Cultivating Immortality Through a Hundred Lifetimes in Both Realms

Back in his cave, Zhou Ze had already finished harvesting the nine Ningyuan Ginseng plants.

Jiang Yun put the Ningyuan Ginseng into his storage bag and patiently waited in his cave for the clan leader to bring the pill formula.

A few days later, the clan chief sent clansmen to deliver three kinds of second-tier mid-grade pill formulas.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Jiang Yun was in a great mood and rewarded the clansman who delivered the pill formula with five spirit stones. Then he went into the cave to examine the three pill formulas.

"The Qi Condensation and Recovery Pill is indeed contained within."

"The other two pills are actually the Youth Preservation Pill and the Purple Gold Barrier Breakthrough Pill?"

"The production cost of these three types of pills, especially the Youth Preservation Pill, is much higher than that of ordinary second-grade mid-level pills."

Jiang Yun was quite helpless, not expecting that the clan leader had prepared youth-preserving pills and purple-gold barrier-breaking pills for him.

However, Jiang Yun soon smiled knowingly.

"The Youth-Preserving Pill can keep one's appearance forever after ingestion, and it is extremely popular among female cultivators."

"However, this kind of pill seems to be quite rare in the cultivation world of Qiankun."

"If one were to produce a youth-preserving pill in the world of cultivation, it would surely win the heart of any woman."

Which woman doesn't love beauty?

Even female cultivators at the Foundation Establishment or Core Formation stages are not exempt from this custom.

If they had a youth-preserving pill right in front of them, they would definitely be overjoyed.

"I have obtained the recipe for a mid-grade second-tier pill. Now I need to procure the medicinal materials and begin attempting to refine mid-grade second-tier pills."

"As for the review of the Qi-Boosting Pill, we'll have to wait another three months."

There are still three months until the Zixiao Sect's Pill Hall reviews the pill formulas.

Jiang Yun certainly couldn't be idle during these three months.

He took out his storage bag and began to take stock of all his belongings, preparing to use them to buy medicinal herbs.

"Unbeknownst to me, I have been serving as the family's Grand Elder for seventeen years since I reached the Foundation Establishment stage."

"For the past seventeen years, I have been able to take 30% of the profits from Zhou's Dan Shop every year."

"The income was only three or four thousand in the first seven years, but four or five thousand a year in the next ten years."

Jiang Yun began by counting the salaries.

After he achieved the Foundation Establishment stage, he began serving as the family's Grand Elder, managing the Zhou family's alchemy shop and alchemy hall, and receiving 30% of the Zhou family's alchemy shop's net profit as a salary each year.

Now, seventeen years later, he has accumulated more than 20,000 Yuan Stones.

"Over seventeen years, his total salary amounted to 22170 yuanshi."

"On average, it costs a little over 1,300 yuan stones per year."

"However, as far as the salary goes, it's not bad."

After counting his salary, Jiang Yun took out more than 10,000 yuan stones.

"These 13243 Yuan Stones are the clan's secret income for the Grand Elder."

As the eldest elder of the family, managing the family's alchemy hall and Zhou's alchemy shop, he was sure to make some extra money every year.

Over the course of seventeen years, there were more than 13,000 yuan stones.

"That gives us 35413 spirit stones, plus the 7040 spirit stones left over from the last purchase of the magic item."

"I currently only have 42453 low-grade spirit stones."

"As for the one mid-grade spirit stone that the clan distributes every year, it has long been absorbed and absorbed."

Jiang Yun took stock of all his belongings and began to calculate the cost of purchasing medicinal herbs.

Over the years, although he was refining pills for his family, he secretly embezzled all the second-tier low-grade pills with special patterns to improve his cultivation level, raising it to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

Therefore, it is no longer appropriate to embezzle ordinary Yuan Dan.

Therefore, he no longer had any pills, only these 40,000 yuan stones.

"Of these three second-tier mid-grade pill formulas, the Qi Condensation and Recovery Pill has the lowest cost, with each serving costing 470 yuan stones."

"If we prepare the ingredients for thirty portions of Qi-Condensing Pills, it will cost 14100 spirit stones."

"However, I have nine Ginseng Condensation Vegetarians, which can save some money."

Jiang Yun felt somewhat helpless, as high-level alchemists were built up by expending countless amounts of wealth.

The cost of a second-tier mid-grade pill is at least three times higher than that of a second-tier low-grade pill.

