Let’s explore the area ahead later!
Standing in front of the dark mine tunnel, three more forks appeared.
Luo Chen turned around and walked back without hesitation.
This mine has well-developed tunnels and goes straight into the ground. It is obvious that it cannot be explored in a short time.
That's it for today.
Recalling the pangolin puppet, Luo Chen quickly returned to the stone house with the help of his memory.
Luo Chen cut a stone and set it in the opened hole, and applied a cleaning technique to himself.
With a new look, he pushed open the stone door.
"My dividend last month?"
Luo Chen took the bag excitedly, and there was a pile of spiritual stones inside.
After some counting, there were 650 spirit stones.
Luo Chen's happy expression faded slightly.
"Is the dividend less?"
Seeing him like this, Gu Caiyi asked curiously.
Luo Chen nodded first, then shook his head.
"It's a little less, but not much."
Although he did not handle the specific sales of Zhongmiao Pill last month, as an alchemist, he naturally knows the cost and output.
For a month, the furnaces were opened twice every day in the morning and afternoon. The middle-grade alchemy cauldron could smelt two portions of raw materials, and one portion for each of the two Ziyun copper furnaces.
Combined with his proficiency in Zhongmiao Pills, which he later promoted to the master level, he finally obtained a thousand pills.
There are different grades, including upper, middle and lower grades.
After Mi Junping's pricing strategy, the income is also different.
But in the end, it should be around 4,000 spirit stones. After deducting the raw material cost of 600, the rest is profit.
Luo Chen's dividend should be around 700.
Now, fifty yuan less.
Gu Caiyi handed over a list and said: "This is the list given by Hall Master Mi. It specifically mentions the expenses of the Alchemy Hall monks, the three shop monks, and the Alchemy Guard Team."
"This expense is deducted from the profit and is shared equally by everyone."
"Of course, relying solely on this profit sharing is not enough to support those people's wages, so the headquarters also subsidizes part of it."
While listening to these words, he looked at the list carefully.
Luo Chen finally nodded slightly.
In fact, he expected this.
Therefore, he was not in any angry mood.
At this time, he was actually calculating another account.
If I didn't join the Poshan Gang, how many spiritual stones would I have earned last month?
Without three alchemy furnaces, the Poshan Gang providing raw materials, a group of pyrotechnics and medicine apprentices helping to refine the elixirs, and even someone specializing in selling them in the end.
He can open up to two furnaces of pills a day. No matter how fast he improves his proficiency, he will never reach the master level.
Many conditions are calculated one by one.
Finally, Luo Chen came up with a figure, "Eight hundred!"
Yes, if you only relied on yourself, the net income last month should be 800 low-grade spiritual stones.
Comparing this, it seems that I lost a full one hundred and fifty spiritual stones by joining the Broken Mountain Gang.
However, the account cannot be calculated like this!
"In addition to dividends, I also have a fixed salary of Qi Nourishing Pill worth four hundred per month, although I have to pay for it."
This extra income has already offset his losses.
He even made a profit!
"Refining a large amount of alchemy has increased my proficiency, thus gaining real experience in alchemy and achievement points."
This must also be taken into consideration.
Not only that, "Qing Yuan Dan Jie", "Hundred Herbs Illustrated Book", and the incomplete recipe of Tongyou Dan, these things are worth at least thousands of spiritual stones!
Most importantly, there is one more thing.
The golden signboard of the Poshan Gang was taken care of by Mi Shuhua, the foundation-building monk.
This is the immeasurable value of the spiritual stone, which saved him from being coveted by other monks when his realm was low.
For example, the trouble with Gao Tingyuan was the result of Mi Shuhua personally coming forward to solve it for him.
After thinking about it for a while, Luo Chen couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.
"Sure enough, my original decision was right."
"It may seem that being a tool does not give you freedom, but in the long run, the benefits gained are definitely worth it."
"Besides, isn't my monthly salary increased again?"
Luo Chen picked up another item in the bag.
It's a wooden box. Open it and look.
Twelve slender incense sticks were neatly placed inside.
"Anshenxiang!"
Gu Caiyi was extremely surprised.
Mi Shuhua moved so quickly that he actually sent this thing to Luo Chen.
Closing the box, Luo Chen nodded with satisfaction.
This is a real good thing, he has experienced it personally.
A box of soothing incense is worth one hundred and twenty spiritual stones, a cultivation tool for low-level monks!
