After gathering the herbs, Lin Xiao Tian rushed to Jiangcheng without delay. Now that Jinsha Village had a partially paved road, even though it was getting late, it did not affect their return.
Upon returning to the Lin family, Lin Xiao Tian used the gathered herbs to refine the Po'er Pill. With the experience from last time, Lin Xiao Tian's refining this time was very successful, and a Po'er Pill appeared in his hand.
The next day, Lin Xiao Tian arrived at the outskirts of Kunlun Valley. As soon as Lin Xiao Tian appeared, the Apostle followed. This time, the Yang family had also sent people. Although they had heard that there were monsters in Kunlun Valley, seeing it with their own eyes made the Yang family disciple's face turn pale.
"Why is there only one?" Lin Xiao Tian looked at the demon core in his hand.
"One a day. You didn't come yesterday, so there's only one today," the Apostle said with great dissatisfaction. But Lin Xiao Tian directly raised his hand and interrupted it.
"One a day. Yesterday's must be made up for today." Faced with Lin Xiao Tian's bandit-like demand, the Apostle couldn't help but clench his fists. But it had no choice, as its demon core was still in Lin Xiao Tian's hands.
Not long after, the Apostle reappeared before Lin Xiao Tian. This time, a demon core of a Qi Refining stage demonic beast appeared in his hand. As Lin Xiao Tian took the demon core and was about to leave, the Apostle stopped him, "Kid, you have a curse on you. I can actually help you lift it. As long as you're willing to return the demon core to me, we can make a trade."
Lin Xiao Tian chuckled, "No need." The last trade had made Lin Xiao Tian realize that the true body of the Gluttonous Beast had at least the strength of the Core Formation stage. Facing a demonic beast of this level, Lin Xiao Tian had no confidence in negotiating with it as an equal. In this day and age, fairness could only be discussed when strength was comparable.
The Apostle said nothing more and silently disappeared. Lin Xiao Tian looked at the demon core in his hand, then casually threw one of them to the Yang family disciple.
"As agreed, eight-two split. I owe the Yang family nothing anymore. You don't need to bother me for the next few days." Lin Xiao Tian left without looking back. The Yang family disciple's face was extremely unpleasant at Lin Xiao Tian's rudeness. Although he was a disciple from a branch family, his status was far higher than that of an outsider like Lin Xiao Tian in the Lin family. However, the lesson of the previous person was still vivid, and he did not want to be dragged to apologize. The Yang family disciple carefully put away the demon core and returned to the Yang family.
In the main house of the Yang family, the Yang family patriarch and a group of people were gathered, beginning to study the demon core before them. This time, industry-specific appraisal experts were invited, as were Yang Xin and Yang Lin. The others were the patriarchs of the various branch families of the Yang family. An appraiser specializing in jewelry was the first to examine the demon core, but after looking at it for a long time, he could only shake his head repeatedly.
"This looks like a common stone no matter how you look at it!" the expert answered very seriously. The Yang family patriarch frowned and then invited an appraiser of antiques.
"Master Yang, my results are the same. This is just an ordinary stone." The Yang family patriarch was still unwilling to give up and looked at the siblings Yang Lin and Yang Xin.
"Did you two see Lin Xiao Tian take a stone like this with your own eyes?" Yang Lin nodded, "Patriarch, I would never lie to you. I was observing Lin Xiao Tian's movements the entire time, and I definitely wouldn't have misidentified it. You agree, don't you, Yang Xin!" Yang Xin blinked and also nodded.
"Are you sure it wasn't swapped in the middle?" The Yang family patriarch looked at the Yang family disciple who had interacted with Lin Xiao Tian.
"Patriarch, I was watching the entire time, and it was absolutely not swapped. Moreover, there are surveillance cameras on site. I've already reviewed the footage, and this stone was indeed obtained by Lin Xiao Tian from that monster." The Yang family patriarch took a deep breath. An ordinary stone? Absolutely impossible. This thing was obtained from a monster, and listening to the conversation between Lin Xiao Tian and the monster, it was very difficult to acquire. It was definitely not an ordinary item.
