Chapter 0139: Gamble on Stone Medicine

Ye Wudao browsed through the various stalls in this retail market, only to confirm what others had said: many were peddling inferior medicinal herbs as superior ones, and plenty of fakes were in circulation, like rotten tree roots disguised as old mountain ginseng for sale.

As soon as the vendors saw Ye Wudao approaching, they immediately became very enthusiastic, trying to sell him their herbs and touting them as if they were the best things on earth and beneath the heavens.

They boasted about things like herbs harvested by old farmers of Changbai Mountain who risked their lives at the bottom of sheer cliffs, or century-old yellow essence found in some huge mountain's caverns—basically, any bluff they could come up with. Three-year-old Codonopsis, they dared to sell as century-old ginseng from Changbai Mountain.