Chapter 34: I Don't Mind Giving Myself to You

"Hmm, do you want it?"

Gu Caiyi drank the tea Luo Chen poured for her, her willow-leaf eyebrows furrowing involuntarily.

What kind of tea leaves were these? They were too bitter!

Luo Chen, sitting opposite her, had eyes shining at this moment, his heart thumping, beating several times faster than usual.

The Purple Cloud Copper Furnace was a standard alchemy furnace produced by the Wanbao Pavilion.

Its grade was not high, only first-grade low-grade, but its applicability was extremely wide.

Most of the various alchemy methods commonly used in the cultivation world could be adapted to it.

Moreover, this furnace had a Fire Gathering Array engraved on it, which had unique features in adjusting the heat.

Novice alchemists often couldn't master the heat, leading to the destruction of the processed raw materials.

But with this array, as long as different amounts of spiritual power were injected beforehand, it could adjust itself freely, no matter how great the external firepower was.

Fire Gathering Array: gathering and dispersing at will, the elixir fire having spirit.

You ask Luo Chen if he wants it?

Of course he wants it!

If he had this kind of alchemy furnace, he wouldn't be stuck refining only one pot of Zhongmiao Pills a day.

In terms of efficiency, he could refine at least two pots of Zhongmiao Pills a day!

Looking at Gu Caiyi with incredibly fiery eyes, Luo Chen suddenly reached out and grabbed her slender hand, much to her surprise.

"Sister Caiyi, are you going to give me one?"

"I'm willing, as long as you give it to me, even if you ask me to give myself to you, I would have no complaints!"

Gu Caiyi was stunned for a moment, then pulled her left hand out of those thick, solid hands.

"Get lost!"

"Who wants you to give yourself to them? You shameless thing!"

She rolled her eyes and said seriously, "If you want it, you have to spend spirit stones to buy it."

"Is that so..." Luo Chen sighed dejectedly, "If I could afford it, I would have bought it long ago."

"It's not asking you to buy it at Wanbao Pavilion." Gu Caiyi couldn't stand Luo Chen's rapid mood swings and said, "Miss Xiangxiang, the top beauty of Tianxiang Pavilion, is also an alchemist, and she has an idle Purple Cloud Copper Furnace. I've asked; if you want it, she can sell it to you for a bit cheaper."

He naturally knew Miss Xiangxiang, the top beauty.

Beautiful and charming, knowledgeable, and especially deeply involved in water methods and the Dao of alchemy.

Moreover, the reason she was most famous was that she had the title of an inner sect disciple of the Hehuan Sect.

But no matter how beautiful or famous she was, it had nothing to do with Luo Chen.

What he cared about most was the price!

"A bit cheaper? How much cheaper?"

"Three hundred low-grade spirit stones."

Luo Chen was overjoyed, but his face still showed a look of difficulty, "That's so expensive, second-hand ones only cost about two hundred."

"Then why don't you go buy one?" Gu Caiyi chuckled, "Stop crying poor; this price is only because you are my neighbor. If you really want to buy it, you can tell me."

Indeed, this price was very cheap.

The so-called second-hand price Luo Chen mentioned was the recycling price of Wanbao Pavilion.

As everyone knew, Wanbao Pavilion was the most unscrupulous of all unscrupulous merchants.

A brand-new Purple Cloud Copper Furnace cost four hundred and fifty.

It was only slightly cheaper than defensive magic tools, far exceeding other first-grade low-grade attack magic tools.

And because it was an alchemy tool that rogue cultivators didn't touch much, there were even fewer flowing into the market.

Now that he had encountered one, and the price was so cheap, Luo Chen naturally wouldn't miss it.

Luo Chen gave a sheepish smile and said hurriedly, "Buy, definitely buy, but it will have to be in a while, after I save up enough money."

"So poor?" Gu Caiyi looked at Luo Chen doubtfully, "Do you really earn spirit stones by refining elixirs?"

She had once suspected whether her neighbor would be kicked out of the inner city in three months because he didn't have spirit stones to pay the rent.

"You don't need to worry about that; when the time comes, I will definitely come to your door with spirit stones!" Luo Chen said confidently.

In fact, he could really come up with three hundred spirit stones.

Not to mention anything else, he now had over four hundred spirit stones in his pocket!

