Ch94 - Cousins

Xue Hao and his party of 25 people arrived and found two caves at the foot of the mountain. The entrance of the smaller cave was restricted with a barrier enchantment. Therefore, the situation inside could not be seen clearly. At the cave entrance, a sign read, “In seclusion, please do not disturb.” Seeing the words on the sign, everyone understood. An alchemist was retreating inside the small cave.

There were two wooden doors outside the big cave, and there was also a sign hanging outside the wooden doors. The sign reads “Feng Xu Medicinal Shop”.

“Feng Xu Medicinal Shop, the name is so strange?” Li Ming raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.

“Fellow Daoist Liu’s Dao companion is Jiang Xu. Feng Xu is the last character of their names.” After thinking about it, Xue Hao explained the name.

“Oh, so that’s how it is.” Nodding, everyone expressed their understanding.

“It should be here. Let’s go in and have a look.” Xue Hao and the Zhou brothers looked at the others and took the lead in opening the wooden door and walking in. The others followed suit.

Jiang Xu was sitting on a chair and eating stewed meat with his contracted beast Xiaolan and two Wood Spirit Insect drones; one human and three spirit insects. At that time, they saw a large group of people walking in.

Jiang Xu was thrilled to see that business finally came to his door. He recognized the person in front, immediately put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hand, and greeted the visitors. “I was wondering who it was, it turned out to be Young Master Xue.”

“Young Master Jiang, it has been so many years. I hope you have been well.” Seeing Jiang Xu, Xue Hao greeted him with a smile.

“Oh, thank you, Young Master Xue, for thinking about us. Mufeng and I had a good time.” Jiang Xu replied happily.

“We saw the flyers, and I heard that Fellow Daoist Liu opened a medicinal shop, so I stopped by to look. By the way, why don’t I see Fellow Daoist Liu?”

“Ei,Mufeng is in seclusion and refining pills. He won’t be out for a while. There are a lot of medicinal pills in our crude shop. Would you like to take a look? There are second and third-level medicinal pills.” He pointed to the bottles of medicinal pills on the two wooden shelves behind him.

“There are so many?” Seeing two shelves full of two or three hundred bottles of medicinal pills, Xue Hao couldn’t help but ask in surprise.

“It’s not much, but it’s alright. Mufeng is working hard to refine more.” In fact, these were the pills that he and Mufeng couldn’t use. The best quality medicinal pills were kept by Mufeng, saying that they were for their own use and would not sell them at all.

“Friend Jiang, I don’t know how one can exchange these medicinal pills for spiritual plants?” Looking at Jiang Xu, Zhou Wu asked anxiously.

“Oh, there are exchange instructions on the wall. You can take a look. Spiritual plants, spirit stones, spiritual fruits, demon beast cores, and demon beast meat can all be exchanged for medicinal pills, as well as spiritual treasures.” Jiang Xu said as he looked at the crowd.

“Oh!” Nodding, everyone looked at the exchange instructions posted on the wall.

Ordinary spiritual plants can be exchanged for the first level medicinal pills.

Spiritual plants with maturity under 500 years old can be exchanged for the second-level pills.

Spiritual plants over 500 years old can be exchanged for third-level pills.

Thousand-year spiritual plants can be exchanged for a third level middle-grade pill.

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“Brother, this exchange method is very cost-effective. It’s more cost-effective than selling the demon beast core to buy the medicinal pill, and it doesn’t have to be so troublesome. Just exchange it.”

“Yes, cousin, I also think it’s a good deal.”

“Friend Jiang, we can accept your exchange method, but can we look at your medicinal pills first? We want to look at the goods first. Do you have any problem with us doing so?” Li Ming asked again.

“No problem, you can look at it as you like. As long as you don’t steal it and don’t damage it.” Jiang Xu said generously.

“Oh, that’s good.” Li Ming took a group of people and hurriedly went to the display shelf to see the medicinal pills.

Looking at those people, Jiang Xu immediately sent a voice transmission to Xiaolan, and Xiaolan immediately transmitted orders to the Golden Spirit Insects quietly lying on the wall. Then, a group of Golden Insects flew over silently and landed on the shoulders of the group of cultivators. Some landed on their backs, staring hard at the group of people who wanted to barter for medicinal pills.

Walking in front of Jiang Xu, Liu Shen and Liu Feifei smiled. “Friend Jiang, my name is Liu Shen, and I am Mufeng’s cousin. I want to meet Mufeng, but I don’t know when he will leave seclusion?”

Hearing this, Jiang Xu raised his eyebrows. “Cousin?”

“Well, yes, we are from the Liu family in Yong’an City, and my mother is Mufeng’s Fifth Aunt, the Fifth Sister of Mufeng’s mother.” Liu Shen clarified seriously.

“Oh, is that so? Well, you are his cousin, but I can’t do anything about it. He didn’t tell me when he will be coming out, so I really don’t know.” Shaking his head, Jiang Xu answered.

