Chapter 95: You must take down the nutrition part

Let's explore the front area later!

Standing in front of the pitch-black mine tunnel, three forks appeared again.

Luo Chen didn't hesitate, turned his head and walked back.

This mine tunnel is far-reaching and goes straight into the ground; it is obviously not something that can be explored in a moment.

It's enough to get here today.

Recalling the small pangolin puppet, Luo Chen relied on his memory and soon returned to the stone house.

Cutting a stone and embedding it in the opened hole, Luo Chen cast a Cleaning Technique on himself.

Refreshed, he pushed open the stone door.

"My dividend from last month?"

Luo Chen received the bag excitedly, and there was a pile of spirit stones inside.

After counting, there were 650 spirit stones.

The happy expression on Luo Chen's face faded slightly.

"Is the dividend less?"

Seeing his appearance, Gu Caiyi asked curiously.

Luo Chen nodded first, then shook his head.

"It's a bit less, but not much less."

Last month's Myriad Wonder Pill revenue, although he didn't handle the specific sales, he was an alchemist, so he naturally knew the cost and output.

In a month, he opened two furnaces every morning and afternoon. The mid-grade pill cauldron could refine two portions of raw materials, and the two Purple Cloud Copper Cauldrons each had one portion.

Combined with his later Grandmaster-level Myriad Wonder Pill proficiency, he finally got one thousand pills.

The grades were different, and there were high, mid, and low grades.

After Mi Junping's pricing strategy, the revenue was also different.

But in the end, it should be around four thousand spirit stones, minus the raw material cost of six hundred, and the rest is profit.

Luo Chen's dividend should be around seven hundred.

Now, it is fifty spirit stones less.

Gu Caiyi handed over a list and said: "This is the list given by Hall Master Mi, which specifically mentions the expenses of the Pill Hall cultivators, the cultivators of the three shops, and the pill protection team."

"These expenses are deducted from the profit and belong to everyone."

"Of course, relying on this bit of profit is not enough to support the wages of those people, so the headquarters also subsidized a part."

While listening to these words, while carefully looking at the list.

Luo Chen finally nodded slightly.

In fact, this was within his expectations.

Therefore, he didn't have any angry mood.

At this moment, what he was actually calculating in his heart was another account.

If he didn't join the Broken Mountain Gang, how many spirit stones would he have earned last month?

Without three pill cauldrons, and without the Broken Mountain Gang providing raw materials, a group of fire-tenders and medicine apprentices helping to refine pills, and even someone specially selling them in the end.

He opened two furnaces of pills at most a day, and no matter how fast his proficiency brushed, it wouldn't skyrocket to the Grandmaster level.

Many conditions, calculated one by one.

Finally, Luo Chen got a piece of data, "Eight hundred!"

Yes, if he relied on himself alone, the net income last month should be eight hundred low-grade spirit stones.

Comparing this, it seems that he lost a full one hundred and fifty spirit stones by joining the Broken Mountain Gang.

However, the account cannot be calculated like this!

"Besides the dividend, I also have a fixed salary of Qi-Nurturing Pills worth four hundred a month, although it was plucked."

This extra income alone has already offset his loss.

Even, he earned it!

"Refining a large number of pills soared the proficiency, thereby obtaining solid pill refining experience and achievement points."

This point must also be taken into account.

Not only that, "Green Origin Pill Explanation", "Hundred Herbs Illustrated Handbook", and the incomplete pill recipe for Tongyou Pill, these things are worth at least several thousand spirit stones!

Most importantly, there is one more point.

The golden signboard of the Broken Mountain Gang, the care of Mi Shuhua, this Foundation Establishment cultivator.

This is a value that spirit stones cannot measure, allowing him to avoid the covetousness of other cultivators when his realm is low.

For example, the trouble on Gao Tingyuan's side was solved by Mi Shuhua himself, solving the tail for him.

After some consideration, Luo Chen couldn't help but show a satisfied smile.

"Sure enough, my decision back then was right."

"It seems that being a tool is not free, but the benefits obtained, from a long-term perspective, are absolutely earned."

"And, my monthly treatment has increased again, hasn't it?"

Luo Chen picked up another thing in the bag.

It was a wooden box, opened to see.

Twelve slender incense sticks were neatly placed inside.

"Calming Incense!"

Gu Caiyi was surprised.

Mi Shuhua's movements were so fast, he actually sent this thing to Luo Chen.

Closing the box, Luo Chen nodded with satisfaction.