Once you reach the second-tier superior grade, it's even higher, more than ten times higher.

As for the cost of third-tier pills, it cannot be estimated in terms of spirit stones. Without the certainty of success in refining them, no alchemist would be willing to try it lightly.

"The Purple Gold Breakthrough Pill is a pill that helps break through bottlenecks. The cost of the medicinal materials is higher than that of the Qi Condensation Pill. Each serving requires 560 Yuan Stones, and thirty servings would cost a total of 16800 Yuan Stones."

"As for the Youth Preservation Pill, this pill has the highest cost, requiring 800 yuan stones per dose, and 30 doses would cost a total of 24000 yuan stones."

"However, you usually only need to take one Youth Preservation Pill, and each one can sell for 5000 spirit stones, which is equivalent to a mid-grade second-tier magic weapon!"

Jiang Yun quickly calculated that the spirit stones he had were insufficient to purchase ninety portions of medicinal herbs.

Because the cost of a second-tier mid-grade pill is much higher than the cost of a second-tier low-grade pill.

"Alchemy can fail and waste medicinal materials. Although the cost is high, if it is successful, the profit is huge."

"The cost of a single Youth Preservation Pill is only 800 Yuan Stones, but it can be sold for 5,000 Yuan Stones."

Jiang Yun pondered the matter in his mind.

The lower the cost, the easier it is to refine the elixir.

There are three types of pills: Condensing Qi Pill, Purple Gold Barrier-Breaking Pill, and Youth-Preserving Pill. Among them, Condensing Qi Pill is the easiest to refine, while Youth-Preserving Pill is the most difficult.

If we were to prepare thirty portions of each type of medicinal material, the existing Yuan Stones would definitely not be enough; we would be short at least twelve thousand Yuan Stones.

"The Qi Condensation Pill is the easiest to refine. Prepare 20 portions of medicinal materials, totaling 9400 Yuan Stones."

"The Purple Gold Weakness Pill is the next best option. Prepare 25 portions of medicinal materials, totaling 14000 yuan stones."

"The Youth Preservation Pill is the most difficult to refine. Prepare thirty portions of medicinal materials, totaling 24000 spirit stones."

There aren't enough spirit stones to buy ninety portions of medicinal herbs.

Therefore, Jiang Yun reduced the corresponding quantities of the three types of pills according to their difficulty of refining, and prepared to purchase seventy-five portions of medicinal materials.

Even so, the number of Yuan Stones is still insufficient.

"The total of the three is 47400 yuan stones, which is still nearly 5000 yuan stones short."

"Five thousand spirit stones is just the cost of ten low-grade second-tier fire spirit pills."

Thinking of this, Jiang Yun immediately put away all the spirit stones and went to the alchemy hall to refine pills.

After spending more than ten days refining twelve second-grade low-level Fire Essence Pills, he took them to Zhou's Pill Shop to sell and then took five thousand spirit stones from Zhou's Pill Shop.

As the eldest elder of the family, he has such authority.

With five thousand spirit stones in hand, Jiang Yun had enough spirit stones on him. He took the spirit stones and went to find the clan leader Zhou Hongde, asking him to purchase medicinal herbs again.

"I understand, a total of seventy-five portions of medicinal herbs."

Zhou Hong was not surprised to see Jiang Yun take out more than 50,000 yuan stones at once, as he knew Jiang Yun was very wealthy.

"However, it will take some time to procure these medicinal herbs. I will deliver them to your cave in two months."

More than 50,000 yuan stones is no small amount. Zhou Hong prepared to purchase the medicinal materials and personally delivered them to Jiang Yun.

"Thank you, clan chief."

Jiang Yun didn't expect that it would take two months to procure the medicinal herbs, so he returned to his cave to cultivate.

A month later, the three pill formulas sent to the Pill Hall of the Purple Cloud Sect began to be reviewed.

The person conducting the investigation was Rong Daoren's disciple, a second-tier high-grade alchemist.

"This elixir formula..."

"Wow, so these low-grade medicinal herbs can be combined like this!"

"Who developed this prescription? We don't know how effective it is; we need to find someone to test it."

"There is also an identity token, which was originally a pill formula developed by Zhou Yun of the Zhou family in Ningyuanfang."

Upon seeing the token, he summoned a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator and two mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators to test the medicine.

The results of the drug trial surprised him greatly!