Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 879 - 352: Rapid Advancement in Strength

The remaining tier three arrays... this is the most challenging part.

Even with the assistance of the Enlightenment Room, Ji Yuan finds it extremely difficult to break through. Of course, this is mainly because the level of the Enlightenment Room is too low.

As for slaying demon beasts, Ji Yuan hasn’t rushed into action. This past half year, the focus has been on laying the groundwork for making money, first establishing a market in Lindong City.

In the realm of elixirs, Ji Yuan has taken on a new identity, naming himself ”Huang Yaoshi.”

Unexpectedly, among the many elixirs he crafted, the best-sellers were not the Benefit God Pill he painstakingly refined.

But rather some other low-tier elixirs.

One is called the ”Heaven-Supporting Pill,” and the other is called the ”Water-like Pill.”

The Heaven-Supporting Pill is for men.

The Water-like Pill is for women.

They are both excellent formulas Ji Yuan learned from Joy Palace when he was still on the Cangluo Continent.

Although Lindong City is known as a Demon City, and nearby are the renowned demon dao holy lands of Bone Nightmare Sect and Soul Refining Hall.

However, the Bone Nightmare Sect specializes in nightmares and bone cultivation.

In contrast, the Soul Refining Hall excels in techniques targeting the divine soul of cultivators and various demonic methods.

Their study on the way of joy truly does not compare to Joy Palace.

Thus, the research on such dual cultivation elixirs is lacking.

As a result, Ji Yuan’s market opened up completely.

Initially unaware of the situation, he treated these elixirs as ordinary tier one or two elixirs and released a batch of inexpensive products.

But once he realized the demand, he immediately decreased production, citing the scarcity of raw materials.

This forced the price to soar rapidly.

With the market established, and Ji Yuan having a monopoly, he naturally earned a lot of spirit stones.

His reputation quickly spread.

In Lindong City, all core formation cultivators came to know of a newly emerged tier three pill master, named ”Huang Yaoshi,” though people preferred calling him... the Dual Cultivation Alchemist.

When Ji Yuan attended trade fairs later, he would be warmly welcomed as ”Dual Cultivation Alchemist” by demon cultivators who would promptly vacate the main seat for him.

Initially, Ji Yuan didn’t like this title much.

But when he discovered their enthusiasm for the Heaven-Supporting Pill (and how much they were paying), he decided to let them be.

As long as the payment was sufficient, never mind calling him Dual Cultivation Alchemist.

However, when it came to actually engaging in dual cultivation with them... that was still off-limits; some lines must not be crossed.

Regarding whether other tier three pill masters might deduce the formulas of the Heaven-Supporting Pill and Water-like Pill, it is indeed possible.

Since some high-tier pill masters can reverse-engineer formulas by deconstructing elixirs.

But Ji Yuan remained unperturbed because although most of the ingredients were bought in Lindong City, a few key ones were brought from the Cangluo Continent.

He deliberately searched, and those few ingredients are not found anywhere in the entire Jiyuan Continent.

Thus it was quite safe, without any worry about market competition.

Besides, Ji Yuan also used the Celestial Craft Square to draw many tier three talismans, selling them under a new alias, ”Golden Talisman Immortal.”

Regarding artifact refining, Ji Yuan only dabbled because it was too time-consuming.

Most of what he crafted were sword artifacts, with the intention of leveling up the Sword Pavilion, so he didn’t gain much profit from artifact refining.

As for arrays, Ji Yuan hadn’t crossed into tier three.

Even his Yin Ghost Banner was still being nurtured within the Chaotic Burial Mound, awaiting the right timing to possibly help the two Yin Ghosts break through the Core Formation Stage, in turn feeding back into the array to make it a tier three array.

Although he couldn’t deal with tier three arrays yet, tier two arrays also brought in quite a number of spirit stones.

A complete set of tier two arrays could fetch a good one to two thousand mid-grade spirit stones.

Ji Yuan did not hide his identity as an array master because he wished to leverage it to interact with Huang Hun from the Soul Refining Hall, hoping to obtain some Soul-Eroding Ghost Willow.

This half year, Ji Yuan had been busy with pills, arrays, talismans, and artifacts.

He hadn’t yet ventured out to hunt demon beasts.

But he did use his identity as the Dual Cultivation Alchemist to inquire about the main place for hunting demon beasts near Lindong City, which was a huge bay called ”Yazhou Bay,” located east of Lindong City.

The bay connected to the North River estuary, with abundant food, hence a high density of demon beasts.

It was the primary spot for Lindong City cultivators to hunt demon beasts.

Otherwise, they could only venture to the North Sea or the Northwest Sand Prison, though the demon beasts there weren’t as concentrated.

Apart from that, the demon beast hunters... Ji Yuan heard quite a bit about them.

Those who gained fame from hunting demon beasts were adept at combat and had top-tier strength among same-tier cultivators.

Like the black-clothed woman living in the Cave Mansion next to Ji Yuan, carrying a golden bow.

Her name was Xing Shuang, mid-stage Core Formation, yet with exquisite archery skills, she even hunted late-stage tier three demon beasts, making her quite renowned among Lindong City’s demon beast hunters.

Some cultivators, when facing troublesome demon beasts, would even request her assistance.

This half year, although Xing Shuang stayed in Lindong City, Ji Yuan didn’t interact much with her; they only knew each other’s names, merely nodding acquaintances.

Another half year passed.

The normal output of a spirit vein is only a little over thirty thousand mid-grade spirit stones per year, but this past year, Ji Yuan managed to increase it to a hundred thousand.