A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu Transmigrates into a Book, the Dao Ancestor of Rein

Chapter 32 Getting rich

"Are prescriptions valuable? Doctor Mo didn't tell me that before."

Han Li blinked, his face completely innocent.

When he gave away the formulas for Huanglong Dan and Jin Sui Wan, was he truly being generous? Or was he truly so innocent as to have no ulterior motives?
"Oh? Was the prescription given to you by an ordinary physician?"

Ordinary doctors are mostly those who save lives and relieve suffering.

Such people, even if they are just ordinary people, are worthy of respect.

As a result, Fairy Hongfu developed a slight liking for Doctor Mo, whom she had never met before.

This indirectly fostered more goodwill towards Han Li.

"Yes. Doctor Mo's medical skills are superb; he has helped many people heal injuries and cure illnesses. I learned some medical skills from him. Moreover, Doctor Mo never held back in teaching me; he always taught me freely. This also indirectly allowed me to recognize some medicinal herbs..."

"Do you know how to care for herbs?"

"I know a little. After all, to be familiar with the properties of medicinal herbs, one must understand them as much as possible, which includes understanding their suitable growing environment and other growth requirements," Han Li said eloquently.

There is another purpose to saying all this.

In short, it's about indirectly demonstrating some of your own value.

Working for an old man in the late Foundation Establishment stage is far less cost-effective than working for Fairy Hong Fu.
In the future, he might even be able to purchase some of the spiritual medicines he needs from Fairy Hongfu.

"It seems I underestimated you."

The fairy's eyes lit up slightly:
If this child truly understands some pharmacology and is able to care for most of the herbs in the spirit field, having him manage the field would save her some trouble.

Furthermore, she has been cultivating diligently for a hundred years, and the bottleneck at the peak of the mid-stage Core Formation has finally loosened. With a little preparation, her subsequent seclusion may allow her to advance to the late-stage Core Formation in one fell swoop.

"Alright, I'll give you a list. See if it suits you? If it does, I'll reserve your Foundation Establishment Pill for Xuan'er," Fairy Hongfu said kindly.

The more he looked at Han Li, the more satisfied he became.

Although one can use pills to increase cultivation level, the difficulty increases as one progresses. From childhood to adulthood, Xuan'er has basically never used low-level pills to force her growth, in order to prevent the premature development of various incurable drug resistances that could affect her future.

But the child in front of me is different.

With four pseudo-spiritual roots, one encounters a minor bottleneck after reaching the third level of Qi Refining. Relying solely on arduous cultivation, one can only reach the sixth or seventh level of Qi Refining in this lifetime. To advance further, one must rely on medicinal power to enhance magical strength.

"Han Li's future is sure to be difficult..."

Give me more.

...

One day later.

Inside a newly opened cave at the tail end of Hongying Mountain.

Having completed the relevant purchases and furniture shopping, Han Li carefully counted the items on the table, extremely satisfied.

First, there was a pile of stones emitting a faint glow: ten mid-grade spirit stones and five hundred low-grade spirit stones.

Secondly, there was a pile of sealed pill bottles, more than a hundred in total.

Each bottle contains ten low-grade pills.

These low-level pills are suitable for the Qi Refining stage to take and refine, as they help strengthen muscles and bones, consolidate the foundation, and enhance magical power.

The pills are divided into four types, two of which can be used up to the twelfth level of Qi Refining. A closer look reveals that the average price of the four types of pills is approximately one low-grade spirit stone per pill; therefore, the total value of this pile of pills is over a thousand spirit stones.

If he takes one refined pill every day thereafter, it will be enough for three years.

Then came several boxes of herbs such as Huanglong grass, bitter lotus, golden thread flower, and forget-me-not: these were mature herbs enough to prepare thousands of doses of Huanglong pills and Jinsui pills.

In the mortal realm, these herbs are extremely rare. Even Mo Juren had to search many desolate mountains and rivers to cultivate a small medicinal field, and the herbs were only one or two years old. After all, mature spiritual herbs, even those of very low grade, generally don't wait for humans to harvest them.

"These spiritual herbs, which can be used to make Yellow Dragon Pills and Golden Marrow Pills, should be enough for me to try the most basic alchemy techniques."

Furthermore, he planned to use the Yellow Dragon Pill, the Golden Marrow Pill, and two other low-grade pills to assist him in his cultivation from the fourth to the sixth level of Qi Refining.

"Hopefully, rotating the use of the elixir can reduce some of the drug resistance."

