noffsinger Chapter 146 A fifth-tier pill recipe isn't something you can just buy with money!
Chapter 146 A fifth-tier pill recipe isn't something you can just buy with money!
Upon hearing that the pills were not made by the young alchemy genius, Ye Xiaobai was greatly disappointed and immediately gave up the idea of buying them.
Seeing that Ye Xiaobai had no desire to buy, the shopkeeper didn't give up. He took out a fourth-grade pill, the Jade Liquid Foundation Condensation Pill, and proudly displayed it in front of Ye Xiaobai, saying, "Fellow Daoist, look how perfectly the Jade Liquid Foundation Condensation Pill is refined. It is of great help in improving the cultivation of Foundation Establishment cultivators. Are you sure you don't want to buy it?"
Ye Xiaobai was speechless when he saw the low-grade Jade Liquid Foundation Condensation Pill in front of him. He usually ate high-grade Jade Liquid Foundation Condensation Pills, but the shopkeeper actually sold him a low-grade one.
Ye Xiaobai was really at a loss for words, but still politely declined.
"Shopkeeper, I really don't need any more. I already have some that I refined before!" Ye Xiaobai said awkwardly.
Just then, Ye Xiaobai suddenly realized that there seemed to be a problem with the Jade Liquid Foundation Condensation Pill. The smell of the pill was wrong. After all, Ye Xiaobai cultivated the One Breath Smells a Thousand Miles Technique, and his sense of smell far surpassed that of ordinary cultivators.
Before the shopkeeper put away the pills, Ye Xiaobai subtly checked the smell once again. Sure enough, the smell was wrong; the Jade Liquid Foundation Condensation Pill was made with the wrong materials.
Ye Xiaobai was very familiar with the formula for the Jade Liquid Foundation Pill, one of the important ingredients being sweet grass flower.
It took me quite a bit of trouble to buy sweet grass flowers back then, but luckily I managed to gather all the materials at the time.
The pills the shopkeeper gave Ye Xiaobai did not contain sweet grass flowers, but instead used sweet grass leaves. Only experienced alchemists could detect this subtle difference, or people as sensitive to smell as Ye Xiaobai could notice the anomaly.
The main ingredients in a pill formula are usually fixed. If they are changed, the pills produced will definitely not have the same effect as before.
Taking such pills may have no effect at best, or even cause severe poisoning, hindering future cultivation progress.
In short, this Lingdan Pavilion is actually selling fake pills!
Thinking of this, Ye Xiaobai still raised a question: "Shopkeeper, there seems to be something wrong with your pills, right? They don't seem like normal Jade Liquid Foundation Condensation Pills!"
Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper was immediately shocked and angrily said, "Fellow Daoist, if you don't want to buy our pills, just say so. Don't slander the quality of our pills!"
"Shopkeeper, there really is something wrong with your pills!" Ye Xiaobai was about to explain.
The shopkeeper refused to listen to Ye Xiaobai's explanation and shouted loudly to the side, "Xiaolong, Xiaohu, someone's causing trouble, kick them out!" As soon as he finished speaking, two burly gray-robed cultivators walked in from outside. Upon seeing Ye Xiaobai, they immediately said loudly, "Are you looking for trouble?"
Both cultivators were at the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage. Although Ye Xiaobai was not afraid of their strength, it was, after all, their territory, and he did not want to escalate the conflict. So he could only smile and say, "No, no, I was just inquiring about the pills. I'll leave now!"
After Ye Xiaobai finished speaking, he left in a hurry. As the saying goes, even a powerful dragon cannot suppress a local snake, and it was not advisable for a conflict to occur at this time and place.
As soon as they entered the shop's lobby, they heard an older cultivator, probably in his forties or fifties, anxiously asking a waiter, "Why is it that after taking the Jade Liquid Foundation Condensation Pill I bought from you, I don't feel any effect?"
"It must be that you took too little!" the waiter explained directly, without any hesitation, as if he had already prepared the answer beforehand.
"This bottle cost me over 50,000 spirit stones, how come it has no effect at all?" the cultivator continued to ask.
