22: Chapter 22 Purchasing the Five-Element Refining Hall

"Respected senior, greetings. The refining hall is an upgraded version of the secret alchemy furnace. If the secret alchemy furnace is a small personal workshop, then the refining hall is a large-scale, intelligent production workshop. It is equipped with a complete set of functional magic arrays. It can independently screen, process, store, preserve, automatically refine pills, package, and sort initial materials, and it also possesses certain self-protection functions. It also greatly reduces the probability of producing waste pills. The efficacy of the pills is precise to every single pill within the bottle. It can be said that the refining hall is one of the essential infrastructure units for every person who aspires to impact the Mid-level Deity realm and build a faction. A secret alchemy furnace running at full efficiency for a day can only produce 120 bottles of pills. This level of output is not enough to satisfy personal needs, let alone a faction. However, our refining hall, with medicinal materials fully stocked and machines running at full capacity, has a daily output of 12,000 bottles. Furthermore, it can refine all mortal-grade pills of a certain element, relieving you, my lord, of the trouble of frequently changing buildings. It can rapidly shorten the growth time of your Subordinate Deity, making it one of the rare and excellent buildings. If you were to purchase all five elements like this, it would allow your Believer's strength to improve as if they had grown wings."

After repeatedly confirming three times and ensuring that every word was without issue, this first-rank Sales Deity carefully sent the message to the other party.

His reply had no issues, but he had omitted one piece of relatively important information. That was that small factions really had no need to buy this type of refining hall.

That is right, the machine could produce 12,000 bottles a day when running at full power. But medicinal herbs do not grow in just a day or two.

Many heads of small factions heard the salesperson's glib talk and only remembered the 12,000 bottles per day. They completely forgot about the cost. As a result, once the machines started running, billions of faith points were burned. They could not last for more than a few days before having to stop and let them gather dust.

The original intention of the purchase was to improve the strength of their subordinates, but in the end, they were forced to transform into vendors, earning some commission fees to slowly grind it out.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao finished reading the other party's introduction and likewise focused his gaze on that daily output of 12,000. However, his medicinal herbs only needed to be planted once, after which the building could produce steadily every day.

"It sounds pretty good. I want to ask a slightly unrelated question. If I buy all five elemental buildings, can't my Believer take them in rotation? I want to know, how much is in one bottle of your pills? How much is consumed in one year of Divine Kingdom time if the Believer eats them in rotation?"

A big client! Truly a big client! These kinds of questions were standard for big clients. The Sales Deity could not help but hunch over. Even though Lin Xiao could not see it, his expression and actions at this moment became incomparably respectful.

"In response to your question, my lord, apart from pills like the great restoration pill that directly increase cultivation, which only have ten pills per bottle, our company's buildings produce others—taking the Martial Arts series as an example: Five Spirit Pills, Meridian Clearing Pills, and Bone Strengthening Pills—which all have one hundred pills per bottle. If a Believer takes one pill per week, they can achieve excellent training and improvement effects. In other words, one bottle of pills is enough for a Believer to use for over two years. Using them this way, even if the Believer of your Subordinate Deity is of poor quality, they can still successfully break through to the Demigod realm in about a month."

"Hmm, I understand now. One last question: will there be any side effects if the Believer eats too many of these pills? I mean, is it a problem if a Believer eats 365 pills in a year? Um, I might not have expressed myself clearly. I mean eating from all five elements at the same time. For example, aren't the Five Spirit Pills, Meridian Clearing Pills, and Bone Strengthening Pills different in their effects? These three correspond to different growth directions for the Believer. So these three are must-eats every day, but aren't there five elements? Plus the other four elements, that is about 15 pills a day. What if they eat them continuously for three to five years, or even ten years? Will that cause any problems?"

The first-rank Sales Deity looked at the customer's question. He carefully read the question no less than ten times. His brain fell into thought, and in the end, he fed this question back to his direct supervisor. The truth was, he did not know either; he had not even dreamed of such a question!

