In the restaurant.
Jiang Ruolin ordered a lot of delicious food and couldn’t help but sigh as she said, "Just one step away and I’ll be at the Foundation Establishnt Stage. Then I won’t feel hungry anymore, and I can fly to outer space."
Gu Feng replied, "Who said you won’t feel hungry at the Foundation Establishnt Stage? You will still need Spirit Stones or the surrounding Spiritual Power to sustain you. Once those are gone, you will still feel hungry and experience other bodily function deficiencies."
Jiang Ruolin retorted, "Still, that’s better than needing to work every day for food and basic needs."
"Cultivators also have to work," Gu Feng said nonchalantly. "They earn Spirit Stones by leaving Earth and working in higher planes of existence. The rat race is everywhere."
"Heh," Jiang Ruolin cocked an eyebrow, "You’re just a mortal with no fluctuations of Spiritual Power, sour grapes because you can’t have any."
Gu Feng shook his head with a light smile, "Is it possible that you can’t sense my Spiritual Power because I’m on a higher dinsion than you?"
Jiang Ruolin laughed too, "Let educate you. Sure, that situation could exist, but do you know where we are? This is Earth, protected by the civilization restrictions set by the Taoist Ancestor. Any high-level cultivator that enters here will have their power reduced to the Mid-stage of Core Formation, that is, a three-dinsional life form. It ans that on Earth, there can’t be any beings from dinsions higher than four, so there is no way you are a dinsion above and I can’t see through you!"
Jiang Ruolin wore a smug, triumphant expression, "Nice try acting smart with , but your ignorance about cultivation just gave you away in two sentences, didn’t it?"
Gu Feng simply continued eating, laughing lightly without engaging in an argunt with her.
Worried that Gu Feng might be upset about not being able to cultivate, Jiang Ruolin quickly reassured him, "Actually, being a mortal isn’t bad. It’s easy to live; even without a Spirit Root, many people can change their destiny by buying Spirit Cleansing Pills with wealth. Don’t be discouraged. I’ll take you to the Alchemy Room later. Given ti, I will definitely learn how to make Spirit Cleansing Pills, and then we’ll see if we can change your mortal physique."
The Alchemy Room she ntioned belongs to the Alchemist Guild’s public alchemy rooms set up in cities worldwide.
Because various cities’ academies offer vocational courses in cultivation.
But the academies can’t possibly provide all students with technical training after classes, so the Alchemist Guild set up many fee-based lounges for public use.
Specifically for these students or those who have graduated from such programs to use the tools.
Taking into account that alchemy furnaces are expensive equipnt that many from society’s lower strata couldn’t afford, these pay-to-use lounges allow a significant portion of society with such skills to earn so money through alchemy.
Jiang Ruolin had purchased a lot of dicinal materials for alchemy, spending over a hundred thousand, perhaps.
Then she took Gu Feng and rented an Alchemy Room for themselves.
After entering the Alchemy Room with her, Gu Feng kindly offered to help sort the dicinal materials, but Jiang Ruolin nervously warned him, "Don’t touch anything carelessly; you might damage the materials. They’re very expensive, and I’m hoping to produce sothing worthwhile so I can at least break even and not make a loss."
Gu Feng offered, "I could help you..."
"No need, just help light the fire," Jiang Ruolin gestured for Gu Feng to keep busy with sothing else.
Gu Feng nodded and without any fire-making tools, a fla ignited beneath the Alchemy Furnace just by the wave of his fingertips.
Jiang Ruolin, with her back to him, was busy cutting off excess roots from the dicinal materials. When she turned around and saw the fla already lit, she was sowhat astonished but didn’t dwell on it.
After Gu Feng was done, he just stood there, arms crossed, looking over Jiang Ruolin’s shoulder as she busily concentrated on her task.
Jiang Ruolin enjoyed showing off her Immortal posture as a cultivator in front of Gu Feng, a re mortal.
It gave her a great sense of emotional fulfillnt from a mortal’s admiration.
She asked, "Do you know what elixir I’m trying to make?"
Leaning against the corner, arms crossed, Gu Feng glanced briefly at the dicinal materials in her hands and casually said, "A Recovery Qi Power type of elixir?"
"Not bad, you do have so knowledge," Jiang Ruolin said, clearly surprised.
But Gu Feng was curious, "These dicinal materials, from what I see, can only be used to concoct first-grade low-grade elixirs. Can these things fetch a good price?"
dicines, as the cultivation civilization has developed to this day, have been reclassified.
