Gross profit, and only gross profit.
Because all manner of costs had yet to be deducted.
Raw materials?
Those did not amount to much. The raw materials for one batch of Jade Marrow Pills only cost five Spirit Stones.
Even with the war driving the price up to six, it was still merely a drop in the bucket.
Adding the losses from his unprofitable refinement of Jade Dew Pills, Spirit Communication Pills, and the like... the total material cost was only forty thousand Spirit Stones.
As for rent, Danxia Hall cost five thousand Spirit Stones a year.
The price would not rise for the time being. He and Ice Fortress were still in their honeymoon phase, so he could continue enjoying that preferential rate.
The largest portion of the costs was, above all else, labor!
Running at full steam refining pills for an entire year, the cultivators of the Pill Hall and Medicine Hall could practically be said to have worked themselves to the bone.
Under such circumstances, Luo Chen naturally had to offer them substantial rewards in addition to their base salaries.
Those two halls alone consumed sixty thousand Spirit Stones a year.
The Battle Hall was responsible for protection and transportation, so there was no need to give them bonuses. Maintaining their base salaries was enough.
That came to roughly sixty thousand Spirit Stones a year as well.
The Gold Hall was responsible for sales, the most important link besides refining!
Beyond their base salaries, Luo Chen did not give them bonuses. Instead, he gave them commissions.
For every bottle of pills sold, whether Jade Marrow Pills or merely roughly processed Nourishing Origin Spirit Liquid, he promised them a commission of two Spirit Stones.
Given that there were not many female cultivators in the Gold Hall, and their