Soon, the leader gave him a reply, which was just a simple question mark. Clearly, the leader thought he might be under too much work pressure recently and was starting to have mental issues. Otherwise, what kind of mental state would allow someone to ask such a question?

Not daring to delay the big client for too long, he hurriedly gave the leader a brief summary of the situation on his end. And he repeatedly guaranteed that this was truly a big order!

After understanding the sequence of events, the leader was relieved. This kind of question, although rare, was not something no customer had ever asked before. There were always some Divine Beings who thought their family assets were good, feeling they could become a prodigy in one bite, completely ignoring the costs involved.

"There are no side effects whatsoever, other than normal drug tolerance. Moreover, this method of consumption not only accelerates the Believer's breakthrough but also solidifies their foundation. Hehe. If one does not consider the cost, this is actually the optimal growth plan for a Believer."

That "hehe" was quite telling. After all, they were a potential big client, so the supervisor could not say much and could only let the "hehe" pass.

The Sales Deity removed that strange-sounding "hehe" and relayed the answer to Lin Xiao.

"That puts my mind at ease, and I will not dawdle anymore. I will pay 300,000 Divine Power points for one refining hall, and I want one of each of the five elements. That is a total of 1.5 million Divine Power points. Just one request: can I see the goods now? If so, I will transfer the money here; if not, I will go post a request elsewhere to see."

"Absolutely no problem! Respected Deity, this small god will allocate the goods for you as quickly as possible and will mail them to you within half an hour at the latest. In addition, our shop reminds you, Deity, as per custom, that you need to pay for all goods in advance. Unless there are major quality issues with our shop's goods, our shop does not accept returns for any reason. Please be aware of this, Deity."

"Ding, Pantheon Savings reminder: your company account has received 1.5 million Divine Power points in full. The paying user requires the transaction to be completed within half an hour, otherwise, the payment will be recalled."

When the Sales Deity heard that the Divine Power points had arrived, he was stunned for a moment. Usually, to complete such an order, one would need to haggle back and forth for quite a while.

He had encountered customers who, when buying, would demand how much extra medicinal material should be included, how much cheaper the price should be, and so on.

He had seen the most outrageous customer, who proposed that they needed to have a heart-to-heart talk with him for a whole night. If satisfied, they would purchase immediately. It is especially worth mentioning: this customer was a male Deity, and he was also a male Deity!

However, soon after, a sharp, explosive sound erupted from the Sales Deity's mouth!

"My lord, the other party has placed an order! Triple the price, and they want all five elemental refining halls at once. Full payment! Half an hour!"

A supervisor at a certain venue in a prosperous star system saw this message. He withdrew the hand he had reached out. He pushed away the Demigod pressed against his body and kicked everyone else out. His fingers operated rapidly on his watch.

An A-grade refining hall has an actual production cost of about 80,000 Divine Power points. The higher-ups gave a guide price of 100,000 Divine Power points based on their production cost. But this kind of thing is too cumbersome to refine and takes a long time. Restricting the price right from the start made many manufacturers unhappy.

However, they could not defy the regulations of the Pantheon Federation, so they simply hung an "out of stock" sign in their own shops.

Those in the know would private message, and generally, a premium to 200,000 Divine Power points was already considered a rare big order. This time, the premium reached a full 300,000, and it was five units at once.

Even for a second-rank Deity, this order was big enough for him.

"Well done! A commission of 50,000 Divine Power points has been transferred to your Divine Kingdom. Keep it up. I knew I had not misjudged you! Also, mark this buyer in red. From today on, they are a high-level client of our shop. All transactions are to be handled with the highest priority! Since it was a deal you brokered, from now on, you will be the sole point of contact. I am taking a risk here, so do not let the other party develop any dissatisfaction, you hear me?"

"Yes, my lord, I know what to do. I will absolutely not let this Deity have any dissatisfaction with our shop!"

Looking at the 5 trillion faith points that had arrived in his Divine Kingdom, the Sales Deity secretly made a resolution: even if the other party needed to have a heart-to-heart talk with him at night, he would wash himself clean and book a room himself!