Longevity Family: Let Her Live At The Beginning, Let Her Live

Finally, the princess whispered, "Ninth Prince, please put me down."

After putting down the Thirteenth Princess, she couldn't help but feel a sense of loss and ran over to look at the eighth-grade pill, praising it repeatedly.

"Ninth Prince, can I buy this pill?" she asked.

"As long as the princess can afford the price, it's fine," Zhang Ran replied. He had no shortage of pills of this grade. Every time he helped someone refine pills, he would take three portions of medicinal materials. Each portion would yield two to three pills, totaling around seven pills. He would give one to the person and keep six for himself, in addition to the payment for refining the pills. Among these six pills, there might be one above the sixth grade, and he would store them for himself. Zhang Ran also loved collecting these colorful and beautiful pills, which he displayed in his exclusive pill refining room. He also had many excellent works in his weapon refining room, which he didn't need and were simply pleasing to the eye.

"Ninth Prince, the price of a Infant Transformation Pill is around one hundred spirit stones. I'll give you eight hundred for this one," the Thirteenth Princess said.

"That works too. The princess's price is fair. You can take it," Zhang Ran agreed.

The Thirteenth Princess took the pill and walked to the door.

For no reason, she turned back and said, "Ninth Prince, can you help me refine another eighth-grade Breaking Through Pill?"

She felt a little embarrassed saying this, knowing that it was a bit too much to ask.

To her surprise, Zhang Ran smiled and didn't mind at all.

"A third-grade pill, huh? That's fine. I haven't practiced that in a long time. But you can stay in the mansion for a few days. It won't take long," Zhang Ran observed the Thirteenth Princess. She was at the eighth level of Core Formation, and he estimated that she was about to break through to the Nascent Soul stage and wanted to use the Breaking Through Pill to make a breakthrough.

As for the pills he gave to Yu Yan last time, they were fifth-grade pills, and he hadn't given them to her yet. Otherwise, her Core Formation stage would not be able to withstand the power of the pills. It would destroy her divine soul, causing a backlash.

After the Thirteenth Princess left, Zhang Ran planned to go to the weapon refining room to take a look.

His weapon refining level was at the fifth grade, which meant he could only refine top-grade treasures. Spiritual Weapons could only be refined at the sixth grade and above.

Creak.

After opening the door, he saw a row of refining materials, earth fire, and a furnace of top-grade treasure level, as well as a stone platform. This was his exclusive weapon refining room.

"Tian Ming likes spears. When he reaches the Core Formation stage and combines it with the Ancient Nether Body, he can barely use a top-grade treasure," Zhang Ran thought to himself.

Time passed slowly.

The Zhang family developed steadily and grew healthily.

On this day, while Zhang Ran was refining weapons, a Core Formation female cultivator from the Myriad Beast Sect came to find him.

Zhang Ran remembered this woman. Her name was Zhao Xuer, and she was at the first level of Core Formation.

"Ninth Prince, can you teach me weapon refining? I can teach you how to breed demonic beasts," she said.

Her eyes were seductive, and she had dressed up today. Her pair of jade legs were partially exposed, making it hard for people not to show respect.

"Miss Zhao, are you here to refine weapons like this?" Zhang Ran glanced at her attire and couldn't help but shake his head.

"Why can't I come to refine weapons? Miss Wan can refine pills, so why can't I refine weapons?" she retorted.

With a clang,

Once the main gate was closed,

The temperature in the refining room also increased significantly, from 37 degrees to gradually reaching 38 degrees.

After three hours, it returned to 37 degrees.

Zhang Ran watched Zhao Xuer leave with happiness and thought to himself, "I am truly a good person."

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In the main hall of the Zhang family,

Hundreds of stunning and beautiful women were seated, all in their twenties. Each one of them could be considered a beauty that could captivate countless men on the streets.

"I think we should discuss this matter thoroughly," said Yang Huanyu, who was sitting in the first seat. She was the only one among them who had no cultivation, but her lifespan was not inferior to those female cultivators.

Sitting beside her were the eldest senior sister, Yu Yan, the second senior sister, Wang Ling, and others. All those who had cultivation were present.

Today, they were holding a meeting to discuss the future development of the Zhang family's industries.

"Yang Jie, although Lord Wang's alchemy and artifact refining skills are unmatched in the Great Qian Dynasty, why do we still need to start from the basics? We can completely follow the refined route taken by the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce," a woman in purple argued, expressing her own thoughts.

This person was a Foundation Building cultivator who had come to the Zhang family eight years ago. She was the niece of the city lord of Heavenly River City.

"What you said is not wrong, but I still support Yang Jie's point of view. As she just said, we currently have too few alchemists in the Zhang family. Apart from our husband, there is not a single fourth-rank alchemist, let alone one who can produce high-quality pills. If we choose the refined route, our husband will be too busy in the future and won't have time for me..."

When she said this, the third senior sister stopped herself and her face turned red. She glanced at everyone, and everyone blushed uncontrollably.

These women had all experienced such things and naturally understood.

"Third sister, we're having a meeting here. Don't bring up irrelevant matters," the fifth senior sister said impatiently.

The eldest senior sister coughed twice. "Everyone, let's vote. Let's see how many people support the refined route and how many support starting from the basics."

Currently, there were two opinions. One was to directly open a business in the imperial city, using fourth-grade pills as the selling point to attract a large number of customers to purchase the Zhang family's pills, and then develop artifact refining using the same process.

The next step would be talismans. Currently, pills had the highest sales and profits in the market, followed by artifact refining.

Lastly, there were talismans. As for puppets, they were not very mainstream, and it was not suitable to specialize in a single product.

If they focused on pills, with the increase in the Zhang family's spiritual fields, they could completely meet their own alchemy needs.

With surplus medicinal materials, they could also sell them externally, which would be a source of profit.

The other group believed in taking the low-end route and starting from the basics.

Led by the eldest senior sister, Yang Huanyu, they believed that the Zhang family's foundation was too weak at the moment. If they focused on Zhang Ran's high-quality pills, they could gain fame, but it would be difficult for the family to develop rapidly because they were relying solely on Zhang Ran. Their own descendants would not be able to support the current stage of orders.

They hoped to first open stores in the three cities under Lord Wang's jurisdiction as a trial, and then open a store in the imperial city.

Finally, they would expand to cover the entire Great Qian Dynasty and other regions until the entire southern region.

This approach also had the advantage of being able to observe the needs of a specific region and have a certain market concept, knowing what pills were needed there.

For example, the city lord of Heavenly River City was at the Core Formation stage, and there were the most Foundation Building cultivators here, so Foundation Building Pills would definitely sell well.

However, there were already hundreds of shops selling pills in Heavenly River City, so it would not be easy to compete with them.

Although they were considering Lord Jiu's face and would not do anything to the stores, there might be some price wars behind the scenes, which would not be good.

"Let's vote, starting from the low-end route. Raise your hands," the eldest senior sister said decisively, not wanting to waste time on further arguments, and instead using the number of people to express their opinions.