Beast Taming: I gained the talent of a spirit pet

"What a huge centipede! This venomous insect must be a fully-fledged demon creature!"

Gu Yuan's mouth twitched slightly, feeling a lingering fear, and was quite thankful that he hadn't been blinded by the treasure. Otherwise, if he had been bitten, he would have ended up like those corpses!

Wherever there are natural treasures, there are often strange beasts guarding them!

This giant centipede must be the guardian of these spiritual herbs.

The giant centipede had obviously noticed Gu Yuan as well, but seeing him retreat sensibly, it didn't pursue him.

Gu Yuan didn't hesitate and turned to leave in large strides.

"Today, I actually discovered traces of spiritual herbs, it seems my luck is really not bad."

On the way back, a hint of regret and helplessness appeared on his face:

"It's just a pity that with this demon insect guarding them, I have no way to get my hands on them. I can only find a way to take it slowly."

Thinking this way, Gu Yuan stopped dwelling on it.

Anyway, these spiritual herbs aren't going anywhere. As long as he finds a way to deal with the giant centipede, these few Huangjing spiritual herbs will naturally be his for the taking.

In fact, not only the spiritual herbs, but even this centipede aroused a bit of covetousness in Gu Yuan.

This giant centipede is quite powerful. If he could tame it, it would be a great help, and its value might not be less than those Huangjing spiritual herbs!

The only problem is, how to capture this centipede!

As the sun approached noon, Gu Yuan followed the mountain road all the way to the county town.

North Liang County is just an ordinary small county town at the foot of Yunmeng Mountain, but because the Yunmeng Mountain range is rich in products and resources, this small county town has a prosperous commerce and a fairly good economic development.

The streets are wide, and both sides of the road are lined with shops with their doors wide open.

Occasionally, from the taverns, inns, and restaurants, wisps of fragrance would drift out, making people's mouths water.

The pedestrians on the street came and went in an endless stream, quite lively, and from time to time, one could see special people with swords and sabers, with fierce temperaments.

These people could be distinguished by their clothes. Some were martial artists who made a living by force, but there were also some medicine gatherers carrying medicine baskets.

Gu Yuan was also visiting the county town for the first time. After briefly experiencing this ancient local custom, he planned to start dealing with serious matters.

Gu Yuan didn't know much about the county town, but he also knew that Huangjing, this kind of thing, was usually only collected by medical clinics and pharmacies.

Arriving at a pharmacy named "Ji'an Hall," Gu Yuan carried the Huangjing straight into the store.

He saw a slightly chubby, somewhat wealthy-looking old man standing at the counter, burying his head in an abacus.

Seeing Gu Yuan's arrival, the old man's eyes swept up and down, glancing over his worn clothes, pausing slightly on the cloth bag on his back, and he had a bit of judgment in his heart about Gu Yuan's identity.

A smile appeared on his face as he greeted, "This old man's surname is Xu, may I ask what this little brother needs?"

Gu Yuan put the bag on the counter: "Shopkeeper Xu, I have some freshly dug Huangjing here, I wonder if your shop accepts it?"

"Well, our Ji'an Hall is a decades-old brand, and the requirements for medicinal materials are very high. If the Huangjing is not old enough, or if it is damaged, we will definitely not accept it."

Shopkeeper Xu said, taking a step forward and opening the bag. Seeing the five or six differently shaped, large Huangjing inside, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

On the surface, however, he turned it over and over a few times, then shook his head and sighed: "It can be seen that little brother was quite cautious when digging these Huangjing. These Huangjing have a good appearance, and the skins have not been rubbed off, completely intact."

"It's just that these Huangjing are not very old. For example, this one is only six or seven years old."

He picked up the largest one, a foot long, weighing about four pounds, weighed it, and then looked at Gu Yuan and said:

"But considering that these Huangjing have a decent appearance, I'll offer eighty copper coins for this one, plus the other few, a total of two hundred and thirty copper coins for you, how about it?"

"Six or seven years old? Two hundred and thirty copper coins?"

Gu Yuan almost laughed out of anger.

This is certainly not a small amount of money for ordinary mountain people.

But although Gu Yuan didn't know much about medicinal materials, he also knew that the Huangjing he dug, even the youngest ones, were at least ten years old.

The largest one was estimated to have grown for twenty or thirty years.

Such good things, even if the price were to be increased tenfold, it is estimated that someone would buy them, but the Xu fellow devalued them to nothing and gave a "high price" while pretending to be generous.

It was clearly treating him like a fool who didn't know anything!

"That's right, little brother, don't think that the price I gave is too low. In fact, you can go to other pharmacies in the city to see, and you will know that the price I gave here is definitely the highest."

Shopkeeper Xu said nonsense with a straight face, and then said seemingly unintentionally:

"However, if you can send more Huangjing, the price can still be discussed."

"Sorry, I'm not selling it."

Gu Yuan chuckled with a fake smile, and reached out to take the things back.

The other party was clearly bullying customers, and he would be a fool to suffer this loss.

In business, it is understandable for a pharmacy to suppress the price of medicinal materials, but the problem is, you directly suppress something that may be worth a few taels of silver to a few qian of silver, which is too black-hearted!

Moreover, this guy even tried to trick him into revealing whether he had other Huangjing in his hand, clearly vaguely aware of something, which made Gu Yuan feel awe-inspiring and decided to leave this place of right and wrong immediately.

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Shopkeeper Xu's originally smiling face suddenly became a little gloomy: "Little brother, you have to think clearly."

His short, thick fingers tapped on the solid wood counter, and he said in a cold voice: "If you miss this opportunity, there will be no such good thing next time."

This was anger turning into shame, so he started to threaten people. Gu Yuan's eyelids twitched first, and he immediately felt a little itchy!

Damn it, a black shop!

It's definitely a black shop!

Xu, I'll remember you!

Gu Yuan cursed inwardly, and was about to turn around and leave.

Suddenly, a rough voice came from behind:

"Shopkeeper Xu, do you still have the hemostatic medicine from last time? Give me two more bottles!"

Gu Yuan turned his head and saw that the speaker was a middle-aged man with a burly physique and a very tall stature.

He was carrying a medicine basket on his back and a thick-backed machete at his waist. Although it was already early winter and the cold was biting, this middle-aged man was wearing only a single layer of clothing and didn't feel cold at all.

Even Gu Yuan could vaguely feel that this man had a strange aura, with a fierce air, different from ordinary people.

"So it's Mr. Cheng."

Shopkeeper Xu's face changed when he saw this man, a hint of fear flashed across his face, and he quickly squeezed out a smile and said: "Sir, please wait a moment, there are still many things you want, I'll go get them for you."

Saying that, he didn't bother to pay attention to Gu Yuan, turned around and rummaged through the medicine cabinet behind him.

"Thank you."

Gu Yuan earnestly cupped his hands to the middle-aged man in front of him who was called "Mr. Cheng" to express his gratitude, and then left directly.

Whether the other party was intentional or unintentional, at least he helped him out of the predicament, which was true, and thanks were due.

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