Ye Fan’s pill shop opened in the secret realm for half a month, and the price of medicinal pills had doubled to seven times the first asking price. Even so, there were still an endless stream of cultivators who came to Ye Fan for alchemy.
“Fellow Daoist Bai, I’m here for the third time. Can it be cheaper?” The slightly fat cultivator asked with a sad face.
Bai Yunxi looked at the cultivator and said lightly, “This is the price now. If you came two days earlier, it would have been cheaper.”
Bai Yunxi had handled a lot of treasured spiritual grass recently, and he was not very interested in ordinary spiritual grass.
The slightly fat cultivator smiled awkwardly and said, “Alright then. Replace all these spiritual herbs with medicinal pills.”
The slightly fat cultivator was the one who asked to refine the Yin Deficiency Pill before. The Yin Deficiency Pill refined by Ye Fan was of excellent quality, so the slightly fat cultivator came to visit several times, but each time he did not come out with too many herbs. The price seemed to increase each time he came.
The spiritual herbs given by the fat cultivator were average, and the medicinal pills needed were all in Bai Yunxi’s storage ring, so Bai Yunxi handed them out casually.
The fat cultivator took the medicinal pills and left immediately.
Bai Yunxi had heard many cultivators complain that the price had risen too fast. The person who first exchanged spiritual grass for medicinal pills had become the lucky one in the eyes of many cultivators.
…
“Fellow Daoist Bai, business is very good!” Lin Mo walked over with a few people.
“Fellow Daoist Lin is here?” Bai Yunxi looked at Lin Mo and greeted him with a smile.
Lin Mo nodded and said, “Yeah! Alchemist Ye’s pills are selling very well! Alchemists really take advantage. We have worked hard to break the restrictions here. As long as Alchemist Ye opens a pill shop, we can only send the herbs here.”
Bai Yunxi smiled lightly and said, “Alchemy always has a failure rate, and it doesn’t make much money.”
“Fellow Daoist Bai is humble,” Lin Mo said.
Cang Yun, who was behind Lin Mo, looked at the crystal stone tablet with the price written on the side, and said in surprise, “Has the price already risen like this?”
Bai Yunxi nodded and said, “That’s right! There are too many people, and there were fights over placements. So I had to raise the price to prevent conflicts because of too many customers.”
At first, Bai Yunxi was worried that the price was too high and there would be no business, so the price was set a little lower than the going price outside. Now that their reputation had spread, and there were no worries about lack of customers, Bai Yunxi naturally raised the price.
What surprised Bai Yunxi was that even though he had raised the price three or four times as much as outside, many people still came.
Bai Yunxi quickly understood what the problem was. Most of the cultivators who came in were sent in by their respective sects. After they exited the secret realm, most of the spiritual herbs they harvested had to be turned over to the sect. Those sects requiring half were already considered kind, and some even required disciples to hand over 70%.
If they refined the spiritual grass into medicinal pills and ate them while in the secret realm, they naturally didn’t need to distribute anything to the sect.
Moreover, in this secret realm, there were many dangers, and taking medicinal pills could improve one’s strength, so they had more self-protection ability.
Cang Yun, who was behind Lin Mo, couldn’t help but feel a little warm when he heard the words.
At first, he thought that coming to this store to buy medicinal pills was to take care of the business of the alchemist in the store, but now it seemed that he took advantage.
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Lin Mo took out dozens of spiritual grasses and said, “Fellow Daoist Bai, I’ll trouble you to replace these spiritual grasses with medicinal pills.”
Bai Yunxi nodded and said, “Okay. Fellow Daoist Lin is an old friend. I’ll give you a 30% discount.”
“Thank you very much.” The price of Ye Fan’s pill store had grown like this, and Lin Mo couldn’t help but murmur a little. Hearing that there was a discount, Lin Mo couldn’t help but feel a little happy.
“Senior brother, my medicinal herbs also need to be replaced by medicinal pills.” Cang Yun hurriedly took out the medicinal materials.
Cang Yun regretted it in his heart. When Lin Mo first asked him to exchange medicinal materials for medicinal pills, he did not trust Ye Fan’s ability too much and kept a part of it privately. Now he wanted to change medicinal herbs for pills again, but the price had gone up several times.
Cang Yun regretted it. He could only comfort himself by thinking it was lucky he hadn’t hidden too much.