With this incense, my cultivation speed can skyrocket.
Because of this incense, low-level monks can run their natal skills four or five times more every day, so that their souls will not feel tired or painful.
Of course, the physical body also needs a lot of nutritional supplements, otherwise the soul cannot keep up and the body cannot keep up.
When he got the soothing incense for the first time, Luo Chen had to take one incense and divide it into two or three days.
It was because he couldn't keep up with nutrition at that time.
But now, we have money!
After receiving the dividends and the previous deposits, I broke through the thousand yuan mark for the first time with my own efforts.
One thousand and three!
This is his true net worth without calculating various external objects.
And, nutritional supplements?
He now also has some skills.
Putting away the soothing incense, Luo Chen took Gu Caiyi and hurried out.
"It's time to get off work!"
Gu Caiyi was a little confused, "Aren't we going to start refining alchemy this afternoon?"
"Why are you so anxious about this? Besides, I refined the Chalcedony Pill today, which is enough to keep that old man happy for two days."
Luo Chen snorted, "I, Luo Chen, only go to work to get off work. Working overtime or something like that doesn't suit my personality."
After saying that, he turned back and shouted to Dantang.
"Brothers, take today off, come early tomorrow!"
The newcomers who were getting familiar with the ingredients of the chalcedony pill, the temperature, and were tortured to death immediately cheered.
Shout long live the hall master!
"Look, no one wants to work overtime."
Gu Caiyi blinked, but wasn't this absenteeism? How could it be called overtime?
Luo Chen didn't care about her, she was a silly girl.
I used to work night shift at Tianxiang Tower, but I was tamed stupidly by those sect capitalists.
…
When I leave work early, I don’t really want to be lazy.
The main reason is that I usually wake up early and go home late, so I miss the market during the day.
After all, this is a cunning, cold and ruthless world of immortality, and no one does much business at night.
Therefore, good things are basically only available during the day.
Luo Chen was afraid that if he delayed for too long, he would have no place to spend even though he had the spiritual stone.
Under the escort of two bodyguards with strange expressions, Luo Chen and Gu Caiyi hurried back to the inner city.
Then, he plunged into the casual cultivator market in the south of the city.
Nowadays, there are more and more monks in Dahefang, and the stable population has exceeded 20,000.
There are two more small-scale foundation-building and immortal-cultivating families nearby, with a population of several thousand.
It is said that the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect is still migrating its population here. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of mortals, the monks are also organized into families.
It can only be said that Dahefang is indeed becoming more and more prosperous.
In addition to the casual cultivator market in the south of the city and the shopping street in the center of the city, there are two more trading centers.
One is at Baishi Square outside Lundao Terrace, where Yuan Xiaoyue sells fairy beans and popcorn.
One is a small commercial street in the north of the city, where the shops purchased by the Poshan Gang are located.
The main operators of that street are different from the central shopping street. They are not from a sect background. They are basically shops opened by small families and small gangs.
Luo Chen planned to go shopping when he was free in the future.
But today, the main destinations are the familiar casual cultivator market in the south of the city and the central shopping street.
"First-order keel? It's just a nice name, it's the bone of a swamp crocodile!"
"But it does take some skill to kill this thing. Give me one!"
"What? It's just a few bones. You want three spiritual stones from me. Are you crazy? I won't buy it if I don't."
Luo Chen yelled, pulled Gu Caiyi and ran away.
The casual cultivator behind him gritted his teeth and said, "Fellow Taoist, please come back and we can talk again. Let's do this. Two spiritual stones are really not cheap. This dragon bone weighs more than thirty kilograms."
Luo Chen walked back reluctantly, taking out the spiritual stones and picking at them.
What’s not monster meat?
It's so damaged that only a few kilograms can be put into the pot.
The casual cultivator who sells bones has a face as ugly as his dead mother.
This is how you behave when you get a bargain!
If it weren't for the fact that the bones of the swamp crocodile were hard to sell, he wouldn't be willing to sell them just for two spiritual stones.
Gu Caiyi watched it with interest. It was clear that Luo Chen had just received a generous dividend, but he still lived very frugally.
Of course, it is also possible that Luo Chen never suffers a loss and is used to bargaining with others.
Next, Luo Chen kept scanning goods in the center of the casual cultivator market.
He even gave Gu Caiyi a list and asked her to notify him in time when she saw those things.
