Chapter 17 A wealthy man with 6,000 spiritual stones wants to practice the art of alchemy
Yu Xian reacted quickly.
He hurriedly took two steps back and avoided the sip of tea. He was not angry and still said with a smile: "Four hundred and sixteen."
The middle-aged man patted the water stains on his chest and put down the tea cup while coughing.
He looked at Yu Xian with disbelief and said, "Four hundred and sixteen? Where did you get so many Fierce Yang Essence Stones?"
Yu Xian's smile faltered, and he slowly put it away. He looked at the middle-aged man and said calmly: "What, senior, when you collect the materials, do you still want to ask about the source?"
"Oh? Are you quite alert?"
The middle-aged man returned to normal. The more than four hundred Fierce Yang Essence Stones were not too many, but not too many.
He just didn't expect this young man to have so many Fierce Yang Essence Stones at first. It was much more than he expected, so he was shocked.
Now that he had come to his senses, the middle-aged man laughed, looked at Yu Xian and said, "I would like to know, will you tell me?"
"Won't."
"Isn't that what it is?"
The middle-aged man shrugged and said, "I'm just asking out of curiosity. Seeing how scared you are, even if you rob the chief manager of Bai Mining Fang who specializes in ore collection, it has nothing to do with me."
Yu Xian's expression softened, and he smiled and said, "This junior is overthinking it."
"Four hundred and sixteen, that's a lot. The Lieyang Mining Area can only produce so much in three or four months. You're awesome."
The middle-aged man nodded and threw a storage bag casually: "Put it inside."
Yu Xian didn't hesitate. He took the storage bag and put all the 416 Fierce Yang Essence Stones in it. He pushed it towards the man and said, "Senior, please check."
The middle-aged man picked it up and took a look, nodded and said with a smile: "It's really four hundred and sixteen, all of them are top grade. Not bad, not bad. Let me calculate how many spiritual stones there are for you."
Four hundred and sixteen Fierce Yang Essence Stones, one for fourteen low-grade spirit stones, for a total of five thousand eight hundred and twenty-four spirit stones.
Yu Xian had already recovered.
The middle-aged man frowned and calculated for a while, then shook his head and said: "Fifty-eight hundred...forget it, I'll give you six thousand to make up."
Yu Xian's eyebrows twitched, this middle-aged man was quite generous.
It would be enough to round up the number to five thousand and nine, but it would be better for him to just round up six thousand.
The middle-aged man flipped his hand, took away the Fierce Yang Essence Stone, put in the Spirit Stone, then threw the storage bag to Yu Xian and said, "Just some, don't say I lied to children."
Yu Xian took the storage bag and took a look. It was brightly lit, with fifty-five middle-grade spiritual stones lying neatly there!
"Yu Xian's heart skipped a beat, then he calmed down.
He transferred the middle-grade spirit stone to his storage bag and handed the storage bag back with both hands. Yu Xian said respectfully: "Thank you, senior!"
"Um."
The middle-aged man nodded, sat back, looked at Yu Xian and said, "I won't ask about the origin of the ore. What is your name? Can you tell me?"
"Junior, Yu Xian."
"Yu Xian."
The middle-aged man nodded: "It's a good name, I'll remember you."
Yu Xian said neither humble nor arrogantly: "Junior is lucky enough to be remembered by senior. So, junior should resign?"
"Go ahead."
The middle-aged man waved his hand, then closed his eyes and took a nap again.
Yu Xian simply turned around and left quickly.
"Yu Xian...whose errand boy is this guy? Or did he get so many Fierce Yang Essence Stones by himself? It's a bit interesting, and he has reached the middle stage of Qi Condensation at a young age, which is rare. He is a talent, but I don't know what he will do in the future. It won’t shine…”
After Yu Xian left, the middle-aged man still closed his eyes, and only a faint voice of confusion floated...
After leaving the main hall of the blacksmithing workshop, Yu Xian felt that the sky was so clear.
Suddenly rich!
This is real wealth.
Fifty-five middle-grade spiritual stones. In the entire outer sect, except for the shop owner and the big stewards, there are probably not many people with such a large net worth.
Yu Xian was in a particularly good mood and strode towards the alchemy workshop.
The elixir still had to be bought, but Yu Xian already had an idea in mind.
That is, you have to learn how to make alchemy yourself.
Otherwise, just buying it would really be a loss compared to anything else. How much blood and sweat can it take to exchange for a pill?
That’s more than ten times the price of raw materials!
A guy who knows how to make alchemy can make more money than if he owns a jade pendant and goes out to find ore sources to mine!
There were not many people in the alchemy workshop, and they basically came and left in a hurry.
Yu Xian stepped into the main hall, and instead of going to the automatic sales cabinet to buy elixirs like before, he came to the several people in charge inside.
"Huh? Junior brother, is there any elixir that you haven't found?"
When a disciple of the alchemy workshop saw Yu Xian walking in front of him, he suddenly showed a confused look.
"That's not true."
Yu Xian shook his head, looked at the disciples in the alchemy workshop and said, "I want to ask senior brother, do you have any elixir recipes for sale here? I want to learn alchemy."
