Chapter 19 - 19 Chapter 14: Breaking Through 4 Layers_1 (1/2)
19 Chapter 14: Breaking Through 4 Layers_1
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“Two hundred proficiency points just to get started?!”
Xu Mu’s face turned sour.
He was aware that concocting a tier two pill would be more difficult, but he hadn’t expected it to be this much more demanding.
However, he had no choice but to accept. The system was only responsible for displaying the data; it couldn’t adjust it and wouldn’t haggle with him.
After thinking for a while, he decided to just accept it.
No matter how much proficiency the Jade Marrow Pill required, he would have to learn it sooner or later.
Although the skill was already shown, Xu Mu did not immediately assign points to it. Instead, he spent two days studying and practicing Alchemy and the Pill Spell until he was highly proficient.
At this point, his familiarity with the Jade Marrow Pill had reached the beginner level; 22/200.
Afterwards, he took out Sun Daocheng’s experience in alchemy, carefully pondered it until he fully understood it.
The proficiency of Jade Marrow Pill increased to Beginner; 30/200.
At this point, no matter what attempts he made, the proficiency of the Jade Marrow Pill no longer increased.
It was only then that Xu Mu began to allocate points.
[Jade Marrow Pill+10]!
[Jade Marrow Pill +10]!
[Jade Marrow Pill +10]!
…
[Jade Marrow Pill Proficiency; 200/800]
After spending another day, Xu Mu used 770 points of Luck Value to raise the Jade Marrow Pill to the Proficiency level, then he stopped increasing it.
The main reason was that his luck value was nearly exhausted. He planned to keep the remaining 200 points for improving his Fire-controlling Skill after breaking through to the fourth level of Qi Cultivation.
After assigning points, Xu Mu did not start to concoct the Jade Marrow Pill immediately. Instead, he produced two batches of Qi Gathering Pills first.
On one hand, it was a warm-up. On the other hand, he was worried that his spiritual power would be insufficient while concocting the Jade Marrow Pill, so he prepared two batches of Qi Gathering Pills for emergency use.
After all, the Jade Marrow Pill was a tier two pill, the difficulty of concocting it far exceeded that of Qi Gathering Pills. It would be a pity if he failed because of insufficient spiritual power.
Although Qi Gathering Pill was not specifically used to replenish spiritual power, it did have a minor effect.
If taken in large quantities, it could still replenish spiritual power.
After the Qi Gathering Pill was prepared, he rested for another day, adjusted his state to the best, only then did he begin to concoct the Jade Marrow Pill.
Bone flower, yellow lotus essence, blood lotus essence, ice flame grass, purple-blue leaves, white lingzhi fruit, snow lotus seeds, red spirit fruit…
Having carefully checked the medicinal materials, he lit the flame.
Pre-heating!
The flames in Xu Mu’s hands were already spiritual.
The Fire-controlling Skill approaching the transcendence level had already turned the flames into his arms. He didn’t even need to form spells any longer, with a simple flick of his fingers, he could bring about all kinds of changes.
The pill furnace emitted spots of fluorescent light, and mysterious runes began to form complex patterns covering the entire furnace.
Once the temperature was enough, Xu Mu began to add the medicinal materials in order, controlling the flame and stabilizing the medicinal properties.
Time passed silently during the concoction. Except for consuming several Qi Gathering Pills to replenish his spiritual power, Xu Mu’s eyes never left the Pill furnace.
After two days and one night of hard work, the Jade Marrow Pill was finally successfully concocted.
The air was filled with a rich fragrance; a single sniff was enough to make one’s entire body relaxed.
“With a cultivation base at the late stage of Qi Cultivation, it’s indeed a bit strenuous to make a tier two pill. Fortunately, my alchemy skills have reached Proficiency!” Xu Mu commented.
To avoid accidents, he added another 200 proficiency points, otherwise he might not have succeeded on the first try.
As for the quality of the completed pill…
Three were middle-grade, seven were lower-grade, and not even one was of high-grade.
But he was already satisfied with his success.
If he wanted to concoct a high-grade Jade Marrow pill, he would probably have to improve to the Perfection level.
However, even the lower-grade Jade Marrow Pill was a tier-two pill, ten times more expensive than the Qi Gathering Pill.
If he were to sell these pills, he could make more than eighty lower-grade Spirit Stones, equivalent to half a month’s worth of Qi Gathering Pills.
He could only make one batch of Qi Gathering Pills a day and need a day off afterwards. On average, he could make about fifteen batches in a month.
Each batch had about ten pills. After deductions for the cost of two Spirit Stones per batch (based on the original price), the profit was around 120 Spirit Stones.
Considering that a batch of Jade Marrow Pills took three days to make, even if he rested for three days in between batches, he could still make five batches. With ten pills per batch, that’s fifty pills.
After subtracting the cost of twenty Spirit Stones per batch, he could still make a whopping profit of up to four hundred lower-grade Spirit Stones.
If he strained a little bit and only rested for two days, or even just one day, before starting on the next batch, the profit could even exceed one thousand Spirit Stones. This was a hundred-fold increase from before he had the system.
This was, after all, a tier two pill!
Not many in the entire White Stone City can make a tier two pill, so such a high profit was not strange at all.
“With the recent inflation, Jade Marrow Pill’s price must have increased a lot too. Maybe my income could easily exceed one thousand!”
Xu Mu was in a very good mood, thinking that his decision to invest so much Luck Value into the Jade Marrow Pill was the right choice.
“However, I need to be careful when selling Jade Marrow Pill due to its hefty price!”
With the issue with the Brothers of Li Family yet to be resolved, he didn’t want to get into trouble with anyone else.
After resting for a day, Xu Mu was ready to take the Jade Marrow Pill he had made to see if it would help him breakthrough to the fourth level of Qi Cultivation.
Knock, knock!
There were sudden knocks on the door.
Through the crack of the door, Xu Mu saw a plump figure.
“Friend Jia, what brings you here?”