“After going so far, all I’ve found is this high-grade Yellow-ranked Void Star Flower. If it’s the other cultivators from the Divine City, without the Purple Crystal, they can only find herbs by rummaging through grass and stones. Their efficiency at picking herbs will be much lower. To find a dozen Yellow-ranked herbs in a day would be quite amazing. If one was lucky, one or two Mystic-ranked herbs would be a great harvest.”
“Low-grade Yellow-ranked herbs can only be exchanged for two dragon scale runes. Mystic-ranked herbs can get a bit more, but it’s only around ten dragon scale runes. By this way of counting, a herb-picking cultivator can, at best, receive 40-50 dragon scale runes in a day!”
“But, by choosing the herb-picking job, there is a requirement of handing over at least 25 dragon scale runes of herbs a day. This was firstly a way for the Divine City to gain resources, and secondly, to prevent people from being lazing. Once 25 dragon scale runes were deducted, there will be even less!”
No wonder people were reluctant to pick herbs. This was indeed a lonely, boring and dead-end job.
After picking the Void Star Flower, he carried on. By choosing to particularly step on rubble and easy to slip gravel, Yi Yun kept testing his movement skills and his power control.
This naturally slowed down Yi Yun’s speed.
A typical herb-picking cultivator would begin searching for herbs upon reaching the herb mountain. They wouldn’t have the time to care about anything else. If they could not hand over 25 dragon scale runes, then their dragon scale runes would go in the negative.
Upon reaching negative dragon scale runes for two consecutive days, the Divine City would remove the free lodging privileges, causing one to sleep on the streets.
For a warrior, sleeping on the streets was nothing, and not really a punishment, but… it would be extremely shameful.
Those who could come to the Tai Ah Divine City were all prideful people. But to end up being ineligible to live in the Divine City’s free lodgings to the point of sleeping on the streets, it would bring great ridicule upon the news traveling back to their family clans. They might as well kill themselves.
Hence the people who came herb-picking would not dare to skive. But Yi Yun proceeded slowly into the herb mountain. Most of the time, he was practicing his movement skills. As for picking herbs… He did that casually. With the Purple Crystal, he had a 100% efficiency rate.
Soon, Yi Yun’s herb basket was filled with a dozen kinds of herbs, mostly of the Yellow-rank.
Yi Yun estimated that the herbs were only worth about 30 or so dragon scale runes.
“Oh? That is…?”
Yi Yun looked up and discovered that there was a fuzzy energy fluctuation several hundreds of meters away. The energy fluctuation was more intense than the Yellow-ranked herbs he had previously found.
“It has to be a Mystic-ranked herb.”
Yi Yun licked his lips and began using his movement skill to head towards the energy fluctuation like an agile monkey.