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In the pill shop.
The Taotie ghost stood in front of Ye Fan fiercely, and said arrogantly, “Go and make some soul nourishing pills. Hurry up.”
Ye Fan looked at the Taotie ghost unhappily, and said, “Other people give me spiritual grass and spirit stones for medicinal pills. What’s the use of giving you pills?”
“Of course it is useful. I am very useful.” The Taotie ghost said.
“Useful? What’s the use of you? You only know how to hold me back.” Ye Fan said with a look of disgust.
“How can I be useless? I’m very useful. For example, if you die, I can accompany your wife to miss you!” The Taotie ghost giggled.
Ye Fan looked angrily at the Taotie ghost. “I won’t die! I still want to be promoted to an immortal.”
“Immortal. Isn’t that just dying?” The Taotie ghost said.
Ye Fan said with displeasure, “You idiot. I might as well raise a pig instead of raising you!”
When Bai Yunxi walked in, he saw Ye Fan and the Taotie ghost staring at each other with big eyes and small eyes, one person and one beast grinning.
“There is business coming.” Bai Yunxi said while taking out a few spiritual herbs.
Ye Fan swept over the herbs that Bai Yunxi had brought in, and said, “Oh, there are no particularly precious herbs. The medicinal pills in exchange are all on the shelf. You can take them.”
Bai Yunxi nodded and said, “Okay. Don’t be angry with the Taotie ghost all day long. He’s dead. Let him enjoy something.”
Ao Xiaobao nodded and said, “That’s right!”
Ye Fan: “…”
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Lin Mo took the medicinal pills and left with his two junior brothers and sister.
“Senior brother, this Alchemist Ye is really amazing!” Cang Yun couldn’t help saying.
“In the beginning, didn’t you doubt others?” Lin Mo said with a sneer.
“Wasn’t that because he is only in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment? Generally, spiritual-level alchemists have already advanced to Golden Core. In the end, it is senior brother who has vision.” Cang Yun said.
Lin Mo sighed and said, “I didn’t expect that we didn’t go for a few days, and the price would go up like that. Now, we can’t afford to go.”
Cang Yun also had some regrets. Thinking about it this way, the first time they changed herbs for medicinal pills, it was simply the price of cabbage, and they made a lot of money.
“Senior brother, I think Alchemist Ye is going to be in trouble.” Luo Dieyi said.
Lin Mo nodded and said, “Alchemist Ye’s shop is a bit ostentatious.” After just a few days, Ye Fan had probably already collected several million spirit stones. Anyone would be jealous.
“How on earth does Alchemist Ye make pills? He takes dozens of orders a day, so doesn’t he make dozens of pots of pills a day?” Cang Yun asked in confusion.
Lin Mo shook his head and said, “I don’t know. Maybe not all are freshly refined pills, and some come from prior inventory…”
“It would be great if we could recruit Alchemist Ye into our Xuanjian Sect.” Cang Yun said.
Lin Mo: “…” Ye Fan was doing big things. How could he look at their Xuanjian Sect?!
Luo Dieyi looked at Lin Mo and said, “Senior brother, I heard that Alchemist Ye is the mysterious person who lit up the twelfth floor of the Pill Pagoda. Do you think this is true?”
When Mu Xue was testing Ye Fan, there were other people present at the time, and the news spread out for some reason, but most people felt that Ye Fan was just bragging.
Lin Mo shook his head and said, “I don’t know either.”
“I think it was really Alchemist Ye. How can an ordinary alchemist make so many pills in one day! Alchemist Ye must be very talented.” Cang Yun said.
Luo Dieyi looked at Cang Yun and shook her head, and said, “You have full confidence in Alchemist Ye.”
Cang Yun smiled dryly and said, “I didn’t know him before, did I? I know now. Alchemist Ye is definitely not an ordinary person.”
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Not far from the pill shop, several cultivators were hiding in the valley and plotting something.
“That’s right. He killed my senior brother Wu Yuan of Xuanming Sect, and took the teleportation token from my senior brother. I ask the two of you to help me avenge my senior brother.” Shen Weiping said righteously and sternly.
In addition to the teleportation token on Wu Yuan’s body, Xuanming Sect obtained another teleportation token and sent four Foundation Establishment cultivators in. Shen Weiping was the leader of the four.
