Chapter 806: Chapter 806: I Just Want to Sell So Herbs
Zhang Chunxiang has been quite distressed recently. Ever since the war with the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, she returned ho only to be ordered to morize various herbal information. Until she learns them all by heart, she’s not even allowed to go out for fun.
According to her granduncle, this is the foundation for the Zhang Family’s standing in the Great Cave Heaven. As long as they have this knowledge, there will always be a need for the Zhang Family, and they will never be cast out of the mainstream.
Being needed—these four words are extrely important in the Great Cave Heaven.
Because of the Secret Law, it’s almost impossible to carve out a place in the Great Cave Heaven alone. Cooperation with others is necessary; otherwise, one will eventually encounter a Secret Law they cannot handle, leading to untily death.
In such a place, the most useless people are often the first to beco cannon fodder.
The reason the Zhang Family has been able to develop smoothly for hundreds of years is not because their ability to kill enemies is stronger than others, but because their talismans can adapt to changing situations. Their understanding of various rare herbs and alchemy skills is unmatched.
The price the Zhang Family paid to gain knowledge of rare herbs is unimaginable to outsiders.
Countless mbers of the Zhang Family have tested dicines on themselves and died in the process of pharmaceutical research.
Great dicines are great poisons. Many of the rare herbs used in special elixirs have significant harmful effects on the body. Precise control of dosage and the addition of other herbs to neutralize effects are necessary to avoid harming the body while achieving miraculous effects.
For example, the Zhang Family’s famous "Rejuvenation Pill," whose main ingredient Rejuvenation Grass, is inherently highly toxic.
Zhang Chunxiang doesn’t dislike learning and alchemy. However, the information on rare herbs is just too vast. Even with her mory, it’s hard to rember everything clearly, often recalling the earlier parts and forgetting the latter.
In theory, the more cultivators practice, the higher their level, the stronger their mory.
For soone like Zhang Chunxiang, who is now level 60, having a photographic mory should be a basic ability.
Unfortunately, "photographic mory" is just a taphor. While she might rember sothing at the mont, and not forget it in the short term...
...it doesn’t an she won’t forget it later, nor does it an she can rember it forever.
Apart from those common rare herbs that can be recorded in writing and consulted online...
The Zhang Family possesses much knowledge of herbal dicine that is unknown to outsiders and never written down, passed only by word of mouth within the family.
Whether it’s written herbs or the oral knowledge within the Zhang Family, one has to morize it all.
This involves many elixir formulas. If you don’t morize everything and understand the effects of each herb clearly, you can’t handle the changes in formulas for specific situations.
After all, rare herbs aren’t always available. Many precious rare herbs are often out of stock. At such tis, you need to find alternatives or use special thods to achieve the sa effects. Adaptability in alchemy is also a crucial skill.
"How do I solve this problem Grandpa set for today? Without Rejuvenation Grass, can it still be called a Rejuvenation Pill? The main herb is the lead, the secondary herbs assist. Without the main herb and only secondary herbs, this Rejuvenation Pill doesn’t stand at all. Even if I found a substitute, can it still be called a Rejuvenation Pill?" Zhang Chunxiang pondered deeply but couldn’t solve the problem left by her granduncle today.
"Next life, I’m definitely not studying dicine. Whoever loves it can learn it. I’m not doing it." As Zhang Chunxiang was thinking depressingly, she suddenly heard a beep from her phone—a ssage notification.
Listlessly, Zhang Chunxiang glanced at it and found it was from Chen Guan. Instantly, her spirits lifted, and she grabbed the phone to check the ssage.
"You’re so careless, you even typed the word wrong. Buy and sell are completely opposite anings. If you want to buy dicine from , you should use the word buy, not sell. This way, the aning gets reversed, completely misguided..." After reading Chen Guan’s ssage, Zhang Chunxiang imdiately sent back a long voice ssage.
These days, she’s been taught like this every day, almost driven to the point of obsession.
"No, I’m not looking to buy dicine from you. I really want to sell dicine to your family. You help
ask if your family will accept it." Chen Guan said.
Hearing this, Zhang Chunxiang laughed and imdiately replied, "I really admire your courage. You want to sell dicine to our Zhang Family? It’s the first ti I’ve heard such a thing since I was a child."
"Misunderstanding, I ant herbs, not elixirs." Chen Guan quickly explained, realizing that Zhang Chunxiang misunderstood.
"Oh, herbs. We do take them, but our family has a strict standard for accepting herbs. It’s not up to ." Zhang Chunxiang was a bit troubled, as the Zhang Family only uses the best herbs for alchemy. They generally don’t use ordinary ones unless there’s no other choice or substitute, and a specific elixir must be made.
"What about Nine Infant?" Chen Guan asked.
"Nine Infant..." Hearing this na, Zhang Chunxiang felt as if she was struck on the head, suddenly enlightened.
"Nine Infant... definitely... it’s Nine Infant... If there’s no Rejuvenation Grass... then use Nine Infant instead of Rejuvenation Grass... well, not really instead... Nine Infant can’t substitute Rejuvenation Grass... but if it cooperates with Three-Life Vine, it can achieve yang-to-yang transformation, thereby replacing Rejuvenation Grass. Plus with Winter Cage Grass, Autumn Day, Pinellia, Spring Vine accompanying... it should achieve seven-tenths of the Rejuvenation Pill’s effectiveness..."
Suddenly realizing sothing, Zhang Chunxiang stopped, her expression quirky, and she said to her phone, "How do you know I’m thinking about the Rejuvenation Pill problem? And how do you know Nine Infant can substitute? Are you secretly in love with , secretly spying on ? Is it Huacai or Chunman? Chen Guan, I’m telling you, I’ll never be anyone’s mistress..."
"No, what are you thinking? How would I know about such a ss? I really just want to sell Nine Infant to your Zhang Family, nothing to do with being a mistress," Chen Guan said.
"What? You an to say, I don’t qualify to be a mistress? Tell , where am I lacking? Body, looks, knowledge, ability, where am I lacking?" Zhang Chunxiang smirked.
"No, I didn’t say you don’t qualify to be a mistress. You lack nothing—body, looks, knowledge, ability—you’re great in every aspect," Chen Guan said with a wry smile.
"Seems like you’ve admitted, right? You want to get your way with
and let
be your mistress. I advise you to drop that idea; I’ll never be a mistress." Zhang Chunxiang laughed.
"Sis, I genuinely just want to sell so herbs." Chen Guan said, speechless.
"If you really want to sell Nine Infant, just find an auction house to sell it. The price would be higher that way." Zhang Chunxiang said.
The Nine Infant, as a rare herb, is usually out of stock. Even within the Great Cave Heaven, it’s rare for humans to find Nine Infant. For the most part, over hundreds of years, the Nine Infants in human-controlled areas have almost all been excavated. Finding one occasionally is already very difficult and can sell for a fortune.
The Zhang Family also lacks Nine Infant, but a single Nine Infant doesn’t an much to them. They want Nine Infant to make the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill, which requires long-term consumption to be effective. Making just a few pills is not very aningful.
"I have over a hundred jin of Nine Infant, not convenient for auction." Chen Guan said.
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