Chapter 160: The Apothecary “Yuzi”

Unlike blacksmiths and tailors, whose materials mostly come from beasts or metals mined from quarries, these tasks can be delegated to others—or even purchased from markets in the form of furs and metal ores, with profits made through processing. But apothecaries are different…
Apothecaries must source ingredients from dense forests, often requiring significant time and effort to find them. Moreover, gathering herbs demands extreme care and expertise—not everyone can do it, and without skillful techniques, the integrity of the herbs cannot be preserved, resulting in substandard medicines.
Furthermore… the more advanced the herbs, the rarer and harder they are to find.
Due to the time-consuming nature of harvesting, technical requirements, and limited resources, many players gave up on the apothecary profession early on!
There’s another major issue: harvesting herbs carries risks. While herbs growing alone in the forest are easier to collect, the area is also home to fierce beasts. Regions with dense herb growth attract many snake-like creatures and strange plants.
Vampire Grass is one such plant. It thrives near various herbs, remaining highly concealed. Once a beast or human approaches, it silently extends its tendrils to cling tightly. Though Vampire Grass mainly harms by sucking blood and tearing wounds, excessive blood loss can still be fatal!
A single Vampire Grass might not be terrifying—ordinary players can easily eliminate it—but areas with dense herb growth are often infested with them. These plants can hinder movement and leave players too injured to fight back. Players below the Fate realm are completely unable to deal with large numbers of them. Thus, for apothecaries, finding isolated herbs is tough, while those in dense areas pose great challenges and dangers!
Medicines like the Grade 7 Yu Lu Pill, which already counts as a mid-tier pill, require a large amount of intermediate-grade herbs to craft. This means there’s a high chance of encountering Vampire Grass. So, hearing the man in front of her say he had several bottles of Yu Lu Pills filled her with both joy and surprise.
The man looked at her strangely, puzzled. He really wanted to ask why she was asking this—after all, the cost of herbs alone for a Grade 7 pill could sell for over 1,800 silver taels.

One finished pill is worth 2,500 taels of silver. Even renowned large guilds can only sigh in envy at such a price, with few daring to buy them. After selling them for many days, only a handful of people purchased them, and each bought just one, claiming it could save their lives in times of danger… He now has no confidence in selling the pills he has in hand in a short time.

These past few days, his remaining money has dwindled, and he can no longer afford to enter the Medicine Mountain. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have sat here for half a day. He only hopes someone will buy some medicine so he can hold on a little longer.

But when Happy asked how many bottles he had, the man didn’t consider other possibilities at all. “I only have 4 bottles available, totaling 36 pills. If you buy more, I can give you a better price,” the vendor replied, thinking there was no real purpose in this interaction since he was bored anyway.

However, Happy’s next words shocked him as if he were in a dream: “At your price, 36 pills are 90,000 taels of silver. Things are tough for apothecaries these days, so I won’t take advantage of you. I’ll buy all of them for 90,000 taels. Also, if you ever produce more Jade Dew Pills, keep some for me, how about that?”

If not for Happy already handing over a stack of silver bills, the vendor would have thought the boy in front of him was joking… “Ah! All of them… Okay, okay!!” The man was overjoyed! 90,000 taels of silver—although it wasn’t a huge profit, it was enough to sustain him for another month. It was life-saving money!

After delivering the 4 bottles of Jade Dew Pills, the man suddenly asked why Happy wanted so many, wondering if he was someone from a major guild… Happy smiled and put each pill bottle into his Qiankun Bag. “Let’s be friends; it’ll make it easier to contact each other later.” “Okay!” After receiving the silver bills, the man felt relieved and said happily, “My name is Youzi. What about you?” Happy still didn’t answer; he just added the man as a friend and sent a friend request.

The man was initially stunned, but after smiling and accepting the request, his expression suddenly changed. He repeated Happy’s name several times silently, his gaze growing vacant as he pointed at Happy, clearly stunned. Happy’s name was listed on both the famous figures’ list and the wealth list in the “Jianghu Secrets Record.” Nowadays, few in the jianghu world didn’t know it, especially in a market where news spread rapidly.

These past two days, the market had been full of talk about the “Blue-Clothed Gentleman Sword” from Gusu City. “…” Happy raised a finger, silently signaling for silence. The other man suddenly understood, nodded vigorously, his excitement and joy growing even stronger.

“Send me some Jade Dew Pills in the future; the price remains unchanged for now.”
Kai Xin didn’t stay long. After saying that, he mixed into the crowd on the street and disappeared completely from Apothecary “Yuzu’s” sight. Yuzu stood there, fists clenched in excitement for a long time before finally packing up and leaving as well.
Not long after, Yuzu left the city and headed toward the Medicine Mountain, a place no one wanted to go.
……
He purchased a batch of Jade Dew Pills. His silver coins dropped from 1.3 million to just over 1.2 million, but he still remained high on the wealth list, even rising further.
During this time, several unlucky “rich men” had their possessions stolen, causing their rankings to plummet.
With plenty of time, Kai Xin continued to search the streets of Luoyang City for useful resources.
Soon, he stopped in front of a stall selling martial arts manuals.
The stall was surrounded by crowds, layer upon layer, creating a bustling scene!
But this posed no challenge to Kai Xin. He adjusted his perspective and quickly saw what was inside from above…
There were over a dozen martial arts manuals on the stall—some of lower quality and some of higher quality.
Unlike others, Kai Xin didn’t skip the lower-quality manuals right away. After glancing at three highly sought-after high-quality manuals, he scanned the rest of the lower-quality manuals as well.
As he went through them one by one, his eyes lit up. Great finds!
Although each of the three high-quality manuals was priced exorbitantly at 250,000 silver taels, the lower-quality manuals were fairly priced at 500 silver taels each—though few showed interest in them.
If it had been just lower-quality martial arts, Kai Xin wouldn’t have paid attention…
The key was that among them was a set of connected martial arts techniques—the lower-quality “Shadowless Footwork” and the high-quality “Shadowless Swift Wind Footwork,” both available at the stall.
And more importantly…
This set of martial arts was exactly what Kai Xin needed most right now: fast attack speed!!