This is a real good thing, he has experienced it himself.

A box of Calming Incense is worth one hundred and twenty spirit stones, a sharp weapon for low-level cultivators to assist in cultivation!

With this incense, his cultivation speed can skyrocket again.

Because this incense allows low-level cultivators to circulate their life-bound cultivation techniques four or five more times a day, and their soul will not feel tired or painful because of it.

Of course, the body also needs a lot of nutritional supplements, otherwise the soul can keep up, but the body can't.

When he first got Calming Incense, Luo Chen had to divide one incense stick into two or three days.

That was because he couldn't keep up with nutrition at that time.

But now, we have money!

The dividend is in hand, plus the previous savings, for the first time through his own efforts, he broke through the thousand-stone mark.

One thousand three!

This is his true net worth without calculating various external objects.

And, supplementing nutrition?

He now has some methods.

Putting away the Calming Incense, Luo Chen pulled Gu Caiyi and walked out in a hurry.

"Off work, off work!"

Gu Caiyi was a bit confused, "Don't we still have to open the furnace to refine pills in the afternoon?"

"Why worry about this? And today we refined the Jade Marrow Pill, which is enough to make that Old Man Mi happy for two days."

Luo Chen snorted, "I, Luo Chen, only go to work to get off work. Overtime or something, it doesn't fit my persona."

After speaking, he shouted at the Pill Hall.

"Brothers, take a day off today, come early tomorrow!"

Those newcomers who were familiarizing themselves with the Jade Marrow Pill medicinal materials and heat, and were tortured to death, cheered instantly.

Shouting long live the Hall Master!

"Look, no one wants to work overtime."

Gu Caiyi blinked, but isn't this absenteeism, how can it be called overtime?

Luo Chen didn't care about her; she is a silly girl.

Back at the Heavenly Fragrance Tower, she worked the night shift every day and was tamed by those sect capitalists.

……

Leaving work early is not really wanting to be lazy.

Mainly because he gets up early and goes home late, he will miss the market during the day.

It is a cold and ruthless world of immortality where people deceive each other, and everyone doesn't do much business at night.

Therefore, good things are basically available during the day.

Luo Chen was afraid that if he delayed any longer, he wouldn't have a place to spend his spirit stones.

Under the escort of two bodyguards with strange expressions, Luo Chen took Gu Caiyi and hurried back to the inner city.

Then, he plunged into the rogue cultivator market in the south of the city.

Nowadays, there are more and more cultivators in the Dahe Market, and the stable resident population has exceeded twenty thousand.

Nearby, there are two more small Foundation Establishment cultivation families, with an additional population of several thousand.

It is said that the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect is still migrating people here. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of mortals, cultivators are also in units of families.

It can only be said that the Dahe Market is indeed becoming more and more prosperous.

Along with it, in addition to the rogue cultivator market in the south of the city and the shop street in the center of the city, two more trading centers have appeared.

One is in the White Stone Square outside the Dao-Discussion Platform, where Yuan Xiaoyue sells fairy bean popcorn.

One is in the north of the city, where a small commercial street has been drawn out, and the shop purchased by the Broken Mountain Gang is there.

The business of that street is different from the central shop street; it basically has no sect background and is basically opened by small families and small gangs.

Luo Chen plans to go shopping when he has time in the future.

But today, the main destinations are the familiar rogue cultivator market in the south of the city and the central shop street.

"First-grade dragon bone? It's just a nice name, it's just the bone of a swamp crocodile!"

"However, killing this thing really requires some level. Give me one!"

"What? Just this little bone, you want three spirit stones from me, are you crazy, I'm not buying it."

Luo Chen shouted, pulling Gu Caiyi and running away.

The rogue cultivator behind him gritted his teeth, "Daoist friend, come back, let's talk about it. How about this, two spirit stones, really can't be cheaper, this dragon bone weighs more than thirty catties."

Luo Chen walked back reluctantly, picking and choosing while taking out spirit stones.

Saying it's not monster meat!

Saying it's severely damaged, only a few catties can be put in the pot, etc.

The rogue cultivator selling bones had a face as ugly as if his mother had died.

This is getting a bargain and still acting like a spoiled brat!

If it weren't for the fact that the swamp crocodile's bones were really hard to sell, he wouldn't be willing to sell them for two spirit stones.

Gu Caiyi watched with great interest, clearly Luo Chen had just obtained a generous dividend, but he was still very frugal in his life.

