Chapter 56: Accumulation

After all five types of elixirs were successfully refined.

Ye Qingxuan calculated that, based on the Bai Bao Ge's 70% market buyback price, he could sell them for 389,970 low-grade spirit stones.

The spirit stones he spent purchasing the spiritual herbs totaled nearly 40,000 low-grade spirit stones, representing an enormous profit.

Of course, other alchemists do not possess Ye Qingxuan's heaven-defying success rate; alchemists who occasionally make mistakes and destroy an entire batch of elixirs are common.

After refining the spiritual herbs, Ye Qingxuan instructed Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu to take all the elixirs to Bai Bao Ge for sale and to purchase some items for himself.

He himself then began to comprehend the artifact forging inheritance, preparing to use the previously purchased spiritual ores and materials to forge magic treasures.

Since Bai Wenyang already knew Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, he did not send a telepathic message to Bai Wenyang in advance to explain everything this time.

After the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, brought the elixirs to Bai Bao Ge, Bai Wenyang was shocked once again.

He knew Ye Qingxuan's alchemy talent was heaven-defying, but not to such an extent! How little time had passed? Not only were the second-grade elixirs successfully refined, but so many had been produced? What a terrifying success rate!

Had it not been for the constraints of the Dao Vow, he truly would have been unable to resist sharing information about Ye Qingxuan with his close friends to shock them as well.

But now, Bai Wenyang could only think about it in his heart!

After selling all the elixirs, the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, followed Ye Qingxuan's instructions and purchased one low-grade true artifact-level alchemy furnace and one low-grade true artifact-level artifact forging furnace respectively.

Just these two furnaces cost Ye Qingxuan a full 2,000 mid-grade spirit stones, which equates to 200,000 low-grade spirit stones.

In the Di Xuan Realm, spiritual herbs are easy to find, but spiritual ores are hard to come by! It is not that the Di Xuan Realm lacks spiritual ores, but rather that the current atmosphere is such that, like spiritual veins, all spiritual ores are renewable resources, though the regeneration of spiritual ores is much slower.

Therefore, the major powers in the Di Xuan Realm do not engage in destructive mining of their own spiritual ores, resulting in a scarcity of spiritual ore materials circulating in the market.

This has created the current market situation where the price of magic treasures leaps significantly with every step up in grade.

Mid-grade and low-grade true artifacts are the standard magic treasures for Purple Mansion cultivators, which is why their prices are roughly 30 times higher than those of supreme-grade magic treasures.

In addition, the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, followed Ye Qingxuan's instructions:

To purchase 200 sets of spiritual herbs for second-grade Spirit Cleansing Elixirs, costing 160,000 low-grade spirit stones.

To purchase 2,000 first-grade Spirit Enhancement Elixirs, costing 24,000 low-grade spirit stones.

The first-grade Spirit Enhancement Elixirs were bought by Ye Qingxuan for the cultivation of the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu; since it was not cost-effective for him to refine first-grade elixirs himself, he purchased them directly from Bai Bao Ge.

The remaining five thousand-plus low-grade spirit stones were all used to purchase first-grade and second-grade spiritual ores and materials.

First-grade spiritual ores and materials are the primary ingredients for refining low-grade and mid-grade magic treasures, while second-grade spiritual ores and materials are the primary ingredients for refining high-grade and supreme-grade magic treasures.

Depending on quality, the price of first-grade spiritual ores ranges from 60 to 100 low-grade spirit stones per square, and second-grade spiritual ores range from 500 to 1,000 low-grade spirit stones per square; one square of material can produce one magic treasure.

During the first year thereafter.

Without affecting his own cultivation, Ye Qingxuan refined two batches of second-grade Spirit Cleansing Elixirs every day.

After selling them to Bai Bao Ge, each batch of second-grade Spirit Cleansing Elixirs consistently yielded six elixirs, bringing Ye Qingxuan a profit of 5,040 low-grade spirit stones, totaling an annual profit of 3,679,200 low-grade spirit stones.

In addition, Ye Qingxuan spent his remaining time on the artifact forging inheritance.

In the third month, Ye Qingxuan successfully refined a high-grade magic treasure and smoothly advanced to become a second-grade artifact forger.

In the fifth month, Ye Qingxuan successfully refined a supreme-grade magic treasure, standing only one step away from becoming a third-grade artifact forger.

In the Di Xuan Realm, artifact forgers capable of using first-grade spiritual ores to refine mid-grade and low-grade magic treasures are all first-grade artifact forgers.

