Chapter 108: Concocting the Channeling Opening Solution Again (1/2)
Chapter 108: Concocting the Channeling Opening Solution Again
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“Uncle Sun, why are so many porcelain vases of spiritual pills?” A plain looking youth in linen robes walked in; his skin was pale white, making him look a little delicate. When he saw the table full of porcelain vases, he asked that question in shock.
One must know that Nine Moons Pill House prided itself in its pill quality. Its pills were all stored in jade vases, who would use porcelain vases?
The middle-aged man stood up, “Shao Ke, you're here. These are some pills our store purchased today.”
The linen robed youth asked astonishedly, “Uncle Sun actually bought pills from someone else? Don't tell me that it's from some great pill refiner? But that's not right…”
The linen robed youth knew that if these were pills concocted by a great pill refiner, they wouldn't have come in porcelain vases but in jade vases.
“I didn't purchase these pills. Come, Shao Ke, come take a look at these pills.” As he spoke, the middle-aged man passed the pill in his hand to the linen robed youth.
The linen robed youth smiled and accepted the pill. In reality, no matter how good this pill was, it was nothing more than a Tier 1 Mortal Pill.
He first took a whiff at the pill, and his eyes revealed a hint of astonishment. He immediately examined the pill's colour and quality. After some time, he suddenly popped the pill in his mouth and closed his eyes.
After a few seconds, the linen robed youth suddenly opened his eyes and asked in shock, “Uncle Sun, exactly what pill is this? It's also made for Channel Opening Stage cultivators, but its effects are multiple times higher than Energy Gathering Pills?”
The middle-aged man shook his head, “I'm also not sure. According to the person who procured them, these are Energy Gathering Pills. You can take a look at the other pills.”
He did not need to wait for the middle-aged man's invitation, the linen robed youth had already started to grab the various porcelain vases on the table and opened each and every one of them.
“These are all high grade Tier 2 spiritual pills? Poison Cleansing Pill, Jasper Pill…” After putting down the porcelain vases, a look of shock had already occupied the youth's face.
The middle-aged man nodded, “That's right. I have already tested these pills. Although they are high grade pills, the retained medicinal properties are not much lower than top grade ones. Furthermore, the quality of the pills could actually be a lot better, but it's being limited by the refiner's cultivation level. I guess that this pill refiner must be a peak Tier 2 Mortal Pill Refiner, or even a Tier 3 one.”
“How many spirit stones were all these pills bought for?” The linen robed youth eyes glimmered; it was unknown what he was thinking about.
The middle-aged man sighed and lamented, “That man must have been in an urgent need for spirit stones. These pills wasn't even properly appraised before they were brought here. We got them for a total of 1070 spirit stones “
The linen robed youth furrowed his brows and immediately said, “Uncle Sun, that price is far too low. Our Nine Moons Pill House can be established for so long isn't only because of our higher pill quality, but also our integrity. Even at the usual market price, these pills would already be worth at least 2000 spirit stones. Now, we’re really bullying our patrons by only giving him half the price.”
The middle-aged man nodded, “I know, but by the time I arrived, the manager had already collected all the pills. I wanted to find the person of interest, but he had ready rushed off somewhere.”
The linen robed youth flatly said, “Fire that manager then. If he could scam our patrons today, he could scam our store in the future. Our Nine Moons Pill House wasn't established on this sort of small schemes…”
After pausing for a moment, the linen robed youth continued, “If we can find that pill refiner, find some way to reimburse him. At the same time, I want to have a chat with him.
The middle-aged man said, “Shao Ke, you want him to represent our Nine Moons Pill House for the Five Elements Desolate Domain Pill Competition?”
The linen robed youth sighed, “This is just a one-sided wish. If this person could concoct such exceptional pills, I believe that he would have already promised someone else his service.”
The middle-aged man smiled faintly, “That may not be true. If he was really going to represent someone else, he would not have sold his pills at such a cheap price. I guess that there's a good 80 to 90% chance that he’s a rogue pill refiner.”
The linen robed youth's eyes flashed briefly, but he did not say anything.
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Fringe City Pill-Smith Workshop.
This was Fringe City biggest renter for pill concocting rooms and weapon smithies. After Mo Wuji received his spirit stones, the first place he did was to rush to the Fringe City Pill-Smith Workshop and rent a pill concocting room. Thereafter, he prepared his drug refining equipment within the pill concocting room. He didn't rent the room to concoct pills, but to purify the spiritual herbs.
After igniting the fire, and carefully cleaning the pill furnace, Mo Wuji added the new ingredients for the channel opening solution into the pill furnace. Mo Wuji also opened the wooden box containing a Treasured Blood Lotus, and carefully plucked out a ruby-like lotus root and added it to the pill furnace. Compared to typical lotus roots, the Treasured Blood Lotus Roots were tougher and thicker.
Actually, Mo Wuji knew that purifying each spiritual herb individually would definitely have better results. However, there were limits to his capabilities, so he could only throw all the ingredients together and purify them using his hand techniques.
After a whole three hours, Mo Wuji expelled the medicinal dregs and sent the medicinal essences into a porcelain vase.