Mortal Alchemy

Xu Fengshan patted Chen Ping on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Junior Brother Chen, you and I are colleagues from now on. As your senior brother, I have a few words I want to tell you.

You still have a little over a month to cultivate. You can use it to return to the Daoist temple to cultivate, or you can stay in the alchemy room to refine pills in advance, so that you won't be caught off guard when you hand in your mission at the end of the month."

"You also know how severe the punishment for this mission is, so don't fail."

"Senior Brother Xu, I know what's important." Chen Ping cupped his hands in response.

"Let's go, I'll take you to collect the forty portions of medicinal herbs needed for the mission first." Xu Fengshan took Chen Ping to the warehouse again.

"Madam Butterfly, Junior Brother Chen has been officially transferred. I'm here to take Junior Brother Chen to collect the medicinal herbs."

"Greetings, Senior Sister Butterfly."

Madam Butterfly looked at Chen Ping with a smile:

"Junior Brother Chen, we will be dealing with each other a lot in the future."

Chen Ping said with a smile, "I will have to trouble Senior Sister Butterfly to take care of me."

Madam Butterfly's attitude towards him was gentle, with a sense of shared suffering, as if they were both fallen from the same place.

After all, entering this Pill Hall is a bitter job of bleeding and losing one's life. If you're not careful, you'll be working like a cow or a horse for the Mu family for the rest of your life.

Xu Fengshan said, "Junior Brother Chen, a bottle of Qi Gathering Pills sells for five spirit sand outside, but buying medicinal herbs from Madam Butterfly here only costs two spirit sand per bottle. In a month, you can save sixty spirit sand."

"Over the decades, this is a considerable amount of resources."

"You can take the Qi Replenishing Pills and Qi Gathering Pills that the殿主 (Hall Master) bestowed upon you just now to the market to sell, and buy medicinal herbs from Madam Butterfly here."

Good heavens, Chen Ping learned something.

Chen Ping immediately cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for your guidance, Senior Brother Xu."

Xu Fengshan's trick to save money was very much to Chen Ping's liking. He knew his own background and conditions best. If he wanted to go further on the path of immortality, he had to increase income and reduce expenditure on resources.

But Chen Ping had a concern, and asked:

"But Senior Brother Xu, are disciples of our Pill Hall allowed to sell our own pills outside?"

Xu Fengshan said with a calm expression:

"The work in the Pill Hall is so hard, and the monthly salary is so low, we can't really block our path, can we? These are all things that are done with one eye open and one eye closed."

Well, it seems that there is still some profit to be made in this Pill Hall, but it depends on one's ability.

Then he would have to refine more pills and take them to the market to sell for money.

At this time, Madam Butterfly took the forty portions of Qi Replenishing Pills medicinal herbs back and handed them to Chen Ping.

The two bid farewell to the warehouse and returned to their respective alchemy rooms. Xu Fengshan buried himself in refining pills.

Chen Ping returned to the Daoist temple to begin cultivating.

He now has hundreds of Qi Replenishing Pills in his hand, so he must first use them to improve his cultivation.

A month and a half later.

"...This Great Violet Immortal Pill Scripture is really extraordinary. When I maintain my cultivation, I am gradually eliminating the accumulated pill toxins in my body, making my cultivation smoother and my spiritual power purer.

In this way, I can swallow pills to assist my cultivation without any worries."

"Today, I should go to work to refine pills. When the end of the month comes, I will take a bottle of pills to find Li Erniu."

Chen Ping finished his cultivation, took a bath in the hot spring, changed into a Daoist robe stained with medicine, and went to the Pill Hall, entering his own alchemy room.

"Let's refine the twenty furnaces of Qi Replenishing Pills for this month's mission first."

Chen Ping can now refine a furnace in half an hour. Twenty furnaces of Qi Replenishing Pills will only take five days.

Five days later, he went to the Spiritual Cuisine Hall for a meal and happened to see Xu Fengshan talking to an old man with white hair.