The Cost of Opposition

Over the next few months, Hong Zhao left five gold coins a night at Yeng Feng's small cottage outside the city and in turn, he picked up five vials of silent whisper powder. Hong Zhao had long since decided it was better not to meet with the alchemist until it was time for them to part ways with the city, that way no one could connect the powder to the older man. Instead, Yeng Feng had decided on a time which he would go out to enjoy a drink of serpent's fire in the company of new found friends. While he was out, he left the vials underneath his pillow. When he returned to the cottage, he would find gold coins where his concoctions had once resided. When he had realized that the powder was in such high demand to his benefactor, he had decided instead of buying the herbs in bulk, he would grow most in secret. Within a month, with the supply of his own qi, his own garden out in the forest began to thrive, and he was able to pocket five gold per night.