Of course, it may also be Luo Chen's character of never suffering losses, accustomed to bargaining with people.

Next, Luo Chen swept goods in the center of the rogue cultivator market.

He even gave Gu Caiyi a list, asking her to notify him in time when she saw those things.

Sweeping goods in the south of the city took three hours, and later the two went straight to the central shop street, purchasing a lot in Lingyuan Studio, Hundred Herbs Hall, and Spirit Medicine Pavilion.

In this way, when they returned to the Sihe Academy, Gu Caiyi calculated the account and was directly shocked.

"Luo Chen, you actually spent three hundred spirit stones in one breath today?"

Luo Chen nodded, and then hurried into the house.

Gu Caiyi was still a bit shocked; Luo Chen clearly acted stingy, and usually couldn't bear to spend a spirit stone.

But when spending spirit stones, he didn't seem stingy.

Really a bit contradictory.

Contradictory?

Luo Chen knew that he was never contradictory.

He earned spirit stones with his life, and when it came to useless expenses, he was stingier than anyone else.

But when it involved Great Dao cultivation, he was more willing to spend money than anyone else.

Qi-Nurturing Pills were so expensive, and when he was at the fourth level of Qi Refining, he was already buying them five bottles at a time.

Boom!

The Purple Cloud Copper Cauldron fell directly into his own pill room.

Start the fire, add water, pour in a bottle of Xiantian Powder sold for ten spirit stones in the Spirit Medicine Pavilion, and stir it fully.

Then put in various herbs one by one, and finally threw in the crocodile dragon bone that looked like only a small section but actually weighed thirty catties.

"Boil for three hours, and it should be able to produce a furnace of Peiyuan Spirit Liquid from the Green Origin Pill Explanation."

Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief, looking forward to it.

The Green Origin Pill Explanation records many things, pill path foundation, pill refining techniques, and some small medicine recipes for alchemists.

They are not pill recipes, but if used for a long time, those small medicine recipes are no less effective than first-grade pills.

Peiyuan Spirit Liquid is one of them.

Absorbed in the form of a medicinal bath, alchemists can obtain a large amount of vitality, and they can also be more sensitive to the medicinal power.

The original intention of the author Green Origin was to let alchemists obtain the latter effect, so that they can better perceive the changes in medicinal power in the pills when refining pills.

But now, Luo Chen has taken a fancy to the former effect.

A large amount of vitality, isn't that the nutrition his body needs?

Of course, there are other ways to supplement nutrition.

Luo Chen came to the kitchen, set up a large pot, and threw all the vegetables, bones, and monster meat he bought into it.

"Today, let's have a hot pot stew!"

"Still missing a handful of vermicelli, let's use these tendons instead!"

Throwing in a handful of washed monster tendons, Luo Chen clapped his hands.

Just waiting for the food to be out of the pot!

…….

…….

Night falls.

Husband and wife return home together!

Qin Liangchen walked in the alley, and Murong Qinglian held his arm.

"The dividend for last month is down, the Medicine Hall dividend is three hundred spirit stones, and the Pill Hall gave one hundred. The bulk is still our spirit fish business; in addition to supplying the Zhong Ding family, another cultivation family has reached an intention of regular supply, with an account of more than five hundred spirit stones."

"Husband, what about you?"

Qin Liangchen's face flushed, and he spat out a number, "Three hundred!"

As the pillar of the family, earning less than half of his wife's, it made him ashamed and angry.

Murong Qinglian said with a smile: "Don't be angry, the spirit fish lake was fought down by you back then, I'm just helping you manage it."

Regarding this, Qin Liangchen was still a bit uncomfortable.

Being this elder without any real power, he didn't earn as much as he imagined.

However, there is another way to calculate the account; if he didn't serve as this elder, Murong Qinglian wouldn't be able to sit in the position of the Medicine Hall Master.

"Wait for a few more months of spirit stones, and we will entrust someone to send it to Xiaohu!"

Suddenly, Qin Liangchen said.

He looked at the pitch-black alley in front, revealing a little longing.

"I don't know if Xiaohu is doing well in the Luoyun Sect. Have the pills we left behind been eaten? And how is he getting along with his fellow disciples?"

Murong Qinglian listened quietly.

Their family is very strange; clearly Qin Liangchen is the pillar, but most of the external things are done by Murong Qinglian.

And Qin Liangchen is not like an ordinary strict father and husband, accustomed to showing emotions.

