Chapter 355: Selling a Prescription

"By the way, Brother Lu, you mentioned before that you wanted to install an extra Alchemy Furnace in the Alchemy Room. I have already made proper arrangements for you; you will be able to see it when you return to the Alchemy Room later," Song Tian said to Lu Yu with a smile on his face.

"President, your efficiency is truly too high. I thought it would take a day or two," Lu Yu said with a surprised laugh.

With one more Alchemy Furnace, the efficiency of refining True Qi Pill could be doubled; he was now like someone engaged in a fierce race against time.

"Hehehe, it's just installing an extra Alchemy Furnace; it's not some remarkable difficulty." Song Tian waved his hand lightly, a humble smile hanging on his face. "Compared to the contribution you have made by refining Top-grade Blood Qi Pill for us, this doesn't count for anything at all."

"President, you are too polite; this was merely a small effort." Lu Yu responded with a smile, glanced at the wall clock, and said, "Then, President, if there is nothing else, I will head to the Alchemy Room."

"Go on, go on." Song Tian continued to look at Lu Yu with a smile, watching him turn and leave.

However, the moment Lu Yu stepped out of the room, the kind smile on Song Tian's face vanished without a trace, replaced by a look of gravity.

His keen intuition told him that what had happened on the mountaintop was by no means as simple as it appeared on the surface; it was highly likely that an extremely serious situation had already emerged.

Although his relationship with that group of people under Yan Luo was not particularly good, it could not be denied that it was precisely because of their presence that Yongan City had its current stability.

If something happened to them, and in the future Yongan City were to encounter a Beast Tide again, who would be left to resist it?

Before returning to the Alchemy Room, Lu Yu first went to the front desk to collect the medicinal materials for refining True Qi Pill.

A total of eighty portions.

He brought the medicinal materials back to the Alchemy Room, and his brows could not help but furrow.

If a Beast Tide really broke out later, I am afraid it would be impossible to buy medicinal materials ever again.

As for growing them himself, that was not something that could be achieved in a short time, unless he could find an Awakened who could promote the rapid growth of plants, but that seemed like a slim hope.

"I still need to store more; no, buy as much as there is." A sense of determination was revealed in Lu Yu's eyes.

Because not only does the Vein Refining Realm require True Qi Pill, the subsequent True Essence Realm also cannot do without it. The only thing that worried him was that his Contribution Points were insufficient.

He did have materials from a few Elite-level Fierce Beasts on him, which he had originally intended to sell to the Awakened Association.

Now it seemed that selling them to the Martial Arts Association in exchange for medicinal materials might be a wiser choice.

Two of them were ordinary Elite-level Fierce Beasts; if they were complete, they could sell for over ten million.

But now that there were only key materials, the price would have to be discounted. Including the materials from the Fire-Scaled Pig, he could probably sell them for twenty or thirty million.

Calculating based on the price of two hundred thousand per portion of True Qi Pill materials, and taking into account various discount factors, at most, he would only be able to purchase about two hundred portions.

"Two hundred portions, which converts to two thousand True Qi Pills. Although these pills are all Heaven Grade and Top Grade, of extremely high quality, for my own path of cultivation, it seems to still be somewhat stretched." Lu Yu frowned deeply, secretly pondering in his heart.

According to his current judgment, this many True Qi Pills should be enough to help him break through to the True Essence Realm.

However, breaking through to the True Essence Realm is merely a beginning. If he wants to continue breaking through from the True Essence Realm to reach a higher Realm, this amount of True Qi Pill is likely far from enough.

After all, an ordinary True Essence Realm Martial Artist has strength at most equivalent to a B-Class Awakened, and in some aspects, they are not even comparable.

And when facing Beast King-level, or even more powerful Beast Emperor-Grade Fierce Beasts, such strength is simply a drop in the bucket, far from sufficient to cope.

"Sigh, I didn't consider things thoroughly enough back then."

Lu Yu could not help but sigh softly, his mind involuntarily recalling the matter of handing over the Blood Qi Pill Prescription to the Association, and a wave of regret surged in his heart.

He had originally been full of confidence that adopting this profit-sharing method would bring him a steady stream of Contribution Points, a sure-win deal that would definitely be extremely cost-effective.

However, he had never expected that the situation currently faced by the human race was so severe, and there was not much time left for them.

This method was clearly not feasible at the moment.

It was even more impossible for him to take out the finished True Qi Pills to trade.

Then, to buy a large amount of True Qi Pill medicinal materials in a short time, there was only one way—sell a Prescription!

"However, this time I must change my approach." A sharp light flashed in Lu Yu's eyes.

"What are you doing? What are you doing!"

In the underground Base of the Nanshan City Martial Arts Association, a round-faced old man was tightly gripping the arm of another square-faced old man, walking in front of everyone as if no one else was around.

"Old Yao, if you have something to say, just say it. Why must you be so tugging and pulling?"

"Old Yao, let go quickly, did you hear me, Old Yao?"

"Yao Chen! Are you deaf? Let go immediately! Did you hear me!"

The latter, who had been gentle and refined at first, was now annoyed and ashamed, his face flushed red.

However, the former seemed to turn a deaf ear, and it was not until the two walked into the Alchemy Room and the door closed that the noise came to an abrupt end.

Everyone looked at each other in dismay, and before anyone knew who it was, someone couldn't help but let out a "puchi" laugh, and immediately after, the entire hall was filled with cheerful laughter.

"Hahaha, Yao Lao is still the same old self!"

"Indeed, He Lao's face is as red as a ripe tomato; he probably wishes he could swallow Yao Lao alive."

"Isn't that so? I don't know what business Yao Lao has that made him drag He Lao away in such a rush."

"It must be something very important, right? In my memory, this is truly the first time these two have been like this."

Inside the Alchemy Room.

He Kun sat on a chair, fuming, his eyes wide open as he glared at the other person and said:

"Yao Chen, have you lost your mind today? Did you not have ears when I was talking to you just now? With so many people present, you were tugging and pulling; do I not need to save face? And you can actually still laugh?"

"Old friend, don't be angry." Yao Lao said with a face full of smiles, "I called you over this time to give you a surprise."

"A surprise? I think it's more like a shock." He Kun rolled his eyes in disdain and responded unpleasantly.

"A shock, hehehe." Yao Lao smiled and said, "Old friend, I am truly afraid that I will shock you when the time comes. Alright, no more chatter; next, just watch me show off my skills."

After speaking, he turned and put the medicinal materials he had prepared in advance into the Alchemy Furnace all at once.

"Hm?" Seeing this, He Kun's brows instantly furrowed tightly, forming a deep "chuan" character.

He secretly pondered in his heart: What kind of strange operation is this?

This old guy, dragging me over so hurriedly, could it be just to demonstrate refining Blood Qi Pill in front of me?

This is too outrageous; although everyone is a master with profound attainments in the field of alchemy, there is no need to show off this in front of me, right?

Thinking of this, the corners of He Kun's mouth lifted slightly, revealing an imperceptible cold smile, thinking to himself: Since I'm already here, I'll just wait patiently and see.

If the top-grade Blood Qi Pills refined by this old fellow are fewer than his own, he will see how he mocks him properly then, and also let him know not to always act so rashly.

Very quickly, a smug smile appeared on He Kun's face.

Because he keenly saw that Yao Chen made a mistake during the operation process, and this mistake was one that even those fledgling apprentices in the Association would rarely commit.

He was secretly delighted in his heart, feeling that now he would have a chance to properly ridicule Yao Chen.