Cultivation: Starting with Sterilizing My Own Father

Helian Ye turned around and saw Wei Zhiying and her brother: "Oh, it's you two? Are you also here to buy pills to aid your cultivation?"

Wei Zhiying looked at the three-story building shaped like a pill furnace. It was really nice; you could tell at a glance that it was a place that sold pills.

Having plenty of money in hand, even without using her sister's, Wei Zhiying could exchange elemental spirit stones. After all, these elemental spirit stones were extremely rare outside. The sect had a way to allow the exchange of ten spirit stones of the same grade for one elemental spirit stone. But if she took out the elemental spirit stones, she could exchange them for much more than ten spirit stones of the same grade outside.

Suddenly, Wei Zhiying grabbed her hair in frustration: "Ah! How could I be so stupid!"

Wei Lanyin was startled, wondering why her younger brother had suddenly fallen ill. However, Helian Ye seemed very calm and even kindly explained to Wei Lanyin, "Junior Brother Wei is regretting it. In the sect, we can exchange ten spirit stones of the same grade for elemental spirit stones to support our cultivation. But outside, sometimes ten spirit stones of the same grade can't even get you one low-grade elemental spirit stone."

"If you exchange an elemental spirit stone in the sect, even if it's low-grade, you might be able to exchange it for several hundred or several thousand low-grade ordinary spirit stones outside. When you bring it back to the sect, you can still exchange ten spirit stones of the same grade for one elemental spirit stone. By exchanging back and forth like this, your money will only grow more and more."

Wei Lanyin understood, but also felt regret. Besides that, she was also curious: "How did Brother Helian know what his younger brother was thinking? Aren't twins supposed to be able to sense what the other is thinking?"

Helian Ye chuckled lightly: "That's not it. If you want strangers to sense each other, you need a special method. The reason I was able to understand immediately is because Junior Brother Wei's expression was too familiar."

"familiar?"

"Hmm." Helian Ye's eyes curved into crescents, making it hard to imagine that such a gentle and smiling boy could utter the following cold words: "Because Junior Brother Wei's expression is exactly the same as the expression of those death row inmates in my country who were beheaded for illegal currency exchange when they first learned about this method."

Wei Zhiying froze, slowly turning around, her eyes filled with resentment. Why did you have to say it? Wouldn't it have been better to just dream?

Helian Ye still smiled gently.

Just then, the waiter approached with a price list of pills, handing it to Helian Ye with both hands: "Immortal Master, the price list you requested is here. It's guaranteed to be the most comprehensive! Custom-made pills are also included!"

Helian Ye nodded slightly and accepted it. Wei Zhiying asked in confusion, "If I remember correctly, when you first entered the sect, you seemed to have bought a top-grade Marrow Cleansing Pill directly. Was it because you didn't cleanse yourself properly?"

When the waiter heard about the top-grade Marrow Cleansing Pill, he no longer looked at Helian Ye as a piece of fat meat to be slaughtered, but as a spendthrift.

"Oh, no, it's already clean. After all, when I first entered the sect, my spiritual root was only of the low grade. On the first day, I didn't clean it properly, so it only became of the high grade. I had to wash it a second time to get it to the top grade."

Wei Zhiying recalled that the final payment for the top-grade Marrow Cleansing Pill was 10,000 high-grade spirit stones. This guy not only bought it, but bought it twice.

However, Wei Zhiying thought that a top-grade Marrow Cleansing Pill cost 10,000 high-grade spirit stones. What if it was the lowest grade, low-grade? Would it be cheaper? She decided to save up the money she had and borrow some from her sister. Her spiritual root was of medium grade, so maybe she could cleanse it all at once.

Thinking this, Wei Zhiying also came over to look at the price list, pointing curiously to the row of Cleansing Marrow Pills: "That's strange, all the other pills have prices, why is it that only the Cleansing Marrow Pill is listed with a final payment of 1 high-grade spirit stones?"

The waiter, his face beaming with smiles, bowed and explained, "Immortal, you may not know this, but for this Cleansing Pill, regardless of its grade, the final payment is always 1 high-grade spirit stones. This is because the buyer has to pay for all the materials needed to refine the pill, even the furnace. This 1 high-grade spirit stones is specifically for the alchemist. After all, to refine a good pill, you need a good alchemist, right? However, alchemists have different prices. Since alchemy is also dependent on the timing and environment, whether or not you pay the final payment depends on whether the furnace explodes. If the furnace explodes, then you don't need to pay the final payment. Of course, everything you bought before will also be wasted."

Wei Zhiying's eyes widened like saucers: "That's it! The furnace exploded, all those things turned to ashes, aren't you going to give the buyer a refund?"

The shopkeeper shook his head: "No refunds at all. After all, the explosion isn't just due to the time and environment; it also involves the materials, the furnace itself, and the connection between the buyer and this Marrow Cleansing Pill. If the problem stems from the time and environment, then the alchemist is naturally responsible, as he didn't control it properly. If the explosion didn't occur at the time and environment specifically requested by the buyer, then there's no refund. Otherwise, I can return 1000 high-grade spirit stones, but regardless of the materials, I'll only return 1000. However, 1000 high-grade spirit stones can only buy the lowest-grade spirit herb among the raw materials. Therefore, alchemy is risky; invest with caution!"

Good guy!

Wei Zhiying had only one thought in her mind right now.

Poor~~~

As they spoke, Helian Ye had already made his selections: "I don't want this, this, or this. Give me 20 bottles of each of the other top-grade pills suitable for the Qi Refining stage."

"Alright, my little darling! Please wait a moment! I'll pack it up for you right away!"

Helian Ye turned his head and saw the astonished looks on the Wei siblings' faces, but still smiled gently: "Originally, I wanted to wait until the sect market to buy them, but since we went in at the end of the month, I could only order the Marrow Cleansing Pills at most, and the rest would have to wait. However, I can't wait any longer. This morning, even Leng Yue reached the first level of Qi Refining. If I don't reach the first level of Qi Refining during these three days of rest, I won't be able to train with you during class."

Wei Zhiying looked at the price list: the Foundation Strengthening Pill for promoting cultivation, the Body Tempering Pill for body refinement, and the Mind Concentration Pill for calming the mind, enhancing mental strength, and preventing the invasion of inner demons. A bottle of the low-grade pills cost fifty low-grade spirit stones.

There are ten inside, totaling five low-grade spirit stones.

Wei Zhiying checked his spatial storage and saw that he had already used 11 of the 6000 low-grade spirit stones that had been specially allocated to him.

"We need two bottles of each of these: the Qi-Strengthening Pill, the Mind-Concentrating Pill, and the Body-Tempering Pill, all of low grade."

Upon hearing this, Wei Lanyin immediately said that she would have to pay separately. Wei Zhiying thought for a moment and then said that she would want four bottles each.

Although not as extravagant as Helian Ye's, this is still a deal worth 600 low-grade spirit stones.

It was a low-grade pill after all, one pill could only sustain one small cycle of Qi circulation. After obtaining the pill, Wei Zhiying carefully put it into her storage bag, and then secretly put it into her spatial storage. She quickly pulled her sister and said goodbye to Helian Ye, leaving. She couldn't wander around outside anymore; the more she wandered, the more she wanted to buy. She had to run before she saw anyone selling talismans!

After using the silver and copper coins that Wei Zhiying had saved since childhood to buy a portion of donkey-hide gelatin and wolfberry and a portion of jade cream at Huichuntang and Huadiange, she hurriedly headed to the accommodation address given by the sect.

Honestly, I was just thinking of going home, but I ended up doing a lot of shopping on the way!