Fan Zhongping smiled coldly and said, “Shen Weiping, no need to say high-sounding words. Who doesn’t know that your senior brother pretended to be a pirate at sea, and as a result, the boat capsized in the gutter and the teleportation token was taken by someone.”
“You probably don’t want to avenge your senior brother at all, but you are greedy for the spiritual herbs, medicinal pills and spirit stones on that alchemist. I’m going to say the ugly things first. I’m willing to help, but I want 30% of the things on that alchemist.”
Fan Zhongping was a peak Foundation Establishment loose cultivator. This man was ruthless, and there were many cultivators who had died at his hands.
Shen Weiping smiled when he heard the words, but was not annoyed. “This man killed my senior brother, and I wish to avenge my senior brother from the bottom of my heart. However, if a person really dies, the things on his body should not be wasted.”
A big man sitting next to him said sullenly, “I don’t covet spiritual grass and spirit stones. I just want my puppet back.”
Shen Weiping looked at the big man, nodded, and said, “This is natural. I haven’t learned the puppet technique like you, Senior Brother Zhao, so it’s useless for us to keep the puppets, but, Fellow Daoist Zhao, how could your puppets be easily controlled by Ye Fan?” Shen Weiping frowned and thought secretly: Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi were a little tricky originally, and Zhao Yuxiong’s puppets were even more difficult to deal with.
Two of Zhao Yuxiong’s puppets belonged to Zhao Yuxiong himself, and the other three were loaned to him by his Golden Core ancestor who was worried about his safety. The power of these puppets was amazing. Zhao Yuxiong was supposed to rely on them to shine in the secret realm.
Zhao Yuxiong said sullenly, “His soul power is stronger than mine, and I underestimated the enemy, so he could erase the imprint of my soul left on the puppet?”
“At that time, if we restrain Ye Fan, can you take back control of the puppets, Fellow Daoist Zhao?” Shen Weiping asked.
Zhao Yuxiong hesitated, “This, we can try it. There should be no problem.”
Zhao Yuxiong also heard Ye Fan’s conversation with Mu Xue at that time.
Mu Xue said that Ye Fan was the one who activated the twelve pill diagrams in the Pill Pagoda. Ye Fan also admitted this. Zhao Yuxiong secretly prayed that Ye Fan was telling a lie. If it was true, then Ye Fan’s soul power, maybe it could be compared to the Nascent Soul stage, so the probability of him regaining control of the puppets was very small.
Shen Weiping looked at Zhao Yuxiong’s face, and knew that Zhao Yuxiong should not be sure, and immediately felt a little lost.
Shen Weiping resented Zhao Yuxiong in his heart. If this guy hadn’t been cocky and let Ye Fan seize his puppets, it shouldn’t be so difficult to kill Ye Fan now. But at this moment, he had to rely on Zhao Yuxiong’s power, so he didn’t say anything.
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In a cave.
Ma Rui counted his inventory, full of depression.
“Senior sister, the spiritual weapons given by the ancestor have been used.” Ma Rui said.
Feng Mo’er nodded and said, “Well, I think you’d better find a hidden place in this secret realm and practice for a few years. The spiritual energy in the secret realm is far stronger than the outside, and you can practice in this place for five more years. This is worth twenty years outside, so it’s not a waste of time.”
Ma Rui looked at Feng Mo’er and said, “If I hide like this, it would be a waste of opportunity.”
“Then what do you think? If you go out and get chopped up, you won’t waste the opportunity?” Feng Mo’er said angrily.
“Senior sister, I heard people say that Ye Fan opened a shop in Spiritual Medicine Valley. This little white face is really amazing! He can actually open a shop in Spiritual Medicine Valley.” Originally when Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi went to Spiritual Medicine Valley, Ma Rui was also worried that the two of them would be killed. Unexpectedly, the two of them still had the ability to open a shop there and do business with foreign cultivators.
Feng Mo’er glanced at Ma Rui and said, “Yes!”
“Senior sister, why don’t we defect to him?” Ma Rui said.
Feng Mo’er looked at Ma Rui and said, “You can rest your thoughts. If you go, you’ll just hold people back.”
Ma Rui said a little depressed. “In any case, I am also at Foundation Establishment.”
Feng Mo’er said disdainfully, “Everyone here is Foundation Establishment.”
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