Chapter 12 A man comes to buy pills
There are indeed genuine products in such informal markets. Moreover, if you have a good eye, you can buy treasures with a very high cost-effectiveness. However, there are more fakes here.
Especially in the field of elixirs!
When a finished elixir is taken out, an outsider can't even tell whether it is a waste elixir, or even a poisonous elixir, or whether it is the kind of elixir he wants, let alone whether he can tell the quality of the elixir.
Don't expect sect forces such as Zhisheng Valley, which specialize in selling elixirs, to have integrity. In fact, in a large sect, if the elixir can be sold privately in such a place, you can use your toes to think about where the elixir comes from... Maybe it's a elixir that an inner disciple has refined and wasted, or maybe it's a elixir that an elder has refined by trying his hand. In short, the elixir of a large sect may be even less reliable.
For matters like elixirs, it's best to go through official channels, that is, transactions between sects.
If there are special circumstances and you have to buy it privately, then you'd better know a little about elixirs. If you don't know, then find someone you trust who knows about elixirs. Don't buy it like a fool, otherwise you will be 100% ripped off.
Huang Feiyu is obviously not a fool. He doesn't know about elixirs, but he knows to ask Qin Ran for help.
"Why do you want Bing Ning Dan?" Qin Ran asked.
"Junior is practicing an ice attribute sword technique, and needs the assistance of Bing Ning Dan." Huang Feiyu explained hurriedly.
Practicing ice attribute sword technique, it seems to be a water spirit root. Qin Ran thought for a while and said: "Although I have studied Bing Ning Dan, I haven't refined it myself. I don't know if I can help you."
This statement is obviously old and arrogant. Although he didn't directly agree to help, the intention to help is already very obvious.
Huang Feiyu heard it, bowed again, and said: "Master uncle is indeed knowledgeable, and he has studied even the niche elixir of Bing Ning Dan. With the help of Master uncle, we will definitely be able to buy the top-quality Bing Ning Dan."
Knowing that this is flattery, it is a classic operation in the world of immortal cultivation. No matter what happens beforehand, you just hold it first. If things are not done well and you buy inferior elixirs, you will definitely settle the accounts afterwards. Qin Ran's mind is like a mirror, and he is very clear about these operations, but he did not respond, just maintaining the demeanor of a master of Danfeng.
After negotiating with Qin Ran, Huang Feiyu did not immediately take Qin Ran to buy elixirs, but turned around and pulled a young and beautiful girl to Qin Ran, and introduced: "This is my junior sister, named Tian Wenjin, she wants to buy a few Juling Dan, and please take care of her."
Qin Ran looked at Tian Wenjin and secretly looked at her. He found that she was a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old. She was very beautiful, with a cold and beautiful fox face. It was the kind of explosive beauty that attracted people's attention. Compared with Li Shiyin, she is no less talented.
The girl still has a mortal look between her eyebrows, and it is obvious that she has not yet attracted the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into her body, that is, she has not started practicing. I think she is also a new disciple who joined Daojianmen at this conference.
Qin Ran carefully examined her and found that there was a surge of air in her body, which means that she already had a sense of qi. It was less than five days after the conference that she had a sense of qi, which seemed to be very talented.
Adding to her appearance, Qin Ran's thoughts diverged. If Li Shiyin also joined Jianfeng that day, the two of them would definitely be the new generation of peerless beauties of Jianfeng.
"This is the head of Jianfeng, Uncle Qin!" Huang Feiyu and Tian Wenjin said.
Tian Wenjin nodded, but looked at Qin Ran blatantly and said, "I know, I saw that Li Shiyin, the top gold spiritual root, went to make pills with him on the day of the conference."
Good guy, no matter how young Qin Ran looks, he is still a generation of uncles, and she actually looked at him like this, which is really rude.
Qin Ran saw it and knew that this girl must be relying on her talent and was a little arrogant. She was young and looked down on everyone.
This kind of arrogance was different from Li Shiyin's stupid and silly arrogance.
He shook his head and commented secretly that such a person would not live long in the world of immortal cultivation if she did not correct her thoughts in time.
Because the most lacking thing in the world of immortal cultivation is genius.
Huang Feiyu obviously wanted to pursue Tian Wenjin. Seeing Tian Wenjin like this, he hurriedly covered up and smiled at Qin Ran: "Senior, please come this way. I have seen Bing Ning Dan at the stall of a disciple of Zhishen Valley."