First-grade dicines are utilized in the market for cultivators below the Nascent Soul Stage.
Second-grade corresponds to the Nascent Soul at the Fourth Layer Heaven Realm; third-grade corresponds to the Fifth Layer Heaven Realm.
Yet within each level, they are further subdivided by grade.
For example, first-grade is the lowest while ninth-grade is the highest.
And ’Qi’ recovery dicine, similar to blue bar recovery, is essential for cultivators as their spells are bound to consu Qi in battle, hence such recovery dicine is very important during the fight.
Moreover, the dicine’s level and grade determine the amount of recovery within a few seconds of taking it.
"You clearly don’t understand," Jiang Ruolin looked at him with the air of a top student, "First-grade low-end dicines are considered chicken ribs in the entire cultivation world, but don’t forget that ’National War’ is a grand competition that can attract nurous high-tier cultivators to descend to the mortal realm. All cultivators are transford to the Mid-Period of Core Formation, and they can only use first-grade dicines on the battlefield, so the quantity of elixirs stockpiled for the National War each year is a terrifying figure."
"Now, Earth’s population has reached 50 billion, and counting those who have migrated to star systems and the population of cultivators from other domains, it’s up to a hundred billion, which is equivalent to a battlefield of a hundred billion Spirit Stones, a number that even top-tier families covet, making first-grade elixirs nearly in perpetual short supply every year during the National War."
Gu Feng nodded, then asked, "Then, you’ve already spent over a hundred thousand; why not choose so better high-end materials to concoct higher grade first-level dicines?"
Jiang Ruolin’s face flashed a montary look of guilt, "Do you think high-end materials are cheap? I’ve already spent over a hundred thousand on these low-grade materials, and if I went for high-grade ones it would cost millions."
"If you were sure of success, there wouldn’t be much difference between high-end materials and low-end ones, right?" Gu Feng looked interestedly at Jiang Ruolin, "You don’t have the confidence to concoct high-grade elixirs, do you?"
Jiang Ruolin’s face flushed red, "You think it’s easy? The higher the grade, the lower the chances, even those alchemy experts in the star systems can’t guarantee a 100% success rate when concocting these first-grade elixirs."
"Besides, these low-end dicinal materials are not impossible to work into mid-grade ones. If I luck out and produce one, I’ll break even, and anything beyond that is pure profit. When you’re not confident in producing high-grade elixirs, following this route to bet on concocting mid-grade from low-grade materials is the most cost-effective!"
Gu Feng, not familiar with the current market, asked, "So, if you succeed with these hundred thousand, how much can you earn?"
"It depends," Jiang Ruolin replied as she proceeded to use a scale to asure out proportions for the dicinal materials.
So elixirs also needed to be ground into powder, and she’d asure them in solvents using a computer for fine adjustnts in the milligrams, displaying ticulous attention to detail.
Once all the preparations were done, Jiang Ruolin turned to Gu Feng, "Most people definitely lose money in the process, but this miss here is a genius. Today, I’ll show you how I make a profit from this."
Then, Gu Feng watched her arrange the dicinal materials in the Alchemy Furnace’s Five Elents Bagua Array according to so algorithms before she started to heat the furnace.
Under Jiang Ruolin’s expectant gaze, the first batch of materials exploded and failed within the Alchemy Furnace.
"Strange, was there a problem?" She lifted the lid, saw the ruined materials inside, waved away the smoky scent, and mumbled to herself, "I’m not even talking about producing a mid-grade, but how co the low-grade ones were completely destroyed?"
This is alchemy.
A single misstep can lead to complete failure.
Gu Feng, still with folded arms, looked down at the furnace’s arrangent curiously.
He couldn’t help but suggest, "How about swapping the positions of Qihuang and ash wood, then instead of choosing Yang Fire for the Five Elents position, switch to Yin Fire, and place those two herbs with conflicting properties into the compatible options of the Five Elents? Increase the dosage of the main herb a bit to avoid being overshadowed by others, causing an imbalance of Yin and Yang, and when controlling the fire, don’t constantly maintain a fierce fla."
"Hush, don’t interrupt my thoughts," Jiang Ruolin, engrossed in self-reflection, signaled for Gu Feng not to disturb her.
Gu Feng chuckled at his unsuccessful interjection and retreated to the wall, continuing to watch her rack her brains, finding her particularly adorable.
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