25: Chapter 25: Converting a Large Amount of Spirit Stones

"What should I do? The resource shortage is huge right now!"

Fang Yuan had a splitting headache. After discovering the amazing utility of his Decompose talent, resources had become the only bottleneck limiting his Cultivate speed.

The waste produced by the Alchemy Hall and Artifact Hall every period was simply not enough.

"There are 2,500 catties of Medicinal Pill waste, containing about 300 portions of useful medicinal powder for Alchemy, which can refine at most 2,700 Medicinal Pills. However, most of them are Qi-Nourishing Pill. This amount of Spiritual Qi is enough for an ordinary Cultivator to reach the ninth level of Qi Refining, but for me, it might only be enough for a small Realm Breakthrough."

His Dantian was ten times the size of Cultivators in the same Realm.

And the quality of his spiritual power was two to three times stronger than those in the same Realm!

In other words, the amount of Spiritual Qi he needed was dozens of times that of an ordinary person!

Furthermore, he was cultivating his essence, energy, and spirit simultaneously, which roughly calculated to a three-fold gap.

This meant that the amount of Spiritual Qi he needed for Cultivate was a hundred times that of an ordinary person!

"However, if I sell the Top-Grade Medicinal Pill, the amount of Spiritual Qi obtained from decomposing the Spirit Stone I get in exchange would be over a hundred times the Spiritual Qi contained in the Medicinal Pills themselves. Wait, wouldn't that be conservation?"

Fang Yuan fell into deep thought.

Using Top-Grade Medicinal Pill directly for Cultivate was too extravagant for Fang Yuan right now. Exchanging them for Low-Grade Spirit Stone and then using the Low-Grade Spirit Stone to Cultivate was the most cost-effective method.

Since that was the case, he had to make some changes.

The night passed without incident.

The next day was work time again.

As Fang Yuan expected, the Artifact Hall and Alchemy Hall sent over the inventory lists for the past ten days, along with some waste materials.

After getting off work, Fang Yuan collected the waste materials and returned to his Immortal Cave.

He decomposed the waste pills one by one and obtained quite a bit of medicinal powder.

Then, he proceeded with Alchemy.

After becoming proficient, Fang Yuan's Alchemy level greatly improved.

The refining of Qi-Nourishing Pill had become smooth and natural, effortless and easy.

Each time, he could refine five portions of medicinal powder simultaneously. Half of the resulting Medicinal Pills were High Grade Qi-Nourishing Pill, and half were Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill!

Throughout this process, his Decompose talent continued to play a huge role. The Spirit Medicine powder obtained from Decompose was simply too pure, having completely removed all Impurities, which allowed the quality of the Medicinal Pills to be greatly enhanced.

He spent the entire night refining Medicinal Pills.

Fang Yuan refined twenty furnaces of Medicinal Pills in one go, using a total of one hundred portions of raw materials, producing 500 Top-Grade Medicinal Pills and 400 High Grade Medicinal Pills.

After decomposing the High Grade Medicinal Pills, he obtained 400 incomplete Top-Grade Medicinal Pills. Then, by putting them back into the furnace for refining, they turned into 300 complete Top-Grade Medicinal Pills.

In other words, in one night, Fang Yuan had successfully refined 800 Top-Grade Medicinal Pills.

At dawn.

Fang Yuan arrived at the Treasure Hall early and went to the Exchange Room on his own. He took out one Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill and placed it on the testing platform.

Xiao Bao's slightly mechanical voice rang out.

"Ding, detecting... Detection successful. One Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill. Exchange for 500 contribution points. Do you wish to contribute?"

"Contribute!" Fang Yuan confirmed.

The next moment, that Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill was instantly teleported away.

This time, Fang Yuan took out ten Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills and placed them on it.

"Ding, 10 Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills. Exchange for 5,000 contribution points. Do you wish to contribute?"

"Contribute!" Fang Yuan said unceremoniously.

For the third time, Fang Yuan placed one hundred Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills on it.

"Ding... 100 Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills. Exchange for contribution points: 45,000. Do you wish to contribute?"

"What the hell? Why did the price drop?" Fang Yuan asked, speechless.

"Detected a significant increase in inventory quantity. According to predetermined rules, the price of such items will decrease accordingly. Do you wish to continue contributing?"

"Fine!" Fang Yuan nodded.

Fang Yuan contributed another one hundred Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills.

