Cultivation till the end of time

Chapter 493: Exchanging Spiritual Herbs

Mu De gritted his teeth and asked, "Ms. Qian, what's going on? Didn't you promise to cook for us?"

Duoduo took a mouthful of noodles and said calmly: "I promised to prepare food for you, but I didn't say I would cook for you myself.

Besides, I made it very clear last night that it is difficult for me to prepare so much for so many people by myself, so I can only buy it from outside.”

Thinking back on the conversation between the two last night, it seemed that there was really no mention of asking the other party to cook personally.

Mu De's subordinates looked at him sadly, blaming him in their hearts for not speaking in more detail.

Mu De was so embarrassed by his subordinates that he had to stand up and say, "Why didn't you tell me last night that you were going to buy it outside? If you said that, I wouldn't ask you to get it. We can eat out by ourselves."

Duoduo explained innocently: "Didn't you say last night that you didn't have a chef with you and it was difficult to prepare food? I thought you needed someone to take care of the food, so I agreed.

You didn't make it clear last night, so how would I know what you wanted?

I agreed to help you get food out of kindness, so why is it my fault now?"

Mu De was speechless when asked. He knew Duoduo would answer like this, but in order to appease his subordinates, he had to stand up and fight for them. It was also a show for them.

So after Duoduo said this, his attitude changed 180 degrees. He apologized with a smile and accepted the reality of eating takeout.

In fact, he cursed Duoduo in his heart from beginning to end and wanted to kill her immediately, but reason prevailed and he resisted the urge to kill her.

As for the dissatisfaction of his subordinates, he could only find other ways to appease them after returning to his room.

Mu De and his gang smelled the fragrant hand-rolled noodles from next door. The fresh aroma of the scallion oil on the noodles aroused their appetite and made them salivate. Everyone couldn't help swallowing.

Eating the takeaway food in my hand is really tasteless, like chewing wax.

Feng Li and Qin Ling were also wicked. The breakfast they bought was just dry naan. To save trouble, they bought it from a stall near the villa.

Duoduo didn't care how Mu De and his gang felt. Her heart was already on the Pharmacopoeia Conference.

Knowing that Duoduo was anxious, everyone quickly finished their breakfast, and then Fengli and Qin Ling consciously cleaned the table and washed the dishes.

Before Mude and his friends had finished eating, Duoduo had already taken the people and animals out.

Seeing that Xuan Cang and the others didn't even look at him and followed Duoduo happily, Mu De took a few bites of food irritably and followed them with his men.

As soon as they went out, they were frightened by the huge crowds of people on the street. Feng Li and Qin Ling were relatively calm. The situation was almost the same when they went out in the morning.

Walking on the crowded road, the little animals had to be held in the arms of the three of them. After all, there were too many people and they could be kidnapped at any time.

Although the three of them were not worried about the safety of the animals at all, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, they decided to carry the little animals away.

Qin Ling is tall and strong, and he is responsible for leading two beasts alone.

He held the two little animals in his arms with one hand and protected Duoduo with the other hand to prevent the crowd from bumping into her. The same went for Fengli on the other side.

Their residence was only a dozen minutes away from the event venue, but it took them nearly twice as long to reach their destination.

The event was held on both sides of the big river that separated the two small countries, and various stalls were set up along the two rivers.

Each venue is a high platform built on the riverside, with several temporary sheds built for use by staff or contestants.

In order to prevent the competition from being disturbed, the platform was built inside the largest shed, making it difficult for people to see the competition inside even if they stood on the building by the river.

There are more people here at the event venue, and it's more crowded, you really have to squeeze in.

Duoduo is relatively better off with Fengli and Qinling protecting him.

Taowu, who was in her arms, didn't move at all.

The other three animals that were crowded on the outside were taken advantage of by the people in the crowd. They were often touched on the head, pinched on the cheeks, or stroked on the chin.

Some of them are so excessive that they even take the opportunity to touch their buttocks. Some even have the evil intention of kidnapping them. Just when they want to run away by grabbing their scruff of the neck, they are slapped away by their claws, or scratch the back of their hands, and finally they can only escape in shame.

Fengli and Qinling don't need to worry about them at all. They are only responsible for being emotionless baby-sitting machines, as long as they are not abducted.

When Duoduo and his friends passed the first meeting venue, they saw a vertical sign outside the door with words on it that Duoduo and his friends could not understand at all.

At this time, Taowu made a brilliant appearance. It was the only beast among this group of people or beasts that could understand the language of this world.

It used its spiritual sense to transmit a message to the people and animals present, "It says it's an exchange market. Herbs can be exchanged with each other inside, but only pharmacists can enter. Others without a license are not allowed to enter."

After listening to its explanation, Duoduo excitedly stuffed Taowu into Fengli's arms and said without looking back: "I'm going to go in and take a look. You guys wait here. I'll be back soon."

Then she walked straight to the entrance without even looking at Taowu who she had left behind, which made it so angry that it wanted to rush up and hit her a few times.

Before it could finish its words, there was a reminder on the vertical sign saying that small animals could enter, but before it could say anything, Duoduo stuffed it into Fengli's arms.