The Feiyan Sword sold for eleven hundred; after purchasing Yangqi Pills and five spells, he had four hundred left.

Plus the scattered twenty or so he had originally.

It could be said that at this time, Luo Chen couldn't really be considered very poor.

The reason he didn't go buy that alchemy furnace now was mainly because he didn't need it for the time being.

Currently, that batch of raw materials was specially processed according to his own iron pot.

If he used an alchemy furnace to refine the remaining raw materials, adapting to the technique was one thing, but the firewood to be burned and the time for the elixir to form would all have to be prepared from scratch.

Therefore, he planned to consume all the raw materials in this batch first, recover all the funds, and then consider buying the alchemy furnace.

Damn it!

If only there were interest-free, large-amount spirit stone loans for aspiring rogue cultivators.

This cultivation world controlled by the sects was truly too cold to us rogue cultivators!

Refining elixirs, taking medicine, learning techniques, and researching arts—days passed by one by one in such an orderly arrangement.

Luo Chen changed the time and frequency of practicing spells.

He had previously retained the habit of living in the outer city, and his daily practice of spells was only superficial.

He realized a while ago that the inner city was already very safe, and there was no need to ensure that his magic power was at its peak at all times.

Therefore, he could use more magic power to practice the newly learned spells.

In his spare time, he would chat with Gu Caiyi about things in the cultivation world.

In fact, he was also strange; why hadn't he seen Gu Caiyi cultivating?

After Gu Caiyi explained it later, he suddenly realized.

It turned out that Gu Caiyi usually went to Tianxiang Pavilion to cultivate, where a Spirit Gathering Array was set up, which could raise the spiritual energy concentration by a notch.

Of course, the spiritual energy concentration of a first-grade spirit vein is limited; if some people gather spirits, naturally others cannot enjoy the proper concentration.

Hmm, the latter refers to rogue cultivator residents like Luo Chen.

The Yuding Sword Sect was also a huge unscrupulous merchant; what about the high-quality housing with first-grade spirit veins that was promised?

After a long time, the spiritual energy they absorbed was all what others had filtered out.

During this period, he would occasionally meet the small round-faced woman, Bai Meiling.

It wasn't often; it seemed like the Baicao Hall was very busy recently, and people from the Yaowang Sect had come to take inventory, planning to transport a batch of spirit herbs collected by the Baicao Hall back.

As for the other resident living in this courtyard, Luo Chen had never seen them even once.

"Fu Xiuxiu is a manager of the Divine Talisman Pavilion, and she usually lives there. And I heard that her talisman-making level is very high, and she has a great hope of being admitted into the Divine Talisman Sect."

This was what Gu Caiyi told Luo Chen.

After hearing it, Luo Chen was very envious.

Being able to join a sect—that was an immortal fate that countless rogue cultivators begged for but couldn't get.

He didn't know if he would have the chance to join a powerful sect either.

The requirements weren't high; something like the Hehuan Sect would do.

When he was at the market, he also told everyone he met that Master Yunhe was his idol.

Just like that, Luo Chen worked overtime and finished all the materials on hand before the big market arrived.

The final result made him very satisfied!

Of the remaining twenty-five portions of raw materials, he had successfully refined five.

This also meant that his success rate in refining Zhongmiao Pills had increased from the initial one-tenth to two-tenths!

In terms of cost control, this was a qualitative improvement.

The initial cost of fifty spirit stones could refine ten pots, with one success, selling for fifty, putting him in a state of neither profit nor loss.

Oh, that's not right; in fact, it was a loss.

If the time of several months had been used to refine Grain-Avoiding Powder, he could have earned dozens of spirit stones more or less.

So, at that time, he was really losing money.

Now, or rather, in the future.

With the same cost of fifty spirit stones, if he could succeed in two out of ten pots, he could sell them for one hundred spirit stones, a net profit of fifty.

With this profit margin, as long as he was willing to spend the cost, Luo Chen could count spirit stones until his hands went soft.

"This is just the proficiency level; what if it improves to the mastery level, perfect level, or even grandmaster level in the future?"

Luo Chen was looking forward to it.

And then, on a misty morning, like an early-rising vegetable farmer, he headed straight for the rogue cultivator market in the south of the city.

Today would be a day full of harvest! ===== CHAPTER 35 =====