The original repairer

"In other words, the Zhu family withheld the payment, bought up all the Qingmingsha in the Qisha market, and restricted the sale of Qingmingsha in the market to you? Now there is not a pound of Qingmingsha in the market that we can purchase." Huang Ziying said angrily.

"Actually, these actions of the Zhu family were expected. They wanted to restrict me, but there is always a way out. First of all, new Qingmingsha is produced from the Mingsha River every day and every month. There are three to five thousand kilograms in the market every year. If we start purchasing it now, it is still possible to purchase one thousand kilograms before the end of the year. Secondly, we have advantages that the Zhu family does not have." Shi Chen looked at Huang Ziying and said.

"What advantages?" Huang Qi asked curiously.

"Today I went to the market to get a general idea. Qisha Market is the border market of Qingxuan Sect. It is close to Mingsha River and adjacent to the territories of Liehuo Sect and Qianjue Sect. One hundred miles upstream of Mingsha River, there is a market belonging to Liehuo Sect called Kimura Market. The hundred miles between the two markets is the boundary of the three sects. It is also a no-man's land. As long as we can afford the price, we can get a lot of Qingmingsha from the independent cultivators. Our advantage is that I can make pills. As long as we put up a sign in the market and help people make pills, one furnace of pills costs one kilogram of Qingmingsha. Many independent cultivators will wait for us with elixirs." Shi Chen said slowly.

"I didn't think of this, but now you only know the recipe for the Qi-nourishing Pill, which can only cater to the market of cultivators below the middle stage of Qi training." Huang Qi said.

"When you were in the sect, did you buy the recipe for the Soul-Enriching Pill?" Shi Chen asked.

"I bought it. I think we will be here for many years. There are not only Qi Yun Dan, Qi Bu Dan, Qi Condensing Dan and Recovery Dan, a total of four pill recipes. I thought of giving them to you later, so I'll give them to you now." Huang Ziying took out a few pill recipes and handed them to Shi Chen.

"Tomorrow I will go to the barter market in the market, rent a shop, hang up a sign, and make Qi-nourishing Pills for people. Each furnace requires one pound of Qingming Sand. I will make a minimum of ten furnaces, and make sure that at least six out of ten furnaces will produce pills, with six pills in each furnace. From now on, I will be in the shop during the day, refining pills for people. In my free time, I will study the pill formulas, and come back to practice at night. This way, I can practice alchemy without delaying my cultivation. I should be able to earn quite a bit of Qingming Sand." Shi Chen pondered.

"Okay, this is the only way now. But you don't have extra time to refine your own pills. All our spirit stones have been exchanged to buy spiritual medicines. If we can't solve the problem after half a year, we will have to stop practicing." Huang Qi said.

"Don't worry, as long as there are independent cultivators who come to make pills for me, my reputation will spread. In a few months, we won't have to worry about resources for cultivation, and the sect's mission can be completed by the end of the year. Since Senior Brother Huang believes in my potential in alchemy, you should know that my alchemy skills are improving rapidly, and the mid-grade Qi-nourishing Pill should be able to be refined soon. I just said that I guarantee that six out of ten furnaces will produce pills, and each furnace will produce six pills. We will still make some profit." Shi Chen analyzed.

The next day, Shi Chen rented a shop near the Yiwu Market for a year, paying two low-grade spirit stones a month. He hung a sign that read: "I'm helping people refine pills. Currently, I'm only refining Qi-nourishing Pills. Refining starts with ten furnaces, guaranteed to be six furnaces, six pills per furnace. My refining fee is one jin of Qingmingsha per furnace."

In the shop, the single shop of about 30 square meters is divided into two rooms, the front reception room and the alchemy room at the back.

A day passed quickly, and many cultivators at the first and second levels of Qi training came in to ask questions, but when they saw the young Shi Chen, the alchemists who were not certified as alchemists all retreated.

Shi Chen was very patient and believed in his skills. Unable to get orders to refine pills for him, he had to study pill formulas and specialize in pharmacopoeias.

The next day, early in the morning, a female cultivator at the first level of Qi training walked into the shop, inquired about the situation, and finally reached an agreement with Shi Chen.

The female cultivator, named Hao Chuntao, had lived in this market for ten years. Five years ago, she stumbled upon an opportunity and successfully absorbed Qi, reaching the first level of Qi training. However, due to a lack of resources and her own mediocre aptitude, five years later, her cultivation remained at the first level of Qi training.

For five years, Hao Chuntao lived frugally and saved money to accumulate five years' worth of elixirs. When she saw Shi Chen's shop with a sign that said it could make Qi-nourishing pills for people, a glimmer of hope ignited in her heart, and she decided to come in and give it a try.

After some bargaining, Hao Chuntao and Shi Chen reached an agreement. She took out ten doses of the spiritual medicine for the Yangqi Pill and paid ten kilograms of Qingming Sand, waiting in the front hall with a nervous mood.

Two days later, ten furnaces of Qi-nourishing Pills were finally refined. Eight of them yielded successful pills, each containing at least eight. In total, there were seventy-three pills.

Shi Chen took out thirty low-grade Qi-nourishing Pills and gave the remaining forty-three Qi-nourishing Pills to Hao Chuntao.

When she saw the quality of the pills in her hand, which were the same as the ones in the Qingxuan Sect's Dan Pavilion, her joy was beyond words. She immediately took out the remaining 25 packages of the Yangqi Pills, paid another 25 kilograms of Qingming Sand, and told Shi Chen to come back in five days to pick up the pills. Then she hurriedly left the shop.

It turned out that Hao Chuntao was planning to return to her cave to cultivate. Over the past five years, she had used only a handful of cultivation pills, and her progress had remained stagnant. Now with so many pills, she believed she would soon be able to break through to the second level of Qi training, and even the third level would not be out of reach.

Busy with alchemy during the day and focused on cultivation at night, Shi Chen no longer had time to practice magic. But he still enjoyed it, as his alchemy skills became more and more proficient, and his cultivation level was slowly improving. At this rate, he estimated that he would reach the third level of Qi training by early next year.

Hao Chuntao successfully refined 21 of her 25 Qi-nourishing Pills, one of which yielded a full pill. The rest yielded between six and ten pills, for a total of 182 low-grade Qi-nourishing Pills.

Shi Chen delivered 102 low-grade Qi-nourishing pills to Hao Chuntao.

He withheld eighty pills to give the outside world a false impression that the success rate of the pills he refined was only 60-70%, so as not to attract too much attention.

The success rate of a normal first-level alchemist is roughly like this. Shi Chen is not yet a first-level alchemist, so such performance is already outstanding. Fully exposing his strength will cause trouble, and he does not have enough strength to deal with the risk.

A month passed in the blink of an eye. Ever since the news spread that Hao Chuntao had asked Shi Chen to make her own elixirs, Shi Chen's shop began to be frequented by casual cultivators in groups of three or four.

Every day, Shi Chen could only barely refine five furnaces of pills, which was the limit of his current alchemy skills and cultivation. After refining five furnaces of pills, the spiritual power in his dantian would be completely consumed.

It takes three or four hours to refine five furnaces of pills. Adding the time for cultivation, Shi Chen's day is fully scheduled.

In a month, he refined a total of 150 furnaces of elixirs and received 150 kilograms of Qingming Sand. He withheld an average of 40 to 50 pills for every ten furnaces.

This month's alchemy experience not only allowed Shi Chen to gain the knowledge of Qingmingsha, but also steadily improved his alchemy skills.

During the process of refining the last few batches of pills, he could vaguely feel that he was about to make a breakthrough and be able to refine mid-grade Qi-nourishing pills.