Chapter 425: Positioning

Ever since Xu Henshui began getting a full two hours of sleep every day, the dark circles under his eyes had only grown. Then, he discovered that the disciples of the Creation Sect who had come with him were the same, their spirits gradually withering.

When Xu Henshui asked about it, he learned that most of these disciples had also entered the dreams of the Immortals. It was just that they hadn't come into contact with the Immortal Prescriptions, but were instead being taught knowledge of alchemy within them.

Although those people in the Immortal dreams had no foundation, they learned very quickly. Whatever content was taught on the first day, when questioned again the next night, everyone remembered it with perfect clarity.

There were many people listening to the lectures; according to some Creation Sect disciples, the number even exceeded a thousand. When saying this, their eyes shone, appearing to savor the memory endlessly.

If it weren't for the ancient Immortal Prescriptions that needed researching, Xu Henshui would have wanted to try it himself.

However, after arriving in Azure Void, Xu Henshui discovered that there was no shortage of opportunities to teach here at all. For example, the youths in the New City and those who were originally offerings all required a large amount of instruction. And because Little Wei Yuan had already successfully applied for the authorization of six basic Body Forging methods, besides the Jade Toad Gazing at the Moon Diagram, the other five were being practiced by tens of thousands of people.

If Xu Henshui wanted to lecture, there were plenty of opportunities, which immediately made this fellow who loved to play the teacher feel he had come to the right place. Back then, during the centralized instruction, he had been snatched away by Ji Liuli, missing out on countless opportunities to lecture.

This day, Little Wei Yuan came to visit and handed Xu Henshui a pill prescription: Lesser Wood Lesser Year Pill.

Xu Henshui was profound in the way of alchemy; at a glance, he saw that this prescription shared the same origin as the Earth Origin Longevity Pill and should be an improvement made by later generations based on an ancient Immortal Prescription. He immediately treated it like a precious treasure.

Xu Henshui had the medicinal ingredients for the Lesser Year Pill in his medicine storehouse. He immediately opened the furnace, and three days later, the first batch of Lesser Year Pills was produced. This batch yielded nine pills, full of medicinal potency. Each pill could extend life by five years; one person could take three pills in a lifetime, with the effectiveness of the latter two pills sharply decreasing, totaling an extension of eight years of life.

After obtaining the Lesser Year Pills, Little Wei Yuan had people spread the word that a batch of new life-extending pills had been discovered and that he was preparing to hold an auction in Azure Void, inviting merchant associations from all over the world to attend.

While it was said to be inviting the world, in reality, calculating the travel time, it was only enough for people from the few commanderies in the west of Ningzhou to rush over. As long as they came, that was enough.

Half a month later, the auction was held successfully, with over sixty large and small merchant firms attending. Because the Lesser Year Pill was an unprecedented life-extending pill and had the Grand Beginning Palace backing it, it sold for the high price of two hundred taels of immortal silver per year of life. A total of fifty Lesser Year Pills were sold, totaling fifty thousand taels of immortal silver.

It was rare to have so many merchant firms present, so Little Wei Yuan naturally wouldn't just sell pills, and thus brought out many specialties plundered from the Shaman Domain to auction. The unit price of these supplies was not high, but the quantity was large.

Subsequently, Little Wei Yuan also auctioned off a batch of breastplates.

Originally, Little Wei Yuan's bottom-line price was twenty taels, but under the bidding of the merchants, it actually sold for thirty taels a set, and they ordered ten thousand sets in one go.

After the auction, Little Wei Yuan quietly found a merchant firm with a good relationship to ask for the truth. That person told him everything without reservation, saying that Western Jin had been fighting for a whole year now, and all kinds of military supplies were extremely scarce. These armors, once transported to the front lines, were already worth fifty taels, and after greasing the right palms, they could sell for one hundred taels!

Of course, most of this one hundred taels had to be used to bribe the various "gods," and a small portion was split privately by front-line generals; the merchant association itself could only earn ten taels.

Little Wei Yuan was also speechless. If the military procurement price for such a set of armor could reach one hundred taels, if this were in Zhao Guo, heads would have been rolling long ago.

