Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 201 Preparing for Alchemy
“It’s really beyond my expectation that Junior Brother Ji is the one selling the monster eggs.

Brothers, please take a seat and let's chat while we drink tea."

Li Minghui was a little stunned. She had also heard the rumors about the 'Stone Turtle Monk'.

Ji An introduced the other two people and got down to business after the pleasantries.

He took out an animal egg and handed it over, saying:

"What price would the Beastmaster Palace pay for these mutant beast eggs? Senior Sister, please give us a real price."

Li Minghui took the animal egg with both hands and observed it carefully.

There are ice-blue spots dotted on the white eggshell, like inlaid diamonds, which has a unique beauty.

She extended her consciousness to sense the life fluctuations within, and nodded slightly after a moment:

"This is a top-grade ice-type mutant blue water turtle with full life characteristics, very good.

The price of a top-grade bloodline beast egg or cub starts at one hundred spirit stones, and an additional fifty spirit stones will be added due to mutation.

However, due to the slow growth of turtle-type monsters, few cultivators are willing to cultivate them, and their prices are much lower than those of monsters that can grow quickly.

I'll buy it for 160 yuan, what do you think, Junior Brother?"

Turtles grow slowly but have long lifespans, and it is common for people to die while the turtles survive. Therefore, only sects and families are willing to cultivate this type of monster and use it as a guardian beast.

Ji An looked at Liang Qiu, who nodded slightly.

The price of purchasing this kind of beast eggs in the Beast Taming Palace fluctuates around two hundred spirit stones, and the other party's offer is acceptable.

After all, if they cannot be sold in a short period of time, the Beast Taming Palace will have to allocate spiritual liquid to nourish the beast eggs, otherwise the vitality in the eggs will slowly wither.

"We accept the price."

Ji An said as he took out all the beast eggs from the spirit beast bag:

"There are fourteen in total. Senior Sister, please give me an estimate."

Each beast egg will be different, and those with stronger life fluctuations can sell for more spirit stones.

"It turns out that my fellow apprentices destroyed a den of monsters," Li Minghui began to check, reporting numbers from time to time.

"One hundred and sixty spirit stones."

"One hundred and forty spirit stones."

"A total of two thousand one hundred spirit stones."

Li Minghui instructed the maid:
"Put these beast eggs into the water spirit liquid in the warehouse, and also fetch twenty-one medium-grade spirit stones."

"As you wish," the maid carefully placed the eggs on a tray and walked out of the guest room with light steps.

In fact, she didn't need to be so careful. The shells of these animal eggs looked thin, but they were actually very hard.

Liang Qiu was a little excited that he could get a thousand spirit stones so quickly. He was wondering how much those monster-hunting monks would earn if they were lucky.

After a while, the maid brought the spirit stone.

Li Minghui stretched out her hand and said:

"Junior brother, please count the numbers."

Ji An gave the spirit stones to Liang Qiu for safekeeping. Lian Zi was the biggest gainer. After all the transactions were completed, he would probably need to pay the other party the spirit stones.

"Senior Sister, does the Beast Taming Hall accept reservations? I want to buy a demon beast with an earth-grade bloodline, and I want a tiger or bear species."

Li Minghui nodded slightly, then shook her head gently:
“Of course the Beast Taming Hall accepts reservations, but we have received many orders from disciples of sects and some large families.

Brother, if you want to obtain a low-grade demon beast from the Beast Taming Palace, you will have to wait for several years, not to mention that you have specified the type of demon beast.

I suggest you try your luck at Mingfeng Mountain Fairy City, you might be able to find something good."

Ji An sighed inwardly.

After the payment and goods were settled, the two men did not stay long and said goodbye and left. They still had to visit several places today.

The sect is thousands of miles in radius, and most of the time is spent on traveling.

Ji An and his companion flew to the Equipment Refining Hall of Chitong Mountain and sold two turtle shells in exchange for eight hundred spirit stones.

Then they rushed to Lingxiao Mountain and hurried into the Qinong Hall.

At this time, Ye Changqing was bored and was squinting his eyes, feeling drowsy.

Liang Qiu stepped forward and said softly:
"Brother Ye, we have something important to report."

Ye Changqing hummed and opened his sleepy eyes.

When he saw who it was, he was a little surprised:
"Both of you are rare guests. What's the matter?"

Both Ji An and Liang Qiu rarely go out.

"It's like this. I found a very small spiritual vein node in the hidden cave of Black Dragon Pond. The concentration of spiritual energy inside it has reached the ultimate level.

Senior Brother Ji and I went deep into the cave and discovered a famous monk from the sect had passed away. This is that monk's storage bag."

Liang Qiu described the situation at that time and handed over the storage bag. The contents inside were not touched at all, including the spirit stones.

Ye Changqing listened very carefully and asked questions from time to time.

Taking the storage bag, he poured everything inside onto the table.

He picked up the beast taming card and found cracks on the soul bead. The beast tamer must be dead.

He took out his identity jade token and placed it on the spirit disk to read the information inside:

"Wei Qingshu, born in the Wei family of Xiaozhu Mountain, had reached the sixth level of foundation building. He disappeared sixty-seven years ago."

Ye Changqing shook his head slightly and said:
"He must have placed the jade token in his storage bag, otherwise the mountain and river map would show where he fell."

Based on the transaction records, he judged that the other party must have discovered something unexpected during the process of striving for the late stage of foundation building.

Ji An's expression was a little strange. He didn't expect that this cultivator was a member of Wei Songnian's clan.

He coughed lightly and asked:

"Brother, how do you usually handle this kind of thing?"

