36 Namu Jin (1)
"Weird. What is wrong with this Amber Root's Information?" Mu Qing Lang tapped into the selection without further ado and wait for the information to pop up.
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Amber Root Plant [Common]
Condition: matured / One of the six kinds of useless plant flourished in Chang Emperor Prairie
Maturity: 24 hours (Nourishment impossible)
Harvest: 10 seeds / resin
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Item Description: While the Amber Root remained as a disturbing plant, this cultivated plant now no longer seems as fragile as before. The quality of resin becomes better and much easier to be processed. Through proper processing method, the Binding Solution now can be processed by the mortals.
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"Oh? This item can be processed by everyone else now?" Not bad, not bad. I can consider providing my people with an option of employment in return of food." Mu Qing Lang accepts the possibility of allowing others to process the Binding Solution on his behalf.
But the reason for his quick acceptance on the Amber Root is because the plant is not that significant compared to the Xian-Ren Grass, Yunxia Bamboo, or the Wheat, Soybean, and Potatoes.
As the Amber Root information is put aside, Mu Qing Lang is greeted with the report of three other products.
[*Spiritual Ointment & Healing Ointment*]
[*Dou-Xian Pill*]
[*Suqin Pill*]
"Let's go for the Spiritual Ointment and Healing Ointment option first. I'll see what kind of specialty you have in store." Mu Qing Lang tapped on the first option, ready to accept the information.
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[Toot!]
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Spiritual Ointment [Unranked]
Condition: Spirit Mending Paste
Benefit: Assist user in term of strengthening Spirit
Side Benefits:
[1] Slight recovery in Spiritual Damage
[2] Strengthen the Spirit (Applicable to anything except human cultivator)
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Item Description: Made from the essences of Prairie Rock Sage and healing properties from the Recovery Ointment. Spiritual Ointment is beneficial for those with Spiritual Injuries, while the regular application may help in strengthening the Spirit to resist mental attack. This product quality is too low to be graded but has great potential.
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Healing Ointment [Unranked]
Condition: Wound Healing Paste
Benefit: Rush the recovery process on all open wounds including broken limbs and bones.
Side Benefits:
[1] Reduces pain during recovery by 25%.
[2] User may perform flawlessly for (3) minute.
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Item Description: strengthened by a portion of Medicinal Extract from Chang Empress Opium Latex. The new Healing Ointment now capable of painkiller, limb rejuvenation, and doping element. Excessive usage without proper injury may lead to addiction. This product quality is too low to be graded but has great potential.
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"So... There's one for mental trauma, and the other for physical trauma. It's not too bad considering one is used with herbs and another with narcotics. But unless in an emergency, I should refrain myself from concocting too many portions of Healing Ointment." as a non-addict to not even cigarettes or alcohol, Mu Qing Lang had quite a biased opinion towards the Healing Ointment data.
"I should proceed with the Dou-Xian Pill now, but I'm sure they are..."
"Bam Bam Bam!"
"As I guess..."
"Master! Those from Namu Settlement is here! They are asking to meet with the settlement chief!" Guan Yi came to his carriage to report what's happening at their western entrance.
To make sure they stay vigilant, the Ashen Wolves left the settlement for scouting works, with the Ashen Wolf King and the last Prairie Black Wolf stay behind to receive their report.
"OU!"
"OUoooU!!!"
Two groups of scouting wolves quickly gave a report about two minutes after departing. The first report exposed fifty militias standing guard about a hundred meters away from Northern Entrance. As for the second report, sixty militiamen is preparing to charge from the southern entrance if anything happened.
To be on guard against the human, Mu Qing Lang ordered the Ashen Wolf King to deliver an order to the Tiezu-Orcs. Fifty of them should make their way to southern, and fifty to northern. The remaining should stay at their village while checking out their surroundings.
Guan Yi will be on a ready stance while Mu Qing Lang is having a discussion with those from Namu, and Fengbu will be present to handle the trades if needed. With the preparation and order is given out, Mu Qing Lang headed to the Western Entrance at once.
"Friends from Namu, welcome." Mu Qing Lang greets the guest that came from afar. To made himself seems hospitable, the goblins came with some snacks made from the mix of Prairie Sugar Root and Xian-Ren Grass and then grilled on top of a flat stone grill.
