Chapter 57: Tianfu Shop

After the first year ended.

In the second year, Ye Qingxuan began refining third-tier elixirs and low-grade true artifacts, preparing to enter the third-tier market.

Under normal circumstances, once a cultivator controls a blessed land, they can fully refine elixirs and magic treasures one realm higher than their own cultivation base by leveraging the power of the blessed land.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan did not worry about exposing all his trump cards while entering the third-tier market within the Xuantian Sect.

As soon as the second year began, Ye Qingxuan sent Ye Zhaoyu to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to purchase the spiritual herbs needed for third-tier elixirs and the third-tier spiritual ores required for refining low-grade true artifacts.

Meanwhile, Ye Zhaoheng was currently manning the Tianfu Shop.

The density of spiritual energy in the Xuantian Sect's marketplace was even greater than that of the Qingxuan Blessed Land. Moreover, since he was accumulating spiritual power rather than breaking through a realm, he did not need to worry about being disturbed by outsiders.

Thus, Ye Qingxuan did not need to worry about delaying the cultivation progress of the two of them.

With experience, this time Ye Zhaoyu found Bai Wenyang effortlessly and quickly purchased the required herbs: Third-Tier Spirit-Enhancing Elixir: 10 medium-grade spirit stones per batch of herbs, 100 batches, current market price 10 medium-grade spirit stones per pill.

Third-Tier Spirit-Merging Elixir: 10 medium-grade spirit stones per batch of herbs, 100 batches, current market price 10 medium-grade spirit stones per pill.

Third-Tier Grass-Return Elixir: 45 medium-grade spirit stones per batch of herbs, 50 batches, current market price 80 medium-grade spirit stones per pill.

Third-Tier Spirit-Restoring Elixir: 38 medium-grade spirit stones per batch of herbs, 50 batches, current market price 70 medium-grade spirit stones per pill.

Third-Tier Spirit-Cleansing Elixir: 120 medium-grade spirit stones per batch of herbs, 100 batches, market price 320 medium-grade spirit stones per pill.

Actually, there were some third-tier elixirs that were even more difficult to refine and more expensive.

However, the market for those elixirs was too small. Since Ye Qingxuan's main goal was currently to accumulate capital, he only planned to refine these elixirs which had a large market and high profits, or those useful for his own cultivation.

These herbs cost a total of 20,400 medium-grade spirit stones, which converted to 2,040,000 low-grade spirit stones, causing Ye Qingxuan's assets to shrink by more than half at once.

Adding the one million low-grade spirit stone deposit spent on opening the Tianfu Shop, he was left with only over six hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones.

The third-tier spiritual ores required for refining medium and low-grade true artifacts, depending on quality, cost approximately 300 to 1,000 medium-grade spirit stones per cubic unit.

Ye Qingxuan's six hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones converted to only over six thousand medium-grade spirit stones.

Therefore, following Ye Qingxuan's instructions, Ye Zhaoyu purchased only 20 cubic units of third-tier low-grade spiritual ores valued at 300 medium-grade spirit stones per cubic unit.

After obtaining these items, Ye Qingxuan entered seclusion within the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

In just half a month, Ye Qingxuan advanced in both elixir refining and artifact forging, officially becoming a third-tier alchemist and artifact refiner.

Subsequently, over the course of four months, Ye Qingxuan consumed all the spiritual herbs and spiritual ores.

Although he was now refining third-tier elixirs, Ye Qingxuan had also replaced his cauldron with a low-grade true artifact-level elixir cauldron.

Thanks to the terrifying spirit-absorbing effect of the low-grade true artifact elixir cauldron, which continuously drew in surrounding spiritual energy to infuse the cauldron during refining, ensuring an ample supply of energy.

Thus, the success rate of the third-tier elixirs Ye Qingxuan refined was not much different from that of second-tier elixirs.

For each type of elixir, aside from the first three batches where the success rate was unstable, the Third-Tier Spirit-Enhancing Elixir and Third-Tier Spirit-Merging Elixir stabilized at eight pills per batch, while the Third-Tier Spirit-Restoring Elixir, Third-Tier Grass-Return Elixir, and Third-Tier Spirit-Cleansing Elixir stabilized at six pills per batch.

After all materials were exhausted, Ye Qingxuan had refined a total of:

Elixirs: 796 Third-Tier Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs, 796 Third-Tier Spirit-Merging Elixirs, 295 Third-Tier Spirit-Restoring Elixirs, 294 Third-Tier Grass-Return Elixirs, and 594 Third-Tier Spirit-Cleansing Elixirs.

