The side mission [The Trouble of the Female Alchemist] is a sure-fire deal.
Helping Arya refine an animal transformation potion is equivalent to giving her a potion formula.
But this is just an apprentice-level formula, not even a first-level potion.
Giving away such a recipe in exchange for the green quality reward of [Alchemy Specialization (Green)] is definitely a huge gain.
Although there are no details on this reward.
However, according to Li Guanqi's experience, rewards with the word "specialization", such as spell specialization, generally include a large number of spells in addition to spell casting skills.
Thinking about it this way, [Alchemy Specialization (Green)] may not only give him the alchemy ability, but also a lot of first-level to second-level medicine formulas.
After all, the reward for green quality corresponds to the Liangyi level.
"The basic liquid medicine has been prepared."
In the middle of the night.
In the alley of Moxie Gu Village.
The voices of a man and a woman chatting one after another on the second floor of the mushroom house.
"Wait until it boils."
"It's boiling. How about putting out the fox grass now?"
"No, the dog stomach fruit hasn't completely melted yet."
"oh."
"Let it go now!"
"oh oh."
"Well, keep waiting."
"By the way, you just said that you can only choose one of the two, Blue Bird Feather or Crow Feather Heart. How about I release Crow Feather Heart later?"
"Why? As I said just now, in terms of cost performance, bluebird feathers are cheaper. If you open a pharmacy business, don't you control costs?"
"But according to the market price here, a Crow Feather Heart is only 80 gold coins, and a Blue Bird Feather is 120 gold coins."
"Huh? It seems that the knowledge in books can only be found in books. Prices will fluctuate, so just be patient with Crow Feather."
"Yeah, okay."
"What's next?"
"wait."
Time passes slowly.
On the second floor of the mushroom house, the alchemy room.
Li Guanqi sat on the chair, closed his eyes and waited.
Arya stood next to the cauldron, glancing at the cauldron from time to time, and then at Li Guanqi from time to time.
Half an hour later.
"Turn off the flame."
Li Guanqi suddenly opened his eyes.
Arya quickly dispersed the flames at the bottom of the cauldron.
Immediately afterwards, a refreshing fragrance of green grass escaped from the pot.
"It's done?!"
Arya opened the lid of the pot and looked at the pot of green liquid inside, with a surprised smile on her face.
"Um."
Li Guanqi stretched out his right hand, and with a slight twist of his index finger, his spiritual power rolled up a small ball of cyan liquid and flew it into his mouth.
This is what Qin Lubai told him, the rules of the alchemy world.
An alchemist instructs another alchemist. After instructing the refining for the first time, the instructor himself needs to prove whether the pot of medicine is qualified.
And Li Guanqi, through the smell ability of a Sancai-level warrior, is almost 99.9% sure that this pot of animal transformation potion is absolutely qualified.
A man of great skill is bold.
He was confident enough to drink it directly.
"Bang!"
As the white smoke dispersed, Li Guanqi transformed into a black bird, fluttering its wings and flying around the room.
"Successful!" Arya's eyes lit up.
"Let's see how long it takes to transform."
The black bird speaks human words and makes the sound of Li Guanqi.
Time passed bit by bit.
Li Guanqi felt the form of the bird with great interest and found that it felt good not to be a human being.
"Bang!"
Five minutes later, the black bird dispersed into a sheet of white smoke, and Li Guanqi transformed into a human again.
"Five minutes?"
Li Guanqi looked at Arya curiously, "The book says that a bottle of this long-lasting animal transformation potion can be sold for 300 gold coins. How much can it be sold here?"
"It can be sold for at least 500 gold coins!"
Arya smiled slyly, "Because in Moxie Gu Village, I am the only one in the pharmacy that makes the animal transformation potion. No one else has it but I have it, so I must sell it more expensively!"
"What about profits?"
Li Guanqi asked curiously: "After subtracting costs, how much is the profit?"
"Let me do the math..."
Arya turned to look at the cauldron and said, "This cauldron can hold about 10 bottles of dosage. 10 bottles is 5,000 gold, minus the material cost of almost 1,000 gold..."
