Yun Feiyang hesitated for a moment, then directly took out one thousand and three spirit stones and handed them to Jiang Yan.
As the head disciple of the Martial Peak, he could naturally afford this small amount of spirit stones. After all, as the personal disciple of the Peak Master, apart from the one hundred spirit stones distributed by the Dao Sect every month, he could occasionally obtain some rewards from the Master of the Martial Peak.
"Junior Brother, sit down and rest for a bit first. I will bring the medicinal liquid over to you in a moment."
Jiang Yan spoke, and then led Lin Yuan into the room.
He fetched brush and ink, and with a flourish, simply wrote down the names of several medicinal herbs, which he then handed to Lin Yuan. "You should have all of these medicinal herbs in your medicine garden, right? Go and fetch some quickly."
"Could these medicinal herbs be the ones used to refine the medicinal liquid the Senior Brother mentioned?" Lin Yuan was momentarily stunned.
He looked over the names of these medicinal herbs and made a quick mental calculation. The total cost was about three spirit stones, and the cost was obviously very low.
Why did Jiang Yan say just now that the cost was one thousand, while the labor fee was only three spirit stones?
Did he get it backwards?
"We make money together. Why ask so many questions? Your cost for these herbs isn't even one single spirit stone. I'm buying them from you for three spirit stones, so you're even making a profit of two," Jiang Yan said without turning red or being short of breath.
"Understood, Senior Brother."
Lin Yuan smiled knowingly. "Senior Brother Yun called you a bookworm at the foot of the mountain just now. It's not really wrong to fleece him a bit."
A bookworm?
Jiang Yan was slightly startled, then shrugged dismissively, clearly too lazy to lower himself to such petty concerns. Instead, he said, "Don't go spreading this around. The cost was only three spirit stones, but I charged him one thousand and three spirit stones. If word gets out, it might inevitably affect the relationship between us martial brothers."
"Rest assured, Senior Brother. My lips are always sealed."
Lin Yuan spoke with confidence, then left the room and headed to his own medicine garden to harvest the herbs.
...
By dusk, the setting sun sank into a sea of clouds, and the evening glow was exceptionally charming.
After casually fiddling with the herbs Lin Yuan had brought back, Jiang Yan took them over and applied them to Yun Feiyang.
The effect was surprisingly good. Previously, it was said that it would take an hour to fully heal, but after only half an hour, Yun Feiyang felt that his arm had completely recovered as before. He stretched it freely without any discomfort whatsoever.
"Junior Brother, I see your physical body training hasn't reached mastery yet. You couldn't even smash a tiny piece of extraterrestrial meteorite and ended up fracturing your bone instead. If word of this gets out, I'm afraid people will laugh their heads off."
After helping Yun Feiyang remove the bandages from his arm, Jiang Yan spoke with profound meaning.
Hearing this, Yun Feiyang was immediately unconvinced. "Senior Brother jests, doesn't he? That extraterrestrial meteorite is extremely dense. Let alone me, I'm afraid even if the Master came, he wouldn't dare say he could smash it, let alone anyone else in the entire Dao Sect..."
"Crack!"
However, before he finished speaking, he saw Jiang Yan reach out and tap the extraterrestrial meteorite.
With a single hand-blade strike, the pitch-black extraterrestrial meteorite was directly cracked by him, and then with a *snap*, it shattered into several pieces of rubble, scattering across the ground.
"This..."
Such a scene instantly left Yun Feiyang stunned in place.
"Actually, Senior Brother has also done some research on the Dao of body-refining over the years, and has already tempered my physical body to an extremely formidable degree."
Jiang Yan spoke with confidence. He possessed the Heavenly Tribulation Physique, and after absorbing the heavenly tribulation, the physical strength of this physique was naturally extraordinary.
Without exaggeration, when it came to close-quarters combat, though he was currently only at the Great Perfection of the Return to Void Realm, with a single punch, even experts at the second or third layer of the Dao Severing Realm would either be seriously injured or killed; it would be very difficult for them to withstand the power of his punch.
"Senior Brother also understands the Dao of body-refining?"