Taowu actually wanted to follow in, but Duoduo didn't give it the chance.

Seeing Taowu being abandoned by Duoduo, the three Xuancang beasts were secretly happy and praised Duoduo for doing a good job.

But he didn't dare show any expression of joy on his face, for fear that Taowu would take revenge on him later.

Duoduo showed the staff at the entrance her pharmacist qualification certificate which she had pinned to her chest in advance, and was then allowed to enter the venue.

There were still a lot of people in the venue, but it wasn't as crowded as outside.

Duoduo walked past the medicine vendors who were setting up stalls nearby and saw that they were all selling some very common herbs. She took a glance and left.

Except for some spiritual herbs she needed, she would stop to negotiate for exchange of medicines, but for other stalls she would just glance at them and pass by.

There is no need for bargaining or payment at this venue. Drug dealers from all over the country bring their local specialties here to exchange for herbs from other regions.

Both parties use factors such as the spiritual energy content, medicinal properties, and scarcity of the spiritual herbs to assess the quantity they can obtain by exchanging the spiritual herbs.

For example, if the spiritual energy content of a spiritual flower is three times that of another spiritual herb, then the drug dealers can use this multiple to exchange one spiritual flower for three spiritual herbs from the other party.

By analogy, all the drug dealers on the market exchanged spiritual herbs in this way.

Duoduo learned this rule from the first stall, and afterwards he was able to exchange herbs with others much faster.

As expected, it was difficult for her to find cost-effective spiritual herbs in this venue. She walked around the venue, exchanged some spiritual herbs and left.

Feng Li and the others were still waiting for him outside, so he couldn't waste too much time here.

The amount of spiritual herbs she had just exchanged was enough to keep her going for a while.

Duoduo didn't realize that when she was using the storage ring to load and unload the herbs, she had been seen by some people with ulterior motives.

The only storage method in this world is the different-dimensional space opened up by space magic. Every time it is used, a small hole like a black hole will appear to collect items.

It is rare to find a magical tool like Duoduo that can hold things in this world.

The moment she stepped out of the venue, she was followed by some people who used magic to hide their tracks.

Duoduo returned to the door of the venue and found that Fengli and the others were not waiting for her there. She hurriedly used the Thousand Miles Voice Transmission to find Xuancang to ask.

As soon as the connection was established, Duoduo couldn't wait to ask: "Where are you going? Why aren't you waiting for me at the original place? Is there something wrong?"

Xuan Cang's voice sounded a little bad, as if he was holding his breath, and it was intermittent.

"You're out! Come... quickly... to save... us..."

Duoduo didn’t think that Xuancang and the others would be killed. They were so strong that no one here should be able to hurt them.

But she still asked anxiously: "Which direction are you going? I'll come find you."

"You... go out... walk... to the right..." Xuan Cang said this with difficulty and then went offline.

Duoduo was also afraid that something really happened to them, so he immediately rushed towards where they were.

She didn't care about anything and relied on brute force to clear her way as she walked along. She covered her palms with spiritual power and it seemed much easier for her to push away the people blocking her way, while the passers-by who were pushed away by her cursed at her.

Some unreasonable people even wanted to argue with Duoduo with their fists, but were blocked by other pedestrians on the road.

In the end, all the pedestrians on the road were in a mess, pushing and shoving each other, and no one wanted to give way to anyone else. Duoduo didn't realize that he had caused the chaos, and rushed to Xuancang and the others regardless.

As she walked along, the passers-by she pushed aside on the road blamed the pedestrians next to her before they even saw who pushed them.

Then a strange scene appeared on the road. Wherever Duoduo walked, passers-by there were fighting.

At this moment, Duoduo couldn't care about so many things and rushed forward regardless of anything.

Until she heard a scream coming from the alley ahead, and the faint resistance of the three Xuancang beasts: "Let go..."

The alley entrance was crowded with passers-by, most of whom were rushing towards it like crazy star-chasers.

Duoduo didn't think too much about it. She used her spiritual power to push away the passers-by who were blocking her way. Just like when she came, the passers-by were inexplicably pushed away, opening a passage for Duoduo to pass through.

There are so many people blocking the way, it would be difficult to squeeze in without using this method.

Even using this method, Duoduo still had a hard time squeezing in because these people were too crazy.

Apart from star-chasers, Duoduo has never seen such crazy people.

She squeezed in with difficulty, only to find that the "help" Xuan Cang mentioned was actually this kind of rescue.

The three Xuancang beasts and Taowu were all touched and rubbed by crazy passers-by. Fengli and Qinling hugged the four beasts tightly with their hands and had no extra hands to resist.

So they were chased here by a crowd of crazy fans, who even blocked the alley, making it impossible for them to move.

Without Duoduo's contact, they wouldn't know how to get out.

The main reason was that these passers-by were obviously coming for Xuan Cang and the others, but they didn't do anything excessive. They just rubbed them madly. The fur on their bodies was rubbed so hard that not a single part was intact and it was tangled into clumps.

Feng Li and Qin Ling did not dare to be violent towards passers-by. Besides, they had to consider their own abilities. With so many people, they might not be able to defeat them.