She suddenly became excited, "I can earn 4,000 gold coins from this pot!"
"Ah, we can't go on like this forever."
Arya said, and then lost her mind to herself, "There are only so many people in Moye Gu Village, and those rich people who have the money to buy this potion for fun are the only ones. Maybe 7 or 80 bottles have been sold out. They
I’m tired of playing with it, but if I sell it overseas, the price will be reduced and the cost will be increased..."
This blonde sorceress from the Tulip Empire began to make business plans.
The more Li Guanqi watched, the more he felt that in a strange world, only a big fist can lead to a comfortable life.
With his current strength, he can easily hunt down the four-elephant level demon species.
If he wanted to make money, he would find a place to accept a bounty for hunting four-elephant-level demon species. Not to mention how to sell the body materials, just for this kind of bounty, generally speaking, the bounty would be upwards of 100,000 gold coins.
"bite!"
In Li Guanqi's mind, a cold mechanical female voice quietly sounded.
"You have completed the side mission [The Trouble of the Female Alchemist]."
——He ending: I teach you——
Ending evaluation: You successfully taught the sorceress Arya and completed the preparation of the animal transformation potion, and the process was quite satisfactory.
Ending reward: a green ability.
[Alchemy Specialization (Green): You have mastered most of the alchemical knowledge from one yuan level to two levels! 】
"Buzz——"
The next moment, Li Guanqi suddenly frowned and began to bear the massive amount of information pouring out of his mind. This process was uncomfortable.
really.
Just as he expected.
[Alchemy Specialization (Green)] In addition to alchemy skills, it also contains a large number of first-level to second-level potion recipes.
These are valuable assets.
"Oh right!"
Suddenly, Arya turned around and ran down to the first floor, went to the store counter, took out a piece of paper, dipped a quill in ink, and began to lie on the counter and write quickly.
soon.
The sorceress took the paper and returned to the second floor again.
"Now, is this share acceptable?"
Arya smiled and handed over the white paper.
In other words, contract.
This is a sharing contract. She promises to give Li Guanqi a 5% share of the profits from the [Animal Transformation Potion] in the [Sorcerer Arya's Cauldron] pharmacy.
In other words, for every bottle of animal transformation potion sold by Arya's pharmacy, Li Guanqi can directly receive 5% of the profit.
The problem is...
[Animal Transformation Potion] is an entertainment potion, and only rich people can afford it. However, there are only so many rich people in Moxie Gu Village, and they will soon get tired of using it and stop buying it.
As for the market outside Moxie Gu Village?
Arya is not qualified to touch this store.
Therefore, this potion is destined to make little money.
Moreover, after Li Guanqi completes the mission of [Moxie Gu Village], the next time he comes to the strange world, he will go to the Dongyang Islands. This small Gu Village will probably never come back in this life, and it will be troublesome to collect money.
Too lazy to do it.
"I don't need this."
Li Guanqi took the contract handed over by Alya, folded it a few times, and gently placed it on the table next to him.
"unnecessary?"
Arya was stunned, "I, I thought you came here in the middle of the night to teach me how to make potions just to discuss business cooperation with me..."
Li Guanqi glanced at the contract on the table, then looked at Alya, "Compared with this little money, you might as well give me something that I am more interested in."
"ah?!"
Arya was suddenly startled, with a look of fear on her face.
"Hey hey hey!"
The female sorcerer quickly took a few steps back, retreated to the corner, and looked at Li Guanqi in fear, "Well, no, no, it won't work like that! I'm going to call someone!"
"..."
Li Guanqi was speechless, "You misunderstood."
"Knowledge!"
Li Guanqi looked at Arya and said seriously: "What a conjurer needs most is knowledge. I want to know about the Tulip Empire and the new school of sorcerers. Regarding these two points, apart from seeing them with my own eyes, there is no way to compare.
It would be better to ask a new magician who is a tulip man."
"Oh, this is what you want, you should have told me earlier."
Hearing this, Arya breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled, "No problem, I'll tell you everything I know, just ask!"
"I heard that in the Tulip Empire, different-blood warriors are called demon hunters?"
