Tang Hao was surprised. He did not know how to reply to her.
She pressed her lips together and chuckled.
She lifted her chin and said flippantly, “Even if you fire me, I won’t leave your side. I’ll bother you forever and will always be with you.”
She went on tiptoe and lightly kissed his lips.
She smiled mischievously and turned around.
There was a skip in her stride. She seemed very happy.
Tang Hao stood there and scratched the back of his head. Eventually, he started walking and caught up to her.
Chapter 502 - Curing Luo Feng
An Audi A8 stopped at the front gates of the Luo family mansion.
The entrance was packed with people.
The person standing in front was an old man with silvery-white hair and holding a walking stick. He was none other than Old Master Luo. Behind him were his descendants of the Luo family.
The car stopped, and Tang Hao stepped out of it.
Han Yutong got out of the car from the other side.
“Grandmaster Tang!”
Old Master Luo seemed incredibly excited when he greeted Tang Hao.
The other members of the Luo family were excited as well.
They were excited that the catatonic Luo Feng was going to be cured today.
They bowed at Tang Hao and greeted him too, “Grandmaster Tang!”
Even though Tang Hao had caused Feng’er’s illness, they did not dare to resent him. They knew the extent of the Grandmaster’s power.
“Old Master Luo!” Tang Hao greeted the old man.
“This way please, Grandmaster Tang.” Old Master Luo led the way into the mansion.
In the living room, someone pushed a figure on a wheelchair.
The person in the wheelchair was none other than Luo Feng.
His face was pale and he had a vacant stare, the polar opposite of the handsome and cool person he once was.
Han Yutong felt sorry for Luo Feng when she saw him.
It had been a long time, and her hatred toward Luo Feng had diminished by a lot.
“I hope that he can turn over a new leaf after he wakes up. Otherwise, he’ll definitely get into trouble in the future,” Tang Hao said coldly.
“Yes, yes, you are right, Grandmaster Tang! We’ll definitely discipline him after he wakes up,” Luo Feng’s father said.
Tang Hao turned to look at Old Master Luo.
“You’ve helped me a lot, Old Master Luo. I’m only accepting your request because I think I owe you a debt of gratitude.”
Tang Hao walked toward Luo Feng.
He lifted his hand and pointed his index finger between Luo Feng’s eyebrows.
Luo Feng’s body shuddered. His blank stare slowly became focused.
He looked to his left and right. He could remember Old Master Luo and his family members’ names, but he looked at Tang Hao as though he was a stranger.
“You are…” He asked Tang Hao.
Old Master Luo explained to him what happened.
Luo Feng was stunned for a long time after he heard that.
Everything sounded like a dream.
“Quickly thank Grandmaster Tang, Feng’er!” Old Master Luo said.
Luo Feng stood up with the help of his family members. He stood there in a daze for a long time before bowing deeply at Tang Hao.
“Let’s start again on a clean slate!” Tang Hao said gently.
After that, he led Han Yutong out of the house.
It was already one o’clock at night when they got back to Westridge. He sent Han Yutong back to her house before returning to his.
…
Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.
In that period, Tang Hao was busy with company business in the day and with crafting talismans and Artifacts at night. He occasionally found some free time to study pill-making.
Of course, he spent some time every day going into the pocket world in the magatama to tend to the liquor trees and Tree of Youth.
With the snake corpses from Hindustan as a fertilizer, the liquor tree grew quickly.
Each of the trees was almost three meters tall. They were almost mature.
The thick fragrance of liquor wafted in the valley. The smell alone was intoxicating.
The Tree of Youth received the best care from Tang Hao. He gave it the highest quality fertilizer.
The Tree of Youth did not disappoint him either. It had doubled its height, and its branches were thick with leaves.
It used to be only half of Tang Hao’s height, but it was taller than him now.
It was still quite far away from the one-zhang length that was recorded in the Scripture of the Divine Herbalist, but it would not take long.
He could also see signs that flowers were about to bloom.
Tang Hao was excited.
When the flowers bloomed, he could harvest them to make Pills of Everlasting Beauty. He had waited for that for a long time!
The liquor trees were fully mature a few days later.
Tang Hao stood at the entrance of the valley and looked at the expanse of land in front of him. The golden bark of the liquor trees was a dazzling sight.
The fragrance of alcohol was thick in the air. A mundane person would have been drunk by now.
Tang Hao was overjoyed when he took in the view.
There was nothing as satisfying as seeing the trees that he planted and tended to thrive and bear fruit.
He had the snake corpses to thank for all that.
Without the fertilizer, it would take at least another half a year before the trees reached maturity.
‘The Hindustanis are such nice people!’ Tang Hao thought.
With the liquor trees, the production capacity of Divine Liquor Company could increase by many times.
Tang Hao walked into the valley and stopped in front of a liquor tree. He took out his dagger and carefully drew a line on the bark.
A golden yellow liquid oozed from the tree. The fragrance assailed his nostrils.
Tang Hao brought his mouth close and sucked at it.
He stopped after a long while and patted his stomach, satisfied.
