Chapter 364: Being Your Tool?

"Stop!" Zhou Yu scolded sternly, "Little Xiao, how could you come up with such an idea?"

"What's wrong with thinking this way?" Xiao Yu retorted unconvinced.

"Of course it's wrong. If it were you, would you be willing to become someone else's tool? Besides, that little brother Lu is also someone who wholeheartedly pursues the Dao of martial arts.

He is willing to share the improved prescription with the headquarters, which is already benevolent and righteous enough. How can we force him to refine pills for us? You are too ignorant," Zhou Yu lectured.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu lowered his head, his ears turning bright red.

Zhou Yu also realized that his words just now might have been too harsh; after all, he was usually amiable toward him.

"Alright," Zhou Yu coughed lightly, softening his tone, "Just pretend you didn't say what you just said. Rest assured, with the capabilities of the several seniors in the Association, it won't be long before we have more High-Grade True Qi Pills to use, you hear me?"

"I hear you." Xiao Yu replied with his mouth, but sneered in his heart.

If those old men in the Association had that ability, they would have increased the success rate of High-Grade True Qi Pills long ago.

Although they have obtained the prescription now, who knows how long it will drag on before they finish researching it and start refining.

It would be better to drag that man surnamed Lu over, having him refine pills for them while also guiding those old men.

Zhou Yu not only failed to appreciate his point but even scolded him; he really didn't know what was good for him.

Since that's the case, he would just keep it for himself. For a mere Pulse Refining Realm Martial Artist to be able to become his tool and refine pills for him, that is his good fortune.

When he reaches the Tianren Realm in the future, that kid might even be able to bask in some of his glory.

"Achoo!" In the Alchemy Room of Yongan City, Lu Yu suddenly let out a loud sneeze.

"What's the situation? Is someone badmouthing me behind my back, or are they plotting against me?" Lu Yu muttered suspiciously.

The image of Yao Lao involuntarily appeared in his mind, and he thought to himself: Could it be that this old man is scolding me behind my back?

"Forget it, refining pills is more important." He shook his head helplessly and looked at the two bottles of pills placed in front of him.

These two bottles were both High-Grade True Qi Pills. The last batch was one he had just meticulously refined, and he had even specially included a detailed explanation as a teaching video, sending it to the headquarters along with the prescription.

The headquarters also gave a reply very quickly; three Demon-Breaking Arrows and a Four-tier Alloy War Bow would be delivered on time tomorrow afternoon.

As for the ten thousand portions of True Qi Pill medicinal materials, it was truly because the quantity was too massive, so they could only be shipped successively at a quota of one thousand portions per day.

"I wonder how much more powerful the Sun-Shooting Arrow will be when fired using the Four-tier Alloy War Bow? Even if multiple Commander-level Fierce Beasts appear in the Beast Tide that will erupt soon, with this equipment, there is nothing to fear, not to mention there are still three Demon-Breaking Arrows."

Lu Yu pondered to himself. With these powerful weapons, if he encountered the Awakened brought by Wei Xiong when he set out to pick the Heavenly God Fruit in two days, he could easily handle them without falling behind.

Of course, there was still plenty of time before departure; at the very least, he had to break through to the True Essence Realm.

"Let's see how effective this High-Grade True Qi Pill is."

After making his plans, Lu Yu reached out and picked up a bottle, carefully poured out one High-Grade True Qi Pill, put it into his mouth, tilted his head back, and swallowed it with a gulp.

A surge of pure True Qi had just emerged in his body, but before he could even feel it carefully, it disappeared without a trace.

【Consumed High-Grade True Qi Pill, Potential Points increased by 1 million!】 Just at this moment, a piece of information clearly appeared in his mind.

"1 million? About the same as a Low-Grade Gathering Spirit Pill?" Lu Yu muttered in a low voice.

A single pill being able to increase one million potential seemed not bad, just a little less than he had previously expected, though it was within an acceptable range.

Why did he have such a sentiment? There was a clear basis behind this.

In the Association, the selling price of a Low-Grade True Qi Pill was 100,000 Contribution Points, and each one could provide the cultivator with 100,000 Potential Points.

As for the High-Grade True Qi Pill, its value reached as high as 1.2 million Contribution Points, and this was only the theoretical price; in reality, it was almost in a state of having a price but no market.

