling it to me for one thousand taels? We of Holy Might Manor don't do charity."
"Ay yo, brother, we can't do business like this. This isn't rotten leeks, it's Ice Beard Grass! Very rare! Can assist cultivating cold-attribute energy, and also treat fire and toxin injuries. Although not easy to preserve, at worst it can be crushed into medicine paste to heal fire burn scars. And there's still dozens of other herbs worth over one hundred taels total!" The stall owner did his best to promote his goods.
Xue Yi calculated that except for the Ice Beard Grass, the other things combined were indeed worth around one hundred taels.
But he had no use for them...
Go lower!
Otherwise no money to buy Green Jade Dew for Young Miss!
"Two hundred taels at most, two hundred taels." He held up two fingers.
"No way, brother, we can't do business like this!" The stall owner's face turned green when he heard two hundred.
"Then forget it if you don't want to sell. Give me back ninety taels of silver, I just want these Detox Fruits," Xue Yi spoke as if he didn't care at all.
"But I only have twenty taels left on me... how about brother, you add something else? The rotten leeks... cough cough, if Ice Beard Grass is not wanted then forget it. Pick some other things to make it an even trade?" The stall owner suggested.
Manning a stall was tiring work, he also wanted to sell it off quickly and avoid more trouble here.
As for the Ice Beard Grass, if it really couldn't be sold, he could give a ten percent discount to Spring Return Hall. They would still buy it, just at a loss.
Xue Yi shook his head again, "I have no use for those. The Detox Fruits are fine. The Ice Beard Grass... is for bathing my family's Young Miss during summer. It should be alright as a makeshift ice bath."
"Bathing with Ice Beard Grass, I..."
The stall owner almost cursed.
"Why not, my family's Young Miss is the number one beauty of Ancient Divine Dynasty. It is an honor for this bag of Ice Beard Grass to be used for her herbal bath," Xue Yi bragged shamelessly.
"Huh? Brother, you're talking about Xiao Qingruo?" Hearing this, the stall owner was also a little surprised.
Xue Yi nodded.
"Then..."
The stall owner's eyes glinted, "How about five hundred taels brother? Sell everything to you for five hundred taels! Let Young Miss enjoy a nice cooling ice bath in this hot summer, it's very cost-effective!"
"Five hundred taels... a bit too expensive. I won't be taken advantage of. Do you have anything else good, add something to balance the scale." Xue Yi pretended to hesitate.
Hearing this, the stall owner decisively clapped his hands, "I do have something else!"
Then he took out a ragged cloth from his clothes, "I found this in the ancient tomb, don't know what's written on it, but it hasn't rotted after so many years, must be something good. Add this and it's definitely worth five hundred taels!"
A ragged cloth...
Xue Yi looked at it with distaste.
But thinking of the value of the Ice Beard Grass, five hundred taels also seemed acceptable still. So he nodded, "Fine, consider it charity." And handed over four more silver notes.
"Oh my, look at what you're saying, this deal you've made is absolutely a safe profit with no loss!" The stall owner happily took the silver notes and neatly packed up the things on the ground, handing them all over to Xue Yi.
The two cleared up the money and goods, then went their separate ways.
Xue Yi had a perfectly calm expression on his face, but was actually feeling quite delighted internally.
The young miss said that just one jin of Ice Beard Grass was worth hundreds of taels, so these three jin fetching five hundred taels was an absolute steal, not to mention the other medicinal materials - this was a huge stroke of luck!
The stall owner saw him off into the distance, also feeling very gleeful.
People were even wanting his nearly rotten medicinal materials, and he could mark up the price on just a sweaty old rag - the people of Holy Might Manor really were doing charity work!