"Perhaps it's because you're getting older, and the absorption of the pills isn't as good. Why don't you buy a few more bottles to try?" The shopkeeper tried to sell his own pills again.
Ye Xiaobai listened for a while and then left the Spirit Medicine Pavilion, which made him even more convinced that there was something wrong with the pills in the Spirit Medicine Pavilion.
With the support of the Liu family, Ye Xiaobai had no immediate solution for the Spirit Medicine Pavilion and could only consider it later.
Currently, Ye Xiaobai is still anxious to find a fifth-order pill formula, which is the most important thing.
Alchemist Alliance!
Ye Xiaobai immediately thought of a good place to find the pill formula.
"Fellow Daoist, do you know which direction the Myriad Pill Workshop of the Alchemist Alliance is in?" Ye Xiaobai immediately pulled a passerby aside and asked.
"Oh, Miaodanfang? Just keep walking along this road..." A passerby enthusiastically pointed out the direction to Miaodanfang.
"Thank you, fellow Taoist!"
After Ye Xiaobai finished speaking, he followed the route that the passerby had given him and headed towards Miaodanfang.
In less than half an hour, Ye Xiaobai found the location of Miaodanfang.
Before even entering, Ye Xiaobai smelled a familiar scent—the fragrance of Osmanthus fragrans. He instantly felt refreshed; he was about to run into someone he knew again.
Upon entering the Myriad Pill Shop, he found it bustling with activity, a constant stream of people buying pills. Not seeing any familiar faces, Ye Xiaobai was slightly disappointed.
The shopkeeper stood behind the counter, his face beaming with a warm smile, greeting each cultivator who entered and explaining in detail the effects and prices of the various elixirs.
His voice was loud and clear, as if he wanted the entire shop to hear him: "Esteemed customer, look at this 'Rejuvenation Pill,' it's made from precious medicinal herbs like a hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, it can quickly heal injuries and enhance cultivation; and this bottle of 'Diamond Pill,' after taking it, can strengthen the body's defenses and resist attacks from external enemies..."
As they spoke, the shopkeeper would carefully take out the corresponding pills or medicine bottles and show them to the guests, allowing them to more intuitively understand the quality and value of these pills.
Ye Xiaobai quickly seized the opportunity while the shopkeeper was drinking tea and asked directly, "Shopkeeper, do you sell any fifth-grade pill formulas here?"
Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper became so agitated that he choked, spitting out the water he had just drunk. He quickly took out a silk towel to wipe himself clean.
Ye Xiaobai glanced at it and immediately realized that the towel was not ordinary silk, but made of century-old ice silkworm silk. If it were made into inner armor, it could withstand the attack of top-grade spiritual weapons.
Unexpectedly, such precious materials were used to make a towel for wiping one's mouth. Ye Xiaobai immediately felt that the manager of Miaodanfang was truly extravagant.
Only after the shopkeeper placed the teacup aside did Ye Xiaobai realize that it wasn't an ordinary teacup, but an extremely rare blue-and-white porcelain mandarin duck cup. Its value was said to be comparable to that of a common magical artifact!
Upon seeing this, Ye Xiaobai was immediately stunned, once again marveling at how wealthy the people at Miaodanfang were!
Seeing Ye Xiaobai's naive and unsophisticated expression, the shopkeeper said disdainfully, "You? Are you sure you want to buy a fifth-grade pill formula?"
After saying that, she gave the waiter a look, signaling him to pour her some spiritual tea.
"What? Does the shopkeeper think I can't afford it?" Ye Xiaobai retorted immediately upon hearing this.
"A fifth-grade pill formula isn't something you can just buy with money! There are eligibility restrictions for purchasing it!" the shopkeeper said calmly.
"Oh? What qualifications are required?" Ye Xiaobai asked eagerly, sensing that the shopkeeper still had fifth-grade pill formulas for sale.
"Only fourth-grade alchemists from our Alchemist Alliance are qualified to purchase this? Are you one?" the shopkeeper asked, his face full of doubt.
"That's such a coincidence! I am a fourth-grade alchemist from the Alchemist Alliance!" Ye Xiaobai said excitedly, then took out his Alchemist Alliance identity token.