Cultivation World 7: Pill Trading
"What's that smell? It smells so good?"
"Why does it smell like meat?"
"Which fellow practitioner didn't bring enough fasting pills? Why are they cooking food near us?"
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On this day, the street vendors were doing business as usual above the underground palace. There were only so many people around. Occasionally, there would be some transactions when one or two newcomers came. Most of the time, the monks set up stalls here to practice.
With disciples of Qingyan Sect in charge and so many fellow practitioners around, even if they enter a state of meditation, they don't have to worry about any evil cultivators coming.
Just when everyone thought that today would be the same as usual, a spicy meaty aroma rushed into the noses of the monks, and one or two monks with poor concentration were instantly awakened from their meditation state.
The fasting pill can prevent people from feeling hungry, but it will not turn into food in the stomach out of thin air.
Before becoming a monk, who wasn't an ordinary person who had to eat three meals a day?
The smell of fireworks instantly evoked memories in many people's hearts, and they cursed while looking for the source of the fragrance.
Xie Yunsui tore a picnic blanket at the corner of the crowd and set up a stall. The stall was filled with some ordinary yellow-level pills. The only special items were a few space gourds.
The first thing people who found this place asked was, "How much is your broth?"
Xie Yunsui glanced at him and said, "I'm not selling it. I'm eating it myself."
He didn't have much monster meat left. Since he had decided to set up a stall here to practice, he naturally had no source of supply. He couldn't just conjure up countless meat and vegetables out of thin air. Even if he had a space gourd as a cover, he couldn't take it endlessly.
Today was his first day setting up the stall, and as he expected, there wasn't much business. However, he wasn't in a hurry, as he mainly wanted to make something delicious to feed Xiaoxi.
Qingwen and Zhu Ming were meditating and practicing nearby, and Ling Xiyuan accompanied him to display the magic weapons for sale.
Two novices set up a stall, one didn't know how to shout, and the other didn't want to shout.
Xie Yunsui asked Ling Xiyuan what he wanted to eat for lunch. Ling Xiyuan didn't know what he could cook and just said that he could eat anything.
Xie Yunsui thought about it. When he made curry soup the day before yesterday, Qingwen and Zhu Ming were obviously not used to the taste, but Xiaoxi ate it with gusto, one bowl after another. It seemed that he had a strong ability to accept it.
He made a Tom Yum Goong-flavored broth today. Alas, the main reason was that food sources in the secret realm were scarce. Apart from monster meat, the only food available was spiritual plants, so he had to put a lot of effort into the soup base.
How could someone attracted by the fragrance be willing to leave just like that? He glanced at the still bubbling soup pot, then shifted his gaze to look at the things placed in front of the person.
"What are these pills?"
"Ordinary yellow-level soul-restoring pills, true essence pills, small recovery pills, and detoxification pills."
These were all useful elixirs in the secret realm. The person asking for the price became curious: "Can I take a look?"
Xie Yunsui was unable to move for a moment, so Ling Xiyuan helped him get a bottle of Huiling Pills and pulled out the cork: "There are ten pills in a bottle, and they are all of the same quality."
The man scanned it with his spiritual power and couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's actually a top-grade elixir?"
As we all know, the level of alchemists varies greatly, and the quality of pills made from the same spiritual plants can also be very different. Those with almost no loss of spiritual energy are of the best quality, those with little loss are of the highest quality, followed by the middle quality, the lower quality, and the worst quality is not up to standard.
Top-grade elixirs can almost fully exert their medicinal effects. If the wallet allows, every cultivator will try to give priority to purchasing top-grade elixirs, which may save lives at critical moments.
However, top-grade elixirs are hard to come by. The top-grade elixirs in the sect are basically given as rewards to talented disciples. The ones sold in the elixir shop are mainly mid-grade ones, and the top-grade ones have to be sold at a high price.
Even though there are more than a dozen cultivators here who have obtained the inheritance and are all studying alchemy, in fact, nine out of ten of them are only refining low-quality elixirs.
Whenever you come across a mid-quality product, it will be snatched up by a wave of people.
