In response to Elder Shen's question, Chen Mo did not dare to neglect, fearing that he would suffer the consequences of being too late, so he quickly reported his name. By the way, he was a casual cultivator who had recently started.
"Chen Mo...this name looks so familiar. Is that the disciple who was notified by the sect using the Canglong Bell a few days ago?"
Elder Shen remembered that she was sleeping that day and was awakened by the sudden sound of the bell. She was so angry that she couldn't sleep even if she tried to fall asleep.
She also vowed to beat these people up, but she didn't expect that the culprit would be brought to her eyes today!
"Whoosh!"
Elder Shen raised his eyebrows and waved his hand without warning. The oncoming strong wind caught Chen Mo off guard. He took a few steps back, lost control and sat on the ground, shaking his thighs. Numb.
How could Chen Mo have the ability to predict unforeseen disasters? He stood up and said angrily to her: "Elder Shen, why are you bullying this disciple for no reason?!"
"You didn't let me sleep. Now I'll punish you too. Even if it's even! Go to bed early and refine the Heaven-Building Pill tomorrow! If it breaks, then you're asking!"
After venting his anger, Elder Shen stood up and left. Before leaving, he said something vague and confusing, which made Chen Mo a little confused. What do you mean by not letting her sleep?
"What a strange monk. No wonder people say she has a weird temper!"
Chen Mo adjusted his mood, took out a Bigu Pill from his storage bag and took it. The tossing in the past few hours had made him hungry.
Monks who are not good at forming pills cannot reach the realm of bigu, so bigu pills are their main source of food.
Compared with the meals of ordinary people, it would take thirty people's rations in one meal to equal the total amount of one Bigu Pill.
Due to its huge usage and wide audience, the price is relatively low, ranging from one to two spiritual stones all year round.
Nowadays, the average price of the Bigu Pills sold in the sect is one and a half spiritual stones, but even so, the Bigu Pills are in short supply. Every time it is sold at the beginning of the month, it is sold out.
As for those who can't grab it, they can only eat the food of ordinary people.
Without him, refining the Bigu Pill is quite cumbersome and requires a low-level alchemist to lead the whole process. In addition, there must be several alchemy boys to assist.
A batch of 100 Bigu Pills is finished, and the income from each batch is 150 Spirit Stones. After excluding the cost of the medicinal herbs, which is 30 Spirit Stones, the sect takes 70%, and only gets a mere 36 Spirit Stones.
After working for several hours, it was unreasonable not to share some of the work with the alchemist. Thirty-six yuan and 30% were added, and in the end, the main alchemist was left with only about 20 yuan of spiritual stones. It was not cost-effective.
A mid-level alchemist like Elder Shen would earn more than a hundred times as much as a high-grade elixir by just making a high-grade elixir. How could he be so stupid as to refine this?
Although the low-grade alchemist can refine it, it is not cost-effective at all, so no one chooses it.
Dantong, on the other hand, was weak-minded and could not bear the heavy responsibility of baking the elixir in the main furnace. If he really wanted to do this, it would be a waste of precious elixir.
A combination of various reasons has resulted in the market price of Bigu Dan but not in the market.
The head stipulates that there are more than a dozen middle-level alchemists, and two of them take turns refining Bigu Pills every month. At their stage, each person can control three pill furnaces at the same time. A monk can make 1,200 Bigu Pills a day. Two monks can provide the sect with 72,000 pills a month.
Nearly 20,000 monks can theoretically consume 120,000 Bigu Pills in a month, but Fuyun Sect can only supply 60% of the total. As for the rest, nothing can be done.
Everyone was reluctant when it was their turn to refine the Bigu Pill. Although they, middle-level alchemists, earned tens of thousands of spiritual stones every month, the pills they could use to improve their cultivation also cost a small amount of money. Less, otherwise you would be refining alchemy every day, where would you have the time to improve your cultivation?
None of this information is top secret. It has been mentioned in the jade slips between Chen Mo and San Xiu.
Feeling the breath of the Bigu Pill slowly dissipating in his body, Chen Mo stood up and walked around Elder Shen's alchemy room, cleaning up the waste residue and medicine ash on the floor, and placing the messy porcelain bottles and cinnabar. Neat and tidy, this Danfang finally looks like a "human" residence.
There was a small red alchemy furnace on the north side. Chen Mo did not dare to act rashly. The most precious thing for every alchemist was their alchemy furnace. What's more, they cherished them as if they were their Taoist companions. If others touched them randomly, they would be in trouble. This is a taboo in the alchemy world.
"Hey, what is this?"
Chen Mo suddenly found a half-open blue jade slip under Elder Shen's chair. It was covered with thick dust and seemed to have been forgotten for a long time.