After three hours of shopping in the south of the city, the two went straight to the central shopping street and made a large purchase at Lingyuanzhai, Baicaotang, and Spiritual Medicine Pavilion.
In this way, when she returned to the courtyard, Gu Caiyi calculated her account and was shocked.
"Luo Chen, you actually spent three hundred spiritual stones today?"
Luo Chen nodded and hurried into the house.
Gu Caiyi was still a little shocked. It was clear that Luo Chen was acting in a petty manner. Normally, a piece of spiritual stone would make him want to break it into two petals.
But when it came to spending the spirit stone, he didn't seem to be stingy.
It's really a bit contradictory.
Contradictory?
Luo Chen knew that he never contradicted himself.
He worked hard to earn spiritual stones, but when it came to useless expenses, he was stingy than anyone else.
But when it comes to Taoist cultivation, he is more willing to spend money than anyone else.
Qi-nourishing pills are so expensive. When he was at the fourth level of Qi refining, he had already bought five bottles of them.
Boom!
The Ziyun copper furnace fell directly into his alchemy room.
Start a fire, add water, pour a bottle of Xiantian Powder sold by Lingyao Pavilion for ten spiritual stones, and stir it thoroughly.
Then he dropped in various medicinal herbs one by one, and finally threw in a crocodile keel that seemed to be only a small piece but actually weighed thirty kilograms.
"After three hours of boiling, you should be able to produce a batch of the essence-building spiritual liquid dissolved in the Qing Yuan Dan."
Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief and was looking forward to it.
Qing Yuan Dan Jie records a lot of things, including the basics of alchemy, alchemy techniques, and some small prescriptions for alchemists.
They are not considered elixirs, but if used for a long time, those small prescriptions are no less effective than first-level elixirs.
Peiyuan Spiritual Liquid is one of them.
By absorbing it in the form of a medicinal bath, the alchemist can not only obtain a large amount of vitality, but also become more sensitive to the power of the medicine.
The original intention of the author Qing Yuanzi is to allow alchemists to obtain the latter effect, so that when refining alchemy, they can better perceive the changes in the potency of the elixir.
But now, Luo Chen is interested in the former role.
A lot of vitality, isn't that the nutrition his body needs?
Of course, there are other ways to supplement nutrition.
Luo Chen came to the kitchen, set up a large pot, and threw all the vegetables, bones, and monster meat he bought into it.
"Today, we're having a hot pot stew!"
“We still need a handful of vermicelli, so let’s use these glutinous rice noodles instead!”
Throwing a handful of clean monster tendons in, Luo Chen clapped his hands.
Just waiting for the delicious food to come out!
….
….
Night falls.
The couple returned the home!
Qin Liangchen was walking in the lane, Murong Qinglian holding his arm.
"Last month's dividends came down. The Yaotang distributed 300 spirit stones as dividends, and the Dantang gave 100. The bulk of it is still our spirit fish business. In addition to supplying the Zhong Ding family, there is also a cultivating family that has reached a regular supply. Intention, more than 500 spiritual stones have been recorded."
"Husband, where are you?"
Qin Liangchen blushed and spit out a number, "Three hundred!"
As the mainstay of the family, his income was less than half that of his wife, which really made him feel ashamed and angry.
Murong Qinglian said with a smile: "Don't be upset, it was you who conquered Lingyu Lake in the first place, I just helped you take care of it."
Qin Liangchen still felt a little uncomfortable about this.
As an elder without any real power, I didn't earn as much as I imagined.
However, there is another way to calculate the accounts. If he is not the elder, Murong Qinglian will not be able to sit in the position of the master of the medicine hall.
"When the spirit stones are saved for a few more months, we will ask someone to deliver them to Xiaohu!"
Suddenly, Qin Liangchen said.
He looked at the dark alley in front of him, showing some longing.
"I don't know if Xiaohu is doing well in the Luoyun Sect. Have you finished eating the pills we left? How about getting along with the same sect?"
Murong Qinglian listened quietly.
Their family is very strange. Qin Liangchen is obviously the pillar, but most of the external matters are done by Murong Qinglian.
And Qin Liangchen is not like the ordinary strict father and husband, who is used to showing his emotions.
Even when his son was around, he ignored Xiaohu's shame and would hold him above his head and fly around every day.
