Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 288: Earnings

There was no 10th floor and 9th was the highest. Once he realized there was no information that could help him at all, he was a little disappointed.

He instead read everything he could about the formation and put them in his mind. He also looked for some information on True pills as well on the alchemy section.

According to the books, True Pills required True Qi to make. This was something he already knew but what he didn't know was that one didn't necessarily have to be in the True realms to make the True Pills.

'Anyone who has True Qi… meaning when I start converting my common Qi to True Qi, I can start making those pills that soon,' he thought. His hypothesis was proven correct by the information in the book.

Another thing about True Pills was that they were highly volatile during the process of making them. The energy they produced during preparation was a lot more prone to instability than when making the common pills.

'Is this why master told me to wait until learning about True pills? Because they are very violent and didn't want me to get hurt?' he wondered.

It had been a few hours since he had come to the library. The elders were all gathering the disciples who were willing to leave and started leaving the library.

Alex wanted to join them but decided not to. He stayed in the library for another hour reading up on different things and finally left it.

The reason he didn't leave with the group earlier was that he wanted to take a different route and go get his spirit stones from the Auction house on the southern side of the city.

It was only a few minutes walks away from here, so he walked towards there as soon as he left the library.

Along the way, he tried to process the information about the formations as much as he could, but he didn't know the first thing about formations, so it was impossible to learn about them on the fly.

So along the way, he simply gave up on it. He instead focused on the Alchemy knowledge he had learned today, but unfortunately, none of them were revelatory enough for him to dwell on it for long.

So, he gave up on it too. Fortunately, the auction house was quite close so he reached it before he would have to think about something else.

The attendant at the door of the auction house tried to stop Alex, but he just showed her the contract and was quickly taken in.

The familiar hallway was way too familiar and he felt a little uncomfortable, knowing that he wasn't in the place that his brain was telling him he was.

Alex was taken to one of the waiting rooms where he sat down and waited for the person in charge to return soon.

After a few minutes, the door opened and Han Jing walked in with a face full of wide smiles.

"Greetings fellow Daoist, I hope you didn't have to wait too long for this unworthy attendant to arrive," he said.

Alex was a little taken aback when he heard Han Jing call himself unworthy. 'What's going on?' he wondered but didn't ask.

"Is today's auction over?" he asked.

"Yes, fellow Daoist. Today's auction ended nearly 3 hours ago. Thanks to your pills, it was a smashing success. At least for my part, it was, hehe," Han Jing said while showing his teeth.

Alex didn't say anything else and instead asked about the thing he was here for. "So, how much did I earn?" he asked.

"Fellow Daoist, your pills were extraordinary. Even for being a common rank pill, Heaven grade ones are rarely seen so freely on the market. Not to mention you brought so many great pills at once."

"Those sales were a smashing success. So much so to the point that the audience nearly rioted trying to ask for the alchemist that made those pills. So… would it be possible for you to reveal who your master is?" he asked.

"I am afraid my master does not wish to be named. Which was also why he sent me to sell his pills, instead of coming on his own. Now that it is clear, can we get onto the part about my pills being sold?" Alex asked.

"Ah yes, yes. Of course. Your 23 pills sold for a total of… 66 True spirit stones. The Fat Converting pill earned you 16 True Spirit stones, the Rubber Body pill earned you 18 True spirit stones. And most surprisingly, the Energy Negating pill earned you 32 True spirit stones," Han Jing said.

Alex nearly asked Han Jing to repeat those numbers again, because of how unbelievable they were.

'But I only got 29 True spirit stones when I sold 21 pills back 2 weeks ago. Suddenly, it's doubled now? Wow, I must be still underestimating how lucrative the Heaven grade pills are,' Alex thought.

"Those stones… they are after the 10% tax right?" Alex asked.

"Oh, yes of course. We have already taken our part, and these are yours," Han Jing said. He handed a storage bag over to Alex, who took it and started looking inside.

He couldn't freely use Spiritual sense, so he would have to use normal means. He checked the spirit stones and was once again surprised to see so many at once.

If he converted them, he would get around 55 thousand dollars, but that was not the reason he sold those pills. He looked at Han Jing and asked,

"When is the next auction?"