“Since I have no money, I should work hard to earn it and become a wealthy man. With enough money, would I still need to worry about not being able to buy materials to refine elixirs or set up a spirit-gathering array?” In the darkness, Andrew Grant's gaze gradually became resolute.

That night, a sixteen-year-old boy made up his mind in his rented room to become rich!

After making up his mind, Andrew Grant closed his eyes and went to sleep.

Sleep is the most natural form of deep relaxation and rest, and even cultivators are no exception. Of course, because of their cultivation and meditation, they can sleep a few hours less than ordinary people and still maintain abundant energy and strength.

After sleeping until about 4:30, Andrew Grant got up, because the hour of the rabbit is when the sun rises in the east, all things grow, and vitality is at its peak—it is another of the best times of the day for cultivation.

After washing up, Andrew Grant once again went to the fifth-floor balcony, sat cross-legged facing east, and closed his eyes.

In the east, the sky behind the park's mountain gradually began to turn red, with purplish-red morning clouds churning like raging waves in a stormy sea.

Finally, a red sun broke through the clouds, casting golden-red light over the earth.

“Whew!” Andrew Grant exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, then opened his eyes, got up, went downstairs, and headed out for breakfast.

Cultivation during the hour of the rabbit, like cultivation at midnight, showed almost imperceptible progress.

After breakfast, Andrew Grant did not return to his rented room, but wandered aimlessly around the county, hoping to spot some business opportunity to make money. However, Andrew Grant was just a boy from a mountain village with no business experience, so simply wandering around was unlikely to reveal any opportunities. When he passed a small bridge on Riverside Road and saw a few people telling fortunes at their stalls, Andrew Grant's eyes lit up, but he quickly smiled wryly and dismissed the idea. Not to mention that his master, due to his own experiences, had warned him before passing away not to reveal his cultivation at will or use it to make a living, just his age alone—would anyone come to him for a fortune-telling even if he was willing to set up a stall?

After wandering aimlessly for a long while, Andrew Grant suddenly stopped in his tracks, looked ahead at a Chinese medicine shop, slapped his forehead, and said, “How could I forget? I’ve been thinking only about buying medicinal herbs to make medicinal meals and elixirs to refine spiritual energy, or buying jade to set up a spirit-gathering array, but why didn’t I think of that thousand-year-old polygonum multiflorum? Anyway, I don’t need it right now—wouldn’t it be perfect to sell it and buy the materials I need?”

It turned out that Andrew Grant had spent years cultivating in Baiyun Mountain, and last year, he had accidentally discovered a polygonum multiflorum plant in a rather hidden spot on a cliff there.

Andrew Grant had studied herbal medicine and healing with Ren Yao for six years, and had inherited the knowledge passed down from Ge Hong, so he easily recognized it as a thousand-year-old polygonum multiflorum.

Polygonum multiflorum can nourish the blood and liver, strengthen the essence and kidneys, fortify the muscles and bones, and darken the hair. It is an excellent tonic—neither cold nor dry—and is superior to rehmannia and asparagus root, making it a precious medicinal herb.

Not only does it have tonic effects for ordinary people, but even cultivators can benefit from it. However, most polygonum multiflorum nowadays is artificially cultivated, and wild ones are rare, especially thousand-year-old wild polygonum multiflorum, which is extremely rare and precious. So when Andrew Grant discovered a thousand-year-old wild polygonum multiflorum in Baiyun Mountain last year, he was very excited and wanted to dig it up right away. But remembering that directly consuming wild thousand-year-old polygonum multiflorum is far less effective than decocting it with other herbs into a medicinal soup or refining it into an elixir, he thought it would be a waste to dig it up and use it directly. It would be better to wait until he had gathered the other herbs, then dig it up and prepare it according to ancient recipes.

However, all the ancient recipes Andrew Grant knew that used thousand-year-old polygonum multiflorum required other extremely rare herbs, which he could not possibly gather in a short time. So after careful consideration, Andrew Grant gave up the idea of digging it up immediately. Instead, he camouflaged it to make it even more hidden, letting it continue to grow in the crevice of the cliff, to be dug up when needed in the future.

Because he always considered the thousand-year-old wild polygonum multiflorum extremely precious and hard to come by, and wanted to keep it for his own use in the future, Andrew Grant had never thought of selling it, nor realized that it represented a huge fortune.

Now, passing by the Chinese medicine shop and seeing the price tags for tonic herbs hanging at the entrance, he suddenly remembered that he was not actually a poor boy—if he sold that thousand-year-old wild polygonum multiflorum, he could be considered a wealthy person.

Thinking of selling the polygonum multiflorum to raise money, Andrew Grant's heart immediately came alive, and he wished he could go to Baiyun Mountain right now to dig up that thousand-year-old wild polygonum multiflorum and sell it.

“The thousand-year-old wild polygonum multiflorum is my greatest asset right now. Once I sell it, it’s gone. I have to make careful inquiries and not rush. Otherwise, if I sell it too cheaply, wouldn’t I suffer a huge loss?” Although Andrew Grant was only sixteen, he had lived with an old man for six years and, through constant exposure, had picked up some of the old man’s steadiness. He quickly realized that his current impatience was not right, so he took a few deep breaths to calm himself down.

With a calm mind, Andrew Grant looked at the Chinese medicine shop ahead without the previous excitement. After thinking for a moment, he walked in with a composed expression.