Even when his son was there, he was not afraid of Xiaohu's shame, and he would lift him up to fly around every day.

"Old Qin, I heard that the gang recently obtained a high-grade metal-attribute magic tool, which is a giant sword, very suitable for your fighting style."

"Why don't we buy it?"

Qin Liangchen was surprised, "Don't save spirit stones for Xiaohu?"

Murong Qinglian shook her head, "Still need to save, but not now, he is only in the early stage of Qi Refining, and can't spend many resources."

"But you are different, you still hope for Foundation Establishment, and you need a powerful magic tool."

"If one day you advance to Foundation Establishment, Xiaohu can also be tougher in the sect!"

Hearing these words, Qin Liangchen also thought about it seriously.

After a long while, he nodded heavily.

"Also, I still have a Foundation Establishment Pill at Mi Shuhua's place, which cannot be wasted."

After speaking, he took advantage of no one and kissed Murong Qinglian quickly.

"Wife, you are so good, when you are close to the Great Perfection, I will definitely help you build the foundation!"

Murong Qinglian wiped the saliva on her face, shy and angry, and pushed him away.

"Old shameless!"

Laughing and scolding as she entered the courtyard, she smelled a rich fragrance.

It was a bit pungent and made people want to sneeze, but that fragrance stimulated them to secrete saliva in their mouths.

"Brother Qin, Sister-in-law Murong, you are back!"

"Come and eat hot pot, I left bowls and chopsticks for you."

Luo Chen greeted enthusiastically, and even kicked Bai Meiling.

Bai Meiling bit the bone while making a space.

Beside her, Gu Caiyi set up two pairs of bowls and chopsticks, and also thoughtfully poured a glass of wine.

Murong Qinglian was surprised: "You have made a fortune, eating so richly."

A stove was set up in the courtyard, with a large iron pot on it, filled with ingredients.

Under the red bubbles bubbling, it looked particularly attractive.

Gu Caiyi smiled: "This is because our Hall Master Luo made a fortune, so he invited everyone to have a good meal."

It was indeed a good meal.

More than half of the ingredients in the pot were monster meat, and some vegetables also had spiritual energy bonuses.

It can be said that the cost of this pot is at least five spirit stones.

If it were placed in the Zhong Ding family, selling it for fifty or one hundred would not be excessive!

The key is that Luo Chen added a lot of spices on the basis of stewing, making it a spicy flavor of Sichuan and Chongqing.

When the Qin Liangchen couple sat down and started to feast, they also enjoyed it.

The spicy flavor is indeed very appetizing!

Although they are not used to eating spicy food, cultivators have good physiques, and occasionally tasting it doesn't affect them.

Monster meat is really strong, and Luo Chen had accumulated some processing experience when refining Grain-Bigu Pills.

This is how he made a pot of tendon-head-and-brain hot pot in the cultivation world version.

Watching everyone eat so happily, Luo Chen's originally distressed mood about five spirit stones disappeared.

He is a very stingy person, but he is very generous in cultivation.

For true friends, if he doesn't have the ability, it's fine; if he has the spare energy, he never hesitates to share the benefits.

And this group of neighbors has gradually become his true friends.

When he was at his lowest, Gu Caiyi answered many cultivation common sense questions, contacted pill cauldrons for him, shared fruits, and today she gave him a martial arts secret manual without hesitation.

Bai Meiling and Feng Xia, because of the fixed commuting time, didn't have much contact.

But when he occasionally went to the Hundred Herbs Hall to buy raw materials, they would secretly pick some good-quality medicinal materials for him.

As for the Qin Liangchen couple, they were even better to him.

Guiding Luo Chen's spell cultivation, giving him puppet gifts, and the second-grade tiger bone medicine soup he boiled back then was also sent to him, allowing him to successfully break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

Now in the Broken Mountain Gang, they also help him a lot.

Luo Chen actually kept all these little things accumulated in his heart.

Before, he had no spare energy, so most of the time he was taking advantage.

But now, he is not so embarrassed.

Treating everyone to a good meal is still within his ability.

"Pill refining?"

"Haha, when I become a second-grade alchemist in the future, I will definitely help everyone refine Foundation Establishment Pills!"

"But you have to pay for the materials yourselves, I heard that the main materials for Foundation Establishment Pills are particularly expensive."

Luo Chen boasted shamelessly.

Everyone listened with a smile.

Qin Liangchen is worthy of being Luo Chen's good big brother, and he praised him, saying that Foundation Establishment Pills are nothing, and if he wants to refine, he should refine the Jiangyun Pill used for Core Formation.