According to common sense, if one were to calculate the correspondence of Potential Points based on price, the Potential Points provided by a High-Grade True Qi Pill should be at least 1.2 million.

But in fact, a single High-Grade True Qi Pill could only provide 1 million Potential Points.

"It seems that there is indeed a premium phenomenon for High-Grade True Qi Pills." Lu Yu pondered to himself.

Analyzing it carefully, the reasons mainly stemmed from two aspects.

On one hand, the difficulty of refining High-Grade True Qi Pills was extremely high. Even for those Alchemists in the Association whose Alchemy had already reached the Consummation realm, the probability of refining a High-Grade True Qi Pill was only about twenty percent.

If one were to factor in the overall success rate of pill formation, the possibility of successfully refining a High-Grade True Qi Pill was even lower.

As the saying goes, things are valued for their rarity, so this situation was quite reasonable.

On the other hand, and this was the most critical point, it lay in the difference in their effects.

Qi Heng, who came for the assessment a few days ago, once mentioned that a single Low-Grade True Qi Pill could only restore 50 units of True Qi, while a High-Grade True Qi Pill could restore 1000 units, and in terms of recovery speed, the High-Grade True Qi Pill was more than ten times that of the Low-Grade True Qi Pill.

One must know that in battle, time is life, and every second concerns life and death.

Whoever could recover True Qi faster and recover a larger quantity of True Qi undoubtedly occupied a greater chance of victory.

Therefore, it was not difficult to understand why the price of High-Grade True Qi Pills far exceeded that of Low-Grade True Qi Pills.

"One million Potential Points it is." Lu Yu quickly accepted this reality.

After all, the True Qi Pills he was about to refine later would all be of Top-Grade or even Heaven-Grade quality. These two bottles of True Qi Pills could not be wasted casually.

Thus, he poured the remaining dozen or so pills into his mouth all at once.

Immediately following, he checked his Potential Points and found that they had increased by nearly 20 million.

"It's time to start refining True Qi Pills."

Lu Yu put down the bottle in his hand, placed the medicinal materials he had already meticulously prepared into the two Alchemy Furnaces, and then began the refining process.

The facts were just as he had expected; even refining two furnaces of pills simultaneously was not a very difficult matter for him at his current stage, and it even appeared somewhat effortless.

"It looks like I can add another Alchemy Furnace." Lu Yu said to himself, "After I finish refining this batch of medicinal materials, I will suggest to the President that he add another Alchemy Furnace."

After all, the eruption of the Beast Tide was already imminent, and he had to race against time to improve his own strength.

The time consumed to refine a Heaven-Grade True Qi Pill slightly exceeded his expectations.

A full forty-five minutes passed before both Alchemy Furnaces emitted a crisp sound simultaneously, which was a reminder to him that the pills were ready to be taken out.

"It's a good thing I'm refining two furnaces of pills together; otherwise, this efficiency would have been directly halved." Lu Yu couldn't help but feel fortunate.

He thought to himself that if three furnaces of pills were refined simultaneously, it would average out to one furnace every fifteen minutes.

At first glance, this seemed to be the same efficiency as refining Blood Qi Pills before, but in reality, the Potential Points added by the two had a world of difference.

Lu Yu gently lifted the lid of the alchemy furnace, and in an instant, a medicinal fragrance several times more intense than before rapidly filled the entire Alchemy Room.

Two batches of Pills were finished, totaling twenty pieces, among which there were five Heaven-Grade True Qi Pills and fifteen Top Grade True Qi Pills; this matched the probability he had expected.

Lu Yu couldn't wait to pick up a steaming True Qi Pill and put it directly into his mouth.

Immediately after, information appeared in his mind: 【Consumed Top Grade True Qi Pill, Potential Point increased by 4 million!】

"4 million?" A smile could not help but appear on Lu Yu's face.

This effect is quite good! If one High Grade True Qi Pill can restore 1,000 strands of True Qi, then according to this ratio, wouldn't one Top Grade True Qi Pill be able to restore 4,000 strands of True Qi?

4,000 strands of True Qi converts to 40,000 points of True Qi value; even at his current level of cultivation, the True Qi in his meridians is only a little over 30,000.