[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster":3,"chapter-immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-chapter-2":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Immortality Begins from an Alchemy Grandmaster",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1899406,2534,"Chapter 2","immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-chapter-2",2,"\u003Cp>The next day, early morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen got up early and packed the pills on the cutting board into five jade bottles, ten pills per portion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He put on his only decent low-grade magic robe, carried his low-grade flying sword, and hurried out the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to get into the city early, otherwise, when it got bright, those better rogue cultivator stalls wouldn't be his turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because it rained heavily all day yesterday, the roads in the outer city area seemed quite muddy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The closer one got to the center of the outer city area, the more intense the smell, a mixture of feces, urine, medicinal fragrance, people, and monsters, became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially with the mixture of the earthy smell, that feeling was truly unbearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Luo Chen was already used to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An hour later, he arrived at the city gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When entering the inner city, Luo Chen couldn't help but take a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, the air in the inner city was good!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard that the inner city is built on a first-rank spirit vein, which is quite beneficial for the cultivation of Qi Refining stage cultivators.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I have money in the future, I must buy a house in the inner city area!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secretly cheering himself on, Luo Chen headed straight for the rogue cultivator area in the southwest corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of a blue stone slab, more than half of which was covered with yellow talisman paper and animal skin, an old man was busy there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He set up the animal skin, stood up, and stretched, just in time to see Luo Chen's arrival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fellow Daoist Luo, you are a bit later than me this time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man's name was Chen Xiuping, at the sixth level of the Qi Refining stage, and he was an old-timer in Dahefang Market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having lived here for decades, he made a living by making talismans, and he also had a decent skill in tanning talisman skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his income level, he could actually barely afford to rent a house in the inner city area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this old man was a bit stingy, preferring to live in a wooden house in the outer city area for one low-grade spirit stone a month rather than spend ten times the price to live in a stone house in the inner city area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when setting up a stall to sell things, he calculated everything clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stalls in the rogue cultivator area required rent to be paid to the market manager.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One stall, monthly rent of one spirit stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The large two-party stall, if squeezed, could still squeeze out half a square meter after placing talismans and talisman skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply allocated this half square meter to Luo Chen, and then the two of them paid half the rent each.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did Luo Chen lose out?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn't be said that way; if he rented another stall, he would have to spend one spirit stone a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, not many cultivators liked to sell things with others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Luo Chen probably didn't lose, but Old Man Chen definitely made a profit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a simple greeting, Luo Chen set up his own things in front of the stall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty bottles of Grain Bigu Pills!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at this quantity, Old Man Chen couldn't help but be surprised, \"Fellow Daoist Luo, your pill refining level has improved again recently!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder he said so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen usually came to set up a stall once every seven days, coming four or five times a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And every time, the quantity of Grain Bigu Pills sold was around fifteen or sixteen bottles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he brought out a full twenty bottles!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From this, it could be seen that he must have made significant progress in the refining of Grain Bigu Pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, it was indeed the case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In seven days, excluding the day for setting up the stall and buying materials, the remaining six days, half were used for processing materials and half for refining pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is to say, there were only three days of pill refining time in total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, Luo Chen would only produce two pots at most if he tried his best, gathering about five bottles of Grain Bigu Pills; the material loss rate was really a bit high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But yesterday, his Grain Bigu Pill refining technique was promoted from the perfect level of proficiency to the Grandmaster level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That last pot directly produced five bottles!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coupled with good luck before, the loss was reduced to a very low level, which was why he gathered twenty bottles of Grain Bigu Pills this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where, where, practice makes perfect!\" Luo Chen smiled modestly, but there was still some self-satisfaction in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grain Bigu Pill refining technique that had just entered the Grandmaster level of proficiency still had some face, more or less.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Man Chen shook his head, \"There are also a few fellow daoists who sell Grain Bigu Pills, but none of them can produce twenty bottles in five days like you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, he reached out his hand towards the nearest bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You wouldn't have mixed in flour to make up the numbers, would you? As a senior, I have to keep an eye on you, don't smash the signboard of our stall.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen watched him make a move with a smile, his hand already picking up a talisman filled with red lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard that someone bought your Qi-Restraining Talisman last time, but it didn't have any effect, and their butt was bitten by a monster. Junior might as well take one back to study for you, we can't smash our family's signboard!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Man Chen was anxious and didn't care about the pills in his hand, hurriedly snatching the talisman back from Luo Chen's hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You sell five bottles of Grain Bigu Pills for one spirit stone, and you have the nerve to exchange them for my Qi-Restraining Talisman that costs three spirit stones each!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give it back! Give it back!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen watched with a smile as the old man placed the talisman in the most conspicuous place with great care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qi-Restraining Talisman was Old Man Chen's star product!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among his many low-grade talismans that cost one spirit stone each, it was the most expensive, starting at a full three low-grade spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, the market for the Qi-Restraining Talisman was also the best, especially for those cultivators who went into the mountains to hunt monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of spiritual talisman that could cover blood energy for an hour could save a life at a critical moment, and its value was no less than many defensive talismans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes, Luo Chen actually envied Old Man Chen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selling a talisman casually was at least one spirit stone, and he made a net profit of at least over one hundred a month!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, he worked hard to earn twelve spirit stones a month, and after deducting costs, he only got six or seven spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he deducted half a spirit stone for rent, half for stall fees, and one spirit stone for daily food and drink, he could only have four or five left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was after transmigrating for a year and grinding for a long time to save money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was hard to imagine what kind of life the original owner lived in the early days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But envy was only for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Chen knew very well that among the four main arts of immortality, each had its own difficulties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pills rely on volume, with greater profits, but the difficulty lies in the entry of various pill recipes; every pill, from entry to proficiency, doesn't know how many pots are wasted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Talismans rely on quality; every talisman can be said to condense all the essence, energy, and spirit of the cultivator when drawing it, and a slight mistake means losing everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, talisman makers often don't live very long, and I don't know why.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like Chen Xiuping, who looked old, but was actually only in his sixties, uh, it seemed he was indeed very old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Qi Refining stage cultivators could theoretically live to be one hundred and twenty or thirty, so sixty-something was considered \"young.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Switching to become a talisman maker was impossible; he would never spend his whole life writing homework there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was better to refine pills and roll balls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Luo Chen knew his own situation; the Grain Bigu Powder refining technique that had just entered the Grandmaster level could already double his income next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although a monthly income of ten was still not enough to support the cultivation of longevity (net income), at least it was moving in a good direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, he could start a new project soon, couldn't he?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just when Luo Chen was harboring beautiful hopes for the future, Old Man Chen pulled his sleeve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Business is here!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1491,"2026-06-12T10:35:51.239Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","8d99da650e5fdae9a65bd9c8353538aa42a92d6b1fd84a49504209f1bace86f5","immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-chapter-3","immortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-chapter-1",1090,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fimmortality-begins-from-an-alchemy-grandmaster-cover.jpg"]