"ah?"
The man was stunned on the spot. After looking at Yu Xian for a moment, he said in surprise: "Junior brother, what you mean is that you can buy the elixir recipe by yourself, buy the medicinal materials and materials by yourself, and then make the elixir by yourself?"
"right."
Yu Xian nodded.
"Pfft...hahaha..."
The man suddenly became happy. He looked at Yu Xian as if he were a fool and couldn't help laughing: "Junior brother, hahaha... Junior brother, do you know what you are talking about? Okay, stop joking here."
Yu Xian frowned, looked at the man and said seriously: "Why, senior brother, do you think I'm joking?"
The man's smile gradually faded, he shook his head and said, "I don't have time to chat with you. If you want to buy the elixir, just buy it. If you don't, just leave."
Now he just felt that the half-grown boy in front of him was a fool.
Alchemy? Is it possible to refine it with the recipe and raw materials?
There is no one to teach, no place to learn, not even an alchemy furnace, how can you just do it?
Just ridiculous.
Yu Xian saw that the man was a little angry. He probably didn't understand something and made others laugh.
Therefore, he rolled his eyes, bowed and saluted: "Senior brother, don't be surprised, I really want to make elixirs, and please ask me, senior brother, why I can't make elixirs?"
"Hey, you are so stubborn."
Yu Xian's attitude made the man relax. There is nothing wrong with young people being eager to learn.
Therefore, the man shook his head and said: "Alchemy cannot be made with just a prescription. First you have to learn the techniques. It takes at least two years to learn. Then you can watch your seniors make alchemy and start by the way. It will take another two years. In the fifth year, you can do it yourself." Trying to make elixirs and failing countless times, those are all spiritual stones!"
The man said with a look of pain on his face: "Just like me, not to mention I studied for six years in the middle, but now in order to refine a small elixir, all the spiritual stones accumulated over the past few years are put into it, but after refining five furnace elixirs, I can It’s possible to make a furnace and barely maintain a balance. How difficult is it to make an elixir?”
"So that's it."
Yu Xian nodded, expressing his understanding, but still said with eyes full of yearning: "I wonder if senior brother has secret books on alchemy techniques for sale? Or does senior brother know where to buy them?"
"Hey, I told you, are you too arrogant? Didn't I make it clear enough?"
Seeing Yu Xian's unwillingness to give up, the man was quite speechless.
"Hey, just sell him a copy of "Wan Dan Lu" and "Alchemy Encyclopedia". This kind of newcomer will never look back until he hits the wall. When the time comes, he will understand. What are you talking about with him?"
A disciple from the alchemy workshop next to him showed a look of impatience.
"Okay, I won't persuade you anymore."
The man nodded, then raised his hand and took out two booklets and said: "This is the basic manual of the Alchemy Workshop. It has the same meaning as the Hundred Mines Record of your Hundred Mines Workshop. You give me ten spiritual stones and I will sell them to you."
Two basic manuals cost ten spirit stones, which is probably expensive.
But Yu Xian didn't care, and casually took out ten low-grade spiritual stones, replaced them with two booklets, nodded and said with a smile: "Thank you, senior brother, for clearing up the confusion."
After that, he turned around and left.
"Oh, by the way, if you learn anything in the future, you can come over and give it a try. The alchemy room in the alchemy workshop can be rented!"
The man looked at Yu Xian's back and reminded him loudly.
"Okay! Thank you, senior brother!"
Yu Xian raised his hand and disappeared around the corner.
"What a fool, just idle."
"Whatever, let him figure it out for himself. When he comes to his senses later, he will regret that he wasted a lot of time."
"You are so dark, hahahaha..."
The few people in the same place started talking again, laughing all kinds of things.
Obviously, Yu Xian's behavior was a joke in their eyes.
Yu Xian, on the other hand, bought a few bottles of Earth Spirit Pill, Concentration Pill, Spirit Gathering Pill, and a Yuanling Pill worth two thousand spirit stones in the main hall of the alchemy workshop, and then returned to the mining area.
When Yu Xian arrived at the mining area, he went directly to the newly opened mine without even stopping.
Now the cave of the new mine is where he lives.
Practice, dig, read basic alchemy manuals, learn techniques, and before you know it, another ten days have passed.
In the past ten days or so, Yu Xian has not mined many mines, about 2,780.
He spent most of his time reading basic alchemy manuals, learning techniques, and practicing.
The middle stage of Qi Condensation is still the same, but the Bitan is deeper and the Qi Sea has expanded to one foot, two feet and five inches.
Yu Xian did not take the Yuanling Pill. He was planning to wait for the best moment before using it to break through the late stage of Qi Condensation.
If you take it directly now, it will only make your cultivation level a little higher, and you will not be able to break through the late stage of Qi Condensation. It will also make your body resistant to medicine. If you take it again in the future, the effect will be reduced.
On this day, dozens of piles of various weeds, branches, stones and other things were piled in front of Yu Xian in the cave.
At this moment, in Yu Xian's eyes, these things are all kinds of "materials" for alchemy!