Magic treasures: 30 low-grade true artifacts.

Due to an urgent need for cash flow, Ye Qingxuan sold all the elixirs he refined this time to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion. After a 30% discount on the selling price, he recovered 175,119 medium-grade spirit stones. The 30 low-grade true artifacts were placed into the warehouse of the Tianfu Shop.

After purchasing the elixirs brought by Ye Zhaoyu again, Bai Wenyang had become completely numb to Ye Qingxuan's alchemical talent.

This transaction brought immense profit to Bai Wenyang.

After all, he was the team leader of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, and he facilitated the deal, so his commission was not low.

After seeing Ye Zhaoyu off, Bai Wenyang sat in his small private room, beginning to envision a beautiful future life.

However, what he did not know was that this was essentially the last time Ye Qingxuan would trade with the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

After more than a year of development, the Tianfu Shop had slowly gained a reputation and begun to accumulate many regular customers.

Moreover, since Ye Qingxuan himself no longer planned to refine first or second-tier elixirs, he had Ye Zhaoheng secretly contact some first and second-tier alchemists and artifact refiners.

Contracts were signed with these alchemists and artifact refiners, with the Tianfu Shop taking only a 25% commission.

Ye Qingxuan's move was not intended to compete with the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, but simply to fill the gap in the first and second-tier markets of the Tianfu Shop. Therefore, the people Ye Zhaoheng found were very few and would not affect the marketplace.

After recovering sufficient funds, Ye Qingxuan's Tianfu Shop began to aggressively purchase various first-tier spiritual ores and spiritual plants.

For each type of spiritual plant, only ten seedlings or seeds were purchased; for each type of spiritual ore, only one cubic unit was purchased.

All of this was preparation by Ye Qingxuan for promoting his grotto-heaven blessed land to the second tier.

In the following months, Ye Qingxuan refined five batches of elixirs daily, occasionally forging one low-grade true artifact.

Of the five batches of elixirs, two batches were Third-Tier Spirit-Enhancing Elixir and Third-Tier Spirit-Merging Elixir respectively, while the other three batches were Spirit-Cleansing Elixirs.

As for the markets for Third-Tier Spirit-Restoring Elixir and Third-Tier Grass-Return Elixir, Ye Qingxuan weighed the options for a moment and ultimately chose to outsource them.

Compared to other elixirs, the Spirit-Cleansing Elixir was the most difficult to refine and offered the highest profit.

As for the Third-Tier Spirit-Enhancing Elixir and Third-Tier Spirit-Merging Elixir, they were needed for his own cultivation. Elixirs refined by an alchemist for their own consumption are slightly more effective, allowing Ye Qingxuan's cultivation speed to increase by a fraction.

Although the increase was small, sand accumulates into a tower; over a long period of time, the effect would eventually manifest.

Currently, the craze among disciples of the Xuantian Sect to venture into the Foreign Battlefield was intensifying, with many disciples purchasing various elixirs daily to prepare for the journey.

Therefore, the Spirit-Cleansing Elixirs of various tiers, which could dispel demonic energy, were currently not lacking in market demand; in fact, there was even a shortage.

This craze had swept across the five inner regions of the Earthly Xuan Realm.

Facing the occasional information from the outside world, Ye Qingxuan merely observed silently. What he needed to do now was to leverage this craze to accumulate enough cultivation resources for himself.

The Third-Tier Spirit-Enhancing Elixir and Third-Tier Spirit-Merging Elixir yielded eight pills each per day, but for his own cultivation, Ye Qingxuan consumed three Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs and three Spirit-Merging Elixirs daily.

The remaining five Third-Tier Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs, five Third-Tier Spirit-Merging Elixirs, and eighteen Third-Tier Spirit-Cleansing Elixirs, after deducting the 20% tax, brought Ye Qingxuan a daily income of 4,384 medium-grade spirit stones.

In addition, Ye Qingxuan's Tianfu Shop sold one low-grade true artifact that he refined himself every two days on average.

A low-grade true artifact had a material cost of 300 medium-grade spirit stones and sold for around 1,000 medium-grade spirit stones. After deducting taxes, one artifact brought Ye Qingxuan a profit of 560 medium-grade spirit stones.

Adding the other outsourced business, although the shop only earned a 5% profit, the volume was so large that it did not matter.

(End of Chapter)