By extension:

Second-grade artifact forgers can use second-grade spiritual ores to refine supreme-grade and high-grade magic treasures.

Third-grade artifact forgers can use third-grade spiritual ores to refine mid-grade and low-grade true artifacts. Fourth-grade artifact forgers can use fourth-grade spiritual ores to refine supreme-grade and high-grade true artifacts.

Fifth-grade artifact forgers can use fifth-grade spiritual ores to refine mid-grade and low-grade spiritual treasures.

Sixth-grade artifact forgers can use sixth-grade spiritual ores to refine supreme-grade and high-grade spiritual treasures.

Seventh-grade artifact forgers can use seventh-grade spiritual ores to refine low-grade spiritual artifacts.

Eighth-grade artifact forgers can use eighth-grade spiritual ores to refine mid-grade spiritual artifacts.

Ninth-grade artifact forgers can use ninth-grade spiritual ores to refine high-grade spiritual artifacts.

Tenth-grade artifact forgers can use tenth-grade spiritual ores to refine supreme-grade spiritual artifacts.

As for Immortal Artifacts? Currently, no one in the Di Xuan Realm can refine them; only Immortal Realm experts can use their own Dao laws to baptize supreme-grade magic treasures, causing them to transform into Immortal Artifacts.

The market price of a supreme-grade magic treasure is around 3,000 low-grade spirit stones, while the supreme-grade second-grade spiritual ore required to refine one is worth 1,000 low-grade spirit stones per square.

Without errors, a supreme-grade magic treasure can bring Ye Qingxuan a profit of 2,000 low-grade spirit stones.

When refining magic treasures, basically one square of material yields only one item; even with Ye Qingxuan's heaven-defying comprehension, he cannot create something from nothing, so the profit is far less than that of alchemy.

Moreover, if sold to Bai Bao Ge, this profit would be reduced by 20%.

However, Ye Qingxuan did not intend to sell the magic treasures he refined to Bai Bao Ge.

In the sixth month of this year, Ye Qingxuan sent Ye Zhaoheng to the marketplace within the Xuan Tian Sect, paid a deposit of one million low-grade spirit stones, and opened a small shop named Tian Fu Shop! Opening a shop within the Xuan Tian Sect marketplace requires no rent, only a 20% tax on transaction volume.

However, different shop sizes have different requirements for annual transaction volume.

Like the small shop Ye Qingxuan opened now, if the average annual transaction amount fails to reach one million low-grade spirit stones, the shop will be reclaimed, and the deposit will not be refunded.

But for Ye Qingxuan, this was not difficult; after entering the Xuan Tian Sect for many years, he finally owned his first business.

After the Tian Fu Shop opened, the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, began taking turns managing the shop.

The various magic treasures refined by Ye Qingxuan, along with a portion of the elixirs, began to be sold at the Tian Fu Shop.

However, for most of the elixirs, Ye Qingxuan still chose to sell them to Bai Bao Ge for the time being.

Although selling directly to Bai Bao Ge meant Ye Qingxuan would lose 10% of the spirit stones, the advantage was the quick payment, and many early-stage matters required sufficient capital support.

Once the Tian Fu Shop gained fame and sales increased, Ye Qingxuan planned to gradually shift more of the elixir sales to his own shop.

Currently, besides selling products, the Tian Fu Shop was also responsible for purchasing some spiritual plant seeds and spiritual ores that Ye Qingxuan did not yet have, accumulating resources for the advancement of the Grotto-Heaven.

This year, besides the mandatory first-grade planting mission, Ye Qingxuan additionally submitted two missions for planting Earth Spirit Flowers, earning 600 extra contribution points.

Adding the annual salary and the 32 contribution points remaining from before, Ye Qingxuan had now accumulated 1,352 contribution points.

However, these contribution points were of no immediate help to him, so he did not use them.

As for the other areas within the Grotto-Heaven, Ye Qingxuan had planted many first-grade, second-grade, and third-grade spiritual plants.

Most of the third-grade spiritual plants, including the medicinal herbs used to refine third-grade elixirs, Ye Qingxuan had planted within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven.

His Qingxuan Cave Heaven and blessed land combined allowed first-grade spiritual plants to accumulate sufficient energy in just eight months, unlike the blessed lands of other cultivators which required twelve months.

Based on Ye Qingxuan's perception and estimation, cultivating second-grade spiritual plants in the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and blessed land took about three years, while third-grade spiritual plants took about ten years.

(End of this chapter)