"Alright, please wait a moment." ’Twenty tubes of hemostatic ointment is quite a lot,’ the attendant thought. She stood up, walked over to a cabinet, and took a string of keys from her pocket.

CLICK.

Once the cabinet was open, Lin Li saw it was filled with unopened boxes of hemostatic ointment.

"Two, four, six..."

The attendant counted as she took the tubes of hemostatic ointment from the cabinet.

’I wonder if there are any pharmacies in Dongwu City that sell this kind of hemostatic ointment? Next time I go, I’ll have to ask around.

If there are, I’ll buy a tube and compare it to this one to see which works better,’ Lin Li planned as he watched the attendant retrieve the ointment.

"They’re 3,000 each, so that’s sixty thousand in total. Will you be paying by card or with your phone?" The attendant placed the twenty tubes of hemostatic ointment into a plastic bag, set it on the counter, and asked Lin Li with a smile.

"I’ll pay with my phone," Lin Li said, taking out his phone and transferring the sixty thousand.

He had over eight million in cash alone, so even though spending sixty thousand still stung a little, the feeling quickly faded.

"Sir, we just got a new product in stock that can rapidly replenish Spiritual Energy over a period of time. Would you be interested in hearing about it?"

Although Lin Li had never told the attendant he was a Cultivator, she was sharp enough to figure it out. He had returned to buy more hemostatic ointment after such a short time, and in such a large quantity.

She guessed he was not only a Cultivator, but very likely an Exotic Beast Hunter.

After all, hemostatic ointment was only useful for injuries. For an ordinary person, a single tube would last a very long time.

Even a typical Cultivator, including those who enjoyed frequent sparring, would take two or three months to finish a single tube.

Only Exotic Beast Hunters—those who hunted Mutant Beasts in the dangerous wilderness and were constantly getting injured—would go through a tube so quickly. They were the primary customers for hemostatic ointment.

"A new product that can rapidly replenish Spiritual Energy over a period of time?" Lin Li asked, looking puzzled. "How long is this ’period of time’ you’re talking about?"

Seeing Lin Li’s interest, the attendant reached into the cabinet, pulled out a promotional flyer, and handed it to him. With a smile, she began to give him a detailed introduction to the new product.

"This medicine, capable of rapidly replenishing Spiritual Energy over a period of time, is a new product developed by researchers at the Spiritual Energy Research Institute...

Each pill contains Spiritual Energy equivalent to one-fifth of a Spirit Stone. After taking one, the user will recover that amount of Spiritual Energy over the course of half an hour..."

Lin Li listened to the attendant’s detailed explanation while looking over the promotional flyer.

The description of the Spiritual Energy-restoring pills on the flyer matched what the attendant had told him almost exactly.

’A single Spiritual Energy-restoring pill costs fifty thousand, and it can only be used once every twenty-four hours...’ After reading the flyer’s description, Lin Li shook his head inwardly.

Putting aside the price, the fact that you could only take one pill a day and it took half an hour just to restore one-fifth of a Spirit Stone’s worth of Spiritual Energy... Lin Li was thoroughly unimpressed by the usage restrictions and recovery rate.

After all, the Spirit Plant from the Spirit Realm on his Mysterious Small Island had already produced over two hundred Spirit Fruits that looked just like cherry tomatoes.

Each Spirit Fruit contained as much Spiritual Energy as an entire Spirit Stone. After eating one, he could absorb all of its energy within seconds, and there was no limit to how many he could consume.

By comparison, his Spirit Fruits truly lived up to their name, completely outclassing these new pills from the Spiritual Energy Research Institute in every way.

"Thank you, but I don’t need any for now. If I do in the future, I’ll come back and buy some," Lin Li said with a smile, putting the flyer down.

"Of course. If you need them in the future, feel free to stop by..." Although Lin Li had expressed no intention of buying anything, the attendant wasn’t disappointed in the slightest.

She thought to herself, ’For Exotic Beast Hunters who hunt Mutant Beasts in the dangerous wilderness, this kind of rapid Spiritual Energy recovery pill will definitely become an essential item for their expeditions.

Given time, this new product is bound to become a bestseller, second only to the hemostatic ointment.’

If Lin Li had a Superpower that let him hear people’s thoughts and knew what the attendant was thinking, he would surely have shaken his head and made a classic humblebrag.

"Sorry, but I wouldn’t even consider buying such an inefficient product unless I ran out of my own Spirit Fruits."

Carrying his newly purchased hemostatic ointment, Lin Li left the pharmacy and returned to his van, which was parked on the side of the road.

He stored the hemostatic ointment on the Mysterious Small Island, started the engine, and drove toward the wilderness. It was time for Lin Li to get to work. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

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The vast, perilous wilderness was bathed in a golden hue by the brilliant light of the rising morning sun.