He brushed off the dust on it and put it boldly on his forehead. His consciousness just glanced at the first line of fonts, and Chen Mo's heart was shocked, and he looked inexplicably horrified.
Bigu Dan improved pill recipe! !
Chen Mo subconsciously withdrew from the jade slip and looked around cautiously, fearing that Elder Shen would suddenly appear and give him a good look. After more than ten breaths, he realized that he had been thinking too much, and then he was immersed in the jade slip again. Jane inside.
The first half of this jade slip contains Elder Shen's statement. It turns out that when the sect stipulated taking turns in refining Bigu Pills, they considered that Elder Shen's alchemy skills were too difficult to handle, so she was excluded from the rotation list.
It was this move that made her extremely dissatisfied. After venting her anger for a few days, she created this improved version of Bigu Pill.
"...Why don't you let me refine the Bigu Pill too! You gang up to bully me, and I will show you the price of underestimating me!!"
After these words, Elder Shen reasoned about the elixir recipe and tried and replaced several herbs in the Bigu elixir one by one.
This process is not that easy. If anyone could easily improve the alchemy recipe, the alchemy world would have become a place where monks would flock to.
Take the white jade skeleton that Chen Mo saw now. This is an auxiliary material for refining Bigu Pill. Its function is to fission the pill embryo. It is because of its existence that each furnace of Bigu Pill can refine exactly one hundred. number.
Elder Shen first replaced the white jade skeleton with evil spirit bone and refined it once in a small amount. What he got was fifty Bigu Pills, which were extremely poisonous and could not be eaten at all.
Later, she switched to red rot rice, and this time the refining was enough to double the Bigu Pill. She refined 200 pills in one furnace, but the efficacy was not even 1% of the genuine product. It is like a blind man lighting a lamp in vain.
This is just one of the substitutions of spiritual materials, which has caused various unexpected consequences. This is a relatively good situation. If a hot-tempered elixir is used, the result will be a furnace explosion on the spot. All previous attempts will be destroyed. Work in vain.
It has to be said that although Elder Shen has a weird temper, his understanding of alchemy is much higher than that of Chen Mo.
Chen Mo had a deep understanding of this when watching her simple thoughts, and now that he can directly explore her works, he has benefited a lot.
Half an hour later, Chen Mo finished reading the jade slip. As he expected, Elder Shen did not succeed. At the end of the improved pill recipe, she refined a furnace of four hundred pills, but each pill The medicinal properties of the elixir are one-fourth of the original, which is no different from the original.
When she was frustrated, she gave up again, and the jade slip that proved her efforts was randomly thrown into the house until Chen Mo discovered it.
"I can also refine Bigu Pills. If we can achieve the 400 pills per furnace expected by Elder Shen... we can refine 1,600 Bigu Pills in one day, which is 48,000 Bigu Pills in one month. , excluding the one percent waste elixir rate, that’s more than 71,000 spiritual stones!”
"With the improved elixir in hand, you have the trump card to negotiate with the sect. If you divide it 50-50, you can earn more than 30,000 spiritual stones a month, which is much more than refining the Heaven-Building Pill!"
"I still need to study Elder Shen's temperament. If I want to get in touch with her, it would be great. She only needs to refine the elixir, and I will control the sales and operations. In this case, I can also get To nearly 10,000 spiritual stones!!"
Such a high income is enough for him to obtain the resources to quickly reach the ninth level of Qi refining. By then, the hidden dangers of black stones will also be alleviated!
Chen Mo's hand holding the jade slip couldn't help but tremble. Everyone will have opportunities given by God. It's up to him to see whether he can grasp them when they come!
The difficulty in this matter is how to repair the remaining 50%. He doesn't know how long it took Elder Shen to research the first 50%. If it took more than ten years, then he might as well accept the task and save his contribution. of convenience.
"I think I have also learned the master's 30% true inheritance. I am a low-level alchemist myself. It is enough to serve as Elder Shen's deputy. I can also check for gaps and fill in the gaps. I can give this thing a try!"
Of course, this is all Chen Mo's wishful thinking. It's unclear whether Elder Shen has that intention, and he still has to test it out.
The time at night was not wasted. Although this place could not keep up with his own cave, he could still cultivate the Yin Vein Spiritual Energy. After his cultivation progressed a little further, the dark blue night sky gradually became brighter.
Chen Mo collected his skills and was about to get up when he suddenly heard the voices of men and women talking outside the alchemy workshop, which seemed to be at the entrance of Elder Shen's cave. Out of curiosity, he quickly moved to the window and quietly eavesdropped on the two of them. human words.