Li Guanqi asked curiously: "You may not be familiar with Daluo Wufu, so let's compare it with Southern Xinjiang. What is the difference between the demon hunters and the different-blood warriors here in Southern Xinjiang?"
"The difference is huge!"
Arya said without thinking: "The different-blood warriors on our side are actually not only called demon hunters, some people also call them demon hunters and master demon slayers.
What are the different blood warriors in Southern Xinjiang? They are all artificial soldiers, just a group of mutants bitten by the Gu God insect. They know nothing and understand nothing, they can only fight hard.
Our demon hunters in the Tulip Empire are different. Each of them is a master of alchemy and is proficient in the refining methods of various potions and magic potions.
They are also an encyclopedia of monsters.
They all know the restraint methods of various curse spirits and monsters by heart, and can flexibly use various magic potions to deal with the weaknesses of monsters in battle, attack the enemy's weakness, and kill them easily.
Having both strength and knowledge is called greatness!
It is said that a long time ago, the status of demon hunters in the Tulip Empire was not high, and they were even discriminated against.
Because the ruler of the Tulip Empire is the Holy See of Fire of Night, a magician.
However, after the emergence of military formations, the human sea tactic became meaningful, and warriors of different bloods such as demon hunters also had a place to play, and their status gradually increased, restoring their due status.
However, there are also differences within them.
Because the different blood warriors in the army do not need to learn any magic potions or monster weaknesses, they only need to form a military formation.
Therefore, the witchers actually look down on these different-blooded warriors who join the army, and even publicly stated that these people are not worthy of being called witchers, saying that witchers are only for cutting off the darkness and will never become the sword in the hands of the king and the powerful."
Having said this, Arya spread her hands helplessly, "In the final analysis, they are all a group of mutants of different blood. I don't know why they are so quarreling over the same name."
"Of course it's going to be noisy."
Li Guanqi, on the other hand, did not understand Arya and said in surprise: "As you said, the demon hunter is a master of alchemy. He is a professional who is good at using magic potions to match his own strength to better restrain his enemies.
In this way, the different blood warriors of the Tulip Army are completely different from them.
A different-blood warrior who is proficient in alchemy and good at using magic potions is a demon hunter.
Then there is nothing, just a human with a different-blood body, that is, an ordinary different-blood warrior, an ordinary soldier, how can he be called a demon hunter?"
"..."
Arya scratched her head, "A name, is it really necessary to care about it so much?"
"Is it really unnecessary?"
Li Guanqi looked at the white clothes on Arya's body, and then tugged at the black robe on her body, half smiling.
White and black.
New school magicians and old school conjurers.
"This is different!"
Arya suddenly became anxious.
Okay, double standards?
Li Guanqi crossed his hands across his chest and chuckled with interest: "Actually, I'm really curious. The new school of magicians always claim that they are the innovative school. What new things have the new school of magicians contributed to the world of magic?
Research?
As far as I know, the only truly epoch-making invention in the past hundred years is the blood meter.
The emergence of the blood meter allows the discovery of talented people in the magic world to no longer be limited to the period of ordinary people. Even if you become a magician, you can also use the blood meter to check your physique.
Moreover, the blood meter's cultivation percentage display can also allow the conjurer to see more intuitively how many percent of his current cultivation level has reached the limit of his current state.
The inventor of the blood-measuring ruler is Dean Ma Yuan, the dean of the Institute of Instruments of the Southern Xinjiang Headquarters, a seven-star magician.
And he is an old-school magician with a firm stand."
Speaking of this, Li Guanqi looked at Arya and said with a smile: "Then what do your new magicians have? Am I ignorant?"
"I, I, we..."
Arya was immediately speechless.
Li Guanqi seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
In fact, he was the one who caused it.
There are definitely a lot of new inventions from the new school of magicians.
But it depends on what it is compared to.
Ma Yuan's blood meter is absolutely epoch-making, and I won't exaggerate at all.
The meaning represented by this thing has a long history for the entire magic world, which almost eliminates the possibility of anyone with a special physique being buried.
It also allows the conjurer to intuitively see changes in cultivation.
