Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Black Market
Refining elixirs requires many materials.
For example, the Juyuan Pill requires dozens of medicinal materials such as 100-year-old ginseng, 10-year-old white snow aconite, 17-year-old blood mist grass, etc. To buy all these medicinal materials, you will need at least six to seven hundred taels of spiritual stones.
One tael of spiritual stone is equivalent to a thousand taels of silver.
Six to seven hundred taels of spiritual stones is equivalent to six to seven hundred thousand taels of silver.
As a practitioner, refining elixirs is simply a waste of money!
Moreover, not every alchemy may be successful. One of the most tragic results is the explosion of the furnace. The explosion of the alchemy furnace sometimes leads to the destruction of the elixir and the death of people.
All in all, this is an extremely dangerous job.
Because the success rate of alchemy is not high, in the eyes of many monks, this is not a way to make a fortune.
But Liu Yi is different, he has feathers in hand.
Feather used an electric current to circle the Qi Gathering Pill and Yuan Gathering Pill, analyzed the materials for making the pill, and came up with a prescription for Liu Yi.
Liu Yi was going to refine these two elixirs.
As for why he did not refine other elixirs, it was because the elixirs that Feather knew were too mysterious, and the materials used in refining elixirs were all treasures from heaven and earth. For Liu Yi at this time, he wanted to refine those
Pills are simply a fantasy.
"Now I am just an outer disciple, earning hundreds of taels of silver a day by selling medicinal food. How long will it take for me to save enough money to make alchemy and buy medicine?"
Liu Yi was thinking in his mind, holding the remaining Qi-Gathering Pill and Yuan-Gathering Pill in his hand, and muttered: "Why don't you sell these two pills first, then buy some medicinal materials, and refine them first?"
The Qi Gathering Pill is taken by disciples in the Furnace Qi Realm. After selling the medicine to make money, you can then refine the Yuan Gathering Pill."
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the outer disciples who went home to visit their relatives came back one after another.
Hu Tutu brought some bacon from home to pay Liu Yi New Year greetings.
"Brother Yi!"
Hu Tutu was full of envy, put the bacon on the table, and asked lustfully: "I heard some disciples who stayed in the Foreign Affairs Hall said that Gong Moli always comes to Kunziyuan these days to find you, Brother Yi, who are you?"
Didn't you fuck her?"
Liu Yi replied: "I have been practicing behind closed doors these days and have no time to pay attention to her."
"What a pity! What a pity!"
Hu Tutu shook his head and sighed: "If you fuck her and tell me the process, I, Hu Tutu, can feel good for a few times and get over it."
Ever since Hu Tutu came to pay New Year's greetings, a steady stream of people came to Liu Yi's room to pay New Year's greetings.
All kinds of gifts filled the room.
Of course, what makes Liu Yi most happy are the New Year gifts sent by everyone.
There are many people in the dormitory of Kunziyuan. In addition to children from poor families like Hu Tutu, there are also many children from wealthy officials and noble families. In order to please Liu Yi, these people are very generous.
Not only are there people giving away money, there are even people giving away spiritual stones!
In total, there were more than 100 spiritual stones and more than 40,000 taels of silver notes. Liu Yi accepted them all without rejecting them.
"It seems that Kunziyuan has many disciples and is not short of money."
Liu Yi put away the banknotes and spiritual stones, and put the gifts into categories. He thought to himself: "As long as the price of the elixir I made is fair, there will definitely be a lot of people willing to buy it."
Only when you have money can you do things easily.
There is an alchemy workshop in the Foreign Affairs Hall, which is where the outer disciples learn to refine medicine.
In the eyes of outsiders, Liu Yi only has the ninth level of cultivation. If he succeeds in refining the elixir, he will definitely alarm the entire Yuxi Sect.
In this world, how can any Qi-nourishing realm disciple be able to make elixirs?
"It seems that I have to buy this alchemy furnace myself."
Liu Yi secretly shook his head.
Not long after, Duan Munu came to pay New Year greetings with some gifts.
"Junior Brother Duan, I want to sell some elixirs. Do you know who wants to buy them?" Liu Yi knew that Duan Munu had practiced in the Yuxi sect for several years and was considered a local snake.
"Senior Brother Liu wants to sell pills?"
Duan Mu's eyes lit up and he quickly asked, "Senior Brother Liu, do you want to sell the Yuan Ju Dan?"
"Of course I sell it!"
Liu Yi took out a Juyuan Pill and placed it on the table, "Do you want to buy it?"
"think!"
Duan Mu Nu quickly replied: "But I can only afford one. The lowest price for the Qi Gathering Pill on the black market is fifty taels of spirit stone, and the lowest price for the Juyuan Pill is two hundred taels of spirit stone. And there is no market for it.