"Take it to the research institute for appraisal. I want to see what exactly this thing is!"
Meanwhile, after returning to the Lin family, Lin Xiao Tian began to refine the Po'er Pill. He was now in urgent need of the Po'er Pill to buy himself more time. The excess demon cores, Lin Xiao Tian planned to use to refine pills to improve his cultivation. The Shennong Heart Technique that Lin Xiao Tian practiced had a very heaven-defying ability, which was to continuously absorb acquired energy. This meant that as long as Lin Xiao Tian had enough pills, he could improve his strength at any moment. Of course, absorption had no limits, but storage did. If the absorbed energy exceeded the limit, it would lead to a dormant state. However, this usually occurred when Lin Xiao Tian was unrestrained. It was only when Lin Xiao Tian was solely focused on improving his strength that he experienced an imbalance of Yin and Yang in his body.
Soon, the Po'er Pill was successfully refined. Now there were still over a dozen thousand-year-old herbs. Lin Xiao Tian handed them over to the Lin family for safekeeping. When the old madam learned that they were thousand-year-old herbs, her eyes could not hide her excitement. The Lin family's accumulated wealth over many years could only produce two thousand-year-old herbs, and Lin Xiao Tian had actually brought over a dozen at once. This was undoubtedly a great fortune for the Lin family. The old madam thought for a moment and immediately summoned Xiao Ming.
"Go and inform all the families that our Lin family has recently obtained over a dozen thousand-year-old herbs. We are now inviting other families to come together to research and appraise them." Xiao Ming nodded and immediately went out to prepare. Soon, the news spread to all the families.
"Thousand-year-old herbs? Are you sure the Lin family said that?" This was almost the same sentence spoken by all families after hearing the news. Most families were completely bewildered. Why did the Lin family suddenly have so many thousand-year-old herbs? Didn't they just buy half of Fang Group for a single thousand-year-old herb not long ago? What was the Lin family up to? However, the Yang family, having received this news, keenly realized that this matter must be related to Lin Xiao Tian. When Lin Xiao Tian was in Kunlun Valley, the Lin family only had two thousand-year-old herbs. After leaving Kunlun Valley, the Lin family had over a dozen thousand-year-old herbs. With Lin Xiao Tian's capabilities, wasn't the answer obvious?
Soon, the main decision-makers of each family appeared at the Lin family. Everyone brought experts in medicinal herbs. Elder Xia Longteng of the Xia family was even invited to participate in the appraisal. When the over a dozen thousand-year-old herbs were placed before the experts, everyone was stunned. Xia Longteng, the senior most among them, stammered for a long time, unable to utter a single word.
"Elder Xia, you are the most experienced here. Tell us, are these medicinal herbs thousand-year-old herbs? I've always suspected that we might have misidentified them. How did thousand-year-old herbs become so easy to obtain?" the old madam said with feigned humility.
"Old madam, there's no need to doubt. Every single one here is a thousand-year-old herb," Xia Longteng said with a deep breath and a serious tone.
"Oh, oh... it seems we are quite lucky," the old madam smiled. The family patriarchs looked at the old madam's smiling face and felt extremely depressed. Just pretend! Everyone knew this was sarcasm! But even though they knew the old madam was mocking them, the family patriarchs could do nothing about it.
In the following time, the experts began to lavish praise on the herbs. Thousand-year-old medicinal herbs were undoubtedly a great temptation to these people. Every herb here, whether used for medicine or as a tonic, had miraculous effects. Take the Thousand-Year Cold Spring Grass, for example. Brewing this herb into a medicinal soup could turn back a person's biological age by more than ten years. It was a true anti-aging divine medicine. There was also the Thousand-Year Detoxifying Grass, which was rumored to be able to detoxify all poisons. There were also Thousand-Year Ginseng, Thousand-Year Lingzhi... These items were priceless treasures on the market!