"Old Qin, I heard that the gang recently purchased a high-grade metal magic weapon. It is a giant sword, which suits your fighting style very well."
"How about we buy it?"
Qin Liangchen was surprised, "Aren't you going to save the spirit stone for Xiaohu?"
Murong Qinglian shook his head, "I still need to save it, but not now. He is in the early stages of Qi refining and can't spend many resources."
"But you are different. You can still hope to build a foundation, and you need a powerful magic weapon."
"If one day you advance to foundation building, Xiaohu will be able to be tougher in the sect!"
After hearing these words, Qin Liangchen also thought about it seriously.
After a long while, he nodded heavily.
"That's right. I'm at Mi Shuhua's place, but I still have a Foundation Establishment Pill, so I can't waste it."
After saying that, he quickly kissed Murong Qinglian while no one was around.
"Madam, you are so kind. When you are approaching the Great Consummation, my husband will definitely help you build the foundation!"
Murong Qinglian wiped the saliva from her face and shook him off in shame and anger.
"I'm not ashamed!"
Laughing and cursing, I entered the yard and smelled a strong fragrance.
Some of it was pungent and made people want to sneeze, but the fragrance stimulated their mouths to secrete saliva.
"Brother Qin, Sister-in-law Murong, you are back!"
"Come and eat hot pot, I've left bowls and chopsticks for you."
Luo Chen greeted her warmly and even kicked Bai Meiling.
Bai Meiling bit her bones and stepped aside.
Next to her, Gu Caiyi put out two sets of bowls and chopsticks, and thoughtfully poured a glass of wine.
Murong Qinglian was surprised and said: "You have made a fortune, you eat so richly."
A stove was set up in the yard, with a large iron pot on it filled with ingredients.
Under the red bubbles popping up, it looks particularly attractive.
Gu Caiyi smiled and said: "Isn't this how our Hall Master Xiao Luo has become rich, so I treat everyone to a good meal."
A good meal indeed.
Most of the ingredients in the pot were monster meat, and some vegetables also had spiritual energy added to them.
It can be said that this pot costs at least five spiritual stones.
If it were placed at Zhong Ding's house and sold for fifty or one hundred, it wouldn't be excessive at all!
The key is that Luochen adds a lot of spices to the stew to create the spicy taste of Sichuan and Chongqing.
When Qin Liangchen and his wife sat down and began to feast, they also started to enjoy themselves.
The spicy flavor is really appetizing!
Although they are not used to eating spicy food, the monks are in good health and it doesn't matter if they try it occasionally.
Monster meat is really strong, so Luo Chen accumulated some experience in handling it when refining Bigu Pill.
Only then did a pot of hot pot, the version of the Immortal Realm, come out.
Seeing everyone eating so happily, Luo Chen's original feeling of feeling sorry for the five spiritual stones disappeared.
He is a very stingy person, but very generous in his practice.
For a true friend, it's okay if he doesn't have the ability. If he has the spare capacity, he will never be stingy about sharing the benefits.
And these neighbors have gradually become his true friends.
When he was still young, Gu Caiyi answered a lot of common knowledge about cultivation, contacted the alchemy furnace for him, shared fruits with him, and today he gave him a martial arts secret book without hesitation.
Bai Meiling and Feng Xia usually don't have that frequent contact because they commute to get off work at fixed times.
But when he occasionally went to Baicaotang to buy raw materials, they would secretly select some good-quality medicinal materials for him.
As for Qin Liangchen and his wife, they were even better to him.
Instructed Luo Chen on his magic practice, gave him a gift of a puppet, and also gave him a bowl of the second-level tiger bone soup that he had cooked, allowing him to successfully break through the fifth level of Qi refining.
Nowadays, there are many helpers in the Poshan Gang.
Luo Chen actually keeps all these little things accumulated in his heart.
In the past, he had no spare energy, so most of the time he took advantage.
But now, it's more or less not so embarrassing.
Treating everyone to a good meal is within my ability.
"Alchemy?"
"Haha, when I become a second-level alchemist in the future, I will definitely help everyone refine the Foundation Establishment Pill!"
"But you have to pay for the material cost yourself. I heard that the main material of the Foundation Establishment Pill is very expensive."
Luo Chen boasted braggingly.
Everyone listened with a smile.
Qin Liangchen was indeed a good brother to Luo Chen, and he spoke highly of it, saying that the foundation-building pill was nothing more than that, and if he wanted to refine it, he should use the Jiangyun Pill, which was used to refine the golden pill.
