Nan Huanuo laughed and said, "It said it was hungry!"
Chen Dadan said, "It's been locked up for so long, it must be hungry. What does it eat?"
Nan Huanuo said: "Spiritual beasts eat everything, but they love to eat spiritual stones the most."
Chen Dabing took out a spirit stone and threw it at his feet. The purple fox's eyes suddenly lit up. It picked up the spirit stone with its two claws, first bit a piece of skin at the pointed end, and then sucked hard at the opening. This posture surprised Chen Dabing very much, and he had a sense of familiarity.
If the originally bright color of the spirit stone had not gradually dimmed, allowing Chen Dadan to understand that it was absorbing the spiritual energy in the spirit stone, and seeing it closing its eyes and enjoying it very much, he would definitely have misunderstood.
A picture appeared in Chen Dadan's mind. The vixen turned into a beautiful woman and was still sucking in this posture... The picture was so beautiful that he couldn't even imagine it.
Chen Dabing shook his head to get rid of the image and said to the purple fox again, "Are you full? You can leave now."
The purple fox threw away the deflated spirit stone, then grabbed his trouser leg with its little claws and followed him closely. It was obvious that it didn't want to leave and was willing to stay and be a spirit pet.
Nan Huanuo said, "It's so psychic! It hasn't even awakened its intelligence yet, but it already knows how to cling to others."
Chen Dadan asked, "If we feed it spirit stones, can it awaken its intelligence and transform into a human form?"
Nan Huanuo said, "I'm afraid it will need to consume a lot of spirit stones. Sir, you don't want to raise it, do you?"
Chen Dadan said, "Look, we're releasing it, but the Abyssal Forest is so dangerous. This isn't releasing it, it's sending it to its death."
Nan Huanuo really liked this little fox. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind and he said, "Why not let it recognize me as its master? Then, even if it transforms into a human form in the future, it won't dare to deceive you, sir."
Chen Dabao said, "The master recognition ceremony requires prying open its head. It's too cruel."
Nan Huanuo said, "Then what should we do? It's a demon beast after all. If it doesn't recognize its master, it won't be tamed. Once it awakens its intelligence, it won't be willing to be inferior to humans. Otherwise, it will leave its master and there are even precedents of it turning against its master."
Chen Dadan said, "Meeting is fate. Since we like it and it's willing to follow us, let's keep it. If it wants to leave in the future, let it go. Anyway, I have no intention of enslaving it."
Nan Huanuo said, "I don't have any intention of enslaving it, so I'll just do as you say and keep it as it pleases!"
Zihu opened his eyes wide and looked at Chen Dabing, as if he understood what he said, and there was a look of gratitude in his eyes.
The more Chen Dabing looked at it, the more he liked it. He held it in his arms and gave it another spirit stone, saying, "I already have thirteen of them, so I don't mind raising one more little one."
Then he returned to Tianya Haijiao City and still lived in the farmhouse. When he had the materials, he continued to make pills.
In the next few days, he began to regret raising an extra little fox. This little guy was too greedy. He only ate spirit stones and nothing else. Moreover, he had a huge appetite. If he let it eat as much as it wanted, it could eat a hundred spirit stones a day.
This is not raising a spiritual pet, but raising a prodigal son!
However, Nan Huanuo told him a piece of information that prevented him from driving the little fox out of the house. She said that the purple fox might really have noble blood. The more it could eat, the greater its potential for growth. The more it could eat, the better it could absorb and digest. When the spiritual energy accumulated in its body reached a certain peak, it might be possible to open up its spiritual intelligence and even stimulate its innate magical powers.
Chen Dabing also wanted to see what the little fox would look like when it transformed into a human form. He once saw a little Lolita in his dream. She was very cute and delicate. Although the little fox looked very cute now, it could not be compared with the little Lolita after all.
So he stopped feeling sorry for the spirit stones and let it eat as much as it wanted every day. After all, he could make money by refining pills now. The refining of foundation-building pills was also going smoothly these days. The success rate was 80% at the beginning, and it became 100% after his proficiency improved. The only regret was that the success rate of high-quality pills was very low.
It's a problem with the quality of the demon pills. What we bought in large quantities before were low-grade demon pills. Low-grade demon pills have a 50% chance of becoming high-grade when used as auxiliary Qi-refining pills, but only a 1% chance of becoming high-grade when used as auxiliary Foundation-building pills. It seems that the later the alchemy progresses, the more valuable the high-grade ones become.
It just so happened that Chen Dabing had a few mid-grade demon pills on him, and he tried to help refine the foundation-building pills. One demon pill produced a furnace of ten pills, and the rate of high-grade ones was 10%.
Without the assistance of demon pills, the rate of high-quality products will not be achieved. Therefore, demon pills are very important for alchemy, and high-quality demon pills are very important.
Low-grade demon pills are the inner pills of demon beasts in the Qi training stage, and medium-grade demon pills are the inner pills of demon beasts in the foundation-building stage. They are extremely difficult to obtain. The wholesale market in Tianya Haijiao City does not wholesale medium-grade demon pills. Although major trading companies sell them, the price is extremely high, one thousand spirit stones per pill.
Come to think of it, the price is reasonable. Hunting a Foundation Establishment stage monster is not easy. Most of the herbalists are in the Qi Condensation stage. Therefore, a mid-grade monster pill sold in the business is often obtained at the cost of the lives of several herbalists.
In this way, the cost of refining the foundation-building pill is very high. If the demon pill is added as an auxiliary, one foundation-building pill will require about 300 spirit stones. This is the cost of using a 100% pill-yielding rate.
If it were any other alchemist, even a grandmaster, the success rate would be only 50% at most, and the cost would double to 600 spirit stones. Therefore, the market price of the Foundation Establishment Pill in the business is 700 spirit stones per pill.
What makes Chen Dadan very depressed is that the way of getting rich through hard work by refining pills is no longer feasible, because the market demand for foundation-building pills is very sluggish, and no foundation-building master has the luxury of swallowing foundation-building pills to practice.
The foundation-building pill is too expensive and has a very low cost-effectiveness. The shelves of major commercial stores often only have a few pills in stock, and the buyers are all small-time Qi-training practitioners who are striving to build their foundation.
The foundation-building pill is powerful and can increase the success rate of foundation-building. It is regarded as a elixir for breaking through the foundation-building period. However, the top-grade foundation-building pill is in short supply. Foundation-building masters have no use for it, and minor Qi-cultivating practitioners cannot afford it, putting them in an awkward position.
For a great master of alchemy, the cost of a top-grade foundation-building pill is at least tens of thousands of spirit stones. If he is lucky enough to open the furnace a hundred times, he can produce one top-grade pill. However, its efficacy is far inferior to that of the spiritual spring treasure.
Although the spiritual spring treasures unearthed from ancient ruins are rare, they often appear at large auctions and are not expensive, costing more than a thousand spirit stones.
Fortunately, Chen Dabing did not expect to get rich by refining pills. The expensive foundation-building pills were used to feed the twelve little mouths at home. Ting'er and the others had probably already established their foundation, and the high-quality foundation-building pills were just right for feeding Nan Huanuo.
"Sir, with these top-grade foundation-building pills, I may also be able to break through to the foundation-building stage." Nan Huanuo was very excited when he saw the top-grade foundation-building pills.
Chen boldly said, "Just a possibility?"
Nan Huanuo said: "Foundation building is very difficult. It is the first threshold in the path of cultivation. This threshold has already screened out half of the cultivators."
Chen Dadan said, "That's great. Now you must practice diligently and reach the peak of the Qi training stage first."
"Yes." Nan Huanuo was motivated and began to practice diligently.
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