"Boss, if we offend the Sword Gang, it might be harder to sell our pills in the future."
In the courtyard, Jin Yuanbao spoke with a worried expression.
"No problem. Those who have bought the Heart Nourishing Pill will naturally know its benefits. With sufficient scarcity marketing, when we sell the pills, they may be snapped up in an instant."
Qin Xin said confidently, "By the way, Yuanbao, find a way to spread the word that Jiang Xinghai bought the Nourishing Heart Pill at a high price just to win a beauty's favor."
"Boss, that's awesome!"
Upon hearing this, Jin Yuanbao stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and praised Qin Xin's method.
Soon, news of Jiang Xinghai purchasing the Heart Nourishing Pill spread throughout the outer courtyard. In no time, the Heart Nourishing Pill was touted as an essential pill for cultivation in the Spirit Forging Tower. Qin Xin also took this opportunity to refine a large number of Heart Nourishing Pills, and his token points quickly exceeded ten thousand.
With gold ingots as a reward for points, Class 17 now has three more members. Qin Xin is very familiar with these three people; they are Dao Hu, Li Chen, and Ji Huai, whom he met in the Trial Forest. They joined initially because Qin Xin was a second-grade alchemist, but later they saw the future potential of Class 17.
"Boss, the price of Qingxin Pills at Danpu has dropped a lot recently, and the prices of Fuqi Pills and Ningxue Pills are also constantly decreasing."
In Qin Xin's courtyard, the six members of Class 17 gathered to discuss the pills. Since returning from the Trial Forest, Mo Wen went straight to the arena. After losing most of his points in the arena, he came to Qin Xin to help sell pills. He was quite surprised when he learned that Qin Xin was an alchemist.
"I'm afraid we'll face sanctions from some people next."
Qin Xin spoke thoughtfully. In recent days, he had noticed that the prices of many medicinal materials for refining the Heart Nourishing Pill were rising and the profits were decreasing. As for the medicinal materials for the Qi Restoration Pill and the Blood Coagulation Pill, they were no longer available for purchase. Members of Class 17 were refused when they went to the pill shops in the trading center, and they could not even buy them in Black Dragon City.
"Yuanbao, Lingdie, let's put aside the pills for now. We need to improve our strength first. Each of you will receive one thousand points."
Qin Xin took out his identity token and had the others deduct points from it.
“Boss, we have quite a few points now,” Shangguan Lingdie refused.
"Since you're all calling me boss, you can take it. Whether you can establish yourself in this outer courtyard in the future mainly depends on you."
Qin Xin waved his hand and said calmly.
"Haha, I told you so! Following the boss means you'll get the benefits. I'll go first."
Jin Yuanbao said with a smile, then took Qin Xin's identity token and swished it across his waist.
The others didn't hesitate any longer and all took the tokens, then returned them to Qin Xin.
"Hey, everyone's dividing up the spoils here. Is there any for me?"
A somewhat disheveled figure, carrying a wine jug, sauntered over, making a joking remark.
"Supervisor Rong, the classes are almost gone, and you still have the mood to drink."
Qin Xin couldn't help but roll his eyes when he saw the person in front of him arrive.
The purpose of the academy assigning academic supervisors to manage classes is mainly to urge students to cultivate diligently. Once all the students in a class have left for other classes, the class will be canceled and will only reopen after the academy recruits new students.
As for why Rong Ling would lead twenty classes, it was mainly because none of the students he took in each year could be retained.
"Isn't it because of you? I think my class can make it into the top ten this year, and we can be quite famous in the academy."
Rong Ling took a sip of wine, then shrugged and said, "Is there any more monkey wine?"
"Here you go."
Qin Xin took out a pot of monkey wine from his Qiankun bag and threw it out. Rong Ling hurriedly stepped forward to catch it.
"Kid, watch out."
Rong Ling, holding the wine pot, seemed rather cautious, as if afraid of dropping it on the ground.
After meeting Ya Ru, the little girl had to reluctantly share half of her favorite monkey wine with Qin Xin to make up for Qin Xin's loss. Otherwise, Qin Xin would not have been able to forgive her easily. Since the last time Rong Ling drank the monkey wine, he has been coming to ask for wine every few days. Now the two of them are quite familiar with each other.
"I have some bad news for you. You've been targeted by the Medicine Gang. Selling medicine won't be so easy anymore."
Rong Ling hurriedly opened the wine pot, gently brushed it against his nose with an expression of enjoyment, and then spoke slowly and deliberately.
"I understand."
Qin Xin nodded.
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In a spacious and luxurious room in the outer courtyard of the Eastern Wilderness Academy, a dozen people sat in a somewhat somber atmosphere, as if something had happened that made everyone feel depressed.
At the head of the large table in the room, a man dressed in alchemist's robes leaned back in his chair, while two female students carefully massaged his shoulders. On his chest was a pattern of an ancient alchemy furnace, with three shimmering silver ripples flashing above it.
"Tell me, why has the sales of outer sect pills dropped so much recently?" the alchemist said in a low voice, his tone laced with anger.
"It's all from Class 17 of the Martial Arts Academy. Recently, they've been selling Heart Nourishing Pills, which are five times more potent than Heart Clearing Pills. Plus, when you buy Heart Clearing Pills, they give away some Qi Restoration Pills and Blood Clotting Pills. In addition, many new students have been complaining about the price of the pills, which has caused us to lose a lot of customers."
A voice replied in a low voice from below, then took out three medicine bottles and placed them on the table.
"Oh? So Class 17 has an alchemist?"
The alchemist expressed his doubts, because in the Eastern Wilderness Academy, alchemists were a special group. Even if they did not meet the academy's admission requirements, as long as they were alchemists, they would be admitted to the academy and could directly enter the inner courtyard for cultivation. Therefore, he was somewhat surprised that an alchemist had suddenly appeared in the outer courtyard.
"Hmm... these pills look like they were just refined, so they should be correct."
"These pills are all made using the same method, so they must have been made by the same person, though they are still a bit immature." The alchemist examined the pills in the jade bottle, then brought them to his nose to sniff, a smile playing on his lips.
"This matter should be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise our Medicine Gang will have to reconsider its cooperation with other gangs in the hospital."
The alchemist ignored his subordinates' excuses, casually said something, and got up to leave the room.
"Huan Hua, how many students are left in Class 17?"
After the alchemist left, a man who looked young but had a full beard spoke angrily.
"Including Qin Xin, there should be seven people!"
Huan Hua did not hesitate, as he was well aware of Qin Xin's situation.
"Find a way to offer them some benefits and get them to join my Sword Gang."
"But, Chief..."
Huan Hua was somewhat surprised upon hearing this; he was unwilling to see such an outcome.
"Do as I say." The leader of the Sword Gang directly contradicted Huan Hua's words.
Seeing that the gang leader had made up his mind, Huan Hua had no choice but to lead the two students who had already joined the Sword Gang toward the courtyard where Qin Xin was locked up.
"This freshman is quite interesting. He's a troublemaker, and I didn't expect him to be an alchemist. If he could join my Sword Clan, we wouldn't have to put up with the attitude of those people in the inner academy."
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