Maybe it can't be considered eavesdropping. It's too easy to find him, a little Qi-refining monk, with his spiritual consciousness in the Foundation Establishment stage.
With the idea of being able to hear a little bit, Chen Mo also broke the paper window and saw the situation outside through the hole.
Standing in front of the cave was none other than Elder Shen. She was still wearing the wrinkled purple dress, but today she had her waist-length hair pulled up and a unique Qingling cloud hairpin inserted sideways, which made her look a little more pleasing to the eye. Some.
Standing opposite her was a middle-aged monk in his forties. He was smiling and seemed to have the upper hand in the conversation.
Elder Shen didn't have a good look on him, and said coldly: "Where are the spiritual materials for refining the Heaven-Building Pill? Take it out for me quickly!"
"Tsk tsk... Elder Shen is still so eager. Do you know that this is your last chance to refine?" The middle-aged monk looked frivolous.
"You don't need to tell me!" Elder Shen snorted coldly: "Hurry up and hand over the spiritual materials, don't let me go to the head to reason!"
"Don't be so angry..."
The middle-aged monk wanted to reach out and touch Elder Shen's cheek, but the latter slapped him away. She said angrily: "Elder Li, please respect yourself!"
"Haha, you should think about being a concubine again, don't refuse in a hurry, don't you think so?"
Elder Li was slapped on the palm, and he sniffed the spot where he was hit as if he was intoxicated. Chen Mo felt a chill in his heart.
"This monk actually likes Elder Shen?"
Chen Mo was surprised. Didn't he know how cowardly Elder Shen was? It’s enough to scare away 90% of the monks with the same level of cultivation!
"Get out of here!" Elder Shen felt like he was going crazy and turned around to leave. Elder Li slowly took out three storage bags and said slowly:
"The spiritual materials for the Heaven-Building Pill are all here. Check them out to see if there is anything missing."
After a pause, Elder Li's eyes suddenly stopped at Chen Mo's hidden position behind the paper window. He smiled faintly and said: "We just recruited an alchemy boy who is at the twelfth level of Qi refining. It seems that Elder Shen's alchemy will still fail this time." For the end!”
Elder Shen grabbed the three storage bags and entered the alchemy workshop without looking back. The monk surnamed Li showed a faint smile and immediately turned around and left.
Before Chen Mo could speak, Elder Shen walked towards him and said expressionlessly: "You are in charge of the alchemy shop?"
"Yes, but..."
Chen Mo wanted to say that the position of the things had not changed, but he was choked out by Elder Shen's cold words of "make your own decisions."
She dumped the contents of the three storage bags on the ground, and checked the age and properties of the herbs one by one. After meeting the conditions, she handed them over to Chen Mo for catalysis. The rest was to do some chores such as filling the sand and watching the fire.
Chen Mo took the jade box thrown by Elder Shen and checked the herbs one by one. Elder Shen even laughed at it, but he didn't take it seriously.
For Chen Mo, he was cautious about sailing the thousand-year ship. He focused on several items in the Xuanbing Jade box, and suddenly picked up one of the dark blue herbs and threw it to Elder Shen: "This hexagonal blue star is no longer needed. , was drugged!"
"What?" Elder Shen was about to get angry. This was something she had appraised, and the little Dan boy in front of her actually dared to question it?
Before she could say anything, Chen Mo picked out another small pink flower and threw it aside unceremoniously. He said calmly: "Elder Shen is eighty-year-old this year? How come he can't even tell the difference between blood camellia and three-day drunkenness?" ?”
"Fart! I am less than sixty years old this year..." Elder Shen suddenly realized that he had made a mistake and quickly changed the subject: "How many years have you known Lingzhi? You dare to refute my judgment!"
"Elder Shen will know if he has been drunk for three days," Chen Mo said, "There are several jars of fine wine in your cave. Pour seven drops on them. If the aroma of the wine fills the alchemy room, it means that the herb in front of you is Drunk for three days, on the contrary, it is the blood camellia that can be used to refine the Heaven-Building Pill!"
Elder Shen's expression changed: "How do you know what's in my cave! Could it be that you broke in secretly?"
"No, Elder Shen's clothes have not been changed or washed for at least half a month. There are still marks left after wine was spilled on the skirt. This is only the case when drinking from a wine jar. The wine jar is not a spiritual object, and the income The storage bag requires spiritual energy to be maintained, and with Elder Shen's temperament, he will definitely not go to such trouble to cast spells on them, so it is not surprising that there is wine in the cave, right?"
Elder Shen was speechless after some inferences. Without saying a word, he turned around and returned to the cave. It took him a while to burn incense before returning to the Danfang. His hair was wet and he put on a brand new purple dress. It was the same one from before, and he came over with a small jar of wine in his arms.
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