"If a cultivator has relatives, the cultivators from the Law Enforcement Hall will send his belongings back, and the contribution points in the jade token will be converted into spirit stones and returned to his family.

Since he has clansmen in the sect, these contribution points will be distributed equally among his clansmen. If you two find a relic from your fellow sect and turn it in, each of you will be rewarded with 10,000 contribution points.

In addition, if a hidden top-grade spiritual vein node is discovered, each person will be rewarded with 50,000 contribution points and 100 minor merits.

By the way, how big is the spirit vein node?"

Ji An replied:
“The node is only ten feet in radius.

Senior Brother, all these contribution points go to Junior Brother Liang. I found them on his territory, and I just happened to be there."

Ye Changqing looked at the two of them and found that they both had calm expressions. It was obvious that they had discussed it beforehand, so he nodded.
"Since you have made your decision, then do it.

Junior Brother Liang, give me your jade token. We will go back to Black Dragon Pond to check it out later.

Now that the Green Water Spirit Lotus growing at the Spiritual Vein node has matured, you must hand over 40% of your harvest."

"Understood, Senior Brother Ye! When the spiritual plants mature, I will report to the Work Hall."

Liang Qiu handed over the jade token, feeling very excited.

If you use spirit stones to exchange for 120,000 contribution points, it will cost about 6,000 spirit stones, and you will also get 200 small merits.

These contribution points are enough for him to use for several years, which means that the spirit fish he will harvest in the future will be free of cost.

Ji An asked:

"Brother Ye, what's the price for the seeds of the Bishui Linglian that the sect is buying?"

"Oh, this is a windfall."

When Ye Changqing heard his words, he immediately understood that the two had harvested lotus seeds at the spirit vein node, but these harvests were implicitly owned by the cultivator who discovered them, and the sect would not claim them back.

"Lotus seeds have a medicinal age of two hundred years. One lotus seed combined with some spiritual herbs can be used to refine a furnace of Green Lotus Pills. The sect purchases each lotus seed for 1500 contribution points."

Ji An immediately did the math in his head: 75 spirit stones could be exchanged for 1500 contribution points. If he took away all the lotus seeds, it would be equivalent to taking away 4350 spirit stones from Liangqiu.

"Brother, we're going out to discuss something and will be back soon. You can go ahead and do your work."

Ye Changqing muttered:

"What's so mysterious?"

He understood that the two of them were most likely going to divide the profits.

The two walked out of the hall, and Ji An said softly:

“Junior brother, now all the harvest has been processed.

I took 15 bottles of monster blood, each of which has a market price of about spirit stones. I will use it to make talisman ink.

Plus I took all the lotus seeds, I need to pay you 4650 spirit stones."

“Brother, I took the spirit stones from selling beast eggs and turtle shells, and among them were 1450 spirit stones for you.

I still owe you 2000 Spiritual Stones, so just give me 1200."

Liang Qiu felt relieved, finally paying off his debt of spirit stones.

He thought for a moment and then said:

"Brother, next time the Purple Fire Gourd matures, please save one for me. I also want a similar magical tool."

He saw that this magic weapon was very useful. As long as the flame was stored in the magic weapon, it would be automatically nourished.

“Yes, Senior Brother Zhao Lei will come to collect the materials, and you can talk to him.

However, you are practicing water-based skills, and there are no earth, lung and fire meridians nearby, which will be a bit inconvenient.

How about this, when you need to replenish your flames, go to Scarlet Flame Peak. I have an unused underground fire room there that I can lend you."

It only takes half an hour at most to replenish the flame using the Fire Control Technique, and you only need to replenish it once every half a month.

"Brother is really thoughtful."

Ji An handed the spirit stone to the other party, and the two returned to the hall again.

"Brother, please help me prepare the medicinal materials for 116 furnaces of Qinglian Dan. No lotus seeds are needed."

"There are no lotus seeds even if you want them! Just wait, I'll get them for you."

Ye Changqing walked into the warehouse, found the recipe and searched for the elixir. It took him two quarters of an hour to prepare all the herbs.

"A total of 58,000 contribution points."

He took the jade token handed over by Ji An, deducted the contribution points, and grinned:

"Junior brother's contribution points are increasing."

Ji An drove the shuttle straight to Ningcui Cliff. After arriving at the cave, he took out ten jars of spiritual wine:
"Master, Scarlet Flame Peak has brewed a second-grade mulberry wine this year. I'm sending some to you. It's best when stored in a cellar for four or five years."

Each jar of spirit wine weighs five pounds, and fifty pounds were delivered at a time, which was quite generous.

Ge Ying showed a kind smile in her eyes and said:
"You just cultivated the second-level Jade Leaf Mulberry this year. How much spiritual wine can you brew? And you only sent me this much!
When you go back later, take some out and leave me four jars."

These spiritual wines are left here to satisfy our appetite.

She no longer expected to make further progress in her cultivation. The spiritual wine would be of greater help to her disciples, at least in exchange for some cultivation resources.

Ji An waved his hands hurriedly and said:

"That won't do. How can I take back a gift given to my master?"

He scratched his head and continued:

"I had an unexpected discovery yesterday, and today I would like to ask Master for help."

He told the story of the Black Dragon Pond and took out the lotus seeds and related medicinal materials of the Bishui Linglian.

Ge Ying laughed and said:

"It's your luck, otherwise why wouldn't Liang Qiu ask someone else for help but you?
However, refining so many furnaces of elixirs is a rather arduous task.

I often have alchemy tasks assigned by the sect to complete, so it will probably take me one or two years to refine all of this batch of pills."

She became even more convinced that this disciple was quite lucky.

(End of this chapter)