novelraw Chapter 42 – Big business
Chapter 42 – Big business
Li Zhengtong's four talents appeared.
[Thousand Trials and Tribulations (A-Rank)]: Just as jade must be carved to become a vessel, a person must be honed to become talented. Only through sufficient trials can one become a true strongman... Often encounters difficulties and life-threatening crises, but crises and opportunities coexist. As long as one overcomes the crisis, equivalent benefits can be gained.
[Survival Against All Odds (A-Rank)]: Favored by the heavens, always able to turn danger into safety and find life in desperate situations!
[Formation Basics (C-Rank)]: Has a certain talent for formations, can easily get started, quickly learn formations, and skillfully use them.
[Mid-Grade Spiritual Root (C-Rank)]: Barely reaches the threshold of cultivation, but difficult to achieve much, ultimately can only be the green leaf to set off the red flower.
"A Low-Grade Spiritual Root actually turned into a Mid-Grade Spiritual Root!" Qin Yu was shocked.
He didn't expect that an ordinary person's spiritual root could change!
"It must be the treatment by the master of the Hundred Medicine Hall that helped Li Zhengtong remove some impurities, allowing his spiritual root to evolve."
"Indeed, as long as you get through the crisis, you can gain benefits."
Qin Yu laughed, "Isn't it better to be more compatible with spiritual energy? Your cultivation speed will be faster in the future."
"Yes!" Li Zhengtong said happily.
Xiao Zhi took the antidote, his body returned to normal, and his skin was still as black as charcoal.
"Brother Tong? I don't feel more compatible with spiritual energy?" Xiao Zhi thought it was the effect of the elixir.
Li Zhengtong scratched his head and said, "Maybe it's just my imagination!"
Hearing this, Xiao Zhi no longer dwelled on it.
As long as he could return to normal, he was grateful.
Li Zhengtong and Xiao Zhi put on black robes, planning to wash their skin after returning to the sect.
The three passed by the city gate and encountered Liu Yuanqing from the Sun Observation Sect again.
Qin Yu stepped forward to greet him.
"Thanks to Brother Liu's help this time, my two brothers have recovered!"
Liu Yuanqing waved his hand, "Brother Qin, you're too kind. I didn't help much. Are you all heading back to the Xuantian Sect?"
"That's right, in another two quarters of an hour, our sect's spiritual boat will stop at the city gate."
Liu Yuanqing smiled, "Why don't you all stay in Lily City for a few days? There are many fun places here, and I can show you around!"
Qin Yu actually wanted to stay in the city for a few days.
He simply wanted to see the night scene of a city in the Cultivation World, definitely not to visit that lively 'Hehuan Sect branch'!
Unfortunately, Li Zhengtong and Xiao Zhi had to clean every day.
Moreover, Li Zihao reminded them before leaving that the demonic sect was active, and they should be careful.
Their strength was too low, and leaving the sect too early was still dangerous.
Qin Yu declined Liu Yuanqing's kind offer.
"Brother Liu, we'll meet again if fate allows!"
"Until we meet again!"
The three of them boarded the spiritual boat and returned to the Xuantian Sect.
The next day!
Qin Yu returned to his routine of alchemy during the day and cultivation practice at night.
A few days later, Qin Yu took the elixirs he had refined and went to ask the shop owner of the Myriad Herbs Pavilion about the price.
Ordinary Strength Pills could enhance strength by at most ten percent, and the effect lasted only a quarter of an hour.
But his Strength Pill could enhance strength fivefold, and the effect could last permanently, completely overwhelming in every aspect.
If he sold the Strength Pill and its antidote together for 10 contribution points each, it would be very cheap!
This was an elixir that could save lives at critical moments!
With dreams of getting rich, Qin Yu excitedly walked into the Myriad Herbs Pavilion.
"Shop owner, do you accept elixirs here?"
"We do!" The shop owner of the Myriad Herbs Pavilion came out with a smile, "What elixir does the young friend wish to sell?"
