Chapter 166: Strangers Earn Half, Familiar People Earn Grand Slam (Fourth Update!)
Jiang Qingwu appeared calm on the surface, and it was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry, but in fact, he was very excited.
Emperor Qian nodded slightly beside him.
Although the seventh child was indeed a bad boy in the past, and had been following the prince around and causing a lot of trouble, people would come to him and complain about him from time to time.
Later, the prince died. Without someone to rely on, this kid started to work harder. Now he can help the old man and even reverse the situation.
Emperor Qian also heard the ancestor's praise. After the death of the crown prince, he had been thinking about appointing a successor, but there was no good candidate.
The other princes were relatively ordinary, and most of them rarely left the imperial capital. They lived in golden cages and found it difficult to achieve great things.
Of course, this was also partly due to him. He designated the crown prince too early, causing his other sons to realize that they had no room for advancement and so they just stayed in the same place.
As time went by, once the prince died, it was naturally difficult for anyone to step up and take on the responsibility in a short period of time.
Now Jiang Qingwu has stood up and made great contributions to Daqian. If the ancestor can really escape danger this time, it would be appropriate to make him the crown prince.
Emperor Qian did not say what he was thinking at the moment, but he knew it in his mind.
Emperor Qian looked at the ancestor and said, "Ancestor, since these things are useful, please refine them immediately to avoid wasting time."
Jiang Zu shook his head and said, "Refining it like this will benefit my lifespan, but it can't maximize its usefulness, and it can only resist temporary lifespan decline. If you want to solve the fundamental problem, it's best to refine it into a pill."
If you want to unleash the full efficacy of a treasure of this level, you definitely can't just swallow it in one gulp, and it would be a waste. You can only exert 50% or 60% of the efficacy out of 10%.
If you want to maximize the efficacy of the medicine, you have to ask the alchemist to make it into a pill. After the alchemist refines it, the tenth efficacy can be fully utilized. Even a very effective medicine can exert twelve times the effect after being refined and improved.
Jiang Zu calculated that if he just swallowed it directly, he could certainly suppress the decline of his lifespan, but it would only be temporary. The decline of his lifespan might come back in a few years. It would only be a temporary solution and not a cure for the disease.
If you want to suppress it better and longer, you have to find a high-level alchemist to refine medicine, and turn it into a pill to suppress or even eliminate the decline of lifespan.
This is the only way to truly solve the problem.
Emperor Qian nodded after listening to it, thinking that what the ancestor said did make sense.
Emperor Qian said: "Then let's go to the Alchemist Alliance."
Jiang Zu: "I will go there in person. The president of the Daqian Imperial Capital Alchemist Alliance is an old friend of mine. We have a deep friendship, so he should give me a friendly price."
Jiang Zu took Emperor Qian and Jiang Qingwu out of the palace and headed for the Alchemist Alliance.
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"Brother Jiang, this is really a friendship price! If it's any lower, our Alchemist Alliance really can't do it. I can do it too!" In the Alchemist Alliance, Shangguan Huai, the president of the Imperial Capital Alchemist Alliance, stood up and explained in a loud voice.
"You fucking fart!"
Jiang Renjie was so angry that he couldn't help swearing and his face turned red.
Jiang Renjie rarely had red temperature, and at this moment, the red temperature directly caused his blood to surge, and the longevity factor on his head was temporarily suppressed by the surge of blood.
"Old Shangguan, you sold me a pill for 200 billion spirit stones. Do you still have a conscience? Do you have a conscience? And you still say we are friends? What kind of friends are you? My friend is dying and you charge me 200 billion? Shangguan is bad, you are so fucking bad!"
Jiang Renjie was in the VIP room of the Alchemist Alliance. He originally thought that if he came here in person, the Alliance President Shangguan Huai would give him a favor and give him a lower price for refining pills since they were old friends for many years.
But he never expected that after the old man heard his purpose, he immediately quoted a price of 200 billion.