“It tastes the best when you plant it yourself,” Tang Hao said with a grin.
He took out many oak barrels and filled them up.
He filled up about a dozen barrels in total.
Stepping out of the magatama, he returned to the living room. It was past midnight and dark outside.
Qin Xiangyi was sleeping soundly in the bedroom.
Tang Hao sat down, drank a little more liquor, took out several jade pendants, and started crafting them into Artifacts.
When that was done, he stored them in his pocket dimension.
He counted that he had crafted more than fifty pendants. That was more than he would ever need.
Liu Dajun and the other bosses had bought enough, and they would not need any more of them.
Also, he had crafted a lot of jade talismans. He had two full hemp sacks of them.
‘Should I… reduce my inventory?’ Tang Hao thought.
After the last battle, the Mao Mountain Taoist masters told him that they were willing to pay for his talismans.
He had sold them many jade talismans.
‘I think I should start selling them! I already have enough in my stores, and I can sell whatever I make after this. The price though… whatever, I can sell them for cheap!’
Tang Hao decided after thinking for a while.
The next morning, Tang Hao gave Shabby Taoist Master a call.
“Hello, Taoist Master? Do you want jade talismans? I’ve made too much recently, and I want to reduce my inventory,” Tang Hao said.
Shabby Taoist Master still had some sleep in his eyes, but he immediately became alert when he heard that.
“F*ck! Jade talismans?” He exclaimed, “Yes, yes, yes! I want them! Give me a dozen. No, that’s not enough. Five dozen!
“Ah, right. How much are you selling it?”
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p; “Thirty thousand yuan each, since we’re friends,” Tang Hao said.
“Great! Give me ten dozen then!” Shabby Taoist Master screamed in excitement.
Chapter 503 - Trading For Medicinal Herbs
“What? Jade talismans?”
An afro-sporting head popped in through the window. It was none other than the scoundrelly Trendy Taoist Master.
Shabby Taoist Master was shocked and nearly jumped.
He turned around and was ready to curse.
‘Dammit, does he have dog ears? How did he hear that?’
He quickly covered the phone and shook his head at Trendy Taoist Master. “No, no jade talismans! You must have misheard! Hahahaha!”
“Huh? Jade talismans?”
Another head popped in from the other side of the window.
‘…F*ck!’ Shabby Taoist Master cursed under his breath. He squeezed a smile on his face and shook his head like a rattle.
“No, no jade talismans!” He said sincerely.
“What? Jade talismans? Where?”
He heard a slight rustle of the tiles on his roof. Then, a head popped into the window from above.
Shabby Taoist Master rolled his eyes.
‘Dammit! Do they all have dogs’ ears?
‘And you too, don’t you have feet to walk on the ground? Why must you hang upside down like a bat?’
“No, no jade talismans!” Shabby Taoist Master explained one more time.
He had just finished his sentence when he heard a distant flurry of footsteps heading his way.
Bam! The door was kicked open, and a Taoist master rushed in. “Jade talismans? Where?”
He was wearing an apron and had a kitchen knife in his hand.
Shabby Taoist Master’s eyes nearly popped out of his sockets when he saw that.
“Hey, hey! What do you think you are doing? Put the knife down!” Shabby Taoist Master swallowed hard and smiled superficially.
The commotion was spreading.
“Jade talismans? Where?”
“I heard that something about jade talismans?”
“Hand over the jade talismans, Xuan Ling! Otherwise, we’re not friends anymore!”
The Taoist masters shouted and yelled while popping out from every corner of Mao Mountain. Some of them carried hoes, some carried buckets, and some were grabbing onto their pants, evidently having
rushed out of the bathroom.
They surrounded the door and looked at Shabby Taoist Master with cunning gazes.
Shabby Taoist Master was at a loss for words.
He covered his face in anguish.
‘Dammit, they’re all thugs!’
“Jade talismans? Where?”
Even the elderly Taoist masters received the news. They walked over to Shabby Taoist Master’s abode while carrying bowls of rice gruel, eating as they walked.
They came to Shabby Taoist Master’s door and looked expectantly at him.
“Excuse me, everyone, coming through! Don’t you know you should respect your elders? We are your seniors and are elderly. You’ll have to respect us.”
They squeezed into the abode and looked at Shabby Taoist Master with stern faces. “Oh, Xuan Ling, have you forgotten what I’ve taught you? If you have something good, then you should share it with us. Understand?”
“That’s right! Selfishness is a sin!”
“Alright, my dear Xuan Ling, can you tell me where the jade talismans are?” Their stern expressions were immediately replaced by cunning grins.
“It’s Fellow Cultivator Tang. He said earlier that he wants to sell jade talismans!” Shabby Taoist Master said miserably.
Everyone exclaimed in surprise when they heard that.
They excitedly took out their phones and dialed Tang Hao’s number so that they could be the first one to buy.
However, they realized that his number was engaged.
An elderly Taoist master noticed the phone in Shabby Taoist Master’s hand.
He lunged forward and grabbed the phone.
“Hahaha! I’ve got it!” He laughed.
