Rebirth of the Urban Immortal Cultivator

CHAPTER 64

"Hmph! Some country hillbillies living under a rock dare to compete with me?"

The half white girl lifted her chin and shot Master Wu a contemptuous look.

By then, the worker at the auction house had carried the item to the girl. The girl lifted the cover and asked the middle age man beside him with a frown. "Mr. Shi, is this the miracle cure you were talking about?"

The man opened his half-closed eyes as green light lit up in his eyes.

After he had examined the tree branch, he shut his eyes and bemoaned.

"What a shame, this Essence of Thousand Pinewood is so close to being the miracle cure. But it was harvested a few hundred years too early."

"Essence of Thousand Pinewood?"

The half white girl asked in confusion. She had never heard of such herb before.

"The Essence of Thousand Pinewood was a sentient organism that lived off of the essence of pine wood. It looks just like an old tree bough." Mr. Shi said.

"It was a well-kept knowledge in our sect, and therefore not a lot of people know about it."

"Since it was not what we were looking for, what should we do now?" The furrow on the girl's face deepened.

Before she arrived at Jiu Ding City, she had already been to the other three centers of Chinese medicine and failed to obtain anything useful for her grandfather's ailment. Jiu Ding City was her last stop, and if not for Mr. Shi's advice, she would never have thought of buying a shriveled useless tree branch with thirty million yuan.

"My grandpa can last at most three more months.

"The other households had already been eyeing our assets. Jiu Ding City is my last stop if I can't find anything here, I don't know what I should do next. I am on my last leg here."

So thinking, fear glinted in the girl's eyes.

"Don't worry; there is another place where I can guarantee to find something useful." Mr. Shi said confidently.

"Where is that?" The girl's face was lit up with hope.

"Based on the chronicles of my sect, the founder of my sect had found a would-be miracle herb somewhere near the Dong Du City a few hundred years ago. Our founder had marked the location but left the herb untouched." Mr. Shi said lightly. "However, our fonder later fled to Hong Kong and was never able to retrieve that herb."

"Really? Why don't we go there now!" The girl asked excitedly.

"It had been a hundred years; many things have changed. I am afraid that finding it wouldn't be that easy." Mr. Shi shook his head. "Twenty years ago, I went back and attempted to locate the herb. I was only able to spot a few likely spots, but wasn't able to continue my search."

"What should we do now?" Miss Zheng was at a loss again.

If they couldn't find it, the miracle cure might as well not exist.

Mr. Shi smiled confidently and then said: "Was that old man we met earlier from Dong Du City?"

"Him?" Miss Zheng paused a second and hurried to dispatch an employee to ask.

Master Wu was a household name in Zhong Zhou Province, and therefore, the servant came back very quickly with confirmation.

Miss Zheng nodded and then said, "Indeed, he is from Dong Du City. He is quite popular there too; people call him Master Wu and he was able to Reine Ghost and Bend Blood."