Chapter 258: Collecting Spiritual Herbals

"What nonsense! Ouyang Na, do you think I'm the same as you, always flirting with men?"

Gao Tian'ai wasn't a weak girl . She talked back aggressively .

Anyone could tell she and Ouyang Na didn't get along well .

"So he's your friend?"

In a quarrel between women, the one who got irritated first would lose . Ouyang Na ignored her and directed the spearhead at Jiang Chen again .

"Daughter of the family of the inheritance of phoenix blood . Bad taste in friends," the woman beside her said in a voice dripping with sarcasm .

"An aristocratic family of inheritance doesn't have to make friends with someone from another aristocratic family . I can make friends with anyone whom I get along well with," Gao Tian'ai said .

Jiang Chen's eyes lit up . He agreed with her .

"Hm, I'm not seeing anything special about him . You get along well with him . Well, that explains what your level is," Ouyang Na sneered .

It was too mean for Gao Tian'ai to stay calm, but she didn't know how to refute her .

"Miss, what did you mean by 'nothing special about me'?" Jiang Chen asked .

"Oh?"

It had been Ouyang Na and Gao Tian'ai's battle of words since the beginning . Jiang Chen had been excluded from it, as though he wasn't good enough to join their battle .

His interruption surprised Ouyang Na and the woman beside her . A corner of their mouths lifted . They looked scornful and arrogant .

"So, what are you proud of?" Ouyang Na asked .

Jiang Chen smiled without speaking . He emitted the energy of a Reaching Heaven State . Everyone around was shocked .

There were many Reaching Heaven States in the Sacred City, but there weren't so many that you could come across them on the street easily .

Neither expensive spiritual suits nor a great background was comparable to his state, not to mention Jiang Chen's youth . He was less than twenty, but had already achieved the Reaching Heaven State . It was unimaginable how shocking the revelation was .

Ouyang Na, who had been looking down on him, turned pale, as if she had seen a ghost .

"Ouyang Na, what do you think of my friend?"

Gao Tian'ai hadn't expected it either . She felt joyful and smug .

Although Jiang Chen was in cheap clothes, he left an extraordinary impression on people as soon as they saw he was a Reaching Heaven State . In comparison, the clients in the shop, who were mostly in the Mental Wander State, seemed tasteless .

"Hm . "

Ouyang Na's arrogance was gone . She was annoyed and unhappy . She turned around to leave .

"You're leaving . To meet your boy-toy?" Gao Tian'ai said .

Ouyang Na was frozen there for a minute, and then walked faster to leave .

"Haha," Gao Tian'ai laughed when Ouyang Na was far away . She seemed very happy .

Then she looked towards Jiang Chen in a different way . She was smiling at him .

"Cousin," she called him . Jiang Chen was surprised .

He frowned and started to think .

He was sure Gao Tian'ai was ignorant to who he was . She hadn't realized, even when she had heard his name, not until she saw his state . Besides, she knew his name . He had been in the paper so much recently . It wasn't difficult for her to associate him with the worthless Reaching Heaven State of the Sacred Institute .

She called him cousin . It meant the Gaos knew of his existence .

"The Gaos know about me?"

"Don't behave like a stranger . You're a member of the Gaos, too . "

Gao Tian'ai smiled at him . She said in a tone of blame, "Cousin, you knew who I was but didn't tell me who you were . If I wasn't quick-minded enough, I would still be in the dark . "

"I didn't know the Gaos knew about me . What if you think I'm a con if I told you who I was?" Jiang Chen said helplessly .

Gao Tian'ai treated Jiang Chen more warmly after knowing his identity . She didn't care what others would say, but linked arms with Jiang Chen and started to ask him about almost everything .

Jiang Chen felt complicated . He thought the Gaos wouldn't know about him as long as he didn't visit them .

That being said, the Gaos had never contacted him .

"What do they think about me?" Jiang Chen asked directly .

Gao Tian'ai was surprised . She looked a bit strange, hard to describe .

"It's complicated," she said after a good while .

"Yeah?"

Gao Tian'ai frowned . She didn't know how to put it .

"Let's finish what we came here for first . "

Jiang Chen calmed down . In any case, at that moment, he had to focus on the spiritual herbs .

Gao Tian'ai led him to an herb shop .

Jiang Chen told the salesperson what he needed . Since Gao Tian'ai was with him, a steward of the chamber of commerce received them .

"Star grass, rootless water, ghost head mushroom, and nine star ice crystal, these four fall into the valuable and rare category and the rare category . "

"What do you mean?" Jiang Chen didn't understand the terms the steward had used .

"We've classified spiritual herbs into several categories: common, few, rare, valuable and rare, and exceptional . "

"Star grass and ghost head mushroom are valuable and rare . The other two are rare . "

"So, do you have them?" That was what Jiang Chen cared most about .

"If you want them immediately, we don't," the steward said meaningfully .

Business was about making money . Of course, he wanted to maximize the profits .

Jiang Chen knew that . He asked calmly, "How long will you need to collect all of them?"

It took the steward a good while to think . Then he said, "Between six months and a year and a half . We'll charge you a fee between 50 million and 100 million yuan stones for them . "

He glanced at Jiang Chen and added, "Middle-grade yuan stones . "

Gao Tian'ai had almost said it wasn't expensive, but then she was shocked . Her expression told him how high this price was .

The exchange rate between low-grade and middle-grade yuan stones was 50 to 1 .

Jiang Chen had ten million low-grade yuan stones . That would be half a million middle-grade yuan stones . It was far away from what the steward had asked for, and these ten million low-grade yuan stones had been the compensation paid by the Black Dragon City . Jiang Chen hadn't earned them himself .

"It's too much . If you charge so much for unprocessed spiritual herbs, how much will you charge for refined panaceas?" Gao Tian'ai said .

"Miss Gao, besides how much the spiritual herbs are worth themselves, there are other expenses included in this price . If this client can let us know where each of the spiritual herbs is located, it will be forty percent cheaper . If we only sell the information of these spiritual herbs so that the client can collect them by himself, the information fee is only twenty percent of this price . "

The steward said when he thought he had explained everything, "If you're interested, we'll nail down the deal after receiving your deposit . We can guarantee you we'll find all of them in two years . "

It was beyond Jiang Chen's expectation, in a good way .

It had been impossible to purchase these spiritual herbs with middle-grade yuan stones 500 years ago .

Money was never his concern, although he didn't have it at that moment .

"I guess you have one of them now, don't you?" Jiang Chen asked .

"Yes, we have ghost head mushroom now . You want to purchase it alone?" the steward asked .

"That's right . How much?"

"Thirty million middle-grade yuan stones . "

"That can't be right . You charge between 50 million and 100 million for four kinds of herbs . How could one of the four be so expensive?"

"I'll give you a discount then, for Miss Gao's sake . Twenty-five million . It can't be lower . " The steward didn't explain . He made a concession, but managed to nail down the price .

"Okay . The thing is, I don't have so many yuan stones now," Jiang Chen said .

The steward was astonished . They had spent so much time in bargaining, but he had turned out to be penniless?