"The situation is turning grim," one said.
"Hasn't it always been like this?" came the reply.
...
Eagles soar through the sky, fish dart in the shallow waters,...
Don't even think about it if you're a rogue cultivator.
After a good night's sleep, the day arrived for her to go fishing at the market again, and she carefully packaged the pills into jade bottles.
A bottle contains ten medium-grade pills, and a bottle contains one high-grade pill. The bottles I used to buy Rejuvenation Pills and Qi Nourishing Pills are now being used again.
She did some mental calculations.
One set of materials for a Qi Gathering Pill costs one spirit stone. If you buy ten sets, it costs nine spirit stones. She can refine five medium-grade pills and one high-grade pill from one set of materials.
Based on the two sets of materials, she spent eighteen spirit stones and earned thirty spirit stones, making a total of twelve spirit stones in the round trip.
These twelve coins have to be handed over to the market, and I'll probably only get two coins in my own hands. I'll have to live like this for fifty years.
"Sigh." She sighed and walked out of the Little Moon Cave.
"What's wrong?" Xu Ni and Shen Xian'er were already waiting outside.
Xu Ni asked, "I've told you all the methods to become an immortal, and you still haven't mastered it?"
"Become an immortal?" the fairy asked curiously.
"Don't talk nonsense." Jiang Xiaoyue tossed five jade bottles to Xu Ni. "One bottle contains ten mid-grade coins, one bottle contains five mid-grade coins, and the remaining three bottles each contain one high-grade coin."
"Xiaoyue, you've become an alchemist? Congratulations!" Shenxian'er said happily.
Jiang Xiaoyue also laughed.
"My method to become an immortal is indeed effective!" Xu Ni boasted, taking credit for the achievement.
Jiang Xiaoyue's smile vanished.
Xu Ni ignored her expression and counted, "If we don't sell them to shops and just sell them at a stall, we can get around forty-three yuan (five mid-grade coins can only sell for three or four yuan), which is a bit low—"
She paused, then smiled and continued, "—But this is the first time. There will be more and more in the future. Xiaoyue, your parents must be very proud. You have really become an alchemist!"