Chapter 83: Recovering Costs

  Several days later, Yang Tianwen walked out of the room with a wry smile. He had overdone it with his practice and all the 4th-grade demon pellets in his hand were gone. However, he now had more than 200 yuan-yuan pellets in his hand. One furnace was approximately equal to 20 pellets. Yang Tianwen had refined thirteen furnaces, two of which failed. The hundred-year-old yellow essence and tuckahoe in his hand were almost all used up as well. The cost of one furnace of yuan-yuan pellets was roughly a hundred high-grade spirit stones. What made it expensive was mainly the main medicine that took a hundred years to mature. Demon pellets, on the other hand, were the cheapest investment - one furnace required 100 high-grade spirit stones, which meant each pellet only needed five high-grade spirit stones.

  Yang Tian sighed, no wonder the number of cultivators who can refine pills is getting smaller and smaller, and the pill furnace is getting cheaper and cheaper. It turns out that the cost of refining pills is really too high. Just to refine a furnace of spiritual pills, you need around 100 top-grade spiritual stones. Look at the unit behind, it's not low-grade or medium-grade, but top-grade spiritual stones. The scattered cultivators who kill some demon pills to exchange for spiritual stones for cultivation are barely enough for their own use, where do they have extra spiritual stones to refine pills? Moreover, the failure rate is astonishingly high, it's better to save money and buy finished pill medicine or flying sword talismans. Besides, in general, first, second, and third-grade pill medicines are enough for most cultivators to use, high-grade pill medicines are usually used by masters who have reached the stage of forming pills or emptying their minds, do they not have spiritual stones in their hands?

  Yang Tianwen had over 200 Yuanyuan Dan, among which there were less than 10 Tianjie, about 20 Dijie, around 50 Xuanjie, and the rest were all Huangjie. Yang Tianwen was not stupid, he packed away the ones above Huangjie separately, but found that the bottles on his body were not enough to use. Of course, these elixirs could be put into the spiritual medicine space, but it would be too messy to scatter them inside, and he still had to find some jade bottles or something to pack them in.

  Jade bottles were easy to find, just a short distance from the inn, and several hundred were bought at a very low price, adding up to only a few medium-grade spirit stones.

  Yang Tian asked to pack 20 pills of Dan medicine into a bottle, put some in the storage ring, and all the others were fully collected into the Lingyao space above the ground.

  Arrived at Beicheng, went straight to Gu Yan's stall, Gu Yan's business was just so-so, didn't look very good. Yang Tian asked as he walked up: "What? Business doesn't seem too good?"

  Gu Yan raised her head to see Yang Tianwen, and returned a smile, saying: "This is also an unavoidable thing, recently it's not some kind of exchange conference, now at this time staying in the city are generally low-level cultivators, fourth-grade or higher demon cores for them don't have much effect. So these few days I only sold a few."

  Yang Tianwen thought for a moment, took out a bottle of Yuan Dan from his ring and handed it over, saying: "How much is this thing worth?" Originally didn't want to make too much noise, but the Ling Stone on hand was not enough, and the spiritual medicine and materials were also in short supply, so I had to exchange some Ling Stones. In the city, Gu Yan's temperament happened to be quite suitable for Yang Tianwen's taste. As a Jie Dan period cultivator, he was actually setting up a stall here, which was quite unusual. Gu Yan took it over, opened the bottle cap, smelled it, and suddenly recognized it: "Yuan Dan!!"

  Yang Tian was somewhat surprised that Gu Yan had only taken a sniff and already recognized it, apparently his sense of smell was much stronger than Yang Tian's own.

  "What have you cultivated?" Gu Yan looked at Yang Tian as if she was looking at a monster.

  "That's for sure, or else I wouldn't be here. Yesterday you gave me the Dan Fang, I tried it out and succeeded." Yang Tian said with a half-joking tone.

  "You actually succeeded on the first try? You're really lucky! This elixir is quite good, its grade isn't low, but its success rate is frighteningly low, unless you use a fifth-grade or higher demon dan to refine it." Gu Yan said with a discerning eye. The Enhance Origin Elixir wasn't a rare item in the Cultivation Realm, but rather a very popular high-grade elixir. However, if it was refined using a fourth-grade demon dan, the success rate would be frighteningly low, so most alchemists would use a fifth-grade or higher demon dan to refine it, which would increase the cost exponentially. Still, this elixir was indeed very useful, so many alchemists continued to refine it.

  "The fifth-grade Huangji Zengyuan Dan, if sold now, would be around 100 top-grade spirit stones per pill. If it's saved for a grand exchange conference like the one we had before, the price will double." Gu Yan replied matter-of-factly.

  Yang Tian asked, stunned for a moment, "Shrimp? One just 100 top-grade spirit stones?" Yang Tian asked to confirm.

  "Not bad." Gu Yan replied affirmatively.

  Yang Tianwen laughed, happily laughed. It turned out that refining Dan was so profitable? The cost of one furnace is only 100 top-grade spirit stones, and Yang Tianwen's success rate is probably around 90%, almost negligible failure rate. One furnace yields twenty pellets, selling them would be 2000 top-grade spirit stones, a profit of 20 times? My god, this has already covered the cost and earned a huge profit. "Will you buy it?"

  "Do you want to sell?" Gu Yan was somewhat surprised, this thing is generally not for sale if it's accidentally refined by a loose cultivator. She looked at Yang Tian and was curious about his identity. However, in business, Gu Yan quickly corrected her thoughts.

  "Sell, of course sell, recently I'm short on cash, can't help it." Yang Tian nodded and made a very regretful expression.

  "Oh, great, I'll take it, this is good stuff!" Gu Yan immediately took out a storage bag, counted the contents and threw it over along with the bag, saying: "Here, consider the bag as a free gift, nice doing business with you."

  Yang Tianwen also didn't count them and put all the rings into the bag together. He nodded with a pleasant expression, saying "Nice doing business with you."

  Gu Yan suddenly asked: "Do you have some higher-grade Yuan Dan?"

  "No." Yang Tian asked without hesitation, his expression extremely natural, but in his heart he was secretly scolding, this beauty is really sly, actually launching a surprise attack at the most exciting moment, fortunately he reacted quickly, humph, playing this trick with me, as early as sophomore year, I didn't use this move anymore.

  "Oh, what a pity!" Gu Yan confirmed that Yang Tianwen's success was purely due to luck and not because of any secret formula. "If there is one, I'll buy it at a high price."

  "Why?" Yang Tian asked with a curious tone.

  "Don't you know? A yellow-grade Enhancing Pill can increase a cultivator's three years of bitter practice, a mysterious grade can increase ten years, an earthly grade can increase thirty years, and a heavenly grade is said to be able to increase more than fifty years." Gu Yan said with two big watery eyes shining.

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  The collection is growing so slowly, it's slowing down my mood... feeling depressed...

  Seeking recommendation votes~~