"Chief Mu, thank you for giving me a chance to meet the rumored killer of my two siblings. My name is Namu Jin, nice to meet you." the representative from Namu Settlement went directly to his way on addressing Mu Qing Lang.
"But Chief Mu, don't worry. My visit here is not for the death of my brothers, but for a friendly exchange. Instead of making another enemy between fellow humans, why not we have an exchange relationship to strengthen our position in this prairie?"
Namu Jin's proposal is attractive, but between his two sentences, the action of biting his lower lips betrayed him and his actual intention from this visit. Of course, as a person that living his second life, and filled with free Tele-drama, Mu Qing Lang's experience in this part is richer than Namu Jin by a thousandfold.
"The suggestion is absolutely beneficial for both settlement, but this surname Mu really need to know what's available for exchange in between us? The Mu's Settlement might be still small, but we're capable of self-sustaining with farming and herding boars and rabbits."
Mu Qing Lang's reply is like a thunderstrike into Namu Jin's mind. While he's thinking about using the word "exchange" to give pressure to the Mu's Settlement, he failed to consider "what if" the chief agreed with their request?
And now, this kind of losing discussion is like taking up a stone to hit oneself on his own feet. Without even preparing himself on what to discuss, he came into the enemy territories recklessly. He can be said to be extremely lucky for Mu Qing Lang to talk with him using words, and not swords.
Or else, against a settlement with so many evolved fighters and orcs, his side losing is not impossible.
"OUR NAMU SETTLEMENT IS RICH WITH STONES AND METALS!" trying to take back his confidence, Namu Jin shouts. It did alarm Guan Yi with the sudden rise in tone, but for Mu Qing Lang, it was all an act to gain more favor while suppressing the other side.
Unfortunately, his experience in a discussion is too weak. All Mu Qing Lang need to do is to agree and pay interest in what they have, and he can start pressing him with the exchange rate.
"The offer is too attractive. But my small settlement only capable of trading with potatoes, flavoring oil, sweetener, and wheat flour. I'm uncertain if Namu Settlement has the demand for these products?" Mu Qing Lang stated a few products from his settlement available for exchange to attract Namu Jin's attention.
"No! I want to exchange for the Recovery Ointment! The merchants from Ka-Ruo Settlement says that's your settlement's special product!" Namu Jin failed to keep his composure and releases the news about them trying to procure the medicine.
"Recovery Ointment? That is quite hard to produce... I'll need at least a week wait to harvest the ingredient enough to make three bottles. How much do you need, if you don't mind me asking?" Mu Qing Lang lied about the time needed to concoct the medicine so casually.
In fact, who knows what he needs to make them? He even dares to say that except himself, perhaps there's not a person capable of making the same thing, along with that tiny little gourd bottle.
"Impossible! The people from Ka-Ruo says that you sold about twenty bottles of them previously, you must have more in hand! Tell me how much you have now, I'll get my people to bring you the ores in exchange!" Namu Jin couldn't control himself anymore. Since Mu Qing Lang already admit how difficult it is to make the Recovery Ointment, why not exchange them all?
"Aiya... How can I sell the last five bottles I got? I have to keep them in case any of us caught into trouble or got injured by outsiders. Young Chief, I hope you can understand." Mu Qing Lang continued with his act. Although it was a crude performance with a lousy script, as long it's usable, then it'll be a good script.
"Chief Mu! You're pushing your luck too much! Don't you worry our Namu Settlement flattened your settlement if you did not make us happy?" Namu Jin lost his patience. To make thing worst, he took threatening as a better option to obtain the Recovery Ointment.
"Young Chief. I'm sure that your father is still in pain for the losses of his two children. We should stop making the third one fallen on the hand of the same group of peoples. How about I give you a bottle as a souvenir for visiting our settlement?" Mu Qing Lang stops keeping himself in control either.
His words are filled with bones that pained those from Namu Settlement as he speaks. Without an agreement between them, only war can settle their grudge.
"Oh! Before I forget about it." Mu Qing Lang thought of something he should let this young future chief to know.
"The Ashen Wolves and Tiezu-Orcs are members of the Mu's Settlement. You should go back and tell your father that Mu Qing Lang will come and ask for payment with blood for the death of five hundred and fifty Ashen Wolves and three hundred young and old wolves."
