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Chapter 41 Ge Changfeng's Imagination
Ge Changfeng has been following his master since he was a child, learning how to become a medicine appraiser. To this day, he has been working for the Treasure Pavilion for a full sixty years.

He has seen countless elixirs in his life, especially the basic elixir of Qi Nourishing Pill, which he knows very well.

However, today he had the rare opportunity to see a unique way of refining medicine.

Although this batch of Qi-nourishing pills in his hand seem ordinary at first glance, there is nothing special about them.

But if you compare them carefully, you will be surprised to find that half of the pills are exactly the same as the other half.

This sounds like nonsense. They are all Qi-nourishing Pills, so they must be exactly the same.

But for Ge Changfeng, his observation skills are far more meticulous than those of ordinary people, and he can always find the subtle differences between the pills.

The problem was that even though he checked repeatedly, the two Qi-nourishing Pills in his palms were exactly the same, so exquisite that they seemed like a show of skill.

Therefore, a natural conclusion is that this batch of pills came from a master alchemist.

Moreover, this master should be from Quanzhou, so his subordinates also need to wear stealth cloaks to cover their whereabouts.

This transaction may just be a means for the other party to test the locals.

You can’t blame Ge Changfeng for thinking this way. There are so many new faces coming to Lihuofang Market recently.

With the fall of Quanzhou and the rampant spread of the Divine Fire Sect, a large number of monks naturally chose to flee to neighboring states for refuge.

Some monks chose Hezhou, which was closer, and naturally some monks chose Lizhou, which was a little further west.

Among these monks, some will come directly to the market and try to integrate into the local circle, just like many newly opened shops recently.

But more monks will hide outside vigilantly and send people to test the local situation many times.

Under such circumstances, Ge Changfeng naturally suspected that there might be an alchemy master behind Xiao Chen.

Seeing Xiao Chen remained silent, he took the initiative to speak: "It doesn't matter if you don't want to talk, let's continue the normal transaction."

"This batch of elixirs is of acceptable quality, but the craftsmanship is superior. According to the rules, it should be priced at 128 spirit stones plus seven grains of spirit sand."

"I'll round it up and give you 130 spirit stones, how about that?"

Xiao Chen's voice was steady, without any emotion: "No problem, just do as the old man says."

The other party seemed to have misunderstood him, but so what?
It's a good thing to get a spirit stone for free. Besides, the purpose of wearing an invisibility cloak is to disguise oneself.

The deal was done. Ge Changfeng smiled slightly as he watched Xiao Chen neatly collect the spirit stones and leave.

Then he turned around and instructed the steward: "Remember this person's aura. He will come back in a month at most. Next time you encounter such a pill transaction, you can directly notify me."

"If I'm not on duty that day, please send the pills to me after you're done. I'll check them before putting them into storage."

After saying that, he glanced again at the direction where Xiao Chen disappeared, looking forward to the next test.

What kind of elixir would he use next time? The Qi-Gathering Pill? Or would he just use the Heyuan Pill?

But he might be disappointed. After Xiao Chen went out, he walked around twice to make sure that no one was following him.

Then he went to buy ten more spiritual herbs, ready to continue making money.

The last batch of spiritual herbs cost eighty-five spirit stones, and was sold for one hundred and thirty spirit stones, making a profit of forty-five spirit stones, which is an absolute huge profit.

Of course, the more such things happen, the better. Xiao Chen plans to earn a large amount of spirit stones and save enough money to practice making new elixirs and cultivate himself before stopping.

Of course, now that alchemy is on the right track, cultivation naturally cannot be neglected.

After all, alchemy is, after all, just a means to help oneself collect resources for cultivation.

With the income, Xiao Chen generously spent twenty spirit stones to purchase a bottle of Qi Gathering Pill to help with his practice.

The Qi Gathering Pill is much more complicated than the Qi Nourishing Pill, and it is expected that more spirit stones will be burned during practice.