“Pah! Watch this!” Another elderly Taoist master swept him off his feet and snatched the phone.
“F*ck! How dare you ambush me? Watch this: Black Tiger Snatches the Heart!”
“That move is too weak. Behold: Monkey Steals Peaches!”
“F*ck your mother! Don’t hit under the belt!”
The Taoist masters were engaged in a brawl. The phone kept on changing hands.
The phone flew through the air in an arc and plopped into a water-filled urn.
Everyone was stunned.
The elderly Taoist masters were also stunned.
“My Apple Six!” Shabby Taoist Master wailed.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the call, Tang Hao was baffled when the call was suddenly cut off.
‘Just what is going on there?’
Soon, back in the main hall of Mao Mountain, the Taoist masters sat in rows with Elderly Taoist Master Zhen Yang sitting in the middle. He was speaking to Tang Hao over the phone.
Tang Hao was awkward. “You’re asking for a little too much, Taoist Master. I don’t have that many talismans. I have four or five hundred talismans at most, but you all want a total of a few thousand.”
“Four or five hundred? That’s not enough to divide among all of us!”
“That’s right, that’s not enough!”
“How about we’ll bid for it? The person with the most money gets it.”
“Go away! Are you bullying me for being poor?”
The Taoist masters argued among each other.
Suddenly, someone yelled. “I’ll trade my medicinal herbs with your talismans! I have many rare herbs, Fellow Cultivator Tang, you must be interested in them.”
Everyone fell silent after they heard that.
Tang Hao slapped his thigh when he heard that.
‘Right, herbs! Why did I forget about that? All those Taoist masters must have their private collections from wandering around the land and slaying evil monsters. They must have gathered many rare ingredients.
‘Just like last time, their herbs filled up an entire truck.’
Tang Hao was immediately excited.
He had requested Liu Dajun and the other bosses to help him gather herbs, but their resources were limited.
He had also requested it from the Agency and the military. However, they were not as effective as the Taoist masters.
“Talismans for herbs, that settles it. I’ll trade as many talismans as you have herbs. Right, I have Artifacts! I can trade the Artifacts with herbs too,” Tang Hao said generously.
The main hall of Mao Mountain was instantly chaotic.
“Artifacts? Oh my god!”
“Fellow Cultivator Tang knows how to craft Artifacts too?”
The Taoist masters were jumping excitedly.
“Quick, let’s take out all our herbs!”
They rushed out of the main hall.
After discussing with the elderly Taoist masters, they decided that they would perform the trade in three days.
In those three days, Tang Hao stayed in the house and crafted talismans and Artifacts nonstop.
That morning, he drove his car toward Mao Mountain.
The Taoist masters of Mao Mountain had been waiting at the base.
All of them held a sack of different sizes in their hands. The smallest ones were the size of a backpack, while the big ones were hemp sacks packed full of herbs.
When Tang Hao got out of the car, he was surprised by the size of the crowd.
He exchanged some pleasantries with the Taoist masters and said, “Alright, let’s begin!”
Someone brought over a table and chair and paper and pen.
The Taoist masters stood in a line in descending order of seniority. The queue was as long as a dragon.
Tang Hao sat down. He looked at Taoist Master Zhen Yang, who was first in line. “Please sit down, Taoist Master!”
Taoist Master Z
hen Yang grinned and placed the bulging hemp sack on the table.
Tang Hao opened the sack and looked inside.
His eyes immediately sparkled with excitement.
Chapter 504 - Fleece Them Hard
The sack was filled with medicinal herbs of all kinds.
“This is… bone poppy flower?”
“Oh my god! That’s earth dragon’s beard…”
Tang Hao exclaimed as he identified each of those herbs.
Most of the herbs in the bulging hemp sack were almost extinct in modern times.
‘That’s the hundred-year-old acting leader of Mao Mountain for you,’ Tang Hao thought.
A smug grin appeared on Taoist Master Zhen Yang’s face when he saw Tang Hao’s shocked expression. He slapped his chest and regaled his past adventures.
“Look at this herb, Fellow Cultivator Tang. I discovered this when I was tracking down a thousand-year-old female ghost. I managed to subdue her after an intense battle of three days and three nights.
“Look at this stalk…”
“Alright, fine! I know that you were very brave when you were younger!” Tang Hao quickly stopped him.
He recorded each of the herbs in the notebook.
He summed up everything.
“That’s a lot of herbs, Taoist Master. If you trade everything there into talismans and Artifacts, there won’t be enough for everyone else. How about I take all this and make you a pill?”
The Taoist master’s eyes sparkled, and his head nodded repeatedly after hearing the word “pill”.
“That settles it!” Tang Hao nodded. He handed the Taoist master a jade pendant and twenty talismans.
“Keep this properly, Taoist Master. This is a defensive Artifact, and here are twenty jade talismans. I also owe you one pill. Is that correct?”
“That’s correct!”
The Taoist master smiled and his eyes narrowed into slits when he took the items.
“An Artifact! A real Artifact!
“You’re a genius, Fellow Cultivator Tang!”
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