Chapter 56: Accumulation

Once all five types of pills were completed.

Ye Qingxuan estimated that, based on the Hundred Treasures Pavilion's buyback price of seventy percent of the market value, he could sell them for 389,970 low-grade spirit stones.

Meanwhile, the spirit herbs he had purchased cost him only nearly 40,000 low-grade spirit stones, making this a truly massive profit.

Of course, other alchemists did not possess Ye Qingxuan's heaven-defying pill success rate; alchemists who occasionally made mistakes and saw an entire furnace of pills destroyed were everywhere.

After the herbs were processed, Ye Qingxuan instructed Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu to take all the pills to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion for sale, while simultaneously purchasing more items for him.

As for himself, he began to contemplate the inheritance of weapon forging, preparing to use the spirit mines and spirit materials he had previously purchased to forge magical tools.

Since Bai Wenyang already knew Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu, Ye Qingxuan did not send a voice transmission in advance to explain the situation.

When the two brothers, Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu, brought the pills to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Bai Wenyang was shocked once again.

He knew Ye Qingxuan's alchemy talent was heaven-defying, but was it really necessary to be *this* heaven-defying?

How much time had passed? Not only were the Tier 2 pills completed, but he had produced so many of them? Just how terrifying was his success rate?

If not for the constraints of his Dao Oath, he truly wouldn't have been able to resist sharing Ye Qingxuan's information with his friends just to shock them.

But for now, Bai Wenyang could only think it to himself!

After selling all the pills, following Ye Qingxuan's instructions, the two brothers each purchased a low-grade True Tool grade alchemy furnace and a low-grade True Tool grade weapon-forging furnace.

These two furnaces alone cost Ye Qingxuan a full 2,000 mid-grade spirit stones, which converted to 200,000 low-grade spirit stones.

In the Earth Profound Realm, spirit herbs are easy to find, but spirit mines are hard to locate!

It wasn't that the Earth Profound Realm lacked spirit mines, but rather the current trend of the realm: various spirit mines, much like spirit veins, were treated as renewable resources, though the derivation of spirit mines was much slower.

Consequently, the major powers of the Earth Profound Realm did not engage in destructive mining of their own mines, leading to a shortage of spirit mine materials circulating in the market.

This created the current market conditions, where the price of a Dharma Treasure leaps significantly with every step up in grade.

Mid- and low-grade True Tools are common Dharma Treasures for Purple Mansion cultivators, which is why their prices are approximately 30 times higher than those of top-grade magical tools.

In addition, the two brothers followed Ye Qingxuan's instructions to

Purchase enough spirit herbs for 200 batches of Tier 2 Spirit Cleansing Pills, costing 160,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Purchase 2,000 Tier 1 Spirit Augmentation Pills, costing 24,000 low-grade spirit stones.

The Tier 1 Spirit Augmentation Pills were bought for the cultivation of Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu; it wasn't cost-effective for Ye Qingxuan to refine Tier 1 pills himself, so he purchased them directly from the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

The remaining five thousand-plus low-grade spirit stones were used to purchase Tier 1 and Tier 2 spirit mines and materials.

Tier 1 mines and materials are the primary components for forging low- and mid-grade magical tools, while Tier 2 mines and materials are the primary components for forging high-grade and top-grade magical tools.

Depending on the quality, the price of Tier 1 spirit mines ranges from 60 to 100 low-grade spirit stones per cubic unit, while Tier 2 spirit mines range from 500 to 1,000 low-grade spirit stones per cubic unit. One cubic unit of material can forge one magical tool.

During the following year.

Without affecting his own cultivation, Ye Qingxuan would refine two batches of Tier 2 Spirit Cleansing Pills every day.

After selling them to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, one batch of Tier 2 Spirit Cleansing Pills yielded a stable 6 pills, bringing Ye Qingxuan a profit of 5,040 low-grade spirit stones per batch. In one year, this brought him a total profit of 3,679,200 low-grade spirit stones.

Aside from this, Ye Qingxuan spent the rest of his time on the weapon-forging inheritance.

In the third month, Ye Qingxuan successfully forged a high-grade magical tool, successfully advancing to a Tier 2 weapon smith.

In the fifth month, Ye Qingxuan successfully forged a top-grade magical tool, leaving him only one step away from becoming a Tier 3 weapon smith.