Extraordinary people like Li Guanqi have a system where they can see the three data of [spiritual power] [physical body] and [soul], which is equivalent to the digitization of power. The more progress you make, the more you can see, which greatly increases the enthusiasm for cultivation.
But where did the indigenous people of the strange world come from?
Ma Yuan's blood measuring ruler is equivalent to giving them a progress bar. They can directly see the percentage of cultivation and see how far they are from the current limit. The more progress they make, the better they can see.
In fact, Ma Yuan is not a genius and can be called the best inventor in a century.
Blood meter, the success lies in the present, and the benefit lies in the future.
As for the disadvantages?
The only drawback is probably that so far, the blood meter has just been developed and is too expensive.
The college can also buy one for all teachers and students to use together.
But grassroots spellcasters outside of the academic sect are completely unavailable.
Also, your physique should not be too excellent.
If you are too excellent, you will be exposed by the blood meter and make others jealous.
Li Guanqi was almost killed by the blood meter. Fortunately, his talent for Tongyou was upgraded to Tongyou (red).
Therefore, if we compare the blood measuring stick, no invention from the new school of magicians or the old school of spellcasters in the past hundred years can compare.
...Well, of course, there is another one that can compare.
Zhuang Yuan.
Once his "magic plundering technology" is made public, Ma Yuan's blood meter will have to be put on the back burner, even if the current technological progress can only change one technique for another.
I have to say that when it comes to these things, the higher your cultivation level, the more powerful you are.
"Yes!"
Li Guanqi was still thinking about his own things here, but it turned out that Arya, after thinking for a long time, finally thought of a new invention that could be compared with the blood measuring ruler.
"oh?"
Li Guanqi raised his eyebrows.
In fact, he didn't think he was of the old school, and he didn't want to discuss with Arya which one was better, the old or the new.
But seeing Arya being so serious, he couldn't help but laugh, "What is it?"
"Special blood potion!"
Arya looked at him seriously, "Our new magician from the Tulip Empire, together with the new potion developed by the Demon Hunter headquarters, can 100% turn an ordinary person into a one-dimensional alien-blood warrior!"
"Hahahahahaha!"
Li Guanqi burst into laughter almost instantly.
"Haha...yeah."
But soon Li Guanqi stopped laughing, and his expression gradually became serious.
He shouldn't laugh.
Conjurers have many rules.
For example, always keep a questioning mind about things.
But at the same time, there is another one:
Never say "impossible" to something.
Alien blood potion?
Turn an ordinary person into a 100% different blood warrior?
This is outrageous.
Because it's "almost" impossible.
The secret method of inflicting alien blood on the body is the most advanced in the Daluo Dynasty.
But even so, they can only ensure that young people will not die if they go up there.
That is to say, if a strong young man accepts the secret method, he can survive well even if he cannot successfully absorb the alien blood.
But they can't guarantee success.
Only those young humans with strong bodies have the possibility of success.
As for the secret methods of other countries?
The different-blood warriors in southern Xinjiang need to endure the bites of the Gu God Insects. If they can survive, they will become Gu God Warriors (different-blood warriors). If they cannot survive, they will become corpses. It is said that the mortality rate is as high as 30%.
And what is the strange blood potion Arya is talking about?
——To turn an ordinary person into a 100% different blood warrior?
If there really is such a thing, then Li Guanqi will do whatever it takes to get it.
He doesn't need to.
But his parents need it!
He had thought of countless ways to help his parents become practitioners, but he had found nothing.
First, they don't have the qualifications for magic.
Secondly, they are old, over 50 years old. Even if they use the Daluo Dynasty's secret method of incarnation with different blood, it is 100% impossible to succeed, and there is even a chance of death.
Thirdly, Lin Xianbai once told him that his parents had no spiritual roots and could not even practice Taoism that had been discontinued.
This is private.
What about public service?
If this magic potion is real and can be mass-produced, wouldn’t it be possible to turn everyone in the real world into different-blooded warriors?!
Assuming that the real world and the strange world will eventually have a battle, then the real world must become stronger, and the whole must become stronger!
"Hey."
Li Guanqi approached Arya and stared seriously into the foreign woman's green eyes, "What exactly is the potion you are talking about?"