The supply exceeds the demand. I am willing to use two hundred and fifty taels of spirit stones to buy a Yuan Ju Dan from Senior Brother Liu."
Liu Yi put the Juyuan Pill on the table, "I didn't expect that Junior Brother Duan, you seem to be an ordinary person, but you can actually get two hundred and fifty taels of spiritual stones. It seems that you are not a simple person."
Duan Munu hurried back to his room, took the spirit stone and put it on the table. "To be honest, senior brother, I am also the prince of a small country, Black Mountain, in the ordinary world, and I do have some money in my hands."
No wonder Duan Munu was able to sneak into the identity of the headmaster of Kunzi Academy. He also had scoundrels such as Wang Sanpao and Hou Sixi under his command. His identity as the prince of this country made sense.
Liu Yi remembered that it was recorded in "Wild Geography" that Heishan Country was indeed just a small country with a radius of more than 800 miles.
"It turns out to be His Royal Highness, disrespectful."
Liu Yi pretended to say something, and then asked: "Where is the black market?"
"In front of Senior Brother Liu, what does a mere prince mean?"
Duan Munu looked modest and told the truth. A cultivator can destroy an army alone. A small ordinary country is indeed nothing in the eyes of the Yuxi Sect. "The black market was created privately by the disciples of the sect, specifically for buying and selling cultivators."
The black market is located in an alley on the West Street of Longchang County at the foot of the mountain. If senior brother wants to sell things, he only needs to set up a street stall in the alley."
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The night is cold and cool.
Liu Yi let Tanlang stay in the room, carried more than 300 spirit stones in a cloth bag, and ran down the mountain alone with the banknotes. Along the way, he used the light-footed footwork recorded in "Changfeng Tengyun Sword Manual"
, as fast as a galloping horse, arrived at Longchang County.
After searching for people on the street and asking questions, Liu Yi found the black market Duan Mu Nu mentioned.
Sure enough, there were many stalls set up in the alley.
However, there were no goods on the stall. They just wrote the names of some goods with pens, such as century-old Ganoderma lucidum, thunder-inducing fire talisman, low-grade magic weapon peach wood sword, etc. But no one was selling elixirs.
One of them was selling a low-grade magic weapon, an alchemy furnace, for four hundred taels of spirit stones.
These people not only sell goods needed by cultivators, but also some items needed by ordinary people: Shiquan Dabu Decoction, Pills for injuries caused by injuries, Golden Spear Pills, One Pillar God Oil, etc.
"If you don't put the goods directly on the stall, you are worried about being robbed. It seems that this black market is really dark!"
Liu Yi looked around and said, "If these people know that I carry hundreds of taels of spiritual stones with me, I'm afraid they will regard me as a big fat sheep."
Thinking of this, Liu Yi turned around and walked out of the black market, went to the street and bought a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat to wear on his body. He also bought a piece of linen for setting up a stall, pen and ink for writing, and covered his face with a piece of black cloth.
Then he entered the black market again.
Hat, raincoat, mask.
This outfit attracted the attention of everyone in the black market.
Liu Yi calmly laid out the linen cloth and wrote the words "Qi Gathering Pill" on it.
As soon as the words "Qi Gathering Pill" came out, it immediately attracted many customers.
A strong man with a beard came to Liu Yi first and asked: "Fellow Taoist, how do you sell this elixir?"
Liu Yi took up his pen and wrote on the linen: "Fifty taels of spiritual stones."
Liu Yi didn't speak because he didn't want these people to hear from his voice that he was not old. The purpose of coming to the black market was to sell Qi Gathering Pills and buy an alchemy furnace and some alchemy materials. He didn't want to cause any complications.
"The price is fair, I bought it."
Without saying a word, the strong man took out the spirit stone and started to buy the Qi Gathering Pill.
"Wait a minute!"
As a loud shout rang out, a man with a slender figure and a cold face stood in front of the strong man. "Fifty taels of spirit stones are just the starting price of the Qi Gathering Pill. If bidding is adopted, it may not be possible to sell for sixty or seventy taels."
.This person only sold it for fifty taels. He obviously wanted to sell it in a hurry and take the money to leave. According to my estimation, this Qi Gathering Pill must have come from some evil source. It was either stolen or robbed. It is definitely a piece of stolen property.
Object."
"Since Senior Brother Yue Youqun said it was stolen goods, it must be stolen goods." The strong man was very afraid of Yue Youqun, so he turned around and left in a hurry.
"Hand over the stolen goods!"
Chapter completed!