Yun Feiyang was alarmed. He had personally experienced the hardness of that extraterrestrial meteorite, yet he had never expected it to be so easily shattered by Jiang Yan. It was clear that the other's physical strength had long since far surpassed his own understanding.
"Slightly."
Jiang Yan nodded, and then continued, "I know of a medicinal pill that, when consumed, can help one quickly temper their physical strength. However, it's a bit pricey."
"Can the medicinal pill Senior Brother mentioned really help me?" Yun Feiyang asked with burning eyes.
Jiang Yan smiled and nodded. "Although your cultivation is currently only at the Second Layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm, with your physical strength, you can fight experts at the Fourth Layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm. If you take this medicinal pill according to the dosage for two or three months, it will definitely allow your physical strength to rival that of a Return to Void Realm expert!"
"Just two or three months, and I can rival a Return to Void Realm expert?!" Yun Feiyang was startled. To him, this was simply an Arabian Night tale.
"This pill is called the Body-Refining Pill. After taking it, at least eighty percent or more of the heaven and earth spiritual energy you absorb will be captured by the flesh and blood in your body, thereby achieving the effect of rapid body-refining."
"A single medicinal pill can last for three days, which is ten pills a month. If Junior Brother is interested..."
"How many spirit stones does a single Body-Refining Pill cost?" Yun Feiyang couldn't help asking.
"It's a bit pricey. The cost of a single medicinal pill is two thousand and three spirit stones. If Junior Brother wants a month's dosage, that's ten pills, making a total of twenty thousand and thirty spirit stones. Since we are martial brothers, I won't charge you for labor. After all, aren't I also helping the sect cultivate a genius?" Jiang Yan said very generously.
"Twenty thousand and thirty..."
Hearing this, Yun Feiyang's brow furrowed tightly.
If it were two thousand and three spirit stones, he might still have been able to pull it together, but a tenfold gap was definitely beyond what he possessed.
"Junior Brother is the head disciple of the Martial Peak, and your future is bound to be boundless. In the future, you might even secure a position as an elder or even a grand elder within the sect. By then, your salary alone will be at least two to three thousand spirit stones every month."
"I'll point you down a bright path. Junior Sister Liu Ruyan has plenty of spirit stones. Why don't you go borrow some from her first? Once you become a sect elder in the future, you can just return them to her."
Hearing Jiang Yan's words, Yun Feiyang couldn't help but look at Liu Ruyan, who was practicing swordplay not far away. He naturally knew her background as the beloved daughter of the richest family in the Holy City of Xuan Province.
But soon, he was troubled again. "I'm not very close with Junior Sister Liu. With so many spirit stones, she might not be willing to lend them to me..."
"It's a lot to you, but to Junior Sister, it's nothing more than half a month's pocket money. We are martial brothers and sisters after all, and besides, you two will be running over to my place every day from now on. After going back and forth, you'll get familiar with each other. I don't think she has any reason not to lend them," Jiang Yan said.
"Alright, I'll go over and ask."
Yun Feiyang finally nodded, then strode toward Liu Ruyan.
Although the two were a bit far apart, with cultivation reaching Jiang Yan's level, their conversation naturally could not escape Jiang Yan's ears and eyes.
Upon learning of Yun Feiyang's difficulty, Liu Ruyan was not stingy and very generously lent the other party twenty thousand and thirty spirit stones.
Holding the spirit stones, Yun Feiyang ran excitedly toward Jiang Yan.
"Don't be impatient, Junior Brother. When you come tomorrow, I'll give you one Body-Refining Pill first. The medicinal effect can last for three days. Three days later, I'll give you another one, and so on. You know yourself that it's impossible to refine ten such medicinal pills in a short time. It's already very difficult for me to agree to refine one for you every three days."
"Alright, Senior Brother. You don't make a single cent and are willing to share my worries; I am already extremely grateful in my heart. How could I dare have any more outrageous demands?" Yun Feiyang nodded earnestly.
How could he know that Jiang Yan had already planned to throw this matter directly to Lin Yuan to do.
Just as he was still wondering how to guide Lin Yuan, didn't this job just arrive?