Chapter 73 - Chapter 73: Chapter 63 Reunion with an Old Friend_i (1/2)
Chapter 73: Chapter 63 Reunion with an Old Friend_i
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[Mysterious Yuan Pill +50]!
[Mysterious Yuan Pill +50]!
[Mysterious Yuan Pill +50]!
[Mysterious Yuan Pill Proficiency; 774/1600]!
Xu Mu devoted all the Luck Value he accumulated over the month into this.
The subsequent time was naturally spent in crazy alchemy.
Twenty days later, Xu Mu has ten bottles of the Mysterious Yuan Pill in hand.
Among them, seven bottles were lower-grade, two middle-grade and one was top-grade.
The reason he could create a top-grade pill was he invested the Luck Value increased in the past twenty days into it, elevating the alchemy skill of the Mysterious Yuan Pill to a higher level, reaching Perfection.
At dawn, Xu Mu patted the smooth back of Leng Yuening, waking her up.
Leng Yuening lazily turned around and continued to sleep with her eyes closed.
With a shake of his head, Xu Mu slapped a Purification Charm, clearing the dried sticky fluid, and got up for his morning wash and tidy up.
Since they had Zhang Shouren the charm maker at home, they were not short of Purification Charms for the time being.
After breakfast, Xu Mu set out to sell his pills.
Several days passed.
Ten bottles of Mysterious Yuan Pill remained in Xu Mu’s possession.
Not a single one was sold.
It wasn’t that no shop was willing to cooperate with him, Alchemists who could refine Mysterious Yuan Pill were quite popular indeed, but the price they offered was too low for Xu Mu’s liking.
The low price was not only due to lower quality of the Mysterious Yuan Pill, but it was because Xu Mu was too new in Liyang City.
“Taking advantage of newcomers, huh!”
Xu Mu smiled bitterly.
“Could I be forced to take that step?”
Just as Xu Mu was hesitating, Shen Bokang, the old man who had tea with him before, suddenly came to see him.
Friend Xu, I hear you have successfully refined the Mysterious Yuan Pill?
Standing by the pond in the courtyard, Shen Bokang fed the multicoloured Koi while asking.
“Just good luck!”
Xu Mu invited Shen Bokang to sit on the vine chair nearby; Zhang Shouren helped with serving the tea.
“I admire Friend Xu’s talent in alchemy!” Shen Bokang said, sipping his tea.
You are too kind, Friend Shen!”
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Xu Mu got straight to the point, “I wonder what brings Friend Shen here?”
Xu Mu did not believe that Shen just wanted to have a simple chat with him.
They had only met a few times and were far from being well-acquainted.
No one comes to the temple without a cause!
“Let’s not beat around the bush, are you also worried about selling your pills, Friend Xu?” Shen Bokang said, his tone ambiguous as his right hand rested on the armrest.
“You’re joking, Friend Shen, there are medicine stores all over the city, why would I worry!” Xu Mu said laughingly.
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Ha-ha!
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Shen Bokang chuckled.
“Why hide it from me, friend? Both of us are loose cultivators who climbed up from the bottom, we know the difficulty of earning spirit stones!”
“Let’s not talk about the Pill Master Guild, they take a whole seventy percent of the profits, leaving us toil in vain.
The medicine store is slightly better, but we are both newcomers. At most, they give us forty to fifty percent of the profit! Moreover, the stores have high demands. We must provide an adequate amount of pills every month, unless you are a top-notch alchemist, it is tough to have a moment of rest!”
What Shen Bokang said was true, but Xu Mu did not show much reaction.
He sipped his tea and said calmly: “From what you’re saying, Friend Shen, you seem to have another method?”
“Exactly!”
Though Xu Mu’s response surprised Shen Bokang, he still got straight to the point: “If you agree to sell your pills to me, I am willing to give you 70 percent of the profit! The price is only 10 percent higher than at the market! What do you think, Friend Xu?”
“There is no problem with the price!” Xu Mu frowned slightly: “But will there be any risks in this?”
“Friend Xu, profits are inevitably linked with risks. If there were absolutely no risks, why would it fall to us?” Shen Bokang laughed.
“But you can rest assured, Xu, even if we are discovered by the Pill Master Guild, we will only be fined a little spirit stone at most, there will be no major danger.”
Xu Mu paused for a moment before saying, “Can you give me a few days to think about it, Friend Shen?”
“Of course, there is no problem with that!”
After more chit chat, Shen Bokang finally said goodbye and left.
“Forget it, I’d better find a shop with a reasonable price!”
He was reluctant to agree to Shen Bokang not only out of caution.
Sudden good news normally doesn’t signal good intention.
What’s more, he sensed a hint of urgency from Shen Bokang.
This made him wary, feeling that Shen Bokang might be plotting something.
However, the most important reason was that he was different from ordinary alchemists.
Ordinary alchemists would find it hard to elevate their alchemy skill. He, on the other hand, just needed to wait several months to easily enhance his Alchemy Skill.
In time, he could use high-quality pills to negotiate profits, which may not be inferior to what Shen Bokang proposed. Given the circumstances, why would he risk it?
The next day!
The sky was still in twilight.
Xu Mu exited from the passage behind Lan Shijin, adjusted his clothing, and started meditating and cultivating in the practice room on the third floor.