"To be honest, I'm over 40 years old and have never thought about teaching a disciple. Seeing you, Blake, made me want to do this, but I don't know if I can teach you well.
But since you have accepted me as your master, I will not let you lose face. I will make you learn some of my skills even if I have to beat you to death."
After becoming a disciple, the next problem is teaching. Although Lin Xingchen has taught many people before, he has never treated the other person as his own apprentice.
After thinking hard for a long time, he finally had to face the reality: "Blake, take this money and buy some herbs needed for the recipe you know. I plan to conduct a comprehensive investigation of your foundation."
Perhaps because he was used to living a frugal life, Blake took away Lin Xingchen's master badge. He said that if he took this badge to the association to buy herbs, he could get a discount of up to 50%.
In order to help Blake get a general idea, Lin Xingchen had to change his reading order. After obtaining the formulas of nearly thirty kinds of primary potions available in the entire demon world, Lin Xingchen began to study them.
Although this plan had already taken shape in his mind, the potion formula that was originally placed at the end had to be put first because of Blake.
When he was in the small village, although Uncle Barto was not a pharmacist, he was a good pharmacist. The difference of one word made a world of difference in his status, but the basic herbs were the same.
After learning from Uncle Barto for more than a month during his recovery, Lin Xingchen was able to do this kind of thing very easily. After all, the pharmacists in the main world had received special training on how to distinguish herbs.
Moreover, the basic potions in the main world are varied. There are hundreds of mainstream ones alone, not to mention countless niche ones or those developed later.
The people in the demon world are very pragmatic. They divide potions into two types: useful ones and those that are not needed temporarily.
Being useful naturally determines its existence, and the formula has been refined through thousands of trials in every link. The reason why it is temporarily unused is that there are some problems with the medicine itself.
Blake's deceased teacher had a conflict with another senior pharmacist with a strong background because of one of these potions. In the end, he was suppressed by the other person and never raised his head until his death.
Because Lin Xingchen had asked the association to keep his identity confidential, the outside world did not know that a new master pharmacist had appeared in Kalonya.
In order to raise money to ensure the lives of himself and others in the future, Lin Xingchen had to buy medicine.
A bottle of top-grade bloodline potion was sold at a sky-high price at an auction in the Demon Realm. To be honest, Lin Xingchen really didn't expect that there would be a trading method like auction in the Demon Realm.
According to what Blake had heard, the auction took place about two years ago and was founded by a famous business genius in the demon world.
After two hundred years of evolution, the business of this genius who founded the auction has spread all over the demon world. Although the auction manager was polite, he was not at all stage-frightened. He said that there are currently thousands of auctions, and each of them is opened in a territory like Kalonya.
This should be considered a low-key display of wealth! More than a thousand families also prove that the Demon Realm now has more than a thousand territories as large as Kalonya.
No wonder the Shining Gold Chamber of Commerce, which claims to be the number one business in the demon world, can confidently say that it can undertake the auction of any item without worrying about any problems.
The auction was not as exciting as Lin Xingchen had imagined. On the contrary, it was very dull. No one stood up to say what they needed. Everyone held up their signs the whole time. Although the auctioneer would occasionally stir up the atmosphere, he always did so in moderation.
A bottle of top-grade bloodline potion was sold for 60,000 purple crystal coins. Amid the sighs of loss of many people, Lin Xingchen began his life in the demon world with his spoils.
I bought a house close to the street in a relatively remote place in Kalonya, and then asked someone to make some modifications to turn it into a shop with a store in the front and a residence in the back.
Now that all affairs have been settled, there are two things left to do. The first is to teach the disciples and the second is the most urgent matter, which is the store sign.
The three girls and a bonus named Blake discussed for three days, and finally decided on the name of the store after some compromise.
To be honest, looking at the four huge words "Secret Magic Potion" hanging on the door, Lin Xingchen had the urge to kick it away.
The mysterious demon pharmacy! This is how the store was eventually reduced to its current four characters, but the four people who named it all accepted it, so Lin Xingchen didn't care.
The secret magic potion shop officially opened on the first day of July, but the door was not opened on the opening day as the five people were busy learning their own things.
