The Great Seminary

Chapter 284 Secret Medicine Muyuan
Inside the brightly lit jewelry store.

The saleswoman held a large mirror in both hands, constantly changing the angle.

Following the neatly combed hair on Zhang Gui's head, there was a pure white jade hairpin inserted in the topknot.

She said sweetly, "Young master, you are truly handsome and refined, perfectly suited to this white jade hairpin."

"Really? But jade is fragile, isn't it? I'm destined to be a busy and hardworking person."

It's not good to stick to things that are too 'delicate' like that.

Zhang Gui was speaking from the heart.

But to outsiders, it's the excuse that shop owners hate the most.

"In the sweltering summer heat, I don't eat dinner, and I'm busy combing your hair and tying your hair into a hairpin."

I have to flatter you, you country bumpkin with a handsome face, but you're actually a poor, wretched man!

It's really frustrating.

Although her clothes weren't exactly extravagant, they were at least presentable!

The saleswoman was seething with anger, but although she didn't dare to lash out, the smile on her face vanished completely.

Just as I was about to put down the mirror I was holding, it was snatched away by someone.

"The Crown Prince works tirelessly day and night for the country and its people, unlike those weak and bookish scholars who stay at home and lament the passing of spring and autumn."

A hairpin with such a small root is not suitable.

This 'black iron inlaid with gold' hairpin is the best choice."

The saleswoman, who had been pushed aside, turned her head in surprise upon hearing this, only to see her boss, who usually had a calm and indifferent expression, turning his head with a radiant smile.

He gestured to the shopkeeper beside him to take out a hairpin about a foot long, made of black iron with a golden glitter in the center.

He kept adjusting the way he inserted it—sometimes straight, sometimes slightly tilted, and sometimes only halfway in… In short, he seemed to be using every trick in the book.

It's all meaningless, just this and that.

Finally, the large black iron hairpin inlaid with gold was fixed on Zhang Gui's head.

"Oh my, this truly embodies the bearing of a dragon and the demeanor of a tiger, perfectly befitting Your Highness's title."

Although I know it's all flattery, I can't hit someone who's smiling at me, and besides, who doesn't live like that?

Zhang Gui returned the smile, took out a small gold ingot from his sleeve, and placed it on the counter.
"Then I'll buy this hairpin."

I also want to thank the young lady for helping me choose.

Oh, and this young lady just helped me comb my hair; her skills were exquisite.

Thank you even more.

Is this small ingot of gold enough to pay the bill?

"Although the hairpin you are holding is large, black iron is a good quality item at a low price."

The gold that was mistakenly inserted was only a thin layer, enough for five taels of silver.

This ingot of gold is way too much.

"No matter how cheap the materials are, the craftsman's skills are always precious."

"The thinner the gold inlay, the more skill it takes; shopkeeper, don't try to fool me."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Gui laughed heartily and took out another gold ingot from his sleeve, placing it on the counter.

This time, however, he didn't ask any more questions. He simply cupped his hands in farewell, said, "Farewell," and left.

"What an extraordinary man!" The jewelry shop owner exclaimed sincerely, watching Zhang Gui's disappearing figure.

Then he patted the wooden counter and pointed to the six saleswomen, saying:
“The open port is not like the stagnant city in the interior; it is a mixed bag of people, and one must not praise the high and belittle the low.”

This has caused enormous trouble.

"Chuchu, you almost gave Prince Consort Chu a hard time just now."

The saleswoman who was combing Zhang Gui's hair was startled; her face flushed red, and she shook her head like a rattle drum.
"No, no, I didn't, boss."

"Our shop has just opened, and you're also a new worker in Zhihai Town from out of town. So this time, whether we have it or not, let's just forget about it."

But if anyone does it again, regardless of whether they cause trouble or not, they will not be forgiven, understand?

"I...I understand," Chu Chu stammered.

“I am not asking about any one of you, but about all of you.”

Do you understand? "

The owner was usually indifferent, like an autumn chrysanthemum admiring its own beauty, but when he met Zhang Gui, he was all smiles, like a hundred flowers blooming in spring.

But now, when he puts on airs in front of his subordinates, he's like a snow-covered flower in winter.

Everyone was terrified and stammered in unison, "We understand!"

"So best."

The owner was finally satisfied and regained his usual indifferent expression.

He casually turned to the back room and disappeared without a trace.

Meanwhile, across the sea from Zhihai Town lies the Guiyang Palace of the True Dragon Kingdom.

Zhang Gui handed over a new batch of commoners who had been relocated from Shanhai County in northern China during the Ming and Song dynasties to his subordinates who had already made arrangements for their resettlement.

He transformed into a golden statue eighteen feet tall and grabbed the corpse of an extraordinary villain from the ground.

He stuffed it into the 'Lion Spider Jungle' that had also grown enormous on his head.

Instantly, the corpse was transported from the real world into the most precious artifact type in the Southern Red Continent, the 'Secret Medicine Pasture'.

In the 'Lion Spider Jungle', 150,000 hairs in reality transformed into 150,000 huge and soft trees.

They are distributed in a fleshy jungle covering approximately 330 square kilometers.

A human corpse thrown in is as insignificant as a sesame seed falling into a house.

It bounced a few times on a big tree and landed at the base of the tree.

Then time suddenly accelerated, and the corpse began to decompose and change in just a few breaths.

The skin develops putrid green spots, swells into blisters, forming a gigantic appearance, and eventually turns into mud.

As it flows freely, it is absorbed by the roots and shoots of vegetation that sprout from the fleshy soil.

Then the vegetation visibly began to grow.

Some grew taller and stronger, some branched out and spread their leaves, and some even changed in color and shape. They were truly diverse and thriving.

Seeing this, Zhang Gui became curious and couldn't help but try to touch the roots and shoots in the 'Lion Spider Jungle' with his hand.

But they discovered that they had no way of accessing the world inside the 'Lion Spider Jungle'.

So he studied it repeatedly, unwilling to give up, but still came up with nothing.

They had no choice but to stop, and threw the remaining extraordinary blood on the ground into the 'Lion Spider Jungle'...

Extraordinary flesh and blood, according to an ancient book Zhang Guicheng searched for after gaining power, the "Record of Surveying the Land" describes it as...
Demons and monsters; or those among the human race who have successfully 'entered the Dao'; or the flesh and blood of intelligent races among the hundred races of the earth demons.

But now, through countless experiences of divine intervention, he feels that this statement is correct but not entirely correct.

In fact, those humans who, although they haven't 'entered the Dao,' but whose bodies cultivate even the most useless, imperceptible, traces of divine essence, can be considered to possess extraordinary flesh and blood.

Among the hundred races of the Earth Demons, the human-headed flesh worm, which was deliberately spawned, is a creature that possesses some intelligence but not quite—a "neither fish nor fowl" species.

"Even if we attribute everything to them, the cost of using extraordinary flesh and blood to cultivate the 'secret medicine' and then using the secret medicine to raise the secret medicine livestock is still ridiculously high!"

The ancient nobles of Nan Chizhou definitely possess the method to create 'artificial superhuman flesh and blood'.

Unfortunately, it's difficult for me to get my hands on such a top-secret document in a short time.

Otherwise, we could call over that real spider Maya and ask her.

He could casually arrange for her to be promoted to Seven-Star Guardian General and appointed as the Chief Guardian of the 'Dragon Tail County', which would also have a bit of a "spending a fortune to buy a horse's bones" feel to it.

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Gui regained his normal human form and waved to summon his secretary.

(End of this chapter)