Chapter 25

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Let Marquis Yun see it?!

If Marquis Yun found out that he had lied to his precious granddaughter, wasn’t Marquis Yun going to hack him into eight large pieces?

And she wanted to show the palace doctors and other hall shopkeepers?

Wouldn’t they end up ridiculing Hundred Herb Hall? Everyone else in this industry was going to have a field day because of this!

Hundred Herb Hall had been able to gain a foothold in the capital because of centuries of good reputation. The chances of them getting herbs mixed up or selling the wrong herbs to customers were the lowest in the whole capital. If the projected images inside this Recording Crystal were leaked to others, then the reputation of Hundred Herb Hall was going to be ruined forever.

“No need, no need. Miss Yun, pass me that Recording Crystal. I’ll get one of my assistants to pull together all the herbs that you want. How’s that?” the shopkeeper said with a placating expression on his face. He was now completely ignoring the nasty look on Su Ying’s face.

“Didn’t you say that the herbs were all sold out?” Yun Qingyan had a terribly shocked expression, and her little face looked so genuinely confused.

Did she really not know, or was she just pretending not to know? The shopkeeper was about to grit his teeth to pieces. He held up against the invisible pressure Su Ying was placing on him and continued to try to gain Yun Qingyan’s favor. “Of course they’re not. It’s so rare of you to come to Hundred Herb Hall, so how could I let you leave this place empty-handed?”

“Oh, no no no!” Yun Qingyan quickly waved her hands about and laughed shyly. “Grandpa taught me to be a kind person since I was a child and taught me not to make things difficult for others. I’m not in a hurry to use those herbs anyway, so how could I trouble you like this?”

She then clasped her hands together and was about to leave.

Be a kind person? Not make things difficult for others? The shopkeeper puked blood in his heart.

Was this little devil doing this on purpose or not?

The shopkeeper quickly blocked her way with a bitter look on his face. “No, it’s no trouble at all. Miss Yun, please wait here for a while, and we’ll get the herbs for you right now.”

Yun Qingyan shifted her foot slightly and easily slid past the shopkeeper. “It’s all right. Guanghan is still waiting outside for me, and I don’t want him to get anxious about me.”

The shopkeeper was shocked that she had just managed to slide past him so easily. He…he hadn’t even seen exactly what Yun Qingyan did.

He was just a medicinal hall shopkeeper, but he was also a Ninth Stage Elementalist, after all. Being unable to block a useless bum could be considered just oversight on his part… But if he wasn’t even able to see what she did clearly…

A faint feeling of terror began to rise in his heart. He was quite sure now that she was just pretending when she looked all confused and innocent earlier.

From the time he had purposely lied to her about how the herbs she wanted were sold out to please Su Ying, she had laid this trap for him.

She knew very clearly that the one thing that could truly threaten Hundred Herb Hall wasn’t Marquis Yun nor Su Ying, but the century-old reputation that this place had built up all these years.

Compared to offending the Yun family or Su Ying, ruining Hundred Herb Hall’s reputation was way more fatal.

Yun Qingyan was really conniving and was able to attack him where it hurt the most.

A coldness arose from within the shopkeeper’s heart. Who was the one who said that Yun Qingyan was a good-for-nothing who couldn’t learn anything? That really got him into trouble this time.

He had been fooled by all those rumors.

The shopkeeper was filled with so much regret that his insides were churning, and he started feeling as anxious as ants on a hot pan.

“Pak pak pak!”

Just when the shopkeeper was nearly going crazy, the crisp sound of applause came from the third story of Hundred Herb Hall and was followed by a voice as clear as spring water.

It sounded like the quiet waters and green bamboo during summer. It was refreshing and melodious and made one feel energized.

“Miss Yun, please wait a minute.”

Yun Qingyan stopped walking when she heard this voice. The big shot was finally making an appearance.

When she stepped into Hundred Herb Hall earlier, she already sensed that there was someone on the third story.

Everybody knew that Hundred Herb Hall had three stories in total. The first story was to sell ordinary herbs and some standard spirit medicine.

The second story was dedicated to selling priceless and rare spirit medicines.

As for the third story, it was only open to customers if Hundred Herb Hall had gotten its hands on some really precious treasures. Everyone who was able to enter the third story had to be someone who was holding onto the Hundred Herb Plaque given to them by Hundred Herb Hall. Normally even the shopkeeper of Hundred Herb Hall was unable to enter the door of the third story.

Those with a Hundred Herb Plaque included the heads of powerful families, as well as cultivators who were at a very high level of cultivation.

Hundred Herb Hall was not in the midst of any activity right now, but there was actually someone resting on the third story of the hall.

Who could this person be?