Chapter 67 - For the Centennial Cause of Baicaotang

  "Cooperation? What do you want to cooperate with me, an old man?"

  Manager He handed 25 spirit stones to Lu Xuan and asked curiously.

  "There are 20 to 30 spirit plant masters in Baicaotang, which means there are more diseased spirit plants behind them."

  "These spirit plants have various strange symptoms due to being invaded by alienated monster insects and polluted by turbid spiritual energy.

  If we can't find the problem, even if we spend more time and energy, we can only watch them become diseased and wither and die."

  "So I have a vague idea. Instead of letting them wait to die quietly, it is better to buy those diseased spirit plants from spirit plant masters at a low price and try to save them."

  "I don't know most of the spirit plant masters who cooperate with Baicaotang, so I want Mr. He to act as a matchmaker and find those diseased spirit plants for me at a low price."

  As the manager of Baicaotang, the thin old man is responsible for purchasing and counting various spiritual medicines and plants. Whether they are full-time employed spirit plant masters or free cooperation, they have close contact.

  Not to mention, the old man himself was very kind to Lu Xuan, so he wanted to take this opportunity to repay him.

  "Purchasing diseased spiritual plants? I really don't know what you are thinking, you actually did such a ridiculous thing."

  Manager He frowned. Other spiritual plant masters were very secretive about diseased spiritual plants, and they couldn't even hide, but Lu Xuan wanted to take the initiative to approach them, which made him puzzled.

  "Are you sure you can control and cure those diseased spiritual plants? Aren't you worried that your own spiritual plants will be implicated and the purchase will lose money?"

  "The spiritual plants I planted myself will definitely be separated from those diseased spiritual plants and will not be affected."

  "As for purchasing spiritual plants at a low price, I would like to get them for free, but it is probably difficult to do so. After all, spiritual plant masters have spent so much time and energy to cultivate spiritual plants. Even if they are diseased, they still have a chance of luck and are unlikely to abandon them and give them to others."

  "If I treat diseased spiritual plants, of course I can't guarantee a 100% success rate. There is only a certain possibility, but I should still make money."

  Lu Xuan said.

  "It's easy to help you make connections and contact those spiritual plant masters. Most of them probably want to get rid of those diseased spiritual plant masters. If someone buys them at a low price, they will naturally be willing to stop the loss."

  "But what is the standard for your low price? How much is my reward?"

  Manager He was obviously interested. He looked around and pulled Lu Xuan to a corner.

  "As for the purchase standard, it is about 10% of the value of mature spiritual plants. There is a certain floating space depending on the degree of disease and growth status."

  "As for your reward, just calculate it according to the quantity. One spiritual stone for each first-grade spiritual plant and four spiritual stones for each second-grade spiritual plant. What do you think?"

  Lu Xuan's main purchase targets are first-grade or second-grade diseased spiritual plants. It is estimated that there are only a few people who grow third-grade spiritual plants in the entire Baicaotang, and the number is very small.

  As for the non-grade spiritual plants, their own value is extremely low, and there is no light group reward. Just relying on the recovered spiritual plants, you can't earn many spiritual stones, so they are not within his consideration.

  "One spiritual stone or four spiritual stones per plant..."

  Manager He lowered his head and pondered.

  "Then I won't be polite to you, kid. I promise to contact and persuade every spiritual plant master in Baicaotang."

  "It's not because of those few spiritual stones. I'm just worried about the spiritual plants in their spiritual fields. After all, Baicaotang has ownership or priority over those spiritual plants."

  "This is related to the century-old cause of Baicaotang. We can't afford to be negligent."

  The thin old man said righteously.

  "That's right, for the century-old cause of Baicaotang!"

  Lu Xuan quickly agreed.

  The two smiled at each other, and everything was self-evident.   

  "Sit here for a while. I'll go see if there are any abnormal spiritual plants in the medicine garden in the hall."

  With the opportunity to easily earn spiritual stones, Manager He suddenly became very motivated.

  Baicaotang has several medicine gardens under its name. One of them is not far from Baicaotang, where more than ten kinds of spiritual medicines suitable for refining elixirs are planted.

  Lu Xuan and Baicaotang are only in a free cooperation relationship, and the medicine garden is of great importance. He can't go in with them, so he can only sit in the hall and wait quietly.

  The medicine boy who was handling the spiritual medicine next to him was very considerate and diligently brought a cup of steaming spiritual tea and a small dish of spiritual fruit.

  The spiritual fruit was the size of a fingertip, light purple, and uneven on the surface. It looked ordinary, but tasted extremely sweet and delicious.

  Lu Xuan threw it into his stomach one by one, and soon he had eaten more than half of it.

  In a wide medicine garden.

  The area of ​​the medicine garden is dozens of times larger than the small courtyard owned by Lu Xuan. There is a mountain dozens of feet high in it, and a small river full of spiritual energy lingers at the foot of the mountain.

  At this time, a white spiritual shield covered the entire garden above the medicine garden, and spiritual energy flashed from time to time on the surface of the shield.

  The thin old man took out a wooden sign with strange runes drawn on it, and the spiritual energy on the shield immediately gathered over. Sensing the breath on the wooden sign, a crack that could allow one person to pass through quickly appeared.

  Manager He took advantage of the crack not yet closed and entered the medicine garden sideways.

  He looked around and quickly locked onto a spiritual field not far away.

  Three spiritual plant masters gathered around the spiritual field, discussing something fiercely, and all three of them had a gloomy look on their faces.

  "How is the situation these two days? No new diseased spiritual plants have been found, right?"

  Manager He walked up to the three people and asked.

  "Under the full protection of the second-grade top-level formation, no new diseased spiritual plants have been found for the time being."

  "However, this is not a solution. The second-grade formation is maintained day and night to protect such a large area of ​​the medicine garden, and the spiritual stones spent are not a small number."

  A slightly fat spiritual plant master walked out and said.

  "How are the diseased spiritual plants found before? Have you found a solution?"

  Manager He nodded and looked at the three people and said.

  "Those diseased spiritual plants have been isolated, but the degree of disease is getting worse and worse, and there is no way to find out the principle of their disease. It's just a blind cat catching a dead mouse, completely relying on luck."

  "That's unavoidable. In the past, the market had the protection of foundation-building monks and third-grade formations, and similar situations would never occur, so it was difficult to react for a while."

  "In addition, the way the evil spirits invaded was strange and unpredictable, and it was hard to defend. It was already very good to be able to defend it."

  The three spiritual plant masters heard this and looked deeply sympathetic.

  "I have a good friend who is also a spiritual plant master. You may know him. In order to find a way to eliminate the diseased spiritual plants, he wants to buy some spiritual plants that have been invaded and contaminated at a low price."

  "What do you think?"

  The three people's eyes lit up, and their minds became active immediately.

  The only reason why they were reluctant to give up those diseased spiritual plants was that they didn't want to waste their previous efforts. Now they heard that someone wanted to buy the diseased spiritual plants. Even if the price was not high, it would be a new choice.

  (End of this chapter)