In the Earth Profound Realm, weapon smiths capable of using Tier 1 spirit mines to forge mid- or low-grade magical tools are Tier 1 weapon smiths.

By extension

Tier 2 weapon smiths can use Tier 2 spirit mines to forge top-grade and high-grade magical tools.

Tier 3 weapon smiths can use Tier 3 spirit mines to forge mid- and low-grade True Tools.

Tier 4 weapon smiths can use Tier 4 spirit mines to forge top-grade and high-grade True Tools.

Tier 5 weapon smiths can use Tier 5 spirit mines to forge mid- and low-grade Spirit Tools.

Tier 6 weapon smiths can use Tier 6 spirit mines to forge top-grade and high-grade Spirit Tools.

Tier 7 weapon smiths can use Tier 7 spirit mines to forge low-grade Spirit Treasures.

Tier 8 weapon smiths can use Tier 8 spirit mines to forge mid-grade Spirit Treasures.

Tier 9 weapon smiths can use Tier 9 spirit mines to forge high-grade Spirit Treasures.

Tier 10 weapon smiths can use Tier 10 spirit mines to forge top-grade Spirit Treasures.

As for Immortal Tools? Currently, no one in the Earth Profound Realm can forge them. Only by having an Immortal Realm expert use their own Dao Laws to baptize them can a top-grade Spirit Treasure evolve into an Immortal Tool.

The market price of a top-grade magical tool is around 3,000 low-grade spirit stones, while the Tier 2 top-grade spirit mine required to forge one is worth 1,000 low-grade spirit stones per cubic unit.

Assuming no mistakes are made, one top-grade magical tool can bring Ye Qingxuan a profit of 2,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Forging Dharma Treasures basically yields only one item per cubic unit of material. No matter how heaven-defying Ye Qingxuan's comprehension was, he could not create something from nothing, so the profit was far inferior to alchemy.

Furthermore, if sold to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, this profit would be subject to a twenty percent reduction.

However, Ye Qingxuan did not intend to sell his forged magical tools to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

In the sixth month of that year, Ye Qingxuan sent Ye Zhaohang to the market within the Xuantian Sect to pay a deposit of one million low-grade spirit stones to open a small shop named the Tianfu Shop!

Opening a shop in the Xuantian Sect market did not require rent; instead, they only took a twenty percent tax on the transaction volume.

However, depending on the size of the shop, there were requirements for the annual transaction volume.

For a small shop like the one Ye Qingxuan opened, if the average annual transaction volume failed to reach one million low-grade spirit stones, the shop would be reclaimed and the deposit would not be refunded.

But this was no difficulty for Ye Qingxuan. Having been in the Xuantian Sect for years, he finally possessed his first business.

After the Tianfu Shop opened, the two brothers, Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu, began to take turns working in the shop.

Various magical tools and some pills forged by Ye Qingxuan began to be sold at the Tianfu Shop.

However, for most of the pills, Ye Qingxuan still chose to sell them to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion for the time being.

Although selling directly to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion meant losing ten percent of the spirit stones, the advantage was the quick turnaround of funds, which was essential for supporting many of his early endeavors.

Once the Tianfu Shop gained fame and sales volume increased, Ye Qingxuan planned to gradually shift more of the pill distribution to his own shop.

Currently, in addition to selling products, the Tianfu Shop was also responsible for acquiring certain spirit plant seeds and spirit mines that Ye Qingxuan did not currently possess, to accumulate resources for the advancement of his Grotto-Heaven.

During this year, in addition to a mandatory Tier 1 planting task, Ye Qingxuan also submitted two extra tasks for planting spirit flowers, earning an additional 600 contribution points.

Combined with his annual salary and the 32 remaining contribution points, Ye Qingxuan had now accumulated 1,352 contribution points.

However, these points were of little immediate use to him, so he did not utilize them.

As for the other territories within the Grotto-Heaven, Ye Qingxuan had planted many Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 spirit plants.

Most of the Tier 3 spirit plants, including the herbs used to refine Tier 3 pills, were planted within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.

Due to the integration of his Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven, planting Tier 1 spirit plants only required eight months to accumulate enough energy, unlike the twelve months required by the Grotto-Heavens of other blessed cultivators.

According to Ye Qingxuan's estimations, it would take approximately three years for the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven to nurture Tier 2 spirit plants, and about ten years to nurture Tier 3 spirit plants.