Xiao Chen definitely doesn’t have enough spirit stones at the moment, so he has to rely on purchasing them for the time being.

But this is a minor problem. His current profit from alchemy can already cover the cost of his daily Qi Gathering Pills.

For the next twenty days, Xiao Chen practiced and refined pills every day, very regularly.

Although the time for cultivation has been reduced, the overall cultivation speed has not been reduced at all due to the effect of the Qi Gathering Pill.

After all, the Qi-Gathering Pill was worth twenty spirit stones, equivalent to four months of training allowance. Taking the pill and practicing for ten days would basically equal the progress of practicing for twenty days without taking the pill, and might even be faster.

For this batch of pills, Xiao Chen's average success rate increased again, reaching an astonishing 90%.

The main reason was that the last few furnaces were a huge success, with all ten pills intact, which directly increased the success rate by 10%.

Combined with the effect of [buy one get one free], Xiao Chen owned eighteen bottles of Qi-nourishing Pills.

He came to the Treasure Pavilion with familiarity and chose to resell again.

This time, the steward quickly invited a young man over: "The quality is fine. According to the current market price, a bottle of pills is seven spirit stones."

"Eighteen bottles in total. After deducting the handling fee, I round it up to 113 spirit stones for you."

When Xiao Chen heard this, his first reaction was that the other party had rounded up and directly gave up the four grains of spiritual sand that he deserved.

The second reaction was that the price of the Qi-nourishing Pill had increased again, now costing seven spirit stones per bottle.

From his point of view, this should be considered a good thing, after all, it means he can earn more spirit stones.

However, this should be another bad news for the independent cultivators in the outside world.

Xiao Chen was even a little confused. If the price continued to rise, would any casual cultivator be able to afford it?
However, this is not a problem he needs to worry about.

"No problem, let's go with this price."

After the transaction was completed, Xiao Chen once again reaped a profit of fifty-three spirit stones.

He walked around a few more times before returning to the market to purchase ten spiritual herbs and a bottle of Qi Gathering Pill.

The prices of these two items have not continued to increase. After all, the former has increased several times, and the latter is already very expensive.

Then continue to return to Bishui Peak and start self-discipline.

On the other side, the steward packed the pills directly, sent them to the backyard and notified Ge Changfeng.

Ge Changfeng was on vacation, but upon hearing the news, he hurried to the Treasure Pavilion to see the new trading pills.

"Hey, another Qi-nourishing Pill? How come this master has refined another Qi-nourishing Pill? What does this mean?"

Ge Changfeng was a little confused.

Just then, the young appraiser saw him and asked, "Master Ge, why are you here? Hey, isn't this the pill I just resold?"

He walked over and took a closer look. "This pill is the batch I just received. Is there something wrong with this pill? Did I make a mistake?"

Seeing that the experienced Mr. Ge had a serious expression, the young appraisers felt a little unconfident.

Ge Changfeng shook his head: "That's not the case, just take a look at these two pills and see what their characteristics are."

As he spoke, he picked out a pair of pills and handed them to the other party.

"Please forgive my ignorance, but this elixir doesn't seem to have anything special about it."

After looking over it over and over for a quarter of an hour, the young appraiser couldn't find any problems.

"Look carefully. No matter which angle you look at it from, no matter which direction you use the identification technique to measure it, these two pills are exactly the same."

Speaking of which, Ge Changfeng's tone was still filled with shock: "I have been in this industry for many years and have never seen such superb skills."

With his reminder, the young appraiser also discovered that the "buy one get one free" replica of the elixir was indeed exactly the same, with no difference in any detail.

"This, this... Could this be the work of some alchemy master?"

Ge Changfeng smiled and said, "Of course! Only a master alchemist could have such unique ideas and such superb skills."

"There must be an alchemy master from Quanzhou outside the market. He is trying to contact us."

"By the way, please don't talk nonsense about this matter. This is important information about foreign monks."

The young appraiser suddenly understood and nodded repeatedly, "I understand. I will keep this a secret."

(End of this chapter)