Jiang Renjie was annoyed to hear that Emperor Qian next door lived in Bengbu, and Jiang Qingwu felt dizzy.
200 billion spiritual stones.
How much is the total fiscal revenue of the Daqian Treasury in a year? It is estimated to be around 50 billion.
This money has to be allocated to various parties every year to pay ministers' salaries.
200 billion spirit stones to refine a pill, is this robbing the national treasury?
Are you crazy or am I crazy? Although Jiang Renjie knew that the Alchemist Alliance was shady, he never thought it was so shady!
200 billion? The Daqian Treasury can't take out that much money at once.
President Shangguan said: "Old friend, it's not that I don't want to help you. I want to help you, but this matter is not decided by me. You should know that you are in the state of transformation.
With your level of cultivation, if you want to refine elixirs for the Spirit Transformation Realm, you will need at least a sixth-grade alchemist to help. Moreover, even a sixth-grade alchemist may not be able to solve the problem. There is a failure rate in refining elixirs, and you have so few materials that you can only refine it twice at most.
If we want to ensure the success rate, we will probably have to ask a seventh-grade alchemist for help. As you know, in our North Continent Alchemist Alliance, there is not a single seventh-grade alchemist in the entire North Continent. Seventh-grade alchemists are only found in Central Continent, and even I rarely see such people on a normal day.
If you want to ask a seventh-grade alchemist to make medicine for you, you must pay enough money. An old monster of that level has already reached the stage of fusion and tribulation. 200 billion spirit stones may be valuable to you, but it may not be enough if you ask him to do it once. This is already a friendly price.
For this price, I have to swallow my pride and find someone to smooth things over.”
Shangguan Huai said that in fact I am also an employee, and many things are not decided by me.
The alchemist industry is a highly profitable industry and is also the richest industry among all practitioners. Not to mention the seventh-grade alchemist, even a fifth-grade alchemist can accumulate extremely high wealth in a very short period of time.
The premium of the Alchemist Alliance is already high, as you know. 200 billion spirit stones are nothing to a seventh-grade alchemist.
Jiang Renjie couldn't hold it anymore.
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200 billion spirit stones is indeed not a lot of money for the top alchemists in Central Continent, but for a small country in Northern Continent, it is enough to be fatal.
Of course Jiang Renjie would never agree. After paying 200 billion spirit stones, his life would be over? Moreover, there was a failure rate in refining medicine. These seventh-grade alchemists were arrogant and might just walk away if they failed.
When Jiang Renjie wants to defend his rights...
Rights protection?
What rights are you defending? What courage do you have to defend the rights of the fusion body to overcome the tribulation? Don't you want to live?
The gap in strength is too big. If the refining fails, you will lose both the money and the things. One more word from you may turn the fact into a rumor, and the plaintiff will be turned into the defendant and be slapped to death.
The risk and cost were too great, so Jiang Renjie left in anger.
President Shangguan stood up and said, "Brother, would you like to reconsider this?"
Jiang Renjie: "Go away! I don't want to practice anymore!"
Shangguan Huai sighed.
What a pity. I didn’t make any money from my friend. I really lost out. If I had known, I wouldn’t have bid so high in one go.
He also didn't expect that the great Daqian ancestor was so poor that he couldn't even come up with 200 billion spirit stones.
Shangguan Huai: It seems that the treasury of the Daqian royal family is not as much as my personal assets.
After Jiang Renjie left, Shangguan Huai's secretary walked in, shaking her hips and holding a cup of tea.
"President, the Jiang family's ancestor is gone?"
Shangguan Huai: “Yeah.”
"Why did you offer him such a high price? I remember that when we asked a seventh-grade alchemist to do the work, 5 billion seemed to be enough, right?"
Shangguan Huai pinched her butt hard.
"Little Whistle Cup, what do you know? This is how business works. Strangers make half the profit, and acquaintances make the grand prize. Otherwise, where do you think the money comes from?"
Secretary: "6 oh!"
This is the legendary small official with huge corruption, right?
(End of this chapter)