Chapter 37: Pay-to-Win Profession, the Greed of the Lu Family

"Five thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones?"

Hearing this, Zhou Sui frowned.

To be honest, for a widely circulated inheritance, this was already a bit expensive.

Normally, one could be bought for three or four thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.

After all, not every Cultivator can become an alchemist, so alchemist inheritances sometimes fail to sell.

However, he had no other channels to obtain an alchemist inheritance, so even if the price was a bit high, he had no choice but to accept it.

At this moment, the shopkeeper Lu Ming seemed to notice Zhou Sui's hesitation and spoke up: "Perhaps you feel this inheritance is very expensive, but my Treasure Pavilion's First-tier Alchemist Inheritance is absolutely the most complete and definitely worth the price. If you go elsewhere to buy it, the price might be a bit cheaper, but there will be many omissions."

"Oh, there's such a thing? Bring it over for me to see; if it's genuine, then I'll buy it."

Zhou Sui raised an eyebrow.

"Rest assured, my Treasure Pavilion has a good reputation in Miyun City; we would never deceive a fellow Daoist."

Shopkeeper Lu Ming patted his chest and immediately ordered his subordinate to bring over a jade slip.

"Hmm?!"

Zhou Sui picked it up and used his Spiritual Sense to take a look, discovering that he could only see a portion of the content; most of it was obscured by a restriction, presumably a method used by the Treasure Pavilion to prevent other Cultivators from stealing the contents of the jade slip and obtaining the inheritance for free.

That way, the Treasure Pavilion would suffer heavy losses.

But it was indeed as the other party said: this alchemist inheritance was incredibly complete.

Even though he had never been in contact with an alchemist inheritance, he was clear on this point.

"It seems you did not deceive me. Since that is the case, I will take this First-tier Alchemist Inheritance."

Zhou Sui did not hesitate and said so straightforwardly.

"Haha, fellow Daoist is truly a straightforward person. I suppose you want an alchemist inheritance because you want to walk the path of an alchemist."

"Since that is the case, if you want to practice Alchemy, you will certainly need a Dharma Artifact Pill Cauldron, which only costs three thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones."

"Besides the Pill Cauldron, our shop also has many Pill Recipes at low prices that can also be sold to you, fellow Daoist."

"If you want to practice, you can also buy a few Spirit Medicines from our shop to take back."

Shopkeeper Lu Ming pushed his sales with a smile.

What?!

Hearing this, Zhou Sui's face turned green. He finally understood why alchemists were so scarce in all of Miyun City; he wouldn't say they were few enough to be counted on one's fingers, but they were definitely extremely rare.

He hadn't even reached the Beginner stage, yet he had already spent over ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.

If one were not a wealthy Cultivator, who could walk the path of an alchemist?

I'm afraid that before even reaching the Beginner stage, an ordinary Cultivator would be bankrupt.

It is no wonder that among the four Spirit-Refining Techniques—Alchemy, Talisman, Artifact, and Array—only Alchemy ranks first; this is purely a pay-to-win profession, which is absurd.

But since he had chosen this path, he had to grit his teeth and continue.

Thus, Zhou Sui spent twelve thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones to purchase one First-grade Low-grade Dharma Artifact Pill Cauldron, one First-tier Alchemist Inheritance, five portions of Spirit Medicine, and over a dozen ordinary Pill Recipes.

Fortunately, he had earned over a hundred thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones from selling Spirit Wine, otherwise, he would not have been able to afford these things at all.

After buying these items, Zhou Sui left the Treasure Pavilion without a second word.

However, Zhou Sui's actions had been noticed by the people of the Treasure Pavilion.

"Shopkeeper, this kid actually spent over ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones to buy a First-tier Alchemist Inheritance? How can he be so rich?" A member of the Lu Family was very surprised.

Because even though he was in the Lu Family, he only earned a few thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones a year.

After all, the Lu Family has a large business, but there are also many descendants, so when divided among everyone, there isn't much left.

To him, Zhou Sui was simply a rich person, many times richer than himself.

"If I'm not mistaken, this kid should be a Loose Cultivator who obtained some kind of fortuitous encounter and made a windfall, which is why he is so wealthy."

Shopkeeper Lu Ming's eyes revealed a trace of Cold Glow.

"A Loose Cultivator? Shopkeeper, how do you know the other party is a Loose Cultivator?"

The Lu Family member asked very suspiciously.

"Stupid, if he were truly a sect Disciple or a family descendant, how could they not have a First-tier Alchemist Inheritance? They could obtain it without needing Spirit Stones at all."

"Only Loose Cultivators, lacking an inheritance, are forced to spend a large amount of Spirit Stones to purchase inheritance knowledge."

Shopkeeper Lu Ming said irritably.

"So that's how it is. If that's the case, wouldn't we make a fortune if we robbed and killed this Loose Cultivator?" Hearing this, the Lu Family member's eyes showed an excited expression. "Looking at that kid's appearance, twelve thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones doesn't seem to be his entire net worth; he might have more Spirit Stones left. If we can successfully rob and kill him, we will definitely be rich."

He had already developed greed and murderous intent.

"It's not just that. This kid is so rich, he might have obtained the inheritance and entire net worth of some Foundation Establishment Cultivator. If we can kill this guy, our harvest will be even greater than imagined."

"Heh heh, a mere Loose Cultivator, yet possessing so much wealth on his person—this is simply courting death."

"His cultivation is only at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer realm, not worth mentioning at all."

"Now, follow him immediately. Mobilize a few experts at the Qi Refining Seventh Layer and Eighth Layer. Once this kid is alone, take action, kill him, and seize the treasures. This time, I want the Spirit Stones, and I want the goods too."

Shopkeeper Lu Ming clenched his fists.

To be honest, he originally had no intention of killing and robbing.

But recently, turmoil had occurred in the Lu Family; the Lu Family Ancestor, Lu Hongran, was about to pass away, and most of the vast Lu Family industries had to be handed over to the Xianxia Sect to save the lives of the Lu Family members.

And as of now, no new Foundation Establishment Cultivator had been born in the Lu Family.

Previously, in order to produce a Foundation Establishment Cultivator for the Lu Family, a large amount of money had already been exhausted to purchase Foundation Establishment Pills.

Unfortunately, those few Lu Family descendants were too incompetent; even with the Foundation Establishment Pills, they still failed to advance, causing the Lu Family to suffer heavy losses, and the entire family was in a state of gloom.

If things continued like this, the Lu Family would be completely finished.

Therefore, for the sake of the family, they needed to come up with various means to scrape together money and try to save up again to buy Foundation Establishment Pills.

The reason why so many Robber Cultivators and so many murder cases have appeared in Miyun City recently is partly due to the involvement of the Lu Family.

It can be said that in order to continue the family line, the Lu Family has already stopped at nothing.

"Yes, Shopkeeper."

This Lu Family disciple was very excited, because if this robbery were to succeed, he would be able to share a portion of the profits, at the very least harvesting several thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.

One must know that he previously needed a whole year to earn this much.

But now, he could obtain it from just a single robbery; this was simply getting rich overnight.

Swish, swish, swish!!!

Immediately, three Qi Refining Seventh Layer and one Qi Refining Eighth Layer Lu Family Cultivators set off at once, tracking Zhou Sui's aura, attempting to find Zhou Sui's whereabouts and plunder all of this Loose Cultivator's wealth.

(End of chapter)