Pharmacy is very expensive. In order to conduct a comprehensive assessment of Blake, more than a thousand purple crystal coins were wasted.
In Kalonya, one amethyst coin is enough for a family of four to live comfortably for two to three days, which makes Blake and Xia very distressed.
The two money-grubbers who were both used to living a hard life finally found common ground on this point, but the feedback they received after wasting also gave Lin Xingchen a detailed understanding.
"If you are judged by my standards, you can only be considered an unqualified junior pharmacist. You can't even perform basic temperature control techniques for many things."
"But these are not problems. Now that I know your problem, I will teach you specifically. I tell you that if I think you can learn something, I will not be polite with the bamboo stick in my hand if you don't learn it!"
From this time on, the Secret Demon Potion Shop was open every day, but the person who looked after the shop was a young man who often had injuries on his face and back. Not only was he looking after the shop, he was also constantly practicing mixing potions, or learning some words that others could not understand.
"The number and variety of medicines on the pharmacy counter is increasing, and Xia and the others are happier every time there is one more because they are also cheering for their junior brother."
Blake had no objection to his master's rough teaching method. Instead, he worked harder. After all, it was his own fault that Lin Xingchen beat him, and his master had told him about these mistakes more than once or twice.
Just because Blake was beaten doesn't mean the others were fine. The other three also had a very miserable life, and she was beaten no less than Blake.
Xia leaned against the door of the shop, watching the passers-by coming and going, and sighed, "Brother! Do you think there is something wrong with the potion you prepared? How come we only sold a few bottles of antidote potion in the past month even though we opened in July and it's almost the end of the year now!"
"If there's something wrong with my potion, don't use it next time you get beaten!" Blake immediately refused to listen when he heard that. Every time, it was Xia who used the most potions. Now she said there was something wrong with his potion, so of course he wouldn't agree.
"Senior sister, I was just joking with you, why do you take it so seriously? I'm just thinking about how to expand the business. After all, it's not a good idea for you to waste herbs every day!" Xia looked so upset that he couldn't even describe how upset he was to see his money go down the drain.
Just as the two were chatting nonsense, several tall demons armed with swords and machetes rushed into the store.
"Oh! Young boss, you're here just in time! We brothers came to your place to buy something!" A burly demon who was two meters tall laughed as he saw Xia huddled at the threshold.
Xia stood up immediately when she heard that someone was here to buy medicine. Although her height of less than one meter made her look very funny, her aura was not weak at all.
"How did you know that the medicine in our store is so effective? Now you realize that I didn't lie to you!"
"Yes, yes, yes... Young Boss, you are right. We are the ones who don't know what is good for us. The bottles of antidote we bought from you last month are really useful.
One of our teammates got poisoned and tried many different medicines but none of them worked. Finally, he tried your medicine and it actually worked. We are planning to buy more from your store!" He shouted and squatted down to coax Xia like a child.
"Let me tell you, our antidote is not the only one that works. Take this healing potion for example. As long as you are not fatally injured, this potion can save your life.
And once you take all of this primary series of potions, it is guaranteed to give you an all-round improvement in strength, speed and defense.
Look, there are these primary recovery potions. I tell you that we use them every day. They have a very good recovery effect on both physical strength and magic power. "Xia suddenly turned into a salesman and kept selling the things in his store.
"Young boss, we don't need many of the things you mentioned. We plan to buy more antidotes this time. Can you give me a discount?"
"No bargaining for small business. Last time I sold it to you at a loss just to let you try it. This time, I must sell it to you at the original price!"
"Senior Sister! They are all people who go to the Poison Mist Forest to earn some hard-earned money. Just give them according to the cost price!" Blake really couldn't bear it anymore.
"Shut up! If you continue like this, our whole family will starve to death sooner or later!" Although he was extremely reluctant, he still sold a batch to these people at a low price.
After this group of people promoted the efficacy of the medicine, the business of the shop gradually improved. Seeing the good business, Xia's eyes looking at Blake changed from disgust to recognition.
At the end of a busy day, Blake was putting the door panels together one by one. Just when he finished the last two panels, a hand stopped him.
"Blake, please inform Master Xingchen that a distinguished guest is visiting." Master Brown greeted Blake with a smile.