Is this actually a top-grade elixir?
The ordinary little wooden medicine bottle told him clearly that it could not be fake. There was not even a spirit gathering formation on it. If it was not a top-grade elixir, it would not have such abundant spiritual energy.
Yuan Jin looked around with a distressed look and asked the price in a low voice: "How much is it?"
Xie Yunsui raised his eyes, seeing that he seemed to think he was someone who was ignorant of the ways of the world and didn't know the rules. He wanted to take advantage of the situation? So he said, "One pill costs three hundred spirit stones."
Yuan Jin's words, "Why don't you just go and rob it?" were stuck in his throat. He lowered his voice and said, "This is just a yellow-grade pill, worth at most two hundred spirit stones."
Before setting the price, Xie Yunsui had already consulted Ling Xiyuan and Zhu Ming. Both of them had experience in exchanging elixirs in the sect and had also visited the alchemy shop to understand the market price. Generally, a high-quality elixir could be sold for two to three hundred yuan.
Xie Yunsui smiled slightly: "To be honest, I'm short of money, so I'm willing to sell these high-grade pills. This is a secret realm, and if I use one, I'll have one less. Even if the secret realm is full of spiritual plants, no one can refine them, right?"
Yuan Jin was speechless. This was indeed true.
But isn't it impossible to come up with so many spirit stones?
He had worked so hard to set up the stall for so long, but had only saved about two hundred spirit stones.
Yuan Jin asked, "Can it be cheaper?"
Xie Yunsui thought for a moment and said, "If you don't have spirit stones, you can exchange them for spirit plants. However, you'll need twice as many spirit plants as one pill."
Yuan Jin's eyes lit up: "Really?"
"Of course, but do you know which spiritual plants we need?" Xie Yunsui said.
"Before you came, several people who inherited the legacy had already published the recipes for the elixir. You have the recipes for all four herbs here." Yuan Jin then listed the spiritual plants needed for the elixir, and the corresponding quantities of the main and auxiliary herbs. He then asked, "Can all four herbs be exchanged? Can I exchange more if I bring more?"
It takes so many medicines to refine a pill. Even if you add twice as many, an average alchemist may not be able to get a top-grade pill.
This deal is worth it!
"Yes, but there are only so many pills in total, first come first served." Xie Yunsui pointed at the pills on the stall.
Yuan Jin was no longer thinking about the pot of meat soup. He was about to leave to find some fellow disciples, wanting to take the initiative while others were not noticing, but suddenly his attention was attracted by the exquisite and small gourd.
This person even took out a top-grade elixir. This gourd looks ordinary, so it should be a good thing, right?
"What is this?"
When I found out that this thumb-sized gourd was actually a space artifact like the Qiankun bag, and it only cost a hundred spirit stones! What a bargain!
Yuan Jin just spent the two hundred spirit stones that he hadn't even warmed up yet.
The pot of Tom Yum Goong soup was finally ready. Xie Yunsui poured a bowl for Ling Xiyuan first and asked, "Want to try it?"
Ling Xiyuan took it and was stunned for a moment before realizing, "So you set such a high price because you wanted them to exchange spiritual plants for elixirs?"
"Who said that?" Xie Yunsui smiled. "If someone really wants to buy it with spirit stones, wouldn't I be willing to sell it?"
As he looked over, the two-story glazed pavilion was quite eye-catching. Ling Xiyuan blinked and couldn't help laughing.
It turns out that there is no way to suffer a loss. For ordinary cultivators, this secret realm is full of spiritual plants, so it is naturally more cost-effective to exchange spiritual plants for elixirs. Especially when they hear the price is so high, they probably feel that they have got a great bargain.
In fact, one batch of medicine can be used to make up to ten pills, but the strength of the average alchemist does not allow it, and the number of pills produced is unstable, sometimes six, sometimes three, and the quality of them is also good and bad. Generally, a famous alchemist will take the order and order one pill for each spiritual plant, and the rest will be considered as loss.
