Chapter 236: Chapter 134 Finalization of Qi Concealment Secret Technique (Third update, asking for monthly votes )_2
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He would gladly accept gifts from his friends and wouldn’t hesitate to help them in return.
Even after traversing to another world, he genuinely treated people like Wang Yuan, Elder Chen or the neighbors from the Four Courtyards as friends.
If they had a windfall, he would pat their backs for free and congratulate them.
And when hardship befell upon them, he did his best to help.
Just like he did with Gu Caiyi, Feng Xia, and most recently Duan Feng who became his friend.
However, his attitude differed completely towards outsiders.
He would be cautious, alert, and never dive deep into a conversation with them.
Moreover, he would always put his own interests first!
This was especially evident in his interactions with Mi Shuhua!
The relationship he had with Mi Shuhua was never equal from the start.
It was purely based on mutual benefits.
Due to the significant power disparity, Mi Shuhua had the upper hand from the very beginning.
Had he not agreed to establish the Pill Hall and refine pills for the Broken Mountain Gang, he would have only met one fate—death!
No one pointed this out, but it was a fact.
Even after becoming the master of the Pill Hall, he was only a tool, and Mi Shuhua was the capitalist who wielded this tool.
For someone like a capitalist, Luo Chen had a simple solution—pull as much profit as possible from him!
He never hesitated to imagine the worst when guessing Mi Shuhua’s intentions.
Because of this, he was able to rip benefits from him time and again.
And in truth, he didn’t let Mi Shuhua lose too much.
Other than the initial losses of the Pill Hall, once the Medium Grade Jade Marrow Pills were produced, Mi Shuhua started making profits.
Against such a person who exploited him and might even suppress him at the time of Foundation Establishment, Luo Chen constantly reminded himself not to be deceived by his appeasement tactics and control techniques.
If he genuinely believed Mi Shuhua’s sweet talk hidden beneath his kind smile, he might face a similar fate as that of Han Dang, the Heart Eating Tiger and Sick Tiger Zeng Wen.
Especially after last night’s truth-telling session, Luo Chen realized this even more profoundly.
As his cultivation level rose, Mi Shuhua’s desire to control him grew stronger.
Luo Chen didn’t want to face such an enemy with profound schemes at the time of his Foundation Establishment.
That was terrifying!
Being alert was one thing, but what he had to do at the moment was a different story.
Once he returned to Crescent Valley, Luo Chen busied himself with Pill Refinement!
The entire Pill Hall, even the Medicine Hall, started operating at full capacity around him.
After the first day’s refining of Jade Marrow Pills was finished, the staggering success rate completely shocked the two managers, Gu Caiyi and Sikong Shoujia.
Out of the fourteen batches of raw materials, the success rate was up to fifty percent!
The yield was even at a perfect hundred percent, all of them being Medium Grade Jade Marrow Pills!
There was not a single Lower Grade Jade Marrow Pill!
“A hundred and forty Medium Grade Jade Marrow Pills!”
Gu Caiyi swallowed anxiously, incredulous.
If they were sold, they would be worth seven hundred Lower Grade Spirit Stones!
If this happens every day for an entire month, wouldn’t that sell for over twenty thousand?
Gu Caiyi turned around abruptly, only to see Luo Chen washing his hands leisurely by the spring, looking not at all surprised. Instead, he seemed to have known it all along.
In comparison to Gu Caiyi’s shock, Sikong Shoujia was stunned speechless.
He left the Pill Hall with his account book at once; he had to report this delightful news to Mi Shuhua.
Clapping his hands dust-free, Luo Chen moved to the edge of the cliff-platform, watching Sikong Shoujia’s receding figure.
“Aren’t you tired?”
Gu Caiyi asked anxiously from behind him.
Tired?
Luo Chen chuckled lightly, “In the past, I had to deliberately control the success rate and quality; that was exhausting. Now, all I have to do is maintain all these pills at the Medium grade; I feel much more relaxed.”
Looking at Luo Chen’s handsome side profile, Gu Cai Yi could not help but blurt out, “If this isn’t just a coincidence and continues this way, we could be earning more than twenty thousand Spirit Stones in a month, which would be over two hundred thousand in a year! We could even afford to buy magic items, let alone ordinary elixirs!”
“Woman, you’re oversimplifying it.” Luo Chen smiled slightly and walked into his cabin, leaving Gu Caiyi standing alone at the cliff’s edge, feeling the warm summer breeze on her face.
After thinking it through, she realized that she had indeed been oversimplifying things.
All these elixirs would cost thousands just in production costs.
Furthermore, the manpower and resources consumed in transportation and sales would significantly increase the expenses.
The profits were indeed not as high as she had imagined.
However, the final earnings would still be a substantial amount of money!
Especially for a Qi Refinement Stage Cultivator!
Luo Chen was truly formidable; his proficiency in Dao of Alchemy had grown to such a level without her noticing.
In her heart, Gu Caiyi had already begun to idolize Luo Chen.
Meanwhile, inside the stone cabin, Luo Chen sighed.
Unfortunately, he could only reap 20% of the profits from these elixir sales.
It was too little!
But due to his oath, that was all he could do.
“Anyway, I’ll just have to get through these one or two months!”
“Once I have saved enough Spirit Stones to restart my journey, I’ll escape!”
The preparation Luo Chen made for his escape was not just limited to that.
Apart from refining the pills daily, he also increased his cultivation efforts on the Qi Concealment Secret Technique and tried his best to familiarize himself with the Green Musk Aggregation Jiao Flag.
As a Top Grade Magic Tool, it would be one of his reliable aids while on the run!
He had to figure out the knack to use it and prevent the situation which occurred to Qiu Bai—running out of spirit power.
In these bustling days, half a month passed in a flash..