Qin Ran glanced at Huang Feiyu and didn't say much. It's not that he was generous, he was just lazy and didn't care. Having said that, if he wasn't lazy, he should have taught her a lesson, because Tian Wenjin's personality was too easy to get into trouble... It was easy to die.
Huang Feiyu led the way, and soon, the three of them arrived in front of the stall selling Bing Ning Dan.
Zhishengu, a sect that focuses on alchemy, is located in the Northern Chu Kingdom, just like Daojianmen, and is one of the five major sects in the Northern Chu Kingdom.
In an alchemy sect like Zhishengu, thousands of pills are produced every day, and behind these thousands of qualified pills, there are more unqualified pills.
For example, the waste pills made by disciples when learning to make pills, the poison pills made when testing new pills, etc., these pills are naturally not wanted by other sects. Then, they digest the better ones internally, and if no one wants them, they will try to sell them to other sects in the Northern Chu Kingdom.
The stall set up by the young man in front of him sells this kind of pills.
Qin Ran glanced over and found that the quality of the pills on the stall was quite poor, and there were also a small number of waste and poison pills.
Because there are basically no alchemists in Daojianmen, and the only one is Qin Ran, the disciples of Zhisheng Valley who come to Daojianmen to sell pills are obviously more arrogant. They can sell waste pills as high-quality pills and low-quality pills as top-quality pills.
"How much do you sell Bingning Pills for?" Huang Feiyu squatted down, picked up a bottle of Bingning Pills casually after a while, and asked.
"Five hundred low-grade spirit stones per bottle, no bargaining." The stall owner replied lazily.
Bingning Pills are auxiliary pills. It is very simple to refine. To put it bluntly, it is just a piece of ice, but it can be dispersed into ice gas at will. For this kind of pill, let alone five hundred spirit stones, Qin Ran would be expensive for five spirit stones.
And...
He squatted down, took the porcelain bottle from Huang Feiyu's hand, broke the seal, and looked inside carefully.
"Don't open it. Will you be responsible if the quality drops?!" Seeing Qin Ran's action, the stall owner yelled and stretched out his hand to grab the porcelain bottle.
Qin Ran let his hand go and put the seal back.
"Are you an apprentice or an outer disciple?" Qin Ran asked the stall owner while holding the porcelain bottle. People of this status would be hired to sell inferior pills.
"What does it have to do with you?" The disciples of Zhishen Valley have always been arrogant. Even if he is an outer disciple, he dares to look at Qin Ran.
"If you can make the decision..." Qin Ran tossed the porcelain bottle and said, "I'll give you a spirit stone for this bottle."
Is this how you bargain? Crazy! Tian Wenjin, who was standing behind him, frowned and didn't understand. But she was just arrogant, not stupid, and she didn't speak blindly.
Huang Feiyu couldn't help but look at Qin Ran. He knew the nature of this kind of place. Cutting the price in half was a common operation, but... this was the first time he had seen Qin Ran's bargaining method.
"If you don't want to buy...get out of here!" There is never a shortage of buyers for the pills in Zhishen Valley. The stall owner snatched the pills from Qin Ran's hand and said coldly.
Qin Ran was not angry either. He stood up, looked down at the stall owner, and said: "The quality of this bottle of Bing Ning Dan in your hand is a little worse and it can be regarded as a waste pill. If my disciple refines Bing Ning Dan into this state, I may have to expel him from the sect.
"One spirit stone is for your hard work, not for this bottle of pill. It is not worth it." He gestured to Huang Feiyu, "If he didn't happen to need it, you wouldn't be able to sell this bottle of pill. I said it."
After hearing this, the stall owner knew that the person in front of him was knowledgeable, so he looked at him straight in the eye. He hesitated a little: "Two spirit stones, the master said to sell at least one spirit stone, I want one spirit stone for hard work."
"One spirit stone..." Qin Ran did not retreat at all, "I don't believe that there is an alchemist who refines Bing Ning Dan into this state and has the nerve to sell it. "
The stall owner fell silent. This was indeed a pill that was treated as waste, and he just picked it up.
"One...one spiritual stone is one spiritual stone." He replied.
"Tsk!" Qin Ran shook his head disdainfully and turned away.