Of course, Luo Chen couldn't stay in the situation and speak out about Yuanying's transformation into a god.
This courtyard was suddenly filled with a joyful atmosphere.
….
After the joy, it is time for the monks to do penance.
Everyone went back to their homes, saying it was to rest, but in fact they were all in a frenzy of involution.
Luo Chen is the most involved!
He just threw his ass down and sat in the purple cloud copper furnace that he used to make alchemy.
In short, stew yourself in an iron pot!
"Hiss, it's not hot!"
Luo Chen's facial features are constantly distorted, which is extremely wonderful.
After a full afternoon of boiling and half a night of Peiyuan Spiritual Liquid, the medicinal power has been fully stimulated.
Now is the perfect time to absorb the essence.
Luo Chen sat quietly, letting the surging essence of flesh and blood pass through the skin of his body and penetrate into his internal organs.
Changchun Gong is already in operation.
After soaking for about half an hour, Luo Chen took out a Qi-nourishing pill and swallowed it.
Perform Changchun Kung again.
Another half hour passed, and a soothing incense was slowly lit.
Luo Chen's tired spirit was like a dry stream that had been irrigated by a big river and became energetic again.
"One more!"
In this way, the night passed by in a flash.
When Luo Chen came out of the Ziyun Copper Stove, the pot of Peiyuan Spiritual Liquid had become clear and transparent.
All the vitality was absorbed and refined by him.
Looking at this scene, Luo Chen was thoughtful.
"People in the world use the Qi-Building Fund-Building Pill Yuan Ying as the standard for dividing realms."
"But in ancient times, the purpose of Qi Refiners was to refine Qi and refine Qi to transform into God."
"This pot of flesh and blood essence not only supported my five extra rounds of Changchun Gong, it also made my body stronger and my spiritual power a bit more."
Feeling the full feeling in his body, Luo Chen couldn't help but stretch.
What a wonderful night!
Click on the properties panel.
[Shouyuan: 27/75]
[Spiritual roots: metal, wood, water, fire and earth]
[Realm: Sixth Level of Qi Refining Stage: 5/100]
[Kung Fu: Changchun Gong Master: 627/1000]
[Spells: Dzogchen Fireball, Xiaoyaoyou Grandmaster 870/1000, Wind Control Master 600/1000, Traction Master 721/1000, Entanglement Perfect 430/500, Spiritual Eyes Perfect 490/500, Cleansing Technique Perfect 350/ 500, 15/100 for the introduction to the Healing Technique, 78/100 for the introduction to the Breath Condensation Spirit Art, 1/100 for the introduction to the Mountain-Building and Monument-breaking Palm]
[Skills: First-level alchemist: Bigu San Grandmaster 910/1000, Zhongmiaowan Grandmaster 600/100, Chalcedony Pill 20/100]
[Achievement points: 13 points]
After scanning ten lines with one glance, Luo Chen had the clearest understanding of his current state.
In terms of spells, there are not many changes, except for the introduction of the Mountain-breaking Palm.
In terms of skills, an entry has been added to the Chalcedony Pill. After successfully making a furnace of pills, 20 pills were obtained, so 20 points of proficiency were added.
These are the proper meanings.
What Luo Chen cares about is the realm progress bar!
He remembered clearly that before practicing last night, the progress bar was [4/100]
That was the progress he made after breaking through the sixth level of Qi refining, taking Qi Nourishing Pills every day, plus Changchun Gong, and practicing hard for ten days.
In this case, it goes from 1 to 4.
But last night, his progress increased by 1% in just one night!
"The consumption last night included two Qi-nourishing pills, one soothing incense, and one spiritual liquid for cultivating the spirit. In total, it cost about forty spiritual stones."
After doing this calculation, Luo Chen couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
This amount of spiritual stone would be enough to spend a month if exchanged for any mid-term monk.
But for him, it was just for one night!
Although the increase is also astonishing, if it continues like this, you will be able to advance to the seventh level of Qi Refining in three months at most.
In three months, he has broken through an entire small realm. What kind of spiritual genius is this?
However, this was completely created by the spirit stone!
"No, my body is too much of a waste of cultivation resources."
“But I don’t know the specific benefits yet.”
"I have to find a way to verify it, or compare it with others."
(End of chapter)