After learning the inside story, Little Wei Yuan immediately decided to lower the price to twenty-five and provide another ten thousand sets. Just like that, five hundred and fifty thousand taels of immortal silver were entered into the accounts, plus the other supplies sold, this round of the auction brought in over eight hundred thousand taels in total. And the cost calculated was less than fifty thousand taels. Mainly because those supplies from the Shaman tribe had no cost.

When the merchant firms left, Little Wei Yuan agreed with them to hold a second auction in six months, and from then on, an auction of this kind would be held every season. The medicinal ingredients for the Lesser Year Pill, according to the Creation Sect's standard price, were about thirty taels each. Pills produced through Xu Henshui's hands were full of medicinal potency; after large-scale production in the future, the standard price could sell for five hundred taels, and currently, it was one thousand taels.

Pills refined by ordinary Creation Sect disciples could extend life by three to five years, and at the normal price, they were worth at least three hundred taels of immortal silver. That is to say, as the most ordinary Creation Sect disciple, the worst pills refined could only tearfully earn ten-plus times the profit.

At this point, Little Wei Yuan finally intuitively felt the money-making ability of the Creation Sect disciples.

After the auction ended, Little Wei Yuan began to ask Xu Henshui for advice on alchemy. Xu Henshui had almost become Little Wei Yuan's teacher back then, so he naturally wouldn't hold anything back and taught him everything he knew.

After teaching for several days like this, Xu Henshui unexpectedly discovered that although Little Wei Yuan had no foundation in alchemy, he learned extremely quickly, his progress advancing by leaps and bounds, and he often had extremely profound insights that were completely inconsistent with his level of alchemy.

There were even some insights that Xu Henshui had only realized a day or two ago while contemplating the ancient Immortal Prescriptions, yet Little Wei Yuan actually knew them too!

As time passed, in the blink of an eye, it was autumn.

Little Wei Yuan's alchemy had advanced greatly during this period, and he was preparing to find time to open a furnace himself to practice. Besides studying alchemy, he hadn't been idle with other matters.

The top priority was naturally cultivation.

Little Wei Yuan was currently in the Nurturing Spirit Realm, but he had absolutely no clue how the Human World Renjian Yanhuo Dharma Form could be considered spiritually complete.

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Tens of thousands of mortals improved almost every period of time; now, there were already five Dao Foundation cultivators who had advanced from mortals, and over ten others had reached the Great Completion of Body Forging, ready to advance in realm at any time.

After mortals forged their Dao Foundation, their spirituality naturally increased greatly, and they were still continuing to cultivate. This had no end; could it be that every mortal had to cultivate to the Dao Foundation, or even the Dharma Form, to be considered spiritually complete?

And mortals were only a part of the Human World Renjian Yanhuo; the bulk was actually in the girl Su Ruyu. She could currently only be considered to have just opened her spirituality, a hundred and eight thousand miles away from completion. Who knew when she would be fed full.

In addition, there were the three Dragon Guards. Little Wei Yuan felt that there was still great potential to be tapped in them; they could completely act as nodes for processing information just like the immortal plants, and they could also act autonomously in the outside world, no different from real cultivators.

Just this characteristic alone meant the Dragon Guards had infinite wonderful uses, so the three True Dragon blood descendants that the True Dragon Dharma Form had offered to give that day were actually a grand gesture; not only could it send Little Wei Yuan directly into the Dharma Form middle-stage Myriad Transformation Realm, but it could also add three Dharma Form helpers.

Fortunately, every sentient being with spirituality in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo was a node for breathing in and out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and coupled with being in Azure Void, the ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers were also breathing in and out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so Little Wei Yuan didn't need to worry about magic power; even without meditating, his magic power could naturally grow slowly.

Having achieved the Dharma Form, magic power was no longer the first priority; spirituality was.

It was just that the mortals in the Dharma Form world had now initially formed a self-contained cycle, operating autonomously. To use the terminology of the world beyond the heavens, what Little Wei Yuan could do now was to maintain and upgrade the hardware, equivalent to a maintenance engineer.

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