Chapter 316: The City's Answer
Chapter 316: The City's Answer
Two days later, morning arrived.
In a bedroom, Jiang Cheng slowly opened his eyes, a glimmer of brilliance flashing across them.
After five or six days of cultivation, the Shadowless Heart Sutra finally opened up the first few acupoints.
His strength, already at the upper echelon of the Seventh Rank, not far from the Eighth, now gained the boost from these acupoints, his power and speed directly reaching the threshold of the Eighth Rank!
Upon reaching the Eighth Rank, his maximum fist strength reached 20 tons, rivaling the might of a 30mm cannon. His physical defense could now withstand attacks from firearms with a caliber of 25mm or less.
But the path to the Ninth Rank wouldn't be so easy.
The difference in power between the Eighth and Ninth Ranks was more than just double.
Without opening the first 20 acupoints of the Shadowless Heart Sutra, it was certain he couldn't reach that level.
And the time required for this wouldn't be short.
"If only my psychic energy could improve," Jiang Cheng muttered.
Last night, his alchemy skills had reached the Great Success Stage, making him one of the top Third Rank Alchemists.
Using one and a half portions of herbs, refining nine or ten Intermediate Spirit Nourishing Pills was not a difficult task. If he used two portions of herbs, he could even refine three or four Advanced Spirit Pills, and the remaining six or seven successful pills would still be of Intermediate quality.
If he reached Perfection, refining Supreme Spirit Pills wouldn't be a problem either, and he would be considered a Fourth Rank Alchemist.
To quickly advance from the First to the Second Rank as a Mind Master, he needed 20 million units of currency worth of Basic Spirit Nourishing Pills. At 1000 units per pill, that meant 20,000 pills!
To consume 20,000 Basic Spirit Nourishing Pills was a beautiful dream, but one he dared not entertain. Instead, he thought of converting them into higher-grade pills, like the Supreme Spirit Nourishing Pill.
At a conversion rate of ten times the strength.
That meant 2000 pills.
To be honest, with his current psychic energy, refining 2000 Supreme Spirit Nourishing Pills was not an easy task.
"I still need to improve my alchemy skills by another level, or perhaps attempt to refine Second Rank Tranquilizing Pills," Jiang Cheng thought to himself.
If he were to consume Advanced Tranquilizing Pills, 2000 of them would be reduced to less than 700 after the conversion.
Being a bit bolder, what if he consumed Supreme Tranquilizing Pills? If the Supreme Spirit Nourishing Pill was ten times stronger than the Basic one, then the Supreme Tranquilizing Pill should also be ten times stronger than the Basic Tranquilizing Pill, right?
In that case, 200 Supreme Tranquilizing Pills would be enough, just twenty bottles, a much more reasonable number.
With forty bottles, he might even advance from the Second to the Third Rank as a Mind Master.
As for higher-grade pills, they took longer to refine and consumed more psychic energy? No problem, just add more herbs.
As long as he could refine them, the process would speed up afterward.
Jiang Cheng's heart was filled with trepidation.
He still planned to use the same method to rapidly gain experience points and quickly improve his skill in refining the Calming Spirit Pill.
But the cost of the ingredients for the Calming Spirit Pill was much higher than the Spirit Nourishing Pill. At a conversion rate of ten times, one portion of ingredients for the Calming Spirit Pill cost 50,000 units of currency, ten portions? 500,000!
Ten Basic Calming Spirit Pills only cost 100,000 units of currency.
A direct loss of 400,000! Refining one batch resulted in a loss of 400,000, two batches in a loss of 800,000, and three batches in a loss of 1,200,000!
And so on.
Even the black market might not be able to sustain such losses.
He couldn't help but feel it was a difficult task.
But without trying, how would he know the answer? After breakfast, bidding farewell to his family, Cheng set out and called Yang Chun on the way, sensing the latter's improvement in alchemy skills.
(End of Chapter)The latter seemed accustomed to it and wasn't too surprised, indicating that he would be there shortly.
Soon, the two met in the alchemy chamber.
Using one and a half portions of herbs, Jiang Cheng crafted ten Intermediate Spirit Nourishing Pills, taking only forty minutes.
If he were to use one portion of herbs to craft a Basic Spirit Nourishing Pill, the Second Rank Alchemist Shen Ming, who taught him, would need about an hour, while Jiang Cheng only required half an hour.
Of course, if he were to use two portions of herbs to craft Advanced Spirit Nourishing Pills, it would take longer, possibly an hour.
After all, the fewer the herbs, the higher the grade of the pill, and the greater the profit, the more one must fully utilize every bit of herbal power, and the more time and effort the alchemist needs to invest.
"Well done!"
Watching the freshly crafted pills, Yang Chun couldn't help but smile widely.
With one and a half portions of herbs, the cost was only 7,500, and in reality, it would be even lower, less than 7,000.
However, Jiang Cheng crafted ten Intermediate Spirit Nourishing Pills, which had a market value of 20,000, resulting in a profit of 13,000. If he crafted seven or eight pills a day, he could repay the debt of three million in just a month.
In reality, the total debt Jiang Cheng owed was not three million.
Because with his current skill, using ten portions of herbs, he could sometimes craft Supreme Spirit Nourishing Pills.
Ten portions of herbs were valued at 50,000.
Ten Advanced Spirit Nourishing Pills had a market value of 30,000.
A loss of 20,000.
But if a Supreme Spirit Nourishing Pill was crafted, the loss would only be 10,000.
So, including the previous debt, the total amount owed was only 1.5 to 1.6 million.
"Yang Senior Brother, I actually wanted to talk about something else."
Jiang Cheng was about to say something.
Yang Chun raised his hand and smiled, "You don't need to say more, I understand what you mean. You want to borrow a few million more herbs to further improve your pill crafting skills, right? I get it! No problem, I'm willing to lend them to you."
Even a fool could guess that with Jiang Cheng's current skills, crafting ten pills with the potential for five to seven Supreme Spirit Nourishing Pills!
A Supreme Spirit Nourishing Pill had a market value of 10,000.
Was there even a need for calculation?
A guaranteed profit!
Yang Chun would even offer 10 million!
Hearing this, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but laugh and cry.
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