Qin Yu handed the elixir to the shop owner, "This is the Strength Pill I refined, which can increase the strength of Qi Refinement stage cultivators fivefold!"
"Fivefold?" The shop owner was shocked, "Did the young friend misspeak?"
"No mistake, it's indeed fivefold, but this elixir has a slight side effect and needs to be sold with this antidote."
Qin Yu explained in detail the effects of the Strength Pill, including the side effect of turning into an ape after consumption.
The shop owner frowned after hearing this.
"Young friend, this is not a Strength Pill, but a completely new elixir."
"Although your elixir is very powerful, it doesn't have a certification!"
"Selling uncertified elixirs is illegal."
"Certification?" Qin Yu asked, "What is that?"
The shop owner explained, "All elixirs sold on the market now must be certified by the Liang Kingdom Elixir Association. Once their safety is confirmed, a safety certificate is issued, and only then can shops sell the elixir."
"Your elixir differs too much from the Strength Pill, so you definitely can't use the Strength Pill's safety certificate to sell it. If caught, you'd be fined to bankruptcy."
Hearing this, Qin Yu complained, "The Cultivation World's system doesn't need to be this perfect!"
"How can I get a safety certificate?" Qin Yu asked.
"You just need to send ten or more elixirs to the Elixir Association. They will test them, and once they pass, a safety certificate will be issued, and the elixir will be added to the list of sellable elixirs."
"If the young friend needs, we can help send the elixirs over."
"However, the Elixir Association's review time is quite long, at least half a year!"
"Half a year, that's too long!"
Qin Yu's contribution points wouldn't last until then.
"Thank you very much!"
Qin Yu left fifteen sets of elixirs and gave his name and address to the shop owner.
"It seems I'll have to find a way to earn more contribution points in the next six months."
Qin Yu had only a little over a hundred contribution points left, which wasn't enough to buy Qi Refinement Pills, let alone alchemy materials.
"Selling stinky tofu won't work either; no one bought it last time. If only Kong Tianjiao would come again."
"Missing Kong Tianjiao in the first month!"
Just as Qin Yu was worrying about how to earn contribution points, a tall senior brother stopped him.
"Junior brother, is what you said about the elixir's effects true?"
Qin Yu glanced at him, remembering that he was nearby buying elixirs when he was introducing the elixir to the shop owner.
"Of course it's true. Does senior brother need something?"
"It's like this!" The tall senior brother extended his hand, "I'm Su Mu, and I'm very interested in the elixir you refined. I'd like to purchase a batch!"
Qin Yu's eyes lit up, but he worriedly asked, "Didn't the shop owner just say that selling without a certification is illegal?"
"It's not that strict. Without a certification, large-scale sales are not allowed, but private transactions like ours are not regulated."
"Besides, if you don't tell, and I don't tell, who would know?"
"That's good!" Qin Yu asked, "Senior Brother Su, how many do you want?"
"Forty or fifty, but you need to give me a discount!"
Hearing this number, Qin Yu was surprised, "Senior Brother Su, can you consume that many?"
Su Mu chuckled, "I'm not going to consume them myself; I'm going to sell them!"
"But I'm not selling within the Liang Kingdom; I'm going to sell them in the northern Great Wilderness Country, where it's more chaotic and there's no certification requirement, so it's not illegal!"
Qin Yu nodded, thinking the other was going to sell illegally on the black market.
"Wait, smuggling seems illegal too!"
"But the Cultivation World is chaotic, so there might not be such regulations."
With that, Qin Yu chose to be a quiet gentleman.
"Senior brother, I just negotiated with the Myriad Herbs Pavilion for a price of 25 contribution points. Since you want more, I'll give you a discount, 20 contribution points for one Strength Pill and one antidote, how about it?"
Having read "The Art of Trading," Qin Yu knew to raise the price initially to allow room for negotiation!
"20 contribution points are too expensive, 10 contribution points is barely acceptable!"
Qin Yu felt the pressure double.
"Cutting the price in half, this must be an expert!"
Qin Yu: "Deal, pleasure doing business!"
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Su Mu: "Oops, I cut too little!"