Luo Chen naturally couldn't lose the scene, and spoke directly about Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation.

This Sihe Academy was filled with a joyful atmosphere for a while.

…….

After the joy, it is the cultivators' hard cultivation time.

Everyone went back to their homes, saying they were resting, but actually, they were all frantically rolling.

Luo Chen rolled the hardest!

He sat directly into the Purple Cloud Copper Cauldron he used for pill refining.

In short, stewing himself in an iron pot!

"Hiss, not hot!"

Luo Chen's facial features were constantly distorted, extremely wonderful.

The Peiyuan Spirit Liquid boiled for a full afternoon plus half the night, and the medicinal power had been completely stimulated.

At this moment, it is the best time to absorb the essence.

Luo Chen sat quietly in it, letting the surging flesh and blood essence vitality penetrate into his internal organs through his skin.

The Everlasting Art had already been circulated.

After soaking for about half an hour, Luo Chen took out a Qi-Nurturing Pill and swallowed it.

Circulate the Everlasting Art again.

Another half an hour passed, and a stick of Calming Incense was lit slowly.

Luo Chen's exhausted spirit, like a dried-up stream, received the irrigation of a great river, and became energetic again.

"Another one!"

Just like that, the night passed in a flash.

When Luo Chen came out of the Purple Cloud Copper Cauldron, the pot of Peiyuan Spirit Liquid had become clear and transparent.

All the vitality in it was absorbed and refined by him.

Looking at this scene, Luo Chen was thoughtful.

"People in the world divide realms, all using Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, and Nascent Soul as standards."

"But in ancient times, Qi Refining scholars used refining essence into qi and refining qi into spirit as the decree."

"This pot of flesh and blood essence not only supported the five extra circulations of the Everlasting Art, but also made my physique more powerful, and my spiritual power also increased a bit."

Feeling the fullness and abundance in his body, Luo Chen couldn't help but stretch.

What a beautiful night!

Click on the attribute panel.

【Lifespan: 27/75】

【Spiritual Root: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth】

【Realm: Sixth level of Qi Refining: 5/100】

【Cultivation Technique: Everlasting Art Grandmaster: 627/1000】

【Spells: Great Perfection Fireball Technique, Carefree Travel Grandmaster 870/1000, Wind-Riding Technique Grandmaster 600/1000, Traction Technique Grandmaster 721/1000, Entanglement Technique Perfect 430/500, Spirit Eye Technique Perfect 490/500, Cleaning Technique Perfect 350/500, Healing Technique Entry 15/100, Breath-Concealing Spirit Technique Entry 78/100, Mountain-Opening and Monument-Breaking Palm Entry 1/100】

【Skills: First-grade Alchemist: Grain-Bigu Powder Grandmaster 910/1000, Myriad Wonder Pill Grandmaster 600/100, Jade Marrow Pill 20/100】

【Achievement Points: 13 points】

Scanning down, Luo Chen had the clearest understanding of his current state.

In terms of spells, there was no major change, just the entry of the Mountain-Opening and Monument-Breaking Palm.

In terms of skills, the Jade Marrow Pill had already added a tag, and one furnace of pills was successfully refined, producing 20 pills, so 20 points of proficiency were added.

These were all as expected.

What Luo Chen cared about was the realm progress bar!

He remembered very clearly that before practicing last night, the progress bar was 【4/100】

That was the progress after he broke through to the sixth level of Qi Refining, taking Qi-Nurturing Pills every day, plus the Everlasting Art, and practicing hard for a full ten days.

Under such circumstances, it only rose from 1 to 4.

But last night, in just one night, it soared by a full 1 point!

"The consumption last night, two Qi-Nurturing Pills, one stick of Calming Incense, one portion of Peiyuan Spirit Liquid. Adding them up, it cost about forty spirit stones."

Calculating this, Luo Chen couldn't help but gasp.

This amount of spirit stones would be enough for any mid-stage cultivator to spend for a month.

But for him, it was just one night!

Although the increase was also amazing, if it continued like this, he would be able to advance to the seventh level of Qi Refining in at most three months.

Three months to break through a whole small realm, what kind of cultivation genius is this?

However, this was completely smashed out by spirit stones!

"No, this body of mine really spends too many cultivation resources."

"But I don't know the specific benefits yet."

"I have to find a way to verify it, or compare it with others." ===== CHAPTER 96 =====