92: Material delivery

Luo Chen then took out another reward from the system, an ancient-looking jade slip.

“Low-Tier Beast Constitution Tempering Potion,” uh, that’s quite a mouthful.

He pressed the jade slip to his forehead, and it was a while before Luo Chen opened his eyes again.

Is the system's definition of “low-tier” a bit too high?

How can King Beasts and Beasts below the King Tier all be defined as low-tier Beasts?

So, in that sense, Qingyang City is like a novice village in a game, and I'm just a little newbie who hasn't even left the novice village?

However, the description in the potion formula seemed incredibly powerful, and crucially, the ingredients weren't particularly hard to find.

According to Huaguo's latest regulations, “Criteria for the Classification of Resource Spirit Items,” most of them seemed to be first and second-tier spirit items.

This criterion is based on several factors: the rarity of the resource, its application, energy concentration, and acquisition methods.

For example, items obtainable from fierce beasts are directly classified as first-tier spirit items.

Materials from spirit beasts are classified as second-tier spirit items.

Materials obtained from Beasts are the easiest to categorize, but for plants, it's much harder to classify.

However, the Illusion World has an appraisal function, so directly submitting controversial materials to it for appraisal has, relatively speaking, standardized things a lot.

He decided to do it immediately; since his spirit was full, Luo Chen gathered all the materials for the tempering potion from the store's warehouse.

It took him half an hour to produce about 500 milliliters.

Luo Chen wanted to find a test subject in the secret realm and first spotted the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch, which was guarding the phoenix blood grass after finishing its work.

But this guy is in a sealed State, and he doesn't even know what Rank it originally was; will this potion work on it?

Never mind, this guy can talk and clearly express its feelings about the usage, so let's try it first.

“A Que, come here,” Luo Chen said with a smile, waving at the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch.

Hearing Luo Chen's call, the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch snapped out of its 'piggy' State, looking at Luo Chen confusedly, a little puzzled.

“Shopkeeper, why did you call me?”

“Why ask so many questions? I won't harm you. Come over quickly.” Luo Chen still maintained his kind expression.

The Colorful Sound Spirit Finch approached Luo Chen, half-believing, half-doubting that this kind shopkeeper was the same fierce one from earlier.

Seeing how kind the shopkeeper was now, perhaps if it seized the opportunity to ask for a few phoenix blood grass leaves, he would agree.

The Colorful Sound Spirit Finch, deep in its beautiful fantasy, suddenly felt a sharp pain on its body, as if ten thousand ants were tearing at its skin.

“Caw!”

Only then did it realize that Luo Chen was applying a thick, reddish, chili-sauce-like liquid to its body.

Enduring the pain, the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch trembled as it asked, “Shopkeeper, what are you doing?”

I just coveted the phoenix blood grass leaves; my bird life shouldn't end like this.

“Don't worry, this is a potion I painstakingly refined; it can improve your constitution. How does it feel?”

The Colorful Sound Spirit Finch endured the pain of ten thousand ants tearing at it, trying hard to feel if there was any effect on its constitution's growth.

There was an effect, but it was very weak, but it wasn't a spirit beast to begin with; it was just sealed to this Rank.

Now, with the weak shopkeeper, if the potion he refined had even a slight effect on it, then the medicinal power was already very strong, alright.

“Shop… keeper, the effect is very obvious; it will definitely greatly improve physical fitness, it's just… it's just that the side effects are a bit too great.

Ouch, it hurts too much.”

Luo Chen pulled out a small notebook and meticulously wrote down the first user's experience, then pondered.

Could replacing phosphorus fire fruit with fire spirit pepper cause such side effects? Alright, next time I can search online for where to find this spirit item.

But if the effect hasn't diminished much, it can actually be used now, after all, to become stronger, experiencing a little pain is nothing.

Moreover, this can also improve the Beast's resistance to pain. Luo Chen nodded in satisfaction, the more he thought about it, the more he felt it was excellent.

Thus, this version of the constitution-enhancing potion, prepared for all the Beasts in the pet store, was finalized.

In the afternoon, Luo Chen concocted a full three liters of the potion.

He also took the time to visit the Illusion World and apply for the Evolution Path patents for the Twinborn Dog and the Yu Yin Chong Er Fox.

Furthermore, the Twinborn Dog was priced at ten thousand spirit coins each for others, while members of the Qingyang City Law Enforcement Team received a 50% discount, making them five thousand spirit coins each.

For a spirit beast to evolve into a King Beast, this path seems quite affordable.

