After the first examination, Boss Feng treated the few from Huangteng to a hearty meal.
While the others were toasting and celebrating, Yun Sheng found an excuse and left the inn.
Using Disguise Magic, Yun Sheng appeared as a girl of about fifteen or sixteen, dark and thin, with very ordinary looks, the kind you could find a lot in a crowd.
"Boss, how much for the fresh Demon Beast Meat?" Yun Sheng approached a Demon Beast Meat store; in Daoye Mountain City, due to the frequent presence of Hunter Soldiers, there was an abundance of fresh Demon Beast Meat and Demon Beast Bones for sale.
"Miss, which type of Demon Beast Meat would you like? Our shop only sells Third-tier or higher. Do you want it fresh or frozen?" The shopkeeper, seeing a potential customer, enthusiastically began his pitch.
On the Wuji Continent, there is no modern machinery; the so-called frozen meat refers to meat that has been treated with Water Ice Magic and frozen, which is much cheaper and not as good in terms of taste, catering specifically to some summoners with War Beasts and tight budgets, or to some mages.
Yun Sheng had sent both Bobbie and Little Black into the Linglong Beast Tower for training; during this period, both War Beasts need a lot of Demon Beast Meat to replenish their strength.
Don’t be fooled by Bobbie and Little Black’s small size; their appetites could match that of a strong man like Boss Feng, making light work of ten to twenty pounds of Demon Beast Meat in one meal.
Currently, Yun Sheng was the equivalent of having three mouths to feed herself, and having recently bought the New Magic scroll "Water Binding," she really didn’t have many Gold Coins left.
"What are the respective prices for the two kinds of Demon Beast Meat?" Yun Sheng pondered.
"Fourth-tier Demon Beast Meat, a minimum of ten pounds. Frozen meat is 250 Gold Coins for ten pounds, fresh is 400 Gold Coins for ten pounds," the owner continued to explain kindly.
Yun Sheng’s face immediately fell; this would bankrupt her in just one meal.
Demon Beast Meat on the continent is a rare delicacy; those who can afford it are usually from noble families, aristocrats, or high-level Hunter Soldiers.
The price of Fourth-tier Demon Beast Meat is already in the hundreds of Gold Coins, Fifth Rank is over a thousand, and as for Sixth Rank Demon Beast Meat, the price is astronomical.
For a little Summoner like Yun Sheng, who is raising two War Beasts recklessly, the pressure is imaginable.
Right now Yun Sheng can’t possibly hunt Demon Beasts herself, so there’s only one option left.
After hesitating for a moment, she asked again: "Boss, is there a medical clinic nearby?"
Yun Sheng’s income mainly comes from two methods: potion making or Artifact Refining. However, for the latter, Yun Sheng needs a cultivation paradise like the Magic Tower with her current strength, hence she chose potion making.
After all, Yun Sheng had a solid medical background in her previous life, and she had also made Hemostatic Agent, Detoxification Powder, Advanced Meditation Water, Top-grade Moon God Water, and various other potions before, laying a solid foundation for potion making.
"If the young lady wants to see a doctor or buy ordinary finished medicine, then you must go to the Medicine Emperor Pavilion, the clinic is at the very south end of the street."
The owner didn’t snub Yun Sheng for not being able to afford Demon Beast Meat and showed her the way.
In the medical system of the continent, the Medicine Emperor Pavilion is the undisputed king, and Yun Sheng guessed as much.
Due to Doctor Fan’s cause, Yun Sheng didn’t have a good impression of the Medicine Emperor Pavilion, but she currently had Disguise Magic on her, and she was in Daoye Mountain City, so she didn’t avoid anything.
Yun Sheng arrived at Daoye Mountain’s Medicine Emperor Pavilion, only to see from a distance an imposing medical hall with Liuli tiled roofs and gilded beams.
Daoye Mountain, serving as Hunting Soldier Guard City, had the highest number of hunter soldiers coming and going each year, and the number of people visiting the medical hall for treatment was endless every day.
Yun Sheng walked into the Medicine Emperor Pavilion and was just about to enter when she saw a girl of about thirteen or fourteen pleading with a physician of the Medicine Emperor Pavilion: "Doctor Qi, this medicine is very important to me, my father’s life depends on it, please, you must help me concoct this medicine."
The girl wasn’t very old but had a handsome appearance. Judging by her speech and demeanor, she didn’t seem to come from a poor family, but her clothes were very worn.
"Go away, go away. How many times have I told you that the Medicine Emperor Pavilion doesn’t take custom medicine orders? Lin Yao’er, you might as well marry off early, abandon your sick old dad, that kind of disease of the rich he’s got, let alone one prescription, even if you took hundreds it still wouldn’t cure him," the physician looked sallow and his eyes flashed with lewdness, clearly not a decent person. While speaking, he didn’t forget to touch the girl’s hand.
The girl’s complexion changed drastically, and she pulled her hand back swiftly, "Qi Jiu, show some respect, even if I, Lin Yao’er, am down to my last copper coin, I wouldn’t stoop so low as to be defiled by someone like you."
"You shameless slut, you’ve got no face. Lord me taking a fancy to you is your ancestors accumulating virtue. You really think you’re still the young miss of Cien Hall? You believe if I just lift a finger, not one person in Daoye Mountain would be willing to sell you medicine!" After saying this, the physician ordered two medicine-gathering boys to push Lin Yao’er out of the Medicine Emperor Pavilion.
The physician’s conduct was so reprehensible, but whether it was the employees of the Medicine Emperor Pavilion or the customers, all wore faces of numbness, it was clear that this physician had a considerable reputation at the local Medicine Emperor Pavilion.
Yun Sheng asked a nearby customer and found out that the girl who was driven out was the daughter of another medical hall’s owner.
Before the Medicine Emperor Pavilion set up shop in Daoye Mountain, Cien Hall was the largest local medical hall, but after Medicine Emperor Pavilion came in, Cien Hall fell into decline.
The original physician of Cien Hall, also Lin Yao’er’s father, fell ill because of this and hasn’t gotten out of bed since.
Lin Yao’er had delicate features, and after her father fell ill, she shouldered the medical hall’s business alone. It was a pity that at her young age, she had to take on the heavy responsibility of supporting her family, her father’s illness needed a lot of medicines for treatment.
Doctor Qi San from the Medicine Emperor Pavilion stumbled upon Lin Yao’er and developed malicious intentions. Failing to harass her in her home, he still wanted to take her as his concubine.
Lin Yao’er naturally refused, and Qi San took every opportunity to bully her under various pretexts.
This time, Lin Yao’er somehow got hold of a special remedy that is said to cure her father’s illness. She went to the Medicine Emperor Pavilion asking for help to concoct a personalized medicine, only to be humiliated by Qi San.
After learning the ins and outs of the situation, Yun Sheng glanced at Qi San’s ugly face and left the Medicine Emperor Pavilion without a word.
In Yun Sheng’s view, with the Medicine Emperor Pavilion being so stubbornly unrepentant, and the emergence of scum like Qi San, the establishment was on the verge of collapse, its foundations already shaken; she wouldn’t mind stepping on its crumbling foundations a few more times.
Yun Sheng didn’t walk far before she caught up with Lin Yao’er.
After being expelled from the Medicine Emperor Pavilion, Lin Yao’er had a look of grief, her eyes aimlessly wandering, walking listlessly on the street.
"Miss Lin, slow down," Lin Yao’er heard someone calling her name from behind, she turned around and saw a girl, standing with a beaming smile not far down the alley, waving at her.