Chapter 422: Life-or-Death Battle Stage
“It’s another foreigner who’s here to participate in the Alchemy Competition!”
“However, she looks so young. It will be very difficult for her to win a spot in the competition.”
“Still, coming to an Alchemy Competition organized by the Alchemy King’s Mansion is worth it. She would gain so experience!”
“You’re right!”
After looking at Lou Qianxue once more, everyone averted their gazes.
However, Lou Qianxue’s sensitive ears caught their discussion.
“The Alchemy Competition organized by the Alchemy King’s Mansion? Didn’t that happen two years ago? Could it be...”
When she realized it, Lou Qianxue could not help but smile. “What a coincidence! I didn’t manage to make it for the Imperial Academy’s recruitnt and the Alchemy Competition two years ago. And the mont I returned, I chanced upon it again...”
Despite such a coincidence, Lou Qianxue did not plan on participating in the competition.
“Lingxi Prefecture is the capital of dicine. It has a lot of dicinal herbs. I should look around and buy so.”
Lingxi Prefecture was filled with dical stores. Lou Qianxue randomly chose one and entered it.
The shop had a lot of dicinal herbs, including many fourth-grade and fifth-grade dicinal herbs, which were rarely found elsewhere.
However, that was it.
It was hard for shops of such a small city to have higher-level dicinal herbs. Furthermore, so herbs could not be easily bought despite their high demand. Unless one used special channels, it was hard to buy them.
A few dicinal herbs caught Lou Qianxue’s eye. She was about to buy them when she realized sothing...
“I don’t think I have enough money... There are quite a few blood ginsengs in the Mountain River Space. However, due to the nourishnt of the magical tree, the blood ginsengs have extrely strong vitality. It’s not worth it to sell them for dicinal herbs.”
A frown appeared on Lou Qianxue’s face, and she started thinking.
Suddenly...
“Store Owner, I beg you. Please lend a stalk of Xanthophyllum! I’ll return it to you later,” soone hoarsely pleaded.
“Return ? You’re so poor that you can’t even afford a stalk of Xanthophyllum. What will you return ?”
“I’ll go to the black market! After I get the Xanthophyllum from you, I’ll risk my life by participating in the life-or-death battle stage. If I win, I can get twice the amount of Xanthophyllum. I’m begging you! My younger brother needs the dicine. Just lend a stalk!”
“I won’t lend it to you! Get out, you poor man! Don’t disrupt my business by staying here!” The store owner got annoyed by the man’s pestering. He beca fierce, pushed the man away, and ordered soone to chase out the man.
“Black market? A life-or-death battle? I’ve heard of it before...”
Lou Qianxue followed the middle-aged man out of the shop and caught up to him. “Excuse , Sir?”
The man stopped in his tracks. With a timid expression, he carefully asked Lou Qianxue, “Ma’am, may I know what do you want?”
“I want to ask you sothing. If you can give a satisfactory answer, this will be yours.” Lou Qianxue took out a stalk of Xanthophyllum and waved it in front of him.
It was a dicinal herb she had gotten from Master Huo when she was still in the Fengyang prefecture.
The man’s eyes lit up, and he instantly beca excited. “Ma’am, you’re so generous and kind! Thank you so much! Just ask anything. It doesn’t matter what the question is! Just ask away! As long as it’s sothing I know, I’ll tell you everything!”
Lou Qianxue nodded. “You said that if you risk your life at the black market’s life-or-death battle stage, you can get double the amount of dicinal herbs. What’s this about?”
“The life-or-death battle stage....” The question stunned the middle-aged man. He then grimly advised her, “Ma’am, only desperate people who have no other choice will go to a violent and bloody place like that. A noble person like you—”
“It doesn’t matter. Just tell everything.”
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