“That’s a pity.” Liu Shen sighed in disappointment.

“Friend Jiang, is my cousin still washing spiritual roots?” After thinking about it, Liu Feifei asked.

“Yes, he still does, but the price has risen now. It is 80 million spirit stones to wash one spiritual root. To widen the meridians, you will need to add another 80 million. To wash the extra meridian, you will need to add another 80 million.” With a smile, Jiang Xu said.

Hearing this, the faces of the Liu family brother and sister changed, expressing in their hearts,‘This price increase was really fast!’

“Also, we are just a small business and we do not take any credit, and refuse to bargain. Besides, brothers and sisters should clearly settle accounts. Even if you are Mufeng’s cousins, I will not give you a discount.” Looking at the two, Jiang Xu added earnestly.

Liu Feifei’s face was dark. “Jiang Xu, is it you who have a say for Mufeng to wash our spiritual roots or accept our spirit stones? I’m afraid you can’t be the master of this matter?”

Seeing Liu Feifei’s unhappy expression, Jiang Xu smiled. “I can certainly make a decision about my husband’s affairs. I set the exchange price for all the medicinal pills in this cave. Mufeng just gave me medicinal pills to sell.”

“You…” Liu Feifei was even more annoyed when she heard this.

“Sister!” Liu Shen grabbed his sister’s hand, turned his head and smiled apologetically at Jiang Xu. “Friend Jiang, I’m sorry, my sister is spoiled. Since Mufeng won’t be out for a while, let’s find him to wash our spiritual roots later.”

“Okay.” Jiang Xu expressed no further opinion.

“Alright then, let’s go to see the medicinal pills.” Liu Shen then took his sister to see the medicinal pills with a smile.

“Friend Jiang, I have chosen the pills I want to exchange.” Walking in front of Jiang Xu, Xue Hao handed Jiang Xu several medicinal pills he had chosen and checked. He then took out the spiritual plants and demon beast cores to pay for the value of five kinds of medicinal pills.

After completing the transaction, Jiang Xu took out a second level, mid-grade Rejuvenation Pill. “Friend Xue, since you are the first customer, this pill will be given to you for free.”

“If that’s the case, then thank you, Friend Jiang. There are a lot of people here. I’ll wait for everyone outside.” After taking the medicinal pill, Xue Hao left with a smile.

“En!” Nodding, Jiang Xu watched the other party leave.

After Xue Hao, many people took out spiritual plants and demon beast cores to trade with Jiang Xu. Jiang Xu also gave the second and third customers a Rejuvenation Pill.

“Friend Jiang, I don’t have enough spiritual plants and demon beast cores. Isn’t it possible to exchange demon beast meat? Look, I have twenty demon beast corpses here. Can I exchange them for the pills?” A cultivator passed a storage ring to Jiang Xu.

After taking it, Jiang Xu swept in with his soul power and found that the twenty demon beast corpses in the storage ring were guaranteed to be very good. “Okay, a demon beast with a belt bone will give you five hundred pounds of monster meat. A second-level monster can give you a second-level low-grade medicinal pill. Ten first-level demon beasts will give you a second-level low-grade pill.”

“Okay, okay.” Hearing this, Zhou Wu repeatedly thanked him. He then exchanged them with the medicinal pills and left the medicinal pill shop satisfied.

Seeing that everyone had emptied their treasures and exchanged medicinal pills with Jiang Xu, Liu Feifei’s teeth were itching with anger. She silently complained,‘What’s so great about this Jiang Xu? Wasn’t he just an abandoned child who was kicked out of the house by the Jiang family? Wasn’t he just a shameless Dual who did his best to seduce his cousin’s man? Why could he speak so arrogantly in front of her? Why was he flaunting the market with the medicinal pills refined by her cousin?’

There was also that Liu Mufeng, looking for a partner and not looking at the character. He dared to marry this kind of shrewd and handsome dual. She really couldn’t see what it was that Jiang Xu had.

Liu Feifei took a top-grade Golden Sun Pill and a top-grade Golden Jade Pill from the shelf and put them into her storage ring. The medicinal pill was made by her cousin, so she wouldn’t use the spiritual plants she had worked so hard to find to exchange it with a man who was neither a male nor female.

After stealing the medicinal pill, Liu Feifei quietly moved to the cave’s door. Suddenly, she felt a pain in her back.

“Ah, it hurts, it hurts…” Frowning, Liu Feifei screamed suddenly.

“Buzz, humm…”

The buzz of the Golden Spirit Insect resounded in the cave. Then, as if being summoned, Golden Insects rushed towards Liu Feifei, trapping Liu Feifei in the middle, and began to bite her frantically.

“Ah, go away, go away!” Taking out her whip, Liu Feifei anxiously drove away from the Golden Spirit Insects that flew over. However, the Golden Spirit Insects gathered more and more, and she was continuously attacked by them. She was trapped in the middle with no way to escape.

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Zaki~ why do all the women in this novel are so abominable?