146: Shop opening

Under the strong financial power of Myriad Treasures Tower, the first batch of 35 pharmacies was completely renovated in just one day.

As for the brothels, since technicians still needed to be recruited, they would only open after a large number of Trial Takers arrived.

Huang Chen came to the Jinling City pharmacy, which was the only one of the 35 pharmacies close to the God Sealing Tower.

All the shops were uniformly named "Golden Dragon Medicine Pavilion." "Golden" was taken from Myriad Treasures Tower's surname Jin, and "Dragon" was taken from the divine beast of China's millennia.

Before Huang Chen arrived, Xie Chunyan had already spent hundreds of gold to have her subordinates announce it three times on the public screen. The announcement content was also very simple:

[A total of 35 Golden Dragon Medicine Pavilions in XX City, XX District will open simultaneously at 3 PM this afternoon. All medicines are priced at 90% of NPC pharmacies. Limited quantities, while supplies last. Welcome to patronize.]

At this moment, a large number of Trial Takers had already gathered at the entrance of the pharmacy.

Originally, they were all busy doing quests or leveling up.

But upon hearing Xie Chunyan's announcement, almost all of them returned to the city in unison.

After all, when leveling up outside now, everyone would buy some five-flower jade dew to save their lives.

But the price at the pharmacy was simply too expensive.

And now that there were relatively cheaper potions, everyone wanted to quickly return and stock up.

After all, the announcement said that quantities were limited.

At 3 PM, all thirty-five shops opened for business simultaneously.

As soon as they opened, people flowed in like a stream, all scrambling to rush into the pharmacy.

Inside the Golden Dragon Medicine Pavilion, various elixirs were displayed.

The first choice for the surging crowd was to rush to the counters selling life spring water and five-flower jade dew. Then, noisy shouts erupted.

"Give me 20 five-flowers!"

"I want 30!"

"Give me 100!"

"Sorry sir, the Medicine Pavilion stipulates a limit of 50 per person!"

"Then give me 50!"

...In just a moment, the first day's supply of life spring water and five-flower jade dew at all 35 shops was sold out.

NPCs had quotas for supplying each shop.

life spring water was 1 million portions per month, 30 silver per portion. five-flower jade dew was 100,000 portions, 3 gold per portion.

The Golden Dragon Medicine Pavilion sold life spring water for 90 silver per portion, limited to 25,000 portions per day, and five-flower jade dew for 9 gold, limited to 2,500 portions per day.

As for the remaining potions, Xie Chunyan kept them for Forbidden City's internal supply.

Seeing such a bustling scene, Huang Chen also understood Xie Chunyan's reasoning for limited sales.

Because if they sold openly, this month's quota could very likely be snatched up on the first day.

And the most important thing in business is popularity, so sales must be limited to maintain the popularity of the Golden Dragon Medicine Pavilion.

Huang Chen estimated that from life spring water and five-flower jade dew alone, the profit brought to him on the first day was 1.05 million gold coins.

At this moment, even Forbidden City's own produced nine revolutions soul returning pills were snapped up.

After all, Forbidden City's life skill Trial Taker team had now reached over 30,000 people.

Among them, nearly 5,000 people could produce nine revolutions soul returning pills, with a daily output of 5 million pills.

The cost of these 5 million nine revolutions soul returning pills was only 5,000 gold, but the total sales reached 400,000 gold.

The profit was directly 80 times, more profitable than selling flour.

(Note: A nine revolutions soul returning pill costs 10 copper and sells for 8 silver, which is 20% lower than NPCs. I really forgot how much nine revolutions soul returning pills sold for before. Can any readers tell me?)

As for the production of life spring water and five-flower jade dew, the tome did contain it.

It's just that Forbidden City's life skill Trial Takers haven't reached the required production level yet.

Based on cost and selling price, this part of the profit reached 90 times.

Of course, when various races start cultivating their own life skill masters in the mid-to-late stages, the profits from these potions will also decrease.

The Trial Takers who couldn't buy healing potions sighed in frustration.

Just as they were about to leave, a voice suddenly came from the crowd: "Give me 50 Advanced Strength Pills!"

"Okay, an Advanced Strength Pill costs 50 silver, for a total of 25 gold."

Hearing the sound, the noisy crowd immediately quieted down, and everyone turned their attention to the other dozen or so deserted counters.

[Advanced Strength Pill]: Increases strength by 25% for one minute.

"What?"

Everyone exclaimed.

The Strength Pill potion was also sold in their main cities.

But they only sold Low-Grade Strength Pills, which increased strength by 1% for 1 minute.

What use was 1% strength?

Therefore, low-grade potions like Revival Pills and Low-Grade Strength Pills basically had no sales after being produced.

This directly blocked the path of Trial Takers in their clans who wanted to pursue life skills.

And now the Golden Dragon Medicine Pavilion was offering Advanced Strength Pills!

Increasing strength by 25% was completely different.

That was a direct increase of one-quarter of attack power; sometimes, conquering a boss might be stopped by just that little bit of attack power.

After the efficacy of the Strength Pill spread, everyone rushed to the Strength Pill counter.

"Give me 50 too!"

"I want 50!"

..."Okay!"

"Please wait, everyone please queue up."

The waitresses greeted customers with beaming smiles; they were all NPCs recruited by Jin Wanliang, and they received a commission for every potion sold.

Although the commission was negligible, the sheer quantity made up for it.

At first, they envied the potion-selling counters, but they didn't expect such immense wealth to fall upon them so quickly.

Soon, the queue in front of the Strength Pill counter had already folded back more than a dozen times.

At this rate, the Strength Pills might also be sold out soon.

And at this moment, some clever people who couldn't get in line had already turned their attention to other counters.

[Advanced Internal Energy Pill]: Increases internal energy by 25% for one minute.

[Advanced Movement Skill Pill] [Advanced Stamina Pill]... The potions were dazzling, with everything imaginable, and these attribute-boosting pills could not be bought from NPCs.

Because of the previous lesson with the five-flower jade dew, those who could queue up to buy now basically bought the full quota of 50.

Huang Chen and Jin Wanliang watched the continuous stream of people from the top floor, exchanging smiles.

The production requirements for these attribute potions were even lower than for the nine revolutions soul returning pill.

Forbidden City currently had about 10,000 people who could produce them, excluding those making the nine revolutions soul returning pill, and they could produce 10 million per day.

However, the profit from these potions was much lower than the nine revolutions soul returning pill; the selling price was only twice the cost.

As for why they sold so cheaply, Jin Wanliang's explanation was that these were different from life-saving potions.

They were not essential, and if the profit were too high, a large number of people would definitely flock to this industry in the future.

A twofold profit was just right.

Those who wanted to enter would weigh the ratio of cost to income, as reaching the advanced production level would require countless wasted resources in the early stages.

This was definitely not something small factions could afford.

Seeing the pharmacy's immense popularity and high profits, Huang Chen immediately ordered Xie Chunyan to quickly raise the 100,000 inner disciples to level 50.

There would be more and more people in Central City, and no amount of goods would be enough to sell, so he wanted to accumulate as much prestige as possible before others reacted.

Moreover, he had another idea.

Currently, high-level equipment for other races must be extremely rare.

After all, conquering a Level 50 Diamond dungeon, even in a High Martial World, would require a considerable price.

So, if they held an auction for Level 45 Dark Gold equipment, or even Level 45 Diamond equipment, in Central City...

Those clans would definitely be willing to pay a huge price to obtain these items.

And Forbidden City had already hoarded tens of thousands of Level 45 Dark Gold equipment...