"You can recognize it, why can't I?"
Xue Qiao'er rolled her eyes.
"..."
Fine, Qin Yi had nothing to say.
"Team Leader Xue, you're here too!"
Just then, a voice called out.
Hearing this, Qin Yi and the other two turned their heads in unison.
It was Shen Ba Nian.
Upon seeing him, Xue Qiao'er's eyes narrowed slightly, and she asked, "Shen Ba Nian, what do you want?"
Sensing her gaze, Shen Ba Nian walked closer and immediately said, "Team Leader Xue, please don't misunderstand. I have no ill intentions towards young friend Qin!"
Then, he turned to Qin Yi and said, "Young friend Qin, I've come to find you to discuss something!"
Qin Yi asked, "What is it?"
Shen Ba Nian glanced at the car parked beside them, a Rolls-Royce.
Inside the car, the box containing the Lingzhi was placed on the back seat.
Shen Ba Nian then withdrew his gaze, not beating around the bush, and said directly, "Young friend Qin, I want this Lingzhi. Can you let me have it?"
Perhaps fearing Qin Yi's misunderstanding, he immediately added after speaking, "I know you've already bought this Lingzhi, and it belongs to you now. Whatever you paid, I can match it, or even add more!"
His tone was full of expectation, and even a hint of pleading!
Xue Qiao'er sensed this and asked, puzzled, "You want this Lingzhi so badly, is it for cultivation, or for something else?"
Qin Yi and Rhode Xuan stared at him curiously.
Shen Ba Nian hesitated for a few seconds before saying, "Forget it, I won't hide it from you. I actually want this Lingzhi to save someone!"
"My mother was accidentally bitten by a venomous snake last time, and her life is in danger. I want to take this Lingzhi back to detoxify her!"
Hearing this, the three of them understood.
They all thought to themselves that he was truly a filial son, willing to bid fifty billion at the auction without batting an eye for his mother's detoxification.
However...
Qin Yi said, "Lingzhi is indeed a precious medicine, and its medicinal effects are varied, but from my understanding, it doesn't seem to be able to detoxify poison!"
Shen Ba Nian blurted out, "Ordinary Lingzhi can't, but a five-thousand-year-old one might!"
Qin Yi chuckled and shook his head, "Even a five-thousand-year-old one can't! And this Lingzhi isn't five thousand years old, it's just a thousand-year-old!"
"What..." Shen Ba Nian was shocked, "How is that possible? Didn't the people at Miaobao Pavilion say it was five thousand years old???"
"That was Ming Xuanyuan deliberately lying to you to make more money!"
Shen Ba Nian looked at Qin Yi, suspicion and disbelief flickering in his eyes!
It wasn't until Xue Qiao'er spoke, "Qin Yi is right. This Lingzhi is only a thousand years old, far from five thousand years!"
Only then did the suspicion in Shen Ba Nian's eyes fade.
Xue Qiao'er was from the Order Hall, and her status dictated that she wouldn't lie!
"How could this be? Impossible, no..."
Shen Ba Nian stumbled back two steps, shaking his head incessantly, a look of despair on his face.
He had come for the five-thousand-year-old Lingzhi, to save his mother! With his hopes dashed, Shen Ba Nian's eyes suddenly turned red, filled with sorrow!
Without the five-thousand-year-old Lingzhi, how would his mother be detoxified? Was she truly beyond saving?
Xue Qiao'er and Rhode Xuan felt a pang of sympathy as they sensed his despair.
Qin Yi thought for a moment and said, "Where is your mother now? I can go and see her. Perhaps I can find a way to detoxify her!"
"..."
Instantly, Shen Ba Nian's gaze snapped back to Qin Yi, and he asked, "You can detoxify?"
"Yes, there shouldn't be any problem!" Qin Yi replied.
Seeing his less-than-certain tone, Shen Ba Nian's expression became suspicious again.
The next moment, just as he was about to say something, his phone rang.
So, he swallowed his words and took out his phone to answer, "Hello, what is it?"
A few seconds later, he became extremely excited, saying, "Are you serious? Good, good, good, I'll be right there, just a few minutes, wait for me!"
Shen Ba Nian hung up the phone and said to Xue Qiao'er, "Team Leader Xue, I must take my leave now. We'll meet again!"
With that, without waiting for Xue Qiao'er or Qin Yi to say anything further, he turned and left.
He took two steps at a time, moving so fast that he quickly disappeared from Qin Yi's sight.
Qin Yi and the other two exchanged glances, astonished and bewildered!
Then, driven by curiosity, the three of them started walking and chased after Shen Ba Nian.
After a while, they arrived at a hotel in the town. Seeing Shen Ba Nian enter the hotel, the three of them followed.
Finally, they entered a room in the hotel.
Qin Yi, Xue Qiao'er, and Rhode Xuan saw from the doorway a man inside the room who was about Shen Ba Nian's age and looked about fifty to sixty percent similar.
The man immediately rushed forward upon seeing Shen Ba Nian enter, and said happily, "Brother, you're back! Mom is saved!"
Undoubtedly, this man was Shen Ba Nian's younger brother, Shen Ba Yue.
Shen Ba Nian glanced towards an inner room within the room. The door was not closed, and it was wide open.
Standing outside, they could clearly see an old woman lying on the bed inside.
And the old lady on the bed was none other than Shen Ba Nian and Shen Ba Yue's mother.
Shen Ba Nian asked Shen Ba Yue, "Dr. Hua has really come to Heyuan Town?"
"That's right!"
Shen Ba Yue nodded affirmatively and explained, "I had already contacted Dr. Hua. He originally heard that Miaobao Pavilion had a five-thousand-year-old Lingzhi to be auctioned here, but he came from quite far away and missed the timing..."
"He should arrive in Heyuan Town in about fifteen to twenty minutes. I've already spoken to him. As soon as he arrives in Heyuan Town, he'll come and help us detoxify our mother!"
"That's great! Mom is finally saved!"
Shen Ba Nian was so excited he almost jumped.
"Who are you guys..."
At this moment, Shen Ba Yue noticed Qin Yi and the other two at the door and asked curiously.
Hearing the sound, Shen Ba Nian realized that Qin Yi and the other two had followed him.
So, he explained a few words to Shen Ba Yue, and Shen Ba Yue learned who Qin Yi and the other two were.
Shen Ba Yue was also a martial artist, but his cultivation talent was far inferior to Shen Ba Nian's, and his strength was also much weaker.
They had come to Heyuan Town this time because their mother was poisoned, and they wanted to bid for the five-thousand-year-old Lingzhi to detoxify her.
In order to give the Lingzhi to their mother as soon as possible after purchasing it, they had brought their mother with them to Heyuan Town.
Earlier, when Shen Ba Nian went to the auction to bid for the Lingzhi, Shen Ba Yue stayed in the hotel to look after their mother.