The price dropped again to 400 contribution points each. Fang Yuan was speechless and decided not to contribute the remaining Medicinal Pills, putting them away instead. If he continued to contribute, the price would only drop further.

In the end, Fang Yuan gained 90,000 contribution points.

He then applied to exchange them for 90,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stone.

Fang Yuan collected them and returned to his seat contentedly.

He was just thinking about how to Cultivate properly when he went back.

He saw someone familiar walk in.

It was none other than the princess, Li Mengyao.

"Something up?" Fang Yuan looked at her in confusion.

Li Mengyao glanced at Fang Yuan and asked: "Senior Brother Fang, I didn't expect you to be hiding your strength so well. You actually reached the fifth level first. I underestimated you before!"

Fang Yuan waved his hand: "Luck! Just luck! Han Zimo also had a Breakthrough."

"It's no surprise that he had a Breakthrough, but I am very curious, how did you achieve a Breakthrough so quickly? Do you have any secret methods? I can use Spirit Stone to buy this trick!" Li Mengyao went straight to the point.

Upon hearing this, Fang Yuan laughed: "It's not a question of Spirit Stone."

"Three thousand Spirit Stone!" Li Mengyao said.

Li Mengyao placed thirty Mid-Grade Spirit Stone on the table.

Fang Yuan couldn't help but laugh or cry: "Junior Sister Li, this is forced buying and selling! I really can't help you with this."

Li Mengyao said in a deep voice: "I really need this trick. I need this first place! As for the reward, I don't value it. I can give all those first-place rewards to you!"

Hearing this, Fang Yuan sighed: "Why bother? How about this, I won't say anything more. You go to the Treasure Selection Room, take a look, and search for Top-Grade Medicinal Pills. I can't say anything more; I work here and cannot leak these things."

Li Mengyao didn't understand, but she gave Fang Yuan a deep look and then cupped her hands: "Thank you!"

She turned around and left the back hall.

Fang Yuan watched Li Mengyao's departing back, a thought flashing through his mind: "If she sees the Medicinal Pills and exchanges them, wouldn't I be able to contribute again at a high price?"

Li Mengyao arrived at the front hall, entered a Treasure Selection Room, and then opened the query list. She searched the Medicinal Pill catalog for information on Top-Grade Medicinal Pills.

Soon, a piece of information appeared before her.

[ Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill: Contains extremely pure medicinal power, can save ten to thirty days of hard Cultivate for the Early Stage of Qi Refining, with a corresponding reduction for the Middle Stage of Qi Refining. No pill poison, no interval between doses. Exchange price: 500 points. Inventory: 211. ]

"Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill?"

A flash of astonishment and surprise appeared in Li Mengyao's eyes.

The Medicinal Pill she was using now was a High Grade Qi-Condensing Pill, which she could only take one of per day, and she needed to refine the pill poison. One pill was worth five days of her own hard Cultivate, which was not a small amount.

But compared to the Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill, it paled in comparison.

Although Qi-Nourishing Pill were suitable for use during the Early Stage of Qi Refining, the top-grade ones were different.

The Realm of Top-Grade Medicinal Pills could be increased by one level, allowing them to be taken during the Middle Stage of Qi Refining. Moreover, their medicinal power was comparable to High Grade Qi-Condensing Pill, and more importantly, there was no interval between uses and no pill poison. She could swallow several of them in one day!

This Cultivate speed would skyrocket!

"No wonder Fang Yuan's Cultivate speed is so fast. With these Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills to exchange for, how could his Cultivate speed not be fast? But these Medicinal Pills are so expensive, how can he afford them?"

A trace of doubt flashed through Li Mengyao's mind, but she didn't delve into it.

"No, why is the price so low?" A flash of surprise appeared in Li Mengyao's eyes. "Just by reselling it, one could earn quite a few Spirit Stone! The key is that Top-Grade Medicinal Pills are rare and have more uses."

This was clearly a path to wealth, but Fang Yuan had just given it to her like that.

Although there might be a reason that Fang Yuan couldn't handle this transaction himself, business was business.

Just a moment ago, she had thought Fang Yuan was asking for an exorbitant price, refusing to say a word for three thousand Spirit Stone. Now it seemed that wanting to get this information for three thousand Spirit Stone was simply too cheap.

"Consider it as me owing you a favor!"

Li Mengyao muttered to herself, then immediately chose to exchange everything, taking out all the Spirit Stone in her pocket to make the exchange.