Cheng Zongyang didn’t stay long after that. He turned and headed for the third floor of the Preservation Warehouse.

Because he was storing fish, he had to move the things originally on the second floor to the third. Fortunately, there weren’t many Medicinal Materials and other items stored on the third floor.

But now, a large amount of grain also took up a good deal of space on the third floor.

Ignoring the grain and harvested Medicinal Materials, Cheng Zongyang walked up to a five-tiered wooden rack. The rack was three meters long, three meters high, and one meter wide, mainly holding various items he had bought initially but hadn’t used, as well as his own collection.

Some had been used, some hadn’t. Some were purchased a while ago, and some in the last two or three months.

For example: Medicated Bandages that could quickly stop bleeding; Wilderness Beans (Medium); Town Recall Talismans;

Wilderness Red Heart Fruits; Geomagnetic Stones; a Plant Growth Liquid Formula;

Martial Essence Pills; the Martial Essence Body Tempering Technique; a Soul Gathering Stele; six Soul Crystal Stones kept in reserve;

There were also the recipes he had copied down: the Seven Herbs Powder Recipe, the Clearing Fever Powder Recipe, the White Medicine Formula, and the Body Tempering Powder Recipe;

a Universal Four-Discount Coupon; a Solar-Powered Military Watch; a Golden Essence Wolf Fang Club; a Hundred-Forged Fine Iron Bow;

Wilderness Silk Insect eggs; a Beastman Bow Blueprint; and Elf Messengers.

These were all the main items currently in stock. The rest of the things he had obtained were either fruits, seeds, or animal cubs.

Among them, the ones he valued most were the Body Tempering Powder Recipe, which could aid Martial Artists in their cultivation; the Beastman Bow Blueprint, which allowed for the mass production of bows from the design; and finally, the Wilderness Silk Insect eggs.

The Body Tempering Powder could be taken by Martial Artists below the Middle Third Grades to aid their practice. He had most of the necessary Medicinal Materials, but without a good excuse to introduce it, he hadn’t brought it out yet.

The Beastman Bow Blueprint came from the ruins of a Beastman Tribe in the Wilderness World. Based on the blueprint, bows with different draw weights could be designed.

The strongest longbow that could be designed had a draw weight of five hundred kilograms, or nearly eleven *dan*, a weapon that only an Eighth Grade Martial Artist could use with ease.

The weakest was a one-*dan* draw weight bow that an ordinary person could use. These bows could meet the needs of different people in the village.

As for the last item, the Wilderness Silk Insect, it was a creature similar to a silkworm that came from the ruins of some Elven site in the Wilderness World.

Although both spit silk, their diets are different. The Silk Insect spits out threads of varying strength depending on what it eats.

Silkworms basically eat mulberry leaves, but the Silk Insect can eat meat, tree leaves, vegetables, and fruits. You could say it’s an omnivorous insect; it’s not a picky eater.

Eating meat is best, as it allows them to produce extremely tough silk threads. Right now, Luo Zheng was in charge of incubating the ten pairs of Wilderness Silk Insect eggs. Later, they could try to breed them in greater numbers.

However, what surprised him was that yesterday he had obtained a pair of peculiar creatures—Elf Messengers.

They were a type of bird called an Elf Bird, which looked a bit like a parrot. They were avians from the Elf Forest, extremely fast, and were once used by the Elf Race to deliver messages. That was why they were called Elf Messengers.

They had only one function—to act as carrier pigeons.

But this creature’s method of navigation was rather unique; it locked onto its own feathers.

No matter where a person was, as long as they held a feather from an Elf Bird, the released bird would fly toward the location of its own feather.

The only problem was that the bird’s feathers were very difficult to pluck. After pulling one out, the bird would seem to fall ill and need several days to rest.

He didn’t understand the scientific principles behind it, but it was precisely this trait that had made them the messengers for the ancient Elf Race.

When he returned this time, he needed to deal with the four items he was going to exchange for Gold: the Plant Growth Liquid, the Body Tempering Powder, the White Medicine Formula, and the Beastman Bow Blueprint.

These would greatly strengthen the village’s foundation. The Plant Growth Liquid, in particular, was something the village desperately needed.

The Medicinal Materials for the Martial Arts Medicine Baths were almost completely used up, and the same was true for the Foundation Establishment Medicine Baths. Furthermore, because of the great fire a few months ago, it was difficult to find any Medicinal Materials, so their only option was to cultivate them. That would take time.

Now, with the Body Tempering Powder as a temporary replacement, the Martial Artists in the clan wouldn’t be left without supplementary medicine.

Besides, he had also come to the county this time to see if he could continue to "acquire" the Medicinal Materials needed for the Foundation Establishment Medicine Bath for free.

The family’s Martial Arts Medicine Baths could be stopped, but the children’s Foundation Establishment Medicine Baths could not be stopped; they had to continue.

There was much to do, so he could only wait for night to act.

He copied the Beastman Bow Design Map, leaving one copy for Ma San and the others to use for future production. Then, he put away the four items and brought them to the market stall so he could take them at any time.

He changed his clothes and called for Luo Zheng.

"My lord." At the door of the small house, Luo Zheng said, clasping his hands.

"How are those two little ones doing?" Cheng Zongyang asked.

Hearing this, Luo Zheng smiled. "They haven’t recovered yet. This bird’s feathers are incredibly hard to pluck. Pulling just one makes it look like it’s about to die. It’ll probably need two or three days of rest to recover. So for now, we’ve only dared to pluck one from each of them. My lord, if we want to use them for multiple locations, we’ll probably have to wait until there are more of them."

Cheng Zongyang nodded. "No matter. Just take it slow. Take good care of them."

"Yes, my lord!"

Leaving the Wilderness World, he appeared in the back room. Cheng Zongyang left his residence and headed for the slums on the border of South City and West City, near the city wall.

He had to take another group of people with him this time. This was the second time he had prepared to bring people back to the Inner Mountain Pass.

The last time he came to the county to deliver medicinal powder to Li Lu, he had already found a few people and had them start a selection process. This time, he was here to see the results.

The criteria for the people he was taking this time were largely the same as before: they had to have families, the ratio of women to men had to be high, and more importantly, they needed to have a trade.