Chapter 304: Things are Valued for Their Rarity

"Little Brother Lu, don't forget to send me the improved prescription. Oh, and I also sent you an email containing a contract drafted based on your previous proposal. Take a careful look at it, and once you've confirmed everything is correct, just sign it." This was the message sent by Kong Ming.

In contrast, the tone of the messages sent by Yao Lao was extremely urgent, and there was more than one:

"Kid, didn't you promise to send the prescription over? It's been almost an hour, why is there still no movement?"

"What exactly is going on? Two hours have passed; even if you were recording the entire alchemy process, it shouldn't take this long, right?"

"Kid, what exactly are you trying to do? It's already past five in the afternoon; you haven't finished yet, have you?"

Just as Lu Yu finished reading these messages, his phone vibrated again, and a new message popped up:

"Kid, it's already six in the afternoon, and you still haven't sent it? Fine, from now on, I'll urge you once every hour until you send it."

Seeing this, Lu Yu was speechless.

He directly added Yao Lao to his blacklist, then exited the chat interface and sent a message to Kong Ming, informing him that he would send the email in the evening.

Afterward, he clicked on the new emails.

The first email congratulated him on successfully promoting to a Pulse Refining Martial Artist, then detailed the rights he enjoyed and the obligations he had to fulfill as a Pulse Refining Martial Artist; the content was roughly the same as what Qi Heng had told him before.

After browsing through it roughly, Lu Yu clicked to close it and opened the second email, which was the contract Kong Ming had mentioned.

This time, he read it with extra care; after all, the contract involved his own vital interests and could not tolerate the slightest bit of carelessness.

Fortunately, after a careful review, he did not find anything amiss in the contract, so he solemnly signed it.

After completing these operations, Lu Yu opened the Martial Arts Association's mall.

Sure enough, the purchasing permissions for Pulse Refining Realm items had been unlocked.

The item categories in the mall were roughly similar to before, but in addition to those, two or three new categories had been added, which were Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and Special Item.

Lu Yu clicked on the Special Item category with some curiosity, and when he saw the content on the first line, he couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise.

Small Space Ring: Selling price 5 million Contribution Points, contains one cubic meter of space inside.

"5 million Contribution Points?" Lu Yu rubbed his eyes, unable to believe what he was seeing. After confirming it repeatedly, he found that the selling price was indeed 5 million Contribution Points.

"It's so much more expensive than the Awakened Association?" Lu Yu muttered to himself.

Five million Contribution Points, if converted into points, would be equivalent to five hundred points; in the Awakened Association, one could buy five such space rings for that amount.

However, thinking about it carefully, it was understandable. After all, these were two different organizations, and Special Items could usually only be crafted by Awakened; as the saying goes, things are valued for their rarity, so it was reasonable for there to be a price difference for items between different organizations.

Moreover, to be honest, the Contribution Points of the Martial Arts Association were indeed not as valuable as points.

He continued to browse downward and found that for Special Items with the same functions, the prices in the Martial Arts Association were basically more than five times those of the Awakened Association.

Looking at the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures column, the prices of items that could improve basic physical attributes were not too different from those in the Awakened Association, but the quantities were relatively scarce.

The most expensive one was only 10 million Contribution Points, which meant that there were only items worth less than one thousand points from the Awakened Association here.

Lu Yu narrowed his eyes slightly and pondered to himself that once he had enough Contribution Points, he could consider buying some here.

Even if he could only increase his attributes by one or two hundred points each time, it would be a significant improvement over the long term.

Most importantly, once the headquarters really learned the prescription he had improved, even if he didn't step out of his house or go out hunting in the future, he would have a steady stream of Contribution Points coming in.

"Right, I need to check the price of the True Qi Pill Prescription, and the medicinal herbs." Lu Yu suddenly thought, and hurriedly clicked to enter the Pill column.

Lu Yu pondered to himself that the True Qi Pill Prescription provided by the Martial Arts Association, while not so bad as to be hopeless, certainly wouldn't be stunningly good either.

However, when his gaze touched upon the marked price, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and was truly a little surprised.

In the Association's pill sales list, there was only one True Qi Pill Prescription, and its marked price was as high as eight million Contribution Points.

According to the detailed relevant instructions, this Alchemy technique was meticulously improved by many Alchemist Masters within the Association with all their might.

If the alchemist could raise their proficiency with this prescription to the Consummation Realm, the probability of successfully refining a High Grade True Qi Pill would exceed twenty percent.

"A twenty percent probability..." Lu Yu gently rubbed his chin and fell into thought.

He knew in his heart that this was indeed superior to the prescription he had purchased from the Awakened Association for 500 points.

Even when the proficiency of that prescription reached the Consummation state, the probability of successfully refining a High Grade True Qi Pill was only about ten percent.

Looking at it this way, the Martial Arts Association likely referenced the Awakened Association's prescription and then incorporated other unique elements, which allowed them to double the refining probability of High Grade True Qi Pills.

"If I raise both of these prescriptions to the Consummation Realm and then fuse them, I wonder what kind of effect it will produce. I hope the result will be satisfactory then." Lu Yu thought silently to himself.

Even if the fusion effect was not ideal, he felt it didn't matter.

After all, he still had two more precious prescriptions on hand, one capable of refining Top Grade True Qi Pills, and the other even capable of refining Heaven-Grade True Qi Pills!

After some thought, Lu Yu added this prescription worth eight million Contribution Points to his shopping list.

It just so happened that there was a 20% off discount event at the time; originally it would have cost 20 million Contribution Points, but after deducting these eight million, he still had 13.6 million points left.

Immediately after, Lu Yu skillfully clicked to enter the medicinal herbs page and quickly found the True Qi Pill column.

What came into view was the price for one set of True Qi Pill medicinal herbs, which was as high as two hundred thousand Contribution Points.

Seeing this price, Lu Yu couldn't help but gasp, secretly marveling in his heart that this price was ten times higher than that of a set of Blood Qi Pill medicinal herbs.

Although the price was so high, for an Alchemist like Lu Yu, if he could successfully refine True Qi Pills, the speed of recovering his costs would be even faster.

One must know that under the current market conditions, the selling price of one Low-grade Blood Qi Pill was only one thousand yuan, and a furnace of Low-grade Blood Qi Pills would sell for ten thousand yuan at most, yet the cost was as high as twenty thousand; thus, one could only earn back half the cost.

But the situation for Low-Grade True Qi Pills was completely different; the selling price of one Low-Grade True Qi Pill was as high as one hundred thousand, a whole furnace of Low-Grade True Qi Pills could sell for one million, while the cost was only twenty thousand, making the profit directly as high as five times.

Of course, this was only a theoretical situation.

Lu Yu had a premonition that the success rate of True Qi Pills might not be as high as that of Blood Qi Pills.

Refining with Entry or Small Success proficiency might only be enough to cover the costs, without making much profit.

"One set of medicinal herbs costs two hundred thousand at the original price, and after a 20% discount, it's one hundred and sixty thousand. Based on the Contribution Points I currently have, I can buy 85 sets." Lu Yu quickly calculated silently in his heart.

According to normal refining conditions, 85 sets of medicinal herbs could theoretically refine 850 True Qi Pills.

If he could successfully raise the prescriptions on hand to the Consummation Realm and fuse them skillfully in the next two days, then the pills refined would most likely be of Middle Grade quality or higher.

Even if he conservatively estimated that one Middle-Grade True Qi Pill could provide 300,000 Potential Points, the total Potential Points provided by 850 Middle-Grade True Qi Pills would reach as much as 250 million.