However, the Evolution Path for the Yu Yin Chong Er Fox was priced equally for everyone, at one thousand spirit coins.

It should be known that an ordinary King-Tier Beast sells for over a million spirit coins, but Luo Chen is collecting patent fees, so earning money by doing nothing is also very reasonable.

However, just after he applied for the patents for the two Evolution Paths, the white light orb beside him notified him that the system had updated.

It turned out that two new leaderboards had been added to the Breeder Evolution Path patent application section.

The first was the Patent Quantity Leaderboard, and without a doubt, the first place was Zhuang Sheng.

The second was the Total Patent Sales Leaderboard, and the first place here was no longer Zhuang Sheng, but a person named Tang Haoling.

The light orb also said that every so often, any Breeder who made it onto the leaderboard would receive corresponding rewards.

It seems this policy encourages more Breeders to apply for patents with their own Evolution Paths.

However, Luo Chen looked at his two lonely Evolution Paths, and then at the 9999+ ranking; well, he hadn't even made it onto the list.

However, his first patent, the Evolution of the Rapid Eagle into a Thunderclap Bird, had already sold five hundred thirty-two copies.

The revenue received was two hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred fifty spirit coins, which was the amount received after deducting a 5% handling fee.

Calculated this way, the City Guard of Qingyang City should have evolved five hundred thirty of them, and two more were evolved by private individuals.

But no matter who evolved them, as long as there was income, it was good; this feeling of earning money by doing nothing was really nice.

In a flash, it was eight o'clock in the evening, the agreed-upon date and time for Luo Chen's transaction with the three families of Liuguang City and the Liang Corporation.

Luo Chen arrived at the Illusion World five minutes early, and then the other four parties successively accepted Luo Chen's invitation and appeared in the Chenyang Pet Store in the Illusion World.

After everyone was seated, Luo Chen went straight to the point, saying, “How is everyone's material collection going? I’ve been looking forward to today for a long time.”

Luo Chen looked at the four people present with expectant eyes, “Let's start with City Lord Feng.”

Feng Qingyang paused, seemingly not expecting to be the first to speak, but he quickly got into State and reported the Feng Family's material collection status.

“Out of the one hundred thirty-two materials on the list, the Feng Family collected one hundred ten. Among them, except for the third-tier spirit items dragon yang grass and joy-inducing flower…

And the second-tier spirit items three-origin stone and silver star grass, all others have been found.”

After listening, Luo Chen was satisfied but maintained a calm expression as he looked at Qin Zhou, who was next to Feng Qingyang.

Luo Chen clearly noticed that after hearing Feng Qingyang's introduction, Qin Zhou's expression inadvertently showed a hint of joy.

Qin Zhou placed his hands on the table and said confidently,

“Out of the one hundred thirty-two materials on the list, our Qin Family collected one hundred twenty-three. Among them, except for the joy-inducing flower… and a few others that were not collected, all the rest are present.”

In those few short sentences, perhaps only he knew how much effort the Qin Family had put in during this period to collect these materials.

The secret realms that the Feng Family and He Family dared not enter, the Qin Family dared. The Beasts that the Feng Family and He Family dared not kill, the Qin Family dared.

As long as the family could gain one more Fragrant Spirit Affinity Rabbit, the current sacrifices were completely worthwhile.

Luo Chen looked at the confident Qin Zhou, “Mr. Qin Zhou, I hope these materials provided by the Qin Family are all original plants, not Spirit Affinity replicas.”

Luo Chen naturally would not want Spirit Affinity replicas, because they could only be used once and would not allow the rabbits in his own store to re-cast Spirit Affinity, which would greatly diminish their significance to him.

Qin Zhou's expression stiffened; clearly, Luo Chen had guessed correctly, there truly were Fragrant Spirit Affinity Rabbit replicas among them.

However, they only had one rabbit, so this type shouldn't be numerous, not exceeding two kinds.

Considering the Qin Family's specialty, it was likely that the dragon yang grass was one of them.

Qin Zhou apologized, “I need to contact my family.”

“Mr. Qin Zhou, please do.”

Then, Qin Zhou's figure disappeared from the store.

Luo Chen looked at the representative of the He Family, He Liangyu.

Originally, his expression was somewhat gloomy after the first two families made their announcements, but seeing the small interlude with Qin Zhou, his face suddenly showed a renewed confidence.

Based on his understanding of the Qin Family, they guarded the dragon yang grass so fiercely that it would probably be very difficult for them to agree to Luo Chen's terms.

However, even if they did agree, it wouldn't be a problem; he believed that the conditions their He Family offered would be very difficult for Luo Chen to refuse.