Chapter 41 Twice a Day Execution by Lingchi

  Sorry about the late update of this chapter

  Sixth Brother shook his head and said, "Old Seventh, what nonsense are you talking about?

  Don't always resort to violence and killing, especially towards these worldly people. What's the point of killing them? They spend their entire lives in a dull haze, only seeking to make ends meet, and can be delighted for days with just a few pieces of silver. We cultivators are not short on silver, so it's easy to send them off with just a little bit.

  "Besides, the ones who can gather the herbs we need are all experienced secular people. You've killed them all off, so who will collect the herbs in the future? Can you guarantee that your disciples and grandchildren won't need them?"

  Lao Qi smiled humbly and said respectfully: "Sixth Master Brother, you are right."

  Sixth Brother suddenly stopped in his tracks, crouched down beside Li Wenjun, stretched out a hand and grabbed the medicinal herb that Li Wenjun had just picked up, asking the vendor how much it cost.

  The stall owner quoted the price, and Sixth Master told him to bring out all the same medicinal herbs. He then tossed a silver coin to the stall owner. The stall owner beamed with joy. Sixth Master took the purchased herbs and showed them to Old Seventh, saying: "See? It's that simple. These few stalks of Clearheart Grass would cost at least three Spirit Pearls back home. Here, they're settled for just ten taels of silver."

  Lao Qi's eyes lit up, and he said: "Sixth Brother, you've reminded me. We can buy at a low price here and sell at a high price later, making some hard-earned money. Let's go take a look around other stalls."

  Waiting until Sixth Brother and Old Seventh left, Li Wenjun stood up, took a look at the two of them, every time relying on their voices to identify them, still having some drawbacks. To avoid running into them unexpectedly again in the future, it was necessary to take a clear look at their true faces.

  Li Wenjun took a look at the layout of the stalls in the antique market, with hundreds and thousands of stalls crisscrossing each other, forming several intersecting pedestrian paths in both north-south and east-west directions. Li Wenjun deliberately followed the pedestrian path, circling around the antique market, and soon he circled to the front of Sixth Brother and Old Seventh. Taking advantage of the opportunity to brush shoulders with them, Li Wenjun clearly saw the facial features of these two people and firmly remembered them in his heart.

  Li Wenjun didn't know what use it was to remember their appearance, but one thing was certain: Liu Shi Xiong and Lao Qi were the second and third cultivators he had met besides Lao Dao. Maybe in the future, he would have dealings with them again.

  Li Wenjun continued to wander around the market, and after a long time, he spent nearly two thousand taels of silver, buying a lot of medicinal herbs, including more than ten strains of the hard-to-find Wangyue Cliff Grass. With these herbs, he had enough to make dozens of baths.

  Jenpin had already turned over almost all the stalls in the market, and continuing to do so would be meaningless. Moreover, Sixth Master and Old Seventh seemed to have a deeper understanding of medicinal herbs than him, and more of them ended up in their hands. Li Wenjun deliberately kept his distance from them while browsing the stalls, lest they lay eyes on the medicinal herbs he needed.

  As Li Wenjun was about to leave Zhenpin City, he heard someone exclaim: "Heavens! It's actually a 300-year-old wild ginseng!"

  The rare medicinal herbs in the city suddenly became scarce, and it was difficult to find wild medicinal herbs that were hundreds of years old. As for those that were three hundred years old, their preciousness increased several times.

  Merchants, monks and Taoist priests who were selecting medicinal herbs in various parts of Zhenpin City all swarmed over, Li Wenjun saw that Sixth Brother, Old Seventh, Wu Xuemei, Kong Yaoshi and others were also part of the crowd.

  Li Wenjun shook his head, he had a piece of wild mountain essence, which was enough to meet his needs. Every time he brewed medicine, he only needed to cut off a piece the size of a fingernail to use it, and a large piece of wild mountain essence could be used for a long time. There was no need to attract attention by competing with others for 300-year-old medicinal herbs. Now, cultivating safely and steadily to the first layer of Qi Refining Period was the most important thing.

  Besides, even if he wanted to compete with others, he would need sufficient capital. The three thousand taels he had just obtained were now less than one thousand taels, and adding the original leftovers, it was just over one thousand taels of silver. With this amount of money, he thought he could compete for the 300-year-old medicinal herbs, but in fact, there was no hope of winning.

  After leaving the珍品市, Li Wenjun didn't rush back. He saw a hardware store by the road that specialized in selling tools needed for medicinal herb collection. The tools sold at this point were all high-quality and valuable, but their quality was absolutely top-notch. Li Wenjun thought that he couldn't always use the Sun family's medicinal herb collection tools, if he had his own set, whenever he wanted to go into the mountains to collect herbs, it would be much more convenient than borrowing someone else's tools.

  Then, Li Wenjun spent nearly a hundred taels of silver in the general store, buying many tools for collecting herbs. There were pickaxes made of high-quality steel, hunting spears, herb-gathering hoes, and over 100 zhang (a unit of length) of fine hemp rope, lanterns that could gather candlelight together, candles that could burn for a long time with sufficient light, and so on, all the tools needed for collecting herbs.

  All these things put together made a pretty big pile, so Li Wenjun asked the general store to deliver them all to his place.

  In the following two days, Li Wenjun managed to squeeze in two more trips to Zhenpin City, and each time he was able to buy some medicinal herbs, but the quantity couldn't compare with the first day.

  Apart from strolling through the market, Li Wenjun spent all his time cultivating. With a lot of new medicinal herbs on hand, he gritted his teeth and increased the number of times he took medicine baths to twice a day. This also meant that he had to endure twice the agony of being tortured every day. Even with the mysterious green light's healing, Li Wenjun still felt pain so severe that he almost fainted. After all, the green light only saved him after the fact, and the suffering brought by the chaotic energy in his body could only be overcome by his own willpower.

  Taking a medicinal bath twice a day, the effect is remarkable. Li Wenjun clearly feels that his cultivation speed has increased again, and in just two short days, he has made significant progress. Just as Li Wenjun was about to continue this simple cultivation life, Sun Baicao told him that the Trading Conference was coming to an end, and asked if Li Wenjun wanted to follow them back to San Shan County City.

  Li Wenjun chose to return to Sanshan County with the Sun father and son without hesitation, his home was there, not to mention that psychologically speaking, Li Wenjun still felt that Sanshan County was safer than Fengshou Town.

  Firstly, the notorious bandit Wang Yonggui has not been caught yet, and the defensive strength of the county town is much stronger than that of Fengshou Town. Secondly, Li Wenjun lived in the county town for so long without encountering a cultivator, but here in Fengshou Town, he has had one encounter after another with cultivators. Since Li Wenjun still doesn't have enough self-defense capabilities, it's naturally better for him to stay away from cultivators as much as possible.