In addition, two cyan chains, each over ten feet long, slowly coiled around Han Li. This was a complete set of top-tier magic artifacts, the Azure Dragon Chains, worth at least six hundred spirit stones—a masterpiece among top-tier magic artifacts. With his current magical power and divine sense, controlling them was quite difficult. He needed to improve his cultivation level as soon as possible.

Then, he obtained the first four levels of the cultivation technique, the Azure Origin Sword Manual. In Yellow Maple Valley, while the Azure Origin Sword Manual wasn't a particularly precious technique, it was normally only accessible to cultivators after they had reached the Foundation Establishment stage. Qi Refining disciples before Foundation Establishment typically had to pay a certain amount of spirit stones to gain access to it.

Grandmaster Hongfu has a fragment of the cultivation technique that goes straight to the sixth level, which saved him a hundred or so spirit stones.

At last.

Han Li's gaze fell upon a pile of talismans.

A total of thirty sheets:

One intermediate beginner level card, nine beginner advanced level cards, and twenty beginner intermediate level cards.

It has both offensive and defensive capabilities, and its total value is five or six hundred low-grade spirit stones.

This is what he gained from selling the Foundation Establishment Pill to the penniless Dong Xuan'er and then receiving it from Fairy Hong Fu.

The Fairy Hong Fu truly didn't take advantage of him in the slightest.

He casually took out items worth over four thousand spirit stones without even flinching.

"Get rich!"

Not only that, they also helped him escape the troublesome main ridge of the Taiyue Mountains, allowing him to temporarily reside in a spiritual vein cave on Hongying Mountain for five years. This gave him privileges that even Foundation Establishment cultivators in the sect might not enjoy for the next few years. They also granted him the authority to look after the precious spiritual herbs in several spiritual fields, with an additional fifteen spirit stones per month as compensation.

It can be described as full of goodwill.

It's important to know that the rare and precious spiritual herbs that Fairy Hong Fu entrusted him with tending were essential for crafting elixirs suitable for Foundation Establishment cultivators. Each one was quite old and highly valuable. For example, there were three Udon vines bearing over twenty Udon fruits, a key ingredient in a certain elixir designed to enhance the magical power of early to mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators. Two of the fruits were already two hundred years old, ripe enough for medicinal use.

Either one of the two is worth three or four hundred spirit stones.

If he were to cause problems with these three vines and sell them, he probably wouldn't be able to afford the losses.

"Doctor Mo laid a solid foundation, allowing me to earn sixty a year or six hundred a year even if I went to Master Ma's herb garden. Here at Fairy Hongfu's place, the cost-effectiveness is three times higher. Indeed, as long as you have the skills, you can succeed anywhere."

The spirit fields in the valley of Red Tassel Mountain are said to have been cultivated for at least two hundred years. In the past, they were tended in turns by Fairy Hong Fu and her brother. Most of the spirit herbs in the fields were prepared for their descendants.

Since the death of her Core Formation stage elder brother and a Core Formation elder from the Feng family of the sect, Hong Fu Fairy has had to manage these spirit fields and the spirit herbs within them on her own.

Occasionally, they would ask some of the tribespeople from the foot of the mountain to come up and help look after things.

but.

For some unknown reason, the relationship between Fairy Hongfu and the Dong family was not as harmonious as that between other cultivation families and their own Core Formation Ancestors.

It seems there's some kind of rift between the two sides.

As for Dong Xuan'er, she never went down the mountain to befriend her clansmen. If they met within the sect, they would at most nod and greet each other.

In this regard.

Han Li, of course, didn't care at all.

He wouldn't gossip about the inside story.

All he knew was to take advantage of the rare free time to cultivate in peace and then regularly help Fairy Hongfu take care of the medicinal herbs in the valley.

"The Fairy Hongfu has treated me so kindly; she probably has other intentions..."

"Could it be that Dong Xuan'er will leave Red Tassel Mountain and enter Yellow Maple Valley to cultivate in the future? Will I then have to keep an eye on this senior sister who is gradually becoming more unrestrained?"

I always felt that Fairy Hongfu was a little too good to him.

It's also worth mentioning that after testing his pharmacology skills and knowledge of spiritual herbs, this Grandmaster Hong Fu gifted him three illustrated guides to spiritual herbs and spent some time patiently teaching him how to better care for certain spiritual herbs, flowers, and fruits in his herb garden. She also provided some simple guidance on his cultivation, helping him avoid many detours when practicing the not-so-rare "Azure Origin Sword Technique."

In other words.

In addition to the Foundation Establishment Pill, he also received two precious illustrated guides to spiritual herbs and a period of hands-on instruction and cultivation guidance.

That's right.

After careful consideration, he still chose the Azure Origin Sword Technique.

(End of this chapter)