For Xie Yunsui, these two batches of medicine can be used to refine twenty high-grade pills, with a net profit of nineteen pills. The remaining ones can naturally be sold to wealthy cultivators.
It’s first come, first served, but isn’t it Xie Yunsui who has the final say on who arrives first?
The elixir must be so expensive. The space gourd has the same effect as the Qiankun bag, but it is one-fifth of the price of the latter. Even he was very tempted when he first heard the price and wanted to empty his savings, but he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in this gourd?
Before he could continue asking, someone else came over smelling the fragrance. Naturally, like Yuan Jin, he thought he had found a bargain, so he also hurriedly left to go to the underground palace to collect spiritual plants.
People came one after another, and naturally they could not hide it from the eyes of other monks. People who were not interested in the taste of the broth also came to take a look to see what he was selling, so as to know both themselves and their enemies.
It’s also too boring to set up stalls in secret places.
"Is this pill really a top-grade pill?"
"How come you can't see the spatial formation in this gourd? Is it really useful?"
"One times the amount of spiritual plants is still too much, can you give me less?"
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Many people came one after another.
Xie Yunsui introduced them one by one without even having time to eat.
Ling Xiyuan held the bowl and found that he had no right to speak, so he lowered his head and took a sip of the broth. The sour and spicy taste rushed to his head. When he tasted it carefully, he could find a hint of seafood, outstanding spices, and a faint milky aroma.
The combination of multiple flavors makes it a pleasure to drink this soup directly.
Ah, you want to take that person back to the sect again.
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"These are the ingredients for two Soul-Returning Pills. Please check them out, my friend."
Three days later, Yuan Jin, who was the first to ask for the price, finally picked enough spiritual plants. Before it got dark, he wanted to come over and make a pill first.
What he was holding was the space gourd he bought from Xie Yunsui, which was specially used to store spiritual plants.
He took out the spiritual plant and placed it on the ground. Xie Yunsui glanced at it and found that the collection was relatively complete and the spiritual energy was not dissipated. He nodded and completed the transaction.
I really got a top-grade elixir!
Yuan Jin held the top-grade Huiling Pill in his palm, and just by holding it in his palm, he could vaguely feel the spiritual power in his body increasing. It was really a good medicine!
He carefully put it in a jade bottle to distinguish it from other mid- and low-grade elixirs.
"My immortal friend, do you have any top-grade elixirs here?" Yuan Jin asked for confirmation.
Xie Yunsui said, "Yes."
"good."
Yuan Jin left immediately and returned to where his fellow disciples were. He said to everyone, "It's true! I got the top-grade Huiling Pill!"
A fellow disciple carefully examined the medicine and said, "The spiritual energy of this top-grade pill is almost as good as that of a top-grade pill."
"Great! With this batch of pills, we can resell them after we get out of the secret realm and make a lot of money!"
"Finally, it's the real deal. That alchemist said he could refine mid-grade pills, but he took three batches of our materials and ended up blowing up his furnace!"
"This year's batch won't work. I heard that two jade boxes of inheritance were found in the Dansheng Secret Realm last time."
"The two you mentioned are already good seedlings cultivated by Danding Sect."
"So who is this Xianyou Xie?"
"It doesn't look like he refined it himself. What alchemy practitioner would hold the soup pot instead of the alchemy furnace every day? It must have been prepared by the elders of the clan."
"Don't be too ecstatic. We're not the only ones who saw Xianyou Xie's stall. I've seen over twenty people asking about it these past few days, and the space gourds are almost sold out."
The most advanced senior brother among the disciples pondered for a moment and said, "Only the ingredients for the Soul-Returning Pill and the Small Huan Pill are in the underground palace. The main ingredient for the True Essence Pill and the Detoxification Pill is outside. We should split into two groups. One group will go out to collect spiritual plants, and the other group will stay in the underground palace and try to exchange as many high-grade pills as possible."
"Hehe, luckily I was smart and bought a lot of space gourds early on. His space gourds have been sold out. Even if the people who came later wanted to grab them, they wouldn't be able to put many spiritual plants in them in a short time."
"You have foresight, kid."
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