Shortly after that, Bai Chen reached the Tien Nan trade association.
He did not say much. He just told the middle-aged man at the counter on the first floor his objective.
The middle-aged man quickly prepared the merchandise for Bai Chen.
After paying for it, he walked out of the association. The middle-aged man could not help but drift into a reverie since Bai Chen’s aura was not at the secondary foundation level anymore, but at secondary formation level!
“How can this be?!?” the middle-aged man muttered. He could not believe that Bai Chen’s cultivation level could increase this much in such a short time.
“Only a little over three months, he moved from the secondary foundation to the secondary formation level!”
The middle-aged man was still in a reverie. He still did not want to believe it.
He’d spent almost 20 years getting to the primary formation level.
“A genius.” It was the only conclusion that he could come up with.
If Bai Chen was not a genius, he should not have been able to do it. He thought that Bai Chen was not even 20 years old yet.
“This has to be reported to those higher up.” The middle-aged man decided that it was better to report this phenomenon to the superiors.
If they knew about this, they might want to offer Bai Chen some privileges to draw him into the association.
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Bai Chen walked out of the city and into the hundred-beast forest. He had three herb boxes in his dimension ring.
Each could only store ten herbs. Their price was not exactly cheap. Each had cost him 500 gold coins.
Bai Chen had bought three. He’d paid as much as 1500 gold coins for them.
He had also had to pay his rent. Thus, now he only had a little over 1000 gold coins left.
Bai Chen was facing a financial crisis. He had to gain more and fast.
“My fellow Taoist, should we go hunting together?”
While Bai Chen was walking deeper into the forest, a man appeared in front of him, blocking the path. He was around 30 to 40 years old. His face was sharp and defined. He was at the same level as Bai Chen.
Bai Chen stopped walking and looked at the man for a little while before shaking his head and refusing the offer. “I apologise. I’m not here hunting for beasts, but searching herbs.”
The man’s face was a little stunned, but then he smiled. “Is that so? Then, I Dong Peng, won’t bother you anymore.”
Bai Chen continued his journey. He did not care about Dong Peng at all.
“Heh,” Dong Peng exclaimed coldly while looking at Bai Chen.
“You think herbs grow everywhere like mushrooms? It’s not that easy.” Dong Peng clearly looked down on Bai Chen.
How could he not since there was almost no chance at finding an herb in this forest?
He shook his head, then he turned around and looked for someone else to cooperate with.
The beast that Dong Peng was planning to hunt was a secondary formation beast that he could not handle alone. That was why he had to swallow his pride and ask for help.
In the hundred-beast forest, Bai Chen was walking cautiously past all the trees and grasses. He could see some nascent and foundation beasts along his way.
A cool breeze blew past his face. It was rather refreshing.
It was a nice day. There were some clouds in the sky and the sunlight was warm.
The breeze and the scenery would be hard to find in the present world. However, it was very common in the celestial world.
Bai Chen spent about 2 hours walking to reach his destination.
This place was surrounded with strange-looking trees. He looked around on the ground where the grasses grew.
‘Or are they not around here?’ Bai Chen wondered.
According to the memories he had, this place should have a herb called the crimson needle plant. It was a low-grade herb, yet it cost as much as 300 gold coins.
Bai Chen explored the area for a while until he found a rock where there were grasses. Among the grasses, there were small needle-like grasses.
“The crimson needle plant!” Bai Chen smiled. He quickly collected them.
He collected them all. There were over ten of them. He filled up one herb box with them.
Actually, he could have put them inside the dimension ring, but to keep their freshness, he had to store them in the herb box.
The crimson needle plant was very useful for poison making. However, it was not that useful for Bai Chen because poisons were not something he liked. He did not plan to keep them. He would sell all of them.
Of course, he would sell them after he completed the sub-mission.
“Two left.” After collecting the first herb, Bai Chen did not waste his time. He rushed to the next place where herbs grew.
Normal people would not have been able to know where the herbs were in the forest this easily. However, this was Bai Chen, who had all the memories from the future. It was only normal for him to know where the herbs were in this hundred-beast forest.
Along the way, Bai Chen coincidentally met a primary formation beast. They got into a fight. However, it lasted only about five minutes before the beast turned into a corpse.
Bai Chen collected the core from the corpse and continued walking. It was only normal for him to be able to win against a primary formation beast since he was at the secondary stage.
How could a primary formation beast win against him?
It could not blame anyone except itself. If it had chosen to run away, Bai Chen would not have followed and killed it.
However, it had been the one to land the first blow on Bai Chen, hoping to kill and eat him. At the end, not only had it not been able to kill Bai Chen, but it had also ended up dead.
End of Chapter 396
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