Eternal Tale

”Senior, this pill is at least a mid-tier sixth-grade pill!”

Mo Fuyang’’s eyes were filled with amazement, showing he had some knowledge. ”If you were to sell it, it could fetch at least 120 mid-grade spirit stones.”

He was an honest person, aware that he had gained a great advantage, but he didn’’t hide it.

Mo Fuyang even suspected that this senior might not be familiar with the trade, possibly not from around here.

”Oh?” Chen Xun’’s eyes sparkled. ”Young friend, this is one of the reasons I sought you out. Could you explain the spirit stone system here?”

”You must have noticed, we come from the starry sky.”

”Being new here, the prices of these spiritual herbs and spirit stones are different from where we come from, so I want to learn more.”

”You are an honest person, and I appreciate hearing the truth.”

Chen Xun smiled slightly, his eyes calm, exuding a steady aura. ”We are not the starry sky thieves you mentioned, so there’’s no need to worry.”

At this moment, Nangong Heling had already taken out a small notebook, sitting beside Chen Xun, eyes filled with a thirst for knowledge. This was extremely important to them.Black Bull and Little Chi didn’’t mind, just listening casually, too lazy to do the math.

Mo Fuyang sat cross-legged on the ground, meeting Chen Xun’’s gaze with respect. ”I understand, senior.”

After cultivating immortality for so many years, he understood some rules.

Moreover, this senior had already elevated him greatly, giving him a feeling of respect he had never experienced before.

He began to explain slowly, starting with spiritual herbs and pills, without holding anything back.

It turned out that in the Three Thousand Great Worlds, the cultivation system was strict, with a nine-grade, three-tier system, where ninth grade was the lowest and first grade was the highest.

Each grade was further divided into high, mid, and low tiers, with prices fluctuating accordingly.

The efficacy of spiritual herbs was also divided by realm. Pills that could be used for the Elemental Infant phase were classified as sixth-grade.

Pills for the Divine Transformation phase were classified as fifth-grade, and those for the Void Refinement phase were classified as fourth-grade...

According to the current great world system, herbs aged between one thousand and three thousand years were considered low-tier.

Three thousand to six thousand years were mid-tier, and six thousand to ten thousand years were high-tier spiritual herbs!

Pill refining also had a strict standard system. For refining Elemental Infant phase pills, an average of ten herbs per batch was required!

The market price for low-tier sixth-grade spiritual herbs fluctuated around 10 mid-grade spirit stones.

Mid-tier sixth-grade spiritual herbs were priced at 30 mid-grade spirit stones, and high-tier sixth-grade spiritual herbs at 90 mid-grade spirit stones.

If you could use a few herbs to refine pills of this grade, it was your skill, and you deserved to earn spirit stones. No one would question it.

But if you used more than ten herbs and still produced pills of this grade, you shouldn’’t boast about it. The rules of the great world were the same for everyone.

These prices were fixed by the spirit stone system and couldn’’t be raised.

The cultivation system in this great world was exceptionally advanced, and no one could be easily fooled. Everyone was well-informed.

The average yield of a batch of pills was fifty, with five pills per bottle, all consolidated by the most authoritative pill refiners in the great world as the fairest numbers.

”Young friend, fifty pills per batch?”

Chen Xun couldn’’t help but interrupt, frowning deeply. ”That can’’t be right. I only manage twenty pills per batch.”

Could his pill refining skills be outdated here... The cost seemed quite high, though he agreed with the ten-herb requirement for the Elemental Infant phase.

”Senior, I’’m clueless about pill refining. These are common knowledge, and I don’’t know how to answer you.”

Mo Fuyang chuckled awkwardly. He had heard of too many pill refiners losing everything, some even going mad. As an online store person, he wouldn’’t dare touch pill refining.

”Moo~”

Black Bull nudged Chen Xun, eyes filled with certainty. His brother’’s pill refining skills were unmatched, even the so-called Pill Saint had once knelt in his dreams to listen to his teachings.

Chen Xun laughed, patting Black Bull’’s head. Good brother!

”Then I just calculated, the Ancient Supreme Pill, mid-tier sixth-grade, market price 120 mid-grade spirit stones.”

Chen Xun took out a small notebook and began writing. ”A batch with ten mid-tier sixth-grade herbs yields fifty pills, which can fill ten bottles, costing 300 mid-grade spirit stones.”

”Yes, senior.”

”Ten bottles sold would fetch 1,200 mid-grade spirit stones, netting a profit of 900. Such high profit?!”

”Huh? Senior, that’’s not how the price is calculated!”

Mo Fuyang was shocked, almost blinded by the wisdom in Chen Xun’’s eyes. ”The cost of lifespan and pill success rate are all included. No cultivator can refine pills endlessly.”

”Even for a mid-tier sixth-grade pill refiner, the success rate is barely thirty percent, and selling the pills doesn’’t result in profit or loss!”

”But you gain experience, and the success rate grows with failures, doesn’’t it?”

”Senior, you might not know, but in the Great World of Taiyi, pill refining is even harder than cultivating immortality. Most who go mad are pill refiners.”

”I see, I understand that feeling.”

Chen Xun shook his head with a light smile, recalling the feeling of bankruptcy, then shifted the topic. ”Are there Divine Transformation spiritual herbs here? Or... Void Refinement phase herbs?”

Mo Fuyang suddenly felt a chill and quickly replied, ”Yes, senior, they exist. As long as you have spirit stones, you can buy anything.”

”Hahaha...”

”Moo moo moo~~”

”Brother, that’’s great.”

”Xun, this is the great world! Everything is here!”

They suddenly burst into laughter, secretly communicating, leaving Mo Fuyang somewhat puzzled.

”Young friend, what are the values of these things?”

”Reporting to senior, well... depending on the realm and grade, spiritual herbs generally fluctuate at five times the price, and pills are about nine times the price of the previous grade. However, the cost of a batch of pills increases by ten herbs.”

Mo Fuyang explained word by word, occasionally smiling, ”If it’’s the same grade but different tiers, the price fluctuates around twice.”

”Low-tier Elemental Infant spiritual herb, ten mid-grade spirit stones per herb, Divine Transformation fifty?”

”Yes.”

”Low-tier Elemental Infant pill, sixty mid-grade spirit stones per bottle, Divine Transformation five hundred?”

”Yes.”

”Little Crane, how is it?”

Chen Xun paused here, turning to Little Crane. ”Have you calculated it?”

”Brother, I’’ve got it!”

”Moo?!”

Black Bull was startled and quickly ran to Little Crane’’s side, looking at her notebook.

Little Crane murmured softly, ”A batch of low-tier fifth-grade spiritual herbs, twenty herbs per material, costs one thousand mid-grade spirit stones, sells for five thousand, profit four thousand.”

”Mid-tier, costs three thousand, sells for ten thousand, profit seven thousand.”

”High-tier, costs nine thousand, sells for twenty thousand, profit eleven thousand!”

At the end, Little Crane exclaimed in disbelief. A batch of pills could earn so many spirit stones, truly astonishing.